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Nobu Hotel Marbella

The shimmers coming off the Med as the Spanish sun playfully bounces off the surface are enough to make mermaids green. We’re coasting along the motorway on a balmy 20-degrees-in-November day, the sparkling sea line to our left and, to our right, mountains so mighty they’d make the Green Giant look like a miniature – we’re in a Cali dream. Except we’re cruising along the highway in Spain, not America. From Malaga airport to its more southern sister, Marbella.

If you’d suggested a holiday in Marbella to me before I would have laughed in your face: I’m too old for that Club 18-30 type shit. So, when Nobu landed here my eyebrow rose and my curiosity roused. Which is exactly what the owner of the adjacent 200+ room, 5-star Puente Romano was aiming for when he sought out the partnership. The Nobu Hotel has barely been open six months but plans are already underway to almost double their room count from 40 to 81 next year.

And what gorgeous rooms they are. Not designed for those who like confined spaces, these apartment-sized pads have enough room to put a wild cat in each hand and give it a good swing. But, one of the highlights for my boyfriend and I – on our first ever weekend away together – is a bath big enough for two – complete with all the bells and whistles a gal could ask for – lights, jets, and Nobu’s very own bespoke bath salts. As well as the nightly treats that magically appear in our ‘living room’ that are made by the hands of angels, as far as we’re concerned.

The arrival of Nobu coincides nicely with a drive from the new female major to reinvigorate the tired and dated classless clubbing image of Marbella. And with a brand that many will follow all over the globe, the rewards began to show almost overnight. Not just in numbers but in the type of clientele – designer-clad and with money to burn. Which is why La Plaza – a courtyard surrounded by some of the top eateries in Spain, including the two-Michelin star Dani Garcia – sat cosily in the heart of the Nobu property, is now one of the hottest places to be seen. While enjoying our countless courses at Nobu – including my forever-favourite Black Miso Cod – the people watching was worth the trip alone. The food was just a healthy bonus. (The cocktails less healthy but create what I like to call a ‘balanced diet’.)

Tented in the ‘winter’ months, the courtyard is the perfect place to while away an evening, lounging on sofas and enjoying live music. But, if you fancy taking it up a beat, there’s always the on-site club La Suite, which is where we head when the doors open at 12am but don’t last until the 6am curfew when the doors close and sun rises.

Open all-year-long, in November it’s low season, so the activities are more limited than perhaps at the height of summer. However, we take advantage of the hand-built bikes by William Claeyssen and set off on a coastal adventure. From the hotel, in one direction you’re only a 10-minute ride from Puerto Banús, in the other direction, a 10-minute cycle from Marbella town centre. We spend a gorgeous two hours in the sun tearing up the coastline like a couple of OAPs, before grabbing a bottle of bubbles and enjoying the purple haze of the sunset on our new doorstep – the beach.

If tennis is your thing, you’ll lose your mind when you see the private club they have here – ten courts, including their very own centre court. All of which Nobu guests have unlimited access to. It’s an unexpected place and rather large gem within the wider Puente Romano side of the property, and the perfect place to train. Which is perhaps why some of the world’s greats – like Djokovic – come here to get their serve up to game, set and match.

But if you’re more food-orientated, like we are, you’re in paradise: at organic haven Rachel’s, we enjoyed juices, Champagne, fresh dips and Turkish Passion – Arabic flatbread, with a spread of hummus, laden with halloumi, avocado and sprinkled with rocket and pomegranate – honestly one of the most gorgeous combos ever; at 100% gluten-free Celicioso we had even more nutrient-packed juices, along with salads, fries and a brownie that was made by the hands of more angels, but these ones are tolerance-aware; at Sea Grill we feasted like kings on the fruits of the ocean – I opted for a light avo salad, followed by Sea Bass, while my boyfriend’s eyes popped out of his head when he saw the Surf & Turf. All washed down with a rather yummy Tempranillo.

While Nobu and Sea Grill are more of a splash-out occasion, Rachel’s and Celicioso are pretty reasonable, so it’s a nice mix ‘n’ match approach to suit every taste bud and wallet size. But, what else are romantic breaks for but blowing the budget and indulging each other a little?

Which is the perfect excuse for a full-body massage at the Six Senses Spa. I think this is my first experience of this globally-renowned luxury brand – and I get the whole place almost to myself. I enjoy the cascading water windows that look out over one of three pools on the property, before your eyes hit the ocean.

And, as I submerge myself in the jet-stream of one of their hydrotherapy pools, I am utterly and totally content. A fish in water, who’s just spent the most amazing weekend with my human love. I think Ariel would be proud.

Nobu Marbella is open all-year-round and rates start from £295 per night for a Superior Double Room on a bed and breakfast basis. For more information, or to book your stay, visit

Hannah Berry George is a writer and director. Find more from her at or on Instagram @veryberrygeorge.


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Data and call center operators are savvy about information and communication technology, but manufacturers should also make it a priority.

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It's not at the top of the list, and few manufacturers will cite it as the primary factor in choosing a site. But Area Development's 2009 Corporate Survey showed that the availability of information and communication technology (ICT) services is becoming an important consideration among corporate decision-makers. Survey respondents naming ICT as a selection factor rose more than 27 percent compared to 2009.

That doesn't mean ICT is about to topple cost, location, or incentives at the top of the list. But for certain manufacturers operating particular systems, ICT can serve as a pivotal tie-breaker.

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Basic communication infrastructure is crucial for manufacturers, according to Lakeland, Florida-based real estate broker David Bunch, but more sophisticated external connections remain a priority for call centers and similar operations.

"They're looking at computer-operated equipment and machinery internally, but it's not usually that critical that they be outside-connected," Bunch said. "Whereas your fulfillment-like call centers are certainly looking at state-of-the-art, highest and best."

One reason ICT has not made a difference across diverse industries' site decisions is that basic, readily available infrastructure fulfills most manufacturers' ICT needs. A mobile phone only requires a nearby cell tower. Likewise, everyone needs a high-speed Internet connection, which the local cable company easily supplies.

And while T1 fiber optic lines and other advanced infrastructure can help run specific, sophisticated operations, companies were even less likely to cite these as important factors in Area Development's 2008 Corporate Survey when the question focused on specialized infrastructure instead of general ICT.

Even so, ICT is likely growing in importance as manufacturers become more high-tech, said George Bowles, a broker with Rochester, New York-based Bowles & Bowles. And he doesn't think many businesses will have trouble finding it.

"Most landlords I work with have anticipated current technical needs and have incorporated necessary facilities to meet most tenant's needs," Bowles said. "If more advanced specs are expressed as a need, in this economic climate with limited demand, landlords will jump through hoops to meet any reasonable demand."

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Indeed, it may be that public ICT infrastructure is ahead of manufacturers' needs. For instance, Kansas has aggressively laid the groundwork for meeting both present and future needs, said Mike McGrew, chairman and CEO of McGrew Real Estate in Lawrence. Halfway between Topeka and Kansas City, Lawrence is the home of the University of Kansas. The city is connected to institutions and organizations that have the interest and capacity to wire it for current and future needs. Some day, manufacturers might come close to tapping the capacity it is installing.

"Everyone wants the ability to go broadband and not have problems with bandwidth," McGrew said. "Bandwidth is expanding so much at the same time. I had a friend who used to work for a fiber company in the state of Kansas who said, `We are doubling the capacity over the one fiber we're using, over the 100 we have in the ground, so we can swallow anything someone wants to put on us.'" Some communities that have invested in ICT are starting to see manufacturing results, although those facilities are not always producing tangible parts.

The defense contractor Northrop Grumman Corporation recently sought a site for a 130,000-square-foot data center, and needed to connect via high-speed cable to its Virginia facilities in Richmond and Charlottesville. The corporation decided on a facility in Lebanon, Virginia that offered a custom-designed infrastructure that could provide one-gigabyte-per-second Ethernet transport to switched networks in Richmond and Charlottesville. The Lebanon facility now houses the Virginia Information Technologies Agency (VITA) and Northrop Grumman's internal IT operations.

That's the sort of big hit Salisbury, North Carolina sought by developing an extensive fiber-optic cable system. The community filled the gap left by private Internet and cable companies that found parts of the community too expensive to reach. Unfortunately for Salisbury, those areas include major industrials areas and a significant chunk of its downtown.

"One of the trends these days is that it's not about site selection, it's about site elimination," said Salisbury assistant to the city manager Doug Paris. "If you don't have the things that are on that list that are important to companies, they're not going to look at you. For us, we have to have this. It's vital. If we don't, they're going to move on and we're going to get marked off their list and go to another community that does have it."

The city is currently establishing a municipal department to provide broadband services known as Fibrant. The need for the service, Paris said, was demonstrated in a survey of businesses in which many indicated their desire for access to ICT infrastructure. The survey did not, however, "drill down far enough" to determine how the companies would use ICT to bolster their operations.

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Mindful Leadership in Action – Tip of the Week – Be the Change You Want to See in the World

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Mindful Leadership in Action – Tip of the Week: To Reduce Stress, Pay Attention to Your Breath

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Mindfulness Leadership in Action – Tip of the Week – When Your Heart Is Broken, Keep it Open

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Gingerbread Story Time @ the Library

Last night Jayden and I went to a special story time at our local library.  We attend the ABC read with me story time every Tuesday night.  This was a special Gingerbread Story time on Thursday night.  The librarian read, The Gingerbread Man story.  All the Children were given a Gingerbread Cookie to decorate.  Then we watched the movie of The Gingerbread Man.  Jayden was so excited to participate.  The story was a little long for him, but he sat still until the last 2 pages.  He was super excited when he got his cookie.

He was given a cookie, some mini M & M's, a Popsicles stick, and a small cup of whipped topping.  He used the stick to spread all the whipped topping on.. and I do mean ALL!

He then put the M&M's on the cookie.  But instead of eating the cookie right away he picked off the M&M's and ate them first.

He carried the cookie out to the car and ate it on the way home.  He had a great time and I did too.  I love the great events the library has and they are free.   I know our library has another Gingerbread story time scheduled for Saturday afternoon.  Next week we are excited that there will be a special visitor in a red suit!

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Yerevan’s First Ever Culinary Art and Hospitality Academy Opens

By Asbarez | Tuesday, 09 April 2019

Davit Yeremyan pictured with culinary students from the academy

Davit Yeremyan pictured with culinary students from the academy

YEREVAN—The Yeremyan Culinary Art and Hospitality Academy of will train staff of high-end restaurant and hospitality sectors for both the local and international labor markets.

The academy will hold special culinary and hospitality classes for both beginners and active professionals of the sphere.

The inauguration of the academy, located at 91 Teryan Street, Yerevan, was held on April 8.

“We dreamed of creating a facility as such, with the hope of passing our years of experience down to the generations to follow. The finest chefs of the city have joined us, and will help in conveying knowledge and skills to our young learners, who will be our ambassadors abroad—representing the Armenian cuisine,” said Davit Yeremyan, General Director of Yeremyan Projects.

Director of the academy Nazeli Navasardyan explained how they will train chefs, waiters, and service personnel. “We have different programs for beginning chefs, waiters, and all culinary professionals willing to train and improve,” she said. Navasardyan stressed that the uniqueness of the academy is in the fact that professionals will obtain both a formal and an informal training during the education process, known for its high efficiency throughout the world.

The director emphasized that the educational programs of the culinary academy are approved and ratified by the United Kingdom’s Activate Learning Group, City of Oxford College.

Upon graduation the participants will be awarded joint diplomas by the City of Oxford College, by Yeremyan Projects Culinary Art, and by the Hospitality Academy.

“I’ve traveled to many different countries, where I’ve been able observe and learn more about the culinary world. The conditions that have been created in this academy, in terms of education, are indescribable.

The academy has two important aspects that will help the students achieve success I the culinary world: exemplary working conditions and a supportive working team. The students will see what it means to transition from education to a secure working position. I am proud to be here today, and I am happy with our joint cooperation,” said Francis Lawson, City of Oxford College Director for International Cooperation.

Educational programs of various lengths and formats will be implemented in the academy. The duration of the most basic general educational program (Culinary Art) is 6 months, while the special training courses ranges between 1 to 3 months, and the restaurant management and service classes are between 1 to 2 months.

Students and the academy will acquire skills in both specialized professional theoretic and practical subjects, as well as leadership and communication skills. They will learn foreign languages, interact with the foods of various cultures, and will gain other skills that are in-demand in the culinary and service sectors today.

The academy provides students with special uniforms, educational materials, and food.

Internships will take place in popular restaurants of Armenia.

The academy is equipped with innovative equipment currently in-use in modern kitchens of the world’s leading restaurants. Such equipment will create an easier and more effective work environment for our chefs.

At the academy’s Laboratory’ Café, visitors and guests will be able to preview the skills of the future chefs and waiters, as well as certain aspects of the educational process.


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Apr 30 2008

Today In History: George Washington Takes Oath

Today in 1789, George Washington takes the oath of office as the first President of the United States. I was going to write more, but I am not feeling well, sorry it’s short, but enjoy the quick history fact 🙂

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Apr 29 2008

Red Sox Snap Losing Streak; Pedroia Saves Possible Run

After the longest losing streak of the season at 5 games, the Red Sox were able to pull off a win thanks to Kevin Youkilis and Dustin Pedroia. The ball flew over the head of Papelbon and everyone thought it was a RBI single, but Dustin dove then throwing it to first to get the out and end the frame.

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Apr 28 2008

Facebook Loves a Whole Lot of Servers

Have you ever wondered how many servers Facebook has? At my work, we have a bunch of servers as well…and by a bunch, I mean chop of a few zeros from Facebook’s total. Sources say that Facebook will be buying $9 million worth more of servers to add onto their $7 million they spend already.

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Apr 27 2008

Adam ‘Big Balla’ Jasinski Named Big Brother 9 Winner

Tonight on the live finale, Adam ‘Big Baller’ Jasinski was named the winner of Big Brother 9 by a vote 6-1 against Ryan. It was a very long 80ish days spent in the house and finally they left the house with Adam winning $500,000 and Ryan winning $50,000.

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Apr 26 2008

I Love When I Receive Idiotic Phone Calls

Today when I was spending time with my mother, she received a very strange phone call from a medical office in New York. I told him that he wasn’t being very professional and that I would like to speak to supervisor and he told me, “Ma’am, you will have to deal with me first.”

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Apr 25 2008

Why Do People Believe Barack Obama Should Drop Out

Obama drops out next week, stating that although he could almost certainly win the nomination by fighting it out until the convention in August, he is simply not willing to drag the party through a battle that will cripple its chances against John McCain.

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Apr 24 2008

Harold And Kumar: Escape from Guantanamo Bay Premieres

Harold And Kumar: Escape from Guantanamo Bay premieres tomorrow (April 25th) and I am so excited. I loved Harold and Kumar: Go to White Castle and I have a feeling that this will be just as good.

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Apr 23 2008

Thank You BlackBerry Desktop Manager

I figured all of my numbers and settings were gone, but the new phone came with BlackBerry Desktop Manager which allowed me to transfer all of my files, contacts and messages to my other phone.

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Apr 22 2008

Why Won’t Hillary Clinton Give Up On Running For President

If Hillary doesn’t drop out soon, I don’t know if the party can pull together and make a decision which in turn will put McCain in office. John McCain is George Bush’s twin…except John McCain was born 200 years earlier.

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Apr 21 2008

Bruins Fall Short Against Carey Price And Canadians In Game 7

(I guess their beer isn’t that bad) The Bruins played hard and came back from a 3-1 deficit to force a final game, but unfortunately they were unable to beat Montreal on their home ice. In most of the games, the Bruins were outplaying the Canadians, but Carey Price was remarkable in the first game and last game of the series.

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A verruca is a type of wart that is usually found on the soles of your feet and can often spread into small clusters. To begin with verrucae look like small, dark, puncture marks on your feet. However, they can then often turn grey or brown. Although verrucae are harmless, they can often cause a burning pain when they are in weight bearing areas.

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Biomechanical Assessment

This is where an application of mechanical principles look into biological systems by studying their structure and function. Podiatrists do not only provide treatments but also look at how the foot works, and try to generate risk prevention strategies, prescribe prophylactic treatment and provide a long term individual care plan. Conditions which may benefit from a bio-mechanical assessment are:

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The Giving Tree Consignment Sale

The Giving Tree Consignment, LLC is a twice yearly sales event where families have the opportunity to BUY and SELL gently used and new baby and kids toys, clothing, equipment, furniture, sporting goods, as well as maternity clothes. To sell at the upcoming sale May 2nd and 3rd at St Thomas Aquinas Parish Hall in Bridgewater, simply register as a consignor at

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The universe is an amazing, beautiful, chaotic place. Science helps us understand the workings of everything from the smallest atom to the formation of galaxies.

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Science is both educational and inspiring! All the designs below are part of the Gift-A-Long sale period – use code giftalong2014 for 25% off through November 21, 2014 @ 11:59pm (EST)!

Orbital Ornaments – by Laura Chau (cosmicpluto)

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This is a baby-mobile I can get behind! Or maybe a science-themed Christmas tree?

Arriba, Amoeba – by Annie Watts (wattsolak)

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Adorable science themed mitts – and LOOK!: perfect for microscope work!

Allotrope Hat – by Kimberly Voisin (IndianaKimberly)

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This stylish hat uses cables to simulate atomic structures

Young Einstein – by Julia Stanfield (j-j)

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For the teeny tiny brilliant physicists in your life

Mitosis Hat – by Miranda Grant (Pokito)

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Betcha didn’t know cables could perfom mitosis!

Petrichor – by Michelle Meyer (akmmom)

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Petrichor is my very favorite word (and smell) – it is the scientific term for the smell of rain on dry earth

Science is Beautiful Series – by Kimberly Golynskiy (80skeins)

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I have my own series of science inspired shawls. There are 3 elemental shawls that use beads to create electron configurations of different elements – perfect for cheating in Chem class!

Any of these designs would make the perfect gift for the science-lover in your life and all of these patterns are 25% off during the GAL sale period with code giftalong2014! Ready, set, gift!

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ArtScapades presents Art that Defines America which covers art from the founding of America to the early decades of the 20th Century.  Lectures below can be used in a series, individually, or customized to fit your needs.

Colonial Portraiture:  From Battlefield to Living Room

Artists Abroad:  From American to Expatriate

American Vistas: From the Hudson River to Uncharted Territories

                                                                     American Images: From the River to the Sea

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Elements of Art:

Each ArtScapades lecture begins with a  brief overview of the seven elements of art that artists use when composing a piece of art – Color, Line, Texture, Value, Shape, Form, and Space.  Each element is illustrated using a representative work of art.

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MY MOST VIVID MEMORY of September 11th, 2001, is my memory of the cockroach.

It was one of the biggest roaches I’ve ever seen — copper-colored and bullet-shaped, the length of my little finger — and it came crawling across the platform of the Government Center subway station at 7:00 a.m., as I stood there waiting for the train that would take me to Logan Airport. It scampered, stopped, then zigged and zagged, in that deliberate yet utterly directionless way of insects, its footsteps so heavy I swear that I could hear them, click-click-click on the greasy concrete.

It portended everything, this giant subway cockroach. Or it portended nothing. And as it came closer I drew my foot back — my right foot, I remember with absolute clarity — and nudged it, gently, off the platform and down into the dark and filthy space alongside the tracks, where it disappeared more or less instantly into the shadows and detritus.

This is how we remember things.

Once on the train, I would chat briefly with a United Airlines flight attendant, whose name I never got, and who maybe, possibly — I’ll never know for certain — was headed to work aboard the doomed United flight 175.

I was on my way to Orlando, where I’d be picking up a work assignment later that afternoon. My airplane would lift off only seconds after American’s flight 11, the first of the two jets to hit the twin towers. I had watched the silver Boeing back away from gate 25 at Logan’s terminal B and begin to taxi. United 175 would launch a few minutes later. My plane was in-between.

In an old briefcase here in this room, I still have my boarding pass from that morning. It shows me assigned to seat 11D, on the aisle, but there were empty seats and I slid over the window.

Elevens were wild that day. On the 11th day of the month, flight 11 would collide with the World Trade Center, two buildings that shaped an enormous “11” in the Manhattan sky. I looked down from row 11.

But there was nothing to see, yet. I recall an almost uncannily clear view of Manhattan, taking note, as I always do, of that graceful little bend that the island makes — the way it turns eastbound just below Midtown. There was no smoke, no fire. I was just a few minutes — a matter of seconds, maybe — too soon.

A short time later, about halfway to Florida, we started descending. Because of a “security issue,” our captain told us, we, along with many other airplanes, would be diverting immediately. Pilots are polished pros when it comes to dishing out euphemisms, and this little gem would be the most laughable understatement I’ve ever heard a comrade utter.

Our new destination was Charleston, South Carolina.

A bomb threat had been called in. That was my hunch. My worry wasn’t of war and smoldering devastation. My worry was being late for work. It wasn’t until I joined a crowd of passengers in Charleston, clustered around a TV in a concourse restaurant, that I learned what was going on.

And there I am. I’m watching the video of the second airplane, shot from the ground in a kind of twenty-first century Zapruder film. The picture swings left and picks up the United 767 moving swiftly. This is flight 175. The plane rocks, lifts its nose, and, like a charging, very angry bull making a run at a fear-frozen matador, drives itself into the very center of the south tower. The airplane vanishes. For a fraction of a second there is no falling debris, no smoke, no fire, no movement. Then, from within, you see the white-hot explosion and spewing expulsion of fire and matter.

And then, a bit later, the collapse. And this is the important part. Because to me, had the airplanes crashed, blown up, and reduced the upper halves of those buildings to burned-out hulks, the whole event would nonetheless have clung to the realm of believability. Had the towers not actually fallen, I suspect our September 11 hangover, which rages to this day, might not have been so prolonged. It was the collapse — the groaning implosions and the pyroclastic tornadoes whipping through the canyons of lower Manhattan — that catapulted the event from ordinary disaster to historical infamy.

As I stand awestruck in this shithole airport restaurant in South Carolina, the television shows the towers of the World Trade Center. They are not just afire, not just shedding debris and pouring out oil-black smoke. They are falling down. The sight of those ugly, magnificent towers, collapsing onto themselves, is the most sublimely terrifying thing I have ever seen.

Then I would go to a motel and spend the night. The next morning I would rent a car and drive all the way home to Boston.

This is how we remember things.

And pilots, like fire fighters, police officers, and everyone elsewhose professions had been implicated, had no choice but to take things, well, personally. Four on-duty airline crews were victims, including eight pilots. John Ogonowski comes to mind, the good-guy captain of American 11. Of the thousands of people victimized that day, Captain Ogonowski was figuratively, if not literally, the first of them. He lived in my home state; his funeral made the front pages, where he was eulogized for his philanthropic work with local Cambodian immigrants.

Maybe it’s melodramatic to say I felt a bond or kinship with these eight men, but it’s something like that. What they went through, these eight colleagues on very front edge of the attacks, the very men whose airplanes would be stolen and weaponized, is something I can’t fathom yet, at the same time, I can imagine and visualize all too chillingly.

And yes, in the ten-second bursts it took the towers to fall, I knew something about the business of flying planes would be different forever. I just wasn’t sure what it would be.

Fast-forward. It’s hyperbole to speak of the world having been “changed forever” that day. I’m conservative and skeptical when it comes to these things. History is bigger than us. Try to take the long view, even if, all these years on, the dominos haven’t quite stopped falling. Heck, tens of millions of people died in World War Two — tens of thousands at a time, as the incendiaries rained down over Europe and Japan. A hundred thousand bodies one night in Tokyo alone.

Sure, things are different now. Albeit for reasons we don’t always own up to. I have to say, I’m discouraged — or should that be encouraged? — because more than any “clash of civilizations,” the real and lasting legacy of Mohamed Atta and his henchmen is something more mundane: tedium. Think about it. The long lines, searches, and pat-downs; the color-coded alerts, the litany of rules and protocols we’re forced to follow — all this meaningless pomp in the name of security. Of all of modern life’s rituals, few are marinated in boredom as much as air travel. “Flying” is what we call it. How misleading. We don’t fly so much as we sit and stand around for interminable amounts of time.

And most distressing of all, we seem to be okay with this. There’s the real legacy of September 11th. The terrorists have won, goes the refrain, and perhaps that’s true. It isn’t quite what they hoped to win, but they’ve won it nevertheless.

This essay appears in chapter six of Cockpit Confidential.

Author’s photo, taken from the cockpit of a 19-seater in 1994.

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  1. Cameron Beck says:

    Patrick: As you may know, when the WTC was designed in the mid-sixties, the architects simulated the crash of a 707 into the upper floors.

    However, they didn’t consider one important element: fire. How could they possibly have thought an airliner would crash into one of the buildings, yet not catch fire and explode?

    There was already an example just to the north from 20 years before: a B-25 bomber crashed into the Empire State Building in July, 1945. It caused a fire which was quickly extinguished.

  2. Kat says:

    I also have a cockroach memory from 9/11… at the end of a very, very long day, I came back to my college dorm suite after midnight, opened the bathroom door, and was greeted by a nearly three-inch long cockroach, one of the biggest I’d ever seen. I couldn’t take it. I killed it with the bottom of a bottle of nearby soap and left soap and carcass on the floor, with a note of apology to my suitemates for the mess I was too exhausted to clean. I wanted to take out all my fear and frustration and anguish from the day on that bug, and it just wasn’t enough, not nearly enough. I remember flashes of that day so very clearly, including how penetratingly blue and clear the sky was, and I will also never forget ending the day with that cockroach.

  3. Alan Dahl says:

    To this day nothing brings back the memories of that day and the days following than the song “Empty Sky” by Bruce Springsteen. It captures perfectly the feelings and the strangeness of that time.

    At the time I was in Topeka Kansas, 1500 miles from my home in Seattle for a car race. The race was delayed a couple of days because it was at Forbes Field but we eventually completed it and I headed home on a freeway filled with vans of people driving cross-country because they couldn’t fly. It gave me an idea of how different the world would be without the miracle of flight and how different flying would be from then on.

  4. Michael Kennedy says:

    Powerful piece of writing there, Patrick.

  5. James Wattengel says:

    Everyone has their own personal 911 story and even here in Brazil I have mine. I won’t bore you with details. Suffice to say that I was working in the World Trade Center and There were various personal connections. Then it all came home when we found that our building was by surrounded more police than I thought existed……

  6. Rod says:

    Yes, the terrorists have won, and our knickers are Forever in a knot. That is their victory.
    And it IS pretty pathetic to see the commemoratives in US media and note that 911 was the Worst Outrage Ever Committed in Human History. Must be — just look at the attention it’s getting 17 years on.

  7. Art Knight says:

    I remember my mother calling me at 8 something in the morning. I was in my cubicle at work. She said “It’s terrible, an airplane accidentally crashed into the World Trade Center in New York City.” I told every one in the office and tuned in the television in the conference room in time to see the second plane hit. I told Rod, our manager, that this was no accident and we were at war. He scoffed at me. A few minutes later I told everyone who reported to me to go home. It was so eerie to hear no airplanes overhead that day.

  8. Art Knight says:

    Priceless photo! Have you read “Metamorphosis” by Franz Kafka?

  9. Jim Houghton says:

    If it doesn’t make sense, follow the money trail left by each of those bits of madness and you’ll find your reason.

  10. Jim Houghton says:

    Terrific writing, as always, Patrick.

  11. Kevin says:

    Truly one of your best posts to date.

  12. Lee says:

    If only our leaders reacted to tragedy with common sense and made changes to keep us safe. Instead they enact preposterously stupid regulations and leverage our fear and anger to seize more power, wage more war, and make themselves and their buddies richer.

    • Kevin Tessner says:

      My favourite technology columnist, Robert X. Cringely, summed this up well in the days after 9/11:

      “‘To a man with a hammer, everything looks like a nail,’ wrote Mark Twain. In the current, context this means that the organizations charged with reacting to this catastrophe will do so by doing what they have always done, only more of it. Congress, which controls the budget and passes laws, will want to pass laws and to allocate more money, lots of money, forgetting completely about any campaign promises. The military, which is the nation’s enforcer, will want to use force, if only they can find a foe. The intelligence community, which gathers information, will want to be even more energetic in that gathering, no matter what the cost to the privacy of the millions of us who aren’t thinking of terrorist acts. And agencies like the Federal Aviation Administration, which regulate, will want to create more stringent regulations. Now here is an important point to be remembered: All these parties will want to do these things WHETHER THEY ARE WARRANTED OR USEFUL OR NOT.”

      PBS no longer has the rights to keep the original article posted online, but a full repost is available at:

  13. DB says:

    Compassionate, informed, and eloquent. Thank you.


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Against Chelsea, we saw Aston Villa perform admirably as a result of a strong team effort. However, I wanted to focus on a longer term situation where Villa have been having issues – a triangle of players.

As we know very well, Paul Lambert likes to use full backs to go forward with the ball. On Saturday, we saw both Leandro Bacuna and Joe Bennett perform at a high standard. In the triangle of players I wanted to discuss, Bennett and Bacuna’s roles – left and right back – form two corners.

The final corner of the triangle is occupied by the defensive midfield position. At present, we tend to see Ashley Westwood playing in this role, playing slightly behind a duo of players – in the case of the Chelsea game, it was Karim El-Ahmadi and Fabian Delph.

However, the importance of this trio is irrespective of the players actually playing in the roles, and more a case of how those roles are supposed to perform.

To first illustrate the triangle’s position as the formation starts off, I’ve put a diagram below:

When the full backs go forwards, we’ve seen issues where only two defenders have been left to cover the whole of the defensive areas – usually Ron Vlaar and A N Other (one of Nathan Baker and Ciaran Clark).

The problem here is that if Villa lose the ball, and an attack comes quickly back towards the Villa goal, Vlaar and Baker/Clark can only cover so much. Yes, full backs can start moving backwards, but when an opposition team is running at full pace, it either means struggling to get back fast enough when running backwards or turning and running, leaving players unable to see where the opposition are running.

I’ve said before that the defensive midfield role is one that is key to the club’s development. When looking at how the triangle should operate as full backs go forwards, the defensive midfield role should actually be tracking backwards towards Villa’s goal, meaning that a standard 4-5-1/4-3-3 formation ends up being closer to 3-4-3. Instead, we’ve seen Villa fail to provide that cover, leaving just two defenders behind.

Yes, this method means there are more players in an attacking role, but having more attackers in itself means nothing – you can’t always fix problems by just pushing even further forwards. In fact, in some cases, all this does is leave us even more susceptible to pace and counter attacking.

So, to show what I mean with regard to the triangle’s position as Villa attack, a diagram is listed below:

In the above, we show that the defensive midfielder is moving between the two centre backs. This doesn’t have to be the case, however, as the defensive midfielder may well be better off moving to the left or right of the centre back pairing – largely because splitting a centre back pairing can mean overcomplicating a defender’s positioning.

Why? Vlaar and his partner in defence are likely to be used to playing side-by-side and thus knowing where they should be in relation to each other – putting another person between them may not work too well if it is only for the purpose of attacking rather than an actual true formation change, especially if the player is solely a midfielder rather than a defender and a midfielder.

So with all this conjecture, Villa could well do with a player who is capable of operating in a physical role but also one who is able to know how to defend effectively – maybe Clark could be that player?

With Clark being a defender, he knows how to operate in a central role, and his fellow players – Vlaar and Baker – have fitted in with him before in a 3-5-2 formation previously.

Anyway, what Clark would need to do – if he is to take up this defensive midfield role – is provide that cover to stop Villa from being so susceptible to counter attacks when they go forward.

In an ideal world, I would obviously prefer a dedicated top quality defensive midfielder – and I have to say I don’t think Westwood is the person to fill that role. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t think Westwood is a bad player, but I do wonder if he is in the right role at present – he certainly doesn’t seem to be tracking backwards as much as I’d expect.

For me, Westwood is one of those solid-but-dependable players who can keep things ticking over in midfield, not a defensive midfielder. He could, in theory, be partnered with Delph – with a new defensive midfielder behind them – although some could argue such a tactic is too defensive.

Again, all of this discussion leads me to wonder how money will be spent. If Villa can keep Ryan Bertrand permanently, such a plan would solidify the left back position in my opinion. They could also do with getting a solid right back, as whilst Bacuna has been doing a good job at right back, my heart feels he is better off utilised in midfield rather than at the back.

So could Villa fix many of their issues by simply deploying a defensive midfielder in their current formation? The win against Chelsea shows that the team can do well if it puts its mind to it, but there’s the issue of how that form can be continued. Maybe a defensive midfielder can help provide that stability, so will Lambert be targeting one in the close season? Or will Villa have to make do with very few additions when the season comes to a close?

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The species has an average length of 38.1 - 50.8 cm

Brook trout are found as far south as Georgia in the Appalachian mountain range and extend north all the way to Hudson Bay. From the east coast their native range extends westward to eastern Manitoba and the Great Lakes (Willers, 1991). The fish has been introduced, very successfully in some areas, into many parts of the world including western North America, South America, New Zealand, Asia, and many parts of Europe (Scott and Crossman, 1973). (Scott and Crossman, 1985; Willlers, 1991)

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19 May 2016

How to Get Good Cheap Illustrations for Children's Books

by Amanda Greenslade

Publishing a full colour children's picture book can be expensive. Most authors and small publishers will have a sharp focus on how to obtain good quality illustrations for the lowest possible price. Outsourcing illustration to an overseas provider is often the first thing they will think of when money is tight.

I have experience using suppliers in India, China, Singapore, Brazil and the Philippines, including via freelancing websites that help you ensure you get what you pay for. I also have a number of fantastic Australian and US illustrators who have worked on my books and those of my customers.

A recent experience is a good example of the differences that can occur from illustrator to illustrator. You can give the same brief to two different people and get a very different result. In this case the price tag was directly related to the quality of the output.

Cheap offshore illustration sample

Fairly priced Australian illustration

Illustration by Glen Holman

These are just drafts, not finalised illustrations, but you can clearly see the difference between these two images. The Australian image is far superior to the offshore one in many ways, including the:

  • Depth and aspect of room and objects in it
  • Style of artwork, which is like a modern and Westernised cartoon, not 80s looking computer-art
  • Believable colours and textures
  • Lighting, which is taken into account in the room and coming through window, including thoughtfulness about the time of day
  • Point of emotion in the story, which is taken into account
  • Cultural relevance of the characters and setting
  • Details requested in brief (eg. rubbish on the floor, dog eating food scraps)
  • Details added by illustrator having read and analysed the text (eg. slumping mum, red eyes, cracks on the walls)

I have had some good experiences with overseas illustrators. For example a lady in South America created this image for my juvenile fiction novel about a bobcat Wild White:

A very important thing to consider when choosing any illustrator, whether from a western country or not, is how well they can communicate with you and understand your book. Illustration is like any aspect of book design, the act of creating the illustrations is only half of the work. The other half is all to do with project management, which in the case of illustration services includes:

  • Finding, communicating with and negotiating on payment and schedule
  • Organising contracts, invoices and royalties
  • Finalising the manuscript/illustration plan
  • Setting up a dummy page layout (more on this below)
  • Communicating with printers and ebook conversion services prior to illustrations being created
  • Writing a brief for the illustrator (or incorporating sufficient detail in the manuscript/illustration plan)
  • Thinking about your book from the point of view of the eventual reader
  • Thinking about your book from the point of view of the illustrator
  • Marketing plan for the book (yes, this is relevant and important before even engaging an illustrator. For example what is your target market, how old are the children who will be reading the book, or having it read to them, do they like to read picture books still, or not?)
  • Communicating about illustration drafts with the illustrator
  • Sharing draft illustrations with others and collating their opinions (some will be helpful, others not so much)
  • Noticing problems with the illustrations (being observant for continuity errors, mistakes in their interpretation of the brief or the text of the book, looking out for no-no's such as overtly sexual or violent imagery, blood etc.)

Critical in the project management of an illustrated juvenile fiction book is knowing the page size and the relation of the images to the text. For example, if you have not yet decided how you're going to handle the printing and ebook design of your project it is too soon to involve an illustrator. There are many reasons for this, including:

  • A hard back book will have a larger spine, therefore a larger image requirement than a softcover.
  • Most print on demand services have limited paper types and sizes whereas offset printers can do just about anything you are willing to pay for.
  • If you want spot UV or embossed text on the cover (offset printing only) the title will need to be a vector, not a raster title (such as a painted title).
  • Fixed layout ebooks made long after a book is in print tend to leave large amounts of wasted space on most tablet readers (eg. square books) and it is better to design for print at a page size closer to that of an actual iPad.
  • Many other factors depending on your book.

For an illustrated juvenile fiction book to work well, the illustrations must be created exactly and perfectly for the intended page layout. This means allowing for things like:

  • Enough space for text, especially if there is to be text over the top of part of the image
  • Good balance between pages with and without illustrations (for chapter books)
  • Extra background illustration outside the page edge (trim) for bleed
  • Extra background illustration inside the trim where no important content of the illustration is contained
  • Aesthetically-pleasing positioning of all elements, especially characters
  • Account for gutter of book (fold down the middle, where part of illustration may disappear)
  • Differences between printed page size and ebook layout

As you can see, there's a fair bit to managing the layout of a children's book with excellence, and your illustrator needs a project manager who knows what they're doing.

If you would like a quote from Australian eBook Publisher to manage this for you, we have all the services in-house. Please let us know your needs. We can use a combination of local and offshore service providers to bring you the best of both worlds when it comes to picture book project management and illustration.

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Many individuals assume that purchasing a used automobile is best due to the lower cost they’ll get. The second a brand new automobile leaves the lot, its worth decreases dramatically. Good customers seek for pre-owned automobiles which might be barely used. They’re much extra inexpensive than new automobiles of the identical fashions as a result of they keep away from the moment depreciation in worth. There are some things you must assess earlier than shopping for a used automobile. Finances – The primary merchandise it is advisable to decide in an effort to purchase a used automobile is your funds. In case you resolve to finance your automobile, you’ll most likely be capable to afford a costlier mannequin. Nonetheless, you’ll almost certainly pay extra in curiosity over the period of your mortgage. Your funds is probably the largest think about figuring out what sort of car you should buy.

Function of the automobile – Contemplate what sort of car fits your wants the most effective. In case you have a big household, a mini-van or SUV could also be your best choice. For individuals with an extended commute to work, a fuel-efficient compact or a luxurious mannequin automobile could be a more sensible choice. Figuring out how you’ll use your automobile will help you higher resolve what sort of car you can purchase. Further prices – Chances are you’ll discover extra prices related to the kind of automobile you resolve to purchase. Some fashions, like sports activities automobiles or SUV’s, value extra to insure. A bigger automobile will devour extra gasoline, costing you extra money on the pump. In case you purchase a luxurious automobile, you’ll have to pay greater upkeep bills. Contemplate these components in order that you do not purchase a automobile you’ll be able to’t afford. The sticker value of a automobile will not be the one expense to contemplate. Comparability buying – After calculating your funds and deciding what sort of automobile you need, get to know which dealerships have the most effective offers and costs in your space. Each dealership has completely different presents. By buying round, it is possible for you to to seek out the most effective deal. In case you plan to pay in money, look into shopping for instantly from an proprietor since you might most likely keep away from among the dealership prices. Whereas shopping for a used automobile is an effective way to get extra ‘bang to your buck,’ there are some dangers concerned with shopping for a used automobile. You may need a tough time discovering out every thing in regards to the automobile’s historical past, however you’ll be able to have a mechanic study the automobile to present you an unbiased evaluation of its situation. Shopping for a automobile is a tough activity. You might be certain you’re getting the suitable automobile at a value you’ll be able to afford while you purchase used.


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The closest entity to SOURCE & SPIRIT are CHILDREN.

What “Ego?”

Humans are born seeking HAPPINESS & GROWTH. We aren’t born simply with the instincts of survival; as 4D capable beings, our BIRTHRIGHT is to be happy and free. Tragically, every day we exist on this Earth we are spiritually corrupted by absolutely any and every external influence. Babies and children obviously, are the least tainted of society. With no concept of judgment, there is no doubt of what they see, hear and above all FEEL. As we progress in this human form, our ego begins to form a reality of how we are “supposed” to live, what is expected of us, and worst of all: what is considered “normal.”

The veil begins to fall over our eyes.

Have you ever noticed a baby staring, smiling , or even giggling and having what seems to be a conversation with “nothing?” Or maybe you have had a child that you KNOW intuitively senses the genuine intangible energy of a person? It is incredible how they gravitate to the positively vibrating souls, and immediately push away from those with darker auras? Then, there is the phenomena of worldwide stories where toddlers begin telling family members and teachers of their “last life;”  these little starseeds describe intricately impossible-to-know details, almost always confirmed by elders from that time or family that is still alive. Something to ponder is why these experiences are normally around age 2, and as they get older they seem to forget their last lives. Another thing that has always intrigued me is the idea of “imaginary” friends;” is it possible that children actually see and interact with higher dimensional energies, maybe even from a parallel universe they are able to tap into?

Children have no ego. They CAN see things we can’t, and perceive energies that we have been veiled by. I purposely ask my children if they see colors around a person, and what it is. I ask what their dreams are every day from the night before and some of the things they tell me, I even suspect they are so spiritually open that mine perform astral projection at times! My little girls have always said they “see a ghost over there,” and I believe them, (only of the positive nature of course!). They tell me stories most people would find just kid talk.. but I now LISTEN and believe every word they say. When a child says they see or hear something, they DO. They vibrate on a much higher frequency than we do, and you can only PERCEIVE to the frequency or vibration you are within.

I believe children are the closest to spirit.. to KNOWING and REMEMBERING.. when they are born. They are conditioned to forget, what I call “Soul Amnesia.” If we were to try our hardest to keep children’s minds pure, untainted ,and as far away from fear-based influence, we would have an entire generation of world changers on our hands. It would be a bunch of conscious, spiritual, truth-seeking little indigo humans.. especially if every action is taken to avoid calcifying their pineal gland, a very important tool within our body that enhances higher consciousness. When the pineal gland is calcified, it naturally produces less dimethyltryptamine, having multiple effects on mental, physical and spiritual functions of the body.

Dimethyltryptamine, or DMT, is a substance that nearly every single living organism produces. It occurs naturally in plants and is produced in the PINEAL GLAND of mammals. By definition it is “a neurotransmitter and tryptamine molecule.” Dimethyltryptamine is popularly labeled as “The SPIRIT MOLECULE,” due to it’s suspicion of playing a role in dream induction, near death experiences, astral travel and mystical visions during religious experiences. It can even be consumed as a psychedelic drug, commonly used throughout history as a spiritual and healing drug by certain cultures. Most people who have near death experiences, or NDE’s, claim to see what comes after this life; most explain the same experience and describe it as an “all-knowing” idea of truth and existence. This also coincides with the fact that most of them also are no longer afraid of death once they undergo such an impactful experience.

The interesting thing about DMT is it is proven the highest amounts recorded as concentrated in the body are released during two points in your life: at the moment of birth, and at the moments before death. It is almost as if DMT is a bridge between this life, and the higher planes of existence or afterlife.

This would explain my theory, that children remember their soul, and what REALLY is, the moment they are born. As they grow, even being told “I don’t see anything over there, you are just pretending,” immediately has now impacted that child’s idea of what “is.” …So many more thoughts to come..

In the meantime, check out this amazing video of how the power of “OM,” the frequency of the universe, can be utilized to calm a newborn baby (post from my instagram, @EsotericEnchantress). Shouts out to this incredible father, Daniel Eisenman!

🌌The power of #Om. This is divine..🌌 💓I have always believed and stand by the idea that..babies are the closest to Om, to the #frequency of #Gaia, the universal #VibrationOfTheUniverse ..the moment they are born. They may suffer the #SoulAmnesia we all do in this #3rdDimension, but they have yet to be tainted with influence. 💓 💫I think back to my grandmother and the rhythm she would hum when she rocked all 56 of her grandchildren to sleep. Awake now..I realize it was absolutely the same frequency..and what I used on my own. It works, 100% of the time. 💫 @danieleisenman °•°▪°•°▪°•°▪°▪° #Repost @bleurosephotog The power of Sound.👌🏽I have chanted Om to a baby before. They love it!! He even tried to make the sound. It was the cutest thing!! 🕉👼🏽 ・・ First-time dad uses an amazing trick to calm his crying newborn daughter. #parenting #father #newborn #baby #sleep #children #parents #calming #sound #soundHealing #aum #vibration #energy #ascension #consciousness #connection #vibes #soul #baby #metaphysical #newyork

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Haterating “Leaving Los Angeles”

When I posted yesterday’s inaugural LA Haters post, I honestly thought it would be a series I’d add to maybe once or twice a month. Little did I know that more anti-LA vitriol was already seeping out of the internet and I’d pretty much have to make this column a full-time job.

A few things have happened with this project since yesterday. After playing around with the name and process, I decided on “haterating” as the perfect portmanteau for what I’m trying to achieve here. I then established a hashtag, #LAhaters, so we can track these conversations elsewhere. I also decided to add relevant information like the author’s Twitter name and word count of the article. And finally, Martin Filler tweeted an apology about his piece. (JUST KIDDING! He’s not even on Twitter!)

Today we will be haterating “Leaving Los Angeles” by Meghan O’Rourke at The New Yorker, which many (many) of you sent to me after yesterday’s post. O’Rourke’s piece is wholly different than Filler’s filler. For one thing, she actually lived here (for four miserable months). And in a very odd twist, she now claims her piece (or at least part of it?) is satire:

Or more specifically, a “kind of self-satire of the aggressive New Yorker.” Which may be a new brand of satire that only aggressive New Yorkers understand? After discussing this with the #LAhaters advisory board, we have determined that even if O’Rourke’s piece is, indeed, satire—and we’re not sure we even believe her—it should stack up both in stereotypes (and in hyphenates). So with that in mind, your rankings. But never mind tone!

Title: “Leaving Los Angeles
Author: Meghan O’Rourke (websiteWikipedia, @meghanor)
Publication: The New Yorker
Date Published: May 7, 2013
Word Count: 1098

A parlor game played by pretty much any New Yorker temporarily living in Los Angeles: a running tally of “How They’re Different.” After spending four months in the land of kale chips, sunshine, and helicopters, my list is almost entirely consumed by thoughts about driving.

  • Kale, horrible kale +1
  • Sunshine, horrible sunshine +1
  • Helicopters, actually horrible +1
  • Driving, and the fact that most of the piece is focused—sorry, focussed—on driving +10
  • No points for the parlor game because stereotype or not, that’s some TRUTH right there, and she didn’t resort to naming the game “How New York Is Better” +0

No, here in L.A., drivers peacefully wait for you to look up (from your smart phone, most likely) and notice the left-hand signal is green. Once you do, you can take your time, inching forward like a glowworm. It’s fine if only one car gets through per green arrow. No one seems to care. And as for intersections without a left-turn arrow—and this is truly confusing—drivers don’t bother to creep into the intersection. They wait, like sedated animals, back at the light.

  • Really confused here because apparently LA invented the semi-illegal left turn, and nowhere on earth are drivers more insistent about peer pressuring you into a crowded intersection when the light turns yellow. Granted I don’t drive much anymore, but this does not sound at all like my experience at a Los Angeles red light. So is this the “kind of self-satire of the aggressive New Yorker” she means? And in that case, how could it possibly be satire of an aggressive New Yorker if she’s trying to illustrate that Angelenos are too laid back when in actuality WE are the aggressive ones? +20
  • First insect/gastropod reference +1

Having been lulled by all this, you may find yourself drifting languidly through the undulations of Hollywood on a Saturday night, baffled by the roads’ twists and turns, trying to ignore the G.P.S. as it gets more and more insistent. (“Recalculating. Recalculating. Recalculating. Turn left at Sunset Drive. Turn left at Sunset Drive.”)

  • Sunset Drive—or the only one I know of—is in Los Feliz +2
  • And you could only call it “twisty” or “turny” for a half a block +2
  • No wonder she got lost +1

The roads here are like snails, spiralling around. As you drive along, wondering where the hell to turn, a car may rush upon you, honk accusingly, and pass you dangerously on a turn, only to pull into a driveway two houses up. Be prepared, Easterners: L.A. traffic is calm except in the Hollywood and Beverly Hills, which are islands of suitably East Coast sclerotic impatience among the placid sea of the rest of L.A.

  • Second insect/gastropod reference +1
  • Again, SUPER CONFUSED. First she complains LA drivers are too laid back, then she complains they are too aggressive, but only on our slimy snaily hills? Help me understand!!! +10

Get over the relaxed driving—perhaps it’s all that medical marijuana in the air, or the vegan lifestyle (too enervated to care?)—and take a walk, and you’ll realize that no one else, like you, is walking hurriedly down the street, arms akimbo, as if they really have to get somewhere; they stroll instead, sucking down a coconut-milk smoothie, yoga mat under the arm.

  • We don’t even know how to walk right +2
  • “Medical marijuana” +420
  • “Vegan lifestyle” +1
  • Coconut-milk smoothie +1
  • Yoga mat +1
  • Also, a bonus for unoriginality. These are not endemic to LA and everyone knows this person would be juicing, duh. +10

On the East Side, where I live, life is languid and full of the sounds of barking dogs. Pitbulls abound, and Chihuahuas. Bring your earplugs if you wish to have a peaceful walk through the bougainvillea-covered streets, or, if you prefer, take some tranquilizers, so the dogs, ready for some diversion to give them a sense of purpose, don’t make you jump out of your skin.

  • We get it: YOU HATE DOGS. +5

Unlike New York, philosophical differences abound here: a friend told me about a birthday party where the host nearly came to blows with a female guest; it turned out she was a Scientologist, and “he didn’t want any crazy here.”

  • We’re not open minded +1
  • Gratuitous Scientologist reference +2

It used to be the case that L.A. seemed utterly different from Eastern cities in one crucial way: it was already hauntingly apocalyptic, a place of steep hills, deep predator-filled canyons, terrible earthquakes, and winds bearing plutonium from Japan.

  • “Hauntingly apocalyptic” +1
  • “Predator-filled canyons” +1
  • Earthquakes (Come on, only one natural disaster? She can do better than that.) +1
  • Winds bearing plutonium from Japan +1

The first month I lived here I cowered in my bed at night as the helicopters passed over, thinking there was an ongoing series of manhunts. (And there was, for a while—Christopher Dorner was on the loose.) One day, I told a West Coast friend about my night-terror and he looked at me like I was slow, then said, carefully, “They’re traffic helicopters.”

  • Helicopters +1
  • Traffic +1
  • Also, those weren’t traffic helicopters. +0

Whatever those helicopters are, they give L.A. the feel of being constantly under siege, the way the coyotes that howl down in the ravine do, the way the wildfires, itching into flame as soon as the thermometer rises, do.

  • Coyotes +1
  • Fires! BOOM! +1
  • Double Natural Disaster Bonus +5

One day last week, the smoke in Glendale was so thick that authorities shut down the highway I use to get home from work. California’s monumentalities still have a desperate, dangerous edge: it’s what you get living on a giant fault by the ocean.

  • “Desperate, dangerous” +1
  • “Living on a giant fault” (not true, we live on MANY giant faults) +1
  • Edge of the continent reference +1

But I’m struck, visiting this time, by how California’s apocalyptic ecology no longer feels absolutely foreign. Since 2001, that science-fiction feeling has migrated eastward. Last fall, Sandy drove home to all of us the folly and imperiled grandeur of our island existence, with its unprecedented flooding and winds. In March, I took my one trip back East—to Boston, where I stayed in a hotel just yards away from where the first Marathon bombing would occur a few weeks later—and later watched images of dazed Bostonites being interviewed and “locked down.”

  • “Apocalyptic ecology”  +1
  • Entire Paragraph Devoted to How Living in LA is Like 9/11, a Deadly Hurricane and a Horrific Bombing That Paralyzes a City, Combined, WTF? Bonus +100

Given all this, L.A.’s soot raining down from a sky of sun seems relatively normal: a kind of pathetic fallacy for our climate-changing, end-days era. I’ll miss it. The other night, I drove home in the fog from a screening of an old David O. Russell movie at the New Beverly Cinema. In the mist on Beverly Boulevard, the palm trees stood out like strange lollipops, the sweets of a precarious Candyland.

  • “Soot raining down from a sky of sun” +20
  • David O. Russell +1
  • Palm trees +1
  • Hey, at least she knew it was fog, not smog +0

Congratulations! O’Rourke has taken the lead!

LA Haters Leaderboard
(1st!) Meghan O’Rourke: 629
Martin Filler: 549

Okay… who’s next?

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    The New Yorker piece is pretty lame on so many fronts. Like I said on Twitter, any Northeasterner who refers to L.A. as “apocalyptic” has clearly never driven the Pulaski Skyway into Newark — a vista that trumps L.A. for apocalypse 1000 times over. But the part about Angelenos not knowing how to make an unguarded left turn is totally true. Plus there’s “invisible car syndrome” — in which drivers leave a full car’s length of space between them and the car in front of them. That would never fly in New York. You’d have three taxi cabs fighting over the space before you could so much as put your car into first. It may hurt, my fellow Californios, but sometimes you just gotta cop to the truth.

  • meara

    Don’t worry, we won’t have to wait long for another article!!

  • Michael Lejeune

    Oh, I am LOVING these. I’m hooked, in the same way I’m hooked on LA. (And I don’t even bother explaining why anymore….you get it or you don’t.)

    Also: ““Medical marijuana” +420” Touché.

  • Michael Lejeune

    Oh, I am LOVING these. I’m hooked, in the same way I’m hooked on LA. (And I don’t even bother explaining why anymore….you get it or you don’t.)

    Also: ““Medical marijuana” +420” Touché.

  • Melissa

    FANTASTIC piece, Alissa.

  • http://twitter.com/EricPinckert Eric Pinckert

    Your scoring system while seemingly idiosyncratic is uncannily accurate. Perhaps it will become a such a world standard that even Martin Filler will start to Tweet about it. In the interim, I will enjoy watching Baywatch reruns to fill the time until your next #LAhaters assessment.

  • delnorte

    I love the midwest!

  • http://twitter.com/EricPinckert Eric Pinckert

    Your scoring system while seemingly idiosyncratic is uncannily accurate.
    Perhaps it will become such a world standard that even Martin Filler
    will start to Tweet about it. In the interim, I will enjoy watching
    Baywatch reruns to fill the time until your next #LAhaters assessment.

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  • JP

    I don’t understand this L.A. hate at all, It seems like there something about the name “Los Angeles” that gets people all riled up. There are worst cities that I won’t name that are well known for high crime, poverty, etc. that get more praise than L.A. does!

    Most of the L.A. hatred comes from New York and Northern California (mainly the Bay Area) and the morons in those regions often praise each other while tag teaming to bad mouth our great city.

  • Alissa

    These are good. THANK YOU!

  • Alissa

    Like I said, I’m no expert on driving. I will investigate this.

  • Alissa

    Thanks for noticing that, Michael!

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  • http://www.facebook.com/larry.gassan Larry Gassan

    Kudos to O’Rourke’s piece as classic Manhattan-centric LA guano that has been profitably mined for well over 150 years. She sank a new shaft and came up with more of the same. Hope her check didn’t bounce.

  • http://www.facebook.com/boochspace Robert Ostray

    I thought it was a funny satirical article…the original I mean

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  • David Hermiz

    Brilliant. I was naive to LA before I moved here 6 months ago sort of hesitantly—I’ve heard so many bad things about the city. Since being here I have fallen in love. LA has all the amenities of a world class city, plus beautiful year round weather, natural beauty and a laid back attitude. I never want to leave! And sure there are things that need to be improved: traffic, public transportation, bike lanes, etc. But seriously, I don’t get all the hate really; I think most people are jealous.

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  • Phantom Commuter

    So do I and I’m an L.A. native ! Can’t wait to be an L.A. Expat !

  • Phantom Commuter

    Why we hate New York :-)