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Posted by: westafricanfootball | 01/06/2012

The Ghanaian GLO Premier League 2011-2011 was finalized on 27.05.2012. Based on matches I’ve seen, reports I’ve read and hearsay from contacts, I have picked my “Team of the season”.

Club: Asante Kotoko FC

DOB: 29.11.1974

* Last season, veteran goalkeeper Soulama played only three matches for Asante Kotoko FC. This season, Soulama, who will turn 38 later this year, has been first choice, playing 24 matches. MTN Football recently wrote that Soulama conceded 12 goals in 26 matches. In any case, Soulama deserves a lot of credit for Kotoko’s defensive record, the second best in the league. Soulama, who recently was yet again picked for the Stallions, the Burkina Faso national football team, is a very confident goalkeeper with plenty of experience. I’m impressed with Soulama’s ability to pick out crosses and despite his relatively high age, he is an excellent shot stopper. Soulama played professionally for Denizlispor (Turkey) during the seasons 2000-2001, 2001-2002 and 2002-2003.

Club: Berekum Chelsea FC

DOB: 25.11.1988

* After an unsuccessful stint in Libya for Al-Ittihad Club Tripoli, Boateng returned to Ghana and Berekum Chelsea FC. From Week 7, Boateng has been first choice at left-back and his performances have been consistent and highly impressive. Boateng is a disciplined player with bravery and aggression. He loves to join the attack on overlapping runs. Boateng, who scored one league goal during the season, broke through at Liberty Professionals FC.

Club: Hearts of Oak SC

DOB: 03.03.1989

* Strong as a bull, tough in the tackles and almost impossible to beat in the air. Godwin Osei Bonsu, the captain of Hearts of Oak SC, has arguably been the top performer at the Phobians. Bonsu scored two league goals during the season.

Club: Asante Kotoko FC

DOB: 04.05.1985

* I guess most experts would rate Mohammed Awal as a better player than Henry Ohene Brenya, his partner in the central defence of Asante Kotoko FC. That could very well be, but from my point of view, Brenya has been somewhat more consistent. I love the quiet, effective performances of the Kokoto-captain. Brenya rarerly causes any headlines but he is always playing with the heart on his sleeve.

Brenya was a key player for Berekum Arsenal FC before joining Kotoko before the GLO Premier League 2010-2011. Brenya did not score any goals during the current season but as far as I know, he was ever present in the heart of the defence for the league champions.

Club: Aduana Stars FC

DOB: 02.11.1988

* It’s no secret that I’m a big fan of the impressive right-back Godfred Saka of Aduana Stars FC. Saka, an expert from set pieces, rather sensationally became top scorer of the team with six league goals. Saka is known for his cultured right-foot, his dangerous free-kicks and crosses and his tireless work up and down the right side. Saka is one of these fabulous West African full-backs with heavy emphasis on attack. Saka has great stamina combined with power and intelligence.

Club: Medeama SC

DOB: 04.07.1990

* On 29.02.2012, petit winger Richard Mpong made a goalscoring debut for the Black Stars, the Ghana national football team, in a friendly match against Chile. Mpong, a former player of Gamba All Blacks FC and Kessben FC, is a very exciting player to watch, known for his dribbling skills, pace and good passing ability. Mpong is not a typical goalscorer (he scored only once during the season) but his crosses, especially towards pointmen Louis Agyemang and Hans Kwofie, are valuable to the attacking play of Medeama SC. Medeama SC has been a disappointment this season but Mpong has been wonderful in several matches. Mpong can play both at left-wing and right-wing.

Club: Asante Kotoko FC

DOB: 18.12.1985

* From my point of view, Akuffo is one of the easiest picks. The box-to-box midfielder has been simply brilliant in the center of the park. Akuffo is a dynamic, hard-working player with both defensive and attacking qualities. His stamina, tackles and passes are top-shelf. Akuffo is a product of the Feyenoord Academy and has also played for ASEC Mimosas in the Ivory Coast. In 2009 and 2010, Akuffo played for Finnish second level side FC PoPa.

Akuffo has almost been ever present this season and has scored four league goals.

Club: Hearts of Oak SC

DOB: 07.08.1991

* Moro, a midfield workhorse, has developed into a key player for Hearts of Oak SC. Moro has primarily defensive responsibilities and his hard work is fundamental for the balance of the team. Moro is reportedly on the radar of several clubs in Ghana, including Medeama SC and Berekum Chelsea FC. If Moro is able to develop his creativity and passing ability, he will become a quality player. As far as I know, Moro has only missed one match all season. He has not scored any goals.

Club: New Edubiase United FC

DOB: 15.03.1995

* Hard-tackling midfielder Attobrah has been one of the revelations of the season. Most sources will say that Attobrah is only 17 years old and despite his young age, he has actually been captaining Edubiase during the season. Attobrah has been described as a player who has “a gift for recycling possession and dictating the pace undimmed”. Personally, I have always liked his tireless work and aggressiveness. Attobrah is also a player with attacking qualities, having scored three league goals during the season. According to some rumors, Attobrah will shortly join Asante Kotoko FC. Attobrah, arguably one of the most interesting prospects in the league, has been part of the Ghana U-17 and the Ghana U-20 national football team. Attobrah can play both as a central midfielder and a right-winger. The picture is of Attobrah and was found on Ghanasoccernet.

Club: New Edubiase United FC

DOB: 02.04.1989

* Baffour is a rather obvious choice for the team of the season, especially since he was named as “Premiership Player of the Year” by the Sports Writers Association of Ghana. Baffour scored an incredible tally of 21 goals in about 25 matches for the rather modest side New Edubiase United FC, making him top scorer in the GLO Premier League 2011-2012. It’s been a fairytale season for the sharp-shooting striker, known for being an all-round player with no particular weaknesses. Baffour is strong, fast and skillful, with decent dribbling abilities. Baffour made his debut for the Black Stars, the Ghana national football team, during the season. Former clubs include Liberty Professionals FC and Tema Youth FC. Baffour will most likely play in a bigger league next season. According to unconfirmed sources, New Edubiase United FC will sell their star player for USD 1 000 000.

Club: AshantiGold SC

DOB: 26.07.1990

* Burly striker Mohammed, known for his physical strength and his direct style of play, is one of my favourite players in the GLO Premier League. This is the kind of player who is able to form an attack practically on his own. Mohammed had a difficult start to the season, scoring only once in his 10 first matches. However, from Week 12 to Week 30, Mohammed scored 15 goals, making his total record for the season an impressive 16 goals. I think Mohammed deserves a chance in a bigger league.

  1. Can u provide contact details to discuss the players.

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Commission work on ceramics still on hold

Long time no write… sorry once again about that!

I’ve had a crazy busy summer, with lots of planned and unplanned travel. My aunt passed away in June and I am executrix of her estate, which resulted in me spending most of June in Pennsylvania dealing with her possessions, and a lot of time after that dealing with all the details of wrapping up a life. 😦

I just wanted to update that I am still not in a position to take on any commissions for ceramic pieces until further notice. I’m working on a very VERY exciting project now, which takes all other work off the table for the time being. Plus we are heading out for more travel in September and October.

I did glaze one bone china Juniper earlier in the month; it was an owed piece to a friend who did me a large favor. This is #9 in the edition of 13 bone chinas. (She’s not quite this “pink”; my camera loves reds far too much!)

I hope that by this winter I will be so starved for ceramics glazing that I will want to do nothing else. I will let you know when my commission books open. Thanks for your patience and understanding.

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Disappearing Vancouver – Glen Valley’s river bank surprise

Glen Valley Regional Park is located on River Road in Langley/Abbotsford between 272nd Street and the dead end of River Road just east of Bradner Road. There’s lots to see and do at the parks 3 popular sand bars, Two Bit Bar, Poplar Bar and the seasonal Duncan Bar. Fishing, hiking, the historic Hassall House from 1917. These are all great but there is a hidden gem just out of sight that not many people know about unless you’re a local. Along the banks of the Fraser River there are dozens of old cars sitting, and in some cases embedded, into the dirt and clay. I haven’t been able to find the reason they’re here but one would assume it was for road fill, riverbank stabilization, or they were just dumped. If anyone knows more please let me know in the comments below.

Cars ranging from the 20’s/30’s up to the late 60’s pack the shoreline from just east of Two Bit Bar to just west of Poplar Bar, they may go farther but I didn’t have time to investigate and Chuck Taylor’s are not proper footwear for a river bank walkabout. I visited this place a decade ago on a motorcycle trip with my friend Doug and the cars were much more prominent. There have been some floods in the Glen Valley area since then and I’m sure these cars won’t be there forever. Check out the rest of the photos I took and the map at the end of this post.

This looks like a mid 60’s Porsche 911 to me.
This old metal dashboard still has the instrument cluster housing.
This is a complete frame with some of the front suspension still intact.
There’s still some chrome on this one. Most others have been picked over by scavengers.
Smallish front door off something European? Maybe, or it could be the back door of a 30’s/40’s American car.
A big pile of steel. Notice the oven on the right.
An old pick-up truck box.
This was the only steering wheel I found.

If you want to go check out Glen Valley Regional Park here’s a handy map.

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  1. You hit the nail on the head, the car’s we’re put there for river bank erosion. My mom grew up on a cattle farm across the road from Glen Valley park and she remembers when the car’s were put there (1960’s). She said a lot of them we’re really nice at the time.
    If you know where to look, there’s car’s along the bank almost all the way to the Port Mann.

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A 1998, $16.8 million HOPE VI Grant funded the demolition of “The Bucket” [267 deplorable housing units] and the creation of “The New Village of Eastlake”. The site features 160, two story townhouses including 70 public housing/tax-credit rental units and 90 homeowner properties. This award winning community is Delaware’s only completed HOPE VI project. The Village of Eastlake was awarded the prestigious Readers Choice Award from Affordable Housing Finance Magazine as the “Best Affordable Homeownership Opportunity in the United States for 2006–2007”.

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How is removing dead code NOT a stability enhancement?

  • They don't want to delete three evil lines of code "this late" in Whidbey.

  • The whole things is a bit of a WTF.
    This is a better way :

    private DataRowState ConvertToRowState(BitArray bitStates, int bitIndex)
    bool flag2 = bitStates[bitIndex];
    bool flag1 = bitStates[bitIndex + 1];

    if (flag2 && flag1)
    return DataRowState.Deleted;

    if (flag1)
    return DataRowState.Added;

    if (flag2)
    return DataRowState.Modified;

    return DataRowState.Unchanged;

    } // end of function
    In fact why do they do it that way ...?

    I tend to use a defined 1 for the first bit 2 for the next then 4,8,16,32, etc.

    Then bit-and or bit-or to get the values in and out.

    I guess that whole "throw Exceptio..." thing it a bit helpfull should anybody ever change the code ......

  • I realize this is a very old post, but wow is that freakish code.

    Having an if() block for this type of thing is tragic. Looks like they're just pulling out bits and should've used an enum or something similar.

    Multiple exit points from a function are also no-nos and should actually be shunned more than goto....

     And wow, that has got to be a terrible way to implement a bit array....sometimes I think people shouldn't be allowed to use OOP unless they know how to do things without it.

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Creepy Critters

WARNING: If you don’t like bugs, don’t click on this blog post aka rant/ talk about why I hate bugs.

My bug experience this week has been traumatizing. I have had encounters with fruit flies, moths, mosquitoes and bees. All from the haven that is my desk. I normally wear headphones while I do homework because listening to music focuses me. Weird I know, so I’ve been told. Classical music doesn’t work because I tend to start feeling sleepy.

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Rochelle Lockridge [CC BY-NC 2.0] I can’t even stand to look at pictures of actual bugs, so he’s a cute animated one 🙂
Anyways, I’m focused on doing homework, when suddenly, a little thing whizzes in front of my face. I try and ignore it in hopes that it was just a figment of my imagination, but again, it continues to circle around my head as if I’m the Sun and it is one of the planets in orbit. Attempts to try and kill it fail because the darn fruit fly is just too small and fast.

Then comes the moth. I have seen moths ranged from a tiny little one that keeps flying towards my table lamp to laaaaarge ones that scare me half to death with its size. It’s not my week at all. I cannot even explain my hate for moths. They flock to light, so those late nights I’m up studying and doing homework, I get plenty. But because it’s so late at night, I have slow reaction skills and stare at it hoping it’ll disappear into a black hole so I don’t have to attempt to kill it with my hands. But when I do, it leaves this glittery powder.

Then, I get these pesky blood sucking mosquitoes. They are GIGANTIC. I blame the fruit trees my aunt is planting for the massive amounts of bugs. Not what I expect while I’m doing homework and just big enough to freak me out and make me run away from my desk and rip my headphones out of my computer. Then I grab a paper and roll it up to try and kill it because I don’t dare kill it with my bare hands. That is until it decides to fly up to the ceiling and suddenly disappear out of sight. Not what I want because it can easily appear sometime while I’m sleeping and that’s even freakier. Just the other day, I found 3 dead mosquitoes in an empty box in my room.

It has been a traumatizing experience with bugs. But, they’re apparently not going anywhere because I just spotted a fruit fly. Dang it! They better not be infesting my gummy worms. Until next week… (if I don’t get bitten to death before then)

– Horrified Mary

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Poppy Bro Jr.

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Artwork from Kirby Super Star Ultra.
Debut Game Kirby's Dream Land
Latest Game Kirby: Star Allies
Other Game(s) Kirby's Adventure, Kirby's Dream Land 2, Kirby's Block Ball, Kirby Super Star, Kirby's Dream Land 3, Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards, Kirby Tilt 'n' Tumble, Kirby: Nightmare in Dream Land, Kirby & the Amazing Mirror, Kirby Super Star Ultra, Kirby's Return to Dream Land, Kirby: Triple Deluxe, Kirby: Planet Robobot
Copy Ability None, Bomb, Cutter
Similar Enemies Poppy Bros Sr., Perot
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Poppy Bros. Jr., also spelt Poppy Bros Jr. (singular: Poppy Bro Jr.[1]) are common enemies in the Kirby series. They are much weaker versions of the Poppy Bros. Sr. Mid-Boss. Most Poppy Bros. Jr. do not have a Copy Ability, but are seen riding apples, Grizzos and Maxim Tomatoes. Those that do yield an ability traditionally possess the Bomb or Cutter abilities. In the Revenge of the King stage of Kirby Super Star Ultra, an enemy called Perot appears, which looks like a clown-like version of Poppy Bros Jr.

Since Kirby's Return to Dream Land, Poppy Bros. Jr. has been solidified as a Bomb-wielding enemy who consistently provides that ability to Kirby when swallowed. He can also be seen tossing bombs between the foreground and background in subsequent titles, and can become a Helper in Kirby: Star Allies.

Super Smash Bros. for Wii U trophy description

"Sometimes riding on Grizzos, other times balancing on apples or Maxim Tomatoes, this little clown clearly has some skills. Unfortunately, his job isn't to make people laugh--it's to get in Kirby's way. As you might expect from the "Jr." in his name, there's also a Poppy Bros. Sr., and he's a slightly bigger nuisance."

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Poppy Bros. Jr. in Helper to Hero.
  • Poppy Bro Jr.'s alternative coloration in Kirby Super Star Ultra's Helper To Hero game is a purple suit and hat.
  • Poppy Bro Jr.'s bomb (in hand) blows up in 5 seconds unless thrown.

  1. Kirby Super Star Ultra provides "Poppy Bro Jr." as the in-game name for the helper version; previous games have always used the plural.


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Circling The Chamber….

March 29, 2012

A very unusual service club phenomenon is occurring in our midst.

The Wildomar Chamber of Commerce has yet to announce all of the various winners of the “….Of The Year” categories, either holding out for maximum anticipation and dramatic tension, or because they are afraid that they will be mocked on the pages of Wildomar Magazine for their choices.

However, certain winners, such as the Animal Friends of the Valleys (“AFV”) couldn’t wait for the announcement so they made it themselves. AFV has declared on their Facebook page that they are the winners of the Wildomar Chamber of Commerce “Non-Profit Organization Of The Year” award for 2012.

Please click on the following link to confirm (you’ll have to be logged into your Facebook account  to do so):

What makes this choice so curious is the timing of their selection. As you know, if you are a regular reader of Wildomar Magazine, AFV has been undergoing a well-deserved and long overdue scrutiny in the local media, of late, which has revealed the allocation disparity between the various cities that participate in the Southwest Communities Finance Authority (“JPA”), especially the negative economic impact on Wildomar.

In Wildomar’s case, it appears that Wildomar is unfairly burdened with the allocation based on the unproven, theoretical “Animal Count,” rather than the more reasonable “Population Count,” to the extent that Wildomar unfairly pays 2 1/2 times more than they should to be a part of this organization.

Unfortunately for Wildomar, no one on the City Council appears to care about the situation.

As a result of the increased scrutiny, it appears that the Wildomar Chamber of Commerce is  now in a “circle the wagons” protective mode, fearful that the idea of scrutiny, once unthinkable for the AFV, might actually gain some traction, especially in Wildomar, and especially in an election year.

However, the mis-identified Wildomar Chamber of Commerce can circle their wagons all they want. Wildomar’s secession from the AFV/JPA is going to be “front and center” in the upcoming election, as is the unthinking, unabashed, and unwarranted support of the AFV/JPA by the Wildomar City Council incumbents who have foolishly bound Wildomar’s economic destiny to this unfair process.

The evidence that the various Chambers of Commerce have no respect for city’s boundaries is the fact that Animal Friends of the Valleys has been the “Non-Profit Of The Year” for the following years and chapters:

1) 2008, Lake Elsinore Chamber of Commerce “Non-Profit Of The Year.’
2) 2009, Lake Elsinore Chamber of Commerce “Non-Profit Of The Year.’
3) 2009, Wildomar Chamber of Commerce “Non-Profit Of The Year.” (Yep, a twofer. Apparently some members voted twice).
4) 2010, nominated for Wildomar Chamber of Commerce”Non-Profit Of The Year.”
5) 2012,Wildomar Chamber of Commerce “Non-Profit Of The Year.”

Apparently, there are no other nonprofit organizations who are qualified for recognition in either city.

One of my concerns about this overly-feted organization is the fact, according to their budget for 2012-13,  that they are planning on spending $1,191,432 in salaries for humans,  primarily for directors, managers and supervisors, but only spending $714,768 for animals, for “sheltering services.”

Comments can be made to zakturango@excite.com.

 If you ever watch old Western movies, sometimes circled wagons didn’t work all that well as a defense strategy.

Wildomar Chamber Of Commerce…

March 28, 2012

A presumably astute observer,  such as I consider myself, of any mis-organized organization need not go far out of his way to expose the flaws and foibles of said organization.

After initially setting the stage with pointed commentary, it will usually be only a matter of time before any such organization either exposes itself for what it isn’t, or shows that the observer is patently full of “corral dust.”

In the case of the Wildomar Chamber of Commerce, they have now fully self-exposed themselves as being anything but a Wildomar-centric organization.

According to their Facebook page,  at last Saturday evening’s Wildomar Chamber of Commerce Annual Awards fete,  they made the following delusional, self-exposing awards:

1) “Wildomar” Large Business of the Year-Paradise Chevrolet
2) “Wildomar” Medium Business of the Year-Golden Office Trailers
3) “Wildomar” Small Business of the Year-Jon’s Movers

Businesses #1 and #2 are located in Temecula and Lakeland Village, respectively.

Business #3 lists a Wildomar business address which is in a residential neighborhood  on the west side of Wildomar, most likely making the “operations center” of Business #3 an unused third bedroom of a two-story tract home.

At the very least, Business #3 is vaguely located within the city limits of Wildomar, allthough no evidence exists that it has a “brick-and-mortar” facility in the City of Wildomar.

It could’ve been worse. We could have been looking at the Wildomar Chamber of Commerce celebrating a business operating out of somebody’s bedroom in a tract home in Lake Elsinore.

Maybe next year.

Comments can be made to zakturango@excite.com.

And yet, the Wildomar City Council agenda continues to provide obviously unwarranted monthly access to these silly and inane “out-of-towners.”

A reasonable and simple criteria should apply. Until 100% of the Directors of the Wildomar Chamber of Commerce are from Wildomar, and at least 51% of the members are from Wildomar, this organization should not be accorded any “official” status whatsoever from the City of Wildomar.

Until that happens, the Wildomar Chamber of Commerce will continue to be a very mockable laughingstock on the pages of Wildomar Magazine.

So Predictable An Outcome That….

March 27, 2012

Perhaps it was a matter of chance.

After all, I did have a 1 out of 4 chance of being correct, since there were only four persons nominated.

However,  it confirms that  I know  and understand Wildomar politics, and of the various levers of political influence that operate within our community. (Click on the February 2012 archives and scroll down to confirm).

What was only a rumor, is now a fact. In her own words, taken from the Facebook page of the Wildomar Chamber of Commerce, the following posting:

Bridgette Moore

Very humbled to have received the “Citizen of the Year” award tonight from the Wildomar Chamber of Commerce! “

If you want to see this with your own eyes, please click on the following link (you will have to be logged in to your own Facebook page to do so):

So now it is official!

The Wildomar Chamber of Commerce, (of whom 70% of its members do not reside or have a business within the city limits of Wildomar), has insinuated it’s insidious influence into Wildomar’s City Council election of 2012.

Fair enough, but the Wildomar Chamber of Commerce should expect no relief from my contempt and disparagement of their existence, for their intrusion into Wildomar’s electoral processes.

Permit me, if you will, Dear Readers, to discuss Bridgette Moore.

The only reason she is ever treated, or mistreated, according to her followers, on the pages of Wildomar Magazine, is that she is an elected, and therefore, public figure. Were it not for her status as an elected public figure, neither she nor her sycophantic followers would ever grace the pages of this satirical tome.

On a personal level, Bridgette Moore has all of the attributes to be  an effective ambassador for a service club such as the Chamber of Commerce, or the  Rotary Club. In fact, Bridgette currently is the Public Relations director for the Rotary Club of Wildomar. Bridgette appears to be well suited for that avocation.

However, all of her personal efforts on their behalf cannot negate her lack of judgment as a Wildomar City councilmember and the resultant political and economic consequences for the citizens of Wildomar.

For example, and to be specific, the following:

1) Lack of due diligence, as Wildomar’s Council representative to the Southwest Communities Finance Authority (“JPA”), which oversees the operation of the Animal Friends of the Valleys (“AFV”).

As has been recently reported on in the local newspapers, and commented upon by Wildomar Magazine, we, as a city, are now burdened with an agreement that overcharges Wildomar (by two and half times) for animal control services, an agreement which was negotiated by Bridgette and City Manager Frank Oviedo.

As you know, Wildomar cannot meet this year’s budget obligation to the AFV/JPA,  to the tune of approximately $58,000, so we’re now “running a tab.”

2) Lack of political judgment, when faced with the loss of our park assessment.

Rather than addressing the issue head-on, Bridgette resorted to her customary and historic reliance upon others by promoting the formation of the ill-fated Blue Ribbon Commission, which she then stacked with political cronies to assure the outcome.

However, somewhere in the process, her unsophisticated cronies were led astray, by the consultants who would eventually be in a position to siphon off a significant amount of the administrative fees created by the formation of a Communities Facilities District (“Mello Roos”), which led to the ultimate defeat of measure D, due to it’s well-deserved lethal connection, by thinking, informed voters, to Mello Roos.

There is no question that Bridgette Moore is a well-known and popular figure in Wildomar. And popularity translates to the ballot box.

However, in 2012, Bridgette Moore has a definable voting record to overcome, if she intends to be reelected.

If enough voters can see past the intrusive smokescreen billowing out of the of the decrepit Wildomar Chamber of Commerce offices on Mission Trail, perhaps we can have an election based on adult issues and not just a schoolyard popularity contest.

Comments can be made to zakturango@excite.com.

Ironically, it appears that the Animal Friends of the Valleys, another well-deserved Wildomar Magazine target, was also named “Non-profit Organization of the Year,” by the same Wildomar Chamber of Commerce “out-of-towners,” and probably for the same reasons.

More on this later.

Awkward, To Say The……

March 25, 2012

Eleven, when you count this gaffe by Mayor Benoit.

Let us set the table for background and context.

At the last Wildomar city Council meeting, when the issue of trail names was being tossed, to and fro, Mayor Ben Benoit publicly objected to one obscure trail out of the entire Wildomar Trail system that would be named the “Supervisor Bob Buster Trail,” in recognition of the fact that the City of Wildomar, including the trails, would not exist were it not for the gracious generosity of Supervisor Bob Buster.

Benoit actually suggested that we should not name anything after someone until that person has died. (Temecula blew that theory away when they named an elementary school after a very much-alive Joan Sparkman).

Please click on the following link to the Lake Elsinore/Wildomar Patch for additional context:

In addition, if you don’t recall, Supervisor Buster  endorsed then-candidate Ben Benoit during the 2010 City Council election.

Benoit apparently understands nothing about gratitude among peers.

Because of the aforementioned personal and professional/political generosity of Supervisor Buster to Wildomar and it’s preeminent political naif, Benoit’s political insult could/should result in an act of political revenge, to the detriment of the City of Wildomar.

Fortunately, because Supervisor Buster is a mature and gracious politician, he will stand shoulder to shoulder with Mayor Benoit at the upcoming groundbreaking ceremonies for the upgrading of the Clinton Keith bridge on March 30, 2012.

In fact, unless one of Benoit’s cronies or friends clue him in about the political insult (I doubt he reads Wildomar magazine ’cause there’s too many big words), Benoit’s naïveté should carry him through the day without incident.

However, this is just one more excellent example of what happens when unaccomplished adolescents are elected to public office.

Because we can’t easily undo an election, we are left with the pages of Wildomar Magazine, deftly using the tool of mockery.

Comments can be made to zakturango@excite.com

Actually, when it comes to political naïveté, Benoit’s only peer seems to be Lake Elsinore City Councilman Daryl Hickman.

March 25, 2012

Apparently the City of Menifee felt the need to weigh in on the Ontario Airport issue, despite their remoteness from the airport and the City of Ontario, who  wants to own it once again, having previously sold it to Los Angeles. Perhaps a little seller’s remorse?

As a result, Menifee’s City Council  has shown that it can be as meaningless and is as irrelevant as Wildomar’s City Council, given half the chance.

Congratulations to Councilmember Melissa Melendez and the City Council of the City of Lake Elsinore for rejecting this meaningless waste of time and effort.

Please on the following link to today’s Californian, to confirm this mutual irrelevancy:

Despite the fact that each of the individual cities, including Wildomar, and now Menifee, had previously voted on the issue through the Southern California Association of Governments (“SCAG”), the political preening and posturing by mental lightweights, such as Wildomar’s Mayor Kim Jong Benoit, and Menifee’s Council member Darcy Kuenzi could not be stopped.

Comments can be made to zakturango@excite.com.

This level of political silliness will continue until the citizen voters of cities like Wildomar and Menifee begin to reject the continuous stream of Chamber of Commerce/Rotary Club “inside the clique”candidates that are teed up every two years by these insidious so-called “service clubs.”

As I have said before, these “clubs” perpetuate a “shadow government” that strives to facilitate elections of their various pre-chosen members, without regard to any city boundaries.

Lest you disagree, rumor has it that Wildomar Citycouncilmember Bridgette Moore, who is running for reelection in 2012, has been declared Wildomar’s “Citizen of the Year” by the Wildomar Chamber of Commerce. More on predictable and fatuous selection that later.

Couldn’t Have Said It Better….

March 24, 2012

Once again, Wildomar Magazine has been vindicated in its commentary about the economic circumstances in Wildomar.

Back in December 2011, after contemplating the current economic state of Wildomar, I created the category “Re-Thinking Wildomar, ” which was based on the premise that the Comprehensive Fiscal Analysis that was the basis for incorporation of the City of Wildomar, and which projected a $15 million revenue stream by 2011, did not pan out as anticipated financially, making it necessary to reconsider the infrastructure of the city of Wildomar.

The actual revenues turned out to be less than half that amount. (See “Re-Thinking Wildomar”for December 30, 2011 to confirm).

However, even I had been a bit optimistic.

According to the Press Enterprise article of March 23, 2012,, the following:

“Before incorporating, cities must submit a five-year economic plan. Wildomar’s projected the city would be bringing in $16 million this year in taxes and fees. In reality, it will take in about $6 million.”

 The context for this article is about reimbursing the County of Riverside for monies loaned to Wildomar for its first year of operation.

However, and more importantly, this article confirms the need for a City Council that can address the unarguable reality that the City of Wildomar has a redundancy in it’s Executive Staff (with a budget of nearly $500,000 per year for both executives), pays far too much for animal control services (overpaying by 2 1/2 times), and foolishly promotes unnecessary and silly celebrations, such as the upcoming Easter Egg Hunt (to be held at a city-owned park that is maintained by hard-working volunteers, because the City of Wildomar spends its money on everything else so it can’t maintain its own park).

When the revenues generated are only 37% of that which was projected (I had estimated 50%), something has to change. And someone on the current city Council, or the next, must take the lead on behalf of the Citizens of Wildomar.

Only an adolescent mentality can avoid the inevitable.

Eventually, however, even adolescents must come to their senses.

Comments can be made to zakturango@excite.com.

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Why My Last Six Vehicle Purchases Have Been…..

March 23, 2012

I recently paused in my busy day to capture a milestone photograph of my odometer. (As you can see, I was wisely stopped while taking the photograph).

 My 2001 Toyota Tacoma pickup truck, a zippy four cylinder, five speed transmission vehicle, which gives me good gas mileage, now that I’m back on the road investigating insurance claims  throughout Southern California, continues to validate my decisions to buy my last six personal vehicles, all of which were manufactured by  the Toyota Motor Corporation.

Although my all-time favorite vehicle (after my first 1954 Chevy that I purchased for $100 in high school) was a 1978 Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme Brougham (I was selling real estate at the time), when I went to replace the Oldsmobile, I found that Detroit had degraded the overall quality of the Oldsmobile line, while increasing the cost of the vehicle beyond my personal budget.

I would have bought American, but ultimately, they could not compete with my subsequent Toyota purchases.

One of the primary reasons that my little pickup truck still runs with the precision of a Swiss watch, is that I religiously change my engine oil every 5000 miles right here.

The service provided by Chuck Paramo and his staff at Grease Monkey reduces this all-important maintenance item from being a “chore” to a pleasant encounter with friendly, enthusiastic, hard-working young people.

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What She Saw by Karen Jefferson

What did she see when she looked in the mirror?

She saw hatred.

Someone hated her enough to hurt her…not once, but for years.

She saw someone that was unlovable, yet very fuckable. Even at 10.

She saw someone that should be far away from people.

She saw someone that had no one to protect her.

She saw anger, pity, sorrow, pain, hopelessness.

She thought others saw those things, too.

“you think i’m a piece of shit…you think i am worthless…you think i am a slut…you think i am a fuck up.”
But that is not what I think. Though you will never accept my truth for your reality. Because you have been through a hell I cannot imagine. Then and now. Though, to you, now is so much better than then was. Yet now can be so much better. Then, you created a reality that kept you as safe as you could…which, frankly, wasn’t very safe. Neither then nor now. But it kept you from the bickering at home. It kept you near the horses you loved. And the terror was the price you paid… couldn’t avoid paying…  though the future value of that cost was inestimable by your ten-year-old self. No one would let a child sign a mortgage on a house, but you were forced to mortgage your life and future relationships. You believed it to be a fair price at the time. You believed what he said to you. He told you that you deserved it. He told you no one would believe if you told. He rolled over and walked away, not noticing the shattered little girl he left behind, time and time again.  Not understanding how his actions would send ripples decades into your future. He could not fathom how your life experiences would send ripples into other people’s lives.

After he did his evil, you would ride away on  the horse with your emotional bruises and bumps. Feeling the wind in your hair and the rhythm of the horse beneath you, your spirit soared. Knowing that you were safe, for now. This feeling would always bring you joy, then and now. The horses love you… always. They respond to your presence. They appreciate you. With horses you can be unguarded and unburdened. If they hurt you, it isn’t on purpose. You can talk to them, though you would never share your secret. It was too heavy even for a  horse to hear. You felt the need to carry it by yourself. Across  your narrow back. Around your skinny hips. In  your heart. Through your soul. Over your lifetime.

What to say to a child that has a lifelong mortgage? Something that no one can ever repay. The mortgage holder cannot get ahead on those payments  unless they read the fine print…see what was writ across their body, mind, soul. It takes time to untangle the emotions and the damaging clauses and addendum that, unseen, seemed unimportant before. It takes time to blot out the immoral and ugly phrases and rewrite the mortgage and replace it with a promissory note. “Today I will love me. Today I will recognize I am lovable. Today I will start the healing. Tomorrow I will do it all over again. And the day after that, I will do it some more. And sometimes I will go back to the lessons I learned so well, the lessons that kept me safe for so long. When I do this, I will catch myself, and I will use my new skills of  healing to rewrite my future. To repay myself because I am owed a future of happiness…joy…pleasure untainted.”


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Extend the Holiday Vision: Best Quotations for Gratitude

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The spirit now is one of giving. I actually work towards this season all year! It makes me feel grateful and inspired—a special design challenge. Graphically sensitive people have a particular pressure because cards, wrapping—even the gifts themselves—are all visual assignments that can use materials we know well. Much like a chef, hours can go into creations that take minutes to consume! What lasts are the feelings (and maybe the photos). I like the planning and thinking of those I love with every scissor cut or mouse click. At the core of these feelings is gratitude—love put into every snip and piece of tape.
Loving to make gifts, doing so is also economical. Now, after a very tough year for business, only half of those I love are doing well economically. Yet we are all healthy and have much to be grateful for!
Diving into my quotation collection, I want like to share my favorites about gratitude and endurance. I hope that they inspire yours:

“Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps the singing bird will come.”
—Chinese Proverb

“May you live all the days of your life.”
—Jonathan Swift, 1730

“Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.”
—Euripides, 428 BC

“The one law that does not change is that everything changes, and the hardship I was bearing today was only a breath away from the pleasures I would have tomorrow, and those pleasures would be all the richer because of the memories of this I was enduring.”
—Louis L’Amour, 1980

“We need greater virtues to bear good fortune than bad.”
—Francois de la Rochefoucauld, 1670

“Having only coarse food to eat, plain water to drink, and a bent arm for a pillow, one can still find happiness therein.”
—Confucius, 460 BC

“Whatever is happening to us, we feel that it will always happen this way. If we are having hard times, we feel they will last forever. If things are going well, we think this will last forever. But neither ever lasts; it is only our perception that it will.”
—Michael Waitsman, 1994

“This, too, shall pass.”
—William Shakespeare, 1600

Liane Sebastian, illustrator, designer, writer, and publishing pioneer

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Seeing the forest for the fuel: Integrating ecological values and fuels management
Forest Ecology and Management
  • John F. Lehmkuhl
  • Maureen C. Kennedy, University of Washington Tacoma
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Management of dry forests often involves trade-offs between ecological values, particularly those associated with closed-canopy forests, and reduction of severe wildlife risk. We review principles and our ecological research that can be used to design stand- and landscape-level fuel treatments in dry coniferous forests of western North America. The focus of ecological values is on the ecological web that includes the northern spotted owl (Strix occidentalis caurina), its two primary prey species the northern flying squirrel (Glaucomys sabrinus) and bushy-tailed woodrat (Neotoma cinerea), and the vegetation (live and dead), mycorrhizal fungi, and arboreal lichens that support those prey species. For the landscape level, we describe an ongoing project to develop the FuelSolve computer tool that optimizes the area and location of a fuel treatment by minimizing potential fire behavior and minimizing loss of spotted owl habitat from treatment and potential fire. Some species will gain and some species will lose habitat when stand structure or composition is changed during fuel reduction treatments. Stand-level prescriptions might be altered to maintain or create patchiness of closed-canopy habitat elements, such as snags, down wood, mistletoe-infected trees, and large old trees, and open-canopy habitats can be tailored to ensure creation of suitable composition and structure for wildlife. Allocation of treatments across the landscape might be managed to minimize cumulative effects and impacts on target species populations. General approaches to landscape-level planning of ecologically sound fuel treatments include coarse- and fine-filter approaches. A coarse-filter approach would use some definition of the historical or natural range of variability to define the composition and pattern that might reasonably be expected to sustain the forest ecosystem. Three general approaches can inform fine-filter analysis and development of fuel reduction treatments at the landscape level. Population viability analysis provides sound principles based on attributes of the species population structure, life history and behavior, and environment (habitat) for guiding fine-filter analysis. Fine-filter analysis can be informed by operational modeling of treatment alternatives. Research publications can guide dry forest landscape management. Our FuelSolve optimization model described in this paper differs from other fuel planning models in this class by equally considering multiple optimization objectives for fuel treatment and ecologically important resources. We describe the results of FuelSolve prototype development, an evaluation of outputs for field use, and future development efforts.
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John F. Lehmkuhl, Maureen C. Kennedy, E. David Ford, Peter H. Singleton, et al.. "Seeing the forest for the fuel: Integrating ecological values and fuels management" Forest Ecology and Management Vol. 246 Iss. 1 (2007) p. 73 - 80
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Souvenirs from My Internet Travels: May 20-26

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I love discovering new books, and Nancy Pearl always has great recommendations. She gave a list of Summer Reads for NPR and I added A Partial History of Lost Causes by  Jennifer Dubois to my to-read list.

I thought this story at The Good Men Project was inspiring. I love book stores (so much I wrote about my favorites earlier this week) and I love that there are entrepreneurs out there responding to market forces and learning to compete with Amazon by offering innovative services. The print on demand and delivery service are great ideas I hope are replicated.

I’ve been blocking out lots of new scenes for my WIP in my head this week, and need to start outlining them, so it was a great time for me to read this post on Novels from the Ground Up. I have a post it note on my desk with a list components for a scene that I find helpful, but this discussion has a lot of good tips.

I’ve been wanting to write a post about how awesome Neil Gaiman is for a while, especially since I listened to his fantastic commencement address. I loved SE Sinkhorn’s perspective on his speech in this post at Maybe Genius. Being free to work without constraint doesn’t mean being lazy and breaking rules for the hell of it.

It’s an important question to ask yourself if you’re a writer: would you write if you were never getting published? The discussion at Writability this week was interesting. How do you answer that question? For me, it’s an unequivocal yes.

One of my favorite authors, Laura Moriarty, has a new book coming out this summer. The Chaperone was featured in USA Today as a Hot Summer Read.

It’s a short list this week, because I drove 1800 miles cross-country this week and didn’t spend much time online.

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*looks around, blows dust off computer*

Wow, it has been a hectic couple of months! After so much I finally have the time to sit down and get back to things, like this blog. But where to start off…

I made it pass exams and finished out the year successfully (yay!) but the happiness was short-lived. When I finished class in February I had a message on my phone from my dad saying to call him back as soon as possible. My first thought was “Crap, I must have forgotten to so something at home.” But that wasn’t the case.

On February 24, my grandmother Gloria, a women who helped raise me and inspired my love for nature, myth, and fairies passed away. It hit me harder than I thought it would, I knew she was sick for a long time and my mom told to prepare myself…but like many people say “you can’t prepare for death.” My mush-mush *that’s what I called her* put me on the path that lead me to my love of writing and to my faith, but  with her gone it was like my faith and love were gone too.

I didn’t  know what to do, I felt like there was a big void in my life and I didn’t want to do anything. It was three months before I started writing again. But still, it got me thinking about life and death and that if I stopped living, it doesn’t me the world stops living. It will go on and I could either forgo everything I worked to achieve: my writing, my work at school, and do nothing or I could go with it and just live every day as much as I could.

I have finished my first manuscript and currently working on the sequel to In My Nature, called Making Moon Eyes! I am planning my book out for upcoming NaNoWriMo in November, which I will me posting my progress here.

I will be blogging again, at least once a week, maybe more depending on school. So everyone here is my final words for this post…Life can be smooth like chocolate or bitter like lemon but we have to take the bitter with the sweet and make something out of it.

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A Tarantula Sighting

I saw a tarantula tap dance across the pavement yesterday on my bike ride. As his legs scurried away from me, I heard a familiar sound that reminded me of the castanets I had in kindergarten. He was big and furry. I was bigger and girlie. I resisted the urge to scream, but pedaled away in a fury.

Now, I know Fe-Lady would have totally loved seeing him up close. She probably would’ve called him “handsome” and gushed. 734’s Dad and his brother acted like I just won the lottery and thought it was so cool that I caught a glimpse of him. I guess? I half expected to have nightmares last night.

As I finished my ride, I did have a flashback to college. My friend Ed had a pet tarantula in the dorm. One Saturday night, it got out of its cage and roamed around. The next morning, one of the girls in the dorm was astonished at how realistic her dream seemed that night of a tarantula that walked across her chest. She assumed she had way too much to drink. Ed didn’t have the heart to tell her the truth.

When I overheard him laughing and telling this story in the line for the cafeteria, I thought ‘I better avoid this guy.’ We didn’t become great friends until two years later. Must’ve been after he got rid of his spider.


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A policewoman and mother-of-four who fell into financial ruin after the accumulated psychological trauma of her work forced her to medically retire has appealed to Queen Elizabeth II in her bid to seek redress.

Wendy Kennedy, 49, served in the West Australian force for 15 years, seeing horrendous crimes such as a woman who had been stabbed and thrown through a window by her partner.

She saved people from ending their own lives, but other times, nothing could be done.

The images are burnt into her mind and still haunt her.

She lists off the many times she was in mortal danger - a broken bottle attack while working pregnant as Katanning's first female police officer, running from a man who came at her with a machete, seeing an axe about to fall on her before her partner jumped on the assailant.

It still rattles her to recount the time a car ploughed into her mounted police colleague as they patrolled a dark Perth highway at 2am.

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"We didn't wear hard hats. There was no requirement - our uniform was an Akubra hat.

"His head hit the cement. He was convulsing, his head in blood, his horse was hurt.

"I thought 'my partner's dying'."

She rushed to his aid and he thankfully pulled through, but no-one asked her if she was okay and she was sent straight back to work.

Ms Kennedy, who suffers post-traumatic stress disorder, says the mental health of officers is not properly monitored, and she's backing the Medically Retired WA Police Officers Association in calling for regular wellness checks, particularly after traumatic jobs.

Such checks were a key finding from an inquest into the death of Collie policeman Elliott Watt, 36, who fatally shot himself in the station's armoury in December 2008 on his first day back from long service leave.

For Ms Kennedy, her psychological health is turning a corner thanks to the support of the association and her psychologist Joseph Presti.

And after not being well enough to work for the past 12 years, she's now managing four hours a week as a personal trainer.

Her clients, who have become friends, understand if she has to reschedule because some days are better than others when you suffer from PTSD.

But she's so broke, she's on the brink of being evicted. Even her superannuation fund was closed after fees ate up all that was in there.

Sick of asking for help from Centrelink, Ms Kennedy has gathered strength to fight for the recognition and financial redress she feels she deserves after all of her public service.

"I put on my life on the line and I've seen the most gruesome stuff," she said.

"I shouldn't have to live like this."

She's preparing her first application for an ex-gratia payment from the state government, with the WA Police Union officially declaring her case has merit.

The rare act-of-grace payments are currently the only way medically retired officers are financially acknowledged, although they are usually for physical injury, and while a worker's compensation scheme is now finally on the cards for police, it won't be retrospective.

Like all WA police, she's not considered an employee of the state, so Ms Kennedy has written to the woman she promised to serve - the Queen.

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Asparagus & Egg Fried Quinoa Recipe | Abel & Cole

Asparagus & Egg Fried Quinoa

A twist on the traditional egg fried rice, with a protein-packed combo of quinoa and seasonal asparagus to give you a spring in your step.

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  • 75g quinoa
  • A thumb of ginger
  • 1 chilli
  • 1 garlic clove
  • A 250g bundle of asparagus
  • A bunch of salad onions
  • 2 eggs
  • 1 tbsp oil (any kind – coconut oil is nice here)
  • 1 tbsp tamari
  • 1 lime, zest only
  • A handful of coriander or sorrel

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1. Rinse your quinoa till the water runs clear. Set a small lidded pan over a high heat. Add the quinoa and a pinch of salt. Pour in 150ml water. Cover and simmer for 15 mins or till all the water is absorbed.
2. Turn the heat off. Keep the quinoa covered for 5 mins.
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If we’re being honest, we would all admit some time or another we talk to ourselves.

One of the most common times for a little self-talk is when you’re driving to work on Monday morning, thinking out loud about what needs to be accomplished this week. Or maybe you’re replaying the weekend that just ended.

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What you say to yourself when alone, the conversations and conclusions you make about yourself and others, can make a positive or negative impact on how you perceive yourself — and thereby how you act and feel emotionally. It’s like the law of physics — what we focus on expands! So, if the things you say are negative, you will feel overwhelmed or anxious. If you find yourself saying positive things, then your actions ahead will bear fruit.

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A worker pushes an empty bussy basket as the canning plant retorts are being vented at the Larsen Bay cannery. Excess steam is released periodically from the tunnels where the fish are cooked in the cans (Anne Raup / Alaska Dispatch News)

The steam whistle exudes a pink cloud as it announces break time. A forklift loaded with cookies and hash browns zips from the mess hall across the wooden planks on which the Larsen Bay salmon cannery is built. The forklift stops in a corridor within a corrugated metal warehouse.

"Form Two-Lines," a hand-stenciled sign instructs, pointing to either side of the table. The staff places the food on the table, alongside oversized coffee thermoses. It's time for mug-up.

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The quality-control crew rushes by a laminated sign, commemorating the day in 2005 when employees "cased up" 23½ pallets of cooled cans in just one hour. The fleet manager pulls herself away from the VHF radio in the cannery's office and exits under a sign that announces how long the salmon canning rhythm has pulsed in Larsen Bay, on the west side of Kodiak Island: "Please respect me, I'm 107 years old," it reads.

Employees sip coffee, leaning against walls that also testify to the history of the place. A fish-trap marker from the Alaska Packers Association (APA) dates back to the earliest owners of the place, who built this Uyak Bay cannery back in 1911.

The mean seas that crescendo through the wind tunnel that constitutes the Shelikof Strait prompted the Alaska Packers to move its processing plant from the mouth of the Karluk River to this protected bay, and the fates of Karluk and Larsen Bay remain conjoined, as today the Karluk River stands as the home stream to generations of salmon that have been butchered, canned and frozen at the cannery.

Over time, well over 30 remote canneries around the Kodiak archipelago, like the one at Larsen Bay, turned salmon into a shelf-stable pantry food. Now just three processing plants can salmon on the island — the one at Larsen Bay, the century-old cannery at Alitak on Kodiak's south end, and one plant in the city of Kodiak.

Old canneries bear their history on their walls — in the stories of their workers and fishermen, even in the equipment used to make a salmon pack. Dexter Lorance, foreman of the Larsen Bay cannery since 1987, points out places on the canning line where a cast-iron piece of machinery is joined with a stainless steel fitting. Lorance's ability to keep antique machines operating might be why a sign hanging outside of his room dubs him "The Professor of Interesting Stuff."

Lorance recounts moments of change at the cannery: from one owner to another, from wooden to fiberglass boats. Transitions in fishing technology have outpaced changes in canning equipment, such as the proliferation of refrigerated seawater, which mean boats could fish farther from processing plants.

When Lorance first started, the Kodiak seine fleet was more localized. "Back then, they were kind of segregated. You had Old Harbor fishing (grounds), you had Kodiak town fishing, you had Larsen Bay fishing. Every once in a while, a few people here would go down to the south end, or the town boys would come to this area," but typically fishermen hung close to "their" canneries. Refrigeration has eliminated the need for processors to be located on the fishing grounds. It has also prompted seafood plants to replace canning lines with freezers.

But there are advantages to selling fish to a remote plant, rather than delivering to a processor based in the town of Kodiak. Joe Lindholm, skipper of the Sea Star, has fished Kodiak's west side and sold his fish at Larsen Bay most of his life. He recalls tying up to the pilings on which the mess hall hovers. "Our rigging was right there in the windows and they'd open the windows and hand us pies," he chuckles. In addition to quality hot meals, the cannery provides gear lockers for wintertime storage, laundry services and the Karluk red salmon run at its front door. "We were like a family," he says.

Resolute fishermen

Indeed, many children have been raised and many pairings made at the Larsen Bay cannery. Take the late Alberta Laktonen, for example, whose oral history was recorded in 2015. Laktonen's father was a Norwegian carpenter and fisherman who came to Kodiak's west coast to work for the Alaska Packers; her mother was an Alutiiq woman from the village of Afognak. Her family was one of the earliest to take up year-round residency in the village of Larsen Bay, which sprung up around the cannery in the 1930s. Laktonen worked in the cannery's mess hall when she was a young mother, until the day in 1953 when her boss tried to transfer her to work in the laundry. She preferred to quit.

"And all of a sudden, I had fishing on my mind," she recounted. In an instant she formulated a plan: She would take her children and start setnetting. Her husband and fellow villagers thought she was mad, but she convinced one of them to lease his setnet site to her, guaranteeing him $700 a week. "And I never fished in my life," Laktonen said years later. But with no experience, and three children in the bow of a borrowed skiff, Laktonen became a successful setnet fisherman in Uyak Bay.

Laktonen was resolute, a characteristic inherent in those who fish, work and live in places like Larsen Bay, maybe even a characteristic of the cannery itself.

A cannery worker leaves the breezeway of the first warehouse. The building contains a break room where internet is available, a relatively recent change. Wi-Fi is only in certain areas and cellphone use is forbidden in other areas. (Anne Raup / Alaska Dispatch News)

The steam whistle hollers again, and cannery employees eat the last crumbs before hustling back to their tasks. The tide rises underneath the cannery, lifting the purse seine boats tied to the pier. Another forklift whizzes by, carrying steaming cans of salmon. And with resolve, another summer passes at the Larsen Bay cannery, where the tenacious rhythm of the salmon season beats with timeless familiarity.

Anjuli Grantham is a public historian and writer based in Juneau. She is currently editing a book about the history of salmon canneries in Southeast Alaska.

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The history of freight movements surrounding Nottingham began in 1850, when the Ambergate, Nottingham, Boston & East Junction Railway formed an east-west link to Grantham. At Colwick, near the small town of Netherfield and the original western end of the line, several sidings were constructed to allow inbound goods to be transported by horse and cart into the city of Nottingham, as the Midland Railway was outright refusing to let freight traffic pass through their station.

Having already made its place known, the Midland Railway grew a monopoly over the Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire coal traffic and the Great Northern Railway, which consumed the ANB&EJR, wanted to have their own say in the lucrative industry. Since the original Ambergate line reached the outskirts of Nottingham, any further passage towards the city was through running rights. As the GNR sought to introduce their own coal traffic, the Midland Railway saw fit to significantly increase the cost of the rights to be prohibitively expensive. In return, the GNR decided instead to build their own infrastructure, it would be cheaper.

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When the GCR planned their ‘London Extension scheme, which would see the construction of the London Marylebone and the now-lost Great Central Main Line, they jointly worked with the GNR to build the entirely new ‘Nottingham Victoria’. This vast and complex station was mostly hidden from view, being sub-surfaced in the heart of the city, yet that doesn’t hide the fact that there were four signal boxes, two turntables and passing loops around all platforms, the volume of both passenger and freight traffic was incredible.

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Everybody is interested in the weather. If we aren't talking about it, we are trying to predict it.

Today, weather forecasters use a variety of scientific tools and equipment, but that hasn't always been the case. There was a time when nature provided the primary information used in weather predictions. For instance, insects and insect behavior.

Flies, it is said, bite sore just prior to a rain. When rain is on the way, gnats swarm and flies collect on the screen door. Swallows also fly low just before a rain or a change in the weather. This is because the swallows are feeding on flying insects that also fly low just before a rain. Butterflies flying from the southwest also indicate the approach of rain.

Folklore holds that stepping on an ant will bring rain. Maybe that ancient belief gave rise to the Indian rain dance when some overzealous individual got into an ant nest!

Insects have been used to predict the onset of the seasons. It is said that a yellow butterfly flying in one's face indicates a frost within the next 10 days that is sufficient enough to turn the leaves the color of the butterfly. The first song of the dog day cicada means six weeks to frost. A Zuni Indian saying indicates, "When the white butterfly comes, comes also the summer.”

Where a butterfly chrysalid is suspended is said to indicate weather trends. If the chrysalid is on a heavy branch, expect rain. If it is found on the underside of slender branches, then we are in for a spell of fair weather.

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The insect really comes into its own in predicting the severity of winters. A harsh winter is sure to follow when bees lay up an unusually large store of honey. Hornets, it is said, build nests near the ground when a severe winter is expected.

The champion of the insects used to predict winter has to be the wooly-bear caterpillar. This fuzzy black caterpillar, with a reddish-brown band around its midsection, wanders around in the fall looking for a place to spend the winter. According to legend, the narrower the band, the longer the winter. However, don't sell the snowplow based on wide bands on wooly-bears; scientists say the width of the band has to do with what the caterpillar ate!

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One of the most important and stress-inducing aspects of any major trip is accommodations, or where to sleep on the road.

It can be argued that, after setting up your route, this is the most important part of the planning process, because wherever you are, the sun will eventually set and when it does, you’ll want somewhere to lay your head. But should you book your travel accommodations while you’re still at home or once you’ve hit the road?

Pros and Cons of Pre-booking

Pre-booking has its advantages and disadvantages. Arriving with your reservation in hand is a huge convenience. It’s nice to arrive at a new destination without having to worry about where you’re staying. This method really reduces arrival anxiety – you can simply land, pick up your luggage and head directly to your hotel or hostel for a nap.

The downside of pre-booking is having to cancel your room reservation and potentially lose your investment when inevitably, your plans change. Or what if your room looks nothing like the one you booked, but you’re paid up for a week. It may be hard to get out of your reservation with a full refund.

If you know you want to pre-book, here are some tips

  • Don’t book on unfamiliar hotel booking sites. If you do, call the hotel (no matter where it is) to make sure the reservation sticks, and write down the name of the person you spoke (and the date you spoke to them) to so you can reference them to the person that checks you in. Confirmations can mysteriously “disappear” and whole hotels can suddenly be booked solid whether or not they said they had a room for you.
  • Read reviews on sites like Trip Advisor or Expedia before booking to get a feel for other people’s experiences. But be sure to take their opinions with a grain of salt– even the nicest places have the occasional bad review and everyone’s standards are different.
  • Travel services are another way to book rooms abroad. You may pay a little more to use them but they can be extremely helpful in navigating the minefield. Most of them have direct relationships with the properties they sell and will know a lot about them. You also will have recourse if something goes wrong with the reservation. Or if you need to change it, they can do the legwork.
  • Hostelworld.com is a good site to make hostel reservations in many countries around the world. Call ahead to confirm just in case.

Pros and Cons of Booking from the Road

hotels hostels accommodationsThe obvious benefit of getting your accommodations as you go is the flexibility it allows. You don’t have to rush to your next overland destination on your trip because you already have a room booked, and you can choose your bed based on first-hand observations rather than online research.

Of course, this comes with a serious downside: having to find a place to sleep when you arrive. There are three main ways to book from the road:

1. Walk up and book

This method can pay-off but there’s a serious risk of being shut out or paying way too much. Rack rates (the walk-in price) at hotels and hostels can be discouragingly high. The payoff is a spot at a place that’s exactly where you want it and as it appears without having wasted any time booking a room before got there.

2. Phone ahead

A somewhat more fail-safe method is to call the hotel, just before you arrive. This will remove the dreaded turn-away in the lobby. You do run risks of limited availability so if you’re going with this method, it’s a good idea to call in and reserve as soon as you know you’re going to a certain place. Because if there’s an event going on a room can be close to impossible to get. Get a local sim card for your phone or travel with a good international plan.

3. Book online

This is by far the most convenient option. Just make sure you’re making your reservations from a respectable internet connection: a hotel business center, corporate franchise (like FedEx) or a friend’s house. Random internet cafés, while handy, are often highly susceptible to identity theft. Rick Steves has a great article on how to keep your information safe while using the internet abroad. The key points for internet cafes: make sure to delete your history and any cookies (personal info the browser saves automatically) and sign out of every sensitive site you log into.

So how should you book your rooms for a long-term or RTW trip?

We think it’s best to book your accommodation for the first 2 or 3 nights in each destination so you can rest easy and acclimate to the new city and then move to a spot in a better location at a lower price after you’ve settled in.

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Uploaded: Nov 23, 2013

As a new parent I try to stay extra-aware of places that are family- and kid-friendly.  Before having a kid, I thought that the distinction would be easy. Fancy restaurant = not kid-friendly.  Preschool = kid-friendly.  Well, I've learned that it's not so clear cut.

The Palo Alto Library parenting program refuses entry to parents mistakenly bringing babies or children.  Some preschools specify that their tours are for adults only.  And toddlers are not always welcomed trick-or-treaters.

On the flip side, I'm amazed by my doctor's office who (happily) accommodated my son when I had to schedule an immediate appointment but I wasn't sure if I could find a babysitter in time.  And semi-fancy restaurants with staff who not only invite us to dine in, but interact with our son, provide kid menus, high chairs and covered cups.

What venues did you misread as either family- or not-family friendly?