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Comment on 10 Ways Your Ex Feels Rejected By You by Love Doctor, Yangki Christine Akiteng.

I’m happy for you…(: Giving your ex the opportunity to exercise his/her own ability to give (his/her own way), changes the dynamics of a relationship. Sometimes that’s hard because many of us fear that the other person may not be able to give or may not want to give, and so we give way too much or compromise way too much to try to “save” the relationship.

You will never know if you are with a person who is incapable of giving or doesn’t want to give (or even loves you) if you do not let them show who they really are. As I discuss in the course, if you are always trying to “control” things because of your own fears, you end up carrying the relationship all by yourself.

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10 Ways Your Ex Feels Rejected By You
No, YOU saved your relationship.

I have often wondered what happened after you completed the course. I’m glad things are amazing…(:

I’m still working out a platform for “happy” stories like yours. I’ll be contacting you once I have that sorted out. In the meantime, please keep sharing and encouraging others not to give up without a “good” fight.

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Why Someone You Love Doesn’t Want You
Sometimes life does give us second chances…

Until someone makes it so clear that it is indeed “O-V-E-R” (not swinging back and forth) or is happy in a new relationship, there is always a chance to do it right the second time round.

The catch is that you have to be well positioned to take that chance — or you’ll blow it!

Contact and How Not to Pressure Your Ex
Sad and neglected was probably how he felt when you didn’t respond until after 3 weeks. He may be giving you a taste of your own medicine, or may he decided it’s best to move on.

After 3 attempts with no response, it may be best to wait and see if he contacts you. Then decide if you want to re-establish contact or not.

5 Reasons To Maintain Contact With Your Ex
I’m happy for you! That’s a big step forward.

I’ve said it elsewhere, if you are the one who wants the other person back, you have to be willing to do most of the heavy lifting and “dirty jobs” in the initial stages. If you do it right, it will pay off and things will even out.

Keep us updated!

How to Make Your Ex Feel Loved
I’m glad you’re finding the eBook helpful. Also glad that you saw your own thinking and self-corrected. I wish you all the best.

How To Show A Guy You’re Attracted To Him
Have you tried flirting back or actually going up to the woman and chatting her up? It’s no use if they are giving you the signals and you’re not acting on them.

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Where to eat

Discover the wide range of Restaurants and Kiosks that we have in Aquopolis Torrevieja, where the quality and the wide variety of its products will not fail to impress you. From home-made pizzas, paellas to order, menus for adults and children, mojitos hamburgers and hot dogs, crepes, waffles …

Self Service

In Self Service you will find a variety of dishes, enjoying a nice family meal and watching your favourite sports on a big screen TV.

Do not resist temptation and taste our delicious 100% beef burger accompanied by crispy and delicious fires and your favourite beverage.

Kiosko Heladeria

Is there anything better than having a soft drink or ice cream while seeing your children are having a whale of a time? You will not want to leave.

If you want a very good coffee or tea, come to Cafeteria, where you can also enjoy crepes or waffles while you are watching your favourite sports.

Kiosko Bar

Here you will find the best sandwiches freshly made: tortilla, Iberian ham with extra tomato or serranito. Once you try it, you will be back for more.

Kiosko Tirolina

After slide down the attractions, relax on the Kiosko Tirolina terrace where you can have a snack or if you prefer, a great ice cream or slush.

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Saturday, October 29, 2011

Watch Ivory

I haven't had time to post much here this week.

Busy with stuff--aren't we all

I was going to comment on the Patriots Rob Gronkowski and BiBi Jones photo, but it is old news now.

So, my sleeper play of for last week was the Raiders RB Michael Bush.

He did well, but not in the scenario I had envisioned.

The Raiders looked awful, Darren McFadden got hurt early, and Bush became to go-to guy even in a blowout loss.

As a long-term sleeper pickup, I like Saints RB Chris Ivory who was activated by the team this week (was recovering from a foot injury).

Last year, the undrafted Ivory was inserted into the lineup after injuries, and was fantastic--finishing the season with over 700 yards rushing and five touchdowns.

Seattle head coach Pete Carroll called Ivory "a freak" after watching him perform in a game last season.

The Saints have one of the most explosive passing games in the NFL, yet coaches would love to run the ball well too.

And they have not excelled at that thus far.

With RBs Ingram hurt, Thomas still trying to find his old form after injuries, and Sproles more of a complimentary back, Ivory's value as lead runner has appeal.

Look for him to play sparingly this week, but watch for Ivory as the Saints search for a favorite in their run game.

Tuesday, October 25, 2011

Coach Fox and Tim Tebow

After listening to the Tim Tebow supporters and detractors, I have not heard one relevant question about his performance from last Sunday discussed:

After completing four of fourteen passes for a paltry forty-plus yards in over three quarters of playing time but with the game still close at 15-0, why did Coach John Fox not bench Tebow for Kyle Orton or Brady Quinn?

Orton is considered an NFL starter, and by some accounts, Quinn outplayed Tebow in training camp and the preseason, and was considered the team's backup quarterback.

So, why stay with Tebow in that game?

Here are two possibilities:

1) Loyalty

Coach Fox was loyal to Tebow and wanted him to start what he finished.  He and organization executives needed to evaluate Tebow on a full-game of work, and pulling him in the second half would not have allowed it.

When Coach Fox called the shots for the Carolina Panthers, he stuck with embattled signal-caller Jake Delhomme longer than most everyone would have.

Fox had named Tebow the starter, and he was going to give him a full game to show his talents.

2) To Prove a Point

Coach Fox did not draft Tim Tebow.  He watches him struggle with a traditional passing game.  He does not see him as an NFL starting quarterback.

But, he has to listen to very vocal Broncos and national supporters holler for Tebow to start at quarterback.  With the team's season looking bad, and the starter (Orton) being ineffective, Fox decided to settle the Tebow issue once and for all.

He would start Tebow.  Then, his deficiencies would be visible to all.  Coach Fox would not consider removing Tebow, if he performed poorly.  If Tebow played the entire game and failed (including leading the Broncos at the end), the pro-Tebow supporters would have been silenced.

The coach and team could then move forward with Orton or Quinn.

But, then Tebow rallied the team for a win--and solved nothing for organization administrators.

So which is it--did Coach Fox emphasize loyalty by giving Tebow a full game or did he expect the guy to fail so that they could move forward next season?

I tend to believe it was the latter.

Thursday, October 20, 2011

Too Much

In the best-selling book MoneyBall, author Michael Lewis cites a telling quote from Oakland Athletics' General Manager Billy Beane (yes, for non-sport fans, as played by Brad Pitt in the movie-version):

"The day you say you have to do something, you're screwed.  Because you are going to make a bad deal.  You can always recover from the player you didn't sign.  You may never recover from the player that you signed at the wrong price."

I think Beane's observation accurately describes the Oakland Raiders this week.

With QB Jason Campbell injured and out indefinitely, Raiders management acquired QB Carson Palmer from the Bengals.

The asking price for the disgruntled Palmer before the apparently desperate Raiders contacted them was rumored to be a second round draft pick.

Quite a difference as compared to the first round draft pick, and another conditional draft pick (that could be a first-rounder as well)  the Raiders will lose in the trade.

So, acquiring Palmer may solidify a respectable Raiders team, and likely will send them into the playoffs.

But, would Oakland have been better off keeping those top picks and trading for unwanted game managers Kyle Orton or Donovan McNabb?

Does trading so much of your future for a veteran QB who has never quite looked like the superstar he was prior to suffering that a serious knee injury a few years ago make long-term sense?

I say "no", but time will tell.

The Bengals' management is sure smiling though.

Monday, October 17, 2011

Who is Whining Louder?

Who is whining louder this morning: Redskins fans after a difficult loss to a reeling Eagles team or the saps that started Rex Grossman as a fill-in quarterback for the week's fantasy football games?

 I would argue it is me and the other fantasy players who watched Grossman star in one of the worst QB-performances of the season--resulting in an unreal -2 points for our teams.

I am thinking Grossman will be the most frequently cut player in fantasy football today and tomorrow as the Skins welcome the QB John Beck era.

Wednesday, October 12, 2011

On Tim Tebow

It was announced yesterday that Broncos John Fox named Tim Tebow as the starting quarterback for the team's next game.

Tebow goes from the best job in professional football--that of the "backup" quarterback who is beloved by fans based only on expectations--to perhaps the most difficult: the starting signal caller.

From an outsider's perspective, it seems that Broncos management did not want Tebow.

He was a first round pick by the previous administration, and multiple reports had Tebow as the third string quarterback as the season started.

Scouts dislike his accuracy.

He is perceived as a more dangerous runner than thrower.

And, Tebow is simply not "their guy."

I consider it reasonable to believe that Broncos management, tired of Denver fans demanding to see Tebow, inserted the young QB into the second half of last week's game so that he could fail.

Behind by two scores, against a top-ranked defense, and starting from inside his own ten-yard line, management expected Tebow to finish the game completing something like 6 out of 18 passes for 55 yards, no touchdowns, and two interceptions.

But, instead Tebow injected energy into the Broncos.

He rallied them for two touchdown drives--throwing for one and running another across the goal line himself.

The crowd went wild.

Tebow's teammates were pumped.

And even though Denver lost, the Broncos management now had no choice but to name Tebow the starter.

Though they seem less than excited about the prospect.

So in two weeks, Tebow gets his opportunity to lead the Broncos against the Dolphins from the start of the game.

And what is even better for Tebow--playing the Dolphins game is certainly winnable game.

Now, you may want to stash Tebow on your fantasy team and wait and see.

Friday, October 7, 2011

Parker on the Rise

I did enjoy watching my Bucs on Monday.  Since I live in the Northeast, I rarely get to see them.

I was reading one of the fantasy writers (forgot which one) who also watched the game, and he stated that Bucs WR Preston Parker is now a legit third receiving option for fantasy football players.

I am not so sure about that.  Parker has posted some good numbers, and has a good relationship with QB Josh Freeman, but I think he may be just benefiting from WR Mike Williams drawing all the defensive attention.

So, I short-term I am not that high on Parker.

But, long-term is a different story.  The Bucs plan on having Freeman for the next forever and his current favorite go-to guy on third down is Parker.

Freeman is in trouble look for Parker.

Bucs need a first down, Freeman throws to Parker.

Brady to Welker combinations take time.

Freeman to Parker could be something special in the future.

Saturday, October 1, 2011

Sleeper of the Week: Installment I

Since I am short-handed at RB this week, I was considering my options with the available players in the waiver pool.

I signed Dexter McCluster and plan to use the WR/RB for the Chiefs as my flex starter.

With star RB Jaamal Charles done for the season, the Chiefs wanting to spread the ball around, and McCluster showing flashes of greatness, I expect him to get more than 12 touches per game.

McCluster's situation reminds me of how Peyton Hillis developed last year: versatile and productive players, on teams that want to run the ball, and both with key injuries at the RB position.

Now, McCluster's small frame certainly does not translate into a Hillis 30-carry game, but having a serviceable veteran QB in Cassel can only help prevent defenses from keying on Chiefs' runners.

Plus, last week as the Chiefs rallied and just fell short of defeating the Chargers, McCluster's rushing was a key component of the team's second-half charge.  His over 6 yards per carry should force Chiefs' coaches to involve Dexter more in the offense.

I am looking for a base of 8 fantasy points, and hoping he sneaks in a touchdown--finishing the game of against the Vikings with a double-digit total.

We will see.

Post Game Update:  This is where someone shouts "Don't quit your day job" and I just shake my noggin.  Dexter finished with less than four fantasy points on the day.


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Thursday, February 7, 2008

Interview with Tom Torrey of Gamma Ray Bots

I recently discovered Tom Torrey's Etsy store, Gamma Ray Bots. It's full of...robots and other neat stuff. Tom was gracious enough to answer a few questions.

Q: What kind of art/crafting education do you have?

I have a B.F.A. in illustration from Mass College of Art in Boston Ma. I also spent a couple of years at a State College getting a sculpture and metals/clay education before switching to Mass art.

Q: How do you design your creations - - do you plan them out, or just dump out your bits box and see what falls out?

Yes,sometimes! I spent a long time without focus in my artwork. I could paint and draw I just didn't know what i wanted to make art about. Being trained as an illustrator did a lot of damage to my creative process. For a long time I couldn't look at a blank canvas without wanting to paint a businessman on it with a fishing pole surrounded by an ocean of dollar bills. It is a kind of brainwashing. When i was an editorial illustrator I didn't feel like a "real" artist. No offense to editorial illustrators you are real artists. It wasn't until I quit freelance illustration and concentrated on the more fine art side of things that this whole new world of possibilities opened up. This is just a long way of saying I love scifi and when I was free of the regimented illustrative training these pictures started to appear in my sketchbook.

Q: What tools/glue do you use?

I use lots of tools. Hand tools mostly. I share a basement with my father-in-law so what ever tool i don't have i can probably find it in his stuff. I try to make at least my robot sculptures as permanent as I can. It can get tricky sometimes. I find myself rejecting a cool looking detail on a robot that I just know would fall off or break in a couple of years. Making an object to pass on to someone else is important to me. My sculpture professor,whom I learned a lot from, always pushed the importance of permanence in art. He said why create this wonderful object just to have it fall apart in a few years. I guess it just stuck with me.

Q: Your robots seem to have very similar legs and feet - - what do you make them out of?

The most common material I use is metal. I also use a common robot body type. This didn't happen overnight. It has come from trial and error. I find what is easily available to me. When I find some food tins i can use for the body lets say i find out just how many are available. I get weird looks from cashiers when I bring 10 coffee tins to the register. I have learned if you like it buy in when you see it because containers disappear and change often. The fun is in the details. My favorite hangouts are dollar stores and thrift shops. This is when the looks get weirder. I often think about what is running through peoples minds when they ring up old silverware, broken tools, lunch boxes,jars of rusty nuts and bolts. I mean to most people this stuff is garbage and should be thrown away. I rescue it and it sits on a shelf in my studio until I find the perfect place for it.

Q: What techniques do you use to promote your store?

Flickr is a great way to generate sales at my store. I have gotten commission work based on people looking at my old work. It can be great tool just to show what I am capable of. Word of mouth is good to but it is hard to find my audience. They are out there but can be hard to find. I do some art shows in the Boston area. Another good resource I am gearing up for is magazine ads. I have my eye on doing a couple of spots this summer to push some sales. A small piece of advice to anyone before you advertise yourself, have the stock on hand. Make as much art as you can prior to any sales push. When your name gets out, there is no sales killer like having three pieces in your store front because you didn't get the work done on time. A nice full inventory makes for good sales and keep generating new art. People who like your art will come back and check you out for new stuff. If there is no new stuff they are going to move on.

Thanks, Tom. Visit his Etsy store here, his official site here, and his Flickr gallery here.

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Managing Nuisance Aquatic Plants

Estimating the Size of Your Pond

For some methods of vegetation control, you'll need to determine the surface acreage and/or the volume of water in your pond. This information will help:

Basic Terms and Conversion Factors

Calculating Surface Acreage

diagram of rectangle with measurements indicatedRectangular pond - multiply length by width and divide by 43,560 (the number of square feet in one acre). In the diagram shown here, the equation would be:

260 feet x 408 feet = 106,080 square feet
106,080/43,560 = 2.44 surface acres.

diagram of circleIf the pond is circular, the distance circumference of the pond (distance around the shoreline) should be measured in feet. That number should be multiplied by itself and then divided by 547,390. If the pond's circumference is 800 feet, the equation would be:

800 feet x 800 feet = 640,000
640,000/547,390 = 1.17 acres

diagram of triangle indicating measurementsIf the pond is triangular, the base and the height should be measured. Multiply those two numbers, take half of the resulting amount, and divide by 43,560. If the triangle is 300 feet at the base and 500 feet high, the equation would be:

(300 feet x 500 feet)/2 = 75,000 square feet
75,000/43,560 = 1.72 acres

Calculating Average Depth

Make a series of soundings by dropping a weighted line to the bottom in straight rows across the pond 30 to 50 feet apart. Add the depth measurements together and divide by the number of soundings. Begin and end each row with the zero measurement at the shoreline and include these in the total number of soundings made.

Regulatory Requirements

Enforcement of herbicide and pesticide laws is the responsibility of the Texas Department of Agriculture (TDA). Before applying herbicides, check with a TDA office to ensure compliance with federal and state rules. Even if the active ingredient is the same, it is illegal to use a product that is not registered for aquatic use. Use of herbicides containing 2,4-D requires a pesticide applicator’s license.

To report herbicide misuse, call TDA's toll-free Pesticide Hotline at 1-800/TELL-TDA.

“Aquatic Vegetation Management in Texas: A Guidance Document” outlines procedures for developing and submitting treatment proposals for public water. This document is available in PDF format. To download, use the link on this page. Questions and treatment proposals may be addressed to:

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Oct. 12, 2011

The Skinny on Bass at Lake Cisco

ATHENS—Why are there so many skinny bass in Lake Cisco? Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) Inland Fisheries biologist Spencer Dumont explains.

Cisco historically has been a good bass lake known for giving up some big largemouth bass, including a 13.2-pounder in 2007. Unfortunately, it is also known for its many small, skinny bass. Lake Cisco is a relatively unproductive lake to begin with, and when you add in four years of dropping water levels with virtually no input of nutrients from rain events, you get a recipe for unhealthy fish populations.

The Inland Fisheries crew of  TPWD’s Abilene district office  recently completed an electrofishing survey at Lake Cisco with the help of one of our trusted volunteers, Chris Love. This survey, like all our electrofishing surveys, was done to determine the current status of largemouth bass and sunfish populations in the lake.

One of the first things we look at during drought years is how many young bass from the spring spawn are left in the fall. We collected only 14 young bass in one hour of electrofishing at Cisco, but the average for the lake and for area lakes is 50 young bass per hour of electrofishing. In other words, survival of young bass was very poor, because there wasn’t enough to eat and there were fewer places to hide from other predators.

Another thing we look at is how many adult bass (bass 8 inches and longer) are present. First, the good news. There were over 100 bass in one hour of electrofishing, which is the most we have seen at Cisco since 1999 and well above the average for the lake (78/hour) and the area (66/hour). The bad news is 86 percent of the adult bass were less than 12 inches long; they were three and four years old; and they were very skinny. Instead of a rounded belly and thick back, they had a sunken belly and were rail-thin across the back.

All this adds up to a stunted largemouth bass population where fewer individuals grow to a larger size. From a management viewpoint, we could put a regulation in place that allows anglers to harvest smaller bass. However, Cisco doesn’t have enough fishing effort and harvest potential for a slot regulation to work. The real answer lies with Mother Nature. A significant rain event would flush in nutrients and flood habitat, resulting in more microscopic plants and animals, then more forage fish (shad, silversides, and bluegill), then faster growth of largemouth bass.

Lake Cisco recently caught about a foot of water. While that was nice, it’s not nearly enough. The lake is still nearly 20 feet low. In the meantime, fishing can be excellent. Just expect to catch lots of skinny, small bass and an occasional big fish. However, Cisco also has some nice-sized redear and redbreast sunfish for those of you who like panfishing.

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‘Recalcitrant’ on Diversity

‘Recalcitrant’ on Diversity

Green 2.0 Releases ‘Transparency Card’ on NGOs,
Rebukes Oceana, Pew for Refusing to Participate

The latest breakdown of the racial and ethnic composition of the top 40 non-governmental environmental organizations was delivered by Green 2.0 on Thursday with a rebuke of two leading institutions, Oceana and Pew Charitable Trusts, for refusing to provide demographic data.

“It’s almost inexplicable in 2017 that modern, sophisticated organizations in the business of helping people aren’t willing to provide basic demographic data on race and ethnicity,” said Robert Raben, president and founder of Green 2.0, an independent advocacy campaign to increase diversity among environmental groups. “We call on them to come around and do so.”

Green 2.0 issued a “Transparency Card,” showing the racial and ethnic breakdown of staff, leadership and board membership of the top 40 green NGOs, based on a ranking of grant dollars received. Green 2.0 has collected demographic data from 32 organizations on that list, via GuideStar, a leading compiler of information on nonprofit organizations.

The latest data shows that people of color comprise 27 percent of full-time staff, 15 percent of senior leadership, and 22 percent of board members at environmental NGOs. Green 2.0 said the numbers, as of April 1, 2017, show progress but also that the green sector remains “overwhelmingly white.” Ethic and racial groups represent about 38 percent of the country’s population, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.

Click here to view Green 2.0 Transparency Card.

In addition to Oceana and Pew, the other organizations that have not provided demographic data include Alaska Wilderness League, Conservation International, Partnership Project, Root Capital, World Resources Institute, and Population Action International. Those organizations have reasonable explanations – usually that they either are working to collect the information or do not yet track their diversity data, according to Whitney Tome, executive director of Green 2.0. Pew and Oceana stand apart for their outright refusal to participate or discuss their reasons, Tome said.

Green 2.0 first convened in 2013 and has been issuing annual appeals for demographic data. This has been enough time to understand the focus and importance of the mission, Tome said in a phone interview, “and at this point as an organization we feel you can step up with the rest of your colleagues and be transparent about that.”

Raben called Pew’s lack of cooperation “genuinely head-scratching” because of its otherwise positive record on environmental and anti-poverty efforts.

Oceana is an international advocacy organization focused solely on ocean conservation. Pew is a global research and policy nonprofit that lists the environment as among its areas of focus. Communications departments were reached for comment at both organizations right after the announcement by Green 2.0 via teleconference on Thursday morning; neither responded by end of business.

Several non-governmental environmental organizations were praised by Green 2.0 for their diversity efforts. Green for All, Sierra Club, Environmental Defense Fund, Nature Conservancy, Greenpeace, and EarthJustice “come immediately to mind because they’ve made an internal commitment, whether it started with a diversity committee or diversity, equity and inclusion officers, and they’re implementing programs and projects on a regular basis,” Tome said. “They’re making great strides.”

Green 2.0 has been at the leading edge of a movement to better connect communities of color to the environment and its various concerns, including climate change. Fueling that movement is concern that the traditional, mainstream green sector is largely white and aging out while the rapidly changing demographics of the U.S. population builds to a projected non-white majority.

The work of organizations such as Green 2.0 has pushed the League of Conservation Voters to adjust its mission and overhaul its recruitment and hiring practices, according to Jennifer Allen, the organization’s senior vice-president for community and civic engagement. She said the organization was “very intentional” in increasing its backing of women candidates and candidates of color for public office in 2016. Among its political endorsements last year, 40 percent were women and 30 percent were people of color, Allen added.

Green 2.0 will in the near future up the ante on its monitoring efforts with a system of grading progress on diversity by environmental organizations. The grades will take into account demographic data as well as implementation of best practices for diversity, equity and inclusion. The “Transparency Card” is a complement to Beyond Diversity: A Roadmap To Building An Inclusive Organization, a report by Dr. Maya Beasley of the University of Connecticut that was released by Green 2.0 in December. The report is a comprehensive collection of best practices for organizations to improve their readiness, recruitment, and retention of people of color to catalyze systemic change in the movement.

The organization continues to hold out hope that the progress report will include the likes of Oceana and Pew.

“We will double down on those who are recalcitrant, even obdurate in their unwillingness to work with us,” Raben vowed.


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Susan Blu (sometimes credited as Sue Blu) is an American actress, voice actress and voice director. Some of her past voice acting roles are Granny Smurf from The Smurfs, Stormer and Lindsay Pierce from Jem and the Holograms, Judge J.B. from BraveStarr, Galadria from Visionaries and Buttons from My Little Pony. Some of the shows she has directed are the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, the 2003 version of the Ninja Turtles, Men in Black the Series and Extreme Ghostbusters.

In 2006, Blu recorded a DVD commentary for The Transformers: The Movie alongside writer Flint Dille and director Nelson Shin.

You can also see her get speared through the back by Jason Voorhees in Friday the 13th part VII: the New Blood.

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Beast Wars

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Transformers Animated

Transformers: Prime

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Sunday, March 02, 2008

A Degenerative and Regenerative Economics of Philanthropy and Gift

A Degenerative and Regenerative Economics of Philanthropy and Gift

One of the mysterious characteristics of a gift is that it increases in value when it is received. Value is, of course, a multilayered phenomenon and complicated subject, but it can also be simple, personal, and direct. Suppose it is winter, and you have an infrequently-worn warm coat in your closet. If you were to give that coat to someone who has none, then the value of that coat has increased drastically because of its increased usefulness, regardless of its original cost or sentimental value. Value actually requires a transaction in order to be realized, yet the perspective from which it is viewed remains relative—to feelings, perceptions, and historical context.

Something else important is happening within this transactional picture. The coat was hanging in a closet, out of circulation you could say, maybe even in cold storage or mothballs. Once given, it is now moving about in the world providing bodily warmth and helping someone focus on their life tasks instead of the condition of being cold. Most important, this picture presumes a kind of ideal world in which the human being is valued more highly than material goods.

Money, especially gift money, works in a similar way. Money, which has been heavily or continuously used either for purchase or investment, or held in “cold storage” such as land or real estate where its primary purpose is an increase in monetary value, needs to be recirculated into the economy through gifts to support research, education and other activities that foster human capacity for cultural renewal and envisioning the future. And, in its purest form, this renewal is done without any expectation of monetary return (though there may be a tax benefit). Where money makes possible the furtherance of human capacity, money is given, in a sense, a new life. Its value has increased for benefit of culture and humanity rather than for the benefit of its giver.

There is a secondary aspect of this gift transaction that is equally important. That is, how the gift is received. A gift usually comes with an intention. If the recipient acknowledges the intention, feels responsible to it, then they have in a sense met the giver on his or her destiny path. In this act, a spiritual link is created, almost like a bridge between the past and the future. The receiver is taking on work which the donor recognizes as important and has resources to support, but has chosen not to do. This link between donor and recipient is also a critical part of the increased value of the gift, a transformation from monetary or trade value to human value.

While philanthropy primarily is concerned with giving from accumulated or surplus capital or time, a gift economy focuses more broadly on the circulation gifts and assumes an ever-renewing human capacity for adding resources to that circulation—whether in material form such as goods, or spiritual form such as ideas. Philanthropy is a subset of the gift economy, but it is based upon the capitalist-based assumption that wealth or capital rightly accrues to the one or ones best able to organize human labor in economic activities. Thus philanthropy is made possible through an extractive and accumulative process. Historically it has been the role of philanthropy to return some portion of this surplus to the culture for public benefit, or to what English law called, in the 17th Century, the “community chest”. While it may not be treated as such in conventional economic thinking, philanthropy is an essential part of economic life when viewed through qualitative aspect of financial transactions.

However, we live in and by another economy which lies outside economic discipline, namely that of caring, thinking, relationships, among others, all of which we need in order to survive, but which also have no “economic” value. These human processes are the essence of a gift economy, through philanthropy is one element of it. While goods may be circulated as part of the gift economy, it is the recognition and celebration of human needs that serve as prime motivators—in other words we are moved by a sense of brotherhood and sisterhood rather than self-interest. That the value of a gift increases over time is a kind of modern mystery in that while a gifted object or money gets consumed, the values that pass through the transaction do not. Instead when one values someone their sense of value increases. In this view, the material and the spiritual aspects part ways to circulate in degenerative (material) and regenerative (spiritual) economic pathways. The reality is that we need both aspects, but we lack a science of regenerative economics to complement prevailing materialistic economic science.

John Bloom

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Saturday, May 12, 2012

National Train Day

Great promo video for National Train Day. One of my dreams for 2012 is that every person in the United States has at least 7 days that they experience mass transit and preferably PUBLIC TRANSIT.

Mass transit saves fuel, is the most responsible form of travel, allows us to interact on our journeys, and brings communities together through interaction. Make the time to experience and develop a relationship with a topic you may not have first hand experience with. If you work administratively in public transit and have limited first hand experience -- get out there and gain the experience of being a satisfied customer.

Have a safe, adventurous National Train Day
May 12 2012

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It is unusual for us as climate engineers to show our work, because our work is rather difficult to visualize and to communicate. In spite of this, we have been invited to present our mastery of Klimaengineering at a number of exhibitions and have been delighted to accept at every opportunity.

Behnisch Architekten + Transsolar

Aedes Architecture Forum and the Institute for Foreign Relations (Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen) invited Behnisch Architekten to design an exhibition to showcase their architecture work. However, Behnisch was interested in the theme climate responsive design and asked if we would like to collaborate. The exhibition not only intensified our relation to the Behnisch office and Frank Ockert (a designer specializing in architecture and communication graphics), but also forced us to reflect on our typical project approach. From that point on, we began to focus more on the human experience within the built environment instead of focusing only on its technical systems. Ultimately, a building which manages to delight its occupants is one that is treasured by all.

green architecture for the future
In 2009, we were approached by Louisiana Museum curators to take part in the exhibition “Frontiers of Architecture II: green architecture for the future”. The museum engaged Frank Ockert to curate our exhibit, which was presenting our climate engineering approach.

Transsolar + Tetsuo Kondo

We were invited by Kazuyo Sejima, curator of the Architecture Biennale 2010, to participate in the architecture exhibition. We succeeded in creating a cloud, indoors, as a unique visualization of climate engineering. This technical feat was also the first aesthetic climate engineering project we did.


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Tuesday, August 9, 2011

Boeing 747

Boeing 747 pictures

The Boeing 747 is a widebody long-range aircraft, designed and produced by American company Boeing. First widebody in history, measuring two and a half times the size of the Boeing 707,  until then the largest long-range aircraft of the 1960s.
Nicknamed Jumbo, is the most famous aircraft in aviation history and kept a record of passengers carried by 37 years since its first flight in 1970.
It is a four turbojet that produced the first double decker configuration (two floors in part of the aircraft) of aviation, which is its most notable physical feature: the superior-anterior hump.

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A Sense of Place

A Sense of Place

$18.95Great Travel Writers Talk About Their Craft, Lives, and Inspiration

Buy this book on Amazon

By Michael Shapiro
August 2004
ISBN 1-932361-08-1 392 pages

place_s “I’ve never thought of us so-called travel writers as forming a comradeship, but in this innovative book, Shapiro brings our motley crew into a single focus by surveying eighteen of us, as writers and as people, through a single pair of perceptive, generous, and imaginative eyes.”
—Jan Morris

Michael Shapiro’s illuminating conversations with the world’s great travel writers reveal deeply-held views about the craft of writing, the world, and home. Go with him and ride over dusty Montana roads to Tim Cahill’s writing cabin, step into the Dickensian clutter of Redmond O’Hanlon’s house in Oxford, visit Frances Mayes in her Tuscan villa, gaze at Peter Matthiessen’s rustic zendo on Long Island, and empty a bottle of wine with Jonathan Raban in a Seattle study that seems like a ship’s cabin.

In this book you will meet:

Isabel Allende in San Rafael, California
Bill Bryson in Hanover, New Hampshire
Tim Cahill in Livingston, Montana
Arthur Frommer in New York City
Jeff Greenwald in Oakland, California
Pico Iyer in Santa Barbara, California
Peter Matthiessen in Sagaponack, New York
Frances Mayes in Cortona, Italy
Tom Miller in Tucson, Arizona
Jan Morris in Llanystumdwy, Wales
Eric Newby in Guildford, England
Brad Newsham in Oakland, California
Redmond O’Hanlon in Oxford, England
Jonathan Raban in Seattle, Washington
Rick Steves in Edmonds, Washington
Paul Theroux in Oahu, Hawaii
Sara Wheeler in London, England
Simon Winchester in Great Barrington, Massachusetts

It was on American Airlines Flight 44 that I first pitched the idea for this book to Travelers’ Tales Executive Editor Larry Habegger. We were flying from San Francisco to New York, en route to a travel journalists’ conference in Bermuda. Somewhere over Nebraska I knelt in the aisle next to his seat and shared my nascent thoughts for a book of interviews with travel writers. I felt like I was kneeling at the altar of publishing, seeking benediction for my project. When a flight attendant approached with a rolling cart and a nasty glare, I thanked Larry for his consideration and went back to my seat.

That was September 4th, 2001. A week later the Twin Towers crumbled and the Pentagon was shattered, sending shock waves through the American psyche and economy. Few industries were hit as hard as travel, and travel publishing was reeling for months.

Yet the idea stuck with me. Each year I spend the week between Christmas and New Year’s on silent retreat at the Sonoma Mountain Zen Center. During my 2001 retreat I kept thinking about this project, and it began to take shape. Initially I considered interviewing each writer about travel writing, but soon realized I wanted to discuss much more: their lives, their hopes, their aspirations, and their thoughts about the world. That last part—their thoughts about the world’s politics and people—seemed especially relevant after the September 11th disaster. Who better to shed light on global issues than the people who have explored the planet so widely and so sensitively, and who have written about it so eloquently?

Another thought occurred to me during that retreat: In the coming year, I would turn forty, and I wanted my life to take a new turn. For the past seven years I had written mostly about travel-tech issues, such as how to use the Internet for travel planning. I didn’t want to abandon that completely, but I sought something more engaging to my soul and intellect. I sensed I was embarking on a pilgrimage, as well as a journey of tribute to the writers who have inspired me to explore the world in new ways.

I wanted to learn from the masters. And the best way would be to interview them where they lived. After roaming the planet they had settled—or not quite settled in some cases—in places far from their native homes (Pico Iyer) or on their native soil (Jan Morris). I was curious about what influenced their choices of place and whether being rooted somewhere helped them understand the world.

This would require extensive travel and some expense, but rather than hope that the project would pay off in financial terms, I chose to view it as a personal graduate school. I would learn from the interviews and from the travel. By simply being in the presence of so many prominent authors, I’d soak up knowledge and wisdom by osmosis.

The following spring I submitted a proposal. Travelers’ Tales Publisher James O’Reilly saw potential but wanted “proof of concept.” That’s when the fun—and the hard work—began. I interviewed Simon Winchester in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, and Jeff Greenwald in Oakland, California, and wrote introductions to each conversation. The editors liked what they saw and sent me a contract.

In the spring of 2003, I began setting up interviews. That April I met Bill Bryson—Bill Bryson!—in Hanover, New Hampshire. He was as kind and congenial as you’d imagine from reading his books. I returned home on a high, enthralled by the prospect of one-on-one conversations with Pico Iyer, Jan Morris, Tim Cahill, and so many more of my literary heroes.

The exultation didn’t last. When I returned from that trip my father complained of pain in his abdomen. At the Passover Seder he couldn’t sit at the table through dinner and excused himself to lie on the couch. Tests showed nothing wrong, but when my father’s pain became unbearable a week later, he checked into a San Francisco hospital. A CT scan showed he had cancer of the pancreas, one of the fastest-growing and most lethal types of cancer.

The weeks he spent in the hospital were a living hell that Dante and Kafka might have concocted. But we rarely left him alone—my mother, brother, wife, and I worked out a schedule that enabled one of us to be with him almost around the clock. Throughout his life, my father had been diligent about work and didn’t want his illness to forestall my project, encouraging me to keep my interview appointments. To prepare for them, I spent many nights in a sleeping bag on the floor of his hospital room, reading Frances Mayes and Pico Iyer by the light of my headlamp. After twenty-six days in the hospital, my father was released and vowed never to return.

Soon I was on the road again, driving down to the Santa Barbara hills to meet Pico. I spoke to my father daily as I continued south to Arizona to interview Tom Miller, and each time he sounded stronger. The night I got back from that trip, we went out to his favorite restaurant, Gary Danko, in San Francisco, celebrating his recovery with a triumphant parade of delicacies and wines.

But his pain had already returned. On Friday, June 13th, we learned the cancer had spread. I canceled an upcoming trip to Britain, where I’d planned to interview Jan Morris and others, and spent much of the summer hanging out with my father, talking in the backyard and watching Giants’ games on TV. Chemotherapy had contained the cancer for the moment, and my father insisted I get back to work. I told him I would dedicate the book to him and he said, “Then I better stay alive long enough to see it in print.”

It was against this backdrop that I interviewed Tim Cahill in October and Isabel Allende in November. With each of them I discussed death and dying, and, probably without realizing it, they helped me cope with my father’s loosening hold on life. The day after Thanksgiving I left for Europe to interview Frances Mayes, Redmond O’Hanlon, and Jan Morris. I told my father I could cancel the trip, but he insisted I go. He planned to stick around for a while and said that if I was dedicating the book to him then it should be the best book possible.

I called daily from Europe and each time my father’s voice sounded strong, belying his deteriorating condition. Even after a discouraging doctor’s appointment my father kept his spirits up—at least during our phone conversations, and encouraged me to continue on. But I sensed his condition was worsening, and I canceled my appointment with Jan Morris. I flew back to San Francisco the day after I interviewed O’Hanlon.

During the flight I reflected on how fortunate I’d been to interview so many of the world’s leading authors. (I hesitate to call them travel writers because many don’t see themselves that way and because their work typically ranges well beyond travel.) How fortunate to jet around the world, to have plenty to eat, to buy any book I wanted.

I got home just in time. My father was conscious but in terrible pain. He said he knew what was happening to him and that it was O.K. He listened with interest as I told him all about my trip, and later we watched a basketball game on TV. The next day, a hospice nurse arrived with a morphine pump. That evening, while holding his wife’s hand and flanked by his two sons and daughter-in-law, my father departed for his final destination. I’m certain he was upgraded to first class.

Spurred on by my father’s courage and determination, I continued with the interviews. In the three months before my deadline, which had been generously extended, I met Arthur Frommer in New York, Rick Steves and Jonathan Raban in Seattle, Jan Morris and Eric Newby in the U.K., and Peter Matthiessen at the far end of Long Island. It was a stirring conclusion to a project that has enriched my life in ways that are just starting to become fully apparent.

—Michael Shapiro
Sonoma County, California
April, 2004

Working-Class Hero
Tim Cahill
Livingston, Montana

Yearning for the Sun
Frances Mayes
Cortona, Italy

A Long Way from Home
Jonathan Raban
Seattle, Washington

The Redmond O’Hanlon Show
Redmond O’Hanlon
Oxford, England

At Home with the Spirits
Isabel Allende
San Rafael, California

A Hop Across the Pond
Bill Bryson
Hanover, New Hampshire

Dark Star Shining
Paul Theroux
Oahu, Hawai‘i

The World for a Song
Arthur Frommer
New York, New York

When Worlds Collude
Pico Iyer
Santa Barbara, California

Europe Through an Open Door
Rick Steves
Edmonds, Washington

A World of Wonders
Simon Winchester
Great Barrington, Massachusetts

Strange Travel Suggestions
Jeff Greenwald
Oakland, California

Through Love and War
Eric Newby
Guildford, England

Southern Exposure
Sara Wheeler
London, England

Giving It All Away
Brad Newsham
Oakland, California

Along the Border
Tom Miller
Tucson, Arizona

The Snow Leopard
Peter Matthiessen
Sagaponack, New York

The End of the World
Jan Morris
Llanystumdwy, Wales

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Working-Class Hero

Tim Cahill

Night is enveloping the Colombian jungle camp; your traveling companion is insulting one of Colombia’s most ruthless guerrilla leaders, and said guerrilla is dropping less-than-subtle hints that you may soon be kidnapped. Leave it to Tim Cahill to defuse the situation with an off-the-cuff remark about his companion’s fondness for drink.

After more than a quarter-century of travel to the world’s most challenging places, Cahill has developed a knack for doing the right thing at the right time. Cahill doesn’t court danger, but when he encounters it, which is often, he responds shrewdly and emerges to recollect his adventures in tranquility. Whether scaling a cliff or descending into a cave, he’s the kind of guy you’d want by your side when it all hits the fan.

Cahill grew up in a small Wisconsin town. When he was ten, he joined a swim team so he could travel around the state. He put himself through the University of Wisconsin on a swimming scholarship and soon he found himself in UW’s law school. But when it dawned on him that most law students become lawyers and go on to careers in law, he dropped out and headed for San Francisco.

A San Francisco Examiner story led to a job at Rolling Stone. Later he became a founding editor of Outside magazine, where he invented the world’s greatest job: traveling to some of the planet’s most remote places and writing about them. He’s swum with great white sharks, plunged into caves with lethal levels of CO2, pursued Caspian tigers, and taken a dip in the ice-encrusted waters of the North Pole. But unlike many adventure writers of yore, Cahill’s stories don’t come from his gonads. He writes from the heart and hopes his tales make you laugh and make you cry.

Cahill, an imposing presence, stands six-foot-one and has filled out a bit since his collegiate swimming days. The New York Times has called him “a working-class Paul Theroux,” and when he’s wearing a tattered t-shirt and sipping a beer, he looks like he just got off the day shift. But looks can be deceiving. Though Cahill can joke about dog farts on one page, on the next you’ll find lines by William Blake. He’s a serious student of the craft of writing, and his stories are seamlessly structured.

Among Cahill’s collections are Pass the Butterworms, Pecked to Death by Ducks, and A Wolverine is Eating My Leg. He called his first book Jaguars Ripped My Flesh to rile colleagues who felt adventure travel writing was traditionally “subliterate.” Cahill’s 1991 book, Road Fever, recounts a caffeine-fueled road trip from Tierra del Fuego to Alaska’s Prudhoe Bay that set a speed record recognized by the Guinness Book of World Records.

“Let me know when you’re getting in and I’ll pick you up at the airport,” Cahill told me when we set a date for the interview. The Bozeman airport is thirty-five miles from his home, so I declined and rented a car. But when he said I could spend the night on his couch—“I doubt you got a big advance for this book, so you may as well save your motel money”—I accepted. I drove under Montana’s big sky to Livingston, where Cahill lives in a modest, century-old house in town, with his wife Linnea, two dogs, and two cats.

We corralled Grace the springer spaniel and Mac the 105-pound giant schnauzer and asked them that rhetorical question: Wanna go for a walk? It was a sunny, Indian summer afternoon. We circled a broad valley framed by the Crazy Mountains to the north and the snow-streaked Absarokas to the south. The dogs took off ahead of us and when a herd of antelope sprung past us, Gracie leapt after them. But even a speedy dog is no match for America’s fastest land animal.

Tim and I talked about the death of his mother five weeks before—he and his siblings had to decide when to pull the plug. I asked Tim how his neighbors felt about wolf reintroduction. “Polarized,” he said. He told me how he learned to hunt antelope by shadowing other hunters. Later he pointed to a nearby peak and said one day he wants to walk out his front door, swim across the river, scale the peak and be home in time for dinner.

Back at his house, in the company of a fearsome Dogon figure from Mali and a wild-eyed mask from Bali, we conducted the interview. Mac’s deafening barks punctuated Tim’s remarks and he often derailed his train of thought to shout “Plotz!” to Mac, figuring the dog would respond better to commands in its native German.

For dinner we went to The Pizza Garden, a homey restaurant owned by Tim’s close friend, Jim Liska. Ten people crowded around a table for eight—many were Tim’s friends—and they squeezed us in. One guy was a documentary filmmaker, another had been a photojournalist for Time. The woman across from me had helped ghost-write Hillary Clinton’s book. Our waitress, Courtney, was the young woman whose heartrending story of life-threatening spinal surgery is recounted in Cahill’s tale “Trusty and Grace” (in the 2002 collection, Hold the Enlightenment).

Halfway through dinner, an effervescent woman named Margie blew in and pulled up a chair next to mine. She told me she’d recently starred in the touring production of The Vagina Monologues. Turned out it was her birthday so we all sang for her. On the way home I asked Tim who she was and he said, “Oh, Margie. That’s Margot Kidder.” Well, my wine-addled mind thought, I might never emerge from a phone booth with a big red S on my chest, but at least I’ve sung happy birthday to Lois Lane.

The next day Tim asked if I’d like to see his cabin in the woods and help him pull his plastic water pipes out of the creek. As yellow aspen leaves rustled in the breeze, we drove on dusty roads past the small house where he lived when he first moved to Montana in the late ’70s. “See that long driveway—it wasn’t plowed in winter so I had to posthole it up that road with bags of groceries and the dog.” Nearby ranches belong to Tom McGuane, Robert Redford, and Tom Brokaw. “See that place up there on the hill—you’ll never guess who used to own it: Whoopi Goldberg,” he said. “But she sold it after a year.”

Cahill’s cabin is nestled in heavily forested woods just north of Yellowstone. PVC pipes stretched to the nearby creek, bringing water to the cabin. In anticipation of winter we yanked the pipes out from the creek bed. Tim marveled that this was the first time he’d ever managed to pull the pipes without getting his feet wet. I was soaked up to my knees. Just as he asked if I’d like to take a hike, the phone in his cabin rang. It was Linnea—they needed to leave for a dinner date in an hour.

The drive to the cabin had taken an hour and fifteen minutes. “It’d be great if we could get back in time for me to take a shower,” Tim said. “Would you mind driving?” I hadn’t really bargained for this: piloting a bulky Chevy pickup at hair-raising speeds across Montana’s back roads with a passenger who’d set an overland speed record. “Don’t worry,” he said, “I’ll let you know when there’s a curve or a bump coming up.” My sodden foot put the pedal to the metal. We flew over ditches, kicked up clouds of dust, sped past a herd of befuddled buffalo. We made it in about forty-five minutes, as fast, Tim said, as he’d ever driven it himself.

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What are you working on now.

A very short book called Lost in My Own Backyard, which is about walking in Yellowstone. I was asked to write about my favorite place to walk so I said, “Could it be Yellowstone Park?” And they (the publisher) said it certainly could be. Good lord, what a job! They’re going to pay me to walk in Yellowstone Park—I love it.

Not everything you’ve done is travel. You started by writing for Rolling Stone.

Let me start a little bit further back, and I’ll tell you a story. I wanted to be a writer from the time I was a teenager and I think a lot of my adolescent fantasies of travel were tied up with being a writer. Big-time writers in those days were Ernest Hemingway and guys who went to Africa. However in the little town that I grew up in there was nobody who was a writer, and since I really did love to read, I thought writers were some kind of gods. Now you and I know many writers (laughs) and we know this is not the case. Some of the most poetic and wonderful writers are somewhat less than gods in their personal lives.

But at the time I thought if I said I wanted to be a writer, it would be a kind of vanity. It would be like saying I want to be a god. So I never told anybody until I went to the University of Wisconsin. I went to law school and did pretty well in my first semester. A professor, one of those scary law school professors, a Paper Chase kind of guy, called me into his office and said, “This is one of the five best briefs I’ve ever read from a first-year student.”

I recall walking out of that office and feeling very depressed and thinking , Why was I depressed? What I realized was that if this kept up the way it was going, I was going to be a lawyer, and I’d never actually tried to be a writer. So I went to San Francisco—this shows how backwards I was; the capital of the American literary world is New York—and enrolled in San Francisco State in a creative writing program. I wrote a mercifully unpublished novel…

What year was that?

1968 or 1969—I’m vague on years. The Summer of Love—I got there in the fall (laughs). I was there certainly in time for Altamont. In those days in San Francisco, prices were cheap enough that young people who had big dreams, artistic dreams, could actually live in the city, and there were a lot of us. I had this friend who was an oil painter and a lithographer, and he did birds. He wanted me to write something about birds so that the popular media would carry one of his lithographs.

The only problem with that is that I have ornithological dyslexia. I can’t tell one bird from another. I have gotten better at it. What I did know were the turkey vultures on Mount Tamalpais. I used to just lie down in the meadow, and the vultures would begin to circle trying to figure out if you were dead or not. So I said I’ll write about the vultures.

So Jim—the artist’s name was Jim Gorman—said “I can do vultures” and he did some. I wrote the article and submitted it with some of Jim’s lithos to the magazine of the San Francisco Examiner and they accepted it. Now here’s the interesting thing: I’d never had a journalism course. I knew nothing whatsoever about journalism—I was going to write the great American novel.

But it was just the beginning of New Journalism. I didn’t know I was a new journalist. I was just a guy who had never been taught the proper pyramid lead, the structure of a journalistic piece. I knew the structure of a dynamic scene; I knew the structure of novels. I knew how to carpenter scenes together. At that time it turned out to be a very good idea for me to do things like that. The editor liked my story on vultures and asked what else I’d like to do something on.

I’d been told: Write about what you know. So I did one on beer, and then I did one on this guy who had won the 100-meter breast stroke in the Olympics. As it turned out, I had been a swimmer at the University of Wisconsin and I knew what swimming was like. I knew that in the big race you can remember every second of that fifty-eight seconds—you can remember precisely what you were thinking—and how much more so an Olympian than someone like me who was just a pretty fair Big 10 swimmer.

So I went and I asked him, “What were you thinking? You’re standing on the block and the gun goes off, what do you think now?” And I followed him all the way through—I did about 2,000 words on what he thought from start to finish. It was all an internal monologue, which is a novelist’s technique. And that made my work in the San Francisco Examiner stick out, because I just didn’t know how to do journalism properly. I would use the techniques of fiction, like internal monologue.

It’s always good to be in the Sunday papers because everybody reads them, even the people of Rolling Stone. I had friends who had friends and somebody said, “Why don’t you come down and ask about a job?” So I did. And they said, “Yeah, we need an editorial drudge.” That was my title. Rolling Stone was so amazing in those days because you could travel very quickly from editorial drudge to associate editor. I think almost all things are more stratified these days. Two months later I was writing about rock-and-roll stars that nobody else wanted to write about, like Donovan. So that’s how I got started, long story.

Was writing about travel a conscious decision for you, or did you just find yourself propelled by your curiosity and start going places and writing about them?

I’ve thought about that a lot. I can remember when I was a kid in Wisconsin in a little town called Waukesha. I told my dad, this guy got to go to Florida and that guy went to New York, I never get to go anywhere. I was ten at the time, and my dad said if you join the YMCA swimming team, they go all over the state. So I said O.K. I made the team and I got to go to really exotic places like Beloit, Fond du Lac, Green Bay. I think I associated this reward of travel with hard, physical work.

What happened at Rolling Stone is they wanted to start an outdoor magazine and there were only two of us in the office who liked to go outdoors, Michael Rogers and myself, and we along with Harriet Fier started putting together the plans for Outside magazine. I said, “Let’s have an adventure travel article in each issue.” And they said, “Well, see Tim, you don’t seem to get it; Outside will be a literate magazine for people who go outdoors.” You have to think back to ’76, there wasn’t such a thing. It was either a magazine that told you how to paddle a canoe twelve times a year, very service-oriented, or there were those magazines called Man’s Adventure or Man’s Testicle, and they were all about our death race with the Jungle Leper Army, stuff that you can hardly credit as being entirely true.

I said, “Hell if I can write about lying out and watching vultures and make an interesting story, how much more interesting would it be if I went diving, for instance, and saw a shark.” In the old men’s magazines I’d have to pull out a pen knife and battle it to death. In what I saw, you could talk about what it felt like to see one, and talk about whether you were scared and the core of wonder that would be wrapped up in all that. If you did that well you would have an adventure article.

They said, “O.K. Tim, do it.” And hence I sort of invented my own job, to travel to different places and often put myself in jeopardy, hard physical work being something that travel had been about for me since I was ten.

I’m curious about how you see your terrain. You talk about the interior landscape as well as the external landscape. What do you view as your beat?

If I have a beat, it is the remote places on earth. Remote places have changed a great deal since I began writing. Twenty, twenty-five years ago you could go to places such as Peru, and as a white man from the United States, you looked a good deal different than most people there. They would grab you by the arm and take you to one of their children who might have blond hair and blue eyes. And it was just such a novel thing. Now there are adventure travel tours that go through there all the time. People see gringos all year long.

The places that are now remote are the places that cannot be visited by adventure travel companies because the adventure travel companies can’t get insurance. I’m talking about places that generally have some kind of civil insurrection going on. For me to get remote anymore, I’m being driven more and more to the lines of guns. I used to have to figure out ways to ford a river that was running high in the springtime. Now I have to figure out how to get past the soldiers with the guns.

The air was filled with a light snow that didn’t precisely fall but seemed to drift aimlessly under a pearly, opalescent sky. Everything else under that crystal dome was flat, an endless prairie of sea ice, white with the newly fallen snow, and I could see the curve of the earth in the far distance in any direction I cared to look. That direction was south.

I was, for the moment, facing due south. Behind me, the direction was due south. It was due south to my right, due south to my left, and if I wanted to quarter off on my left side, I’d be facing south by south-south.

—Tim Cahill, “North Pole: The Easy Way,” Pass the Butterworms

One thing that strikes me about your writing is its youthful sense of wonder and exuberance. How do you keep that alive—does travel help you cultivate that?

I talk about my travel as being sort of an adolescent dream that I never let anybody know about. The word adolescent is used often as a pejorative, but when I was fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, I was the most idealistic I ever was in my life; the most doors were open to me. Adolescence has some good qualities and I try to cultivate those qualities. The benefit of travel writing is you can always keep that gate to wonder open—it’s a great big huge world. Say you’d been to every single place I’d been to in my life except that you were ten feet to my right. You would have lived a totally different trip.
The interview with Tim Cahill continues in A Sense of Place…

Michael Shapiro is a writer who has bicycled through Cuba for the Washington Post, celebrated Holy Week in Guatemala for the Dallas Morning News, and floated down the Mekong River on a Laotian cargo barge for an online magazine. He is the author of three books about using the Internet for travel, including Internet Travel Planner, and maintains NetTravel.com, a list of top travel sites alongside some of his travel stories.

For four years Shapiro wrote a column for the San Francisco Chronicle travel section. His work also appears in the Los Angeles Times, Sunset, and in Travelers’ Tales anthologies. For an investigation into frequent-flier programs, Shapiro won a 1998 Lowell Thomas award from the Society of American Travel Writers.

Shapiro’s first travel story was about a bicycle journey he took across the U.S. the summer after he graduated from U.C. Berkeley. He’s worked as a river-raft guide and is a volunteer sea kayak guide for ETC, a group that takes disabled people on outdoor adventures. Shapiro has also interviewed Barry Bonds, discussed the blues with B.B. King, and been blessed by the Dalai Lama. A native of New York, he lives in Sonoma County, California, with his wife and cat.


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Someone Else Is Living My Dream

My wife and I have just returned from two weeks in Spain, my first visit, I’m sorry to say, in 75 years of life. Long overdue. Even then, I doubt I would have gone had not my son and his partner moved there several months ago. As someone who hates to travel, I have to say that the two of them took the pain out of Spain.

My son and his partner live in an apartment on a side street just off Paseo de Recoletos, a wide, handsome boulevard that runs from Plaza de Cibeles to Plaza de Colón. The apartment is less than a mile from the Prado and a tad farther to the Reina Sofia, both world-class museums. Picasso’s Guernica, only two years younger than me, hangs at the latter. At the Prado you will find Goya’s incredible black paintings, the series that includes Saturn Devouring His Son.

The apartment has a spacious living room and large white walls just made for the kinds of photographs my son and his partner go in for: a fully clad couple dancing underwater, an announcement of a Dwight Macintosh exhibition, the remarkable artist treated for mental retardation for most of his life, a poster for the Almodóvar movie, Mujeres al borde de una ataque de nervios (Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown).

The kitchen is small, too small, but that doesn’t stop my son and his partner from creating incredible meals. These are normally taken according to the Spanish clock, which means dinner at 9pm, preferably 10pm. That leaves plenty of time for a couple of glasses of wine, especially during the preparation, to say nothing of the consumption. If the Spanish do this all the time, they must be the most sleep deprived nation in the world.

We didn’t spend all our time in the apartment. My wife and I travelled to Córdoba to see the mosque, to Granada to see the Alhambra, to Seville to see the Alcázar, to Bilbao to see the Guggenheim Museum by Frank Gehry and to Barcelona to see La Sagrada Familia by the remarkable architect, Antoni Gaudí. Gaudí I would rank up there among the architectural geniuses of the world. It is incredibly hard to be original. He managed it. Over a hundred years later his work is still as surprising as the day he conceived it.

Having said that, my mind still goes back to my son’s apartment. I think I know why. I have always thought it would be splendid to live in a completely different culture, one where you would always be on the outside looking in, trying your best to move inside but never quite making it. The essence of that feeling is the language. Every day that I went out into the city was a linguistic adventure. I wanted to try out what I’d gleaned from the grammar books, overheard conversations, the TV. I did that for two weeks and it was exhilarating.

For one thing the Spaniards liked the idea that I was trying to learn their language. Taxi drivers gave me grammar lessons. A guide at the Alhambra taught me the difference between estaba and ha estado. For me going out into the streets of Madrid was like opening up a set of nested dolls, each one bringing me a little closer to the impossible goal of fluency, but closer nonetheless.

I envy my son and his partner. They are living my dream.


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Home to Mount McKinley, Alaska’s Denali National Park and Preserve is true wilderness. Less than 20 miles of developed trails exist in the park--all other hiking and backpacking is done in the backcountry. Despite the fact that only one road cuts through the park’s rugged landscape, the National Park Service estimates that approximately 400,000 visitors make it to Denali each year.

Step 1

Research the different terrains that make up Denali National Park’s backcountry. According to the Denali National Park Hiking Guide, the three most common terrain types are taiga, which consists of thick plant cover; tundra, which is made up of brush and loose rocks; and gravel bar, the land that lines the rivers. Knowing what type of terrain you want to hike in can help you select a hiking unit once you arrive at the park.

Step 2

Pack thoroughly for your backpacking trip to Denali. Once you arrive in the park, you won’t find many shops to replace items you have forgotten. The Denali National Park Hiking Guide website recommends a sleeping bag with temperature protection to 20 degrees F and tents with waterproof floors, rain flaps and netting for mosquitoes.

Step 3

Take enough food to be able to consume large daily amounts. This amount varies from person to person, but Get Outdoors recommends 1-½ pounds of dry food per day. The Denali National Park Hiking Guide advises packing food in bear-resistant containers and leaving out heavily scented foods. Don’t forget a pan to boil water or a water filter, a necessity for consuming the park’s water.

Step 4

Plan your backpacking route once you arrive at Denali National Park and Preserve. Since a limited number of permits are given out each day on a first-come, first-served basis, you won’t know what unit of the park you are going to be in, so it’s impossible to plan your route before arrival. The first step in planning your backpacking route through Denali is finding out which units still have permits available for the day, which is done at the Backcountry Information Center. You can then choose a unit based on the terrain type that you decided on during your research.

Step 5

Obtain a backcountry permit for the unit. Backcountry permits are issued at the Backcountry Information Center in person only, according to the National Park Service, and only one day in advance. Reservations are not accepted. The permit process takes an hour and requires you to watch a safety video and talk to a backcountry ranger.

  • The Denali National Park and Preserve page warns visitors about several possible dangers in the park, including wildlife, glacial river crossings and the possibility of hypothermia. It recommends reading the park's newspaper "Denali Alpenglow" and consulting the backcountry camping pages for further information (see Resources.)

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Alexis Lawrence is a freelance writer, filmmaker and photographer with extensive experience in digital video, book publishing and graphic design. An avid traveler, Lawrence has visited at least 10 cities on each inhabitable continent. She has attended several universities and holds a Bachelor of Science in English.

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The Atlantic City Boardwalk, first built in 1870, is the world's oldest and most iconic boardwalk. In 2009, rated the Atlantic City boardwalk as the number one boardwalk in the U.S. The Atlantic City Convention and Visitors Authority calls it "the heart, soul and backbone of Atlantic City," and any visit to AC should include a stroll up and down the seaside attraction. Find out why the legendary board game Monopoly chose to model itself after the Atlantic City Boardwalk.

Eight of Atlantic City's 11 casinos are lined up and down the boardwalk, as of 2010. Casinos can be accessed directly from the boardwalk, making it the perfect artery for casino hopping during the day or night. Casinos are opened 24 hours a day.

Much of the city's best shopping is easily accessible from the boardwalk. Three major shopping areas anchor the boardwalk's offerings. The Pier Shops at Caesars offer visitors high-end shopping that includes name brands like Gucci, Louis Vuitton, and Tiffany and Co. For outlet shopping, The Walk, located two blocks off the boardwalk, provides outlet stores for brands including Nautica and Timberland. The Quarter at Tropicana provides another collection of stores that includes Swarovski, The Spy Store and The Hat Emporium. For a more classic taste of Atlantic City, the boardwalk also provides numerous local shops that stock salt water taffy, souvenirs, T-shirts and beach equipment.

Museums and Attractions

A staple of the Atlantic City Boardwalk is Ripley's Believe It or Not! Museum. Located at New York Avenue and Boardwalk, Ripley's features a variety of unique novelty and oddity displays that are sure to inspire wonder in visitors both young and old. The Garden Pier off the boardwalk is considered the arts and cultural center of Atlantic City and includes the Atlantic City Historical Museum and Atlantic City Art Center.

Originally designed as a beach barrier, the Atlantic City boardwalk provides access to Atlantic City's beaches. Unlike many beaches in New Jersey, access is free in Atlantic City and there are no beach badges required. Surfing is allowed at three beaches: Crystal Beach at New Hampshire Ave.; Delaware Ave. Beach; and Downtown Beach at Raleigh Ave., and kayaking and windsurfing are allowed at Jackson Ave. beach.

Games, Rides and Amusements

Like other amusement boardwalks in New Jersey, Atlantic City's boardwalk offers plenty of games, rides and amusements for children, teens and adults. The Central Pier offers go carts and arcade games. The historic Steel Pier is another hot spot for games and rides that include go karts, a ferris wheel and a rock climbing wall.

Boardwalk Hall

One of the great venues at the Jersey Shore, Boardwalk Hall has hosted a variety of concerts, sports matches and other events. The venue is known for boxing and top fighters including Mike Tyson and Evander Holyfield fought matches here. The historic venue has also played host to many legendary performers, including the Beatles, Johnny Mathis and Luciano Pavarotti.

When to Visit

The summer is the best time to catch some sun and swimming on Atlantic City's beaches. The casinos, restaurants and shopping of Atlantic City stay open year-round so those looking to avoid the summer crowds and enjoy the ocean scenery and activities of Atlantic City can do so anytime. Events and parades are held on the Boardwalk throughout the year.

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Joe Fletcher has been a writer since 2002, starting his career in politics and legislation. He has written travel and outdoor recreation articles for a variety of print and online publications, including "Rocky Mountain Magazine" and "Bomb Snow." He received a Bachelor of Arts in political science from Rutgers College.

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The first recorded festival to take place in the state of Texas was the Washington County Fair in Brenham, back in 1868. Since that time, Texas has grown to see more than three dozen major festivals every year. Historical and cultural heritage festival events are popular during the spring and fall, while the summer sees festivals celebrating film, music and alternative culture.

Texas Renaissance Festival

The yearly Texas Renaissance Festival held in Plantersville, Texas, is so large that it is considered a "renaissance theme park" instead of just a festival. It takes place on 55 acres, where each year hundreds of thousands of visitors attend over three weekends of October and November to see lords, ladies, barbarians, jesters, sword fights, jousting matches and stage shows. Some of the attractions include Shakespeare as a stand-up comedian as well as bawdy pub wenches who sing songs for mature audiences only and a skeletal ventriloquist's dummy who likes to hit on the ladies. You can also get lost in the Amazing Maze, visit with the animals at the Children's Petting Zoo, or even Drench-A-Wench, if you have the aim for it. Vendors of all kinds, from clothing to food to jewelery to artwork, set up shop throughout the festival. As of 2010, tickets for the Texas Renaissance Festival were $23 for adults and $11 for children, though discounted ticket prices are offered at outlets such as Kroger's grocery stores. Texas Renaissance Festival 21778 FM 1774 Plantersville, TX 77363 800-458-3435

Texas Crawfish and Music Festival

For three weekends in April, the Old Town Spring area of Texas (near Houston) welcomes vendors, musical acts and Cajun cuisine to the Texas Crawfish and Music Festival. Carnival rides and midway games keep children entertained, while country, rock, zydeco, and blues musical artists play on stages throughout the festival area. More than 50,000 pounds of crawfish are brought in specifically for the event. Tickets cost $10 for kids and adults, though admission is free for children under 12 (as of 2010). Texas Crawfish and Music Festival Old Town Spring 123-F Midway Spring, TX 77373 800-653-8696

Texas Book Festival

Each October the Texas capital of Austin puts on a literary festival to promote Texas authors as well as to raise funds for public libraries. Guest authors such as Christopher Buckley, ZZ Packer and James K. Galbraith perform readings and do book signings, while musical acts perform on small stages around the festival area. Fan can bring books to be signed by their favorite Texas authors or purchase new books at the Barnes and Noble tent. Junior high and high school students are eligible to enter the fiction-writing contest with the chance to win cash prizes and read their award-winning stories to the festival audience. Admission to the Texas Book Festival is free. Texas Book Festival 1100 Congress Ave. Austin, TX 78701 512-477-4055

North Texas Irish Festival

The citizens of Dallas honor their cultural roots each March this means at the North Texas Irish Festival. For three days, vendors sell traditional Irish foods, clothing, artwork and jewelery. Nine stages throughout the festival grounds present folk music, dancing, storytelling and cultural presentations. The Emerald School of Irish Dance and the Jackson Irish Dancers have brought traditional Irish dance to the stage at the North Texas Irish Festival, while Liz Covington of the Tarrant Guild of Storytellers has held audiences of children and adults in awe when she takes the stage. Admission to the festival costs $15 per day, $25 for two days or $30 for all three days (as of 2010). North Texas Irish Festival Fairpark 1465 First Ave. Dallas, TX 75210 214-720-1801

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Melissa Voelker has been a professional writer since 2002. She works full time at a TV station in the commercial traffic department and also writes for and Her articles have appeared in "Listen," "The Spokesman Review" and "Freepress Houston."

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In 2009, golfers played more than 270,000 rounds on Baltimore’s Classic Five courses, according to Tom Pierce, the director of marketing for the Baltimore Municipal Golf Corp. All five of the city’s courses fall under the BMGC umbrella. The nonprofit organization took over the duties from the city’s parks and recreation department in 1985, becoming the first 501(c)(3) in the nation to manage and operate municipal golf courses. Baltimore's public golf courses are accessible--and challenging.

Mount Pleasant

In 2008, Golfweek magazine named Mount Pleasant the 12th-best municipal course in America, behind U.S. Open hosts Bethpage Black and Torrey Pines. Arnold Palmer won his second professional tournament at Mount Pleasant. “It’s a tough golf course,” said course manager Jeff Beck. “There aren’t many flat lies.” The par-71 course is pretty open, but hilly, so you’ll get good exercise. It’s the second-most popular course of the Classic Five, according to Pierce. Mount Pleasant Golf Course 6001 Hillen Road Baltimore, MD 21239 410-254-5100

Clifton Park

Trouble lurks throughout Baltimore's first public course. Clifton Park was built in 1915 on Johns Hopkins' summer home property. With devilish out-of-bounds and tough approach shots, you'll feel the hurt on your scorecard for sloppy play. It’s fairly open for a city course. If your round isn't going well on this par-71 track, you can at least take in some amazing views of Baltimore. Clifton Park Golf Course 2701 St. Lo Drive Baltimore, MD 21213 410-243-3500

Forest Park

Forest Park is the Jekyll and Hyde of the BMGC. The original nine-hole course offers tight, tree-lined fairways and hilly terrain, challenging even the lowest handicappers. The second nine opens up with wide fairways and is more forgiving, said assistant manager Dee Wilson. This par-71 course boasts some nice par 3s, including a diabolical back-to-back package of a 202-yarder and a 224-yarder (from the blue tees). But the signature hole is the par-5 No. 18, which is surrounded by rocks and trees, and boasts a green that doesn’t always hold. It's a severe uphill battle if your ball goes over the green, and you'll be in the bunker if it falls short. “It’s a nice, friendly course to play,” Wilson said. Forest Park Golf Course 2900 Hillsdale Road Baltimore, MD 21207 410-448-4653

Pine Ridge

Pine Ridge is outside the city limits (in Lutherville), but it’s included in the BMGC’s Classic Five because the city owns it, Pierce said. Pine Ridge is the site of Nancy Lopez's second professional victory. Located at the Loch Raven watershed, wildlife is abundant. It's not unusual to see deer and geese on the course. Many holes on this picturesque course run along the edge of the reservoir. The par-3 No. 8 is the signature hole, requiring a sweet shot from an elevated tee and a carry of about 190 yards over water. The par-72 Pine Ridge is the most popular course of the five, Pierce said. Pine Ridge Golf Course 2101 Dulaney Valley Road Lutherville, MD 21093 410-252-1408

Carroll Park

Just 10 minutes by car from downtown Baltimore, you can play the nine-hole Carroll Park course over a long lunch hour. Since the course is very open, it’s a great course for beginners. The course offers "Replays," giving you a discount on your second nine. Carroll Park Golf Course 2100 Washington Blvd. Baltimore, MD 21230 410-685-8344

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Ginger DeShaney started her journalism career as a reporter, photographer and travel editor before moving behind the scenes as a copy editor. She has worked at the "Chicago Sun-Times," "Boston Herald" and "Boston Globe." She holds a Bachelor of Arts in journalism from the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh.

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