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A products liability lawsuit that has recently made national headlines involves a female traffic cop who is suing Victoria's Secret for an eye injury she says she sustained in May 2007 because of a defective thong.
Macrida Patterson says that one of the metal links that holds the decorative rhinestone heart in place on the thong's blue fabric popped off and hit her in the eye. Patterson says the accident caused her a great deal of pain and she had to go to the hospital to receive medical attention. She sustained three cuts to her cornea.
Patterson's lawsuit alleges that the thong's design is defective to begin with and that the placement of sharp points and metal pieces on the underwear created an inherent hazard. The lawsuit also alleges that the thong became defective during the manufacturing process.
While injuries caused by defective underwear is not common, there have been cases where people—especially children—have been injured because their clothes had defects that resulted in choking hazards, strangulation hazards, fire (burn) hazards, and other dangers.
Just this month, manufacturer Sara Lynn Togs recalled 1,800 Children's Infant and Toddler Shortalls because the shoulder straps could come off and become a choking hazard. Also in June, The Children's Place Retail Stores Inc. recalled approximately 28,000 Camouflage Pajama Sets over concerns that excessive levels of lead in the pajama top's screen print could result in lead poisoning.
A product can become defective during the design or manufacturing process or due to a marketing defect, such as when a product is marketed to the wrong age group or fails to come with the complete instructions or the proper safety warnings. Products liability cases can be brought based on negligence, strict liability, or breach of warranty.
If you or someone you love suffered a serious personal injury because of defective clothing or another defective product, one of our products liability lawyers can discuss your case with you. We represent clients throughout the US.
Lawyer Makes Thong Injury Suit Sound Boring, ABA Journal, June 19, 2008
Eye-catching thong gives rise to lawsuit, MSNBC.com, June 19, 2008
Children's Overalls Recalled by Sara Lynn Togs Due to Choking Hazard, CPSC.gov, June 12, 2008
The Children's Place Recalls Camouflage Pajama Sets Due to Excessive Lead, CPSC.gov, June 10, 2008
Related Web Resources:
Read the Complaint Against Victoria's Secret, The Smoking Gun
Products Liability, Justia
Contact Gilbert & Ollanik, PC today
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Securifi Key Fob No longer Available?
that the KeyFOB is no longer available at Amazon, BestBuy, or Walmart.com in the USA anymore.
I did see a Best Buy Clearance sale price.. but it was For BestBuy Canada Orders only, good until the 23rd of November.
Are these obsolete and going to be replaced by a more expensive "Touch" or something?
Re: Securifi Key Fob No longer Available?
Looks good at 30 usd per set of three; cheaper than the keyfob which was 20.
though; Does it work for the Almond 2015?
It is ZigBee so I would expect it to but perhaps wait to find out. I've got some ordered I'll let you know if you like.
I just get sent back to the same page when I try the Buy button for the Almond Click. It looks like being from Canada I'm getting sent to a Canadian set of pages ... which does not have a working Buy button for the Almond Click.
It is available only for US for now, please do make sure we select the region as US.


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Ottawa police were investigating a homicide late Monday after responding to reports of a disturbance on Lajoie Street in Vanier.
Police and paramedics were called at about 9:30 p.m. after reports of a fight in a backyard. A man was soon taken to the Civic campus of The Ottawa Hospital in critical condition.
He died just before 11 p.m., police confirmed.
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A tale of crisis and coping
Spoiler alert: If you are someone who likes to discover plot and storyline as you read, be aware that I discuss these topics in my review. Doing so should not detract from the experience of reading the novel as there is much to discover in it.
Dec 20, 2020 · 24 min read
The future's a weirder place than we thought it would be when we were little kids.…Cory Doctorow
ATMOSPHERIC carbon dioxide has reached 470 parts per million (ppm) and the wildness of the weather is matched by the dysfunction of social conditions, of the national economy, national politics and environmental conditions. In all of this, Kat, Sophie, Zanna and their family and friends do what they can to cope.
That, more or less, summarises Linda Woodrow's book, 470. The title refers to the concentration of carbon dioxide measured in parts per million in the atmosphere, the common indicator of the extent of global heating. Linda has taken the changes projected to occur at this concentration and woven characters and events around them. In May 2020 we reached 417ppm.
The book raises questions about human behavior, technology and how life might unfold during the collapse of social and environmental systems. Is it one of the growing number of post-apocalypse novels? I suppose it could be read as that, however it is more hopeful despite the disasters Linda describes. Unlike some of those novels there is a sense of adaption and continuity in life that brings to mind the lifestyle of Annie Raser-Rowlands and Adam Grubbs book, The Art of Frugal Hedonism.
A new literary subgenre
It was decades ago that I read my first post-apocalypse novel. That was Earth Abides, the 1949 work of American writer, George R Stewart. The novel tells the story of the lead character and of others who band together as some of the few survivors of a pandemic, and how they cope.
470 is a work of speculative fiction. We can view it as dystopian fiction, a subgenre that can be a tale of social and environmental disintegration, or it can be a story of redemption as solutions are found and civilisation is rescued. Linda's 470 covers too-short a time period to be a tale of redemption. It leaves us wondering. That's no bad thing because an open ending can be the stimulus to thinking about the scenario, what we might do in similar circumstances and how they could be avoided. The tag 'cli-fi' is a recent invention adapted from sci-fi, science fiction, to define the subgenre of climate-change-based fiction which Linda's book neatly slots into. With the way things are going, cli-fi has an assured future.
Cli-fi might be new but it is not so new it doesn't have a past. American science fiction author, Kim Stanley Robinson (usually abbreviated to KSR) is the most noted cli-fi author with his Science in the Capitol trilogy about science, climate change politics and adaptation in Washington DC, and his New York 2140, about the city flooded by sea level rise. His 2020 novel, The Ministry for the Future, is set in 2025 and is about the creation of the Ministry to advocate for future generations as the impacts of global heating make themselves felt. Readers of science fiction familiar with the permaculture design system will know that KSR speaks highly of it.
Robinson is the latest in a long line of sci-fi writers, going back to Judith Merril and Robert Heinlein in the 1960s, who argue that science fiction is the only genre that, one, treats seriously the complex effects of technological change on humanity, and two, confronts the ecological devastation of Earth by industrial capitalism…https://www.jacobinmag.com/2020/11/kim-stanley-robinson-socialist-novelist
Noted science fiction author and scientist, David Brin, brought climate change and environmental chaos into his 1990 novel, Earth, in the time before it became a prominent political issue. He also talks of a global web of communications—the internet didn't exist in its present form when he wrote his novel and social media lay in an unimagined future.
Although not about climate change, in her 1993 post-apocalypse novel, Parable of the Sower, American author Octavia Butler has parallels with content we find in Linda's 470: a nation in social and economic collapse; crime; the destination of an intentional community in northern California that is reminiscent of the ecovillage in 470. In the novel, the Christian right supports a presidential candidate whose campaign slogan is 'Help us make America great again.' As the writer Mark Twain said, history doesn't repeat, but it rhymes. We already have the gated communities the affluent live in in Octavia's novel. We can only wonder whether ecovillages could become gated communities in a crisis and shut their gates to family and friends seeking refuge.
KSR summed up the role of the writer of speculative fiction when he said:
"It's almost as if a science fiction writer's job is to represent the unborn humanity that will inherit this place. You're speaking from the future and for the future. And you try to speak for them by envisioning scenarios that show them either doing things better or doing things worse. But you're also alerting the generations alive right now that these people have a voice in history."
…http://www.bldgblog.com/2007/12/comparative-planetology-an-interview-with-kim-stanley-robinson/
My review: a note
As I read the chapters, the novel triggered memory of my own experience. I refer to it in some of my comments. I also make links to bigger-picture trends and events where they are relevant to 470's storyline.
In reviewing 470 I clump my comments into themes which the author raises, through which she develops her characters and around which the action unfolds. I refer to the permaculture design system, which Linda is more-than familiar with. Her book achieved its initial popularity with the practitioners of that system.
Not quite the conventional structure
As I started reading 470 I expected it to follow the classic fiction writing structure of Freytag's Pyramid, the common structure of dramatic fiction consisting of successive phases which graph to form a bell curve: background/setting > rising action > climax > falling action > resolution.
470 starts by situating the characters in their personal and social background and in their geographic situation on the NSW North Coast in the Byron Bay-Mullumbimby region. We learn that Zanna, one of the main characters, is a pilates and yoga teacher house-minding a waterfront property at Belongil, a beachfront enclave on Byron Bay's northern outskirts. Kat, Zanna's sister, and her partner, Sophie, live in an ecovillage in the Mullumbimby hinterland. An ecovillage is a type of land sharing settlement developed from the intentional communities of the 1970s and beyond, of which there were quite a few in the region.
The coming of the cyclone and the response of the the main characters moves the story into the rising action phase. The setting moves from Byron Bay to an evacuation centre and on to the ecovillage.
Rather than move to some dramatic climax, the story plateaus at the ecovillage. There is no conclusive, dramatic action scene which sets the stage for the story's resolution. What Linda provides are a number of smaller action scenes. There is a resolution of sorts signified in the final chapter which suggests continuity in the way that life that is unfolding in the now-changed social and environmental circumstances of a world altered by global heating.
Spanning the years from 2031 to 2036, the book is divided into three parts, a device to navigate the passage of time. The opening chapters background place and characters. Here, Linda starts the character development necessary to any work of fiction. The protagonists are true to the character types of the region. Did Linda base them on actual people she knows or has encountered, changing details to make them unrecognisable in the way Jack Kerouac developed characters in his novels? Did she amalgamate several real characters into a single fictional character, a fiction writing technique?
We learn of the climate crisis in the opening chapters. The fierce weather introduced in chapter 6 becomes a theme which gives continuity through following chapters. With the characters and their settings introduced in the chapters establishing background, and the presence and threat of global heating also introduced, we move into the story's rising action.
The climate comes to Byron
There is a cyclone off Brisbane. Linda has obviously done her research, as a more-southerly cyclone track is predicted by climate scientists as the climate warms. Cyclones are nothing new to Brisbane although they are infrequent at present. I recall cyclones during my childhood in the city when our family took shelter under the dining room table.
The impending cyclone arrives at the same time as a king tide. Zanna is rightly worried about the fate of the beachside house she is minding and the two small dogs there. The king tide could only worsen the impact of the cyclone.
Beachfronts are not good places to built houses. Beaches are mobile formations. Tides, swells and currents sweep sand away. A big storm swell coming at the same time as a king tide does this rapidly. There are a growing number of real-world examples that demonstrate why Zanna should be worried:
I saw what tides, currents and swells can do when living at Manly, at the southern end of Sydney's Northern Beaches, when part of the beach disappeared in a big tide only to return as the current replenished the sand
the disappearance of beaches led to the construction of a series of groynes to trap sand after dredging at Port Botany disrupted longshore current flow and sand drift, scouring away the beaches along the Botany Bay foreshore
although it was more related to longshore sand drift than to storm swells, something similar happened in 2020 at Clarks Beach, Byron Bay, where I sometimes had breakfast in the little cafe when it was nothing more than a shack on a sand dune before council upgraded it, and at Main Beach in town (more)
then there was erosion of the Collaroy and Narrabeen foreshore on Sydney's Northern Beaches in 2016 when a big swell came ashore at the same time as a king tide and took away 50 metres of the beach; beachside residents lost parts of their backyards as the erosion crept closer to their homes; there was a startling photo of someone's swimming pool upended onto the beach, or what remained of it (more)
there was a repeat performance in 2020 when the heaviest rain in 20 years combined with a king tide and huge seas to remove 25 metres of the same beach and threaten beachside homes
in December 2020, Byron Bay's beaches were again swept away (and here) as a storm surge from an East Coast low off Brisbane and torrential rains brought coastal erosion and flooding to the region.
With the cyclone heading her way and as the Belongil area starts to flood, the SES (State Emergency Services) evacuate Zanna to a shopping centre, now as evacuation refuge. Here she encounters Doobie who made his way there after helping take down a music festival. He is flat broke although he carries some interesting cookies that can be exchanged for cash. Mistaken for a looter at the refuge, he is assaulted and is rescued by the roadie he met at the festival. Doobie is a secondary character who reappears in the story. Linda does a good job in developing him as a character, however his fate is left hanging after his last appearance. What happened to Doobie? We never learn.
In Chapter 14, Zanna is back in Byron Bay and walking through flooded streets when she is told by a dirt bike rider of Belongil's fate. It has gone. Where there was Belongil there is now sea.
Here, Linda's novel joins hands with reality again. Belongil and its beachfront houses were threatened by erosion around 15 years ago . The threat continues with one report admitting that "parts of the present coastline may well need to be abandoned as they become impractical and too expensive to protect". Plans for the construction of a rock barrier to stop the erosion of beachside properties were hotly debated in town with some locals saying to just let the beachfront houses fall into the sea. In 2020, Belongil property owners wanting council to extend the rock wall lost their court case against the NSW Coastal Panel which opposed their demand. There was evident resentment of what some described as wealthy beachfront homeowners. Echoing the sentiment, the local newspaper reported that "The Echo has previously reported that almost all of the Belongil landowners who submitted their DAs do not live at the properties and are some of Australia's wealthiest individuals." I can only imagine that we will see this replayed time and again as rising seas, deteriorating weather and coastal erosion worsen.
Kat and Sophie's house in the ecovillage survives the cyclone, however some of the houses are damaged and a collapsing wall breaks a woman's leg. Flooded streams prevent her immediate evacuation, however an ecovillage resident with nursing experience patches her up until they get her out later, only to find a line of people awaiting attention at the hospital.
Zanna encounters looters who threaten her, the same youths she confronted when they were harassing a woman in the evacuation shelter. They give chase and Zanna grabs a damaged surf ski, paddles offshore and decides to follow the river into Mullumbimby. The story's setting now shifts to the ecovillage.
The services crash
Economic retraction and political dysfunction has led to the slashing of government services. We discover that hospitals are affected. In Melbourne, Zanna and Kat's parents, Phil and Maureen, grapple with power and water outages. Maureen, a nurse, is owed back pay by the state government. The national parks service is no more. We learn more about the retraction of government services as the Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) lacked the capacity to issue early warning of the impending cyclone. This doesn't ring quite true for me. Wouldn't the BOM be one of the last services to be cut because of its importance to the economy? Farming, air transport, personal lives and so much more depend on it.
In Melbourne, housing prices are down and mortgage repossessions common. There is no watering of gardens. The water went off when the electricity supply to the pumps went off, and the electricity went off because there wasn't enough water to cool the Latrobe power plants still burning brown coal. Here, Linda highlights the interlinking of the systems which support us. Failure in one part spreads to the failure of others in a downstream collapse scenario. With the impact of the drought, the economy in decline and power and water shortages, we have synchronous systems failure, the most difficult scenario to fix and to cope with.
This cascading crash occurred in the non-fiction world when a few years ago the Bass Strait undersea power cable connecting the energy distribution systems in Tasmania and on the mainland failed, and was out of action for months. At the same time, a drought in Tasmania led to low dam levels and insufficient water to run the hydroelectric turbines. The scenario was this: drought led to diminishing dam storage which reduced hydroelectric power generation which, with the undersea power cable out of action, pushed the state into energy uncertainty. The state government had to purchase diesel generators to ensure supply. It was another example of cascading systems failure, of how a malfunction or failure in one part of a system travels through the system.
There is also a deterioration of non-government services in Linda's novel. Supermarkets have closed in the cyclone. The internet is down, as is the mobile network. Even the brush turkeys marauding Kat and Sophie's vegetable garden are in danger from the women's slingshot they use to deter them — diversity might be good in permaculture theory, but some diversity is of the unwanted kind.
Sophie's carrying her bag in front with the strap across her chest while in town suggests a worsening personal security situation. Fear and precaution feed anxieties and can be as limiting on free movement as any real threat.
Siding with the Greens, the Climate Code Red party forces a no confidence vote against the government and triggers an election. Meanwhile, China is swept by a polar vortex.
The rising action of Part 1's chapters is carried on the worsening weather and social disintegration.
Planning for emergency
Coming out of Part 1, the story raises the need for people to plan for emergency situations like bushfire and flooding and to include an evacuation plan. What risks are there in the local area and could they trigger evacuation? Where could people evacuate to? What should they pack ready to grab and run? How would they get to their evacuation destination? What could impede evacuation? How do they stay in communication with family, friends, news sources and emergency authorities? Bushfire authorities already recommend preparing emergency plans.
The extensive 2019 bushfires along the Australian South East Coast demonstrated the need for reliable communications. For ecovillages with scattered dwellings, like Kat and Sophie's, a citizen band radio network makes sense for internal communication. This they have. Isolated in the backcountry with creek crossings to get in and out, a reliable vehicle capable of handling rough roads is an asset, as is a radio for news of the outside world and for warnings issued by the authorities for the type of situation the two find themselves in during the cyclone. During the bushfires, people tuned into ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation, the government-funded national broadcasting network) radio for news. We suddenly realised the critical value of the internet and the mobile phone network, including for text messages from emergency authorities and for contact with family and friends, and of the need to reinforce these to make them more resilient to disaster conditions.
Isolated settlements like that in the novel may be out of range of the mobile network and the internet unless someone has a satellite connection, which is the case in the ecovillage. Hosting servers are down but text-over-amateur-radio is possible using message boards. Later, two ecovillage residents set up a local-area mesh network.
With the rising action now in the ecovillage, recalcitrant goats, chooks and assorted wildlife including a rare frog sought by a researcher staying in the ecovillage become players in the story as it explores how people live there.
An emergent local economy: food and salvage
Kat and Sophie join the street sellers in town, offering what little surplus they can grow in the ecovillage. A black market exists, however the street stalls suggest the start of an informal local economy trading in food, tools, goods and salvaged technologies. We learn later that cryptocurrency is being used.
The makings of an informal economy raise the question of how trading could be made more effective. During the financial crises of a decade ago in Spain, people set up community-based trading systems not unlike the cashless LETS (Local Exchange and Trading Systems) that existed in Australia from the 1990s and then went into decline although some, like CENTS — Community Exchange Network Tasmania — appear to still operate.
A system like this could ease trading within the ecovillage and move away from the barter that is in use. The problem with barter is in finding something of equivalent value to swap for something else. LETS avoids this because it is based on credit and debit for goods and services supplied and used. With this recorded in a ledger, there is no need for direct exchange. While mutual credit systems like LETS have struggled in the mainstream economy, they may be a solution during a crisis.
Gardening: for subsistence of fun?
There's a revealing scene when Sophie realises they have too-little stock of basics like rice, sugar, flour, salt and cooking oil. She fears food shortages and realises they have been gardening for fun rather than need. They have vegetables but lack staples like grains and root crops. Theirs' is not true subsistence gardening. They have been gardening without the threat of going hungry and have no knowledge of how to make anything from the staples they could grow.
How does this translate to the gardens of permaculture people? It raises the question of whether they, too, garden for fun rather than for need.
One of the questions Linda's story raises is about diet. The crisis is not the time for vegetarianism. We are treated to a wallaby killing scene as Kat and Sophie trap the animal, kill, butcher, cook and eat it.
With garden irrigation banned in Melbourne, Phil surreptitiously waters his garden by night. Here we have another example with its feet firmly in reality. The drought of 2007-2008 saw watering was banned in some regions. It undermines the belief that home food gardens could sustain families in some disaster scenarios. Certainly, grey water could be reused on vegetable gardens, however it too would be in short supply in a prolonged drought. Likewise, rainwater harvested from roofs and stored in tanks would offer a finite supply even when judiciously used.
This presents a case in favour of hydroponics with its low-water use and the electricity for its pump available through a photovoltaic and battery system. It would depend on the ability of gardeners to make their own nutrients to add to the system, something which is already being done. Still, hydroponics does not grow the energy-rich root crops and the grains a balanced diet needs. We do not live on vegetables alone.
Linda introduces the question of household security in a crisis when kids jump the fence to steal Phil's vegetables from the garden. It is reminiscent of what reportedly happened to a few permaculture gardeners during the pandemic. One of the kids picks up a garden fork and moves towards Phil. He reaches for his slingshot, usually used to deter possums in the garden, and injures the kid with three well-placed ballbearing hits. Personal and community security reappear later in the novel.
The dilemma of friends and family
It would be a dilemma. Whatever assistance ecovillage residents might want to give to displaced people would have to be counterbalanced by the resources available. As the novel shows, it could become a source of internal tension.
The challenge of visitors comes with Bodhi, Sophie's dad, and Dee, her mum, arriving from Brisbane on an electric motor bike, as well as another family in a diesel truck. The parents bring news of toxic blue-green algae in Brisbane's water supply, so river water can't use on edible plants. They report that there is water theft from household tanks at night. People are getting out of the city.
The community meets to thrash out what to do about people who want to live in the village. Craig, a prepper, is a bit of a pain although security conscious and capable. He emphasises the need to keep the community safe by not allowing strangers to come in. Our little community isn't an island, someone says in return.
An uninvited visitor, Seraphina, is discovered camping on the edge of the ecovillage. She speaks New Age word-salad and lives on pranic energy, she says. After being rescued by Kat and Sophie, Seraphina disappears. A shot alerts everyone that something is going on and the family who came in their truck packs and leaves after Craig orders visitors out. Another meeting, and a solution is worked out in making friends and family the responsibility of their hosts.
In Melbourne, extreme temperatures lead to the loss of Maureen from heat stroke. Phil loads a pack and sets off by train and thumb for his daughter's place. He meets Noah who lives in an earthship near Cootamundra and who derives energy from a methane digester although he doesn't produce enough waste to run it effectively. Noah breeds bisexual carob, a dry-tolerant tree crop, and naturally hybridised cherries grown from roadside-collected seed. Phil eventually arrives at the ecovillage.
The visitor incidents raises the seldom-explored dilemma of what intentional communities like ecovillages should do were a severe, prolonged crises to force people out of the city and into the countryside. Support the refugees or close the gates and become a gated community?
Through descriptions of Kat, Sophie's and Zanna's daily life we learn of life in the village. Tending animals, gardening, cooking using whatever ingredients are available and trips to town for selling excess produce has become Zanna's life now that she lives with the two women.
We learn that Kat and Sophie's off-grid home is powered by a photovoltaic system feeding deep cycle batteries. As the text explains, these batteries should not be discharged below 50% capacity. It is interesting that a house in the 2030s would still be using deep cycle technology rather than lithium ion batteries, which can be run down without damage, or some other battery technology not yet invented.
Now, Zanna discovers she is pregnant.
Craig is a skilled hunter of feral animals. One night, he sets up an ambush to catch the thief who made off with Kat and Sophie's water pump. Ducks have disappeared as well, and a shot was fired by the thief. The intruder comes along the track only to be scared off by a snake. In another incident, Sophie gives chase when someone tries to steal their goat. The thief is caught on Craig's wildlife camera. They visit him and recover their property.
Ensuring security would become an issue for any intentional community during a prolonged crisis. There are gardens to raid, animals to steal, tools and equipment to take. How communities would deal with this is unknown. Security is probably far from the minds of present-day communards.
The value of vaccination
Linda bravely tackles the vaccination issue. Bravely, because she lives in a region known as the national epicentre of anti-vaccination sentiment. The issue arises over whether Zannia should immunize her baby with a vaccine that Belle, the nurse who lives in the village, obtained from the clinic where she works.
Zanna is uncertain and mentions one of the women in her yoga class claiming that vaccination is a cover for a mass sterilisation program. Kat responds by saying: "And I have a sister who believes in fairy dust and water swirled ten times anticlockwise! We're going back to the Dark Ages here and we have one little bit of twenty-first-century science that we can grab before it disappears."
Kat tells Zanna that the risk of diseases spreading are high since medical services have been reduced. Diphtheria is back. Cholera is in town. Handling horse manure in the garden risks tetanus. With dengue, yellow fever and zika around, the challenge of summoning urgent medical assistance when it is in high demand, and of transportation when road and vehicle conditions are poor, comes up. The risk of contagious disease is growing and could sweep through their little community. Vaccine is in high demand and worth a lot now that people realise its true value.
The mesh network allows them to track bushfires within ten kilometers. One is on the way. It has been a dry winter. The air smells of smoke. The animals are jittery. The smoke gives Marli, Zannia's son now a year old, asthma. She makes an ebicycle trip to town to get Ventilin from a black market extortionist.
Just as happened with toilet paper and staple foods during the opening months of the 2020 pandemic in Australia, in the approach of a crisis like that of the story we can expect to find people bulk-buying essentials, mostly for themselves as well as, in the case of the extortionist who hoarded medical supplies, as high priced black market goods. There was the case of the Adelaide man who hoarded over 5000 rolls of toilet paper as the Covid-19 pandemic triggered panic buying in early 2020.
It is 2036
It is now 2036. The book ends with a birthday party for Zanna and another ecovillage resident's sons, both born on the same day. They are five.
If we think back to the Freytag's Pyramid storytelling structure, this scene is the falling action, the second last phase. In its domesticity and with its happy vibe it is a reassuring scene but not quite the resolution of the story, the 'lived happily ever after' or its opposite ending. It is uplifting, and I wonder if Linda wants to leave us with a sense of continuity, that the characters and their lives in the ecovillage will go on as they have been? Still, surrounded by a deteriorating environment and society, there's that feeling of uncertainty hanging there in the background.
Could we recover from collapse?
On reading 470, David Holmgren's 2009 book, Future scenarios: how communities can adapt to peak oil and climate change, came to mind. David co-developed the permaculture design system and now positions himself as a public intellectual and futurist.
David presents four future scenarios in his book: brown tech; green tech; lifeboats; earth steward. These are stark classifications that do not fit neatly into the complexity of the world. When we look around we see the reality that several of these scenarios exist simultaneously in the one place. Currently, we live in a hybrid reality of a brown tech world out of which green tech is struggling to emerge and transform it. The saying goes that the future can be seen in microcosm in the present. That explains the limited presence in today's world of earth steward model amid the others, the preferred model for many in permaculture that some attempt to implement, piece by piece.
Where does Linda's book fit this classification system? It, too, has its feet in different scenarios. While there are green tech elements, the ecovillage fits more the lifeboat scenario in which people go into survival mode amid a worsening climate crisis. At the same time the food production and other systems in the ecovillage and the growing local economy in town hint at an earth steward model emerging, though that is far from the dominant model operating.
The Dark Ages that Sophie mentions followed the collapse of Imperial Rome. The result was a massive loss of knowledge as the empire disintegrated, fracturing Roman Europe. The knowledge that was salvaged was housed by monasteries and Islamic scholars. Europe didn't start to recovered until the start of The Enlightenment hundreds of years later. The loss of knowledge could happen again were our present civilisation to collapse.
Is this the way the world would go in a crisis? Astrobiology researcher and professor at the University of Westminster, Lewis Dartnell, thinks differently. Following a catastrophe, he writes on his 2014 book, The Knowledge: How to Rebuild Our World from Scratch, we could reboot technological civilisation if we have a way of retaining the necessary knowledge. How to do that is the theme of his book. He suggests the development of 'appropriate technology' (and here) because it sits between traditional technology and hi-tech in terms of manufacture, maintainability and skill demand. It is a means of avoiding a return to the Neolithic and of recovering from Zanna, Kat and Sophie's world.
470 ends unexpectedly. We are reading about life in the ecovillage and then the story stops. It works, however I finished my reading expecting more. The final chapter read like the ending of just another chapter. I clicked the page expending the next. It wasn't there. There was no winding down of the story. What follows is an epilogue outlining the climate crisis as it unfolded. That winds up 470.
The ending would make the beginning of a sequel. What happens over the years in which the two children grow up? How does the ecovillage fare through the collapse? And the main characters? And Doobie, would he have a role in a sequel? How does the town and the region evolve? Does an alternative economy and culture develop? And what of the nation? Does the climate start to show signs of resetting at a new level, as systems do after major disturbance, and is it one in which humans can live in the Anthropocene?
What was 470 like to read? In the best tradition of fiction writing, it was easy. Is it bedtime reading? Yes, but your curiosity about what happens next might make for a sleepless night.
One of the reasons behind 470s readability is its short chapters structured around the main characters. Linda backgrounds the characters and we learn about how they think and their internal conflicts. Conflict, both internal and with something happening in the world is an important component of fiction writing. It generates the tension through which characters are developed and the story carried. Usually, main characters are goal driven. They want something. In the book that was the security of life in the ecovillage although it didn't come through strongly.
How does Linda context the characters and their stories within the larger, climate-change-induced disaster going on in the world? Not with long and technical exposition to explain them. Instead, she explains the big changes through the experience of the characters and with brief descriptions. That makes for easier reading.
Are the characters credible? They are. Before I lived in Byron Bay I lived a hybrid life split between working in Sydney as editor of an environmental industry publication and in what I can best describe as a decentralised sharehouse in the littoral rainforest on top of the headland at Broken Head, a few kilometres south of Byron. Some of the people who lived in the shacks scattered around the community house were similar in appearance, attitude and manner to those in Linda's novel. This made her characters real to me. They fit the stereotypical yoga practitioner/organic food eater/spiritually-inclined type that lead character Zanna initially comes across as.
Is the story credible, as much as speculative fiction can be? To answer that we need to look at a couple things.
The first is about the story's setting in the Byron Bay-Mullumbimby region of the NSW North Coast. I have to admit to a little bias here because some time after my Broken Head days I lived in Byron, so the places in Linda's story are familiar. I can read her words and see mental images of the locations at the same time. This region is home territory to Linda and that lends her story a geographic authenticity, as does her living on an intentional community.
Is the storyline credible? Yes. Thanks to its grounding in place and people and in extrapolating climatic trends into the fictional near-future of the 2030s.
Speculative fiction offers a means to think about the future because we can take present-day trends and extrapolate them along different trajectories to see where they go. It is a way of imagining the futures we don't want and those that we do, and of how we can get there. That is why the books of Kim Stanley Robinson and David Brin work. They talk to us about what could be. They ask that important question: what if?
470 is not a book about permaculture although it comes from an author familiar with the design system. Speculative fiction is not a literary path taken by writers associated with the permaculture design system even though permaculture gets mention in the works of Kim Stanley Robinson. Permaculture's literature to date has been that of manuals, of instructional and descriptive texts. In the best permaculture tradition, 470 steps across boundaries in appealing to readers of permaculture literature as well as science fiction and its newly-born subgenre,cli-fi. If 470 does only one thing, it opens the door to a role for speculative fiction in taking the design system to new audiences.
470; 2020 Linda Woodrow; Melliodora Publishing, Hepburn.
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Middle Tennessee State University signed an agreement Tuesday (Nov. 6) to extend the MTSU Promise to Southwest Tennessee Community College, the third such pathway established for students with associate degrees to move seamlessly to the four-year university.
signed the documents at Esplande Memphis in Cordova as MTSU started the West Tennessee leg of its True Blue Tour, a 14-city, four-state caravan to recruit prospective students.
Southwest is the third community college to join the MTSU Promise program, in which the university pledges support to help students at partner schools complete their associate degree, then move forward in seeking a four-year degree.
To watch video from the signing agreement, go online to https://youtu.be/3Mej-Ycgpg8.
McPhee inked agreements earlier this year with Motlow State and Cleveland State community colleges.
"At Southwest, we are all about student success and opportunities, and to be able to transfer to a high-quality, well-run university that has a beautiful campus with all the academic opportunities is a plus," Hall added.
The agreement calls for Southwest to share with MTSU directory information of the college's students so they are included in tailored communications of emails and hard-copy mailings that support the process of planning for the bachelor's degree after successful completion of the associate degree.
Also, the agreement says Southwest students who agree to participate in the MTSU Promise will sign a "reverse transfer" agreement, meaning if they fail to complete their associate degrees prior to transfer, they would automatically receive their associate degree from Cleveland once sufficient credits have been completed at MTSU.
MTSU is No. 1 in the state in transfer students and is the top institution using the reverse transfer process.
Through its existing Guaranteed Transfer Scholarship Program, MTSU will provide aid for Southwest students who transfer to MTSU in the amount of $3,000 per year for two years, or a maximum of four semesters, based on achievement of a 3.0 GPA.
Students transferring to MTSU will not be eligible to apply to receive the Guaranteed Transfer Scholarship until after completing 45 credit hours at Southwest.
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Sport'It's incredible!' Ashleigh Barty makes history as she cruises to victory in straight sets to become the first Australian to win the French Open since 1973 - and sends a warning to her rivals
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02:01 09 june 2019 Source: dailymail.co.uk
Heartbreak for Ash Barty as her devastated parents will MISS her play in tonight's French Open final - with the couple planning to watch the match on TV
Planning to support their 23-year-old daughter during the grass-court season, Josie and Robert Barty booked a flight to the UK last month, and will be unable to watch their daughter in Paris.
' It ' s incredible !' Ashleigh Barty makes history as she cruises to victory in straight sets to become the first Australian to win the French Ashleigh Barty made history for Australia in the French Open final on Saturday. The last Australian to win the Grand Slam title was Margaret Court in 1973 .
Ashleigh Barty becomes first female Australian world No 1 in 43 years after winning Birmingham Classic title. Barty did not drop a set all week and took the first set comfortably, but had to recover from Barty is just the second Australian woman to become world No 1 since the WTA introduced
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Australia's Ashleigh Barty celebrates with the trophy
Ashleigh Barty kisses the trophy.
Ashleigh Barty overwhelmed after French Open victory.
Tennis star Ashleigh Barty has made history as the first Australian to win the French Open in 46 years after demolishing a Czech youngster in two sets.
The 23-year-old defeated Marketa Vondrousova 6-1, 6-3 in the final in Paris on Saturday.
The last Australian to win a French Open singles title was Margaret Court in 1973.
Rod Laver says Barty can win French Open
Ashleigh Barty is closing in on a first Australian singles triumph at the French Open in 46 years after surging into the quarter-finals at Roland Garros. "It's pretty incredible to be in this position now, deep into another slam, and a hell of an opportunity," she said after matching her run to the Australian Open quarter-finals in January. "I feel like I'm in a very good place and enjoying myself." Barty next plays 14th seed and 2018 semi-finalist Madison Keys on Wednesday after closing to within three wins of becoming Australia's first French Open singles champion since Margaret Court in 1973.
Ashleigh Barty has become the first Australian champion at Roland Garros since 1973 after sweeping past Marketa Vondrousova.
Ashleigh Barty became the first Australian to win the French Open in 46 years on Saturday. Paris (CNN) Ashleigh Barty says her favorite surface in tennis is grass. She might have to change that after beating Czech teen Marketa Vondrousova 6-1 6-3 to become the first Australian to win the
Barty's win is her first singles Grand Slam title, although she won the doubles at the US Open last year.
'I'm a little bit speechless, it's incredible, I've played the perfect match today,' a delighted Barty said on court moments after victory.
'I'm so proud of myself and my team, it has been a crazy two weeks.'
Barty's parents Rob and Josie missed their daughter take home the title as they did not have enough time to travel to Paris.
They were in the air, flying from Queensland to London, when Barty sealed her her epic semi-final victory.
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Tennis star Ashleigh Barty has made history as the first Australian to win the French Open since 1973 after demolishing a Czech youngster in two sets
The last Australian to win a French Open singles title was Margaret Court in 1973
The 23-year-old defeated teenager Marketa Vondrousova in a 6-1, 6-3, in the final of the Roland-Garros on Saturday
The Queenslander will now jump from number eight to the second highest ranked female tennis player in the world.
French Open: Ash Barty advances to final with a gritty win
Ashleigh Barty is through to the French Open final after beating American teen Amanda Anisimova 6-7 (7-4) 6-3 6-3 in a three-set tussle on Court Suzanne Lenglen. The Queenslander is the first Australian finalist at Roland Garros in nine years after fighting back from a set down and a break down in the third set. © AAP Australia's Ashleigh Barty celebrates winning her semi-final at the French Open. She will now face unseeded Czech left-hander Marketa Vondrousova in Saturday's decider. The world No.
Ashleigh Barty trounces Marketa Vondroušová in straight sets , 6-1, 6-3, to become French Open champion and the first Barty drops to her haunches after realising what she has just achieved. Barty wins the French Open women' s singles! Second set : Barty 6-1, 6-3 Vondroušová* (* denotes
Ashleigh Barty during a doubles match in Birmingham. She will play doubles at Wimbledon but declined an offer from Andy Murray to partner him in the mixed. She is disciplined and hard-working, knows her own game and that of her rivals . More importantly, she has found peace and perspective.
Barty was asked what it was like to make history for Australia by winning the title in France, decades after Court.
'Obviously Sam has done so well here in the past, and she has been so close before, so I'm incredibly proud of what they have been able to achieve and it has just been an amazing two weeks,' she said.
The last Australian in a Grand Slam singles final was Samantha Stosur, who won the US Open in 2011. Stosur lost the French Open final in 2010.
Barty stood proudly during Advanced Australia Fair and was snapped smiling as she clung onto her trophy.
During the award ceremony, Barty thanked her opponent and said she had 'absolutely no doubt' Vondrousova, 19, would feature in Grand Slam finals in the future.
The Queenslander will now jump from number eight to the second highest ranked female tennis player in the world
'This is incredible, it's been the most amazing journey we have been on in the last three years and I feel like this is just the start for us,' Barty said after her win
Barty lifts the trophy into the air after stunning victory in France on Saturday
'To the French federation, all that sponsors, there have been incredible changes this year, we have enjoyed every part of it, all the fans, you guys make this tournament so special every year,' she continued.
Red-hot Barty taking nothing for granted
Ashleigh Barty is refusing to take 17-year-old American Amanda Anisimova lightly in her French Open semi-final. Ashleigh Barty insists she won't fall into the trap of taking unseeded American teen Amanda Anisimova lightly in Friday's French Open semi-final. World No.8 Barty is the highest-ranked player remaining in the women's draw after Anisimova stunned defending champion Simona Halep in straight sets to book her spot in the last four.
Ashleigh Barty won the French Open singles title on Saturday, defeating Marketa Vondrousova 6-1, 6-3 to She is expected to rise to second in the world, behind only Naomi Osaka, making her She went into the finale trying to become the first teenage Grand Slam champion since Maria Sharapova
Barty is the first Australian to reach the last eight since Jelena Dokic in 2009. She will face Petra Kvitova in the What they call a Barty party in this neck of the woods broke out when Ashleigh Barty edged to a nerve-shredding win over Maria Sharapova to make the Australian Open quarter finals.
'You're so passionate and enthusiastic and it so much fun playing tennis in front of you on this beautiful court here in Paris.'
'And lastly to my team, thank you guys for sticking with me.
'This is incredible, it's been the most amazing journey we have been on in the last three years and I feel like this is just the start for us.'
Barty returned to tennis in 2016 after indefinitely quitting the sport in 2014 and turning to professional cricket.
© Provided by Associated Newspapers Limited During the award ceremony, Barty thanked her opponent and said she had 'absolutely no doubt' Vondrousova would feature in Grand Slam finals in the future
BARTY'S VICTORY SPEECH IN FULL
Thank you, firstly to you (Vondrousova) and your team, your whole season has been phenomenal. This is just the start, I have absolutely no doubt that you will be in Grand Slam finals in the future.
To the French federation, all that sponsors, there have been incredible changes this year, we have enjoyed every part of it, all the fans, you guys make this tournament so special every year. You're so passionate and enthusiastic and it so much fun playing tennis in front of you on this beautiful court here in Paris.
Political leaders heap praise on Ash Barty
Queensland and federal political leaders have congratulated Ash Barty on her French Open tennis singles title win.
With this win Barty becomes the first Ashleigh Barty has defeated Marketa Vondrousova 61 63 in the finals of the 2019 French Open to win her maiden GS title. With this win Barty becomes the first Aussie woman to win in Paris since Margaret Court did it 46 years ago in 1973 .
French Open champion Ashleigh Barty could not progress beyond the 4th round. The Australian , who won the French Open earlier this year, was beaten in straight sets by Wang Qiang, the 18th Below-par Barty was broken twice in the first set and saved two match points on serve in the second.
And lastly to my team, thank you guys for sticking with me. This is incredible, it's been the most amazing journey we have been on in the last three years and I feel like this is just the start for us. Let's go and celebrate tonight.
The women's final started about one-and-a-half hours after its scheduled 11pm AEST start time, due to rain and a lengthy semi-final battle between Novak Djokovic and Dominic Thiem.
Barty came out firing in the first set, winning 6-1 in under 30 minutes.
The Queenslander took an early lead, winning four games to zero before Vondrousova managed to win one game. Barty then continued her leading streak by winning the fifth and sixth game.
Vondrousova had not lost a set during this year's French Open until she faced Barty.
© Provided by Associated Newspapers Limited Vondrousova congratulated Barty on her victory: 'You are an amazing player and, you are such a nice person, so you deserve this.'
In the second set, Barty comfortably won two games before Vondrousova won her first.
Unlike the first set, Vondrousova managed to keep herself in reach of Barty's lead, trailing 3-2 and 5-3 before Barty one the title 6-1, 6-3.
Vondrousova congratulated Barty on her victory: 'You are an amazing player and, you are such a nice person, so you deserve this.'
Barty eyes world No.1 ranking as next goal
Newly crowned French Open champion Ashleigh Barty has the world No.1 ranking in her sights as she begins her grass-court season in Birmingham.
'Even though I'd didn't get the win today, I've really enjoyed my time here. I'm just very happy with everything that happened here.'
Barty, who is ranked eighth in the world, will rise to second after beating Vondrousova
Vondrousova had not lost a set during this year's French Open until she faced Barty
The women's final started about one-and-a-half hours after its scheduled 11pm AEST start time, due to rain and a lengthy semi-final battle between Novak Djokovic and Dominic Thiem
Barty found herself vying for the Grand Slam title after beating American rising star Amanda Anisimova 6-7, 6-3, 6-3 in a whirlwind semi-final on Friday.
'I played some really good tennis. I played some pretty awful tennis,' said Barty after Friday's victory.
'I'm just proud of myself the way I was able to fight and scrap and hang in there and find a way,' she said.
'When I kind of threw away that first set.'
She lost Friday's first set to her 17-year-old opponent 7-6, after a powerful lead fell to pieces. In less than 15 minutes, the Australian held a 5-0 lead over Anisimova.
Vondrousova reached her first major final after defeating Britain's Johanna Konta 7-5, 7-6 (2).
A young Ash Barty clings onto a trophy in 2002. She first started playing tennis aged four
Ash Barty (left) pictured with one of her older sisters Sara (right)
Barty picked up a racket aged four because 'didn't want to play what she thought was a girls' game'
Barty is the youngest child of Robert, a Ngarigo Indigenous Australian, and Josie, the daughter of English immigrants, and was born and raised in Ipswich, Queensland.
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Her two sisters, Sara and Ali, played netball but Barty picked up a racket aged four.
This was because 'didn't want to play what she thought was a girls' game', her father told the Sydney Morning Herald.
Junior tennis coach Jim Joyce took Barty under his wing after noticing she had a natural talent for the sport.
Barty was five when she arrived at Joyce's court at the West Brisbane Tennis Centre and was soon hitting with players twice her age.
'The thing that stood out was - her hand and eye coordination was amazing - but it was her focus and concentration for that age,' Joyce said.
'She was equal to any of the nine and 10-year-olds, actually, as far as that goes.
'She was outstanding.'
Joyce said Barty's talents as a sportsperson were far-reaching and coming from a family of golfers she was also decent with a club.
'She just picked up things so quickly,' Joyce said.
'Ash would have made a fantastic golfer ... you should have seen her on a golf course.
Barty (right) and two-time Wimbledon winner Evonne Goolagong-Cawley talk to media at Brisbane International Tennis Centre, July 6, 2011. Barty had won the Wimbledon girls singles
The teenager was then sent abroad, where she competed in international tours without her parents at the age of 14 (Barty is pictured second from right)
Junior tennis coach Jim Joyce took Barty under his wing after noticing she had a natural talent for the sport. Barty was five when she arrived at Joyce's court at the West Brisbane Tennis Centre and was soon hitting with players twice her age
'And she just wanted to play tennis, she didn't want to play team games.
'Her sisters were playing netball, she just wanted to play tennis.'
By the age of nine, Barty was training with boys six years older than her, and at 12 she was playing against adult men.
The incredible gamble that saved Barty's career
Ash Barty's rise to the top of women's tennis was almost unthinkable almost three years ago to the day. © AAP Barty during her time with the Brisbane Heat. "I think it's what I was born to do," she said at the time. "I'm a tennis player through and through. I just had to see that for myself. "I walked away and thoroughly enjoyed my time in cricket. It was a gradual progression for me, during those two years, to want to come back to the sport I had played and loved since I was five years old.
The teenager was then sent abroad, where she competed in international tours without her parents at the age of 14.
Barty recalled her first international tour in Europe where she was riddled with homesickness.
She would phone her parents crying almost every evening, but despite the struggle she managed to power through the competitions.
Barty shakes hands with Serena Williams during last years French Open
Barty has been with her boyfriend, PGA Trainee professional Garry Kissick, since 2017
Pictured in December 2010: Barty is awarded Female Junior Athlete of the Year at the Newcombe Medal Awards. She is seen posing with Bernard Tomic
The 14-year-old was also invited to Las Vegas as a member of the Adidas player development team where she was given the privileged opportunity to hang out with Steffi Graf and Andre Agassi.
'This trip has given me a lot of confidence and self-belief and has made me realise how I need to work and what sacrifices I must make in order to be a great tennis player,' Barty said at the time.
At the age of 15, she hit a range of milestones, having competed at the Australian Open, won high-level Grade 1 events in Malaysia and Belgium, and secured her only Grand Slam junior title at Wimbledon.
She became the second Australian to win the girls' singles event after Debbie Freeman in 1980, and the first Australian girl to win a junior Grand Slam title since Jelena Dokic at the 1998 US Open.
Speaking to her Wimbledon victory, Barty said: 'It was just too much – it was too much beyond tennis, beyond playing the game'.
She found herself approaching a crossroads, unsure of her future prospects on the court amid the mounting media exposure and pressure to succeed.
At the age of 15, Barty (pictured in January 2019) hit a range of milestones, having competed at the Australian Open, won high-level Grade 1 events in Malaysia and Belgium, and secured her only Grand Slam junior title at Wimbledon
Barty is pictured in 2014 - the year she decided to take an indefinite break from cricket
During the season where she turned 17, Barty had only spent 27 days at home during the calendar year, and in 2014 following the US Open, she made the critical decision to take a break from tennis
When she was 16, Barty lived alone in an apartment in Melbourne's South Yarra.
During the season where she turned 17, Barty had only spent 27 days at home during the calendar year, and in 2014 following the US Open, she made the critical decision to take a break from tennis.
Her father Robert said he suffers from bipolar, manic depression and obsessive compulsive disorder, believing he passed depression to Barty.
'It was too much too quickly for me as I've been travelling from quite a young age,' she said in a later interview about quitting the sport.
'I wanted to experience life as a normal teenage girl and have some normal experiences.'
But with sport clearly running in her blood, Barty instead took up cricket and enjoyed great success.
Barty and Serena Williams are all smiles during the French Open in 2018
With sport clearly running in her blood, Barty took up cricket after quitting tennis in 2014
Barty is the youngest child of Robert, a Ngarigo Indigenous Australian, and Josie (right), the daughter of English immigrants, and was born and raised in Ipswich, Queensland
Barty joined the Queensland Fire squad in the women's national league, with coach Andy Richards recalling he was instantly impressed with her skills.
'Her skill from the first time she picked up a bat was outstanding from a coach's perspective – she never missed a ball in her first session,' he said.
But after a successful two years of professional cricket – which saw her play for a range of teams at high profile events including in the Women's Big Bash League – Barty made the bold return to tennis in February 2016.
The reunion with tennis came after Barty went to watch her doubles teammate, Casey Dellacqua compete in the Sydney International.
Dellacqua forced her on to an empty court in the late afternoon and Barty realised it was time for her to return to her first love.
'I used one of her racquets and I just said, ''This is me. This is what I should be doing'',' she said.
At the 2017 Malaysian Open she won her first career WTA singles title and entered the top 100 for the first time, finishing within the top 20.
She is the National Indigenous Tennis Ambassador for Tennis Australia, and calls herself a 'very proud Indigenous woman'.
'Giving back to my community is very important to me and I hope to inspire many more Indigenous kids to get active and enjoy their tennis,' she said.
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Canzano: Cameron Brink is in the March Madness business
Stanford star chases national title.
Stanford star Cameron Brink designed an apparel line with Portland Gear.
The prevailing theory is that college basketball is over in the Pacific Northwest. That all of our region's teams have been eliminated from the postseason. That there's nothing left to root for in the NCAA Tournament. Except that's all wrong.
You've got Cameron Brink.
We've got her.
Portland Gear has her, too. On their payroll, that is.
More on that last bit in a moment. First, understand that the 6-foot-5 Brink grew up in Beaverton and is a star player on the Stanford women's basketball team. The No. 1-seed Cardinal play No. 2-seed Connecticut on Friday in a Final Four semifinal.
Brink, the Pac-12's Defensive Player of the Year, had six blocked shots and 10 points in her team's 59-50 Elite Eight victory over Texas in Spokane. The game was a tug-of-war and Brink played the role of anchor.
"You're so proud, you're so excited and you know it's March so anything can happen and your team can go home at any point," her mother, Michelle, said. "It's such a conflict of emotions."
Michelle played her college ball at Virginia Tech. Her roommate there was Sonya Curry, Steph's mother. Brink's father, Greg, was teammates with Dell, Steph's dad. This is how the Curry's came to be Cameron's godparents.
"This all feels so far fetched," Michelle said.
June marks the 50th anniversary of Title IX being passed into American law and helping create gender equality in sport. Michelle said this week, "If it weren't for Title IX I'm not at college in Blacksburg, Va. There's no college sports for me.
"None of this happens."
Cameron Brink gave input into the design of the apparel line.
Marcus Harvey grew up in Oregon, attended college in Eugene, and built the Portland Gear brand off sweat, big ideas and the fact that nobody else bothered to grab the @Portland Instagram handle.
Harvey snatched it and built a clothing empire in our state. He lives here. He works here. He and his wife had a baby girl, named Kinley, last year. Harvey has regularly invested in the region and even jumped on board as part of the investment group for the Portland Diamond Project.
When it came time to design a new apparel line at Portland Gear Harvey decided to do something that would have been unthinkable under the old NCAA rules — pay a college player to help.
He wanted to go local.
"Cam was ideal. She's got a bad-ass attitude on the court," Harvey told me. "She's a hometown kid. As a new girl-dad I wanted to partner with a female athlete."
Brink, 20, played three seasons at Southridge High. She moved to Mountainside High for her senior year. Then, it was on to Stanford, where her major is now listed as: "Undeclared." But it feels like she has a promising future with both basketball and business.
When legislation was passed that allowed college athletes to benefit from partnerships, sponsorships and endorsements using their name-image-likeness (NIL), Brink lined up with the Wasserman agency. She's now in partnership with a stable of companies that includes Great Clips, Spotify, Third Love, Celsius Fitness Drink and Portland Gear.
Said Harvey: "She sent us inspiration for her style. Things she liked. Her favorite colors. Fits. Graphics. And then we collaboratively went back and forth on graphics until we landed on things she liked."
Said her mother, Michelle: "It's incredible to see what's happened with the power of a female athlete."
Cameron Brink's homage to her home area with the "Rose City" design.
Mom sat daughter down months ago and talked with her about how far the women's college game has evolved over the years. Michelle didn't just explain why legislation such as Title IX was significant. She underscored the notion that Cameron Brink herself probably doesn't exist without it.
No Stanford scholarship.
No back-to-back Final Fours.
No opportunity to grow her own brand and design that custom line with Harvey's team at Portland Gear.
Stanford is 32-3 and will play coach Geno Auriemma's UConn machine on Friday in Minneapolis. Connecticut has appeared in 14 straight women's Final Fours. The defending national champion Cardinal, meanwhile, haven't lost since December.
It will be an epic test.
"Anything can happen," Michelle said.
You're going to be told that our region doesn't have a dog left in the fight. That our college basketball rooting interests either didn't qualify for the postseason or were quickly ushered out. But don't believe it when you hear it. There are still four teams left in the men's bracket and four more on the women's side.
There is still Cameron Brink.
She is homegrown.
That feels worth pulling for.
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Mar 31, 2022Liked by John Canzano
Thank you, John!!! As the first female athlete who entered VT on a scholarship for basketball (there was no such thing as a purely athletic scholarship at that Pre-Title IX time, so the head Basketball coach took me into the office of the President of the University who gave me a Presidential Scholarship to attend and play), I am gob-smacked at all the change that that law, and time passing, has made for women athletes.
Thanks for reminding everyone that this is a monster game coming up with two HOF coaches to-be, Tara VanDerveer and Geno Auriemma, and two seriously talented teams that are fun to watch.
Go Cam Brink! Go Stanford! Take down Geno and the Dawgs.
PS I moved to PDX in the eighties and as a Southerner (Faith, Family, Football ... and not necessarily in that order), I had to pick a team to root for. This was pre-Toilet Bowl era and both Oregon teams sucked, but I hated the color orange and my favorite color was green. Thus was born Hokieduck. It is fantastic to read about the Currys and the Brinks and the VT connection in this piece.
Thank you for caring about women's sports and for this awesome piece!
Julie Pratt
I graduated from a small high school in Oregon. Our school fielded a girls basketball team for the first time in 1975. Our team was good. They placed 3rd in state in 76 & won it all in 77. Womens sports have come a long way in 50 years. The game has changed & I Iove to watch the ladies compete. Thank you for a wonderful article & yes I will be cheering for Stanford & all the ladies who bring it every time they step on the court.
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Is Comedian Andy Kaufman Still Alive?
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Andy Kaufman is one of the most famous comedians of all time, although you might not have heard of him unless you saw the movie starring Jim Carrey about him (Man In The Moon) as he died way back in 1984, probably before most of you were born. Did he actually die though? In the past few days some strange evidence has appeared to suggest that he might actually still be alive. Andy allegedly died in 'mysterious circumstances' due to a rare form of cancer at the age of 35. The death was so quick and unexpected that it left many of is friends and family questioning its legitimacy, although there are those such as his manager George Shapiro who claim to have been at his bedside in the hospital when he passed away.
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I know this is a big event on a regional basis, but I'm so far away that it is difficult for me to make it to Silver Springs. I would also need to add to my double hose inventory as most of my stuff is Healthways, USD, Nemrod and Sportsways. I have the guts to an AMF Voit 50 Fathom two hose, but not the case. With not too much $$, I could get a plastic case for it from The Scuba Museum, and have thought about that for a number of years, but that's not what was seen on Sea Hunt, and would probably be disallowed by the protocol.
I'm one of those kids who was watching Sea Hunt after my YMCA swim team practice in Salem, Oregon in the 1950s. While Jacques Cousteau was the main factor in my getting into diving, Sea Hunt was fun to watch, and after having dived for a while, critique. We would watch it, and see the scenes where the regulators were switched from the old green straight mouthpiece to the newer grey Voit mouthpiece, in the same dive. Or a diver with twins would suddenly have a single tank on, or the dives continued with the J-valve down. As teenage divers, we would enjoy the series and the stories, but developed a way of looking at them as a Hollywood production which was somewhat detached from reality.
--Is the noise I was hearing the props of the tourist boats overhead? I could not see anything that would make such a racket.
--Are there three statues in the center of the frame? If so, what do they represent?
--There is one guy in the midst of the divers in modern gear. Is he videoing the event?
--Was there any or much TV coverage of the event?
That fish (perch?) kinda stole the show for a few moments there. As a diver with a degree in zoology, I am interested in the aquatic life in Silver Springs too.
Please thank all who participated for me as this does represent vintage diving to the public, and is much appreciated.
At first the noise you can hear is Jerry Lang's scooter and then the noise you hear is from the propeller blades of the glass bottom boats above us. Yes there was a local newspaper photographer in modern gear taking photos for the newspaper. No TV coverage that I'm aware of. The statues are left over from a movie a believe.
Also somebody had a really noisy regulator. It would make screeching noises upon inhalation. Creepy sounding. Those fish look like our Sunfish around here.
I'll jump in here regarding forum traffic and participation. I moderate the DOXA watches sub-forum, over on Watch-U-Seek, and we run into the same issues. It's a friendly forum, unless someone is purposely trolling, but there's always more lurkers than participants. I guess that's just the nature of forums as a whole, but if more people would participate, it's a far more enjoyable experience for everyone.
While this forum isn't super busy, though it seems busier than the VDH forum, I really like it here. Did things used to be busier here, and taper off in the past few years, or is this level of traffic the norm? On the DOXA forum, it used to be much busier, and has tapered off in the past five years.
Oh yeah, the Seahunt Forever event looked like a lot of fun! I really appreciate the level of accuracy and authenticity that the participants went to with their rigs. Nothing ruins something like this than a "good enough" attitude. It's either right or it's not, and there's no in between. Maybe I can take my kids to watch the divers at the next one.
As far as online forums go, this site is pretty good! There are a few "personalities" I avoid on here, but most people I really like. I get on pretty good with the vast majority of members. I have had immense support here, as well as people outright giving items for free.
I used to go to another vintage dive forum, but never felt like I belonged there like I do here. It seemed to be more cash making oriented than helping Divers out. Then they started the issue with us Healthways Divers and that was it, no more going there.
I was on ScubaBoard.com about three years ago when I first was getting certified. I did not stay long there, just got a bad vibe there. I've considered going back to the Vintage section, but have yet done so.