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Ed Murray Throws Seattle Under the Train
Posted on April 23, 2013 April 23, 2013 by Ben Schiendelman
Publicola today has one of their fantastic "one question" pieces – this time for mayoral candidate Ed Murray, on his view on Sound Transit's subarea equity policy. Murray says it should be eliminated.
As a quick bit of background, subarea equity is a policy in which Sound Transit is split into five subareas – and money collected in a subarea must be spent in that subarea. This means money collected in Seattle essentially stays in Seattle, money collected on the eastside stays on the eastside.
Subarea equity originally existed because suburban legislators, in creating Sound Transit, wanted to make sure that suburban money didn't end up spent in Seattle. As a result, Link implementation was at first slower. But now that Sound Transit 2 is passed, the North King subarea's "spine" is fully funded. Most of the political pressure on Sound Transit is now to expand to Tacoma, Everett, and Redmond, and most of the board votes are outside Seattle.
In a Sound Transit 3 package, subarea equity is paramount to ensuring that we get a new line in Seattle – it ensures that Seattle's contribution stays in the city, and political pressure doesn't move money out to the ends of the lines.
Murray claims that his reason for wanting to remove subarea equity would be to focus transit investment in Seattle – but the outcome of removing it would be the opposite. As a transit advocate who wants Seattle to have more grade separated transit, this is scary because it's a direct threat to a new line in the city, and it's scary because a mayoral candidate should have a better grasp of the issues.
102 Replies to "Ed Murray Throws Seattle Under the Train"
Gordon Werner says:
Contact him … would love to see you debate him on that idea … maybe you'd change his mind?
Ben Schiendelman says:
Enough people have talked to him about this issue that I don't think he's able to change his mind. He's been pushing this since like 2007.
Andrew Smith says:
At least 2007, maybe longer.
http://seattletimes.com/html/opinion/2003637392_ben27.html
Oh my god, I forgot about that. Thanks Andrew.
There's no way transportation projects can go on the ballot the same year as a contentious gubernatorial election.
Fortunately you aren't always right, Ben.
"Sally", is that a joke?
http://your.kingcounty.gov/elections/200811/results.aspx
Ben, I was quoting a line from your 2007 editorial.
Oh that is too funny! Thank you for pointing that out. :)
Cinesea says:
It's one of those things that sounds great on paper, "By elminating sub-area equity, we can spend the money where it is needed." But the reality is, "Seattle already got theirs, where's mine?"
Thanks Ben for breaking this down. For the casual transit advocate, I'm sure a brief glance at Ed Murray's proposal sounds like a win for Seattle, so it's really helpful to have your concise and articulate explanation to share.
In a way, it sounds good, IF there is a way to protect the areas against constant thievery. If by getting rid of sub-area equity then Seattle gets intra-city rail first, then when that is done, the money can be focused on Bellevue/Redmond, then maybe that is something to be looked at? But, knowing it is all politics, there would always be a way around the protections to fund someone's pet project in say, Enumclaw, Fall City, or Roy…
Yeah. Without some other fundamental protection, this would mean DMUs in Orting or something instead of rail to Ballard. :)
John Slyfield says:
sound transit will only pay for projects in the areas which pay for it. enumclaw, fall city and Roy all are outside of the zone and should not receive service.
Alex Francis Burchard says:
So I'm going to play the devil's advocate here:
Why not have DMU's to orting (or maybe not quite that far out) There's areas of Kent, Auburn, etc., that we could probably build up quite a bit, and why not get transit there Before it gets built up, when it isn't quite as expensive to build, and then those towns can build around transit instead of building just unfettered sprawl?
I mean, we've already developed much of some of these towns, shouldn't we be looking towards densification at some point? Not everyone will fit within the 82 small square miles that is Seattle Proper, so lets get things going as well in the burbs as in the city and grow as one unified region that can all go at the same pace, but around transit instead of roads?
WSDOT has studied a Maple Valley – Covington – Auburn commuter rail line connecting to Sounder. It has so far not generated sufficient interest for funding.
As for Orting, I had to look it up on a map. :) It's southeast of Puyallup (which has a Sounder station). That part of Pierce County was the most hostile to Pierce Transit in the past two elections, so much so that it shrunk its taxing area to exclude the southeast. That was the end of all-day transit in the area.
Nothing is stopping Covington, Maple Valley, and Orting from building up the walkable town centers they inherited from the past. But they have been running the other way, building up auto-dependent sprawl. How many houses can you walk to from the Maple Valley Safeway or Covington Fred Meyer? Where is the TOD? Reston Town Center built an entire compact village, both for its interim benefit and to attract the DC Metro. Meanwhile, Burien, Renton, Kent, and Southcenter have at least started building up their centers or thinking about doing it. Anyone who wants more space than Seattle's horrible 82 square miles can go there, and they are getting more transit as funding becomes available.
Alex, you say why not?
Because the same number of dollars produces more mobility for more people in a denser place. Let's not waste money – let's build the most cost effective projects, and balance that with where the money is coming from. Neither of those things are DMUs in the exurbs.
But, not necessarily to the exurbs, 6 or 7 census tracts around downtown/East Hill Kent have densities around 9-10,000/sq mile, That's nothing to balk at. And given the proper infrastructure (decent transit) there's no reason that couldn't double or so. And like I said, build it before it gets expensive? And in the future, just as many people will be moved as would the people right now who will benefit.
(realistically, I'm definitely for transit in the city first, because you're right, the density levels are already there), but at the same time, We really should at some point (soonish, I think) start looking more to the future where we may need the space of our current inner and middle ring suburbs to be considerably denser than they are. And of course, them being denser is always better than building in north bend!
I hate when these things have to come down to story problems, but I'm begging you – try to follow my point here.
Let's say I have two scenarios: A corridor of five census tracts with 10,000/sqmi that are each a half mile apart, and separately, two similar tracts that are five miles apart.
If it costs about the same to build that 2.5 miles of rail with five stations as that 5 miles of rail with two stations, which one serves more people per dollar?
Serving those places in Kent instead of places like Uptown and Ballard is not only less cost effective, it results in poor public opinion of transit that reduces the rate at which we can build more.
I totally agree with you that we should build out the city properly first, but at some point we have to think beyond the city limits, and I think we should start thinking about that now, especially since it takes sooooo long to build if we get the process started soon, maybe it will get done by 2040 or something. (which is too far out, but the city will be well built out by then anyways)
Alex, we are. Sound Transit 2 funded Link to Angle Lake and Lynnwood and Overlake. Sure, we can't make it to Federal Way, but that's because South King produced less revenue. Sound Transit 3 will probably connect Everett, Tacoma, Redmond and Issaquah, if Seattle Subway's efforts are successful.
The key here is that because of subarea equity, pushing for a lot of investment in Seattle makes sure that we get a lot of investment outside of Seattle too.
The people who act like I'm somehow throwing the rest of the region under the bus by protecting subarea equity don't seem to have any awareness of what I actually do. This is the vision I have of what Link should look like: http://seattlesubway.org/region.pdf
And this is the current whitepaper explaining the battles that will help us get there: http://seattlesubway.org/whitepaper.pdf
Alright, so we're pretty much on the same page then. Good deal.
There are plenty of intermediate things Kent can do, like raise a small amount of money to upgrade the 169 to RapidRide, and look at other strategic routes (Southcenter-Kent-Auburn, Pac Hwy-Kent-Lake Meridian). If it waits for Metro or Sound Transit to fund them, it could be waiting a decade or two. But if the city takes the lead in deciding what it wants and raising funds for it, it can hire Metro to operate whatever routes it wants, like Seattle does. The most important thing is to designate long-term corridors, and to measurably improve transit service there (as RapidRide's 15-minute frequency would do), and make complementary land-use changes to increase the density in that corridor. Then when a rail wave comes, it will be ready for it.
Kent can also start reserving right of way for a future rail line. The more it can do incrementally now, the less it will cost at the end, and the easier it can be included in a future ST4-5 or Metro expansion. For instance, an east-west route would presumably be on Kent-Kangley Road or 240th. So… what about a road diet to fit in two transit lanes? It doesn't have to be right now, and the neighbors will scream about traffic… but that's all the more reason to start discussing it now because it will take time to resolve.
Somehow, I don't think a dedicated transit lane for a bus that doesn't come more than hourly and doesn't carry more than 10 people when it does come is going to fly politically.
JesseMT says:
How would subarea equity actually be eliminated? Is it something the ST Board can vote on, or would it require legislative action or a popular vote?
It would require legislative action – but the addition of taxing authority that's necessary for there to be a Sound Transit 3 package would open up the same law already. Murray has said he'd basically only support more authority for Sound Transit with "governance reform" (which is seriously bad news), and this would be part of that.
Mark in Kenmore says:
How does this even help Seattle? It would be one thing if he were pushing for Seattle to be able to raise additional revenue for use in their subarea, but what he's asking for is against the very interests of his potential voters.
d.p. says:
There's no good reason that each sub-area should need to tax itself at the exact same rate as every other sub-area.
But robbing Peter to pay Paul, in this region, can only lead to anti-urban outcomes.
Yeah, I agree that different parts of the region should be able to consider different tax rates, too. Something else you and I agree on. :)
Will Green says:
Sub-Area equity is essentially a board policy, it could be removed at any time.
From the sub-area equity fact sheet:
"Changing the subarea equity principle would take two-thirds, or 12 votes, of the 18- member Sound Transit Board. In addition, other strong accountability measures are in place, including an independent Citizen Oversight Panel and regular external audits."
There's enough in RCW that I don't think Sound Transit could get away with it themselves. "May" is not usually just a suggestion, but IANAL of course.
http://apps.leg.wa.gov/rcw/default.aspx?cite=81.112.030
lazarus says:
It was passed by the voters — it was key to ST1 getting passed and it won't be touched.
ST3? Well, it will be everyone against Seattle because they need our taxes for their projects. How else is Federal Way going to get LR to their city if they don't get Seattle to pay for it?
Us? We just want to pay for our own projects in our own city. We don't have any problem with regionalism and regional coordination, but just let us spend our own money in our own city.
Ryan Carson says:
Ben, are you of the opinion that he understands the effect of what policy he is proposing and that he's being disingenuous? Or, is he ignorant of the effect of the policy he's advocating or perhaps working off old information? I see by your first reply to Gordon that you think it's the former. Am I correct in assuming that?
I believe he understands the impact, yes. He used to chair the House Transportation Committee. Even at that time, they knew that the political pressure would flip post ST2, and since ST2, he's had this conversation every legislative session.
Thanks. Funny, I didn't think he was running for the Mayor of Not-Seattle.
I think Ed either believes this is good for Seattle, or he believes that to the casual transit supporter it SOUNDS like it's good for Seattle. I'm not sure which is worse.
He doesn't seem to be up to date on what is actually happening at Sound Transit and in the city (TMP, corridor studies, etc.) either, though. Does he see the need for rail or know that we are clamoring for it? Does he have any vision for what it should look like?
Apparently not. Seattle Subway does, though:
http://seattlesubway.org/region.pdf
The title is inaccurate. Like any rail skeptic, Ed Murray knows that it is much more cost efficient to throw someone under a bus.
That's cute. :)
"King County Metro recently eliminated its own version of subarea equity, which required Metro to spend 40 percent of revenues in South King County, 40 percent on the Eastside, and just 20 percent in Seattle."
That's not subarea equity! That's an arbitrary allocation of new revenue regardless of how much each subarea raises. Its explicit purpose was redistributional: to invest in "transit-disadvantaged" areas. At most it's outcome-equity (equalizing the level of transit among the subareas) rather than spending-equity (my taxes go to my area).
ST's subarea equity has always been controversial on STB, with no consensus opinion. Some people want to eliminate it to allow ST to concentrate investment in areas with the greatest transit needs and willingness to use transit (Seattle). Others want to keep it due to fairness or out of a fear that investment would go the other way, to areas with more political clout than transit users. I remain conservative on this: let's not change the policy when it's so uncertain whether the effect would be better or worse. The issue of fairness is legitimate (why should Snohomans pay for improvements in King County?) There is a counterargument that everybody should pay for improvements where they're needed, but that's a larger issue. You'd have to not only eliminate subarea equity but also put in ST's charter that it should direct investment to where it would be the most effective according to industry-standard transit principles rather than where the most mayors are.
Eliminating subarea equity when the only thing the Sound Transit board says when talking about their next plans is "finishing the spine" makes it very, very unlikely that they would build a new line in Seattle before connecting Redmond, Everett and Tacoma.
Subarea equity served its purpose for ST1 but should be revisited. It's a bit of a duct tape solution – it's not perfect, but you better come up with a real fix if you're going to remove it. Otherwise we're going to get screwed. Who knows… we have a few years to feel out the ST Board and find a better formula for what's fair AND what works for HCT. Murray doesn't sound like he has anything constructive to offer.
It's doing exactly what it's supposed to – it ensured everyone gets what they pay in, and now that means urban growth results in the reward of more transit. The only motivators to touch it would hurt us, not help us.
Not exactly Ben. Subarea equity is only doing "exactly" what it's supposed to do if you mean, benefitting places where people buy lots of and/or expensive things and own lots of and/or expensive cars. South King has fallen behind even though it has a disproportionate share of transit-dependent riders, who commute to subareas with better access to jobs and amenities and have less money to spend. That's why subarea equity is currently a flexible standard. We could improve it by making investments in places that we want to make trip generators 20 years from now; unfortunately the politics holds us back and subarea equity is a useful compromise.
i personally believe that the idea is flawed. we should not be funding transit based on how well the economy is doing in one subarea compared to another. That does not lead to an efficient system. ever notice that with the exception of st 574 and st 596 every sound transit express bus serves either bellevue or Seattle?
Today, subarea equity is the thing keeping our system from being built inefficiently. That's the whole reason we're fighting to keep it.
Most of Sound Transit's funding comes from sales tax. Seattle collects the most sales tax mostly because it has the most people. I don't think differences in economic condition between subareas affects the sales tax receipts nearly as much as differences in population do.
In the end, we want the transit to go where the people are. The current subarea equity system does pretty well at making this happen That said, I wouldn't be entirely opposed to distributing the money on a per-capita basis rather than based on how much tax money each area generates. Either way would be much better than completely eliminating subarea equity, which would likely put most future Seattle projects at great jeopardy.
To say a route like 595 serves Seattle is a total joke. Yes, it stops in Seattle, but the schedule is such that no one who lives in Seattle could possibly ever use it. Fact of the matter is, it stops in Seattle, but it serves Gig Harbor and nothing but.
Bellinghammer says:
Ben, you're right on the substance of this…SAE protects whatever subarea would otherwise be a revenue donor to other subareas. In the past, that was the 'burbs, now it's definitively Seattle.
But I can't imagine Murray actually having malice toward Seattle…instead this has got to be ignorance based on outdated conceptions of regional transit politics. Disturbing yes, but educable. It is impossible in my mind for a mayoral candidate to prevail in Seattle by campaigning to siphon revenue and projects away from Seattle. That'd be lunacy. He just has the facts wrong, as most people who spend their time in Olympia do.
I don't think Senator Murray has any malice toward Seattle. I don't attribute to malice what can be explained by incompetence. This is a matter of not understanding the issues well enough to be taking positions on them, and why I want him in the Senate, not in the mayor's office.
Mark Y. says:
If he has no understanding of this issue, then why would you even want him in the Senate?
If Ed sticks to this, I can't vote for him. It's lunacy.
McGinn is the worst mayoral candidate, except for all the others. Le sigh.
I think there will be something each of us disagree with from anyone. But for the most part, he matches my values.
Al Dimond says:
Yeah, values and opinions are one thing. He tends to get knocked on leadership effectiveness… by other candidates that know running against his ideas might not be popular. It's hard for an outsider to evaluate how to interpret that.
And if you take the time to actually look at his record, you'll find he's actually been a better than average Mayor for this city. The question is, will you fall for the PR crap that was heaped on him during the throws of the Deep Bore Tunnel debacle or will you actually take a look at his record?
"leadership effectiveness" is code for "pay no attention to the issues/track record/substance…"
Matthew Johnson says:
It's a sad indictment of our media landscape that McGinn is having to go out of his way to highlight his record. Most politicians try to distract people from looking at their record, he's trying to pull the spotlight TO it.
He's been quite effective.
He's run the city better than any Mayor we've had in my lifetime.
East Coast Cynic says:
McGinn has been very good on the mass transit issues, but his prevaricating of the consent decree for SPD oversight has been deplorable; however, he's better than the other options who I suspect will not vigorously fight for improved public transportation.
And he did get Diaz to retire. I think the outcome we're actually seeing is far better than we'd have gotten if he'd fired the chief.
Keith Tyler says:
As a Federal Way voter, I support Ed for mayor!
Somebody should start a Facebook group…
Sounds like a Mayor Murray would be a SMINO — Seattle Mayor in Name Only.
Eh? Eh? SMINO might be too gross to say out loud for that to catch on.
Sound Transit's purpose isn't to serve Seattle, it's to serve the region. It sounds like Ed is thinking about what's best for the region, and Ben is thinking about what's best for Seattle.
Ben for Mayor!
Matt the Engineer says:
++!
Chris Stefan says:
"Best for the region?"
Really? So you think DMUs in Orting are a better use of public funds than say rail to Ballard?
Maybe Ed is already plotting a post-mayoral campaign for higher office.
Well "fuck Seattle" tends to be a winner outside of King County.
Possibly ignorant says:
Seattle generally brings that on themselves.
How so? Can you point to something specific that we've done?
John A. Bailo says:
Seattle has spent like gangbusters for 2 decades and has very little to show for it. Vancouver stands as an embarrassment as their SkyTrain is a fully extended metropolitan grade separated system that was built in the amount of time it took Sound Transit to build one overpriced misrouted starter line.
The Expo Line was built in 1985 before Sound Transit even existed.
Bailo, what you said really doesn't make any sense. We're building as fast as Vancouver does, we just started later and don't get the money as fast as they did, so the projects are spaced out more.
Ben, it pains me far more to agree with John about anything than it does to agree with you, but he is, in fact, correct:
The Canada Line went from being a pipe dream in 2000 to being approved in 2004 to opening in 2009. For about the same price as our single-station tunnel under Capitol Hill, it built twelve miles and two branches of actual urban transit, with actual urban stop spacing and actual urban service levels and actual usefulness in an actual urban context.
It is 100% accurate to observe that Vancouver has achieved more with less time and money, and to understand that Seattle's political errors have real consequences on the ground.
They built:
– (mostly) cut and cover to our bored
– Shallow stations to our deep
– 40m platforms to our 120m
Also, University Link has two stations, not one.
Canada Line was underbuilt dramatically due to pressure from the BC government and the IOC, and is already crush loading at peak, with no possibility of expansion. I would love to be able to point at a system like that and find ways to build our transit more cheaply, but Canada Line is not a good example of how to build transit.
I've seen the rush-hour crush loads on the Canada Line with my own eyes, and yes, in an ideal world, each station and each train would be 50% longer.*
None of that changes the fact that the line is already handling 136,000 passengers daily, with headways as close as every 2 minutes. That's roughly as many as Sound Transit ever anticipates handling through the Capitol Hill tunnel segment from points further north, with its much longer trains and 15x higher pricetags on every single station.
None of that changes the fact that the line has 8 complete subway stations, serving every major cross street, with an average of .65 miles between them, with no gaps over a mile, and with provisions in place for infill stations. That's in addition to the three waterway crossings, two branches, and 8 elevated stations.
All for the same price as our single tunnel, with its overbuilt Capitol Hill station, worthlessly-located Husky Station, and essentially negligible impact on local mobility or access to cross-transit.
*(Just 50%, not "three times longer and four times deeper". Why on earth would you be proud of our overbuild obsession? It's about getting around; it's not a civic dick-measuring contest.)
If you don't think the Canada Line offers good guidance for building effective urban transit quickly and economically, then you really need to question your presumptions about what "good" is.
I will make no comment on Senator Murray. some of the examples from posters and Ben are absurd as they are outside the ST District (e.g., Orting, Fall City, Enumclaw, and Roy). In his second paragraph, Ben slightly mistates the ST subarea policy; the projects must benefit the residents of the respective subarea, not be "in" the subarea. For example, Sounder improvements at King Street Station were funded by the outer subareas and not North King. The regional express routes are funded by the suburban subareas and many North King subarea residents use them for reverse peak direction commutes (e.g., Microsoft in Overlake or Boeing computer near Eastgate). The ST policy follows the intent of the enabling legislation; its details are self made. Do not routes 510, 545, and 594 perform the function of the regional spine; they could be improved.
d.p. makes a good point: the large ST district makes it awkward to spend more on high capacity transit in the core, as the tax rate is level but the demand and utility are greater in the closely spaced urban centers. it is no accident that the ST board room is named for Representative Fisher.
Jack, before calling me absurd, do a little due diligence. I was just pointing to a project Sound Transit had previously considered. http://www.soundtransit.org/documents/pdf/projects/seis/S.2_PotentialRailExtensions_FredericksonOrting.pdf
Yes, I said "spent in", rather than "benefits". As you're the only one who's commented on this, it's splitting hairs, but you have a valid point. The thing is, there's no real difference between "spent in" and "benefits" for Link, except at the fuzzy edges of subareas, where Snohomish is helping with a little bit of track in North King, and North King is paying for a little bit of track that goes to Bellevue.
J. Reddoch says:
And Orting is in the Sound Transit district.
Yes, and everyone in Orting that can drive to Sumner or Puyallup to ride Sounder is getting their money's worth. And if you don't want to drive, the foothills trail will take you most of the way there on a bike.
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I honestly cannot understand how STB could decry the loss of the RFA because of its impact on the poor, and then uphold ST's subarea equity as eminently fair, which screws poor communities.
By upholding subarea equity, you are basically supporting a system that gives transit to rich communities and denies it to poor communities.
I also have serious disagreements with the implication behind the pragma of "those communities will develop TOD and then they will get transit." The suggestion is that growth comes before transportation. And I would challenge you to come up with one example where that has been the case. Since the dawn of man growth has been driven by transportation access, and not the other way around. Whether it's valleys, rivers, interstates, or transit lines, growth has *always* followed transportation.
Well, considering that history of human population clustering predates mass transportation by about 6000 years, and considering that every successful transit system of the past 150 years has come into existence to meet existing needs and to support growth that was already well underway, and considering that every politically-generated attempt to spur "transit-oriented development" from scratch with a slick new train and a media campaign has failed miserably… I'm going to go with you're totally and completely wrong.
As for your minced words, a river is not a "mass transportation system". Civilizations gravitated toward them first for sustenance and later for the movement of goods, though again the latter followed (and built upon) existing demand. Let me know how a trolley will help you irrigate Kent East Hill or move goods to Orting.
All I can say in response to this is "strawmen, strawmen everywhere". You managed to conflate my use of the term "transportation," in which I *included* transit, to be the same thing as "mass transportation system", in other words inverting what I said, in order to tear it down. Man, when you actually have to completely reverse what someone actually said in order to argue against them, you're really reaching.
Civilizations didn't just gravitate towards transportation avenues for their ancillary products, e.g. rivers and fish. It isn't especially superior to the open range, or the forests, in terms of available food. The additional benefit of the river is that it provided them with a better means of getting to different places to find *more* food. Otherwise they would have distributed equally between areas near rivers and areas not near rivers (or coasts), which they didn't.
Transportation comes before population. If it's harder to get there, less people will bother. No culture or community converges on a place that is less convenient to get to in the hopes that someday it will get better. Where has settlement growth been in the past 50 years? Along the interstates — and on the smaller geographic scale, along the transit lines.
Likewise, your argument against transit driving TOD is that when people try to artificially force TOD in a certain place, it doesn't happen. That's a far cry from saying that transit doesn't lead to TOD, and certainly doesn't do a lick to prove that TOD leads to transit.
It's much better to have a rail line that can have its service reduced during unpopular times, than a big hulking empty shell of TOD development that must always be the same size.
and certainly doesn't do a lick to prove that TOD leads to transit
That's pretty much the opposite of what I said.
If you really want to boil it down, the recently-manufactured notion of some planned-development concept that is described "TOD" is basically fraudulent. Human populations and activity centers concentrate where the do for a variety of reasons. The transportation connectivity follows, and that connectivity informs how those places grow, fill out, and function. This process is partially organic and partially shaped by regulatory frameworks. But it is never "from scratch".
Streetcar connected places that already existed, or that were being created concurrently by the same developers. Nobody put in tracks and hoped neighborhoods would miraculously appear, because that would have been stupid.
The Eisenhower freeways, later, were not just random lines on a map. They too connected to pre-existing destinations. Only government actions that favored home-ownership and de-urbanization created the endless sprawl around those roads, backfiring as congestion descended upon roads intended to serve long-distance rather than commuter needs.
Your argument that long-distance trains will magically yield "TOD" is refuted everywhere. No walkable places whatsoever exist along the outer fringes of BART; they never will, either because the train is essentially useless beyond a one-a-day purpose (and even then, only if you're lucky). And grand Civic Leader With An Easel schemes to produce "TOD" completely from scratch are always failures: they either wind up vacant, like Dallas's Cityplace, or horrible and dysfunctional, like the banlieues on the outskirts of the cities of Europe.
Again, the key is to allow for infill development in places already connected to the city — to provide a framework for the city growing and stitching itself together organically – and to build transit where it will already do good and will support that process. Building anti-urban trains to Lynnwood and Federal Way and Woodinville, will change nothing and will get you nowhere.
It's much better to have a rail line that can have its service reduced during unpopular times
How is it good to have transit that poorly fits the needs of the places it goes? The shorter term for what you desire is "waste".
This is a really interesting discussion – I think you're bringing up the question of how we measure success in a transit system, which is often lost in our discussions of transit.
There are a lot of metrics. We need to change our land use so that we build walkable, healthy, sustainable communities. We need to reduce emissions. We need to create economic justice by giving everyone access to affordable transportation. Not all of those things are directly solved by transportation, either – our land use regulations do more damage to social justice than "the wrong transit investments" ever could.
We have to balance those metrics against each other, and we have to make sure that we make choices that lead to successful ballot measures, which sometimes means the balance we get isn't absolutely perfect.
I'm thinking about Ballard and West Seattle as connecting points to the 99 corridor and Lake City in the north and to Burien and Tukwila and Renton in the south. We can't build really great transit to connect those lower income communities to the regional network unless the middle of that line is great as well.
I think sometimes I don't spend enough time clarifying how individual points I make fit together into a holistic vision of a more connected, livable city, and that's to some extent what Seattle Subway is for. Yesterday I just had time to point out a bad decision, not to couch it in everything else, and I hope you consider it in the frame I'm providing you now.
David L says:
Ben, your post is valuable because it puts into focus the question of exactly what we can achieve directly through HCT/mass transit programs and what goals, while valuable, need to be met in other ways. A lot of discussion of transit is unrealistic because people try to use it as a tool to accomplish things it can't do by itself.
change our land use so that we build walkable, healthy, sustainable communities
HCT can accelerate that process once it's started. It cannot start the process from scratch. It is valuable to use HCT to increase the capacity of places where people have already indicated they want to be. It is not valuable to use expensive HCT to try to force people into places where they have indicated no interest in locating.
For example: build HCT to allow Ballard, Capitol Hill, Lake City, or Bellevue to get denser. Don't try to use transit to turn Woodinville or Bridle Trails into an urban place.
We need to reduce emissions.
HCT can only do this by encouraging changes in land use and lifestyles. Again, that supports using HCT to support places where people already want to move.
We need to create economic justice by giving everyone access to affordable transportation.
This is a good criterion for low-cost public transportation, such as coverage bus routes and DART. It is an excellent criterion for land-use decisions, although it is often employed in very counterproductive ways. It is not a good criterion for large HCT projects such as those ST is undertaking. HCT is about expanding capacity and enabling growth. We have to have faith in the ability of growth and capacity to serve economic justice goals, particularly where abetted by smart land-use policy. HCT projects need to be evaluated on how much growth and development they enable, and how much time they can save everyone in a population, rather than directly on economic justice effects. HCT should be mass transit; transit projects done with economic justice as a primary purpose tend to serve a fairly small population, and not to justify the high costs of HCT modes. Evaluation of HCT should focus on the effects on the community as a whole, not particular subsegments of it.
David, d.p, we're in total agreement.
When I said "success in a transit system," I didn't just mean ST. I meant all of our transit. Metro does a lot of the social justice work. Sound Transit does a lot of the backbone work to connect communities that are becoming more walkable and sustainable and soaking up the growth. The streetcar lines that Seattle wants to build are doing more of the latter as well.
I think in the next twenty years, we're going to be connecting Woodinville and Renton and a lot of other places we don't think we'll connect now. As driving gets more expensive, a higher proportion of any given community will be willing to use transit, and we'll see demand increase across the board. I want to ensure we build our HCT with that in mind – so that the spines (note: plural! :) ) we build now are capable of handling a lot of growth.
Hence: Seattle Subway.
we're going to be connecting Woodinville and Renton and a lot of other places we don't think we'll connect now.
No, we're not. Or if we do, it's not going to be with a bunch of empty trains, at the expense of something more important. Just like BART.
The land usage just doesn't align with your vision.
You need to re-read David's comment. You're clearly still not getting it.
I'm not fighting for Woodinville today. I'm saying that in the long run, we'll probably end up building there, because I expect them to end up with the demand they need, if this continues:
http://www.cahsrblog.com/2013/04/the-great-shift-away-from-driving-continues/
I truly don't have a clue how Sprawlmerica will adapt to the decreasing cultural interest in driving, and neither do you.
It's pretty easy for rural Britain, built through the centuries as compact villages easily connected by wagon road, bus, or train, to reinstate and beef up its transit networks as the desire to drive wanes. But massive sprawl, built around only the faintest semblance of pre-auto downtowns and hostile to pedestrians as a matter of inherent form, is not so easy to retrofit.
The best you can do is to build ubiquitous pedestrian cut-throughs out of cul-de-sac developments, and run mediocre bus service up and down the arterials.
I hope we don't see a massive suburbanization of poverty (though that's highly likely and already happening in some places). But the increasing desire for city living won't remake Bothell or Renton or Marysville from scratch, and those places will never take a shape that will make urban-style trains — at unwalkable suburban spacings — a workable mobility option. That's just not going to happen.
The focus needs to be on infill development* that expands the contiguous city. That's the way to allow the next generation to live where it isn't a slave to automobiles. That's the way to expand the number of places that good public transit can actually support.
Empty trains to Woodinville are the exact opposite of a sustainable future.
*(Smart, real, walkable, enjoyable, busy, contiguous urban infill. Not towers on dead pedestals.)
We need to create economic justice
But that's my point. We can't do that with subarea equity. It's fundamentally regressive.
ST operates on the principle that the RTA is a holistic commercial-commuter network. But subarea equity actually results in it favoring some slices of that network more than others, and curiously enough, not based on actual demand.
And clearly Metro cannot pick up the slack, either, as evidenced by another very recent post. Like austerity during recessions, or layoffs during high unemployment, the lack of investment in transit in areas that underperform tax-wise will only exacerbate that situation until it reaches its logical conclusion of poor, run-down suburbs.
Some people of course are perfectly okay with that, and I don't think you are, which brings me back to: how, then, can subarea equity be okay? Waving it off as "necessary evil" means that the *actual* "necessary evil" is that eventually, the result will be to abandon certain places in favor of others through nothing more than than their economic situation. And that this noble sacrifice is worth it for the greater glory of Seattle.
Man, does that suck.
Keith, when you say subarea equity is fundamentally regressive, I feel like you're ignoring the current outcome of removing it – which is far more regressive, and *worse* at reflecting actual demand.
We all agree that more of this should go to higher density city communities. Right now subarea equity is keeping us *closer* to that, not farther away.
http://www.soundtransit.org/Documents/pdf/about/STDistrictMap07_10.pdf
Orting is in; Fall City, Enumclaw, and Roy out.
So please don't lump me in with people listing those other places.
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CODEY'S WORLD HOME
COLIN KELLY HOME
EMAIL COLIN
Curt's life takes a turn that he never expected, and he realizes that it's because he forgot something that didn't seem important at the time.	He also discovers that others have forgotten things that are important and that turns out to both help him and hurt him.
Mature or distressing themes. This story deals with abuse.
Chapter 29 — Lunch with Laura
Monday morning after breakfast Mrs. W asked us about Mark.
"I can take you to the hospital to visit Mark if you'd like. That way you can find out if he's been told when he'll be coming home."
"We could go with Mark's grandma if you've got something to do today," I suggested.
"She phoned this morning and she's already at the hospital. She and Mark are waiting for the doctor's report. I don't mind driving you. I can go shopping after I say hi to Mark and Mrs. Hutchins. You can come back with Mrs. Hutchins or call me and I can pick you up."
"That sound good, except we have to back here before twelve thirty 'cause that's when Laura is going to pick us up for lunch," Tom reminded me.
I looked at my watch. "It's nine fifteen now, so that should give us plenty of time to see Mark and get back here in time to meet Laura."
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We got to the hospital at nine forty-five and Mrs. W found a space on the first visitor's level in parking garage. We took the elevator down to the skybridge level and walked across to the hospital.
"Remember," Mrs. W said, "call my cellphone number and I'll come pick you up. Better call me by eleven thirty so I can pick you up and get you home before twelve thirty. I'm going downtown and to the Plaza to do a little shopping, and it might take me a bit to get back to the car and then to the hospital."
"Okay, will do," Tom told her. "I'll set the alarm in my cell for eleven thirty. Have fun. Oh, Mom, one thing. Don't buy anything for me, okay?"
"Because I'm not going to be with you, and I want to be with you when you buy me clothes."
"You don't trust your mother?"
"No, it's not that. It's just that I want to pick out my own stuff."
"Alright, I won't buy you any clothes."
When we got to Mark's room the doctor was there talking to him and Mrs. Hutchins, so we walked to the waiting area and sat down where we could watch the door to Mark's room and see when the doctor came out. It didn't take too long, less than five minutes, so we walked in to find Mark laying on his bed trying to pull his socks on without much success.
We said 'hi' to Mrs. Hutchins, then Tom and I walked over to talk to Mark.
"How you doing, guy?" Tom asked.
"Good, good. I'm being sprung this morning. The doctor wants me to take it easy today, ya' know, sit on the sofa and when I'm tired go to bed."
"Do you still have a headache? I asked.
"No. I'm not sure if it's the pills the doctor gave me, or if it's gone away on its own, but I'm sure glad it's gone."
"Do you have more you can take when you get home?" Tom wanted to know.
Mark reached over to the tray table and looked at a pill bottle. "Says there are ten in the bottle, 'Take one every four hours for headache.' So this is a real headache pill, not a general pain pill like Ibuprofen."
"If they work, that's great," Tom added. "You need a hand getting dressed?"
"Yeah, if you don't mind. My headache might be gone but for some reason I'm a little woozy. There's a bag next to the chair with the rest of my clothes."
I was closest so I turned and got him the bag.
"Grandma brought me my clothes, but luckily Kyle selected them."
"Where is Kyle?" I asked.
"He went down to the cafeteria to get something to eat and bring back some coffee for Grandma when the doctor showed up to talk to us. You must have just missed him. He should be back in a few minutes."
"I said in a whisper, "Do you want me to ask your grandma and Mrs. Williams to wait outside?"
Mark grinned. "I don't care. If they haven't seen it before they won't know what it is, and if they have they won't be interested."
Tom and I busted up laughing. "I gotta remember that one," I said.
"Me too. That is funny!" Tom added.
Mrs. W overheard our conversation. "Well, Andrea, I think it's time for us to wait outside in the lounge. We don't want to embarrass Mark."
Mrs. Hutchins agreed, and they left Mark's room, closing the door after they left.
Mark sat up and swung his legs over the side of the bed. I saw him close his eyes and brace himself by putting his hands palm down on the mattress.
"You okay, Mark?"
He opened his eyes and shook his head. "Yeah, I just sat up too fast. The doctor said the pain pill I'm taking might make me light-headed if I moved too fast. I guess he was right."
"Okay, let's get you out of this stupid hospital gown thingy," Tom said. "Can you stand up without someone having to hold you?"
"I think I need someone to hold me. How 'bout both of you?" He wiggled his eyebrows at us. "Curt can hold me in my special place." He started to laugh.
"I'm glad you think it's so funny," I said. "What I'll do is squeeze your special place and raise your voice about two octaves. Permanently! Besides, Parker wouldn't approve, would he?"
"Spoilsports! No one can take a joke around here." He stuck out his bottom lip like he was pouting, then he laughed and so did Tom and I.
"Okay, let's get your sorry butt off the bed and turn sideways," Tom commanded. "I'll untie the gown thingy and Curt, empty that bag of clothes on the bed so Mark can pick what he wants to wear."
I saluted Tom, "Yes, sir!" and put the bag on the bed and opened it.
I watched Tom try to untie the knot that held the hospital gown at Mark's neck. Somehow he succeeded in making a bow and single knot into a triple knot, and pulled it so tight he couldn't undo what he had done.
"Want me to give it a try?"
"Hell yes. If you can get this undone without cutting it off I owe you a milkshake at The Creamery. If you can't, then you owe me. Deal?"
"Deal. Let me at this."
I nudged Tom so he'd get out of my way and studied the knots he'd created. I grabbed the two ends closest to the knots and twisted one then the other of them and at the same time pushed in toward the knots. After a few seconds I had enough of the two ties loosed at the knot to grab and gently pull the two ends out. I did the same with the other knots which took a lot less time, then pulled the ties open. I checked the knot at the waist, a bow and a single knot. I guessed that they used this way of doing it to keep the ties closed. I undid the knot and untied the bow.
"Done deal." I turned and grinned at Tom. "Chocolate milkshakes made with chocolate icecream are my favorite."
"Damn, you're good, Curt. How did you figure out how to do that?"
"I had to double-tie my tennis shoes. I learned how to do it so I could untie them fast. But until then I struggled and learned a few tricks. That's what I used to untie the knots at Mark's neck, one of those tricks."
"Speaking of Mark's neck, guys, I'm getting cold. How 'bout getting out of my way so I can get to my clothes and get dressed?"
I moved out of his way. "Sorry, Mark."
From where I'd dumped the bag of clothes onto his bed he selected a pair of boxer briefs. With Tom holding his arm and me holding the boxer briefs on the floor, Mark was able to step into them and pull them up.
"You don't have to watch, you know."
"Oh yes we do," Tom replied. "We've got to make sure you don't fall down and hurt yourself. Your grandma would never forgive us."
With our assistancec Mark finished dressing, but he had problems with his socks and shoes. Bending over seemed to make his dizzy.
"Sit down on the bed. I'll put your socks and shoes on you," I told him.
"Thanks, Curt. I guess I'm still under the effect of those headache pills."
"I think you'd better talk to the doctor about how many to take. They seem to be very strong and you don't want to have another fall," I told him as I finished tying his laces.
"I'll go get my mom and your grandma, Mark," Tom said as he stepped out of the room.
"I wonder where Kyle is. It's been a long time since he went to the cafeteria," Mark said.
"Tell you what, I'll go to the cafeteria and see if I can find him."
Kyle walked into the room. "Find who?"
"Find you," I said.
"Did you get coffee for my grandma?" Mark asked.
"Yes, and I gave it to her. She's sitting in the lounge near the nurses' station with Tom's mother. She said to tell you they'll come in in a few minutes."
"Did you see Tom?"
Tom walked in. "I heard that. They have been dutifully advised. After which I went to take a leak. You'd be amazed at what the bathrooms here are…."
"Tom!" Mark interrupted, "You were supposed to tell my grandma and your mom that I'm dressed and ready to go."
"You know that you can't go anywhere until an orderly brings up a wheelchair to take you out of the hospital," I said.
"Fugget it! I can walk out on my own."
"No, you can't," Tom told him. "It's hospital rules to prevent an accident and the hospital getting sued. You were taken out by wheelchair, weren't you, Curt?"
"Yup. A free ride, hospital room to curb," I said. "And just with a broken arm, not a concussion."
Tom continued, "They wait for your transportation to come around to the pickup area at the front of the hospital. Once it's there and you lift your butt off that wheelchair they don't have any responsibility any more. You can fall down and bust your head open on the sidewalk and then what you are to them is another emergency patient. Ka-ching! Ka-ching!"
Mark's grandma and Mrs. W walked into the room.
"Well, it looks like you're ready to go home, Mark. I'll check with the nurse and find out when they'll be here with the wheelchair." Mark's grandma walked out of the room.
"Mrs. W, it looks like you didn't do any shopping."
"I guess I got sidetracked, didn't I?" She laughed. "I guess I like talking more than shopping."
Mark's grandma came back. "The man with the wheelchair is on his way, he'll be here in a few minutes. Do you have everything, Mark?"
"Yes, gran'ma, This bag has the things I was wearing when I came to the hospital. The other bag has the clothes Kyle brought me, except for what I have on."
The orderly with the wheelchair showed up and we walked out with Mark as his grandma got the car. After saying goodbye we walked to Mrs. W's car.
"Can I drive, Mom?"
"You know that you can't drive with anyone under twenty in the car until you pass your test, and even then there has to be a licensed driver twenty five or older in the car."
"Maybe Curt can walk home. Huh, Curt, huh?"
"I don't think so. By the time I'd get to your house Laura would have come and gone. Without me there wouldn't be a lunch to go to. Without me, then no lunch for you, either. So if you want to go to lunch we have to get home at the same time and on time."
We got in, with me in the back seat and Tom riding shotgun in the passenger seat next to his mom, and we headed home; that's to the William's home which continued to be my home as well.
"I'll never get to drive! I'll be a decrepit old man of thirty and still won't know how to drive."
"Tom, I'll be able to drive you wherever you want to go when you're in your decrepit thirties. And that will be way in the future when I'll almost be in my sixties," Mrs. W told him with a big grin.
Tom turned around and looked at me. "See what I have to put up with, Curt?"
"I see you trying to pull your mother's leg with no success. So she got you good. You need to bow to her superiority to show your respect."
"I can't bow when I'm riding shotgun. Mom will slam on the brakes and I'll smash my head on the dash and get a big bump on my head and have a concussion and I'll have to go to the hospital and I'll miss the start of school."
"Tell you what," Mrs. W replied, "I'll take a raincheck. You can do your bowing and scraping before dinner tonight."
"I won't need any dinner tonight. We're gonna have a huge lunch today, courtesy of Laura Rosas. So we'll have to put off the bowing bit until sometime later, like next year."
"You won't need any dinner tonight? I doubt that!" I said, and busted up laughing right along with Mrs. W.
Mrs. W glanced at Tom and shook her head. "Thomas Williams, that's an impossibility. You'll come home after lunch and have a snack and then have a full dinner."
"Hey, I said I won't need any dinner tonight, not that I wouldn't want some dinner tonight."
"Alright, that's better. For a second I wondered who had kidnapped my son and presented us with a doppelganger."
By then we had arrived home. We walked in and I checked the time, ten o'clock on the dot.
"I'm going to change my shirt. I'll be down in a few minutes," I said.
"I'll go up with you," Tom added.
When we got to the door to Tom's room he asked, "Do you think I need to change?"
"If you mean to go to lunch with Laura, then the answer's 'no'. You look fine."
He grinned. "Really? I look fine?"
"Yes. And sexy," I called out as I went into my room and closed the door.
I took off my shirt and T and put on a new T and shirt. I liked the color combination, a bright yellow T under a shirt with an orange, yellow, red, grey-blue, and white stripe pattern with different width and color stripes going in different directions. Laura had given to me for my birthday last year, and I figured that wearing it would let her know that I wasn't pissed at her any more.
I stuck my head in Tom's room. "You ready to go?"
He was standing in nothing but his bikini briefs, the white ones, his back to the mirrored closet door, his torso twisted around so he could see himself.
"Curt, you think I'm getting fat?"
"Jeez, not that again! Tom, you are exactly the right size for someone in your shape." I bit my tongue so I wouldn't start laughing.
"Thanks. I always think about me getting fat when Mom starts in on how I eat…."
He paused and turned to look at me. "You bastard!"
I starting laughing and ran out of his room to my room, followed closely by Tom. He grabbed me and dumped me on my bed.
"Hey, don't get my shirt messed up! It's one Laura gave me for my birthday. And you've gotta get dressed."
By then we were both giggling like a couple of elementary school kids.
"I thought I'd go this way." He put his hands on his hips and did a spin, ending up facing me. He pushed his crotch out to emphasize his parts. "How do I look?"
"Your awesomeness is unsurpassed, good sir. But I think you'd cause a riot if you walked into the restaurant dressed like that.
He looked at his watch. "We've got a ton of time. It's only twenty after ten, and you said Laura would pick us up at twelve thirty. I feel like lying down and taking a nap."
He flopped onto my bed next to where I sat watching his little show.
He looked at me. "You better take that shirt off and hang it up until we leave. That way it won't get wrinkled."
"Okay, that's a good idea." I took off the shirt and hung it over the back of my desk chair.
"Close the door too, please."
"I don't want Mom to see me in my skivvies."
"Oh. As if." I got up and closed the door.
"As if what?" he asked.
"As if she'd see anything she hadn't seen before, like every time you're in your swimsuit."
"True that. But still, that's different than me wearing my bikini briefs. Shows a little more than a mom should see."
"Okay, what's with this as if?"
"As if there's anything for her to see, you being a grow-er instead of a show-er."
"I calls 'em as I sees 'em."
"Wait a minute, just wait a minute! What's this grow-er and show-er stuff? I never heard that. What's that mea… oh, no you don't! You're saying I'm tiny down there until… oh, you are in so much trouble!"
"Why? That's a compliment, man. You're like a doubler or tripler. Of course, I've never seen it measured, but I'm sure you've done that. So, don't you agree?"
Tom was looking at me. "You're kidding, right?"
"No. How about answering my question, don't you agree with me?"
"Huh. I'm gonna need to do some serious measurements. Which I've never done before." He turned to face me and grinned. "Want me to do it now?"
"Eww. In your own room, I hope!"
"What do you mean, eww? There's no eww going down here. It's wow! That's what's going down. WOW!"
"I'll take your word for it," I responded. "Now, we have about an hour and a half. Let's take advantage of it and take a nap."
"Sounds like a plan. Why don't you set your alarm?"
I pulled my cell out of my pocket and set the alarm to sound at noon.
"All set."
Tom leaned over and kissed me on the tip of my nose, and said, "Sleep tight, don't let the bedbugs bite," then he chuckled. "That's what my mom used to say to me when she'd put me down for a nap."
"Mine too," I replied. "Did she kiss you on your nose too?"
"You got it, man."
"Yeah, I did, didn't I."
"Yup. G'day."
"G'day to you, too."
My cell played Green Day's Wake Me Up When September Ends, my alarm ringtone. I woke and stretched, feeling a bit sore from lying in one position on my back for an hour and a half. I discovered the reason for my ache. Tom had rolled almost on top of my right side and had his right arm wrapped around my waist. I squeezed his leg where it pressed against my right hand.
"Wake up, Tom. Time to get ready. Laura will be here in about a half hour."
Tom rolled off me and yawned.
"Man, I needed that."
He yawned again, loudly this time, and that made me yawn too.
"Okay. How about getting up so I can get up too."
He got up and put his hand out. I grabbed it and he pulled and helped me get off the bed and stand in front of him. Then he grabbed me in a hug, around my waist and with our crotches pushed together. He stood there, grinning, and rubbed against me side to side.
I started laughing. "You're incorrigible, Mr. Williams."
"Nope, I'm just a sex fiend."
"Well, Sir Sex Fiend, get thee to your room and get dressed! We've wasted five minutes here and you're still almost naked."
"Party pooper!"
"Go. Get. Dressed!"
"Yes. Sir!"
He saluted then walked out of my room. I went to the bathroom to clean up and do a little adjusting, then came back and put on my shirt. I checked myself in the mirror. I looked okay, except for my hair. I went back to the bathroom and played with it for a while with less than stellar results, but good enough. The weatherperson had predicted today would be warm, in the mid-eighties, so Laura would probably have the windows open and anything I did to my hair would be undone before we got to the restaurant.
Tom had made it downstairs before I did.
"Hey, Curt. I hope Laura didn't forget she's gonna pick us up."
"It's not twelve thirty yet, so she's still got a few. Why would she forget?"
"I don't know. Things just seem off today for some reason. Maybe it's Mark trying to bash in his head and us seeing him in the hospital. I thought he reacted a little funny. Did you notice anything, Mom?"
"No, I can't say that I did. But remember, I don't know Mark very well at all so I'm not sure how he did or should react."
"I think I'll give Kyle a call and see what he thinks."
"Jeez, Tom, you're starting to sound paranoid."
"Yeah. Well…."
He did a speed dial on his cell.
"Uh, hi, Mrs. Hutchins. This is Tom Williams. Is Kyle there?"
He turned to me, "Kyle's there."
"Hey Kyle. Say, did Mark seem okay at the hospital today?"
After a pause he continued, "I thought he seemed a little different… yeah, that's probably it, the concussion and his headache, and the meds the doc gave him… Glad you're there to help out. That really worked out for Mark and for Mrs. Hutchins… Okay, later, man."
He ended the call.
"Kyle said he thinks Mark seemed sort of out of it, but that's probably because of his accident and the meds."
"Yes, we heard that part, Tom," Mrs. W said, "I agree that it's good that Kyle is there to help out."
We sat quietly for a few minutes. I thought about Mark and how lucky that Kyle was staying at Mrs. Hutchins' house. They seem to have become good friends, like brothers who don't argue a lot, and that's cool. I guessed that Tom and Mrs. W were thinking about Mark too.
The doorbell rang.
"I'll get it," Tom said. He returned with Laura and her mother.
I stood. "Hello, Mrs. Rosas, thanks for offering to drive us today. Hi, Laura, thanks for treating us to lunch."
Everyone else did their 'hello, how are you?' bit, and after we just stood there looking at each other. Laura seemed tentative. I guessed that she wanted to give me and Tom hugs because that's what she usually did when we saw each other. So I put out my right arm and she hurried over to me and we did a three-quarter hug, avoiding my left arm in its cast.
She whispered, "Thanks, Curt."
I didn't know why she'd be thanking me, but I whispered back, "You're welcome."
She walked over to Tom and gave him a big hug, then she hugged Mrs. W.
After the love fest, she grinned. "I'm hungry! El Ribolo calls. Vámonos, muchachos! Let's go, guys!"
It's about a half hour drive to Clayton. On the way I got the third-degree from Mrs. Rosas, and Tom got it as well.
"So, Curt, since you and Tom will be tied up with Laura at the restaurant, I'm going to chat with the two of you on the way there. Let's start with Curt. What have you been doing this summer besides the trial and what led up to it?"
"Not much since then. I'm taking Algebra 2 this summer. I used to go to the class at Los Arcos, but I couldn't do that with my arm and my bruises and the bail hearing and the trial, so the school is letting me take it online now. That's pretty easy, almost better than being in class 'cause I can go faster than the class.
"There were two big things I did. The first was to go into San Francisco with Tom, Mark, and Kyle. We did the normal tourist things, including taking a city tour in one of those open-top English busses. That was a lot of fun, and it was the first time Mark and Kyle had ever been in San Francisco. The second and the best was, of course, Laura's birthday party which was fan‑tastic. Other than that I haven't been able to do much because of my broken arm."
"When is that going to be healed?"
"The doctor said I can probably have the cast off six weeks after it went on, so that's still four and a half weeks from now. That's the last Friday in August. Sort of seems like forever."
"You'll be able to go to school when it starts?"
"Sure. I'll have to be real careful I don't bash my arm into something, or get knocked down."
"I'll be his escort," Tom added.
"Can you do that, Tom? Won't that interfere with some of your classes?"
"No problem. I already talked to Mr. Scott, he's one of the vice principals. He said I will get a temporary permission slip to escort Curt until he has the cast off and has use of his left arm. Besides, school starts on August 23 so it's only for one or two weeks."
"What else have you been doing, Tom? Are you taking a summer session class too?"
"No, I've been taking it easy. Before Curt got beat up we'd shoot baskets and play horse almost every day, and hang out and listen to music and just talk, you know? So now I'm on my own shooting baskets. There aren't any other kids who go to Los Arcos who live near us, so to play horse I'd have to go somewhere that has courts. Curt and I still hang out and listen to music and talk."
"Laura says you play on the football and baseball teams. Will you do that next year as well?"
"Baseball yes, football no," Tom replied. "I want to concentrate on my studies so I can get into Cal or Stanford. Both football and baseball are huge commitments, so I talked to my counselor and my folks and decided I can keep baseball as long as games and practices don't take too much time away from my classes."
"Laura says you guys are best friends."
"Yeah," Tom replied, "we've know each other for years, since middle school. When we met we clicked, and we became BFFs."
"Best friends forever. That's a long time!"
"Yes, it is," I replied. "But there's something else that makes Tom and me best friends. It's that we think of ourselves as brothers. Neither of us has brothers or sisters, so we fill that role for each other. The good thing is because we weren't raised together like real brothers we never had to go through the sibling rivalry and fighting thing like real brothers we know."
"Your father is Curt's lawyer, Tom. How does that work out for you?"
"It doesn't make any difference at all. The big difference is that Curt is staying with us and our bedrooms are just across the hall from each other."
"Oh, no, not at all," Tom replied. "How about for you, Curt?"
"Nope, no problem for me, either. In one way it's a lot better than when I lived at home. If I need to talk Tom's right there, across the hall."
"I understand the trial starts tomorrow, Curt. How are you feeling about that?"
"Fine. I can hardly wait to be a witness and give my testimony."
"Tom, will you be called as a witness?"
"Well, I wish you both the best of luck. I'm not sure what it would be like to actually be on the witness stand. Probably not like what we see on TV."
"Thanks, Mrs. Rosas," Tom and I said at the same time, which made everyone laugh.
"I noticed something that I think is because you two are living together now," Mrs. Rosas added. "You're more like twin brothers. The way you said 'thanks' to me shows that."
Tom and I looked at each other and grinned.
"That's cool," I said. I nudged Tom, "Do you agree?"
"Yeah, I agree except for one little thing." I wondered if he would say it's because he's black and I'm not, but he said, "I'm a lot taller than Curt." All four of us laughed.
When we arrived at the restaurant Mrs. Rosas' friend was there already, and we were introduced. The host seemed to recognize both Mrs. Rosas and her friend and chatted with them as he took them to their table. He returned and seated the three of us at the other end of the restaurant. "Your mother asked me to seat you as far apart as possible, Miss Rosas. Is this booth acceptable?"
"Yes, Jorge, this is good."
"Enjoy your meal," he said as he returned to his station by the entrance.
"Man, this is one cool place," Tom commented. "The way they painted the walls and ceiling, and how they have pictures and serapes and Mexican hats everywhere for decoration."
"Do you eat here often?" I asked. "The host knew your name."
"My folks like to eat here at least a couple times a month. I come along, otherwise I'd have to fix my own dinner and I'm a terrible cook, and mostly because the food here is great." She leaned in toward us and whispered, "It's better than my mom's!"
We laughed, then Tom asked, "Is the food here really good? Better than La Salsa?"
"You can't compare El Ribolo with a fast food Mexican place. For what it is, Las Salsa is good. But the food at El Ribolo is outstanding. I'm sure you'll love it."
"What are your favorites here?" Tom asked.
Almost as if saying that had caused it to happen, the waiter appeared at our table and handed us menus. He announced the specials. One of them, chiles rellenos made from pasilla peppers stuffed with rice, lamb, and veggies in a spicy tomatillo sauce, sounded great. I love spicy food, Mexican the best, and I never got it at home or when we went out because my mom doesn't like spicy food. I like chiles rellenos, which around our area seemed to always be stuffed with cheese. Having them stuffed with something more interesting was unusual and sounded much better than the cheese kind.
After taking our orders the waiter brought chips and salsa and what we'd ordered to drink. For me, a Coke is perfect with Mexican food. Laura had mango lemonade and Tom had raspberry lemonade.
We munched chips and salsa while we waited for our meals. Tom and I didn't say anything, waiting for Laura to start the conversation.
"So, what's going on with the trial, Curt?" she asked.
"Well, like I told your mom it starts tomorrow. I don't have a clue what to expect. I'm supposed to meet with Beth Wolman tomorrow morning at nine. Beth is in the District Attorney's office and she's the prosecutor on this case. Mr. Williams knows her and she seems to be on the ball. The trial will start at ten."
"Do you know when you'll be called as a witness? Will Tom be called?"
"I don't know. Maybe tomorrow will be more preliminary stuff."
"I'm on the witness list," Tom said, "so I expect to be called to give testimony. I'm looking forward to it. I'm a key witness because Don claimed that Curt hit him with his baseball bat but Curt had traded it to me for a CD, so Don flat-out lied about that. I want to nail that bastard."
"It seems like this trial is happening real fast," Laura said. "Don't trials usually take a long time to get going? I hear on TV about someone whose trial is just starting and what they did was like a year ago, or even longer."
"True that," Tom responded. "That seems weird to me too. I heard my dad say it was very strange."
"Yeah, Mr. Williams told me that Don's new attorney wanted to fast-track the trial, and that's why it won't have a regular jury. I didn't even know that it could be done this fast. Like Tom, Beth Wolman also thinks it's weird. We found out that Don's attorney does corporate law, not criminal cases. It's very weird why Don would pick someone who isn't an expert in criminal defense, especially when it's a kid who's the victim. Another thing, if they'd waited my arm would have be out of this cast. Now the judge can see that my arm is really broken. He'll also see the bruises on my face and my chest. That's all proof of what Don did to me."
"Do you have any idea how long the trial will last?"
"Again, not a clue. I supposed it could be over in a couple days or could drag on for a long time."
"What happens if it drags into next month and school starts? Would they keep you out of school?"
"No, I think once my testimony is given I wouldn't have to be in court no matter if it's now or after school starts. Of course, if I can I want to be in court to hear everything that goes on."
"You could also be called back to be cross examined," Tom reminded me, "but they could make a special accommodation to fit it into your school schedule. Anyway, school doesn't start until the twenty third of August, that's almost a month from now. This isn't murder or something else that would take a long drawn-out trial, and there's no jury that would have to deliberate for days or weeks. My guess it'll be over in a week or two, tops."
"Man, I hope you're right," I said.
"Me too," Laura added. "Good luck, Curt. I hope Don gets nailed for what he did to you."
"Thanks, Laura."
Our lunch arrived and we spent our time concentrating on eating. The food was fantastic, as good as Mrs. W and Laura said it would be. My chiles rellenos were the best I'd ever had, and Tom loved his five item special. Laura had a Mexican chicken salad because she's on a diet, but she said she loved it and I guess she did because she ate every bite.
Our conversation moved to things like Laura's vacation trip, what we thought our sophomore classes were going to be like, if the football team would be good or not so good this coming season, if Tom would miss playing football, if my broken arm bothered me much, my summer session online Algebra 2 class, what we thought the new healthier menu at the cafeteria would be like, which of her birthday gifts were Laura's favorites, what friends at school had been doing this summer, the normal topics teens talk about.
After we finished lunch Laura grinned. "I have a surprise for you, Curt."
"And what's that?" I responded carefully. I didn't need another of Laura's surprises like when she said that I'm gay.
"Sara talked to her brother Gary. Remember, he's the one who's a computer science major at U.C. Davis. Anyway, they talked about your idea for a gay teen exchange on the internet, and he loves the idea. He talked to his dad, and his dad talked to my dad, and they all think it's a fantastic idea. My dad and Sara's dad are willing to form a company and back the planning, marketing, and development costs so it can get started. Isn't that fantastic? They want to meet with you and Gary as soon as you have time after the trial, and talk about getting started on documenting the concept and figuring out how it's going to work. Isn't that fantastic?"
"You're not kidding?"
"No, I'm definitely not kidding. My dad would like to talk to you and Mr. Williams this coming weekend just to make sure you're on board with this idea, and to negotiate the terms of a contract and a partnership agreement with you."
Laura was sort of bouncing up and down on her chair. I could tell she was very excited by this idea.
"Next weekend is okay with me. I'll have to see when Mr. Williams will be available, and Tom, will you be available?"
"Well, yeah, but I don't know why I should be there since I didn't contribute anything when you guys talked about it at Laura's birthday party."
"You're there because I want you there. You're real level-headed and you can spot problems in the design before I would be able to."
"Okay, then I guess I'm in."
"And you too, Laura," I added.
She smiled, jumped up, pulled me up out of my chair, and hugged me. "Thank you, Curt!"
She sat down and so did I. Then I suddenly realized something I'd forgotten about. I'm still a minor and can't sign contracts. Mom would have to do that for me. Trouble is, Mom and I aren't really on good terms yet. That's a problem I'd have to fix, and fix it fast so I can sign on to be partner in this new company.
[Continued]
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/*================================================================================
  code generated by: java2cpp
  author: Zoran Angelov, mailto://baldzar@gmail.com
  class: android.media.audiofx.Visualizer
================================================================================*/

#ifndef J2CPP_INCLUDE_IMPLEMENTATION

#ifndef J2CPP_ANDROID_MEDIA_AUDIOFX_VISUALIZER_HPP_DECL
#define J2CPP_ANDROID_MEDIA_AUDIOFX_VISUALIZER_HPP_DECL

namespace j2cpp { namespace java { namespace lang { class Object; } } }
namespace j2cpp { namespace android { namespace media { namespace audiofx { namespace Visualizer_ { class OnDataCaptureListener; } } } } }

#include <android/media/audiofx/Visualizer.hpp>
#include <java/lang/Object.hpp>

namespace j2cpp {

namespace android { namespace media { namespace audiofx {

	class Visualizer;
	namespace Visualizer_ {

		class OnDataCaptureListener;
		class OnDataCaptureListener
			: public object<OnDataCaptureListener>
		{
		public:

			J2CPP_DECLARE_CLASS

			J2CPP_DECLARE_METHOD(0)
			J2CPP_DECLARE_METHOD(1)

			explicit OnDataCaptureListener(jobject jobj)
			: object<OnDataCaptureListener>(jobj)
			{
			}

			operator local_ref<java::lang::Object>() const;

			void onWaveFormDataCapture(local_ref< android::media::audiofx::Visualizer >  const&, local_ref< array<jbyte,1> >  const&, jint);
			void onFftDataCapture(local_ref< android::media::audiofx::Visualizer >  const&, local_ref< array<jbyte,1> >  const&, jint);
		}; //class OnDataCaptureListener

	} //namespace Visualizer_

	class Visualizer
		: public object<Visualizer>
	{
	public:

		J2CPP_DECLARE_CLASS

		J2CPP_DECLARE_METHOD(0)
		J2CPP_DECLARE_METHOD(1)
		J2CPP_DECLARE_METHOD(2)
		J2CPP_DECLARE_METHOD(3)
		J2CPP_DECLARE_METHOD(4)
		J2CPP_DECLARE_METHOD(5)
		J2CPP_DECLARE_METHOD(6)
		J2CPP_DECLARE_METHOD(7)
		J2CPP_DECLARE_METHOD(8)
		J2CPP_DECLARE_METHOD(9)
		J2CPP_DECLARE_METHOD(10)
		J2CPP_DECLARE_METHOD(11)
		J2CPP_DECLARE_METHOD(12)
		J2CPP_DECLARE_FIELD(0)
		J2CPP_DECLARE_FIELD(1)
		J2CPP_DECLARE_FIELD(2)
		J2CPP_DECLARE_FIELD(3)
		J2CPP_DECLARE_FIELD(4)
		J2CPP_DECLARE_FIELD(5)
		J2CPP_DECLARE_FIELD(6)
		J2CPP_DECLARE_FIELD(7)
		J2CPP_DECLARE_FIELD(8)
		J2CPP_DECLARE_FIELD(9)
		J2CPP_DECLARE_FIELD(10)

		typedef Visualizer_::OnDataCaptureListener OnDataCaptureListener;

		explicit Visualizer(jobject jobj)
		: object<Visualizer>(jobj)
		{
		}

		operator local_ref<java::lang::Object>() const;

		Visualizer(jint);
		void release();
		jint setEnabled(jboolean);
		jboolean getEnabled();
		static local_ref< array<jint,1> > getCaptureSizeRange();
		static jint getMaxCaptureRate();
		jint setCaptureSize(jint);
		jint getCaptureSize();
		jint getSamplingRate();
		jint getWaveForm(local_ref< array<jbyte,1> >  const&);
		jint getFft(local_ref< array<jbyte,1> >  const&);
		jint setDataCaptureListener(local_ref< android::media::audiofx::Visualizer_::OnDataCaptureListener >  const&, jint, jboolean, jboolean);

		static static_field< J2CPP_CLASS_NAME, J2CPP_FIELD_NAME(0), J2CPP_FIELD_SIGNATURE(0), jint > STATE_UNINITIALIZED;
		static static_field< J2CPP_CLASS_NAME, J2CPP_FIELD_NAME(1), J2CPP_FIELD_SIGNATURE(1), jint > STATE_INITIALIZED;
		static static_field< J2CPP_CLASS_NAME, J2CPP_FIELD_NAME(2), J2CPP_FIELD_SIGNATURE(2), jint > STATE_ENABLED;
		static static_field< J2CPP_CLASS_NAME, J2CPP_FIELD_NAME(3), J2CPP_FIELD_SIGNATURE(3), jint > SUCCESS;
		static static_field< J2CPP_CLASS_NAME, J2CPP_FIELD_NAME(4), J2CPP_FIELD_SIGNATURE(4), jint > ERROR;
		static static_field< J2CPP_CLASS_NAME, J2CPP_FIELD_NAME(5), J2CPP_FIELD_SIGNATURE(5), jint > ALREADY_EXISTS;
		static static_field< J2CPP_CLASS_NAME, J2CPP_FIELD_NAME(6), J2CPP_FIELD_SIGNATURE(6), jint > ERROR_NO_INIT;
		static static_field< J2CPP_CLASS_NAME, J2CPP_FIELD_NAME(7), J2CPP_FIELD_SIGNATURE(7), jint > ERROR_BAD_VALUE;
		static static_field< J2CPP_CLASS_NAME, J2CPP_FIELD_NAME(8), J2CPP_FIELD_SIGNATURE(8), jint > ERROR_INVALID_OPERATION;
		static static_field< J2CPP_CLASS_NAME, J2CPP_FIELD_NAME(9), J2CPP_FIELD_SIGNATURE(9), jint > ERROR_NO_MEMORY;
		static static_field< J2CPP_CLASS_NAME, J2CPP_FIELD_NAME(10), J2CPP_FIELD_SIGNATURE(10), jint > ERROR_DEAD_OBJECT;
	}; //class Visualizer

} //namespace audiofx
} //namespace media
} //namespace android

} //namespace j2cpp

#endif //J2CPP_ANDROID_MEDIA_AUDIOFX_VISUALIZER_HPP_DECL

#else //J2CPP_INCLUDE_IMPLEMENTATION

#ifndef J2CPP_ANDROID_MEDIA_AUDIOFX_VISUALIZER_HPP_IMPL
#define J2CPP_ANDROID_MEDIA_AUDIOFX_VISUALIZER_HPP_IMPL

namespace j2cpp {

android::media::audiofx::Visualizer_::OnDataCaptureListener::operator local_ref<java::lang::Object>() const
{
	return local_ref<java::lang::Object>(get_jobject());
}

void android::media::audiofx::Visualizer_::OnDataCaptureListener::onWaveFormDataCapture(local_ref< android::media::audiofx::Visualizer > const &a0, local_ref< array<jbyte,1> > const &a1, jint a2)
{
	return call_method<
		android::media::audiofx::Visualizer_::OnDataCaptureListener::J2CPP_CLASS_NAME,
		android::media::audiofx::Visualizer_::OnDataCaptureListener::J2CPP_METHOD_NAME(0),
		android::media::audiofx::Visualizer_::OnDataCaptureListener::J2CPP_METHOD_SIGNATURE(0),
		void
	>(get_jobject(), a0, a1, a2);
}

void android::media::audiofx::Visualizer_::OnDataCaptureListener::onFftDataCapture(local_ref< android::media::audiofx::Visualizer > const &a0, local_ref< array<jbyte,1> > const &a1, jint a2)
{
	return call_method<
		android::media::audiofx::Visualizer_::OnDataCaptureListener::J2CPP_CLASS_NAME,
		android::media::audiofx::Visualizer_::OnDataCaptureListener::J2CPP_METHOD_NAME(1),
		android::media::audiofx::Visualizer_::OnDataCaptureListener::J2CPP_METHOD_SIGNATURE(1),
		void
	>(get_jobject(), a0, a1, a2);
}

J2CPP_DEFINE_CLASS(android::media::audiofx::Visualizer_::OnDataCaptureListener,"android/media/audiofx/Visualizer$OnDataCaptureListener")
J2CPP_DEFINE_METHOD(android::media::audiofx::Visualizer_::OnDataCaptureListener,0,"onWaveFormDataCapture","(Landroid/media/audiofx/Visualizer;[BI)V")
J2CPP_DEFINE_METHOD(android::media::audiofx::Visualizer_::OnDataCaptureListener,1,"onFftDataCapture","(Landroid/media/audiofx/Visualizer;[BI)V")

android::media::audiofx::Visualizer::operator local_ref<java::lang::Object>() const
{
	return local_ref<java::lang::Object>(get_jobject());
}

android::media::audiofx::Visualizer::Visualizer(jint a0)
: object<android::media::audiofx::Visualizer>(
	call_new_object<
		android::media::audiofx::Visualizer::J2CPP_CLASS_NAME,
		android::media::audiofx::Visualizer::J2CPP_METHOD_NAME(0),
		android::media::audiofx::Visualizer::J2CPP_METHOD_SIGNATURE(0)
	>(a0)
)
{
}

void android::media::audiofx::Visualizer::release()
{
	return call_method<
		android::media::audiofx::Visualizer::J2CPP_CLASS_NAME,
		android::media::audiofx::Visualizer::J2CPP_METHOD_NAME(1),
		android::media::audiofx::Visualizer::J2CPP_METHOD_SIGNATURE(1),
		void
	>(get_jobject());
}

jint android::media::audiofx::Visualizer::setEnabled(jboolean a0)
{
	return call_method<
		android::media::audiofx::Visualizer::J2CPP_CLASS_NAME,
		android::media::audiofx::Visualizer::J2CPP_METHOD_NAME(3),
		android::media::audiofx::Visualizer::J2CPP_METHOD_SIGNATURE(3),
		jint
	>(get_jobject(), a0);
}

jboolean android::media::audiofx::Visualizer::getEnabled()
{
	return call_method<
		android::media::audiofx::Visualizer::J2CPP_CLASS_NAME,
		android::media::audiofx::Visualizer::J2CPP_METHOD_NAME(4),
		android::media::audiofx::Visualizer::J2CPP_METHOD_SIGNATURE(4),
		jboolean
	>(get_jobject());
}

local_ref< array<jint,1> > android::media::audiofx::Visualizer::getCaptureSizeRange()
{
	return call_static_method<
		android::media::audiofx::Visualizer::J2CPP_CLASS_NAME,
		android::media::audiofx::Visualizer::J2CPP_METHOD_NAME(5),
		android::media::audiofx::Visualizer::J2CPP_METHOD_SIGNATURE(5),
		local_ref< array<jint,1> >
	>();
}

jint android::media::audiofx::Visualizer::getMaxCaptureRate()
{
	return call_static_method<
		android::media::audiofx::Visualizer::J2CPP_CLASS_NAME,
		android::media::audiofx::Visualizer::J2CPP_METHOD_NAME(6),
		android::media::audiofx::Visualizer::J2CPP_METHOD_SIGNATURE(6),
		jint
	>();
}

jint android::media::audiofx::Visualizer::setCaptureSize(jint a0)
{
	return call_method<
		android::media::audiofx::Visualizer::J2CPP_CLASS_NAME,
		android::media::audiofx::Visualizer::J2CPP_METHOD_NAME(7),
		android::media::audiofx::Visualizer::J2CPP_METHOD_SIGNATURE(7),
		jint
	>(get_jobject(), a0);
}

jint android::media::audiofx::Visualizer::getCaptureSize()
{
	return call_method<
		android::media::audiofx::Visualizer::J2CPP_CLASS_NAME,
		android::media::audiofx::Visualizer::J2CPP_METHOD_NAME(8),
		android::media::audiofx::Visualizer::J2CPP_METHOD_SIGNATURE(8),
		jint
	>(get_jobject());
}

jint android::media::audiofx::Visualizer::getSamplingRate()
{
	return call_method<
		android::media::audiofx::Visualizer::J2CPP_CLASS_NAME,
		android::media::audiofx::Visualizer::J2CPP_METHOD_NAME(9),
		android::media::audiofx::Visualizer::J2CPP_METHOD_SIGNATURE(9),
		jint
	>(get_jobject());
}

jint android::media::audiofx::Visualizer::getWaveForm(local_ref< array<jbyte,1> > const &a0)
{
	return call_method<
		android::media::audiofx::Visualizer::J2CPP_CLASS_NAME,
		android::media::audiofx::Visualizer::J2CPP_METHOD_NAME(10),
		android::media::audiofx::Visualizer::J2CPP_METHOD_SIGNATURE(10),
		jint
	>(get_jobject(), a0);
}

jint android::media::audiofx::Visualizer::getFft(local_ref< array<jbyte,1> > const &a0)
{
	return call_method<
		android::media::audiofx::Visualizer::J2CPP_CLASS_NAME,
		android::media::audiofx::Visualizer::J2CPP_METHOD_NAME(11),
		android::media::audiofx::Visualizer::J2CPP_METHOD_SIGNATURE(11),
		jint
	>(get_jobject(), a0);
}

jint android::media::audiofx::Visualizer::setDataCaptureListener(local_ref< android::media::audiofx::Visualizer_::OnDataCaptureListener > const &a0, jint a1, jboolean a2, jboolean a3)
{
	return call_method<
		android::media::audiofx::Visualizer::J2CPP_CLASS_NAME,
		android::media::audiofx::Visualizer::J2CPP_METHOD_NAME(12),
		android::media::audiofx::Visualizer::J2CPP_METHOD_SIGNATURE(12),
		jint
	>(get_jobject(), a0, a1, a2, a3);
}

static_field<
	android::media::audiofx::Visualizer::J2CPP_CLASS_NAME,
	android::media::audiofx::Visualizer::J2CPP_FIELD_NAME(0),
	android::media::audiofx::Visualizer::J2CPP_FIELD_SIGNATURE(0),
	jint
> android::media::audiofx::Visualizer::STATE_UNINITIALIZED;

static_field<
	android::media::audiofx::Visualizer::J2CPP_CLASS_NAME,
	android::media::audiofx::Visualizer::J2CPP_FIELD_NAME(1),
	android::media::audiofx::Visualizer::J2CPP_FIELD_SIGNATURE(1),
	jint
> android::media::audiofx::Visualizer::STATE_INITIALIZED;

static_field<
	android::media::audiofx::Visualizer::J2CPP_CLASS_NAME,
	android::media::audiofx::Visualizer::J2CPP_FIELD_NAME(2),
	android::media::audiofx::Visualizer::J2CPP_FIELD_SIGNATURE(2),
	jint
> android::media::audiofx::Visualizer::STATE_ENABLED;

static_field<
	android::media::audiofx::Visualizer::J2CPP_CLASS_NAME,
	android::media::audiofx::Visualizer::J2CPP_FIELD_NAME(3),
	android::media::audiofx::Visualizer::J2CPP_FIELD_SIGNATURE(3),
	jint
> android::media::audiofx::Visualizer::SUCCESS;

static_field<
	android::media::audiofx::Visualizer::J2CPP_CLASS_NAME,
	android::media::audiofx::Visualizer::J2CPP_FIELD_NAME(4),
	android::media::audiofx::Visualizer::J2CPP_FIELD_SIGNATURE(4),
	jint
> android::media::audiofx::Visualizer::ERROR;

static_field<
	android::media::audiofx::Visualizer::J2CPP_CLASS_NAME,
	android::media::audiofx::Visualizer::J2CPP_FIELD_NAME(5),
	android::media::audiofx::Visualizer::J2CPP_FIELD_SIGNATURE(5),
	jint
> android::media::audiofx::Visualizer::ALREADY_EXISTS;

static_field<
	android::media::audiofx::Visualizer::J2CPP_CLASS_NAME,
	android::media::audiofx::Visualizer::J2CPP_FIELD_NAME(6),
	android::media::audiofx::Visualizer::J2CPP_FIELD_SIGNATURE(6),
	jint
> android::media::audiofx::Visualizer::ERROR_NO_INIT;

static_field<
	android::media::audiofx::Visualizer::J2CPP_CLASS_NAME,
	android::media::audiofx::Visualizer::J2CPP_FIELD_NAME(7),
	android::media::audiofx::Visualizer::J2CPP_FIELD_SIGNATURE(7),
	jint
> android::media::audiofx::Visualizer::ERROR_BAD_VALUE;

static_field<
	android::media::audiofx::Visualizer::J2CPP_CLASS_NAME,
	android::media::audiofx::Visualizer::J2CPP_FIELD_NAME(8),
	android::media::audiofx::Visualizer::J2CPP_FIELD_SIGNATURE(8),
	jint
> android::media::audiofx::Visualizer::ERROR_INVALID_OPERATION;

static_field<
	android::media::audiofx::Visualizer::J2CPP_CLASS_NAME,
	android::media::audiofx::Visualizer::J2CPP_FIELD_NAME(9),
	android::media::audiofx::Visualizer::J2CPP_FIELD_SIGNATURE(9),
	jint
> android::media::audiofx::Visualizer::ERROR_NO_MEMORY;

static_field<
	android::media::audiofx::Visualizer::J2CPP_CLASS_NAME,
	android::media::audiofx::Visualizer::J2CPP_FIELD_NAME(10),
	android::media::audiofx::Visualizer::J2CPP_FIELD_SIGNATURE(10),
	jint
> android::media::audiofx::Visualizer::ERROR_DEAD_OBJECT;

J2CPP_DEFINE_CLASS(android::media::audiofx::Visualizer,"android/media/audiofx/Visualizer")
J2CPP_DEFINE_METHOD(android::media::audiofx::Visualizer,0,"<init>","(I)V")
J2CPP_DEFINE_METHOD(android::media::audiofx::Visualizer,1,"release","()V")
J2CPP_DEFINE_METHOD(android::media::audiofx::Visualizer,2,"finalize","()V")
J2CPP_DEFINE_METHOD(android::media::audiofx::Visualizer,3,"setEnabled","(Z)I")
J2CPP_DEFINE_METHOD(android::media::audiofx::Visualizer,4,"getEnabled","()Z")
J2CPP_DEFINE_METHOD(android::media::audiofx::Visualizer,5,"getCaptureSizeRange","()[I")
J2CPP_DEFINE_METHOD(android::media::audiofx::Visualizer,6,"getMaxCaptureRate","()I")
J2CPP_DEFINE_METHOD(android::media::audiofx::Visualizer,7,"setCaptureSize","(I)I")
J2CPP_DEFINE_METHOD(android::media::audiofx::Visualizer,8,"getCaptureSize","()I")
J2CPP_DEFINE_METHOD(android::media::audiofx::Visualizer,9,"getSamplingRate","()I")
J2CPP_DEFINE_METHOD(android::media::audiofx::Visualizer,10,"getWaveForm","([B)I")
J2CPP_DEFINE_METHOD(android::media::audiofx::Visualizer,11,"getFft","([B)I")
J2CPP_DEFINE_METHOD(android::media::audiofx::Visualizer,12,"setDataCaptureListener","(Landroid/media/audiofx/Visualizer$OnDataCaptureListener;IZZ)I")
J2CPP_DEFINE_FIELD(android::media::audiofx::Visualizer,0,"STATE_UNINITIALIZED","I")
J2CPP_DEFINE_FIELD(android::media::audiofx::Visualizer,1,"STATE_INITIALIZED","I")
J2CPP_DEFINE_FIELD(android::media::audiofx::Visualizer,2,"STATE_ENABLED","I")
J2CPP_DEFINE_FIELD(android::media::audiofx::Visualizer,3,"SUCCESS","I")
J2CPP_DEFINE_FIELD(android::media::audiofx::Visualizer,4,"ERROR","I")
J2CPP_DEFINE_FIELD(android::media::audiofx::Visualizer,5,"ALREADY_EXISTS","I")
J2CPP_DEFINE_FIELD(android::media::audiofx::Visualizer,6,"ERROR_NO_INIT","I")
J2CPP_DEFINE_FIELD(android::media::audiofx::Visualizer,7,"ERROR_BAD_VALUE","I")
J2CPP_DEFINE_FIELD(android::media::audiofx::Visualizer,8,"ERROR_INVALID_OPERATION","I")
J2CPP_DEFINE_FIELD(android::media::audiofx::Visualizer,9,"ERROR_NO_MEMORY","I")
J2CPP_DEFINE_FIELD(android::media::audiofx::Visualizer,10,"ERROR_DEAD_OBJECT","I")

} //namespace j2cpp

#endif //J2CPP_ANDROID_MEDIA_AUDIOFX_VISUALIZER_HPP_IMPL

#endif //J2CPP_INCLUDE_IMPLEMENTATION

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"Continuing the descent of Mel's character in season 24, Paradise Towers sees the character practically orgasming with excitement from her very first scene and right through to the last. They really don't want Mel to be a Kang, and I fear it may be because of her ridiculous clothes and over-enthusiastic attitude...Can you believe that Mel chomps down on that cookie the size of Wales covered in whipped cream after the hell she gave the sixth Doctor for his sizeable girth? What I do like is her confidence; she might be voluminous when faced with danger, but that doesn't stop her turning down Pex's offer of help and being brave enough to explore on her own. "I've got to help my friend and I can't waste any more tiiimmmeee!" – Bonnie really is on a sugar high in this story, stressing every other word...has Bonnie ever been this squeaky-voiced before? After all the perils she has faced so far in the Towers, why the hell does Mel go for a swim? This is not a convincing human being on any level. With danger hiding in every corner, you can bet your bottom dollar that there will be something nasty lurking beneath the water. Watch Mel throughout this story; she has this uncanny habit of standing back and sighing theatrically every time she sees something that pleases her. Pure pantomime. Not Mel's finest hour."
— Joe Ford on Doctor Who, "Paradise Towers"
"She's perky all right. She makes you want to sneak up behind her with a pillow and suffocate her."
— Helen Sinclair on flapper Eden Brent, Bullets Over Broadway
"But I'm a dangerous myrmidon! A graceful whirlwind of singing steel!!"
— Mia, Fire Emblem: Path Of Radiance
"So, do you want to duel? At dawn, perhaps? I love dueling at dawn!"
"Unfortunately, I can already tell nothing is going to be easy with this cheeky girl..."
— Miles Edgeworth describing Kay Faraday, Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth
"Where does she get all that energy from? The numbers of mitochondria in her cells are probably different from a normal person's. If only she could use some of that energy to better society..."
— Kyon, describing Haruhi Suzumiya.
"I can't even imagine Kirino-senpai without energy."
— Dan, Bamboo Blade
"Ahh, Excel. Wastefully cheerful as always, I see..."
— Il Palazzo, Excel Saga
"You nearly forgot this is going to be an exciting night. Everything you are about to do next is exciting. It is always exciting. You are excited."
— Homestuck, describing Feferi Peixes.
"Oh, I can carry it," the child responded cheerfully. "It isn't heavy. I've got all my worldly goods in it, but it isn't heavy. And if it isn't carried in just a certain way the handle pulls out—so I'd better keep it because I know the exact knack of it. It's an extremely old carpet-bag. Oh, I'm very glad you've come, even if it would have been nice to sleep in a wild cherry-tree. We've got to drive a long piece, haven't we? Mrs. Spencer said it was eight miles. I'm glad because I love driving. Oh, it seems so wonderful that I'm going to live with you and belong to you. I've never belonged to anybody—not really. But the asylum was the worst. I've only been in it four months, but that was enough. I don't suppose you ever were an orphan in an asylum, so you can't possibly understand what it is like. It's worse than anything you could imagine. Mrs. Spencer said it was wicked of me to talk like that, but I didn't mean to be wicked. It's so easy to be wicked without knowing it, isn't it? They were good, you know—the asylum people. But there is so little scope for the imagination in an asylum—only just in the other orphans. It was pretty interesting to imagine things about them—to imagine that perhaps the girl who sat next to you was really the daughter of a belted earl, who had been stolen away from her parents in her infancy by a cruel nurse who died before she could confess. I used to lie awake at nights and imagine things like that, because I didn't have time in the day. I guess that's why I'm so thin—I am dreadful thin, ain't I? There isn't a pick on my bones. I do love to imagine I'm nice and plump, with dimples in my elbows."
— Anne Shirley, Anne of Green Gables
"In retrospect, it is deeply ironic [Kristen Bell] rose to fame as Veronica Mars, a character who almost never smiles. We now know Bell is basically the human equivalent of a happy face sticker."
— The Island of Misfit Christmas Specials, Lady Gaga and the Muppets Holiday Spectacular
"I'm Genki, the name means energy and I've got lots and lots of it."
Genki, Monster Rancher
Genius: The Transgression
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