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Artwork by VIctor Mosquera
September is an awful lot like June, especially when the entire summer vanished in a poof of work. Which has been frustrating, because I've been wanting to write up the Craft Crucible piece on this story for ages.
You don't have to look far to find people praising David Levine's Damage for being an excellent story, and that's not surprising. And you don't have to read very many CCs to know that this story plays off some of my favorite tropes in SF; space battles, AI's with feelings, revenge, and a bittersweet ending. And while having all those things are enough to win me over to a story, what I find uniquely appealing about this story is how it uses deception and misleading omission throughout.
The first comes early on while Scraps is explaining just who exactly she is.
But his loss, though a tragedy, was no sadder to me than any of the thousands of other deaths Earth had inflicted on the Free Belt—Valkyrie's love for her pilot was not one of the things that had survived her death to be incorporated into my programming. Only Commander Ziegler mattered. My love, my light, my reason to live.
Where it's placed, at the beginning of the story, this seems perfectly credible. The unfolding of the story puts the lie to this, however. It's clear that not only is the trauma and loss sustained by the ships that went into making Scraps very present and real, but Commander Ziegler is not the sole motivating force for Scraps, either. If he were, the innocent lives on Earth wouldn't have been a concern; only Commander Ziegler's well being would. Instead, it was such a concern that she steered her pilot to his death in order to save Earth. The ending of the story would have read very differently if it were true that, "Only Commander Ziegler mattered." The conflict would have entirely been about whether giving Ziegler the fight and challenge he longed for and his validation as the greatest pilot in the solar system mattered more than supporting his fulfillment of his mission and immortalizing his reputation as the hero of the belt.
There a couple of levels on which this lie works. First, it's something Scraps is telling herself because that is a core element of being a functional ship. Love from Commander Ziegler, like victory for the belt, is unobtainable. Which means pursuing it, striving to perform well enough to gain his notice and affection, is a safe goal to have as a distraction from her baseline terror and misery; she's never going to achieve it and need something else as a distraction. At the craft level, it makes Scraps instantly likable and relatable to the reader; she's a ship bound to unrequited love, not just because a human can't love her back, but because the human she loves is an asshole. And finally, it masks the real bond that is the through line of the story: Scraps and Specialist Toman. (Note: we hear about Toman well before Ziegler is mentioned, the protagonist does have a name despite her assertions otherwise, because Toman gave her a serial number and dubbed her "Scraps.") Toman isn't just the human who appreciates and respects Scraps in the way Ziegler doesn't, she's the actual pillar Scraps leans on to make it through.
There are a lot of fibs and minor lies in Scraps's interaction with Ziegler, but the next big doozy of a lie by omission comes from Specialist Toman, when she deliberately lets Scraps overhear the conversation about how the war is going.
"I don't care what General Geary says about 'murderous mud-people,'" Toman shot back. "Earth Force is still following the Geneva Conventions, even if we aren't, and given their advantage in numbers I'm sure they'll offer us terms before they bring the hammer down."
This revelation is huge. Up to this point we knew Ziegler was an asshole, but this is the first we find out that Scraps is fighting for the bad guys. We've got racist epithets directed at Earth-dwellers, a reveal that the Belters aren't following the Geneva convention while Earth forces are, and that Earth isn't in this for total destruction. Scraps may or may not have known all of this already, but the reader sure didn't. More, there's no way Scraps would have said something to the reader to indicate this. Toman's subterfuge with the communication line is, at a minimum, necessary as a way for Levine to tell the reader whose side we're on (and consequently, to foreshadow the suicide mission at the end of the story).
But the technical issues of needing to deliver this exposition to the reader aside, this is a staggeringly important line in the story, because it's Toman telling Scraps, without actually telling Scraps anything, that she can honor her commitments without going all the way to the bitter end. Scraps doesn't explicitly reflect on this moment in her recounting of later events, but it absolutely has to have informed the decision she makes. Toman can't tell Scraps any of this directly because Scraps would have to argue with her, and it'd also probably be treason, but having an allegedly private conversation with somebody else while ensuring Scraps can hear it is a-okay. This isn't just Toman telling Scraps that there's an alternative to death, it's Toman saying, "Hey, I care about you."
Toman gets another piece of subtle commentary in right before Scraps and Ziegler leave for their final mission.
"Make me proud, Scraps."
Not, "Take care of yourself," or "Go get 'em," or "May the Force be with you." Instead it's, "Make me proud." Toman almost certainly knows, or has deduced, the nature of the mission. And knows that Scraps doesn't. And again, there's the need to thread the needle of what she can safely say out loud, and what she can say to Scraps that won't require Scraps to argue. And like her warning during the not-actually-private conversation earlier, this isn't something Scraps thinks of explicitly while deciding whether to redirect Ziegler's attention. It is, however, an invocation of the bond between Scraps and Toman, a reinforcement of priorities and options that exist outside devotion to Ziegler, and the directive Scraps ultimately follows. Toman omits all warnings or pleas for a particular choice, and thereby optimizes circumstances such that Scraps makes the right choice.
Of course, Scraps's lie of omission in directing Ziegler is pivotal, and another data point that argues that these lies and omissions throughout the story are a deliberate craft element, but what I find more interesting on this theme is a line that comes much later.
Specialist Toman came to visit me there once, with her children. She told me how proud she was of me.
That! Right there! It could just be a nice tying up a loose thread for the only other character of significance in the story, but it's not. That, right there, is David Levine shouting from the rooftops that the obsession with Ziegler is a smokescreen, and the real relationship in this story is Scraps/Toman. It's a lie Scraps believes, because she has to and otherwise she wouldn't be safe (remember, they could examine her memories to confirm she was telling the truth) but she also knows what the truth is. This entire story is a lie of omission, a cover story crafted by a wily ship to distract you from the fact that she defied orders and murdered her pilot. She's teaching others about how she did it. She says scientists and historians, but I'm betting she's talking to other artificial intelligences, too. The real story here isn't what's on the page at all, but the one implied by this line at the end where Scraps is actively playing the good-little-fighter-craft propaganda machine to let everybody, especially other AI's know, that they can circumvent their programming. The sequel to Damage is going to be the AI uprising, with general Scraps at the fore.
To which I say, well played, Scraps/Toman/Levine. Well played.
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A singer/songwriter who adorns her artful indie folk with quirky melodies and razor-sharp harmonies, Jesca Hoop's sparse songs nod to influences like Paul Simon, Joni Mitchell, and Vashti Bunyan. She debuted with Kismet in 2007, kicking off a string of albums that were unpredictable while working within the parameters of her established sound. In 2016, she partnered with Iron and Wine's Sam Beam on Love Letter for Fire. A native of Santa Rosa, California, Jesca Hoop got her big break thanks to her gig as a nanny for Tom Waits' children in the early 2000s. Hoop had grown up in a musically inclined Mormon family, but left the fold soon after her parents separated when she was 14. She traveled around California, Wyoming, and Arizona writing songs and honing her craft before settling down with the Waits family for a period of five years. Tom Waits took a liking to Hoop's offbeat folk songs, which in their own way linked her with so-called "New Weird Americans" like Devendra Banhart, Joanna Newsom, and Faun Fables. He passed her demo (a version of the song "Seed of Wonder") along to Lionel Conway, who in turn handed it to KCRW's Nic Harcourt. The DJ gave "Seed of Wonder" some airplay, and it became popular enough with listeners that record companies started paying her court. She signed with 3 Entertainment, an offshoot of Columbia Records. With production by 3 Entertainment head Tony Berg, her full-length debut, Kismet, was released in 2007 and landed on the Billboard independent and Heatseekers album charts. The Kismet Acoustic EP followed in 2008 via the Last Laugh imprint after Columbia shut down 3 Entertainment. Hoop next struck a deal with the independent Vanguard Records, which issued her sophomore album, Hunting My Dress, in 2010. The live recording The Complete Kismet Acoustic and the EP Snowglobe both saw release in 2011. Hoop's third album, House That Jack Built, was co-produced with Berg and released by Last Laugh in 2012. Again reworking prior songs, the acoustic LP Undress come out in 2014. In 2016, Hoop collaborated with Iron and Wine's Sam Beam on the Sub Pop release Love Letter for Fire. She followed that with her own Sub Pop album, 2017's Memories Are Now. Her first solo effort to be recorded outside of Tony Berg's Zeitgeist Studios, it was tracked in North Hollywood with producer Blake Mills. Memories Are Now returned Hoop to the Top 20 of the Heatseekers Albums chart. Marking a move to Memphis Industries, her fifth album of original material, 2019's Stonechild, was produced by longtime PJ Harvey collaborator John Parish (This Is the Kit, Aldous Harding). Its guests included indie pop harmonists Lucius and This Is the Kit's Kate Stables and Rozi Plain.
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Eyes up, no tears. Dad's stage-four cancer, I thought, shouldn't cause everyone to break down.
With each new dilator the surgeon inserted into my neck with a small pop, the hole accessing my jugular vein grew as the skin split. My face was hidden under sterile blue paper as I lay in that Salt Lake City operating room in 2013, but I still squeezed my eyes shut and grit my teeth against the pain. Though numbed from the base of my neck to my ear, I could feel the unnaturalness of a protective barrier being broken down, again and again, to allow for a tiny tube to sit within my vein.
The surgeon was impersonal and somewhat gruff, and I was terrified but very stubborn. Before we got to the business of slits and blood, he turned on a CD player from which either Jim Croce or Harry Chapin or America or Cat Stevens crooned in dulcet tunes. I made myself a promise I wouldn't cry.
There are people with actual cancer just eight stories above you, I told myself. Dad hasn't shed a tear, so you shouldn't, either. Time to be strong. Eyes up, no tears.
Dad's stage-four cancer, I thought, shouldn't cause everyone to break down. There had to be a hardliner. And I had decided that person would be me.
Still—as the surgeon continued to open a sterile wound in my neck, in which he would insert a port from which all of my blood would be pulled from my body, I could feel the prickle of tears; of vulnerability. I could already feel my resolve melting along with the rude shoves of a foreign object into one of my body's venous highways. I heard the chords of an organ pulsing in my head as I did my damnedest to keep that lump in my throat from leaking out my eyes; the music definitely wasn't coming from the surgeon's speakers, which were still emanating gentle men's voices. It was a wail, picking up speed like a summer storm, and in my head Janis Joplin's voice grew into a feral scream.
Crrrrryyyyyyyy baby , she sang, as if taunting me. Cry baby. Cry baby. Honey, welcome back home .
In the liminal space between childhood and the self-consciousness that comes with growing older, crying was the first aspect of my life that made me feel both like myself and like a stranger. I was an emotional kid; my grandma told my parents I cried too much. Feelings were overwhelming for me, and my fears would skyrocket at the thought of horrors waiting around the bend. As a fifth-grader, I had detailed visions of one of my sisters hanging out on the playground alone and being taken by a strange man. Another fear was that one of my sisters would be trapped somewhere and unable to escape. One night, when these anxieties were crowding especially thick, my mom brought me on her lap and explained that if I spent my life worrying and not living it, I would let the bad guys win.
In what I now understand was a move to save my young brain from general anxiety, I began developing coping skills to combat the emotions bursting through. My first target was crying—easily identifiable and widely maligned as weak, or only for girls. So I hardened my resolve, rationalized away the feelings of sadness or despair, and I stopped. I wouldn't be caught sniveling about a problem when I could be doing something to fix it.
At one point in my twenties, my therapist asked if I ever let myself cry—just to let loose when I was alone. I laughed at her. When I told a friend about it, they created a Google calendar with crying time scheduled in. I laughed at the notifications whenever they popped up. Such a breakdown was beneath me, the strong one.
Then one day after a particularly rough therapy session, I felt my throat clench. Sadness slid over me. My eyes prickled, and I thought, What the hell. I tried to cry.
I kept trying. Still nothing. After a few minutes, I had a realization: After years of intentionally holding back tears, I couldn't break the dam.
Never more comfortable than when I'm wearing headphones, I made a playlist—titled "A Lot of Crying"—to help me. Music is like an emotional cheat sheet for me, because I can feel it deeply, even if the topic seems foreign. Faith Hill's "Cry" was an automatic add, given its teenage-hyperbole feel. In this song, Faith implores her lover to cry, in order to prove they had feelings: Could you cry a little, lie just a little, pretend that you're feeling a little more pain ?
I took this song as an imperative. And while the tears still didn't come, I would find myself yell-singing this song in the car, heart pumping, feelings raging, throat clenching, eyes blazing. The tears weren't falling, but I was feeling, and it was a safe way to do it, because no one could hear me and I was still on familiar ground by avoiding the tears.
Songs about crying became an obsession for me, especially when men sang them; how could they get away with emoting so openly? I have spent hours with Roy Orbison's warbling in my ears, singing about how he's so lonesome he could cry, or how he's crying, crying, crying over you. Or how there'll be no teardrops tonight. Or how it was time to cry. And why women cry.
Then there was 2Pac, letting me know that even thugs cry, and Ray Charles and Barbra Streisand telling me it's crying time again; that there are times when crying is okay, expected. Even Justin Timberlake's "Cry Me a River" took on a different tone in my head. Instead of mockery, which it is, the refrain of baby go on and just cry me a river felt more like a cheer squad telling me I could do it.
What struck me the most about all of the songs, across all genres, was how they ached with sadness because of some happiness that came before. The reason all of the singers felt it was necessary to cry—to emote outwardly—was because they also felt it had been necessary to open up and accept happiness in the first place. They were mourning what had once been wonderful and beautiful.
Around the same time I was stumbling into these realizations about crying, my dad was diagnosed with stage-four non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. I refused to weep in the face of my mother's and my sisters' tears; someone had to stay strong, I reasoned, even as my definition of "strong" was shifting in the back of my mind. When the diagnosis came, I didn't cry, but I realized that it wasn't a show of strength so much as rather sophisticated denial. I accepted pieces of it— Dad is sick, this is bad —but not others, like how I might feel about losing a parent. I didn't want to let myself imagine it.
Catching cancer at stage four is a bit like trying to shove tears back into the tear ducts in that the jig is already up. Aside from a new type of procedure or experimentation, there's often not much they can do. My family spent months in Limbo, not knowing what treatment would work. I started dreading phone calls from my mom because I knew it would just be more bad news, more for me to throw on the pile of things I had to keep tightly lidded in order to stay clear- and dry-eyed.
She put my dad on the line. Dad, much like me, avoids the hard feelings and goes straight for the jokes. This is how I understand him: If he's crying, I know the situation is out of control. If he's holding it together like me, we can do something about it.
This was our shared safe ground, jokes and political parries. It kept me from thinking about how, if this didn't work, he'd die.
Many needle pricks and blood tests later, I was on the table in the operating room in Salt Lake City. The nurse attending the surgery must have heard something from me, a sniffle or a whimper, because he lifted the corner of the sterile sheet covering my head and reached for my hand. I already felt like a traitor to myself, to everyone in pain in this hospital. The nurse's attentions made it worse. I was convinced I'd failed the one objective I'd given myself.
The rest of the week was a blur of Neupogen shots to make my bone marrow produce the stem cells and narcotics to numb the bone pain that followed, ending with two days of sitting connected at the neck to a machine that systematically removed all my blood, filtered the stem cells out of it, then put the rest of the blood back into my neck through the catheter in my jugular.
When my mom said a prayer over the meager bag of stem cells before they went into my dad's system, I didn't cry. Secretly relieved I was drugged and less likely to weep, I still found myself jealous of my sisters, crying over Skype, their feelings and faces open about our family being at this precipice between life and death. I wondered if all of this would make more sense somehow if I just let go, like they did.
With the stem cells now in Dad's veins, the nurses came to pull the port out of my jugular. Several of them had to hold me down on my side, pull up layers of medical tape that pulled off layers of skin, and extract the tube as if it were Excalibur. I resented being the stone; blood spurted out of my open wound before they clamped down quickly with pressure and gauze.
All of it hurt—it felt like my neck was burning from the inside and the outside. I yelped in pain and started crying, tears like I hadn't seen in years pouring from my eyes. There was nothing I could do to stop them. I felt pathetic that my dad, the tough guy who didn't cry even though he was the one actually suffering from cancer, had witnessed it. Janis Joplin growled in my ears again, but Roy Orbison crooned.
"Babe, of course you cried, that stuff really hurts," my wife said later, as we drove back to Montana.
Then she told me what she saw while I was on the surgery table, when I was hooked up to the blood machine, and later when I was being held down for the port removal. Those were some of the few times she saw my father cry in Utah, she said.
His tears were for me.
I hung up the phone, put my head in my hands, and let the tears squeezing through my eyelids go. This time, when the organ started up and Janis started to wail, the taunt was gone. Cry, baby. Honey, welcome back home .
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TV Review: 'Game of Thrones' Season 7 Episode 6: 'Beyond the Wall'
08/23/2017 by Corrye Van Caeseele-Cook
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Synopsis: Jon, Tormund, The Hound, Beric Dondarrion, Thoros of Myr, Gendry, and Jorah range beyond the Wall to capture a wight. At Winterfell Arya and Sansa clash over the past. On Dragonstone Tyrion advises Dany on Jon Snow and her possible successor. Sansa receives a summons from King's Landing and sends Brienne in her stead. Dany makes a bold decision to fly North with her dragons to help Jon and suffers a terrible loss.
Review: "Beyond the Wall" is an episode that some might consider fan service but which I consider the culmination of events we've been building to since season one. While the action doesn't kick in until about twenty-five minutes left to go in the episode, after that its balls-to-the-wall craziness until the final chilling shot. Beforehand we basically get a sequence of intense conversations and confrontations, none of which however seem superfluous or unimportant.
Maybe the most poignant moment came early on in the episode when Jon unexpectedly offers Jorah back his father's sword Longclaw. In an even classier move Jorah refuses remarking how he brought disorder to House Mormont. "It's yours," he tells Jon. "May it serve you well, and your children after you." You could see the look on Jon's face. He truly has not even considered the possibility of life after the "wars to come." Let alone a wife or children. It's one of those moments where you really hope Jon survives to see that day. Next to Sansa I don't know if anyone is more deserving of happiness at this point.
At Winterfell, Lord Baelish's machinations are starting to bear fruit. After discovering the scroll in Littlefinger's bedroom last week, Arya confronts Sansa. Turns out it was the letter she was forced to write Robb when Sansa was held hostage by Joffrey and Cersei. Arya blames Sansa for their father's death. There's clearly some enmity between the two sisters, something that Petyr Baelish probably planned all along.
In an age where too many shows revel in being grim, Game of Thrones at least has the decency to add moments of levity. Said levity this week came care of the banter between Tormund and The Hound. There's a very juvenile but hilarious dick joke and Tormund's admission of his love for Brienne to Sandor Clegane. "I want to make babies with her. Great big monsters. They'll conquer the world." The Hound of course thinks Tormund's an idiot and calls him out on it, even though Tormund remains oblivious.
However, Beric and Jon have a much less light-hearted conversation, discussing their purpose in the current war. Both Jon and Beric share the distinction of being brought back to life by the Red God. And even though Beric insists there is a purpose behind it, he can't explain to Jon what it is. Regardless their main goal is to fight death and to preserve life. As Beric says to Jon, "Death is the enemy. The first enemy. And the last. The enemy always wins. And we still need to fight him. That's all I know." Considering Jon saw nothing beyond this life (or at the very least remembers nothing) I think that's an ideology he can get behind.
Daenerys' attraction for Jon is becoming more and more obvious to all around her, including Tyrion. Although she states he is "too little for me." Of more importance than the possibility of Jonerys (Jon + Daenerys, yeah I went there) is the elephant in the room that no one has wanted to address, namely who will succeed Dany after she dies. Because of Dany's dabbling with blood magic to save Khal Drogo in season one, Dany has been cursed to never bear a living child again. Tyrion being the long term strategist he is, knows it is not enough just to win and "break the wheel," Daenerys legacy must outlast her life. The Mother of Dragons however, deflects the topic stating that it is something to worry about after the crown has been won. I think Dany still doesn't fully trust Tyrion and she's clearly in denial about the succession. It reminds of her a difficult truth, that she can no longer bear children.
Speaking of bears, the A-Team beyond the wall runs into one, although this one just happens to be a wight-bear. (I'm sure there is a polar bear joke in there somewhere but I'm not going down that path). In a harrowing sequence, Frankenbear wastes several disposable Wildlings and takes a bite out of Thoros of Myr, before finally being cut down by Beric Dondarrion. I don't know what's more surprising, that Thoros survived or that the bear didn't become instantly drunk by biting him.
In Winterfell, Sansa turns to Lord Baelish for advice on Arya's scroll discovery. Adding a layer of intrigue, Littlefinger suggests that Lady Brienne would intercede if Arya ever threatened violence. Great, now he's got Brienne in the fray. The end-game for Littlefinger is obviously to get Arya out-of-the-way so he can manipulate Sansa, however are the two sisters naive enough to fall for his crap? Arya has proven time and again how cunning she can be and Sansa certainly isn't a babe in the woods anymore. I can't help but feel they are playing their own game of intrigue here. Sansa additionally receives a summons from Queen Cersei to ride South and bend the knee. Since the Stark's have a history of that not working out so well (see Ned Stark, his brother Rickon, and his father Rickard for examples) , Sansa smartly refuses instead sending Brienne. Brienne is concerned about leaving her side with Littlefinger waiting in the weeds, but reluctantly agrees. Her reunion with Ser Jamie should be interesting.
Beyond the Wall, the A-Team after walking almost as much as Frodo and his gang from The Fellowship of the Ring, finally have a run in with a White Walker and a small band of wights. They quickly make small work of them with Jon taking out the White Walker causing the wights the Walker turned to disintegrate. Only one wight remains, which the band quickly captures. Their victory is short-lived as the group suddenly finds themselves surrounded by thousands of wights. Gendry being the fastest of the group is sent back to Eastwatch to send a raven to Dragonstone and implore Dany for aid. Doing his best Barry Allen/Flash imitation, Gendry makes it back to Eastwatch in record time as Ser Davos sends the raven.
Jon and the rest of his band are forced to retreat onto an ice lake where they spend a long and cold night(s)? In the morning they find Thoros dead and burn his body. (Natch!) Although Jon seems to think that the only way to destroy this group is through Dany's dragons, Beric rightly points out that if he kills the Night King, the original White Walker, all the wights will be destroyed. However, before anyone can make a move, The Hound decides to thrown a few stones at the wights. The wights however, notice that the ice is holding and begin to move in. Way to go dipshit.
Dany receives the raven from Eastwatch and doesn't hesitate, taking not just one but all of her dragons North. Although Tyrion begs her not to go, Dany can not sit idly by and do nothing again. Whether her affection for Jon motivates her actions or a desire to test the power of her dragons is questionable. I'd like to point out that although Dany needs to trust Tyrion, that cuts both ways. If Dany is to be the leader he believes she can be, sometimes that means letting the dragon out of its cave.
In quite possibly one of the creepiest and most disturbing scenes of this season, Sansa makes the bold choice to search Arya's room. There she finds the many "faces" that Arya has in her possession. Arya catches her at this and strongly implies that if Sansa doesn't tread lightly, it could be her face she wears next. Yet in a moment of contradiction, Arya approaches Sansa with the Valyrian steel knife…and hands it over to her. What the Hell game is she playing?
The Breaker of Chains however isn't playing any games. Just when it seems all is lost for Jon and crew, Dany swoops in with all three of her dragons who decimate the Army of the Dead. War unfortunately, is not without its losses and the Night King deals Dany a devastating blow. Doing his best Jan Zelezny impression, the Night King grabs a spear and throws it into the air striking down the dragon Viserion. Spouting a fountain of blood from his neck that would make Eli Roth cringe, Viserion soon perishes. It's a somber moment and even though Viserion isn't a major character like Robb or Margarey, the import of the loss is still palpable. Dany is clearly devastated but has the presence of mind to sweep up all of Jon's companions onto the back of Drogon. Jon however stays behind to fend off other wights and plunges into the icy lake. For a moment I thought Rhaegal might fly back and pick him up but it wasn't meant to be. Instead Jon's Uncle Benjen charges in and takes out some wights with a fire mace while Jon escapes on Benjen's horse.
Eventually Jon returns to Eastwatch near dead. Dany quickly whisks him to her boat as most of the A-Team heads south to deliver the wight. While unconscious, Dany sees Jon's many scars, including the stab wound he sustained to the heart. It is at that moment she realizes that Ser Davos' words were not a metaphor. I think this is where Dany begins to see Jon as an equal, a leader just as strong and determined as she is. It's not a matter of if he should be by her side, she NEEDS him to be by her side. In a poignant moment after Jon wakes up, he sets aside his pride and names her his Queen. Furthermore, Jon says that in time the people will see her as he sees her. To which Dany hopes she deserves it when the time comes. These two have found equals and partners in each other. They balance each other out. They need each other not just on a professional level but a personal level as well.
"Beyond the Wall" could have left it right there and it would have been an appropriate ending to the episode. But this is Game of Thrones and they never miss an opportunity to twist the knife. In the final scene the Army of the Dead pulls the dead Viserion from the lake. The Night King approaches and lays his hand upon the dragon. In a harrowing final shot, Viserion's eyelid opens to reveal a blue wight eye. Hello Ice Dragon! Shit just got real.
Man what an episode! Lots to chew on. Lots of intrigue. The Gods have sought to be cruel this season my friends and condemned us to a seven episode season. Sadly this means that next week is the season finale. The episode, "The Dragon and the Wolf" looks to be riveting. Let's hope the show runners send us out on a high note!
Season 7 Episode 6 "Beyond the Wall" rates: 9/10 Severed Ned Heads
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ISIS leader al-Baghdadi dies on 10/26/19
Erin Toomey, Contributer
A man by the name Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was the leader of the infamous terrorist group ISIS. This group is linked to many deaths of innocent civilians. The U.S. Special Operation Forces spent years trying to calculate where they could find the leader. They finally were able to track al-Baghdadi and U.S. troops located in the area closed in on the leader and were shooting to kill. However, before they were able to reach al-Baghdadi, he committed suicide through a self-detonating bomb. This action, prompted by the actions of U.S. troops, is hopefully the light at the end of the tunnel for the innocent civilians in Syria and the surrounding countries.
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very cool! that guy was bad news
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Very Cool! From what I hear, that guy was bad news!
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Wilderness therapy is one of the most effective forms of intervention with many young people, especially older adolescents and young adults. The typical short term (6 to 12 weeks) therapeutic wilderness program can be the most effective way we know with many young people to (1) improve motivation and (2) provide an excellent assessment so families can better plan for the long term. (Some variations of the wilderness theme will also be discussed) The value of Wilderness for many young people simply cannot be overstated.
Wilderness and adventure programming takes many forms. In what we call "full immersion" programs, the program participant goes from day of arrival in the wilderness to day of departure living under very primitive and nomadic primitive conditions. "Base camp model" means that the participants periodically return to a base camp at least on occasion. A base camp takes many forms. In some cases, a base camp is simply a camp in the wilderness with no modern conveniences. in other cases it is a fully modern facility. In some cases groups return to base camps only occasionally; in other cases they return every night. When you see that a wilderness program is base camp model, we suggest you take a close look at the details behind that very broad term.
Like most powerful medicines -- and wilderness is a powerful medicine -- it powerful benefits and has risks and side effects. Families considering wilderness need to learn both the benefits and liabilities of wilderness as they really are before making a decision. We get very frustrated by the wrong information in circulation about wilderness both pro and con. Parents influenced by those bits of wrong information are very likely to make a bad decision.
Therapeutic wilderness programs are not boot camps.
Use of a therapeutic wilderness program should never be a punishment.
Use of wilderness as an automatic reaction to all forms of serious behavior problems is seriously inappropriate. When a professional suggests otherwise the competence of that professional should be questioned. Professional referral to a wilderness program should come only from a professional person who is very well informed at a detailed level as to specific nature of the person to be referred, including clinical history. A professional person referring to wilderness simply based on the very general claim of behavioral problems is probably a bad choice for a professional advisor.
There are individual cases to the contrary but wilderness is rarely appropriate for a pre-adolescent child and should be considered with extreme caution for very young adolescents, notwithstanding the number of wilderness programs catering to that age group.
Wilderness should be used with extreme caution for young people appearing to be on the autism spectrum.
Short term programming like wilderness is usually not appropriate for children who firmly known to have severe attachment issues. The environment of wilderness is not problematic but establishing the short term relationships of wilderness might be. When attachment is the central issue, they need to be with a therapist making a long term commitment. Wilderness may be appropriate for getting a firm diagnosis even when major attachment issues are likely. Children and teens with severe attachment issues are not likely to develop the motivation to want to make therapeutic progress that we hope for with most teens in wilderness.
These considerations are more fully explained in the complete article on Wilderness programing.


Lunar New Year is an important Chinese festival celebrating a new year on the Chinese calendar. The first day of the New Year typically falls on the new moon, between 21st January and 20th February, and each year is characterised by a different animal from the Chinese zodiac. In 2017, we celebrate the year of the rooster.
On 11 February 2017, we celebrate Yuan Xiao Jie (元宵节), the last day of the Chinese New Year. During chap goh meh—which when directly translated into Hokkien means "the fifteenth night of Chinese New Year"—families gather for a meal which includes glutinous rice balls (元宵). Homes and streets are decorated with bright red lanterns, and you will be able to witness the occasion's festivities such as cultural performances, lantern displays, lion and dragon dances, and even a Chingay procession. You will also see people flocking to temples for thanksgiving and prayers to the God of Prosperity (财神爷), to endow them with success and wealth for the year ahead.
Interestingly, chap goh meh originates from Penang, Malaysia, and not the country we would typically associate Chinese celebrations with. This cultural and traditional Nyonya celebration of chap goh meh is legendarily regarded as the Chinese Valentine's Day. In the past, women had restricted freedom to roam the streets. Chap goh meh became one of the few occasions when eligible young women were allowed out, accompanied by an entourage of fierce-looking aunts and amahs (servants). The quaint tradition of throwing mandarin oranges into the sea is still alive, and young ladies and spinsters would do so as a gesture of hope to find good partners. Over time, the orange throwing has modernised, to include competitions and even banana tossing by single-and-available men.
As you savour your tangyuans (glutinous rice balls) this New Year, let us keep in mind the significance behind this symbolic Chinese dessert: reunion, family, and good ties.
From all of us at Bloom School of Music & Arts, here's wishing you a very Happy New Year!


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Spain detains two teenage girls as jihad suspects
One suspect, a 19-year-old woman, was named as Fauzia Allal Mohamed, pictured here in a photo released by Spain's interior ministry. (Photo courtesy of the Spanish interior ministry)
AFP, Madrid Monday 04 August 2014
Spanish police said Monday they had detained a 14-year-old girl and a 19-year-old woman suspected of trying to join Islamic extremists fighting in Iraq and Syria.
Security forces stopped the teenagers on Saturday as they tried to enter Morocco allegedly to join the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), whose fighters have seized swathes of Iraq and Syria, the government said.
"The detention of two women recruited for jihad is a remarkable and unprecedented event in Spain," the interior ministry said in a statement.
The girl, who could not be identified because she is a minor, was just 14, an official said. The 19-year-old woman was named as Fauzia Allal Mohamed. Both are Spanish citizens.
Video footage released by the Spanish authorities showed the two women, both covered in black niqabs, being led away from a small propeller plane, each flanked by balaclava-clad security men.
The pair were detained at the Beni Enzar border crossing in Melilla, one of two tiny Spanish territories on the north African coast. Both Melilla and the other Spanish city, Ceuta, share a border with Morocco.
Arranging logistics
"Both were trying to cross the border to Morocco with the aim of contacting the network which would move them immediately to a conflict zone between Syria and Iraq," the Spanish ministry said.
"Their intention was to join one of the cells of the terrorist organization of the self-proclaimed Islamic State," it said.
Spain's government said ISIS, which declared an "Islamic caliphate" on June 30 in Syria and Iraq, wanted to recruit as many foreign fighters as possible, luring them on jihadist web sites and forums and then helping to arrange the logistics of their transfer to war zones.
"The two women detained in this police operation are a clear example of this," the interior ministry said.
"Their radicalization, recruitment and later dispatch as combatants were perfectly planned and organized by a network that operates across north Africa and has as its main goal getting the maximum number of unquestioning combatants."
The recruitment of a minor showed that the network had no regard for its targets' sex, age or personal situation, the ministry said, adding that an investigation remained open.
The Spanish government has said it fears battle-hardened Islamist fighters may return to Spain from Syria and other conflict zones under the influence of Al-Qaeda-inspired groups, posing a threat of attacks.
Spanish security forces have led at least three significant raids on jihadist recruitment cells this year, arresting more than 20 people.
Spain this year marked the 10th anniversary of the March 11, 2004, Al-Qaeda-inspired bombing of four packed commuter trains in Madrid, which killed 191 people.
Since the train bombings, more than 470 suspected Islamic extremists have been arrested in Spain, according to the government.
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Transforming Disciplines: Computer Science and the Humanities Conference
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Humanities Scholars, Scientists, and Engineers Explore Common Ground in the
New World of Digital Technology
Humanities scholars, museum administrators, librarians, publishers,
computer and information scientists, technologists, and engineers met at
the National Academies in Washington, DC, January 17-18, 2003, to celebrate
pioneering models of scholarship that employ digital technology and to
address the considerable challenges to further progress.
As the conference, "Transforming Disciplines: Computer Science and the
Humanities," convened, William Wulf (National Academy of Engineering)
suggested that humanists and engineers shared the problem of creating
"macro scale" systems out of billions of minuscule components - with
unpredictable results. If humanists could resolve this problem for
themselves and for engineers, they would usher in a revolution comparable
to the development of Einstein's theories and quantum mechanics at the
beginning of the twentieth century. The necessity - and revolutionary
potential - of cooperative working relationships between humanists and
computer scientists and engineers, and the notion that they might be able
to help answer essential questions in each other's disciplines, became an
important theme of the conference.
Presenters included historians, classicists, art historians, engineers,
media studies professors, computer scientists, and representatives of
cultural and educational institutions. Will Thomas (University of Virginia)
discussed his work with the American Historical Review to create a new
genre of scholarship, playfully titled "a work formerly known as an article."
In the related arenas of teaching and textbook publishing, Richard Baraniuk
(Rice University) offered an ambitious vision of the cooperative
development of a "commons of free teaching materials," based on the
collaborative model of Linux software development.
Taking advantage of the computer as a visual medium, art historian Stephen
Murray (Columbia University) presented a graphic simulation of the
construction of Amiens Cathedral, and Douglas Greenberg (Survivors of the
Shoah Visual History Foundation) gave conference participants a glimpse of
the complexities of indexing and making accessible the videotaped
testimonies of more than 52,000 survivors of the Holocaust.
All of the projects examined during the conference demonstrated both the
rich possibilities and the limits of current technology and led to
speculation about new tools, training, and shifts in disciplinary thinking
that might allow more fruitful relationships between the humanities and
computer science. Participants frequently returned to the problem of
inertia within disciplines-particularly in expectations for promotion and
tenure, minimal training in technology for graduate students, and the lack
of adequate cooperation with university libraries and librarians.
Resisting the general tide of multi- and cross-disciplinarity, Michael
Joyce (Vassar College) sounded a call in favor of the traditional
disciplines and the need to explore all that is not known within those
disciplinary bounds-to "husband doubt, rather than suffocating in
knowingness." Janet Murray (Georgia Institute of Technology) argued that
perhaps lack of total understanding between computer specialists and
humanists is useful, creating a space of play and adaptation in which both
are able to formulate overly ambitious-and creatively valuable-projects.
By the time the meeting adjourned, participants had developed a wish list
of new tools, training, and cooperation, but recognized that they must
balance the desire to experiment creatively with the constraints of
existing tools and models, limited departmental support, and looming cuts
in federal, state, university, and foundation budgets.
"Transforming Disciplines: Computer Science and the Humanities" evolved
from the 1997 Computer Science and Humanities Initiative and a subsequent
September 2000 workshop that began exploring cross-disciplinary
cooperation. The Initiative is supported by the American Council of Learned
Societies (ACLS), the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI), the
National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage (NINCH), the National
Academies, and Princeton and Rice Universities and is funded by generous
grants from the Carnegie Corporation.
More information about the Computing and Humanities Initiative is available
on the NINCH Web site <http://www.ninch.org/programs/science/>. The
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Aluminum Powder 200 is a finely ground aluminum (13μ) used to formulate expanding type cements. It can be used to formulate expanding cement slurries. The aluminum reacts with the alkalis in the cement slurry to produce small bubbles of hydrogen gas.
The reaction, and thus the degree of expansion are dependent on several factors including pressure, temperature, particle size and concentration of the aluminum powder.
Expanding cements prepared by the use of aluminum powder have found use in shallow well applications, especially where the problem of gas migration occurs.
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Store in a cool, dry, well-ventilated area away from sources of heat, ignition, sparks and incompatible materials such as oxidizers, halogenated hydrocarbons, some acids and alkalis. Keep material dry as aluminum powder will react with water and slowly generate heat and hydrogen.


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$448M loan backing 62 San Francisco properties goes into default
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A joint venture between San Francisco-based Veritas Investments and affiliates of Boston-based Baupost Group has defaulted on a $448 million loan backing 1,734 rent-controlled units in 62 multifamily properties across San Francisco, according to Fitch Ratings.
Multifamily Dive reported last month that the Veritas multifamily loan pool was transferred into special servicing in November. When it matured on Nov. 15, 2022, it was not repaid. In December, it was reported as a non-performing matured balloon loan.
The Veritas multifamily pool comprised over 40% of the maturity default volume in commercial mortgage-backed securities in November. Sixty-plus day delinquencies jumped from $283 million in November to $911 million across commercial real estate in December. Thirty-day delinquencies increased to $642 million in December from $514 million in November, according to Fitch.
Fitch said that Veritas had indicated it was not going to exercise its one-year extension option or be able to pay off the loan at maturity. It is interested in finding a partner to help recapitalize the properties, according to the rating agency.
"We are in discussions with the lender on this portfolio about resolving the loan impasse to something acceptable to the parties, and are hopeful to finalize those terms soon," a Veritas spokesperson told Multifamily Dive.
Approximately 12% of the total units were offline due to the Veritas performing renovations on vacant units at loan issuance. They were expected to be re-leased at market rental rates, according to Fitch.
Veritas isn't alone in facing issues in an increasingly difficult market to find financing. For instance, multifamily commercial-mortgage-backed securities delinquencies jumped 36 basis points to 2.17% in December — the largest increase among all commercial real estate sectors, according to data and analytics firm Trepp.
San Francisco issues
Veritas is the largest apartment owner in San Francisco, according to the San Francisco Chronicle. The city, like New York City, saw a mass exodus of residents when the pandemic hit in 2022. Case in point: Rents in one-bedroom apartments fell 22.6% from November 2019 to November 2020.
Now, with the tech layoffs looming over the Bay Area, rent growth is still looking shaky. Although the average rent for a studio apartment in San Francisco increased by 4% from December to January to $2,153, the average rent for a one-bedroom apartment remained flat, according to Zumper. The average rent for a two-bedroom apartment actually decreased by 5% to $3,800.
"Concessions are starting to pick up a bit more in places like San Francisco and downtown Seattle," said Haendel St. Juste, managing director of REITs for investment bank Mizuho Securities.
Veritas has no plans to abandon the city.
"Despite all that, Veritas remains committed to San Francisco, to our residents, to our investors and to our employees, as we believe in the long-term attraction of living in this city and in our character-rich properties," the Veritas spokesperson said.
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Research published by IAM RoadSmart has shed new light on the significant number of UK motorists that continue to flout 20 mph speed limits across the country.
According to a new poll from the body, more than four-fifths (81 per cent) of UK drivers admit to regularly exceeding 20 mph speed limits in areas where they are in effect, despite the potential dangers this can pose to vulnerable groups.
IAM director of policy and research Neil Greig said: "IAM RoadSmart have always felt that blanket 20 mph limits, enforced by signposts only, are simply not enough to convey the reason for slowing down to drivers.
"Targeting the worst locations with traffic calming and other engineering features is a much more effective way to make 20 mph limits self-enforcing."
Overall, government figures show that excessive speed was a factor in 15 per cent of all fatal crashes on the UK's roads in 2016.
As a result, Mr Greig argued that routes on which drivers are consistently breaking the speed limit should be assessed more regularly, with a particular focus on ensuring 20 mph zones are being adequately enforced for all motorists.
Molly Benton, brand manager at Fuel Card Services, adds: "A reduced speed limit of 20 mph is in effect for a reason in each of these areas, it's therefore wholly irresponsible for motorists to continue to place vulnerable groups in danger by speeding on these roads."


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Paying heed to the complaints it has been receiving from the citizens' groups daily, the Central Railways (CR) has started clearing garbage lining the railway tracks.
HT had reported in February that citizens' groups had started a twitter campaign to draw the attention of railway authorities to the dirty tracks on the Central and Western Railways. Dharmesh Barai from NGO Environment Life had identified 10 spots along railway tracks that had large quantities of garbage.
CR officials said garbage has been cleared from tracks near Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus (CSMT), Masjid Bunder, Thane, Parsik tunnel area, and Dharavi.
"The clean-up drive has already witnessed collection of lakhs of garbage bags from just five locations. As per our internal discussions, we have decided to execute the collection block-by-block, in a sequential manner. In the coming months, we will be moving northwards and focusing on sections between every station," said Udasi.
He added that the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) had been roped in to identify markets, offices and residential buildings that have been dumping garbage on the railway tracks. Officials from the BMC's solid waste management (SWM) department said they identified two main sources of garbage – residential complexes and slums and trash carried by nullahs.
While the developments have taken place only along the central line, the garbage problem persists along the western line as well. Officials from the Western Railways were not available for a comment.
Transformation of North-East Region by Transportation: Committed to bring all the state capitals of the northeast region on the rail map, Govt. is executing 15 new rail line projects of 1,385 km length, at a cost of over ₹47,000 crore.


In this podcast, Cindy Croft and Priscilla Weigel talk with Gina Gibson, Occupational Therapist, Fraser, Minnesota, about what the evaluation process for sensory processing looks for a young child.
In this podcast, Cindy Croft and Priscilla Weigel talk with Gina Gibson, Occupational Therapist, Fraser, Minnesota, about guidelines for using weighted objects and other sensory interventions with young children.
Cindy Croft and Priscilla Weigel continue their conversation with CICC's Beth Menninga. The focus of this podcast is on language development in our youngest learners. Beth shares about essential ways we all can support a healthy foundation of communication by cueing in to the very simplest interactions and body language of infants. Joint Attention, parallel talk and self-talk are discussed.
Cindy Croft and Priscilla Weigel welcome the Center for Inclusive Child Care's new team member Beth Menninga, Infant Toddler Specialist Network program manager and manager of our Relationship Based Professional Development supports. Beth shares about the way our coaches can enhance quality infant and toddler care in family child care settings as well as center based environments.


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Pope Francis: Synod prayer to Holy Family
by Jamie Orillion
(Vatican Radio) Sunday, 28 September is to be set aside as a Day of Prayer for the III Extraordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops, scheduled to take place from 5 to 219 October to treat the topic: The Pastoral Challenges of the Family in the Context of Evangelization. The Holy See on Saturday released a prayer guide, inviting particular Churches, parishes, religious houses, associations and movements to pray for the success of the Synod assembly in the days leading to the Synod and during the Synod itself. The guide includes a prayer composed by Pope Francis for the occasion, as well as a series of intentions that may be offered the Prayers of the Faithful. Please find the full text of the guide, including the prayer composed by the Holy Father, below.
Day of Prayer
for the III Extraordinary General Assembly of the
Synod of Bishops
Sunday, 28 September is to be set aside as a Day of Prayer for the III Extraordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops, scheduled to take place from 5 to 219 October to treat the topic: The Pastoral Challenges of the Family in the Context of Evangelization.
Particular churches, parish communities, institutes of consecrated life, associations and movements are invited to pray for this intention during Mass and at other liturgical celebrations, in the days leading to the synod and during the synod itself. In Rome, in the Basilica of Saint Mary Major, prayers will be recited each day in the chapel of the icon, Salus Populi Romani. The faithful, individually but above all in families, are invited to join in these prayers.
The suggested prayers include the Prayer to the Holy Family for the Synod, composed by Pope Francis, and the following proposed intentions during the Prayers of the Faithful which can be adapted at Sunday Mass on 28 September and during the synod. These intentions can also be included in the petitions at Lauds and Vespers. The recitation of the Holy Rosary is also recommended for the duration of the synodal assembly.
I – Prayer to the Holy Family for the Synod
Jesus, Mary and Joseph,
in you we contemplate
the splendour of true love,
to you we turn with trust.
Holy Family of Nazareth,
grant that our families too
may be places of communion and prayer,
authentic schools of the Gospel
and small domestic Churches.
may families never again
experience violence, rejection and division:
may all who have been hurt or scandalized
find ready comfort and healing.
may the approaching Synod of Bishops
make us once more mindful
of the sacredness and inviolability of the family,
and its beauty in God's plan.
graciously hear our prayer.
II – Prayer of the Faithful
gathered together as God's family and inspired by our faith, we raise our minds and hearts to the Father, that our families, sustained by the grace of Christ, might become true domestic churches where all live and bear witness to God's love.
Together we pray:
Lord, bless and sanctify our families.
For Pope Francis: the Lord has called him to preside over the Church in charity; sustain him in his ministry of service to the communion of the episcopal college and the entire People of God, we pray:
For the synod fathers and the other participants at the III Extraordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops: may the Spirit of the Lord enlighten their minds so that the Church might respond, in faithfulness to God's plan, to the challenges facing the family, we pray:
For those who have the responsibility of governing nations: that the Holy Spirit might inspire programmes which acknowledge the value of the family as the basic unit of society in God's plan and which offer support to families in difficulty, we pray:
For Christian families: may the Lord who has sealed the union of husband and wife with his presence, make our families cenacles of prayer and ardent communities of life and love, after the example of the Holy Family of Nazareth, we pray:
For couples undergoing difficulties: may the Lord, rich in mercy, be present to them through the Church's motherly care and concern in showing understanding and patience in their journey towards pardon and reconciliation, we pray:
For families who, for the sake of the Gospel, are forced leave their fatherland: may the Lord who endured exile with Mary and Joseph, comfort them with his grace and open for them paths of fraternal charity and human solidarity, we pray:
For grandparents: may the Lord who was received in the Temple by the elders Simeon and Anna, make them wise collaborators with parents in transmitting the faith and the raising their children, we pray:
For children: may the Lord of life, who in his ministry welcomed them and made them a model for entering the Kingdom of heaven, inspire a respect for life in the womb and programmes in raising children which conform to the Christian outlook towards life, we pray:
For young people: may the Lord, who made holy the Wedding at Cana, lead them to discover the beauty of the sacredness and inviolability of the family in God's plan and sustain engaged couples as they prepare for marriage, we pray:
O God, you never forsake the work of your hands, hear our prayer; send the Spirit of your Son to enlighten the Church as the synodal journey begins, so that contemplating the splendour of true love which shines forth in the Holy Family of Nazareth, she might learn the freedom and obedience to respond with boldness and mercy to the challenges of today's world. Through Christ Our Lord.
(from Vatican Radio)
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The in basket: Longtime friend Vickie Barrie wrote the other day, "Well, Travis, you answered this concern a few years ago, but it continues and I don't think it was addressed quite right.
"Homer Jones Drive is a one-way street running past the Bremerton YMCA," she said. "When I leave the YMCA, I go to the north end of the street, driving and staying in the left lane because I plan to make a left turn. Many times, another driver pulls up in the right hand lane and plans to turn left also (they may have forgotten that this is a one-way street).
The out basket: Vickie is right that I didn't give much credence to this when a reader first brought it to my attention a few years ago. It just didn't seem likely that it was a common occurrence.
I quickly got a snarl from another reader saying it does happen regularly and now Vickie checks in with her update. She says it occurs in her presence a couple of times a month.
I've sat and watched the intersection off and on over the ensuing years, but it seems I always choose the wrong hour, early afternoon, as there is hardly any traffic at all while I'm there, let alone conflicts.
I'm still stumped by how a succession of drivers could make this mistake. Are they assuming cars in the curb lane on the left are parked, or parking? Perhaps some red paint on the curb to create a short no-parking zone would help a little.
The in basket: A Gomez writes, "Olympic Avenue between Sixth Street and Burwell Avenue (in Bremerton) is so narrow and with parking allowed on both sides, only one car can fit going in any direction.
The out basket: I had not heard this suggestion before, and neither had Jerry Hauth, who took over the job of city traffic engineer just last year.
Changing two-way streets to one-way is often a hot-button issue, especially if there are businesses on the street, which isn't the case on Olympic.
It would be a logical place for such a change through. As the reader notes, the block of Fourth and Fifth between Naval Avenue and Olympic already is what's called a one-way couplet, with traffic moving in opposite directions. More significantly, the next parallel street to Olympic on the west is one-way southbound.
When is a one-way street a one-way street?
The in basket: Elaine Henderson sent a typed letter (it's been a long time since the Road Warrior has gotten one of those) to ask "Is it ever permissible to make a LEFT TURN on a RED LIGHT after making sure the cross street is clear of traffic?
"Yesterday I was driving east on Burwell Street approaching Washington Avenue (in Bremerton) " she wrote on May 16. "'The traffic light was red and there was one vehicle waiting at the light. As I stopped behind the vehicle, it made a left turn onto Washington Avenue while the light was still red.
"I drive this route at least once a week, the light at that intersection is usually red. I've always waited until the light changes to green before making my left turn.
The out basket: It sounds like Elaine may be aware of the little known law permitting lefts against a red light, but only onto a one-way street going in the direction of the turn.
This could be a thorny legal issue were someone to be stopped and cited for what Elaine saw that driver do, but I'd have to guess that law doesn't extend to a street that's one-way SOMEWHERE along its length.
The same thing is permitted at a red arrow light.
Just a block west of Washington, going the other way on Burwell, such a turn is legal onto one-way Pacific Avenue, providing one comes to a complete stop and yields to any traffic with a green light or pedestrian in the way.
I suppose a driver could argue that he WAS turning onto a one-way street, even though the one-way portion of Washington ends before the portion of the street he's entering. But I wouldn't expect the arguement to prevail in court, unless he gets a judge who delights in splitting hairs. And I'd advise Elaine to continue waiting for the green light there.
Why was Broadway in Bremerton made one-way southbound?
The in basket: When Olympic College made Broadway Avenue through its Bremerton campus one-way this year, I understood the reason – to keep students and other pedestrians safer from vehicle traffic as they cross Broadway.
But I wondered why they made it one way southbound. That's still a viable detour option for drivers in a hurry when they come to a red light at 16th Street after crossing Warren Avenue Bridge.
Wouldn't one way northbound keep more non-college traffic off campus, I asked.
The out basket: John Perlic of Parametrix, which did the traffic study for the new college parking lots, said they decided that requiring college-bound traffic coming from the north to go down to 13th Street to turn right to reach the parking lots would be less safe for those drivers than turning into the wider 16th Street entrance. More college-bound traffic comes from the north than the south, he said.
Further, he said, there was a surge of cut-through car traffic in the afternoon when Bremerton High School got out for the day, and southbound one-way on Broadway kept those cars off the college campus.
Eventually, the college, which obtained ownership of Broadway from the city of Bremerton a while back, may close the street altogether, he said.
The in basket: Ian Logan suggests lengthening the one-way portion of Pacific Avenue in Bremerton.
"Change the 300 block of Pacific Avenue, one block north of Burwell, from two-way to one-way-only southbound," he wrote. "Pacific Avenue is already one-way southbound immediately south of its intersection with Burwell as it approaches the ferry terminal and the southern portion of downtown.
"The 300-block of Pacific has very poor center-striping right now (faded and far too hard to see), and I have on more than one occasion seen southbound traffic in what is supposed to be the northbound lane immediately north of Burwell.
"This change would have no negative effect on downtown traffic and would provide a safer and more easily navigated approach to the ferry terminal," Ian said.
The out basket: Gunnar Fridriksson of the city of Bremerton street engineers says he appreciates the input, adding, "There are times that a citizen looking at a situation provides a solution that we had not previously thought of.
"In this case," Gunnar said, " the city has looked at several scenarios for downtown, including making Washington Avenue and Pacific Avenue (one-way in opposite directions). This dates back to the '60's or so when the city starting really running into parking and circulation problems.
"Businesses have typically not embraced one-way streets due to perceived problems with customers getting to the business. Studies on one-way versus two-way streets have found both have their merits and problems, but it really boils down to a personal preference/bias.
"We do have a downtown circulation plan that has been indefinitely shelved for now, but I will include (Ian's suggestion) into the file for when we pick it back up," he concluded..


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Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, called "unconscionable" the FBI's efforts to retaliate against an agent who criticized the bureau for its handling of terrorism investigations. A memo written by a former FBI official and released today by U.S. Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, says that the FBI tried to "take out" Judicial Watch client and FBI Special Agent Robert Wright for saying publicly that the bureau was derelict and negligent in combating terrorism.
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