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The Right Food
Since my last blog was about eating fast food when it's convenient, I thought I would continue on about the issue of fast food when one has little means.
The idea of eating fast food is pretty repulsive most of the time. It's so processed and has so much fat and sodium, that one seems to guarentee having some future abnormality due to it's consumption. Most of the organic food experts say that the best foods for our bodies are vegetables and fruits. Meats should only be occasionally added to meals, and white meat is much preferred to red meat.
But having grown up with the "American" diet and the belief in the "basic food groups," the number of which often seeming to change from four to five, and which the farming and dairy promoted, I got a poor sense of what was meant for the human body to eat.
In fact, it turns out that the very government agencies who were in charge of providing schools with nutritional information were also in charge of promoting our meat and dairy industries. It would be akin to a chamber of commerce that is responsible for promoting a city's stores and service, also being in charge of rating those services.
And so it turns out that milk, dairy, cheese, fat, red meat, sugar, and white flour and processed anything, is not good for your body. To eat healthy is to eat fruits and vegetables with occasional white meat. Most of our protein can be extrapolated from the plants we eat.
And when you get right down and think about it, when you search yourself for when you have felt best in your life, it's when you consistently had a good amount of exercise and ate close to what a vegetarian eats.
Quick Fast Food
I don't particularly like fast food and try to stay away from eating it as much as possible, although at times when one has little money, fast food is cheap and convenient. Today, after not eating all day and spending four and a half hours showing 15 properties to my clients in the Santa Clarita Valley, from Stevenson Ranch and Valencia all the way through to Canyon Country 12 miles away, then driving them all the way back to the first house where they had left their car to ride with me, I was downright hungry!!!
All I could think of doing was punching into my Garmin the words, "McDonald's" and seeing how close I was to the golden arches. I was 1.4 miles away. I drove down one big street, onto Interstate 5 for one exit, then a quick turn off onto a little street where McDonald's sat glistening. I ordered a Big Mac Sandwich and a medium soda. Not the food of Olympians I know, but as soon as I ordered, the Big Mac and the soda cup were on my paper matted plastic tray. I filled my cup with ice and Dr. Pepper, took a seat, and downed the burger and soda in just seconds, satiated and contented. That was indeed fast food!
Christmas Party Cheer
This year, after the Christmas Eve and Christmas Day parties I attended, I thought about the conversations I was a part of, wondering if they varied in any way from conversations at parties at other times of the year.
Much of what was talked in my own conversations had to do with entertainment, such as interesting movies, plays and books that were enjoyed. I was fortunate enough to meet a very kind man who was a long-time television and stage actor, and who had stories about the industry that kept me asking questions, which he endured graciously.
At another party, I talked with a gentleman about the current state of home entertainment. Both of us, trying to peer over the distant horizon of when each of us might have steady work and money again, imagined the perfect home-entertainment system; Blue Ray, Sony LED flat screen monitor with a surround-sound system in place. Such fun to dream!
Another person and I talked about speeding tickets; the common places to get them in the areas we drive frequently. My girlfriend was issued one for speeding not too long ago, and her uncle confided that he's been prolific in his collection of speeding tickets. He said that he's been pulled over twice as much, so he has about a 50% "warning" rate from officers.
His best story was that he had a mid-1970's Corvette, which he wanted to test. He drove it up the Grapevine hill (the section that is the steepest from the town of Grapevine to Lebec headed Southbound on Interstate 5), and he was keeping a speed of between 80 and 90 miles per hour. He leveled off at the top of the hill to see a CHP behind him with lights on. The CHP officer told him that he had to wait until the top of the hill to catch him because he couldn't keep up with the Corvette. There was no warning given on that occasion.
Then, there were conversations about traveling to Europe. Like me, others have not been able to travel for years and have also missed having that in their lives. One person I spoke with had traveled to 9 countries in about three weeks throughout Europe using the Eurorail with his buddy. I had enjoyed two glasses of wine by that point, so I don't recall the details of his trip. But how fun that must have all been!
I think the most unexpected fun I had was during a third party I went to just last night. It was a low-key get-together with food and my girlfriends' brother's house. They had a game on Sony Playstation 2 in which you and one other person pick from a myriad of songs with videos and compete to sing the whole song on key. The system has a quasi-musical staff indication on the screen along with the song's video production, and while you sing, you can see the words come up along with your on-going score. It's Karaoke, VH1 or GAC, music theory class and singing around the campfire combined.
What I noticed though in all of my Christmas conversations was that, though the content didn't vary much from that of other parties, everyone was in energetic and chipper moods. And that made the holidays a lot of fun.
Posted by fredman at 11:57 AM
The Last Miinute
Wow, I just went to a popular outdoor mall in the Studio City area here in California, and people were definitely doing their last minute shopping in a panic mode. As I was pulling into the parking lot, I saw one girl literally stealing another older woman's parking space.
This girl had looped her car around to get the space at the head of an isle. Even the guy who was vacating the space was so upset by her action that he got out of his car and yelled at the girl. The girl didn't budge, and so the vacating person just kept his car in the space, hoping the girl would go away, which she didn't.
Then, another young girl and an elderly woman were standing by their cars, and I heard the young woman get off of her cell phone and say, "Well, I'm not calling the police since they won't come because nobody was injured" in a very entitled voice, as she swatted at her dachshund to stay in the car.
I saw people honking at each other, making faces at each other, and yet I saw others being quite polite and letting other people go. It's definitely last minute shopping-time folks, and it's crazy out there, so be careful!
A Celebrity's Addiction
With the death of Brittany Murphy and the rumors that it's looking like abuse of controlled substances played a part in her departure, there's no denying that the mixture of celebrity pressure, and the access to drugs via the money and lifestyle is really a huge problem. Before her, Michael Jackson, Anna Nicole Smith and Heath Ledger all recently died of extremely strong narcotics and other drugs.
One must wonder if it's just the people who are unable to some degree to cope with the pressures of celebrity, or if it's a much more common occurrence than one might first think. It's possible that a lot of the actors and actresses that we know and love have use or addiction problems, but that they are able to keep a cap on their behavior and or not get caught.
The question that keeps coming to mind is, why would someone who has reached such a level of success, if even in the past, start to destroy them-selves? Is it because they do not see themselves as successful as they once did, or is it because they can't deal with the pressure of what is expected of them? It is a quandary, but it's so sad to see young, successful people addicted to medications and drugs, living a life that is obviously much too fast for them.
And yet, we know that when one becomes a celebrity, they will be exposed to circles of people that the general public would never have access to. Parties in which drugs and alchohol abuse are the norm. Each aspiring celebrity knows this and feels they will be able to handle situations in which things are offered to them. This climate in turn breeds and acceptance of reliance on prescription medications as well. The sad fact is that many people, once accepted into these circles and circumstances, will have a harder time resisting the offerings made to them.
And so, however it happened, Brittany Murphy was found dead in her bathroom with vomit surrounding her after a week or more of abdominal pains and other physical problems. I just hope something can be learned from her experience.
Frozen History
I heard Eric Simonson on the radio today. He the Mallory and Irving Expedition sponsored by Nova and the BBC, which found George Mallory back in 1999. George Mallory had set out to reach the summit of Mt. Everest back in June of 1924. He never returned, and it was never known if he was part of the first team to ever reach the summit, before Sir. Edmund Hillary did in May of 1953.
Simonson described how when they set out on the expedition, reaching their goal was like finding a needle in a haystack. But the snows were down on Mt. Everest in 1999, so when they approached the area where it was thought that Mallory was lost, Simonson found George Mallory within two hours of starting the search for his body. Mallory just about perfectly preserved, having been frozen under tens of feet of snow most years.
There are three interesting notes about George Mallory's ascent of the mountain.
One is that he had told his wife that he was bringing a picture of her with him, which he would place, at the top of the summit. When his body was found, he didn't have the picture on his person. It's possible that the picture may have gotten lost or separated from Mallory's' body. But it is one indication that he may have reached the summit.
Secondly, Mallory had a camera with him on the climb. When his body was found, the camera was not with him. Presumably, he was separated from it during his fall. It's thought that he slipped and fell about 700 feet after his rope was severed on some rock where he landed onto the ridge that they found his body on.
Experts also think that the fall was not severe enough to have killed him; he broke his ankle severely and then succumbed to hypothermia in about twenty minutes. But if the camera is ever found, Kodak says that with some very special handling, there is a chance they could still develop the prints. These pictures could prove that Mallory and his climbing partner Andrew Irvine reached the summit back in 1924; the first two climbers to have done so in human history.
And thirdly, Mallory had his snow goggles in his pocket, which suggests that he was still up on the mountain at nightfall since he would have been subject to snow blindness in the daytime had he not been wearing them
I think it is such a neat thing that his body was found after all of this time. I remember back in 1999 when I heard the news, I thought to myself how amazing to have found the body of Mallory preserved so well. It was like looking back into history.
And hearing Eric Simonson talk both out the discovery and also about what the discovery meant was insightful into the climbing community's respect for those who have laid down the path before them. Simonson said that he felt a sense of awe looking at Mallory there in the snow because Mallory was truly a part of Simonson's and his peers' history.
Mallory's famous quote after he had been asked, "Why do you want to climb Mt. Everest? His reply, "Because it's there."
Sunday Stroll
This morning we went hiking. We were in the Angeles National Forest, the roads through which the transportation department had recently opened after the recent heavy rains that passed through a week or so ago.
The air was clear and crisp, and our drive into the mountains easy and without note. We drove to a hiking head, just West of the Wrightwood area called Jasper Heights.
The first thing I noticed when we got out of our SUV was that there were little creeks with active water running through them, again, probably due to the recent rains. I have spent a lot of time in the San Gabriel Mountains, and they are often bone dry. So it was a treat to see so much greenery right off.
We ascended a small, gentle trail, which skirted the creek for about two miles, then turned inward toward a canyon. All the while, we were surrounded by a thicket of trees and plants full of singing birds and could see about 10 meters in front and in back of us at any point.
We came upon an old concrete structure, which seemed out of place in the natural environment we were in. It was in the hillside, which I take to mean was probably an old mine entrance of some sort. I have seen a lot of abandoned mines in Joshua Tree and the surrounding areas, but this was my first in the Angeles National Forest.
As we continued on, the trail became steeper and we found ourselves climbing rock that formed steps for the trail. And after about an hour of hiking, we decided to turn back.
From our vantage point, which I would guess was about 3000 feet, we could see the flats of the Mojave Desert though the trees which had gotten more sparse as we had gained altitude.
Our return down the trail was a bit faster since it was a descent, and we then got into our SUV and found a diner off of the road on the desert side of the mountains. They fixed us some eggs, pancakes and o.j. It was a nice way to wake up on a Sunday.
The Wireless Homeless
I just saw the funniest thing. I have to tell you first that my local library like so many these days offers free wireless Internet service when you're in the library. I don't know how it works on PC's, but for my Mac, my computer just sees the wireless service in my airport wireless menus, I sign in that I'm not doing anything nefarious, and then off I go using the wireless. I actually don't since I have a broadband card. But I could, which I think is really cool of the city here to offer to the library patrons.
Anyway, I had just finished returning some items to the library, and as I walking out of the side library doors that open up into a park, I noticed a homeless man sitting near the doors nestled in a protected corner on his make-shift chair, set up with his sodas and other accoutrements, facing the back of his bicycle. On the back of his bicycle where you'd have one of those racks to carry books, he had instead a solid flat piece of wood. And on top of that, he had a computer. He was sitting there surfing the net using the wireless connection from the library, almost hugging the side of the building to get the reception for his computer.
Since it was something I had not seen before, the wireless homeless, I went to my house and grabbed my camera.
The Feature Factor
I was thinking today of some shows I like such as "Alias," "Fringe," "House," and "Burn Notice," to name a few, and why when I was growing up, television seemed to be so much more watered down. I think that the answer is that TV has really gotten the what I call the "feature factor."
The feature factor that I speak of is the way in which drama shows on television seem to have much more of a feature film feel to them. Their stories are more exhilerating, their cinematography is edgier, and in their editing is more sophisticated.
A few years ago, I really wasn't interested in television much and opted for either renting feature movies on VHS and DVD, or just reading a book. I found most situation comedies rather formulaic, and most dramas having too much gibber-jabber without enough real action. I would turn to feature films, such as, "True Romance," "Usual Suspects," and "Jackie Brown" to satiate my need for cinematic fun.
But I've noticed in my returning to television for what was to be a self-imposed trial basis, that the shows are much more exciting these days. The drama shows are very topical, often having to do with terrorism and international crime syndicates. Remember if you will, just a few years ago, that there were a lot of character-driven cops shows like "Hill Street Blues," which my dad LOVED, "West Wing," and "Cagney & Lacey." They had some action sequences, but most of the show was talking and boring b-plots. Blah! Give me some intense minute-by-minute mind-blowing action!
And back when I was a teen, there were also a lot of the grand Aaron Spelling shows throughout the years with "Dynansty," and "Dallas" being two of the biggies from a ways back. They were shows about status and back-stabbing, but soooo slooow!!! God, speed it up!!! I just wasn't into those, as popular as they were.
When it comes to dramas, I've always been interested in material where something can really, really go wrong; where the day can end with everything being totally destroyed. I think the "ticking time-bomb" mechanism works well with me in that respect. And it seems that in the past five to ten years, the television people have really cranked it up.
As technology has improved for both cinematography and editing, so has the television drama. These quasi-technicians and artists have been given a lot more room to broaden their craft and ability in doing their work. The improvement we've seen in television stories in the past few years has come as a result of there being much more competition among the broadcasters. The three main networks were joined by a fourth a few years back, and simultaneously, the cable channels flourished and needed a lot more content. This allowed for independent producers (the television counterparts of Quentin Tarantino) to come in and offer their goods with cheaper production costs, and more exciting and inventive scripts. This has been a very healthy process for the industry because it's force the big cats, the networks, to take more day to day risks.
All of this has increased the quality of the story in addition to the improvements in the arts of shooting and editing the shows. A show which is as cheaply shot as "Burn Notice" on the USA Network, but which keeps it's audience riveted in it's cheesey storey line, can smoke the competition that would have otherwise put on a "safer" family show. "Alias" and "Fringe" are examples of shows that would not have been on a major network in their current form just ten years prior. They would have either been much more extravagant, more watered down in their content, or likely both.
I am really happy about these changes. I love watching television these days and not wanting to take a bathroom break for fear of missing something crucial. And there is no greater glory than hunkering down on a rainy day with a warm blanket, some snacks and ripping through a whole season of "24" without any commercials. It doesn't get much better than that! My self-imposed television trial is over, and I will be sticking with it for a while as soon as I can pay my cable bill again.
Footnote: I have to mention here that almost all of the shows I currently like, I was first turned onto by the lady who cuts my hair. She has a 100% success rate in show suggestions for me. She charges a lot for my haircuts, so I'm not giving her any bonuses for her television advice; just a satisfied smile.
Here are a couple of cool quotes, neither of which is exact since I cannot recall their sources from long ago.
About Helping People
"You'll likely have much more impact by helping a few people consistently in your life, than trying to help the masses."
About Running
"Sometimes my wife and I will get into an argument, and to relieve some of the stress, I will go out for a run by myself.
After 15 minutes of running, I forget what we were arguing about.
After 30 minutes of running, I forget that we were arguing at all.
And after an hour of running, I forget I have a wife."
Revisiting
For years, I had imagined what it would be like to see the old cabin. The place where pa and I got up every morning at sunrise to clear our land, plow rows into the fields and plant seeds that would grow to that year's crop of corn or wheat. Nestled up against the foothills, we worked about twenty acres, most of which was good for planting.
We had two dogs when I was growing up; one a white Lab, and the other an English boxer. The boxer could never keep up with the lab, but always put his heart into trying. I remember, when I wasn't working, walking the perimeter of our land and just pondering throughts for hours. Our property wasn't defined by fences, but like our neighbors, we knew where ours ended and theirs picked up.
There was a row of old Oak trees on the Eastern side of our property, and on the West, it rather sank into furrows that were like little canyons. We didn't need to go in that direction because there was nowhere to plant anything there. On the Northern side was the only dirt road that lead into our area with a train track that occasionally hauled oil out of the areas East, and the foothills were to the South. And that's where the cabin was.
The cabin was all of but three rooms. The main room, you entered up steps, which were chiseled out of rock, which my father's grandfather had made by hand, and you came into what were both our living room and our kitchen. The kitchen took up one little corner of the room; a small, wood burning stove, and a small wood table with our eating chairs around it.
The rest of the room had a bed for my sister Kendra and me, two more chairs, and a black potbelly heater. That's what kept us warm during the barren winter months. Another room was a very small bathroom, which had a toilet with a cistern, and a washbasin. And finally, there was pa and ma's bedroom, just big enough for a small bed and one old wooden dresser to put things into.
My memories of this place are mostly fond. I didn't get into much trouble and I worked hard with pa most days raising and harvesting the crops while ma and my sister sewed clothes for us and prepared our meals. We didn't have a lot of folks pass through our way except for the Holidays when pa's friends from the old country sometimes tracked him down and shared some whiskey or bourbon with him and had a good old time. I liked seeing my pa happy.
Ma and pa put up with a lot of my fussing with my sister. She and I used to get into it a little just to pass the time; teasing each other, hiding each other's things. All good fun, but I can see now that at a time when the family was barely making enough to live on, pa must have wanted me to get more serious on things from time to time.
When I got of age and went into the U.S. Army and then onto get some schooling in, and started my own family seven-hundred miles from where I grew up. And now, with both ma and pa being gone, and laying my eyes on our old land, it makes me a little sad. There is now a proper farmhouse on the property, farther North than where the cabin still sits. But the cabin is now in disrepair and vacant. Its roof's slats are falling off one by one, and there are weeds and other various wild things growing and living in it now.
And it all seems to appear to have been such a "small" life. Everything we did together was in and around this little cabin under a huge blue sky, and with the hills looking at us from above. With all that I have seen and all the people I have known since then, well, it makes this little twenty acres we had seem so insignificant on the face of it. But in my heart I know better. It was the most significant time in our lives.
Roy Disney - In Memorium
I just heard that Roy Disney died this morning. He was a really nice man. Every time I interacted with him at Disney, he was kind, fatherly and encouraged the best quality in his people.
I worked with him on Fantasia 2000, which was his baby. We were in a kind of bubble which was protected by Roy, giving us the opportunity to work on the segments of Fantaisia without as much production pressure as that of the other films in progress at the time.
I continued to work with him later on some shorts which were meant for a third Fantaisia which never materialized as a full feature film. Shorts such as Lorenzo, Destino, My Peoples, Little Match Girl, and a few more were finished and sent to various DVD releases as supplemental material.
One time when I was working on Fantaisia, he happened to see me near my desk and asked me if I wanted to see his new CD player which was in the middle console of his Fararri, the license plates of which were , "Pyewacket," also the name of his sailboat. I went with him outside to check out the CD player, not surprised at all by the high quality of the unit, but amazed by the invitation of having been given this invitation by him as if I was one of his buddies.
He was involved in the films, sometimes hands on, and sometimes in the background. He made visits to the studio every week or two to see how our progress went.
I met his wife at the time, Patty, on several occasions. She was also very nice and cordial, treating me as a friend.
One funny story I have, which is not a first hand account, but since I knew the people involved, I can tell it with certainty. After the night that either Lorenzo or Destino was nominated for best short animated film, Roy, Patty and some people I was working with at the time (the director, producer and visual effects supervisor) get into his limo and went through In and Out Burger. When I heard this the next day from one of them, it really made me laugh and appreciate how he was really one of us, and yet he was a Disney.
I am very proud to be able to say that I worked with Roy Disney.
I've always thought it would be a neat thing to have access to everyone's genealogy. There were a lot of computer programs that came out a few years ago allowing you, the user to create your own family tree. That was a nice start, but the information was limited to your own knowledge.
Now there appear to be sites where you input your own information, and it is connected with the genealogies of other people's families, thus, filling in information that you didn't know.
I haven't tried any of these yet, and so I am writing this post prematurely, but it seems like we're no headed in the right direction.
I know there are some who will feel that they don't want any of their own information shared for whatever reasons they have, but I think that eventually the information will not only serve to satisfy curiosity, but can be of help medically as well.
In Iceland, they literally have their 35 or so generations mapped out exactly from when the first 12 priests came from Norway to settle the Island. This has served the medical field in an interesting way. It means that any anomalies in people can be traced back to their beginnings, and how diseases and other ailments were passed down, and how often they show up in following generations.
There is some breast cancer in Iceland, and I believe it was Decode, a cancer research company, that was able to trace the gene back to one of the original settlers of the island.
Iceland has been extremely diligent about keeping generational information on record. I believe the government keeps track of this information.
I would love it if I could look up anyone's background and see what his or her family story was. I find this so interesting because inevitably someone in all of our histories came to the United States and settled to make a better life for himself and his family. Our history here is really not that long and should be manageable in a big enough genealogy database. The problem is that in a nation where people are even afraid to return their census information for fear of being deported, it would be a challenge to get everyone to participate.
I wish there were one centralized place on the Internet where everyone put his or her genealogical information. It seems to me that Wikipedia could be a good source for having something like this since everyone goes to that site for information anyways. If any of the three people reading this blog happen to know of a good one, leave a comment.
Girl Around the World
Have you heard of Abby Sunderland? You may have read about her brother, Zac, who broke the record for being the youngest person to ever sail around the world by himself. He just returned to the U.S. this past July after sailing for 13 months.
Well, his sixteen-year-old sister has decided to do it in seven months, unassisted and without stopping on land. I heard her interviewed on KFI 640 AM on the John and Ken Show today and found her attitude so interesting.
When asked if she wanted to break her brother's record, she answered yes, but not with a feeling of competition, but out of just wanting to do something special. I got the sense that everyone in her family supports each other in their endeavors. And when she was questioned on what would happen if she needed assistance or had to make a stop on land for some reason, she said it wouldn't bother her. Her goal is to break some records, but she's going to enjoy the trip either way and she's certainly not going to risk her life for a record.
She described how she plans to sleep in twenty minute spurts throughout her voyage, both day and night, and how her 40 foot sailboat, "Wild Eyes," has an auto-pilot, radar and some other sensor which will tell her if she's going off course or nearing any other vessels in the open ocean.
It made me think about myself at age sixteen. I just could not and would not have wanted to do this. I would have been scared of feeling alone and afraid of the unknown. Yet, when asked if she is nervous about her trip, which is to commence at the end of December, she said that she is indeed nervous, but that it's part of the adventure.
She grew up (or shall I saw, is growing up) in Thousand Oaks, California. And there seems to be something in her family about going out and just doing things, extending one's experiences, and not limiting oneself. It sounds like a very healthy environment to come from.
I wish her the best on her adventure.
Abby's Website
Beach Clubs, Pier Rides and Canals
Hmmm, now where could I be referring to? Well, either Coney Island, or Santa Monica and Venice of old.
There are some really cool things about Santa Monica and Venice of yester-year. For instance, there used to be big beach clubs with outdoor and indoor pools, bathhouses, and were the kinds of places that had their own food, towel and umbrella service on the sand.
There are still a few of these left, but they are now very exclusive. One in particular is the Jonathan Club, which unfortunately was also known for discrimination.
But the clubs I am speaking of were right next to the Santa Monica Pier. The parking lot that sits to the North of the base of the pier was a huge pool and bathhouse. Then South of the pier were three big beach clubs in a row.
I lived in the most Northern of these, which was called The Sea Castle by the time I lived in it. But, like most of those buildings, it had numerous names throughout its history.
There were changing and showering rooms under the building that you would get to via elevator. Then, when you were ready for the sand, you'd simply climb up a set of broad stairs that let out onto the sand on the West side of the strand. All of the hotels had this feature.
Another interesting tid-bit was that the surf came a lot closer to the strand back then. You can see this in photographs and drawings of the time. Sand has built up over the years since making Santa Monica Pier one of the longest land-piers in existence.
Muscle beach existed just South of the Santa Monica Pier. It later moved to the strand in Venice hear Windward Circle.
Santa Monica Pier used to have a long jetty, which paralleled the beach protecting boats, which anchored near the pier. Several storms have torn most of this jetty down. But when you stand on the North side of the pier, you can still see the water hitting something just below the surface; those are the rocks that still remain.
In about 1984, there was a huge storm that ate up the whole West end of the pier. I happened to be driving by during that specific storm and remember breakers which must have been 15 feet; just massive. The entire time I was living at the Sea Castle, the end of the pier was fenced off, and the Venice Pier was also shut because it had eroded so badly.
Since that time, both have been restored. The Santa Monica Pier has some fun rides and is always active on a Friday night. There's a roller coaster, a very high Ferris wheel, and more rides meant to jostle one's brain around.
What's really interesting is that there used to be several more piers along this coast. There was the Pacific Ocean Pier (POP Pier), which was totally full of rides of all kinds. Then there was a pier just adjacent to Windward Circle. There still stands a breakwater that is parallel to the sand at that location. This breakwater used to protect this stout pier.
And then, of course, the canals. Abbott Kinney, who was some sort of entrepreneur and financier, developed the Venice Canals to be like its namesake in Italy. There is now one Grand Canal, which runs from Marina Del Rey and feeds four fingers just North of Washington. There is also a canal that runs parallel to the Grand Canal on the East side of the fingers.
However, originally the canals were much more extensive. They ran around Windward Circle and North East of that location; all connected together. There is a comparison picture in one of two books I will tell you about soon. This picture shows the canals back then, and those same houses along the canal now sitting on asphalt streets.
There was also a miniature train that ran around Windward Circle and back east and around some portion of the canal area. That train was long since taken out and now resides in Los Gatos, CA.
There are two wonderful books on this topic. The "Santa Monica Pier" and "Venice of America: Coney Island of the West." Jeffrey Stanton wrote both. I believe that both books were out of print, but that the Venice book may now be available again, with the Santa Monica book still being out of print. I have copies of each, and they are among my favorite possessions.
Jeffrey's Website Jeffrey Stanton (at right)
Just a note that you can find the books on Amazon, but be careful and ask the person selling the books to make sure they are the full sized (about 12 inch wide x 9 inch high ) books. There are some smaller sized versions of the books out there, but you want the original large sized, First Edition books.
Things seem so quiet, and they are indeed. I was recently on the Walt Disney Lot for lunch with a friend. We ate in the main commissary, outdoors since it was a sunny day. I was surprised at how few people were walking around Mickey Lane and Dopey Drive, some of the main studio streets nearest the commissary and employee shops.
It was a testament as to how many people have been let go from Walt Disney. They started the process of cutting jobs way back in 2001, when I was working on Treasure Planet. I remember the first round of layoffs involved a lot of our Layout Artists. These were artists who has spent years going to art school and studying the masters of illustration, life-drawing and composition, who were now being let go in two weeks.
I specifically remember a layout artist named Jeff who was a very tall, broad guy with long hair and who had a woodsy way about him. He was a tough man, and a straight shooter, and someone you'd want to watch a good ball game with. He was a fine artist proven by the fact that the head of our layout department relied on him very heavily on a day-to-day basis. And yet, he was one of the casualties. I could see the pain in his face after he was told. I wasn't in the meeting, but he walked through the hallway back to his office, and I knew him well enough to know how much he hurt just then. It was really tough for me to witness.
It looks like the studio has cut jobs all over the place, because I literally checked my thinking cap to verify that it was a Friday, and not a weekend that I was there. I know what Fridays were like on the Lot just a few years before; the bustling of employees to get some food, then hit the Disney employee center for tickets and upcoming events and to retrieve their laundry, then to do a quick check of the Disney consumer products side with high-quality Disney sweat shirts, plush toys, costumes and other goodies. And on this day, it was dead.
Now we're in the Christmas season. The malls have a lot of people in them, but not to the extent of recent years. Shoppers don't surround the kiosks selling impulse items with three or so workers working the kiosk, and the food courts aren't completely insane. We should be thankful because it makes the experience easier. But it's also a sad sign of how deep the economic problems still lay in California.
As I write this, I am waiting (again) to show property to a potential buyer in Canyon Country, a newly developed area about twenty minutes North of Los Angeles. And all around me are for sale signs, many of which have hanging riders attached that say either, "bank owned," or "short pay" (short sale).
It's such a hard time for everyone. My friend says now is the time to feel good about being self-sufficient. That's a great attitude, and I wish I had more of it. My family's priority right now is to get the rent paid, get the water and power bill paid, feed ourselves, buy some gasoline for our autos, and hopefully keep the cell phones on. Anything beyond that is a luxury we have to do without.
I'm looking forward to when this period is passed, and maybe my friend is right. Maybe I'll feel good about having gotten through it like Barry Manilow sings in, "I made it through the rain."
Raining Cats and Dogs
I was thinking of different phrases today while driving in the rain. Phrases which are strange when you think about it. One such is, "Raining cats and dogs." Then there's, "Flying off the handle," and "Make no bones about it." Really visually strange sayings when you give them some thought.
There are so many of these in our language that we've just grown up with, but we seldom question their origins.
I found a website where they go into a bit of research into phrases; it looks like it's from the UK. I looked up some, and it's really very interesting. Like what are the possible originals of, "The whole nine yards," or "Dressed to the nines."
Check out some of the expressions you can think of via the link below, and click on the "Meanings and Origins" button:
http://www.phrases.org.uk/
Bopping Around Europe
I saw some pictures yesterday of friends of mine who were going around Europe with their back packs in the late 1990's. They went to London, France, Germany, Switzerland, the Netherlands, and then up into Sweden and Norway (I've been to London and Norway myself, but not to those other countries).
It looked like a lot of fun. It must have been summertime by the way the light was in the photos, and I could tell that the trip was pretty well planned by how many sites they got to see in the number of days they were on the trip. I'm sure that traveling was a bit easier and not as worrisome as it is in our post-911 world.
It made me think of the time I would have done this myself. It would have been just about the time I went to work at the group-homes (see the post two days ago). I was either motivated or pressured to work right away after graduating university, so the beginning of my traveling and exploration ended up being a decade later.
It was in 1996 that my production manager told me I needed to go to London to carry a ¾" videotape to a CGI conference that would take place over a few days. Ironically, someone had just before this told me to get a passport because companies like Disney at the time were known for sending employees around the world for things.
So my first steps outside of the U.S. were at Heathrow Airport. I was sent with three other employees; David, a visual effects supervisor, Beth, another assistant production manager like me, and Kathleen, an operations person. Upon arrival, the one person with us who had traveled abroad the most, David, told us all to try to stay up all the rest of that day, and then go to sleep that night.
This, I found out, was impossible for me. As soon as I got to my hotel room, I went to sleep on my bed for a few hours. Upon waking up and finding the others roaming around the hotel, David saw me and said, "Oh, you couldn't stay awake, could you?" By then it was around dinnertime, so we all went and got something to eat nearby; I forget where.
And really, the whole thing was preposterous. My job, as I said, was just to bring the tape to this conference every day. It was basically just a free trip to London. I was on the production, "Fantasia 2000." There were others from Disney and who were from another production, "Dinosaur," who were also there. Each of the, maybe three days I was supposed to be there, once I brought the CG tape back to the hotel after the conference, I was free to explore.
David, Beth, Kathleen and I went to see the changing of the guard, the Palace, Big Ben, and a lot of other sites. We found a pub not far from the hotel which was near Hyde Park, and went underground to see get drinks. We got pretty smashed that night and walked back to the hotel.
Even more ridiculous was that when our three days were up, and the conference was over, we all called our higher up's at Disney and asked if we could just stay the rest of the week and through the weekend, making it an even week. I remember about a half hour of having to wait for calls back from Disney with a decision. But in the end, the decision was that we could stay and that Disney would re-arrange our departure flights for the end of the seven days.
We went to visit an animation studio called Richard Purdum Studios. Again, David lead us since he had been there before and knew his way around. It was a small studio where Richard, the director and owner, had his own drawing studio upstairs in what all I can describe as a bird perch. He had a glass dome office that looked out onto the city; it was really beautiful.
A few nights later, I found myself sitting with David, Beth, Kathleen, some producers who happened to join in for the evening, and Roy Disney and his wife. There I was, only two years at Disney sitting at dinner with Roy Disney in London. I almost had to pinch myself.
Knowing what I know about Disney and the economic situation now, this would never happen. In fact, with the exception of when Disney flew me to Montana with a director and animator about a year later, few people except executives and directors were sent on trips after about year 1998.
Looking back, I still would have liked to have done the Euro-backpacking thing about ten years earlier when one doesn't have to worry about such things as jobs and income; when the parents just send one off to see the far sides of the Earth.
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Subject: anyone know a list of the cultures?
Any of you guys know which cultures will be represented in the expansion?
The only info so far comes from a playtest example and some leader card images, so we know there will be at least romans, japanese, greeks, egyptians, carthginians and vikings. 6 out of a total 14.
so 7 out of 14 left.
Box art seems to indicate that there will be Mayans.
This is pure speculation, but it seems like Babylonians, Celts, Chinese, Indians, and Persians would be likely candidates.
I would bet on aztecs, maya and/ or incas. At least one of those is likely to be included.


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- The venue of the Arab Economic and Social Development Summit held recently – Beirut, Lebanon
- The amount of the 'Standby Swap' facility approved by the govt within the existing overall $2-bn currency swap arrangement for SAARC member-countries - $400mn
- The third air base set up by the Indian navy in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands to beef up surveillance in the Indian Ocean region – INS Kohassa
- Captain of the men's Test and ODI teams of the year (2018) announced by the International Cricket Council – Virat Kohli
- The defence exercise conducted recently along the Indian coastline by the Indian Navy, Indian Coast Guard and other stakeholders – Sea Vigil
- India's position on the Global Talent Competitive Index 2019 topped by Switzerland – 80th
- Winner of Woman's Voice Award at the Apeejay Kolkata Literary Festival – Ranjani Murali
- The state which has topped in terms of Gross State Domestic Product with growth rate of 11.3 per cent in FY18, according to a report by Crisil - Bihar
- The person who took charge as the Managing Director and CEO of Axis Bank recently – Amitabh Chaudhry
- The first player in history to win all three top ICC awards – the Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy for ICC Cricketer of the Year, the ICC Men's Test Player of the Year and the ICC ODI Player of the Year awards for 2018 – Virat Kohli
- The growth rate of China's economy in 2018 – 6.6 per cent
- The capital infusion approved by the govt in the Exim Bank of India - 6,000 cr
- The World Capital of Architecture for 2020 as announced by the UNESCO – Rio de Janeiro
- The country which assumed the chairmanship of G77 recently - Palestine
- The state which has launched a 1,000 cr Sustainable Catchment Forest Management (SCATFORM) project - Tripura
- Winner of the first Sheikh Saud International Prize for Materials Research – CNR Rao
- The state which topped the medals tally with 228 medals at the Khelo India Youth Games 2019 concluded recently in Pune - Maharashtra
- The first private sector firms to cross 10,000 cr quarterly profit - RIL
- The person who has become India's youngest grandmaster – Gukesh Dommaraju
- The country with which India recently signed a long-term contract for supply of uranium - Uzbekistan
- The present Prime Minister of Denmark who visited India recently – Lars Lokke Rasmussen
- The city which hosted the 10th edition of the India Rubber Expo 2019 recently - Mumbai
- The four-day-long harvest festival celebrated recently in Tamil Nadu - Pongal
- The city where Prime Minister Narendra Modi recently inaugurated the National Museum of Indian Cinema (NMIC) - Mumbai
- The India wrestler who has become the first Indian to be nominated in Laureus World Comeback of Year Award – Vinesh Phogat
- The capital of Kenya where a teroorist attack in Dusit D2 Hotel and offices complex killed several people recently - Nairobi
- The venue of the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) - Davos
- The new Secretary General of National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) – Jaideep Govind
- The bank on which the RBI recently imposed a monetary penalty of -cr for non-compliance with norms – Bank of Maharashtra
- The world's most dynamic city according to the sixth City Momentum Index - Bengaluru
- The person who resigned recently as the executive director of Federal Bank – Ganesh Sankaran
- The present Finance Secretary who has been given a one-month extension in service and named as a member of the 15th Finance Commission – Ajay Narayan Jha
- Winner of the Gandhi Peace Prize for 2018 – Yohei Sasakawa
- The venue of the 9th International Micro Irrigation Conference held recently - Aurangabad
- The head of the seven-member Group of Minister (GoM) to examine and suggest ways to resolve issues related to the real estate sector – Nitin Patel
- The bank which has created a separate vertical comprising around 1,200 of its existing staffers to recover its non-performing assets – Syndicate Bank
- Winner of the 2019 Premier Badminton League – Bengaluru Raptors
- Winner of the Pro Kabaddi Season Six – Bengaluru Bulls
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- Consumer Price Index (CPI)-based inflation in Dec 2018 – 2.19 per cent
- Index of Industrial Production (IIP) in Nov 2018 – 0.5 per cent
- The Nikkei India Services Purchasing Managers Index (PMI) in Dec 2018 – 53.2
- Winner of the first-ever Philip Kotler Presidential award for his outstanding leadership for the nation – Narendra Modi
- The venue of the 15th Pravasi Bharatiya Divas (PBD) 2019 - Varanasi
- The theme of PBD 2019 – Role of Indian Diaspora in Building a New India
- The youngest gold medallist at the 2019 Khelo India Youth Games in Pune – Abhinav Shaw
- The person whose appointment as non-executive part-time Chairman of the board of YES Bank was approved by the RBI recently – Brahm Dutt
- The banker-turned-politician who passed away recently – Meera Sanyal
- The state where the National Wildlife Board recently cleared ONGC's Trishna gas project situated in Trishna Wildlife Sanctuary - Tripura
- The state where the 'Ama Ghare LED' scheme was launched recently - Odisha
- The state where Supreme Court recently gave its nod to govt's Chardham development plan - Uttarakhand
- The state which hosted the 25th edition of the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII's) Partnership Summit - Maharashtra
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- The country where Tata Steel's Plant was declared by the World Economic Forum as 'Manufacturing Lighthouse' - Netherlands
- The new tax exemption limit for firms in annual revenue set by the GST Council - 40 lakh
- The present President of the Indian Weightlifting Federation who has been named Chef de Mission for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics – Birendra Prasad Baishya
- The state where Chief Minister Pema Khandu inaugurated India's longest (300-metre-long) single-lane steel cable suspension bridge over Siang river recently – Arunachal Pradesh
- The IIT where scientists have created 'space fuel' by simulating interstellar conditions in the lab – IIT Madras
- The state which has bagged the Central Board of Irrigation and Power award for speedy execution of Polavaram multipurpose project – Andhra Pradesh
- The state where PM Narendra Modi laid foundation stone of North Koel (Mandal Dam) project and Kanhar Stone Pipeline irrigation system recently - Jharkhand
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- The High Court which recently set a seven-day notice period for political parties and individuals to call for hartal and general strike in the State – Kerala High Court
- The new Director General of the Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) – Kumar Rajesh Chandra
- The Constitutional Amendment Bill through which ten per cent reservation in govt jobs and educational institutions to the economically backward among upper castes has been given – 124th
- The host city of the second edition of Khelo India Youth Games - Pune
- The state which recently announced to give interest-free loans to farmers - Uttarakhand
- The first woman to join International Monetary Fund (IMF) recently as its Chief Economist – Gita Gopinath
- The number of regional rural banks (RRBs) in the country after recent amalgamation in Bihar and Punjab - 53
- Winner of the women's singles title of the 2018 Hopman Cup tennis tournament – Belinda Bencic
- Winner of the men's singles title – Roger Federer
- The estimated growth rate of the Indian economy in 2018-19 as per the Central Statistics Office (CSO) – 7.2 per cent
- The chairman of the high-level committee that will work towards deepening digital payments in India – Nandan Nilekani
- The state which has announced interest-free loans of up to 3 lakh for women self-help groups (WSHGs) in the state - Odisha
- Winner of the best motion picture drama award at the 76th Annual Golden Globe Awards – Bohemian Rhapsody
- The Iranian private sector back which has been allowed to open its branch in Mumbai – Bank Pasargad
- The present Prime Minister of Norway who visited New Delhi recently – Erna Solberg
- The person sworn in as Prime Minister of Bangladesh for the third consecutive term recently – Sheikh Hasina
- The country against which India won their first ever Cricket Test series on their soil recently - Australia
- The country which recently cleared the extradition of Sanjeev Chawla, an accused of match-fixing in 2000 - UK
- The private sector bank which will buy mortgage provider Gruh Finance Ltd – Bandhan Bank
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Many Christian young adults enrolling in evangelical colleges have a limited understanding of what Scripture teaches or a solid grasp of what they believe. Often, they have not developed personal practices that make space for God, and are sometimes discouraged when attempting to spend time with him.
The college years are a time in life when students establish their own beliefs and apply them to the decisions that they make in the future. It is critically important that they are confident in their relationship with God and know how their lives connect with his purposes for reconciling the world to himself. This kind of knowing takes place when the inner life is shaped to conform to Jesus' life so that the outer life and all of its relationships are transformed. This is spiritual formation.
Spiritual formation on a Christian college campus can take place in a variety of ways, but central to its efficacy are mentors who lead by example. This project offers a plan for building a spiritual foundation into students through solitude, small group community, and outreach ministry.
While specifically written for Westmont College, its design is applicable for other Christian colleges. Part One examines the spiritual quest of the millennial generation and the particular needs and challenges at Westmont. Part Two provides a biblical and theological framework for spiritual formation. Part Three outlines a strategy for contemplative retreats, small group study, and mission outreach, and it concludes with a method for evaluating outcomes.
At a time when the Church holds little interest for millennials, even though curiosity about spirituality is growing, evangelical colleges have a tremendous opportunity to provide spiritual training that will bolster their students' academics and give them meaning and purpose long after they graduate.
Noling, Kathleen Strutt, "Transforming Lives at Westmont College through Solitude, Community, and Ministry" (2017). Doctor of Ministry Projects. 308.


Yesterday I drove to Corsicana, Texas, to preach for my friend Pastor Chad Owens, who pastors the Unity Baptist Church. The Lord has been so good! God gave 5 souls this week end with a total of 10 for the entire week. Ian made a profession of faith this morning and is going to be baptized tonight! Pastor Owens is a great soul winner and a big promoter of Missions. He and his church have started almost a dozen churches in Africa. Last year those churches baptized 13,000 converts. He goes to Africa once a year to visit those churches and hold campaigns. I am thrilled to be a friend to this man of God. Gotta love serving the Lord and soul winning!


Dr. Albert Sandler is committed to providing excellence in dentistry, and stands out as a leading dentist in Methuen. The doctor uses the latest in dentistry techniques and technology to provide you with a beautiful and healthy smile. Additionally, Dr. Albert Sandler believes strongly in education to prevent oral health problems before they occur, and makes sure to keep patients fully informed about their dental health. Read more about Methuen dentist Dr. Albert Sandler below.
A native of the Merrimack Valley, Dr Albert Sandler was born at Lawrence General Hospital. While growing up in Medford, MA, Dr Sandler spent his childhood summers on Arlington Pond In North Salem, NH. Since the age of 9, Dr Sandler had a strong interest in medicine. Dr Sandler knew he wanted to be a dentist early in high school because he loved to work with his hands. After graduating from Medford High School in 1977, Dr Sandler received a B.A. in Biology from Brandeis University in 1981. Meeting his wife Dr Sarah Finne in dental school, Dr Sandler graduated near the top of his class at the University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine in 1985. Upon completing a General Practice Residency program at Sinia Hospital of Baltimore, MD in 1986, Dr Sandler yearned to return to this area where he had spent his childhood summers. "There is nothing like summer in New England".
Living his dream, Dr Albert Sandler has enjoyed practicing in Methuen, MA since 1986. Dr Sandler opened his own private practice in 1994 at 386 Merrimack Street, Methuen MA. In June 2017, the practice was relocated down the street to a brand new state of the art facility at 386 Merrimack Street.
Dr Sandler's quest is to "first-relieve pain, second-remove all oral disease, and third-rebuild beautiful healthy smiles." This is accomplished through compassionate, gentle, meticulous dental care with a strong emphasis on prevention through personalized patient education. "Our experienced staff will give our patients the tools and knowledge to maintain optimal oral health. We are discovering every day the connection between good oral health and our overall health and longevity".
A continuing education junkie, Dr Albert Sandler prides himself on taking 4 to 5 times the minimum requirement for state licensure. Dr Sandler also serves as a clinical instructor to Northern Essex Community College's Dental Assisting Program.
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When Dr Albert Sandler is not in the office, he serves as president of the non-profit Friends of Big Island Pond, on the Board of Directors for the non-profit Big Island Pond Corporation, a past-president and presently Hazzan since 1994 at Etz Hayim Synagogue in Derry,NH , and is a Justice of the Peace in the state of NH officiating over 25 weddings including many interfaith marriages. Dr Sandler loves to spend time on Big Island Pond in Hampstead,NH with his wife Sarah, and their daughters Erin, Alyson, and Jessica, swimming, kayaking, trail biking, boating, and especially waterskiing.


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BMRCL Begins Trial Runs Between Nat'l College – Yelachenahalli
23 Nov 2016 ⋅ by TMRG ⋅ in Bangalore Metro ⋅ 11 Comments
With a train now stationed at the National College Station, the Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation Ltd. on Monday started trial runs (testing) on the 8 km southern 'Reach 4-4A' stretch of the 24.20 km Green Line from National College – Yelachenahalli. The train initially ran between National College & Jayanagar and was operated by a 4 member crew at 10 km per hour with a primary aim to look out for any flaws in the track-system and third rail from which Bangalore's trains derive power.
In the coming weeks, BMRCL's engineers will operate the train further south to Yelachenahalli (earlier known as Puttenahalli) and constantly monitor the train's response at higher speeds, braking & track system performance as well as the interconnection with the Operations Control Centre (OCC). Integrated or rigorous trial runs are expected to begin only after the up-line track and subsystems within the entire underground section are installed by April 2017.
The elevated section between National College – Yelachenahalli, comprises of 2 sub-sections:
• Reach 4 – National College to Rashtreeya Vidyalaya Road – 4.1 km with stations at: National College, Lalbagh, South End Circle, Jayanagar & RV Road.
• Reach 4A – Rashtreeya Vidyalaya Road to Yelachenahalli – 3.9 km with stations at: Banashankari, JP Nagar & Yelachenahalli
Map of Bangalore Metro's Reach 4 & 4A – view Bangalore Metro information
Entering Lalbagh Station – Photo Copyright: BMRCL
Lal Bagh Station – Photo Copyright: BMRCL
Between South End & Jayanagar Station – Photo Copyright: BMRCL
Jayanagar Metro Station – Photo Copyright: BMRCL
Inspection team at Jayanagar Station – Photo Copyright: BMRCL
As far as opening goes, the BMRCL's MD recently indicated they will approach the Commissioner of Metro Rail Safety (CMRS) to inspect the Green Line's entire 12 km pending section from Sampige Road to Yelachenahalli. This includes the 4 km underground section where major finishing works at all 3 stations & shafts at Majestic & Chickpet are pending – see some images here & here. So with this new plan in place, there will be no partial inaugurations and the entire line will open for commercial operations in one-go towards the end of 2017.
For more updates, check out the Bangalore section of The Metro Rail Guy!
11 Responses to "BMRCL Begins Trial Runs Between Nat'l College – Yelachenahalli"
Parthasarathy S says:
End of 2017 is still an year away – that's disappointing (yet again). By that time the stations and infra on the line would've been idle for 3 years!! It would've been more prudent for BMRCL to have constructed this section at a later point in time and use the money at other places to speed up. I'm not an expert, of course but I am not sure the logic behind this kind of execution. IMHO they should just let trains run as far as possible as soon as possible in Bangalore. However limited the results there will be some help from Traffic congestion.
And we are not hearing any news about land acquisition for Phase-II these days which is sad !!!! :O
Are we even going to have a proper network to connect entire city before I plan to retire in another 30 years or before the city chokes on itself, for that matter? I don't know.
Not Antaryaami says:
You are not stupid. And hence, over qualified to work at BMRCL's planning committee.
Ronith says:
TMRG, have they constructed the RV Road station while keeping in mind that it will be a interchange station or will they have to start on that again?
Hi, they'll construct a parallel new station on its western side. Its location is currently being finalized.
krishnan says:
Solar panels installed in BMRCL depots – NEWS9
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osifUWqkkBY
Hi, the visuals in the video are from elsewhere as they just signed an agreement earlier this month.
T.R. Venkataraghavan says:
I congratulate Namma Metro for working tirelessly in completing Phase 1. Fools always keep complaining no understanding the ground reality. Thank you Metro team.
The only fools are here are us, always believing whatever the deadlines BMRCL spouts.
As TMRG here has repeatedly shown again and again, there is a massive lack of planning and organisation at the top level. They take over an year for bids, and then sanction the bids in the wrong order. They order the unconnected elevated stretch first without even thinking about the connecting underground (and time taking stretch) which then delays the entire project.
They do soil tests and then order the wrong heads for the TBM cutters.
This entire Phase has been nothing but a Comedy of Errors. Even now the BMRCL is fooling us by saying a timeline of completion in Q1 2017. And as TMRG has been saying since a few years, it isn't going to be completed by Q4 2017, and so far every single of this timeline prediction (of when the tunnelling will complete, construction times, etc.) has been accurate.
So, either they are morons, or they are taking us for morons,
I would love to know the ground reality – other than the one that has resulted from the apathy and incompetence of responsible people.
Working tirelessly? 9 years for completion of less than 3/4 of phase-1 in a traffic choked city where approximately 65Bn rupees is lost due to traffic delays (as per BBC article)?
Probably this was meant for other metro projects being executed in other cities.
Please enlighten.
Srinidhi B S says:
I am amazed by your patience and hope. 10 years to build a metro !!!!
Andhra will build a complete new city in a lesser time.
Harish says:
I feel they should start the stretch between National college and Yelachenahalli. Though this is not the complete picture, but it will atleast ease the traffic between JP Nagar and South end circle. The ideal scenario would have been the inauguration of the complete line within Q1 of 2017 (which in itself is far away from the ideal scenario of completion of phase 1 by 2014 🙂 ), but since it would take another year, better to have something than nothing
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Epic Characteristics Subgenres Authors and Works
The epic or epic genre is a form of poetic narrative developed in ancient peoples in order to display the exploits of the heroes of yesteryear. With this enhancement of the heroic figures, it was sought to raise at most the names of the nations to which they belonged and generate fear before their adversaries. Epic Characteristics Subgenres Authors
The epic, also called epic, was generated by ordinary people who, by requiring a figure greater than themselves in which to place their trust, faith, and hope in the face of the continuous invasions and wars that arose, created with stories the figures of supermen that could help them.
This is a custom that still persists. The stories were not always fictitious, in many cases, the exploits of common men were taken and exaggerated generating legends, in which at the end, not even the creators themselves knew what was true and what fantasy.
The origin of the epic is oral. Over time the most famous stories were compiled and transcribed into verses of major art in the well-known great works of the ancient epic, such as the Iliad (for Ilion, the other name by which Troy was known) and the Odyssey ( by Odysseus and his adventures) of Homer, to speak of the Greek contributions.
Although the common references around the epic are the works of Homer -who incidentally did not write these works but dictated them, since he was blind-, two millennia before the Sumerians already had their first epic manifestation, not only oral but also written.
It fell, then, to the inhabitants of the land between rivers to show the world The Epic of Gilgamesh, which narrates the life of the Mesopotamian titan who ruled Sumer.
This epic was written on clay tablets in cuneiform characters, around 2700 BC. C. approximately; to date, it is the oldest written epic poem. Epic Characteristics Subgenres Authors
Influence of the epics
One could talk about various interesting topics to activate thought, but what is involved in this document is to highlight the power that these stories had to raise the morale of the peoples in which they arose.
In addition to the aforementioned, these stories aroused fear in the opposing sides of the believing peoples when the stories of Enkidu (Mesopotamian titan), Achilles or Aeneas (heroes of the Trojan war) or of Set or of Horus (Egyptian gods), to name a few.
The towns repeated the stories so much, with such fervor and intensity, that the characters went from popular imagery to cult, to religion. If we are located between the year 3000 a. C. and the year 500 a. C., what is manifested in this section is not so implausible.
The towns were ruled by myths. They were very superstitious; Therefore, a well-told story, with demigod heroes fighting for a population, generated in the inhabitants of those lands a euphoria in the battles. In the credulous enemies it came to unleash immense fear.
This point highlights how strong oral and written legacy can be in a population to generate momentous changes. The importance given to oral inheritance and the passage of information until it becomes known is great, the intimate link that shapes the identities of the communities and its link with letters and memory .
Like any narrative genre, the epic has peculiarities that differentiate it from the rest of the manifestations. The most relevant ones will be mentioned and explained below:
They are narrated in poetic prose or in verses of major art
When developing these literary works, the authors resorted to poetry, both free and with meter and rhyme. This attitude responds to a pedagogical-andragogical phenomenon.
The authors not only sought to capture their ideas and have them read and narrated to the population, but they also wanted the residents to memorize their contents.
It was no secret to anyone at that time that, when learning a text, it was easier to do so if each verse had a specific dimension and a sound that related it to another verse element. For this same reason the minstrels were declaiming the news from town to town using quatrains.
Formative and persuasive ideological character
All oral narrative pursues one goal: to communicate, to convey an idea. The epic does not escape this reality. The implementation of the epics sought to strengthen the sense of belonging and union of the inhabitants of the different towns, either those adjacent to the Mediterranean or those deep in Africa or Asia.
The idea of belonging to something greater than the "I" exceeds the man himself. The existence of something greater consumes the minds of men; the epic gave individuals identity.
In addition to giving them the courage to be among their peers, the stories formed them around ideas, customs and habits, and this was inherited from father to son.
Another additive was the possibility of convincing the listener of information, either by continually repeating the idea or by the fact that the conception was massive: if a person did not believe, they were not part of the whole.
Sources could be real
The epic not only based its arguments on myths, it also included real events. These credible events were peppered with exaggerations, which gave the stories more convincing power.
When it was convinced that the origin of the legend was based on truthful facts, the force of the narrative reached a potential of a religious magic character.
They could be structured
As the dimensions of the epic expanded, it was necessary to structure it by chapters, which allowed a better appreciation at the time of being narrated.
It must be understood that all this of the structuring of epics was a product of their evolution, it did not result suddenly. Epic Characteristics Subgenres Authors
Deification of the hero through his exploits
It is rare that some epic poem does not have a protagonist with characteristics of a hero. Now, the characteristics of all these supermen were exaggerated to give them a demigod character, with the aim of generating admiration on the part of the recipient.
It was intended that the inhabitants feel identified: if a subject "x" belongs to the population "y" and the hero "z" comes from that population, then that subject "x" has part of his powers; and if he gets into a conflict, his hero "z" will come out to defend him.
Narrator is omniscient and / or protagonist
When this is stated, it refers to the fact that the narrator may or may not be present during the play. It is not found in the story at every moment, as in the case of the lyrical genre ; however, it is not completely abstracted, as in the case of dramaturgy.
May include other literary genres
Epic is a very broad and responsive genre. During its development it can include, if it is the taste and the imaginative possibility of the author, other literary genres to enrich the plot and achieve other nuances to the narrative.
It is common to see in an epic work apexes of lyrical or drama for didactic purposes. This quality facilitates the extension of the speech in order to achieve a better explanation of the message that you want to convey, of the idea that you want to show.
It is done in the past tense
The lyrical speaker always expresses himself by conjugating the past tense; this, obviously, because it is recounting events that have occurred, it is describing real, fictitious or hybrid events that have already happened.
After the epic was conceived, a series of literary genres with similar characteristics appeared, which were organized and classified as sub-genres of the epic. They will be briefly mentioned and described below: Epic Characteristics Subgenres Authors
This type of narrative is characterized by telling the memorable feats of a subject in favor of humanity or a specific population.
A clear example is in the Mesopotamian epic of Gilgamesh who, after changing his bad mood thanks to his titanic counterpart, Enkidu, goes out into the world to do justice and do heroic deeds.
epic poem
Through verses of major art or poetic prose, this type of narrative is responsible for enhancing the qualities of a hero in order to exalt the nation to which he belongs. It has a distinctly patriotic air.
A clear example is Aquileida , the unfinished poem that Statius dedicated to the hero Achilles and in which he highlights his qualities for the war in favor of his country.
Epic poetic narrative with assonance rhyme, consisting of octosyllabic minor art verses and which is responsible for describing chivalric and warlike actions.
It originated in Spain and has an informative and pedagogical-andragogical purpose; hence the rhyme and the small size of the verses with respect to the Alexandrians.
They are closely linked to the clergy and it is said that their origin is ecclesiastical; however, recent studies have shown that they were in the public domain and used to be a means of efficiently and quickly transmitting the news.
It was very commonly used by minstrels in the 15th century in Spain. These characters were accompanied by lauds in the squares while they sang the news that occurred in neighboring towns in the form of verses. Rhyme and meter reinforced the reception of the people.
Most of the examples present belong to songbooks, such as the Rennert Songbook and the Herberay des Essarts Songbook, both from the 15th century and with marked chivalric tendencies.
Traditional tale
It is one of the most popular epic subgenres. It is the narrative of some real or fictional event that happened to a character or a group.
It is concise and precise. It can be anonymous and / or literary, and almost always has a pedagogical-andragogical motive, seeking to leave a moral.
There are many examples, but one of the earliest manifestations of this subgenre in the Spanish language is Count Lucanor, whose authorship is attributed to the infant Juan Manuel, during the 4th century.
It is a much longer story than the story, but it pursues the same purposes: to narrate the adventures of a protagonist subject in a real or imaginary world.
In this world a series of events takes place that, intertwined with each other, give way to the development of the plot until its denouement. Epic Characteristics Subgenres Authors
Within this subgenre the literary work par excellence in the Spanish language can be named: The ingenious hidalgo: Don Quijote de La Mancha , by Miguel de Cervantes y Saavedra.
Authors and outstanding works
Among the most renowned authors, together with their works, the following stand out:
Homer (7th century BC)
He is credited with being the father of Greek epic. His works, the Iliad and the Odyssey , are world references of this genre.
Publio Virgilio Morón (70 BC-19 BC)
He was the man to whom Octavian Augustus, the first Roman emperor, conferred the honor of bringing the Latin, Sabine, and Etruscan people to the glory of letters.
Virgilio assumed the responsibility with great integrity and produced the Aeneid , the great work that narrates the adventures of Aeneas, the Trojan hero. It is worth noting that Virgil's inspiration lay in the works of Homer.
Dante Alighieri (1265-1321)
Great Italian writer whose epic poem the Divine Comedy represented the transition between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, in terms of thought and conception of the world.
An interesting fact is that the one who guides him on his journey during the plot (the main character is a representation of the writer) in search of his beloved Beatriz, is Virgilio. It was a kind of homage by Dante to the famous Roman poet.
All ancient civilizations made considerable contributions to literature through the epic. This narrative genre served as a link between the peoples and laid the cultural and religious foundations of many of them.
You have to delve into ancient epic narratives to nourish yourself and understand the multiple connections that existed between the different peoples that arose around the Mediterranean. There are multiplicity of links between the epics of these towns.
Historically Greece has been praised for its epics; however, Mesopotamia , Egypt and Ethiopia, to name a few peoples, also had very important contributions. It is necessary to diversify the study and read other options to enrich the perspectives.
Despite its high content of exaggerations, the epic is an important source of historical data. A clear example is the fact that the ruins of Troy and the dominions of Minos, in Crete, were discovered by Heinrich Schliemann thanks to the descriptions given by Homer in the Iliad and the Odyssey .
Epic narratives became the narrative deposit, oral and written, of the experiences of ancient peoples; the most intelligent way, between myth and reality, to perpetuate their experiences and their history. Epic Characteristics Subgenres Authors
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Alumni Focus: Zach Haire
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Zach Haire is a 2018 graduate of Breckenridge High School. He now runs at the University of St. Thomas.
High school PRs: 100m (14.71) 1600m (4:42.49) 3200m (9:55.55) 5000m (16:21.4)
College PRs: 3000m (8:40) 5000m (15:08) 8000m (25:45)
Discuss the transition from high school competition to competing at the college level. What adjustments have you had to make in order to be as successful as possible?
As soon as I arrived on campus, I was surrounded by many likeminded individuals which made hard workouts, lifting, rolling out, icing and all other aspects of running that much easier. Fully focusing my time on running this freshman year has also been a big change. In High School, I wrestled from November-March which was a nice break from distance running, but I didn't reach the track times I wanted come spring. Buying into Coach Wareham's training plan has been instrumental in improving as a runner much quicker than I could have imagined. Along with adjusting the mileage and workouts, I have also vastly improved my nutrition. I have made sure to eat a lot better than I allowed myself to in High School. At UST, it has also been incredibly beneficial to work in upper body gym workouts and core workouts more frequently. Finally, I have made sure to utilize all possible resources on campus whether academically to help manage schoolwork, athletically to stay healthy and fit, or spiritually to focus on what matters most.
Tell us about your training regimen by giving a general overview of what goes into getting prepared for your next big event.
As far as training, consistency as always been key for me. Whether it be for a postseason race or even just daily workouts, my routine is very similar day in and day out. Since I started running cross country freshman year of HS, all the miles and training have compounded with PRs dropping every season. I started around 20-25 miles a week that first year and have slowly upped it every year where now I sit around 65-70 miles. It has been important to never rush anything training-wise while staying healthy and injury free.I have always just trusted my coaches and body which usually has me peaking at the right time.
What athletic-based goals do you hope to accomplish during this upcoming year?
With the cancellation of outdoor track, I am excited to get back to racing in the fall and keep going for new PRs. Some lofty goals for XC next fall are top 5 at the MIAC XC Championships, break 25 minutes in the 8k, and qualify for the National Championships as a team again. In track, I am looking to break 8:30 in the 3k, 14:45 in the 5k, and 31 minutes in the 10k. Hopefully I can qualify for nationals in one of those events. Overall, make the most of our last year in the MIAC while staying healthy and happy.
How has your training and schedule changed because of the current pandemic?
I was looking forward to keeping the momentum going from indoor track right into outdoor track, so it has been a tough mental adjustment going back to a base training phase. Currently, I have been building up mileage since mid-March with two fartleks or longer tempos per week. I am just focusing on building a big base and staying healthy before XC next fall. The biggest struggle being home has been training alone and sticking to a schedule. I have tried to stay motivated and keep doing the little things, but it becomes much tougher when you are at it alone. I plan on taking a week break first week of May and then transition into a slow build of summer mileage. Down the road, I am excited to go on weekly runs with some friends in nearby cities.
Do you have any advice that you can offer an incoming freshman on how to best deal with the higher level of competition they'll encounter at the college level? Also, what tips can you provide regarding the balance between training commitments and academic demands?
First off, I would encourage anyone is unsure whether they want to run in college to do it. I was going back and forth during Junior and Senior year, but I clearly know now that deciding to run at UST was one of the best decisions of my life. Primarily my concerns were regarding balancing athletics with my academics, social life, and faith; however, running has only enhanced those other aspects. Those teammates you spend each day with will become your best friends and the people you can count on down the road. Academically (just like in high school), running year-round will help you stay on a schedule and motivate you to stay on top of things. Also, never be afraid to reach out to your coaches, professors, or friends if you feel like you are falling behind in your classes. They are there to help you!
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