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Undertale Review — Progressively Pointless
If you kill just one monster that threatens you in Undertale, at the end you will be asked, "Is killing things really necessary?" This question isn't morally serious, as developer Toby Fox's message goes on to explain that playing through the game again without killing anything will give you a "happy ending." This awkward moment confirms Undertale as little more than an obstacle course posing as an aspiring pacifist's wet dream.
Though not marketed to children, Undertale often resembles a patronizing lesson for kids. When monsters start fights with you, you can either kill them to become stronger (the traditional role-playing game outcome) or make them lose their will to fight by talking to them, flirting with them, and so on. For one monster, you can select "Don't pick on," and the monster feels much better about itself and can be spared. For another monster, you have to laugh after it tells a joke in order to make peace. However, some enemies must be attacked until they're too weak to continue, so the "merciful" path isn't necessarily obvious. Ultimately, showing mercy is another turn-based routine that can be tedious, raising the question of whether it's violence or monotony that prevents audiences from caring about throwaway characters.
The flaccid stakes in Undertale highlight the lack of a significant message in the killing/mercy dichotomy. Fox wants players to think twice about killing enemies while largely reducing the latter to unfunny punchlines, as when two dark knights finally realize they're into each other or when a flamboyant robot turns into a pop star diva. Undertale's depiction of humankind is even shallower despite the trusty find-a-way-back-home plot. Take a long look at the protagonist. The flaw isn't the lack of next-gen polygons; it's the absence of soul. (Undertale's rambling about the souls of humans and monsters doesn't make up for this limitation, either.)
The off-putting vacancy in the Undertale protagonist's face is especially puzzling given Fox's schmaltzy attempt to undercut typical turn-based combat. Almost jokingly, you dodge the attacks of enemies in real time as a heart avatar. Does Fox think the mere shape of a heart can be a stand-in for human depth? If the little snot you play as is supposed to comment on a hollowness about previous role-playing games, Fox takes the lazy route. The silent protagonist cliche, already parodied well by Super Mario RPG, does not complement any inventiveness Fox squeezes out of the monster encounters. And if the hero is meant to resemble a dead fish to show that "anyone can be a hero," Undertale should come with a bucket to vomit in.
Undertale seems rather desperate when you enter a church and are told "You will be judged for your every action." After a laughable sermon about RPG design ("[EXP] stands for execution points"), you are instructed to think about your actions in Undertale. But what's there to contemplate? Either you managed to spare a goofy-looking thing that attacked you or you didn't. Unlike Jack King-Spooner's Beeswing and Brian Fargo's Wasteland 2, Undertale pushes make-believe morality — a sort of BioShock bullshit — as opposed to situations that get to the essence of life and struggle.
There's a part in Undertale where you can pray to remind an enemy of its conscience. Such flippant moments suggest that Fox misinterpreted Earthbound, Undertale's biggest influence, as merely quirky. Earthbound was strange, but its spiritual consciousness and emotional warmth were striking and genuine, especially in its prayer-centered climax. The final fight in Undertale doesn't have much to show other than creepy sadism. Before the concluding battle, the game literally turns itself off, and it will turn itself off again if you happen to lose. If you win, the binary choice returns: kill or have mercy. If you want to be "good," you have to pick mercy over and over and over before Undertale almost shuts up. Fitting that the big bad guy at one point says, "You idiot. You haven't learned a thing." That's a perfect encapsulation of how pointless Undertale's wannabe progressivism is.
Posted in Uncategorized and tagged church, earthbound, progressive, super mario rpg, toby fox, undertale on December 16, 2015 by Jed Pressgrove. 17 Comments
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Nadia Sariñaña says:
I love you seriously, this is the best Undertale's Review I've seen yet , please never stop writing, I love your writing and how you say so much with very few words.
I especially like the comparison with Bioshock, and the part of "There's a part in Undertale where you can pray to remind an enemy of its conscience. Such flippant moments suggest that Fox misinterpreted Earthbound, Undertale's biggest influence, as merely quirky. Earthbound was strange, but its spiritual consciousness and emotional warmth were striking and genuine, especially in the prayer-centered climax. The final fight in Undertale doesn't have much to show other than creepy sadism. "
Undertale really don't like to me, when I play it, i only thinking about this game how didn't understand anything about Earthbound.
I'm not saying you should be happy or not because we hate this game (or love it) ; But I'm glad of have the same opinion as you about this game.
thanks , continuous writing, you are big.
RodEmerson says:
I dunno I kinda liked it.
I will admit some lack of knowledge here: I've never played Earthbound, so I don't have some of the context you have about it. So moments you may have found to be eye-rolling, I found charming. I still have not quite finished it yet, since Dustforce came along on my computer and have overtaken my video gaming time, but I would be lying if I said it didn't press buttons in me.
One other game that Undertale reminded me of is Moon: RPG Remix Adventure. Only except for the choice game angle Undertale uses, Moon makes the player play through a basic Dragon Quest-style RPG straight. With all the tropes and cliches that genre provides. But then after that, the player is stripped of their role as the hero, instead being cast as an invisible shade, and is forced to play through the game from a very different angle. The hero they played as is still present, and acts out the behavior they did in the previous "run", but is cast as a aimless, rather dim engine of violence, murdering whatever monster that happens to be in his way for the sake of getting stronger. The player is tasked to clean up the mess they made as the hero.
Although I never played it, it seems to have an extremely interesting take on the concept that Undertale tries to tackle. Unfortunately for Undertale, it was made in an era where "choice" games were popular, so it seems to take notes from them.
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vonough says:
I would say that you've addressed quite a lot of things that made me uneasy how the game made me felt. The rather black and white morality was pretty much handled in a way that lacked an amount of depth that could take it farther and the choices you make is either: make friends or be an asshole.
BUT! in it's defense, it's more about deconstruction of the genre's contemporary tropes and cliches, in which case it had done rather nicely in context rather than as a whole. Something that can be improved upon with more effort but still quite remarkable for a one-man job.
Also, it seems that you just stopped playing the game only half-way and concluded the game is pointless where you are visibly angry at the flower for him trying to make a fool of yourself. There is, however a solution in which you can achieve a "true" ending where you play where you left off to make friends with the monsters and unlock yet, another boss that's much closer how Earthbound does it.
As such, I find your review here incomplete; lacking as much as the game lacks in depth.
uhiuhuihiu says:
The 'true' ending leaves a giant, dangling thread where a central character is literally not acknowledged by his parents, and gets zero chance at redemption whatsoever. It's as dissatisfying and shallow as the regular ending is, so this review is still every bit as valid.
lisdfsdf adfhgj says:
Wow there are so many terrible mistakes and flaws in logic in this review I doubt that you played the game before deciding that it was "laughable".
"This question isn't morally serious" Believe whatever you want, lots of conversations have been started by this game.
"…often resembles a patronizing lesson for kids" No shit, do you even know what a 'Frisk' (the name of the main character) is?
"Fox wants players to think twice about killing enemies while largely reducing the latter to unfunny punchlines" This is obviously wrong to anyone who has actually played an RPG, I've never once thought twice about killing a traditional NPC, but these innocent hapless frogs absolutely made me question..
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Okay, been trying to think of the best way to respond to this article without sounding like a fanboy, so I hope I succeed. First, yes, the combat can appear to be pretty simplistic at first, but as the enemies get harder you see how difficult it becomes to keep acting peacefully. Is it really worth taking the high ground when your foes become even harsher? I will agree that there were times when determining the peaceful option was a bit difficult to determine (the fights against Undyne and Mettaton, for example). Yes, the game does expect you to show mercy, even to your most aggressive enemies, but it isn't always easy.
As for some of the other points you bring up – the player character isn't really a cliched silent protagonist, though you need to complete a Pacifist or Genocide run to uncover the mystery behind them. You suggest that the actions taken are irrelevant, but who you spare and how you treat the inhabitants of the Underground will affect the end game, as well as certain moments throughout the main story. And while you dismiss the NPCs, I'm not really seeing any clear reason as to why you didn't enjoy them. A little clarification would have been useful here.
Anyway, hope I said my piece well. Not trying to change your opinion, just stating mine. Sorry that you didn't like it.
"Okay, been trying to think of the best way to respond to this article without sounding like a fanboy, so I hope I succeed. First, yes, the combat can appear to be pretty simplistic at first, but as the enemies get harder you see how difficult it becomes to keep acting peacefully. Is it really worth taking the high ground when your foes become even harsher?"
This here, is actually a major sticking point for me about the game, despite personally finding it charming. Yes, the monsters get harsher, their patterns more difficult, and their [MERCY] path more obscure…but you can't really lose. I don't mean in the usual sense where you get a game over screen and start from your last check point. I mean in a sense more akin to a roguelike, where death means all your progress is undone, and you have to do everything over again.
DETERMINATION breaks the game in multiple ways. The moral choice doesn't come in to play as strongly, simply because you're just a few steps away from the encounter if you ever so happen to lose. Unless a person is coming to the game absolutely fresh with literally no knowledge, I don't feel there's really a point in the game where one truly has to weigh whether to act violently or not, because you're never in a position where you have anything to lose. You're essentially credit feeding the entire game, and the only way for you to truly lose is to stop playing. This is so evident that it's a plot point: The game drills it in to the player's head that there's no way a monster can actually beat a human, because the human it's talking about is the player.
Truly [MERCY] is an apt name for that option, because there's nothing any of the monsters can do to you.
NewRandomAge says:
Determination doesn't mean that you just "do it all over again until you succeed", it is shown in the fight against the final boss in a genocide run that the timeline resets everytime you die until the point where you filled yourself with determination. And the rest of your point is LITERALLY what the game is about in terms of breaking the fourth wall. Congratulations, you got the point of the game. Isn't it cool how a great game can teach you something?
Roguelite elements in Undertale would have killed it completely, it would make no sense.
a575 says:
If you kill just one monster that threatens you in Undertale, at the end you will be asked, "Is killing things really necessary?" This question isn't morally serious, as developer Toby Fox's message goes on to explain that playing through the game again without killing anything will give you a "happy ending."
Don't forget this is in character, it's Flowey baiting the aspiring pacifists to go through the path that will bring him the most material gain.
samsonite789 says:
This review made me think of this song almost immediately:
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AResoundingYeesh says:
Ugh, thank you. I stupidly bought this game years after hearing how good it was, assuming that all the good things said about it were legitimate and that it was a thoughtful game that encourages pacifism and lets you enjoy yourself while doing it. I guess either I heard the wrong things about it, or people were speaking nonsense because what I got instead is so frustrating I don't even feel it's worth $10.
I mean, don't get me wrong, I had some amusing moments with the jokes and all, but overall, I couldn't even get through a whole run of the game. The combat system is tacky and overbearing on some of the boss fights, even if you're trying to be a pacifist; the thought behind it comes across as incredibly shallow (the game seems to resonate most with young teens, at least that's my impression in reading about it after having played some… and disappointingly so too, as I played KOTOR as a young teen and as an adult and I feel like it had far more moral depth and thought-provoking content in it than this game despite not punishing you in exaggerated ways for your choices, which some seem to think is a requirement for the game to send a message); every fight feels like a new reflex test combined with a puzzle that has jack squat to do with morality and defeats the point of encouraging pacifism (I mean, I am a pacifist in RL in all but confidently declared title and I don't see what most of these mechanics have to do with pacifism… you can't even talk to monsters in most cases before they start attacking you – it's amazing how detached from reality the whole thing is while riding the coattails of real morality. In RL, something literally attacking you would induce fight-or-flight and you wouldn't get to decide whether to try to spare the thing, you would just fight or run because you'd be operating on pure instinct).
It feels generous to even call it a game. It feels more like a sermon written by a very well-intentioned but immature 15-year-old who can't decide when it's more important to joke or be serious because they quite seriously don't know better and don't have the moral maturity and social awareness to navigate such an in-depth space. The cult following it has built comes across like an impregnable fortress of recursive reasoning that renames every glaring flaw of the game as important and meaningful simply because it's trying to be important and meaningful, a sentiment akin to saying we should never question the preacher because they are trying to preach.
Never mind the fact that this is a game and that it markets itself as a game, and a playful and light-hearted one at that with a "good message," only to wrap its hands around your throat when you're looking the other way and start squeezing until you pass out. The game seems determined to lure you into thinking that you're here to have a good time, only to pull the rug out from under you and make you feel miserable. A fan of the game might think I'm describing playing genocide, but I haven't even tried that. Just trying to play pacifist alone is miserable enough. You character is portrayed as a kid, trying to get home, in the midst of literal monsters, and you are supposed to dodge literal attacks from literal monsters in forced encounters to avoid hurting them, while you try to get home. Oh but the monsters are people too and you are traipsing through their land, a defender of the game might say. In what land do people attack you for trying to walk through their territory, with no effort made to communicate first and in many cases, no coordination between them either? Situations have undoubtedly existed like that throughout human history, but I wish you luck convincing someone that the way to navigate such a situation is to blindly plow forward while attempting to run or sooth every single person you encounter along the way. You can't befriend a damn escort or something? Find some leader in charge who will mark you as a friend? FFS.
This "game" is a clear attempt to be "art" and I can't stand "art" that forces its protagonist and cast of characters and internal logic to be dumb, to try to make its message seem smart.
If only the game was a comedy, it could probably be excused for its shoddy holes, but its attempts to go for "high art" put it deservedly in a box where it deserves to be criticized for every overhyped, underhanded trick it tries to pull to insist upon itself as something meaningful.
This is the Jonestown kool-aid of video games and I'm not drinking it.


i cant play this game anymore cause i got a system rank 5 with a item reward.
The item reward button is broken so every time you click on it your game is crashed. it says to you cant start a mission until you claim this reward.


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What Woody Allen does best, other than writing a damn smart comedy (a few damn smart dramas as well), is elicit some damn fine performances out of his stars - something he does once again in Blue Jasmine. Cate Blanchett, as atypically self-absorbed Allen leading lady, has been getting kudos upon kudos ever since the film first opened, and on top of all this, award accolades and chants of the actor's second Oscar have spewed from almost every Academy Award pundant out there. Even many of those who dislike the film (and some do quite hate the thing) still praise Blanchett's work in said film. Her ability to make her audience laugh and cry in one single scene, sometimes in one single take or shot, is quite astounding indeed. Not many actors can pull off such a feat, and Blanchett does it time and time again in Blue Jasmine. Of course, we should not, in our praise for Blanchett, forget the great supporting performance handed in by Sally Hawkins as Blanchett's sister in the film. These two performances shine through and deserve the accolades they are receiving, but at the same time, we should not forget that Woody Allen (here we go) has seemed to returned to form in his latest film. Well, yeah, I couldn't go the whole time without saying that, now could I? Seriously though, Blue Jasmine, with its inherent wit and witticisms, is one of Allen's better works, and deserves to be included, if not in his golden first tier, then in his strong and charming second one for sure.
This review can also be read over at my film site, The Most Beautiful Fraud in the World.
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Sr. Graphic - Digital Designer
Regional Representative Associate, Denver CO
Director of the Rural Innovation Network
Rural Innovation Strategies Inc.
Asheville Humane Society
Gulf Coast Community Foundation
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Emerald Cities Collaborative
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Internal Number: HRC0668474A
Align yourself with an organization that has a reputation for excellence! Cedars-Sinai was awarded the National Research Corporation's Consumer Choice Award 19 years in a row for providing the highest-quality medical care in Los Angeles. We were also awarded the Advisory Board Company's Workplace of the Year. This recognizes hospitals and health systems nationwide that have outstanding levels of employee engagement. Join us! Discover why U.S. News & World Report has named us one of America's Best Hospitals.
What you will be doing:
Produces print and digital media; generates original graphical creation of digital and print products such as brochures, one-sheets, folders and other pieces of print collateral; Design aesthetic should translate across broadcast and digital channels that address institutional messaging, patient education, consumer experience, physician and patient referrals/accruals and retention
Collaborates strategically with writers, web designers/developers, photo/videographers, project coordinators and marketing managers to obtain approvals and revise designs to meet institutional and client needs
Prepares and executes all files for output to production (professional or in-house)
Plans and prepares that all assets are created with accuracy and that projects are completed as scheduled
Maintains vendor relationships and sources for new vendors to meet project needs as needed
Assists in the oversight of freelance and agency design work, to ensure files are setup accurately and expertly
Collaborates in project workflow and freelancer/agency assignments
Identifies inefficacies within our current processes to ensure and improve upon consistency of printed and digital materials and their delivery
Designs to support house wide emergency/crisis communications, advertisement (web, print, video), institutional digital signage and videos, and inpatient the TV system
What we're looking for:
High School Diploma or GED required. Bachelors Degree Fine Arts, Graphic Arts, Multi-Media Arts, Interactive designs or a related major preferred.
A minimum of 8 years of professional experience as a designer producing print and digital materials in an agency or in-house setting is required. Experience in health care or academia preferred.
A minimum of 4 years of proven experience in a senior or lead designer role, including supervision of other designers, freelancers, or creatives of various skill levels in health care or academia preferred.
Why work here?
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Working Title: Sr. Graphic - Digital Designer
Department: Creative Services
Business Entity: Corporate Services
Job Category: Marketing/Communications
Job Specialty: Creative Media
Position Type: Full-time
Shift Length: 8 hour shift
Shift Type: Day
About Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Providing healthcare for more than 100 years, Cedars-Sinai has evolved into one of the most dynamic and highly renowned medical centers in the world. Along with caring for patients, Cedars-Sinai is a hub for biomedical research and a training center for future physicians and other healthcare professionals. This attracts exceptional talent to Cedars-Sinai, including world-renowned physician-scientists who seek a place where they can both conduct research and see patients--the ideal formula for discovery and its translation into cures. Our patients benefit from access to doctors at the top of their fields, and our researchers have an ideal community in which to study the impact of healthcare challenges, and reflect that knowledge in their research. The greater Los Angeles area in which Cedars-Sinai resides possesses unparalleled cultural and ethnic diversity which offers outstanding opportunities for translational and clinical research and a dynamic environment for medical education.Although community based, Cedars-Sinai is a major t...eaching hospital affiliated with the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Cedars-Sinai has highly competitive graduate medical education programs in more than 50 specialty and subspecialty areas, a graduate program in biomedical sciences and translational medicine, a clinical scholars program directed towards junior physicians with aspirations to become clinical scientists, and post graduate training opportunities.There are more than 250 full-time faculty members at Cedars-Sinai. The voluntary medical staff, comprised of more than 2,200 specialty board-certified or board-qualified physicians, represent all of the specialties and subspecialties and collaborate with full-time medical staff in the teaching responsibilities of the graduate medical education programs.
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Q: How to use a simple select in entity framework 6 How can I query my Entity Framework 6 object by the primary key.
I have the following code:
using (var db = new bookEntities()){
    var books = db.books.where // this doesn't work as work command is not available

     var books = from b in db.books
          where b.book_id == 1
          select b; // results in compilation error: "Could not find an implementation of the query pattern of source type System.Data.Entity.DbSet...
}

db.books return System.Data.Entity.DbSet<book>
My goal is to implement Eager Lazy loading, but I need to know how to access the data first. I followed this tutorial, but it's not working for me.
Worht mentioning that I am running the code within a class in ASP.NET 4.5 web projects with entity Framework 6 (latest version). I followed several tutorials, but always get the same results.
At the top of the class:
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Web;

When running the project I get:
Parser Error Message: Could not load type 'System.Data.Entity.Design.AspNet.EntityDesignerBuildProvider'.

Thanks

A: Random guess, since I don't have a setup where I can test this, but I think you'd need:
using System.Data.Linq;

A: Your using statement is fine.  It should be using System.Linq.  Not using System.Data.Linq.
Check that you have the proper reference in your web.config file:
<assemblies>

    <add assembly="System.Data.Entity.Design, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=B77A5C561934E089" />

</assemblies>

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Q: Close popup on cancel of javascript button. In one modal popup, I am updating values, and upon save button click, before updating I am asking user by javascript message box : "Are you sure....?"
This I am doing by following code:
 btnSave.Attributes.Add("onclick", "javascript:return " & "confirm('Are you sure " & RbtnConfirm.SelectedValue & " ' )")

But when user clicks cancel, I want to close that whole modal popup by:
modalpopup1.hide() method
I am confused how and where should I include this line of code?
From where can I get whether btnSave.Attributes.Add("onclick", "javascript:return " & "confirm('Are you sure " & RbtnConfirm.SelectedValue & " ' )") has returned false or true?
Please help me.

A: Move the confirm call to separate function, ie.:
include this in your .ascx/.aspx:
<script>
  function myconfirm(sValue) {
     var bValue = confirm(sValue);
     if (!bValue) {
       modalpopup1.hide();
     }
     return bValue;
  }
</script>

in codebehind:
btnSave.Attributes.Add("onclick", "javascript:return " & "myconfirm('Are you sure " & RbtnConfirm.SelectedValue & " ' )")

A: why the return " & "?
Anyway for inline (which is not recommended), just do
btnSave.Attributes.Add("onclick", "if (confirm('Are you sure " & RbtnConfirm.SelectedValue & " ' )) modalpopup1.hide()")


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Q: Huge PDF file size with PdfDocument on older Android I'm developing an Android app which generates PDF files. I'm using the Android PdfDocument api to do this. It works nice but I noticed that on older versions of Android (I tested 4.4 and 5.0) the size of the generated PDF is huge (about 80 MB for eight A4 pages). On Android 6.0.1 is about 2.2 MB. Does someone know what could be the issue here?
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Historic Mount Pleasant
Supporting historic preservation in Mt. Pleasant, DC
HMP History
Board & Design Review Committee
Building Permits & Design Review
Mount Pleasant History
Planning a renovation or addition in the Mount Pleasant Historic District?
>> Start here <<
Annual Holiday Party
HMP's annual holiday party will be held on Friday, December 6, 2019 from 7-10 pm at the Home of David Alfuth & Raymond DiPhillips,
1710 Lamont St. NW. HMP Members & Guests and Prospective Members are invited to attend.
Historic Mount Pleasant Annual Report
REPORT OF ACTIVITIES FOR FISCAL YEAR 2018 has been published.
Browse: Home / About Us
Historic Mount Pleasant was incorporated in 1985 to support and strengthen local and national historic preservation laws and, more specifically, to take the steps necessary to achieve the designation of Mount Pleasant as a historic district under the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966. Mount Pleasant was designated a historic district under federal and D.C. law in 1987. (You may view the approved application at the Mount Pleasant Library.)
Since that time, we have worked within the neighborhood and with District agencies to identify architectural elements worthy of protection and to preserve those elements. In 1991, we published Guidelines for Building Permits in the Mount Pleasant Historic District, a practical guide intended to assist homeowners understand the permit process and the design elements that would be important in gaining approval by D.C. agencies. The Guidelines have been updated and remain the most complete description of issues relevant to exterior renovations of Mount Pleasant homes. We urge neighbors contemplating renovations to become familiar with the Guidelines and to share their plans at an early stage with our Design Review Committee.
HMP's activities are guided by a Board of Directors and governed by Bylaws established by the Board (members of the current Board of Directors are listed below). In addition to ongoing design review work, we offer occasional programs (such as workshops on window repair and Heritage and Call Box Trail walks). Proceeds from memberships and occasional fundraisers–for many years we hosted an annual yard sale–are used to fund these activities. We also occasionally make small grants for specific neighborhood projects. We hold an annual holiday party in December, ordinarily at a private home, which also serves as a means of encouraging new members to join and existing members to renew memberships. We have a general membership meeting annually, ususally in late February or early March, at which the Board of Directors is elected and design awards may be given for outstanding residential or commercial renovations undertaken during the prior year. An Annual Report of the prior year's activities is made available at the meeting.
We are a membership organization and invite others interested in historic preservation, particularly those new to Mount Pleasant, to join with us, learn about the current challenges to sustaining the unique and valuable features of our neighborhood, and help us protect and preserve them for future generations. Please volunteer for one of our standing committees (Membership & Community Outreach, Design Review) or periodic special committees and help expand our activities. Questions and suggestions are always welcome; an e-mail link appears on this website.
Fay Armstrong, President & Design Review Chair
Jonathan Herz, Vice President
Carl Smith, Secretary
Martha Shaw, Treasurer
Olivia Kibler
Robert Frazier
Tim Tyler
Ian Stirton
Manage Website


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South Sudan Minister for Gender, Child, and Social Welfare has called on local communities across the country to discourage the practice of early marriages and instead invest in the education of girls.
Speaking in Juba on Friday during the commemoration of the International Women's Day, Awut Deng Acuil said the fight against early and forced marriages is the responsibility of everyone.
She added that the practice which is commonplace in many communities across South Sudan is a major hindrance to girl child education.
"Eventually they will get married, but when they grow up and complete their education. This is our responsibility and we have to support the girls as the future of the country," she explained.
Minister Awut stressed that local chiefs and elders should be at the forefront in this fight, a common practice in different communities across the country.


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Dr. Anatoliy Gruzd is an Assistant Professor in the School of Information Management at Dalhousie University in Canada. He earned his PhD in Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and also holds a MS in Library and Information Science from Syracuse University as well as BS and MS degrees in Computer Science from Dnipropetrovsk National University in Ukraine. Dr. Gruzd's current research includes the development of various automated text mining techniques and visualization tools for uncovering social networks between online participants based on their digital footprints alone. Dr. Gruzd's work has been presented and published in several peer-reviewed journals and conferences, including Information Processing & Management, the American Society for Information Science and Technology, Digital Libraries, GROUP and Networked Learning. Recently, Dr. Gruzd's paper Studying collaborative learning using name networks received the ALISE 2009 Best Paper Award and has been published in the Journal of Education for Library and Information Science. Most recently, in 2010 Dr. Gruzd has been awarded a $161,000 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada grant to study how online social media and online social networks are changing the ways scholars disseminate knowledge and information. Dr. Gruzd is also participating in a $23.2 million NCE collaborative research initiative called the GRAND (Graphics, Animation and New meDia) network which goal is to develop Canada's position as a global leader in new media, animation and games.
Multitasking Made Easy: Supporting Academic Writing in Digital Libraries with an Ambient Search System
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Akira Maeda
Ritsumeikan University, Japan
Sulieman Bani-Ahmad
Al-Balqa` Applied University, Jordan
Terence K. Huwe
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By Dan Piepenbring
Skip Spence's "music from the other side."
Skip Spence is known for his work in Moby Grape, a seminal psych-rock outfit, and for his only solo album, Oar (1969), which has one of the most gloriously unhinged creation myths in the history of popular music.
In '68, Spence—who would be, coincidentally, sixty-eight today—was cutting a new Moby Grape record in New York. The city was not bringing out the best in him. One night, as his bandmate Peter Lewis tells it, Spence "took off with some black witch" who "fed him full of acid": not your garden-variety LSD, mind you, but a powerful variant that supposedly induced a three-day fantasia of hallucinations and cognitive haymaking. The result? "He thought he was the Antichrist."
Spence strolled over to the Albert Hotel, at Eleventh and University, where he held a fire ax to the doorman's head; from there, he negotiated his way to a bandmate's room and took his ax to the door. The place was empty. So he hailed a cab—you know, with an ax—and zipped uptown to the CBS Building, where, on the fifty-second floor, he was at last wrestled to the ground and arrested. He did a six-month stint in Bellevue, where he was deemed schizophrenic. "They shot him full of Thorazine for six months," Lewis said. "They just take you out of the game."
But Spence wasn't out of the game. The same day they released him from Bellevue, he bought a motorcycle, a fucking Harley, and cruised straight on to Nashville, where he planned to record a series of new songs he'd written in the hospital. He was clad, legend maintains, only in pajamas.
If I had to choose one image to condense and aggrandize the rock 'n' roll mythos, it would be this: a schizophrenic man fresh out of the loony bin, exultant astride his gleaming new hog, wheels aimed south, gaze narrowed, hands steady, pajamas whipping in the wind.
It's probably not true, at least not in toto. But Spence did, somehow, make it to Nashville, where, at Columbia's studios, he recorded and produced Oar in seven days. He plays every instrument on the album.
The label released Oar on May 19, 1969, with zero fanfare. It was their worst seller, and it was soon expunged from their catalogue. Small wonder, given the ads they ran for it, which at once exploited Spence's illness and doomed his music, suggesting it was inaccessible:
As maladroit as it is, the "crazy music" label stuck, especially as the story of Oar's creation began to spread, taking on the sheen and hyperbole of urban legend. Ross Bennett describes it as "the ramblings of a man on the brink of mental collapse." Lindsay Planer writes, "The majority of the sounds on this long-player remain teetering near the precipice of sanity."
That would imply that Oar is difficult to parse, or fragmented to the pointed of obscurity, or just, like, kind of out there, man. But it's much more put-together than all that; fragile, yes, off, yes, but not off the deep end. These are folk songs inflected with psychedelia. Their reputation as deranged curios doesn't stand up.
For starters, Spence's lyrics seldom bear the scars of his perilous journey to the fringes of consciousness. "Little Hands," for instance, is just a warmed-over serving of free love:
Little hands clapping
Children are happy
Little hands loving all 'round the world
Little hands clasping
Truth they are grasping
A world with no pain for one and all
You can practically hear the Thorazine at work. And as for the other eleven tracks, many of them are straightforward ballads—or winking expressions of lust. In fact, if there's one thing Spence sings about most on Oar, it's wanting to get laid—hardly the abstruse concern of a man lost to metaphysics.
Still, the music is certainly strange, full of unconventional chord changes, harmonies, and voices, lush at one moment, bare and droning in the next. And lyrically, a song like "Broken Heart" has its far-out moments:
An Olympic super swimmer
Whose belly doesn't flop
A super racecar driver
Whose pit, it can't be stopped
A honey dripping hipster
Whose bee cannot be bopped
Better to be rolled in oats
Than from the roll be dropped
Likewise, "Fountain" contains the memorably oblique couplet "If I'm dropping quarters on your bed / It seems like it's the right thing to do." Are these images crazy, though, or are they just sort of artfully peculiar?
Oar is maundering and strikingly shambolic—but it's also a much more cogent statement than its critical reputation suggests. Spence tore across the country to make it happen; he put nine hundred miles between himself and New York. That might be something you'd do if you were insane, but it's also something you'd do if you were merely insanely ambitious. That's the greater compliment. To say that the record is a product of monomaniacal drive is much more favorable than to cast it, however desirably, as the crude discharge of an unwell mind. Is it really so difficult to believe that Spence was in control? You should listen to Oar for the music, not for the crazy.


Signwriting directly onto the recently repainted exterior walls at the Railway Pub in Ringwood, Hampshire. From very well designed artwork, we produced full size pounce patterns (the gable end sign measures around 4 metres x 2.6 metres). The outline and split and cast shadows made it a time consuming, but worthwhile project, resulting in the traditional look that was required.


Antique atmos barometer of grained and lacquered brass construction with silvered and engraved brass twin dial/registration plates of rectangular form: the outer having calibrations from 28-31 inches of mercury with divisions set at 1/20th of an inch, annotated "Stormy," "Rain," "Change," "Fair," and "Very Dry," and bearing the legend "Atmos – Barometer;" the inner raised on a single turned pillar with twin curved thermometers, at left a reddened spirit type with plate marked "Fahrenheit" and calibrated 30–110 degrees, at right a Mercurial type, the plate marked "Centigrade" and calibrated 10-50 degrees, the plate further marked "Atmos – Barometer" to top, "Made in France" to lower left and "Brevete S.G.D.G," a French non-government backed form of patent.
Heavy main chassis plate, the principal lever of L-shaped form raised on twin turned pillars with 'knife-edge pivots' and bearing upon a single steel coil spring in compression raised on a turned pillar and seated on a threaded adjustment platform, the spur acting through short levers driving a grained, white metal indicator arm raised upon a turned pillar. The mechanism driven by twin 2½" capsules. Attractive grained and laquered brass telltale with short operator's extension running in a nickeled escutcheon.
The instrument, having the benefit of light conservation, remains in original condition. Setting a date of manufacture is not easy. There is little doubt that this originates from the later half of the 19thcentury – the glass, clearly original, is uneven with flaws atypical of later manufacture, and the mechanism reflects very much the Vidi movement, suggesting a date nearer 1850. The jeopardy here, though, is that, although the original Vidi patent was improved upon very quickly after 1850, some makers probably continued to replicate it well into the last quarter. Reasons for this may have had as much to do with practice as ease of manufacture, a coil spring arrangement being a far simpler mechanism to produce than a tempered C-type spring arrangement. The instrument may have been influenced by the introduction of the drum barograph recorder in 1867, as it seems very much a half-way house. On balance, the evidence would suggest a date of manufacture circa 1870-1880.
Very much a collector's piece and a fascinating commentary on the development of the aneroid barometer. See Banfield, Edwin, "Barometers: Aneroid and Barographs," p51 and p53, fig. 39 for description and image of a similar barometer.


We sincerely thank our parishioners who use their weekly envelopes. We also offer you another way to contribute with the Electronic Giving Program. You don't have to write a check; it's simply deducted from your checking or savings account. This is an excellent way to keep up your personal pledge, coordinate giving with your pay, and contribute when you cannot personally attend Mass here.
Q: How does the Electronic Giving Program work?
A: Once you authorize us to automatically deduct a set amount from your checking or savings account, St. Charles will begin receiving your donation electronically each month. No checks for you to write. You may increase, decrease or stop contributions at any time.
Q: How can I confirm payments are correct?
A: You can connect to your financial institution at any time and view your account.
will also show up on your bank statement.
A: 1) Decide how much you want to have automatically deducted from your bank account each month.
2) Decide what day of the month (1st or 15th) you want the contribution to be made.
3) Complete the enrollment form. It can be found HERE or at the parish center. If you have any questions, please contact Ruth Dubé, parish bookkeeper. 812-345-1218 or rdube59@gmail.com.


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import shakey.services.LoggerSupport
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U.S. Scolds our European Allies for Muslim Discrimination
by admin • March 15, 2010 • 17 Comments
Here we have another reason to be disgusted with our own government. In their defense of Islam, the Democracy, Human Rights and Labor division, of the US State Department has scolded some of our European allies for the conflict with Islam across the pond. I am not calling for violence against Muslims in Europe, but of course non-Muslims are starting to turn against Muslims in Europe, and that is because Muslims have come there, shown the cultures of Europe no respect, and are constantly pushing to takeover, with no concerns for the beliefs of anyone else.
Below the article are three videos from Europe which show us how Islam is slowly devouring Europe. For once our government needs to mind their own business.
Hat tip to Bare Naked Islam.
U.S. scolds Europe for Muslim discrimination
WASHINGTON –- The discrimination Muslims face all across Europe is alarmingly on the rise, the U.S. said in a damning report on human rights, warning of a deteriorating rights situation worldwide, mainly due to raging conflicts.
"[We see] discrimination against Muslims, including hate crimes, in Europe," Michael Posner, Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor, said Thursday, March 11, announcing the release of the annual report on human rights.
The report, titled "Country Reports on Human Rights Practices", drew a grim picture of bias against Muslims in many countries across Europe in 2009.
It specifically highlighted the most recent case in Switzerland, where a constitutional amendment was passed to ban the construction of mosque minarets.
In Austria, the report said, there were excessive use of force by police and societal discrimination against Muslims, in addition to anti-Muslim tone in election campaigns.
It grilled Germany for a series of anti-Muslim trends, including preventing Muslim organizations from their right to represent their community, and court rulings against veiled Muslims working in schools.
"A debate continued in Lower Saxony's state parliament over police security checks in mosques," the report added.
It also slammed two key allies, France and Britain, for their human rights records with respect to their Muslim minorities.
The annual report underlined the banning of Muslim face-veils in public in France, home to Europe's biggest Muslim minority, as one of the most blaring evidences.
"Members of the Arab Muslim community continued to experience acts of harassment, particularly against immigrants of North African origin."
The human rights report also cited anti‑Islamic attacks against persons and property in Britain.
"There were numerous incidents of violence against individuals and property, as well as a number of rallies and public gatherings with anti-Muslim messages."
The wide-ranging report asserted that other rights abuses remained widespread across the world.
"Often these violations relating to the integrity of the person are in countries where conflicts are occurring," said the report, which covers 194 countries.
It noted that 2009 was a year in which ethnic, racial and religious tensions triggered violent conflicts and serious human rights violations and fueled or exacerbated more than 30 wars or internal armed conflicts.
"There still are an alarming number of reports of torture, extrajudicial killings, and other violations of universal human rights."
The US report focused on Iran and China accusing them of cracking down on opponents and increasing restrictions on the internet and other forms of information.
It particularly criticized Beijing for continued crackdowns on the Muslim Uighur minority and Tibetans.
"The Chinese government's human rights records remain poor and worsening in some areas, including increased cultural and religious repression of ethnic minorities," said Posner, the Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor.
He said they found that Iran's rights record "degenerated" during 2009, with repression of protesters who took to the streets following the controversial presidential polls.
"An already poor human rights situation rapidly deteriorated after the June elections.
"It is a place where we are continuing to see severe repression of dissent and are continuing to pay great attention," said Posner.
The annual report also cited other countries, including Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Sri Lanka, for worsening human rights situations.
US Record?
The US, which has compiled human rights reports on other countries for the past 34 years, was quick to fend off criticism to its own rights record.
"We hold every government, including our own, to a single universal standard," Bosner said.
But the fact is that the US is not reviewed in the State Department's annual report on human rights abuses.
The Obama administration is facing criticism over failure to shut down the notorious Guantanamo detention in Cuba, drone attacks in Pakistan and Somalia and civilian deaths in Afghanistan.
"We're leading in some ways with this report but, by all means, others should feel free to say what they want about us," said Bosner.
America's rights situation will come under scrutiny this fall at the United Nations Human Rights Council.
"We are also committed…in this year, to doing the first-ever universal periodic review report to the UN Human Rights Council," said Bosner.
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"Let's go for a walk." Now that spring is here in earnest, you may find yourself frequently uttering this phrase. There are many good reasons to go for a walk--to get some fresh air, burn some calories, enjoy the trees in bloom. And, depending on where you live, you can accomplish all of this while actually getting someplace you need to go.
In most of suburbia, walking is a recreational activity and driving is a functional one. In certain towns, though, feet are a perfectly viable mode of transportation. I am fortunate enough to live in Montclair, New Jersey, where I can walk to the supermarket, the bank and the post office. My teenage sons ride their bikes to school and to their friends' houses.
As gasoline prices continue to climb, I love that I have a free, non-polluting way to accomplish many of my daily tasks. I suspect that there are many folks who feel as I do. Maybe that's why, despite a sluggish economy and a generally weak housing market, Montclair real estate continues to be highly desirable. I'd love to show you around; let's take a walk.


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Does Health Care Access Contribute to Your Overall Happiness?
By	Jonathan Thompson January 27, 2016 Posted in: Personal Health , Article
Many people -- whether inside or outside the health care field -- agree that adequate health care access is a basic human need, which explains why not having sufficient, affordable health insurance can be a source of major stress.
Heather Caruthers of Louisiana, who works part-time and whose husband is self-employed, was uninsured for the first several years of her married life. She says, "I felt unprotected and irresponsible. But we just couldn't afford health insurance." Her husband added, "Every time either of us got sick -- even with just a cold -- it was pretty stressful, knowing that it could get worse."
Of course, Heather and her husband are not the only people who have felt this way. As of 2014, 13.3 percent of Americans under age 65 were still uninsured, according to a survey from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. That may not seem like a large percentage, but those numbers represent about 35.7 million adults.
So, what is the affect of access to health care on a person's sense of overall well-being?
Hard Evidence
Oddly, despite the abundance of personal testimonies and anecdotal evidence, solid science on the subject is fairly rare. In 2009, however, researchers for the Institute for the Study of Labor in Germany set out to explore this very topic. Using data from the United States, the team authored a paper entitled "Happiness and Health Care Coverage," in which they used a combination of techniques -- including a four-year-long phone survey -- to discover the link between health care access and happiness.
Not all that shockingly, the author found "evidence that not having the ability to see a doctor because of an inability to pay is a major and substantial source of unhappiness in the United States, even for people with high income." The same study found that people who couldn't afford to see a doctor were, on average, unhealthier -- both physically and mentally. In fact, based on several metrics of happiness, the survey findings revealed lower levels of life satisfaction and well-being when people are unable to get the care they need.
Clearly, then, the scientific evidence out there supports the logical connection that many individuals -- including the couple quoted above -- have already formed regarding their health care quality and access and their well-being.
Do happiness and well-being increase when people have access to quality health care? The aforementioned survey supports this thinking, and judging by Heather's experience, this seems to be the case. Heather and her husband did eventually get health insurance after she found a new job that provided it for her. The couple was then able to pay for her husband's plan on their own.
"I feel like if something happens, we have a safety net. And it's not like we're just being irresponsible and hoping for the best," Heather said when asked about how things have changed for them.
So much goes into our overall happiness, well-being, and peace of mind. The last thing we want is uncertainty, particularly financial uncertainty, when it comes to getting the health care we need. It's clear that, whether backed up by quantitative research or personal stories, having quality health care in our pocket when we need it helps us breathe easier every day.


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The Cape Cod National Seashore is a 43,600-acre National Park on the end of Cape Cod, about a 2.5-hour drive from Boston. The park includes popular beaches, historic lighthouses, and excellent walking and bicycle trails. It also contains the site of Marconi Station, where the first two-way wireless radio transmission across the Atlantic occurred. We hired a ZipCar for the day and packed in as much as we could, including an excellent lunch stop in Provincetown at the tip of Cape Cod.
On our way to visit Cape Cod National Seashore, we stopped off at the east entrance to the Cape Cod Canal where we'd passed through a month earlier en route to Boston. The current, visible in the water surface, was flooding at 3.5 knots near the edge where we were standing.
The US Coast Guard Station at Cape Cod Canal was built in the 1930s in the Colonial Revival style following the demolition of the original buildings when the canal was widened.
Walking the Nauset Marsh Trail along Salt Pond adjacent to the visitor center. Salt Pond is a "kettle pond" formed when the glaciers receded, leaving chunks of ice that melted and created depressions in the earth. When the water table began to rise at Cape Cod, "kettle ponds" began to appear. Salt Pond initially was a freshwater kettle, but the ocean eventually broke through and formed a narrow channel connecting it to Nauset Marsh.
The Nauset Light Beach a few miles north of the visitor center was full of people with a constant stream arriving. The group going down the stairs looked ready for a full day equipped with beach chairs and umbrellas, shade shelters, coolers, and a spike ball game.
The Cape Cod ocean shore is constantly eroding at a rate of about 3ft per year. At the upper left of the photo are the ruins of a fence that has slid down the slope.
In 1879, one of the first transatlantic cables between America and Europe was completed here, part of an telegraph cable boom in the second half of the 18th century. The 3,000-mile cable reached depths of 15,000 feet and routed from here to Newfoundland then across to France.
Nauset Light originally was erected in Chatham, Cape Cod to the south in 1877. The light was dismantled in 1923 and reassembled in the current area about 275 feet from the edge of the bluff. By 1993, the Coast Guard deemed the light obsolete and scheduled it to be dismantled. The Nauset Light Preservation Society raised funds to save the light and in 1996 moved it to higher ground, as 70 years of erosion at 3ft per year would have put the light about 100-ft from the cliff edge.
Ruins of Marconi's historic South Wellfleet Wireless Station where in 1903 he completed the first two-way transoceanic message and the first wireless telegram between America and Europe. Four 210-ft wooden towers supported a massive antenna in the shape of an inverted pyramid whose whirling spark-gap rotor could be hear 4 miles downwind.
The Cape Cod National Seashore Park Headquarters building, near the Marconi station site, had a scale model of the original station and this working spark gap model. The scale model was initially on display at the station site, but the land had eroded to the point where it was only 32 feet from the cliff edge, so it was moved here.
The view to sea over Ballston Beach from south Bearberry Hill along the Pamet Area Trails. The 100-ft gap in the dune didn't exist until a 1991 storm breached the dune, carrying sand and saltwater inland.
As Cape Cod's fishing industry declined in the 1800s, falling sugar priced contributed to a new demand for cranberries and commercial bogs were carved into wetlands throughout the Cape. This cranberry boghouse along the Pamet Area Trails dates from that period.
We continued north to Provincetown at the northern tip of Cape Cod. Traffic crawls along the narrow one-way street through town, so we parked our Zipcar at the first lot we found and continued on foot to check out the town and find a place for lunch. Provincetown has a lot of restaurants. We eventually settled on the WayDownTown bistro for a delicious seafood meal with a beach view.
Provincetown is full of guest houses in the traditional Cape Cod style, with not a chain motel in sight.
Provincetown has a winter population of less than 3,000, but the summer population can reach 60,000. The streets, shops, cafes and restaurants were packed.
After lunch we walked up the hill to the 253-ft Pilgrim Monument, the tallest all-granite structure in the country. The Monument was built in 1907 to commemorate the first landing of the Mayflower Pilgrims in the New World at Provincetown on November 21, 1620. The Pilgrims later settled in Plymouth, where the soil was better for farming.
116 steps and 60 ramps lead the top of the Pilgrim Monument. Jennifer is looking back down from near the top.
The view from the top of the monument was amazing. This is looking east toward the Provincetown waterfront, with the commercial pier and the Provincetown Marina at the right of the photo.
A detailed diorama in the Provincetown Museum of the Mayflower that carried the Pilgrims to the New World. The museum is at the base of the Pilgrim Monument and has excellent exhibits detailing the town's history and influences from the arrival of the Pilgrims in 1620, through the commercial whaling period that made Provincetown one of the richest in the country, to the later influx of literary notables such as playwrights Tennessee Williams and Eugene O'Neill, authors Norman Mailer, Jack Kerouac, and Kurt Vonnegut, former US Poet Laureate Stanley Kunitz, and Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Mary Oliver.
The Old Harbor Life-Saving Station was built in Chatham in 1897, one of an eventual 13 that covered Cape Cod's eastern shore to save shipwreck victims. Before the Cape Cod canal was built, all traffic had to go around treacherous Cape Cod where over 3,000 ships have wrecked. The stations were located five to eight miles apart and the beaches between monitored for shipwrecks during the day from watchtowers and patrolled on foot at night or in poor visibility. The Old Harbor Life-Saving station was decommissioned in 1944 and in 1977 the National Parks Service moved it to the current location north of Provincetown due to severe erosion at the original site. It is now a museum with much of the original furnishings and equipment intact. This is one of the original life-saving boats, with a cork life jacket hanging alongside.
This map on the wall at the Life-Saving Station shows the astonishing number of shipwrecks that occurred along the Cape Cod coast and illustrates why the Life-Saving Stations were needed.
The Province Lands Visitor Center has an 2nd-floor observation deck with a 360-degree view of the area. This is looking south to the Pilgrim Monument in Provincetown.
Our final stop in a very long day was Highland Lightstation. The original light here was built in 1798, the first ever on Cape Cod. The current brick lighthouse was built in 1857.
Climbing the steps to the top of the Highland Light.
The view from the top of the lighthouse to its 1857 original site, roughly at the end of the path in the distance. In 1996 an incredible feat of engineering moved the 430-ton structure 450 feet back from the eroding cliff.
Filling up the Zipcar before we return home.
After dropping of our car, we finished the day with another excellent meal at the Navy Yard Bistro.
I want to thank you for the years of vicarious enjoyment of your travels with your wife!
I life in Seattle and knew of you via Scott Fogle who worked for me as the Xilinx Rep. I will continue to follow your adventures.
Hi Dave. I just spent 3+ weeks back in Seattle. It's still a fun city and technically it's still home for us. Thanks for the feedback on the blog and wish Scott well if you see him.
This morning we checked into Canada at Lockport Nova Scotia and we're now back underway for Newfoundland. We're looking forward to getting back to the wilds.