A bleak and unhospitable stretch of coast. This area is usually missed as the surfing in the far North is much better and the surfing in the 100km south of Lima is accessible.
English (Translate this text in English): A bleak and unhospitable stretch of coast. This area is usually missed as the surfing in the far North is much better and the surfing in the 100km south of Lima is accessible.
Mejor de lo pensado - Nuestros informante decían que iba a estar brutal, pero nos mintieron. Lo que si no estaba brutal, fue el yate que no llevó, impresionante.
Mutant - Nunca había visto a Bermejo así. La verdad que era un poco intimidador, pero no imposible. Sacamos buenas olas de esta playa.
Día de Playa en Bermejo. Partiendo de Ancón 7am. Volviendo 7pm.
April-May - Anybody know if the conditions are good in April-May, and whats the best region to hit at that time? Also, what about peruvian pie? How sweet is it? How do the chicas compare to other latin women?
hey... - hey there!! you shuold put to paraiso spot that is another wave that brokes near to la antena and el rebote!! that wave is cool to! im gonna send you some pictures!!


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Night earthquake drill to be conducted in Baguio
May 8, 2019 May 9, 2019 Dexter A. See
BAGUIO CITY May 02 – The City Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office (CDRRMO) will conduct a night earthquake drill in the city anytime to ascertain the preparedness of residents when a strong temblor will hit the country's Summer Capital.
Local DRRMO (LDRRMO) officer Louie Glenn Lardizabal said that the conduct of the night earthquake drill is part of the local disaster risk reduction and management plan to inform and educate the residents on the appropriate actions to be done during emergency situations to prevent lives from being exposed to eminent danger.
The LDRRMO is a newly created office of the local government under the City Administrator's Office to oversee the implementation of disaster risk reduction and management initiatives and the preparedness of people during natural and man-made disasters.
Lardizabal said that the LDRRMO is now preparing the mechanics of the night earthquake drill before residents are informed of the conduct of the drill.
"We hope we will achieve our overall objectives for this first-ever night earthquake drill so that we can assess how our residents will react during the actual occurrence of an earthquake," Lardizabal stressed.
He explained no one can predict the occurrence of an earthquake and its magnitude that is why the only way to minimise its impact is to train people of the basic duck, cover and hold, and to await for the situation to stabilize before looking for an open space where to evacuate.
According to him, the ability of the residents to effectively and efficiently react to emergency situations when there are no sufficient lightings, and when the situation does not call for it, will be assessed and evaluated so that the LDRRMO can formulate the required information and education campaign (IEC) materials for the updated guidance of the residents for them to know what to do when emergency situation strikes.
At present, the LDRRMO is providing appropriate trainings to ensure that emergency responders in the barangays have the capacity to respond to emergency situations as frontliners in disaster response.
The local government constructed a multi-storey LDRRMO building within the compound of the City Engineering Office that will serve as the city's main disaster operation center aside from serving as an evacuation center.
Lardizabal appealed to residents to cooperate with the local government in the conduct of the proposed night earthquake drill so that the real awareness of the people could be ascertained to guide policy makers and decision makers in the crafting of IEC materials.
Under the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Act of 2010, local governments are required to establish their own local disaster risk reduction and management councils to cater to disaster risk reduction and management initiatives in their areas of jurisdiction.
By Dexter A. See
Photo (on file) by Boing Cayabyab
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The mere thought of DIY home improvement may have you shaking in your boots. There are certain things that anyone, no matter their level of experience, can accomplish. Making improvements to your home can be beneficial over time, and this article provides some ideas for projects you can complete yourself.
When planning a major home renovation project, hire a professional architect or designer to create your plans. Unless you are a professional, your plans may not contain the correct function. Professionals have the skills necessary to develop smart plans that conform to area building codes.
Think about refinishing your cabinetry instead of putting in new ones. Add paint to the bases, install new doors and touch them up with well-coordinated hardware and you have a completely new look. Plus, you can do this for a fraction of the cost it would take to replace them!
Attaching one of the pieces of hardware or fastenings you are storing to the lid of its container makes it easy to know what is inside. When you are trying to find just that one piece of hardware even the best of organized shop can present a problem. Even the best labeling system can get confusing, so to make it easy use the above tip.
Remember that you're responsible for keeping records of your home improvement project, even if you have a professional doing the actual work. Don't make the assumption that this is the contractor's responsibility. Save all invoices and contracts for your projects. This will help you as well as help the contractor stay focused on your current task.
If you aren't installing a window in your bathroom, make sure it is at least properly ventilated. Showering and bathing lead to humidity, which leads to mold. You'll be dealing with mold regardless of whether you paint over it or not. Prevent mold from growing in the first place. Put in a window and make sure there's ventilation.
Plan out your DIY project, and have a contractor look it over. Even if you have to pay for the contractor to look at your list, it will be worth it to make sure you haven't missed an important step or supply.
As you've seen, you have many different projects you can perform. Hopefully, you now have more confidence in your ability to tackle home improvement projects. When you see what you have accomplished, you'll feel proud.


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We have to make sure that any work can be carried out safely with as little disruption to the public as possible. Often this requires us to set up traffic management provisions such as traffic lights, lane and road closures.
To do this we need to apply to the local authority for permission to carry out the works. We are usually required to pay a fee. These fees can vary depending on the authority so we can't provide a standard list.


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Carrie Underwood and Steven Tyler Set to Rock CMTs Crossroads Saturday February 4, 2012 LIVE from Pepsi Super Bowl Fan Jam
By CMP on February 3, 2012 in Artists, News
Rock legend Steven Tyler and Country MegaStar Carrie Underwood team up for CMT Crossroads to give the word rockin' a new vibration. Coming to you Live from Pepsi Super Bowl Fan Jam, the one-hour special debuts on CMT on Saturday, February 4, 2012 at 11 pm ET/PT. Be sure to tune in to what's gearing up to be a memorable event.
In the midst of pursuing a degree in mass communication with an eye on a broadcast journalism career, Carrie Underwood managed to squeeze in a minor of auditioning for and winning title of 2005 American Idol, followed by the release of her multi-platinum debut album "Some Hearts". Carrie would go on to finish her degree while becoming a multi-award winning, multi-platinum selling country music sensation.
Steven Tyler debuted onto the music scene through the drug-laden 60s era eventually forming what would become known as the band Aerosmith. By 1973 Aerosmith was officially "signed" as a band, issued their self-titled debut album and would go on to be forever remembered for the power ballad "Dream On" and the infectious rocker "Walk This Way".
But this Aerosmith lead singer and American Idol winner are no stranger to sharing the stage together. In 2011 Tyler and Underwood hit the stage during the Academy of Country Music Awards and delivered an earth shattering performance.
And joining forces once again, Carrie and Tyler will take on one another's hits during a high-energy pre-Super Bowl Special Live in Indianapolis on Saturday, February 4, 2012 at 11 pm ET/PT.
Listen to what Carrie and Tyler had to say about this rockin' event during their Crossroads rehearsals.
Entice your curiosity with this sneak peek into this event but be sure to tune in to CMT Saturday, February 4, 2012 at 11:00 pm ET/PT as these two team up once again to shatter the stage !
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Miles Davis repertoires have been done by so many in the past. This one is a different approach took by an uprising band, consists with Japanese front section and Brazilian rhythm section. We have heard pop music and rock done in jazz style before but it is rare to hear jazz improvisation over Brazilian rhythms. While thy show the respect to Miles' music by having Dave Liebman as a guest, this album sounds so unique and fresh when they took jazz and made it something else.


Aras Corporation is an American developer and publisher of product development software, Aras Innovator. The product is used for product lifecycle management (PLM) and other purposes. Since 2007, Aras has been providing Aras Innovator for free as open-source software, with Aras Corp providing technical support, software updates, and other consulting as a subscription service. Aras Corp was founded in 2000 in Andover, Massachusetts by Peter Schroer. Aras Innovator is an enterprise software suite for managing complicated product lifecycle management business processes. The software is based on the Microsoft .NET Framework and SQL Server. The product is used for product lifecycle management (PLM), advanced product quality planning (APQP), lean product development, product quality control, collaborative product development and new product introduction (NPI). Until 2007, Aras sold their product as proprietary software for enterprises. In 2007, Aras began providing Aras Innovator as open-source software. Clients obtain the software for free, and Aras Corp provides technical support, software updates, and other consulting as a subscription service.
Aras Corporation is an American developer and publisher of product development software, Aras Innovator. The product is used for product lifecycle management (PLM) and other purposes. Since 2007, Aras has been providing Aras Innovator for free as open-source software, with Aras Corp providing technical support, software updates, and other consulting as a subscription service. Aras Corp was founded in 2000 in Andover, Massachusetts by Peter Schroer.
Aras Innovator is an enterprise software suite for managing complicated product lifecycle management business processes. The software is based on the Microsoft .NET Framework and SQL Server. The product is used for product lifecycle management (PLM), advanced product quality planning (APQP), lean product development, product quality control, collaborative product development and new product introduction (NPI).
Until 2007, Aras sold their product as proprietary software for enterprises. In 2007, Aras began providing Aras Innovator as open-source software. Clients obtain the software for free, and Aras Corp provides technical support, software updates, and other consulting as a subscription service.
^ McAllister, Neil (15 January 2007). "Soft sell for open source apps". InfoWorld.


April 19, 2012 in "Photos", "Scotland", "Walks"
A few months back I posted about this place.
I've been back a few times. Last time, I took my mum, and we saw Eider ducks. That's what they take eider down from? Sh*t the bed. We were walking back over the dunes after drinking tea at Gullane point, and I saw the wingspan of a huge bird in the brush, just for the briefest of seconds. Initially I thought a buzzard, but it then flew clear, and we saw an owl. She said Barn, the internet says Short Eared. We saw another two later, mock fighting/courting? in mid air, in broad daylight. Those things are enormous. Holy smoke, its another world. After that, the pellets on the ground, and the tiny, petrified remains of bones and fur on top of fence posts make a whole lot more sense.
All this is new to me, I'll confess. I'm from South London, which is pretty owl light and concrete heavy. Where's my education now? I know my hz from my khz, how to write a project proposal, and how to cycle across the Elephant and Castle roundabout system without getting smashed to a bloody pulp by a bendy bus. I can even backpack with the best of them, but I'm mostly still at sea here. Being out is one thing, knowing what I'm out in is another.
So, I am going back. Each time I go back I see more. This time, a hare and a roe deer. Oh, and I went back to those strange blocks - tank traps, sea defenses from world war two apparently. I'm sort of fascinated with the blocks, I'd like to try and photograph them properly, one day. They sit in the sand dunes nicely I think, but the sea buckthorne makes them a real pain to get into a good position for the right angle. Every shot I tried with the blocks has failed dismally so far.
This time, I got a lot more familiar with the coast in both directions out from Gullane. The dunes are incredible. They rise and fall like miniature mountains, fun sized. And the colours. Brunettes, fawns, reds, blues and greens. Its going to be next to impossible to do it any kind of justice at all.
At dusk the entire place goes utterly mental. It kicks off, really. Birds and insects chatter away at the tops of their voices. The maram grasses that bind the sand together swoosh in the sea breeze. It's an orchestra of sound, I feel like joining in and howling. Nothing short of a technicoloured sonic miracle. What have I been missing all this time?
I want to keep visiting, and learning. I took the larger tripod this time, and a filter system. I haven't used a filter before, or a tripod in about 15 years. I feel a bit silly carting all that around, its a bit of a pose, surely? But the extra gear also means I slow down, and see more. So, I am going to take my camera stuff each time and use it as a excuse to keep looking. And learning. Next time, it should be an overnight stay. I could even go from work and be back in the morning, no problem.
Slow down, and keep looking. I just need to find the story.
Loving this lot at the moment, they are highly melodic. Anyone who can play an arpeggio that well that fast for that long is allowed to gurn all he wants far as I'm concerned. Drummer is killah too. Silly name but at least its not some walking haircut with a cut glass English accent thinly disguised by singing in cockney. At least they don't wear the stuff.


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Hamilton Police seek our assistance finding 42 year-old Jason Simon who went missing Thursday morning and requires medications which he does not have on him.
He is described as male white, darker complexion, 5'8″-5'9″, 310lbs,dark hair with receding hair line, no facial hair, missing one front tooth, numerous tattoos on both arms including a totem pole running the length of his right arm. He was last seen wearing a dark blue Nautica t-shirt with a black hoodie over top, black pants and white running shoes.
The Hamilton Police Service is seeking the assistance of the public in locating a missing Hamilton male.
Shortly before 6:00 a.m., on July 31st, Jason SIMON told his wife he was going to pick up breakfast for them at a local restaurant. When he did not return to their downtown residence, his wife became concerned and called police.
Jason SIMON was reported missing to the Hamilton Police Service by his family. He was last seen on in the area of Macassa Lodge, located at 701 Upper Sherman Ave. Hamilton, on Thursday July 31, 2014.
Jason Simon is in possession of an orange tent, and has previously camped in the Gage Park Area/Rail Trail Area.
The Hamilton Police Service and his family are concerned for his wellbeing and are asking for the help of the public in locating him.
Jason Simon has a medical condition for which he requires medication multiple times a day. He took his morning allotment of medications but will need them throughout the day.
SIMON is 42-years-old and is described as male white, darker complexion, 5'8″-5'9″, 310lbs,dark hair with receding hair line, no facial hair, missing one front tooth, numerous tattoos on both arms including a totem pole running the length of his right arm. He was last seen wearing a dark blue Nautica t-shirt with a black hoodie over top, black pants and white running shoes.
Police are urging the public to call immediately if Jason Simon is seen so that we may ensure he is safe.
Hamilton Police continue to investigate and we are asking anyone with Information on the whereabouts of Jason Simon to contact the Hamilton Police Service at 905-546-4925 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477.


I must confess I have been longing to make this announcement for a very long time.
Here we are, successfully moving one team at a time to the modern building owned by the company, happy that the quality of our offices is among the highest in Cluj. It gives me great joy to see the big move going as planned, a big part of the Fortech team being already settled in their new home. I would like to thank all the teams involved (IT, HR, Support etc.) and look forward to having the entire Fortech "family" on Strada Frunzisului in the shortest time possible.
The main reason for this project was to ensure ideal conditions for our activities; by this I mean not only the office spaces but also the generous ones for training, socializing, relaxing – cafeteria, fun room, terrace, etc. The latter exceed by far what we had at our previous offices. I am confident we will be feeling their impact slowly but surely. The value of the project is not in the office building itself but in the possibilities this new environment will bring and which I look forward to converting. Your support and involvement will be essential in this process.
The new context will position us at a totally different level in the relationships with our current and potential customers and the improved infrastructure will enable the organizational consolidation both in the operational processes and in the services we offer.
In summary, the new headquarters offers us the right setting for our further development and positions Fortech at a new level on the Cluj market. This improvement is already felt both in recruitment and in visibility. I am confident similar results will soon show in the internal processes and our business relationships.
This office building means for us far more than a step forward; we should rather consider it a huge leap, according to one of our colleagues. The investment has already been considerable, but the commitment is long-term and represents our bet for stability and continuity. While only seeing the projected costs would make most organizations in Cluj shy away from such projects, we are happy we took the challenge, as the new office is undoubtedly the perfect foundation for a healthy development of the company. This engagement is also for Cluj-Napoca, the place where I took my first steps and grew up. Making sure we will not jeopardize our stability and continuity we will continue the investments in different areas like products, training, organizational development, new services, etc.
With the bulk of effort behind, we doubtlessly have enough left to achieve in this project in the near future. We all know that running a civil engineering task on such a scale is no easy feat in Romania. The results justified the considerable effort and I hope we will all be enjoying them every day that follows, for many years to come, both as members of the organization and as individuals.
I would like to thank you all for getting involved with heart and soul in the project, and especially Mrs. Silvia Banabic, who bore the bulk of burden administratively, legally and at the building site.


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The Chassidic circle dance is done in a closed circle, with one hand, or both, resting on the shoulders of the dancer in front. It usually, though not necessarily, moves counter-clockwise. There is no limitation on the number of participants.
In professing the unity of G-d, as we Jews do daily and repeatedly on the daily prayers, we have to comprehend what G-d's unity means, and in contemplating this, we cause the infinite - divine light of G-d to irradiate our person, our soul, and the world round us. This is a profound and abstruse subject which is fully discussed in Chabad philosophy. But let it be said here that the unity of G-d is symbolically represented by the circle, which has no beginning or end, though we can speak of the "upper" part of the circle and "lower" part of it.
The "mystic cycle" also recalls the famous saying of the founder of Chabad: "G-d converts the spiritual into the material, and the Jew converts the material into the spiritual." In other words, creation is a "descent" of the spiritual into the material, while Divine service, particularly the fulfillment of G-d's commandments with material objects ('fringes' — with wool; phylacteries — with leather; 'citron used on Sukkoth — the fruit, etc.), constitutes the "elevation" of the material into the realm of the spiritual and holy. Jews complete this "cycle" in the scheme of creation, and make the unity of G-d a reality in our own experience. Here, again, we have further significant meaning in the Chassidic circle dance.
Pictured here is a dance at the conclusion of a successful "Encounter with Chabad" at Lubavitch World Headquarters.
Photo: Shmuel Rivkin. Courtesy of Lubavitch Youth Organization Archives
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Ten reasons not to vote Labour
However well other parties do, it is still the case that the next Government will almost certainly either be Labour or Conservative. Such a Government may depend on the votes of others in coalition, but it is virtually impossible for these others to themselves form a Government. For this reason, it is crucial to focus on Labour.
Here are the reasons to vote against Labour:
1. Jeremy Corbyn.
Labour is no longer a moderate social democratic party. Nor is it working in the Old Labour tradition. Old Labour may have been misguided, but at least it was patriotic. Corbyn's Hard Left Labour is something never experienced in Britain before. Corbyn has a record of siding with Britain's enemies including the IRA and Middle Eastern terrorist groups. He would do his best to radically change the UK economy so that it as closely as possible matched his Marxist thinking. If you want a communist Prime Minister, now is your best chance of getting one.
2. Anti-Semitism
Labour's anti-Semitism is not accidental. It is a feature of Hard-Left thinking that sides with those terrorist groups that would like to destroy Israel. It is anti-Semitic because it judges Israel by a standard that it applies to no other country. If a fascist became leader of the Conservative Party, I would expect every decent Conservative MP to resign. So called moderate Labour MPs are guilty by association. They all campaigned for an anti-Semite to be Prime Minister in 2017. They would all campaign for him to be Prime Minister in 2019. People who campaign for anti-Semites are themselves anti-Semitic.
3. Scottish independence.
A Conservative Government will not allow a second independence referendum for at least a generation. It is nearly impossible given the destruction of the Labour Party in Scotland for Labour to win an overall majority without the support of the SNP. The condition for SNP support will obviously be that Corbyn allows the SNP to have indyref2. He has agreed to this. Anyway Labour would have no choice. It would have to make this deal with the SNP. It would be either that or not being in power at all. Pro UK people who vote for Labour in Scotland are therefore in effect voting for the SNP.
4. Remain.
The overwhelming majority of Labour MPs are Remain supporters. This would still be the case if Labour were to form a Government not least because it would in all probability have to form such a Government with the Lib Dems and the SNP. Labour policy on Brexit has been confused and opportunistic. In the past they have wanted an even softer Brexit than Theresa May's deal. Now they want a second referendum on a renegotiated by Labour Brexit in which Labour would campaign for Remain. Imagine the sort of Brexit deal we would get from the EU if our Labour negotiators didn't even want to leave. Large numbers of Labour constituencies however did vote to Leave. It makes no sense for any of these Leave voters to vote for Labour. Obviously too, any party that supports a second Brexit referendum because they didn't like the result of the first, could hardly deny SNP demands for a second referendum on independence. So once more a vote for Labour is a vote for indyref2.
5. Brexit.
Some people think that Brexit will be an economic disaster. But what would a Jeremy Corbyn Government do to the UK economy? I can think of no example of Marxist economics leading a country to becoming more prosperous. China is communist in name only. A Conservative chancellor could mitigate any difficulties of leaving the EU by means of tax cuts, lowering of tariffs with non-EU countries and a bonfire of EU red tape. A Corbyn Government would instead raise taxes as much as it possibly could. Would add still further layers of bureaucracy to British business. It would nationalise as much industry as it could and it would follow the policies of the Corbyn heroes that led countries like Venezuela into chaos and poverty. Which is really more scary Brexit or a Corbyn led Labour Government?
6. Moderate Labour
The Hard Left may control the Labour Party, but who put them there? The answer, of course, is so called moderate Labour. Despite Neil Kinnock and Tony Blair attempting to turn Labour into a moderate social democratic party, they allowed the Hard Left to remain. The Conservative Party would not tolerate fascists as MPs. It would not allow them to be elected year after year, but moderate Labour allowed racist Marxists and communists to be elected. Communism killed far more people in the twentieth century than fascism did, yet somehow communists are still acceptable to Labour. It was only because moderate MPs thought the Hard Left deserved a chance in the leadership contest following Ed Miliband's resignation that Jeremy Corbyn was nominated in the first place. Labour isn't a moderate party led by an extremist. It is a party that sympathises with Hard-Left socialism. Moderate Labour MPs may be willing to temper their socialist ideals out of pragmatism, but they would all prefer that it wasn't necessary to moderate them. They are therefore not moderate.
7. Tom Watson.
The leader of moderate Labour is Tom Watson. Does anyone believe that Tom Watson would have championed "Nick" if Nick had uncovered child abuse and murder involving senior Labour figures from 1970s? This illustrates the fundamental problem with moderate Labour. Even moderates hate Conservatives ("lower than vermin") in a way that is quite irrational and is in no way reciprocated. Conservatives think socialism is mistaken, but there is rarely if ever hatred of the Left. Tom Watson made a catastrophic error in judgement when he supported Nick. It ruined the lives and reputation of innocent people. It helped the SNP depict Westminster as a cess pool. Tom Watson has not even properly apologised for his actions. Given the chance to attack the reputation of Tories, he would no doubt do so again. Do you really want such a man even as an MP let alone one of the leaders of the Labour Party?
8. Defence.
We don't know what threats Britain will face either from other countries or from terrorist organisations, but we do know that in order to defend ourselves we need our armed forces, our intelligence services and our relationship with the United States. If there were a terrorist attack in the UK, would Jeremy Corbyn support the terrorists? After all, in the past he has sympathised with the aims of the IRA and Islamic jihadists. He has refused to condemn Russian poisoners and has worked for Iranian TV. If Britain faced a crisis in the years ahead would you really want Jeremy Corbyn in charge?
9. Immigration.
The last time we had a Labour Government it opened the door to mass migration so as to ""rub the Right's nose in diversity". This remember was a moderate Labour Party. The nature of Britain was changed forever. Pressure on housing and public services was increased. The Hard Left is even more in favour of mass immigration than New Labour was. Is there anyone from anywhere who Jeremy Corbyn would forbid from coming to Britain except perhaps Donald Trump? What damage would a few years of Labour do to Britain? They'd rub everyone's nose in it, not just the Right.
10. Labour makes you poorer
Labour's solution to any and every problem is to spend more public money on it. It is for this reason that each and every past Labour Government has either managed Britain's decline or led us into economic crisis. Old Labour gave us 1979 and the Winter of Discontent. New Labour gave us 2008 and the worst financial crisis since the 1930s. Labour promises to help the poorest in society, but because socialism doesn't work. It inevitably makes them poorer instead. If even moderate New Labour wrecked the UK economy, what would Hard Left Jeremy Corbyn's Labour do to our prosperity?
There is an alternative. Boris Johnson's Conservatives offer us a UK that is fully sovereign and completely outside the EU. This will give us the chance to develop the low tax, pro-business, low tariff economy that is necessary to compete in the modern world. Brexit gives us the greatest opportunity in decades to become more efficient and richer. Economics is really very simple. Decrease the size of the state, lower public spending and tax and offer free trade to anyone who will reciprocate. This will make not only the poor richer, it will make everyone else richer too. Brexit is about hope. Don't let Labour wreck it.
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Self-driving cars are coming, and they could change everything we know about cities
http://greatergreaterwashington.org/post/21491/self-driving-cars-are-coming-and-they-could-change-everything-we-know-about-cities/
By Nat Bottingheimer, February 4, 2014
Autonomous, self-driving vehicles are getting more attention from the media, but little from transportation planners. Given the technology's potential impacts on our transportation network, it's time for planners to start thinking about it.
As the technology advances, mainstream media now treat self-driving cars with seriousness and respect, as do business advisors like KPMG. Developers are designing self-driving car use into future retirement communities, while carmakers like Mercedes advertise passive "self-driving" safety features. Analysts predict that completely autonomous cars will be on sale by 2020.
Self-driving cars have the potential to reduce both car crashes and traffic congestion, and to use wasted time driving for work or entertainment. These are benefits usually attributed to transit; as a result, autonomous vehicles could strengthen arguments for designing for more cars in our cities and suburbs, instead of more pedestrians, cyclists, and placemaking.
Transportation planners aren't talking publicly about driverless cars
By contrast, online searches for "transportation planning" and "self-driving cars" turn up thoughtful, if skeptical reviews by urbanists Todd Litman and Jarrett Walker; a sober, academic summary of key issues by the Eno Center for Transportation; and a thorough debate from 2011 on the issue here on GGW; and an article from Governing Magazine that exemplifies the public preoccupation with regulating driverless cars rather than planning and policy issues.
There isn't a lot of evidence of transportation planners at public agencies giving serious attention to the matter, at least not publicly. A recent blog entry from Bacon's Rebellion also concludes that transportation planners are not paying attention. Though, to be fair, the topic was covered at a recent Florida Department of Transportation conference and the Transportation Research Board a few weeks ago.
Self-driving cars address many of the safety and travel efficiency objections that Smart Growth advocates often make about road expansion, or the use of limited street space. As a result, planners and placemaking advocates will need to step up their game.
They need to better define in what environments bike- and pedestrian-oriented designs are still appropriate even when we can solve our congestion problems with self-driving cars. They need to promote street and intersection that can work for bikes and pedestrians as well as for self-driving cars; and to make a strong cases for Smart Growth and TOD that are based on diverse benefits, not just on the ability to move people.
Capital planning decisions last for thirty years and beyond. The officials responsible for parking lot and garage building, transit system growth, bike lane construction, intersection expansions, sidewalk improvements, and road widenings need to analyze quantitatively how self-driving cars could affect their plans, and to prepare alternatives in case things change.
How could self-driving cars disrupt the planning process?
Here are two examples of situations where planners may need to adapt to self-driving cars:
Self-driving cars coupled with "smart intersections" that communicate with vehicles to let them pass without traditional stoplight timing could result in less congestion, but may speed up cars in places where cyclists and pedestrians are competing for space. The cars will be faster, but also safer to be around. The question is whether a more efficient auto network outweighs the negative impacts to other parts of the urban environment.
They may also make car use more competitive with bus transit in low-density settings and may erode the demand and need for transit (and paratransit). On the other hand, changed transit economics resulting from driverless buses could mean that extending transit into new areas will make more economic sense in the future than it makes today.
Ways to prepare for self-driving cars
So, what could the region's planners do now to anticipate the potentially sweeping changes that self-driving cars will cause? How can planners today insure that scarce infrastructure dollars are spent on things that might be less needed in the near future?
For example, if intersections can handle more vehicles per hour with self-driving cars than with human-driven cars, they may not need to be widened. Or if transit commuters can get to the station in a self-driving car, park-and-rides may not be necessary, because the car will just drive itself back home.
First, land use, highway, and transit planners should simply acknowledge the issue. They should begin to define how large different impacts may be, when those impacts are likely to occur, what the range of public responses will need to include, and when those public responses may have to start occurring.
Self-driving cars will change patterns of car ownership and travel. Planners need to examine how travel forecasting tools that are based on current patterns of car ownership and use will need to change to adapt to new statistical relationships between population, car ownership, trip-making, car-sharing, and travel patterns.
Because cars that can drive themselves won't stay parked all day, builders and regulators should think about how new parking structures should be designed for adaptive reuse if future parking demand declines.
State and local DOTs should measure how smart intersections could increase the number of vehicles that can use an intersection per hour, and how to design roads and intersections that work for self-driving cars, as well as pedestrians, bicyclists, and the creation of public spaces.
Finally, the region's transit agencies should study how driverless operations could affect operating costs for bus, rail, and paratransit services, and should update their long-range capital and operating needs forecasts to reflect what they learn.
Many aspects of the self-driving car world remain in doubt. That is not, however, a reason to avoid thinking about how to benefit from the capabilities that self-driving vehicles offer. Even if planners are only able to do general studies rather than detailed forecasts, that would still be a useful exercise. Understanding how to adapt our communities for the benefits and challenges of self-driving cars would be a huge step forward.
Light-sensitive buildings to reduce air pollution
http://ec.europa.eu/programmes/horizon2020/en/news/light-sensitive-buildings-reduce-air-pollution
Improving air quality is a major challenge facing all European countries, both in order to combat climate change as well as to minimise the direct effects of breathing polluted air on human health.
The European Union (EU)-funded research project LIGHT2CAT is investigating one technology which could help combat air pollution more effectively than previously possible. The technology involves making buildings and other built structures light-sensitive, mimicking the processes of plants.
The basic idea is to mix titanium dioxide (TiO2) into the concrete used. TiO2 is a semiconductor which acts as a photocatalyst. "It is similar to the chlorophyll in plants," explains LIGHT2CAT's Project Coordinator, Dr Andrea Folli, of the Concrete Centre of the Danish Technological Institute. "TiO2 harvests sunlight, specifically the ultraviolet component. Once it is activated by light, TiO2 catalyses reactions involving atmospheric oxygen and water resulting in the degradation of hazardous chemicals that come into contact with it. So, for example, nitrogen oxides, a hazardous component in vehicle emissions, are oxidised into harmless nitrates just like those commonly found in water or soil," explains Dr Folli.
Although this technique is not entirely new - it has been in use for some years – it has until now been subject to an important limitation: TiO2 is only activated by UV light and therefore latitude and geographical position highly influence its overall efficiency. "In southern Europe," says Dr Folli, "the use of TiO2 could result in nitrogen oxide reduction as high as 40%. In the duller conditions of northern Europe, that figure drops to 15% - 25%." The aim of LIGHT2CAT was to find a way to modify TiO2 in order to develop a material responsive to visible light rather than just UV light. This would help the implementation of the technology in less sunny climates and would also allow for indoor use, for example to provide antibacterial surfaces in hospitals, in an economically viable way without requiring UV lamps.
Currently just over halfway through its project duration, LIGHT2CAT has made promising progress in developing a modified TiO2 catalyst. "We now have five or six good candidates that we have tested in the lab. We know they are visible-light-responsive and we have submitted a patent application to protect them," comments Dr Folli. "The next stage of the project will be to test them out in specially-built large concrete structures, mostly in Scandinavia."
One key guiding principle of the LIGHT2CAT project is the need to ensure not just that the new catalysts work effectively, but also that the solution is cost effective. This is especially important because concrete itself is very cheap – which means that any material added to it could, in relative terms, have a massive cost implication. For this reason, the project team has worked to set up a 'double-casting' system in which the catalyst is added only to a 5mm surface layer of concrete, which is laid over a normal concrete sub-layer, thus minimising the additional cost.
Still with an eye to economic viability, the research team has also carried out tests on the lifetime effectiveness of the catalyst. "These early tests indicate that the lifetime of the catalyst, based on its use in a 5mm surface layer, is comparable to the expected lifetime of the structure itself, whether this is the surface of a building, a paving block, or other built structure," says Dr Folli.
With a range of partners that include a major global producer of TiO2 as well as end-users in the cement industry and research institutions, LIGHT2CAT is expected to make important advances towards the goal of having our built environment act, in effect, as a giant air purifier. Engineered to mimic the effects of plants, the 'concrete jungle' could well turn out to have more in common with real vegetation than the original creators of that phrase could have ever imagined.
http://www.light2cat.eu/
London hit by travel chaos as Tube staff goes on strike
http://news.yahoo.com/london-hit-travel-chaos-tube-staff-goes-strike-131549055--finance.html;_ylt=AwrTWVUEivJSTUQAIRLQtDMD
By Julia Fioretti, February 5, 2014
LONDON (Reuters) - Millions of Londoners were caught up in commuting chaos on Wednesday, as Underground workers began the first in a series of strikes that Prime Minister David Cameron branded as "shameful."
As tempers frayed on packed buses and the capital's streets swarmed with commuters walking, running and cycling to work through gale-force winds, Mayor Boris Johnson and powerful union leader Bob Crow traded recriminations over the latest walkout.
London's Underground rail drivers plan to stay out for two days this week and another two next week, in a row over job cuts and modernization. The action has brought new calls to curtail the rights of unions to strike in key infrastructure areas.
Some three million people use the Tube system most days. Only a lucky few could cram themselves on the handful of trains that were running on Wednesday.
Cameron said on his official Twitter feed that the strike was "shameful, bringing misery to millions of Londoners."
Speaking later in parliament, he added: "I unreservedly condemn this strike. There is absolutely no justification for a strike. We need a modernized tube line working for the millions of Londoners who use it every day."
Police were out in force at major rail stations to keep order in the long lines that began building up at bus stops shortly after dawn. Even so, there were reports of jostling as tempers frayed.
Thousands of workers took to the roads on bikes. Boat services along the River Thames were running extra trips. The more athletic used the strike as a chance to run to work from the suburbs.
Fund manager Richard Marwood was among them. "To be honest, running to work is something I like to do most weeks anyway, but travelling under your own steam is particularly handy in circumstances like this," he told Reuters.
Lauren Sweeney, 26, a legal PA, said getting to her office would take her an extra 30 minutes, on top of her usual one-hour journey. She lives in Hornchurch, in east London, and works near Liverpool Street in the City of London.
"It's a hassle," she said. "Everyone has been talking about how they are going to get in to work for days."
The National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport workers (RMT) and the Transport Salaried Staffs' Association (TSSA) unions called the strike to protest against job losses and plans to close manned ticket offices as part of the modernization of the 151-year-old network. A second 48-hour strike is planned for February 11 to February 14.
RMT leader Crow said the strike was "rock solid" and had reduced the network to a skeleton service. The TSSA said service had been reduced by 70 percent.
"That is simply a reflection of the staff anger at attempts to bulldoze through cuts to jobs, services and safety which would reduce the tube to a dangerous, hollowed-out shell," Crow said in a statement.
He added that the unions remained available for talks with Mayor Johnson to resolve the dispute.
Johnson - who has accused the unions of "holding a gun to the heads of Londoners" - said he respected the rights of the trade unions to represent their workers, but the modernization plans had to go ahead.
The London Chamber of Commerce said repeated strike action could hurt London's image as a modern, efficient city and affect long-term investment prospects.
Based on figures from previous strikes in 2010, the business lobby said the two 48-hour strikes could cost the financial capital over 200 million pounds ($326 million).
Turnout at the vote for the strike was only 30 percent, according to Transport for London (TfL), the body that runs the network. Johnson has said he favors new rules permitting strikes only if at least 50 percent of a union's members take part in the voting.
Cameron's spokesman said the Conservatives, the larger party in Britain's coalition government, were considering putting unspecified but related measures in their manifesto for the next election in 2015.
"They are actively looking at this area with a view to the next Conservative manifesto," the spokesman added.
Commuting by bike is an L.A. adventure
Los Angeles has more bike lanes and cyclists than ever. But there are growing pains in a plan that could transform the city.
http://www.latimes.com/local/la-me-lopez-cycling-20140205,0,5116265.column#axzz2sTM83Ami
By Steve Lopez, February 4, 2014
A bike rider using the bike lane comes out of the 2nd Street tunnel in downtown Los Angeles.
I pedaled to work Monday morning, which I had never done before because all things considered, I'd like to go on living a while longer.
Yes, I admit it. I'm afraid to bike city streets in Los Angeles.
That's partly because I had a nasty bike accident several years ago, resulting in a head injury that erased all memory of what caused the crash. And it's partly because riding a bike on streets jammed with vehicles, many of them piloted by distracted and incompetent drivers, seems like a terrible idea. I don't swim in shark tanks, either.
In 2009, 22 cycling deaths and 3,800 collisions involving bicycles were reported in Los Angeles County. That's according to the Los Angeles County Bicycle Coalition. On Tuesday morning, I attended a court hearing in the case of a driver charged with hitting a cyclist and leaving the scene in September in Boyle Heights. The injured cyclist died after being struck by another vehicle. So why was I on two wheels Monday morning?
Because we now have more bike lanes and cyclists than ever, and I wanted to see whether that makes pedaling a little more inviting. The city of Los Angeles added 100 miles of bike lanes in 2013, bringing the total citywide to about 350. This year, the plan is to add 40 miles, with hundreds more in years to come.
But while cyclists are thrilled, motorists are steamed, especially where the addition of bike lanes has meant the subtraction of car lanes.
I asked Michelle Mowery, the city's bike coordinator, if she'd ride with me before we talked these things over. She brought an office assistant and the three of us rode downtown from my house in Silver Lake — a 30-minute commute, or about 10 minutes longer than it takes me by car.
I'm happy to say we suffered no major injuries, but it was a little hairy on Glendale Boulevard, which has no bike lanes. When Glendale turned into 2nd Street, we had a bike lane all the way into the tunnel under Bunker Hill, where stanchions marked a welcome three-foot separation between cars and bikes.
But the tunnel also happens to be a flash point in the battle between cars and bikes. There used to be two lanes of traffic through it in each direction, but in November, it became one in each direction for vehicles, and one in each direction for bikes.
Lots of traffic jams, particularly heading west through the tunnel in the evening rush, which is no longer a rush. I've gotten tangled up in it myself. I've given up on the tunnel and tried alternative routes out of downtown, but so has everybody else, and there's no easy way out.
I've heard countless complaints along the lines of, "What were they thinking?" or, "Did they bother to do a study first?" Motorists also note that while they are stuck sitting through red lights, for the sake of accommodating cyclists, they rarely see any cyclists.
The Department of Transportation insists that it studied a number of factors before laying down the bike lanes — there and elsewhere in the city. Though perhaps not to everyone's satisfaction.
But growing pains are an expected part of the rollout, said Mowery, who promises improvements and more bikes shooting through the tunnel as soon as more bike arteries are connected. She said the goal is a network in which, no matter where you are in the city, you are within a mile of a bike lane or bike-friendly road. In one of the more ambitious projects, her staff is designing protected bikeways as part of the proposed Figueroa Street transformation between downtown and USC, but that's got some businesses carping, so it's not a sure deal.
Mowery wants bikes to be a safe, viable option for as much as 5% of commuters eventually. As it is, only 1% commute by bike, 14% by transit, 3% by walking and the rest by driving.
As I see it, 5% isn't a big enough target, and the bicycle plan isn't grand enough in a city with mostly bikeable terrain, great year-round weather and a health-conscious population.
That's not Mowery's fault. She's dealing with infrastructure limitations and all the usual political realities. Too many motorists, merchants and homeowners stand in the way of a bold transformation in a city that desperately needs one, and no public official past or present has been brave enough to stand up to them for the greater good. But do they really think we can just go on adding cars to already clogged roads?
If the goal is to get more people to consider commuting by bike, we need more than painted white lines on the road and the rare buffer like the one in the tunnel. We need fully protected bikeways, so people of all ages can go for a ride without fear of getting hit by a bus.
We have dozens of major east-west and north-south thoroughfares in the San Fernando Valley and South Los Angeles, so why can't one or two become bikeways at fixed hours?
Why can't there be a no-parking day or two on one side of Olympic or Pico Boulevards, with the space turned over to cyclists?
In other cities, bike boulevards are becoming commonplace on residential thoroughfares. Stop signs, roundabouts, speed bumps and other impediments slow down and discourage automobile traffic and make it more convenient to travel by bike. But Los Angeles is missing out on the revolution.
"A lot of routes naturally lend themselves to" bike boulevards in Los Angeles, says Herbie Huff, a bike advocate and researcher at UCLA's Institute of Transportation Studies.
So will I be commuting regularly by bicycle now?
I think I'll hold off until it's a little safer. But in the meantime, when I'm riding on four wheels, I'll make sure to share the road with those much braver souls on two.
Yes to an Arts District Subway Stop
http://www.ladowntownnews.com/opinion/yes-to-an-arts-district-subway-stop/article_96dc06d8-8ac5-11e3-a931-001a4bcf887a.html#.UvEpTQJAxlU.twitter
DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES - When it comes to making mass transit infrastructure decisions, two criteria tend to matter the most: cost, and how the project will impact current and future congestion.
With those factors in mind, it makes all the sense in the world to consider building one or two Red or Purple Line stations in the Arts District. Los Angeles Downtown News recently reported on the proposal, which was initiated by Metro CEO Art Leahy.
Speaking at a meeting of the Los Angeles Current Affairs Forum, Leahy said he has directed Metro staff to study building stops at First and Sixth streets near existing Metro tracks. His reasoning is logical: The Arts District is changing, with hundreds of millions of dollars in investment pouring into the community, and this is a chance to respond to the transformation. "We ought to be innovative and be willing to experiment," he told Downtown News after the event.
The proposal would appear to be feasible from a cost standpoint. As mentioned above, Metro tracks already come out of Union Station and run through the Arts District. That is why City Councilman Tom LaBonge proffered a variation on the idea four years ago. LaBonge noted that an aboveground platform that reaches the height of a railcar door could be poured. Sure, there would be some expense, but compared to securing rights of way, conducting extensive traffic studies and laying track, as occurs with new rail projects, the Arts District expenditure is relatively low.
More important, as Leahy and others mentioned, is the present and future activity in the Arts District.
The neighborhood has become one of the hottest communities in Los Angeles and is seeing a blitz of development. The 438-apartment One Santa Fe is rising east of the Southern California Institute of Architecture, and Legendary Development is preparing to break ground this year on a nearby 472-unit rental complex. Other housing projects already exist throughout the area, including three buildings developed by the firm Linear City in the southern portion of the district. Being able to get these people from their homes to the center of Downtown, or other neighborhoods throughout the region, without climbing into a car has obvious benefits.
Then there is the biggest project coming to the area: In 2015, work will start on a $401 million replacement of the Sixth Street Viaduct. The project will improve connections between the Arts District and Boyle Heights, and include recreation areas on the banks of the Los Angeles River.
All of this activity means that the district could wind up in a traffic crush. That is a serious concern, considering that stakeholders have already experienced the first pangs of congestion and parking shortages. Wouldn't it be refreshing to be in front of a problem rather than play catch-up later?
This is why the Arts District rail station idea should be seriously considered. We're pleased Leahy has broached the idea and we look forward to hearing the Metro staff's report. We hope Leahy will remain a champion of the proposal.
London buses to go cashless
http://www.thetransitwire.com/2014/02/05/london-buses-go-cashless/#.UvKDAxqUdiA.twitter
By Susan, February 5, 2014
Starting this summer, Transport for London (UK) will stop accepting cash fares on London buses. "Paying with Oyster or a contactless payment card is not only the cheapest option, but also speeds up boarding times at bus stops and reduces delays," said Leon Daniels, managing director for TfL surface transport, in a statement.
Cash fares make up only 1% of bus trips; ten years ago about one in four bus riders paid with cash. The change will not affect the other 99% of bus passengers who already pay for their travel using Oyster cards, prepaid tickets, contactless payment cards, or concessionary tickets.
To address concerns raised in a series of public consultations, TfL is introducing the following measures:
"One more journey" feature on Oyster that will allow passengers with less than the single bus fare (currently £1.45) but who have a positive balance on their card to make one more bus trip before they have to add credit to their card
A review of the Oyster Ticket Stop network to see if additional locations can be identified, particularly in outer London
Refreshed guidance for all 24,500 London bus drivers to ensure a consistent approach when dealing with vulnerable passengers
"Paying with Oyster or a contactless payment card is not only the cheapest option, but also speeds up boarding times at bus stops and reduces delays," Daniels said. "It costs £24 million a year to accept cash on London's buses and by removing this option we will generate significant savings which, like all of our income, will be reinvested in improvements to the transport network."
Overturned tanker shuts 134 East-2 South connector in Glendale
http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=news/local/los_angeles&id=9420294
GLENDALE, Calif. (KABC) -- An overturned tanker closed down the eastbound 134 Freeway connector to the southbound 2 Freeway in Glendale early Wednesday morning.
The incident was reported at about 3:30 a.m. According to authorities on scene, the diesel tanker on the truck remained intact, though an unknown quantity of milk spilled from the tanker as a result of the accident.
The wreck mangled some railing at the scene and reportedly knocked down a light pole.
One lane was closed on the southbound 2 Freeway near the incident.
Officials did not give an estimated reopening time of the interchange.
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Through-out the year we celebrate special services. Some are traditional and you can return each year to find comfort in the familiar words, songs, and stories. Others are brand-new and may only happen periodically. But each special service at First Congregational Church of Winona offers a chance to explore the way God is still speaking into our lives.
We are always growing and trying new things, so this page will be updated regularly. We will make every effort to share the news of any upcoming special services with our community.
We gather in our beautiful sanctuary to hear the familiar story of Christ's birth, sing carols, pray and rejoice in the birth of our newborn king. We close our service with candlelight and the quiet of our organ chimes. For many this service is the true way to begin their Christmas season. Come early as our sanctuary fills up fast.
"We are dust and to dust we shall return." Gather to remember and participate in this ancient ritual of the church. We confront together our fragility as humans but find comfort in God's presence that we are never alone. This service is done in partnership with Grace Presbyterian Church.
We sit at tables together and remember the final night of Jesus' life before he was betrayed and killed. This special service draws up deeply into the sacrament of Communion and takes along our journey through Holy Week. This service is done in partnership with Grace Presbyterian Church.
In order to truly celebrate the resurrection, we must first confront the death. This quiet and somber service remembers how Jesus was killed for his message of God's radical love. This service is done in partnership with Grace Presbyterian Church.
Alleluia! He is Risen! Come to 1st Congregational to celebrate that God's love conquers with the empty tomb. This special service is a true celebration. Come join us for song, story, prayer, and rejoicing! Together we cry: ALLEULIA!!


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BY Megan Labrise • Feb. 9, 2017
Photo courtesy Martha Reta
In titling her latest novel, Katie Kitamura fittingly forwent the certainty of a definite article.
" 'The Separation' would refer to the split between the two characters," says Kitamura, author of A Separation, the story of a wife's international pursuit of her estranged husband, "but I think it is about a divide within the narrator, between the different versions of herself. She's experiencing that separation in the present tense, enacting a role that isn't who she is—pretending to be a faithful wife when she's not."
The couple in Kitamura's artful, thrilling psychological novel consists of two distinct individuals: the unnamed narrator is a literary translator. She has been married to wealthy, rakish cultural critic Christopher Wallace for five years. They live in London. He's been routinely unfaithful.
"Our marriage was formed by the things Christopher knew and the things I did not," Kitamura writes in A Separation. "This was not simply a question of intellect, although in that respect Christopher again had the advantage, he was without a doubt a clever man. It was a question of things withheld, information that he had, and that I did not. In short, it was a question of infidelities—betrayal always puts one partner in the position of knowing, and leaves the other in the dark."
They split six months ago; she's already in a new relationship. But, at his behest, they have yet to share the news with family and friends.
"Could we keep it between us?" Kitamura writes. "I had hesitated, it wasn't that I disagreed with the sentiment—the decision was still new at that point, and I imagined Christopher felt much as I did, that we had not yet figured out how to tell the story of our separation. But I disliked the air of complicity, which felt incongruous and without purpose. Regardless, I said yes."
One month later, she receives a call from her domineering mother-in-law, Isabella, demanding Christopher's whereabouts—he's not picking up his phone. Christopher last claimed they were headed to Greece: he, to research his next book; she, to finish a translation. Instead of breaking his confidence and confessing the separation, the narrator surprises herself by agreeing to Isabella's plan to fly to Greece to retrieve him—a decision she justifies by planning, finally, to ask for a divorce.
In a starred review, Kirkus calls A Separation "a hypnotic meditation on infidelity and the unknowability of one's spouse....A minutely observed novel...[that] unsettles its characters and readers." Kitamura achieves a compelling intimacy by writing in the first person for the first time in her career as a novelist. "This may sound a little bit clinical," she says, "but I've written two books that are pretty spare in the prose style, books where the style came through in the edit—10, 20 drafts, taking words away constantly—and, at a certain point, that felt almost like a defensive mechanism, trying to make the style almost impermeable. [With this novel], I wanted to do something that was looser, more exposed, less protected...so I just wrote, tried not to edit, tried to let it unspool. That's why first person is quite useful, because it allows for that digression in the style."
Kitamura is a writer and critic based in New York City. She is the author of The Longshot (2009) and Gone to the Forest (2012)—both finalists for the New York Public Library's Young Lions Fiction Award. She holds a Ph.D. in American literature from the London Consortium and teaches in NYU's low-residency MFA program in Paris.
For A Separation,she conceived of a female character whose consciousness received the consideration more typically granted to male protagonists.
"It's a voice that, to some extent, is often associated with a particular male first-person narrator," Kitamura says. "The entire narrative, in a way, is [an inversion]. There are so many missing women in fiction and film and television; what happens when you flip the gender? If it's a man that's missing, and the consciousness that is thinking about this disappearance is female, how does that change the way the story is told?"
Careful curiosity compels the narrator to track Christopher beyond the walls of the seaside hotel where he was last seen. She hires a driver to visit the places he went—among them, a professional mourner, whom Christopher had interviewed for his (ostensible) new book, whose subject is mourning rites.
"It was a strange project for a man who had hitherto lost nothing of significance, whose life was intact in all its key particulars," she writes. "If he had cause for grief, it was only in the abstract. But he was drawn to people who were in a state of loss. This gave people the mistaken impression that he was a sympathetic man. His sympathy lasted as long as his curiosity, once that had gone he suddenly withdrew, making himself unavailable, or at least less available than people might reasonably expect, given the sudden and violent intimacy he had forced upon them in the first place."
When a shocking twist—a sudden violence—occurs halfway through the narrative, formalizing the end of the marriage, the narrator grieves the relationship as a death.
"A lot of the book, I realized after I wrote it, is about grief," Kitamura says. "It operates in the shadow of my father's death, which was about five years ago—realizing that, when my father was dying, I had this very strong feeling there was nothing I could do for him. He was being well looked after, medically, but the only thing I could do is witness his death. I will see this through, and I'm not going to look away. I will witness your dying, so that you're being seen as you go.
"In a strange way," she continues, "despite all the disillusionment that's at the heart of the relationship, clearly, I think the narrator sees Christopher. She sees him as he is, perhaps as no one else really does. I think there must be something linked to this idea of witnessing somebody and grieving them as they go."
For better or worse, the narrator of A Separation knows her Christopher best, making her the most qualified person to track him, locate him, and entice him back to England. Whether that knowledge is enough—whether it is possible or even desirable to truly know one's spouse—is the source of A Separation's palpitating tension.
"It might have been a terrible marriage," she writes, "built on betrayal—although what is really meant by the word terrible, there are betrayals that looked unforgivable from the outside and that are nonetheless forgiven, and there are forms of intimacy that looked nothing like the name—but it was nonetheless a marriage."
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Events began at the Cavan County Museum in Ballyjamesduff where members visited the largest outdoor replica of WWI trenches open to the public in either Ireland or the UK. Included are sound and visual effects to enhance the experience and to provide visitors with some idea of the life which the soldiers had to endure in the trenches. The trenches are built in accordance with the specifications in the manuals of the Irish Guards and which were used by the Royal Irish Fusiliers at the Battle of the Somme in 1916. Over 6000 sand bags were used in its construction.
Later the members were given a most enthusiastic welcome in the Museum by the Curator, Savina Donohue. The Museum is housed in an exquisite Georgian building situated in the shadow of the lakes and drumlins of the County Cavan countryside. The building which was designed by the famous architect, William Hague Jr., was purposely built in the 1880s as a convent for the Poor Clare order of nuns. The convent closed in 1992 and afterwards the building was acquired by Cavan County Council for use as a County Museum. In her welcoming address, Savina Donohue, referred to the efforts of the County Council in establishing the museum and the support it received from the local community organisations and individual contributors.
The museum has a number of exhibitions expressing the culture of the county, amongst which being of particular interest to the Society members, was the Clogh Oughter Castle exhibits. These artefacts mainly arose from the archaeological excavations carried out under the direction of Con Manning in 1987, in his official capacity (day job) connected with the conservation work on the structure. Paying tribute to this work on Clogh Oughter and the remarkable finds from this work, Savina, proceeded to point out the other exhibition galleries and unique artefacts dating from the Stone, Bronze and Iron Ages up until the twentieth century. The displays of significant interest include the Killycluggin stone and the three-faced Corleck Head, the medieval Sheela-na-Gigs and the 25 foot long Lough Errill log boat which is over 1000 years old. Fittingly there is the nun's gallery which displays the nuns at work in both the school and at prayer and a model of the famous Anglican Bishop Bedell. Other engaging exhibits include the Great Famine, Percy French, the Lords Farnham and the GAA in Cavan, including their four All-Ireland successes. The Farnham Gallery was of particular interest which included displays, photographs, mementos, letters, war medals, papers relating to the family and some magnificent portraits, which Savina pointed out, were entrusted to the museum by Lady Diana Farnham. Incidentally, Lady Diana is one of Queen Elizabeth's ladies-in-waiting and played a leading role during the Queen's recent historic visit to Ireland.
The President expressed the appreciation of the Society to Savina and her colleagues for a most hospitable reception and her informative outline of the exhibits. He congratulated all involved in establishing such a wonderful facility to enable the display of such an array of material. Expressing the views of many of the members, the President expressed the hope that Kildare County Council would follow the Cavan authorities in establishing a similar facility to display the many artefacts out of reach to the public.
The party proceeded to Clogh Oughter where most of the members braved the rain and midges to board the small boats and cross to the tiny island to view the castle at close hand. Con Manning, who as stated earlier, directed the excavations at the castle, gave a very detailed account of these excavations together with a history of the castle. He pointed out that virtually all the material found related to the last half-century of its use up to the period of the siege, surrender and destruction of the castle in 1653. The castle was originally built on a mainly man-made island by the de Lacys around 1220 ending up with the local O'Reillys clan until the Plantation of Ulster when it became an (English) government stronghold under Hugh Culme. After the outbreak of the 1641 Rebellion, the castle was captured by the insurgents until surrendered under heavy bombardment by Cromwellian army in 1653. The Anglican Bishop Bedell, under whose patronage the Old Testament was translated into the Irish language was held prisoner for a period at the castle and died shortly after his release in February 1642. The Irish military leader Owen Roe O'Neill died at Clogh Oughter in 1649.
Following Clogh Oughter the party stopped at St. Fethlimidh Anglican Cathedral of Kilmore which is situated on an elevated site close by. Churches have existed at this location since early Christendom and following the Reformation the church became a cathedral for the Diocese of Kilmore. Construction of the present cathedral was completed in 1860 on a design by William Slater and the old cathedral was converted into a parochial hall. During construction a Romanesque doorway dating to the late twelfth/early thirteenth centuries placed in the northern transept of the new Cathedral. The doorway is decorated with animals, foliage and various shapes. Some opinions suggest that this doorway was taken from a monastery on Trinity Island in Lough Oughter, while others suggest, that it was moved from the cathedral it had replaced. Bishop William Bedell referred to earlier is laid to rest in the adjoining graveyard while the cathedral also possesses the original copy of his translation of the Old Testament into Irish.
The Dinner to conclude the excursion was held in the Radisson Blu, Farnham Estate. During Dinner, appropriately, Cavan native, Brian McCabe provided the members with a most informative historical account of the area. This included his home town of Virginia, called after Queen Elizabeth I – the virgin queen, which was patened to be built under the terms of the Plantation of Ulster. However, it took a number of attempts to build and passed through many owners of the area over the course of history ending with the area coming under the Taylors or Taylour family – the marquess of Headfort. Brian also referred to the acquisitions and demise of the major landed estates in particular the great estate of the Maxwell family who became the lords Farnham and at their peak were the owners of 24,000 acres. By the 1960s part of the great house had to be demolished. Following the death of the 12th Baron in 1901, by which stage the estate had been reduced to c. 1,200 acres (100 acres in lakes), the estate was sold by Lady Diana Farnham to the McCabe family who in conjunction with the Radisson Blu group have developed a most magnificent hotel.
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