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If you are going to bother with all this valentine's business then I really think that you should write what you have to say on a banana. It's win win. Because even if the love (love?) is unrequited you still got to write on a banana.
It's all bullshit anyway. All people do is fill cards and folded pieces of paper with words and fluffy, empty sentiment. I love words but they rarely mean anything in the end, not really. When you're left in a crumpled heap with one batman DVD missing.
You can say them over and over, in whatever order you want – it doesn't mean that they'll stick. And you can keep them on scraps on paper, hidden away in shoe boxes as proof but sometimes it's better not to see that you mattered once for a bit but not in the end.
You can look down at the words scratched into a leaf ripped from an exercise book and see them existing when the love no longer does. Meaningless squiggles against a backdrop of rash decisions.
Bananas perish when they're supposed to, way before the love.
Write clues on the back of your hand and on scraps of paper, scatter some where people might see.
I swear, I swear, that mostly all lonely bones want is someone to do the crossword with and to feel the warmth of some other skin sometimes.
To fill in the blanks.
Sometimes. Sometimes.
But mostly it's fine just one and piles of creased paper.
This is a map of one of my favourite places.
I found it for 50p in Oxfam.
Then I covered myself and scraps of the map in glue and stuck in onto this giant letter.
Then I covered everything in glue again.
Neat little present, huh.
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Label: In The Name Of/ Columbia
Released: May 30
Rating: 8.0
The beat comes drifting in. Swaying amid the warm breeze, in sepia tones.
This self-titled debut from the Brooklyn-based duo starts strong with Abducted, which pads in like the titles at a drive-in-movie, scales back to a feminine lilt and bursts forward with perfect timing. A well-judged blend of sound that cuts through the entire record, in waves.
Elusive by nature, the style of Cults and this album are not neatly slotted away. The hint of slow-motion calypso rhythm, the echoes of by-gone era after by-gone era and the monster mash dance off into the shadows, leaving plenty of room for their own big sound.
Madeline Follin's voice bounces of itself like the gentle light in a vintage photograph and there is a playful, fairground swagger, even in moments of heartbreak. It's the sort of record that will marry well with warm days, rolled down windows and open roads.
It is peppered with catchy one-liners, pauses for natty handclaps and a twist on the dance floor. The maelstrom of classic influences, throwback sounds and glockenspiel often intersect with grainy samples, reverb and cutting vocal.
Yet there are darker elements in the backdrop. On the surface it is a deceptively cheery listen but as Jim Jones' voice dips through the innocent glock notes, self-deprecation lurches to the front and expletives are thrown out in an ocean of sound, the edge becomes more apparent.
The vocals weave playfully around each other throughout, picked out beautifully on stand-out track Bumper, which is straight out of another era and deliberately so. Follin's voice ducks and dives between Brian Oblivion's deep, grounded sound. As she croons "maybe I should start my life with someone new" you double take somewhere between standing on the shoulders of the Shangri-Las and a Beach Boys' style TV theme tune.
Big anthems like Rave on, are based on a more traditional marriage between vocals, stripped back guitar and a big chorus. Whereas the glorious, huge, otherworldly You Know What I Mean would not be out of place as the last dance at Twin Peaks' high school disco. Knocking the lights out at the end of the quick splash of Cults on your stereo.
So low key and yet so big. From beginning to end it rolls out of the speakers like a Santa Ana wind coming in from the California desert. A warm breeze full of cherished memories and a refreshing change all at once.


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Dysmenorrhea (Menstrual Pain/Cramps) Treatment {introduction}
Dysmenorrhea occurs when a woman experiences irregularly painful menstruation, characterized by extreme lower abdominal and back pain. An individual is considered to have primary dysmenorrhea when she experiences pain near the beginning of their period and is otherwise healthy. In women with secondary dysmenorrhea, pain can be attributed to some underlying condition or issue in the uterus or surrounding region.
Below you will find alternative and natural treatment options including those from a Chinese Medicine perspective for dysmenorrhea.
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Ba Zhen Wan - Anemia, Heavy Menstruation, Dizziness, Weakness Herbal Formula
Uses: Anemia, Heavy Menstruation, Dysmenorrhea (Cramps), Dizziness, Weakness.
Chai Hu Shu Gan Wan - PMS, Menstrual Pain, Irregularity, Stress Herbal Formula
Uses: PMS, Menstrual Pain, Irregular Menstruation, Emotional Stress, Depression, Irritability. Chai Hu Shu Gan Wan (Pian, Bupleurum Shu Gan Pills, Chai Hu Shu Gan Tang) is a well respected and commonly...
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Fu Fang Dang Gui Wan - Irregular Menstruation, PMS, Infertility, Fatigue Herbal Formula
Uses: Irregular Menstruation, PMS, Menstrual Pain, Infertility, Fatigue, Memory. Fu Fang Dang Gui Wan (Dong Quai Tablet) is a commonly used TCM herbal formula for syndromes of qi and blood deficiency in...
Shao Fu Zhu Yu Wan - Abdominal Pain & Masses, Dysmenorrhea Herbal Formula
Uses: Abdominal Pain, Abdominal Masses, Dysmenorrhea (Cramps). Translates as drive out blood stasis in the lower abdomen. For spleen qi deficiency with accompanying damp, usually in the lower jiao...
Si Wu Tang Wan - Abdominal Pain, Abdominal Masses, Irregular Menstruation Herbal Formula
Uses: Abdominal Pain, Abdominal Masses, Irregular Menstruation. Si Wu Tang Wan (Si Wu Tang Pian) literally "Four Substances Pills" in Chinese, enriches the blood and regulates the...
Warm Cycle Teapills - Irregular Menstruation, Infertility, Dysmenorrhea Herbal Formula
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The thought of a strike, and not working, never entered Willie Seymore's mind. He's the president of the International Longshoremen's Chapter, Local 1414.
"We are professionals," Seymore exclaimed. "We pride ourselves in making sure the Georgia Ports, the No. 2 port on the East Coast, and the No. 4 port in the U.S. continues to serve their customers."
That service would have been disrupted at the strike of midnight Saturday, had an agreement not been reached on Friday. More than 40 percent of U.S. container cargo would have been stuck at ports stretching from Maine to Texas.
"We weren't going to work this facility," said Curtis Foltz, executive director of the Georgia Ports Authority. "The container terminal itself would have been shut down. We would not have been receiving nor dispatching containers. Nor would we have been working the ships."
The ports strike would have affected around 352,000 workers, across the state of Georgia. Not to mention the customers, who shipped around 19 million tons of cargo in and out of the Georgia Ports last year.
"The manufacturers that depend on our ports, like KIA and Volkswagen in Tennessee," said Foltz. "We also have our retail importers, like, Target, Home Depot, Lowe's, Ikea, WalMart. They rely on our ports every day. Any disruptions would have had a negative effect on them, their customers, and have a rippling effect through the economy."
The biggest sticking point between the International Longshoremen's Assocation and the U.S. Maritime Alliance was the amount of royalties, or money, per ton of containerized cargo I.L.A. workers would receive for every shipment that came into the ports.
According to the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, a royalty amount was agreed upon by both sides. But the organization would not release what that amount would be.
Both Foltz and Seymore said they are optimistic a contract will be signed soon. "We're going to reach a deal," Seymore said. "I'm not going to say we're not going to reach a deal. Men of character and men of understanding are going to be in that conference room. "
Including Seymore. Both men also said the temporary setback between the I.L.A. and the Maritime Alliance never put the Georgia Ports Authority Local 1414 at odds against each other.
"It's really a partnership," said Foltz, " We couldn't do it without them, they couldn't do it without us. We work very well together. I have nothing but high praise for the ILA leadership in Savannah."
Seymore agreed. "We're partners," he said, "This is a decision we had to make with the carriers of the high seas. We don't really have a problem. It's just that we stopped and paused for station identification," he laughed. "We're going to get this together."
Seymore said he expects 2014 to be one of the most productive years in the history of the shipping industry. That's when the expanded panama canal opens.
Foltz said it will be business as usual at the ports until the deal is signed.
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Ideally, I want a database of wines, complete with flavor profiles, tasting notes, scores, and someplace to list where I bought it.
Minimally, I want something that will let me track wines I own, have owned, want to own, or read about and decided to throw in for good measure.
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Basically, the engine map is the software programme which controls the way engines produce power, and what some front-runners mainly, but not restricted to Red Bull Racing did, is tune the engine to produce exhaust gases even when the throttle is closed. This produces downforce by being blown over the intricately crafted underbodies of the cars.
The teams then changed mapping for the race to save fuel. Now that is banned they will go into qualifying with race set-ups, which should rob the likes of Red Bull Racing, Ferrari, McLaren and Mercedes of some of their performance advantages.
However, although the 'rule clarification' will have an effect, I am not as convinced as others that there will be a massive change in the order. I've always believed cream rises to the top and stays there, so the order is likely to stay much the same, even if the grid closes up.
However, this is good news for Ferrari, because PUMA's partner team has had a tough season and any tightening of the order can only help them. Although the team isn't quite there yet, things are looking a lot better than they did at the beginning of the season, and Fernando Alonso has been driving extremely well recently.
I am told that yesterday he said he felt that in seven races this season he has driven the best he's ever driven. When a double World Champion says that you have to sit up and take notice. However, the statement is also a double-edged sword as he and Ferrari have not won a race this year, which points to some other issues, either with the car or team.
This weekend Fernando is racing on home soil, and that always seems to give him an edge, as we saw last month in Barcelona when he leapt from fourth to first, then led for 20 laps. It would be absolutely fantastic if he does that again this weekend, but this time retains the lead to the flag. Just imagine the crowd – they'll go absolutely berserk!
In a way I feel slightly sorry for Valencia: last year's race is remembered not for the event itself, but for Mark Webber's flying accident, from which he was fortunate to emerge without a scratch. This year's race follows hot on the heels of the Canadian Grand Prix, which was arguably the most exciting of the last decade.
So the audience expectation, whether in the stands or on TV, is massive, and anything less than a wet race with a zillion pit stops and 50 changes of lead is likely to disappoint the fans. But, let's be realistic: races like Canada come around once in ten years, and in Formula 1 lightening seldom strikes twice in the same place, and if it does it is unlikely to do so within a fortnight. Rain is not forecast; in fact, we are looking at temperatures in the thirties.
However, this is a very fast street circuit, and races on those are always extremely exciting, while DRS and KERS will make all the difference, as they have all season. There's a question mark over tyre wear, particularly as race day will be a scorcher. Mixing these three on a track such as this is bound to cause chaos somewhere along the line.


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It is the policy of the United States to seek multilaterally coordinated efforts with other countries to control the proliferation of chemical and biological weapons. In furtherance of this policy, the United States shall—
(1) promote agreements banning the transfer of missiles suitable for armament with chemical or biological warheads;
(2) set as a top priority the early conclusion of a comprehensive global agreement banning the use, development, production, and stockpiling of chemical weapons;
(3) seek and support effective international means of monitoring and reporting regularly on commerce in equipment, materials, and technology applicable to the attainment of a chemical or biological weapons capability; and
(4) pursue and give full support to multilateral sanctions pursuant to United Nations Security Council Resolution 620, which declared the intention of the Security Council to give immediate consideration to imposing "appropriate and effective" sanctions against any country which uses chemical weapons in violation of international law.
(b) Multilateral controls on chemical agents, precursors, and equipment
It is also the policy of the United States to strengthen efforts to control chemical agents, precursors, and equipment by taking all appropriate multilateral diplomatic measures—
(1) to continue to seek a verifiable global ban on chemical weapons at the 40 nation Conference on Disarmament in Geneva;
(2) to support the Australia Group's objective to support the norms and restraints against the spread and the use of chemical warfare, to advance the negotiation of a comprehensive ban on chemical warfare by taking appropriate measures, and to protect the Australia Group's domestic industries against inadvertent association with supply of feedstock chemical equipment that could be misused to produce chemical weapons;
(3) to implement paragraph (2) by proposing steps complementary to, and not mutually exclusive of, existing multilateral efforts seeking a verifiable ban on chemical weapons, such as the establishment of—
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JMX is rapidly becoming a common, standardized way to provide basic monitoring of Java/J2EE applications and application servers. By instrumenting applications with components known as JMX MBeans, IT Departments can expose application information such as availability, downtime, upgrades, performance, sizing, security, integration, and other key metrics to enable the monitoring and control of applications. In addition, many middleware products such as application servers and business process management tools are being offered with performance metrics automatically exposed via JMX.
With all this great data being exposed, the challenge is how to bring meaning to it all so as to best manage and monitor these applications. How can IT organizations turn the basic metrics exposed through JMX into well-founded and actionable business decisions?
The Solution: The RTView® Platform
The RTView® platform is a flexible, real-time information delivery solution that enables users to quickly design and deploy custom dashboards, alerts, and reports. It connects directly with data from virtually any enterprise data source including JMX, with access to MBean attributes and operations. With the RTView platform, users can build a powerful, custom, real-time application monitoring system that enables them to respond to emerging conditions.
With the RTView platform , users are also able to persist real-time JMX data to any relational database using the Historian, allowing them to compare real-time information with historical information in the same dashboard.
For partners, RTView offers ISVs an easily integrated, branded, and embeddable monitoring and management console that can easily be customized by their end-user customers.
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RTView has an optional JMX data source adapter which provides access to JMX MBean attributes and operations. Users are able to:
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Behind the Mars Exploration Rover Cameras
In his office at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Optics Engineer Larry Scherr sits before a buzzing computer, sketching geometrical shapes on a sheet of graph paper. He is calculating lens shapes to control the path of light rays.
"It's puzzling," says Scherr, pointing to a series of half-oval shapes. "These are mirrors. I think I need four of them to be able to make this work."
Scherr and his colleagues are professional problem-solvers who receive proposals for amazing scientific instruments and try to make them a reality. Four years ago, Scherr was analyzing lenses for the Mars Exploration Rover cameras, now sending back a myriad of eye-popping images from the red planet.
"It's nice to work on something from concept to design, and talk with the people that are building the hardware," Scherr said. "It's through this kind of interaction -- being able to work through problems together -- that we made these cameras work and return images from Mars within a few years."
By "we," Scherr means the more than 100 engineers, contractors, graduate students and individuals from universities and research institutions that helped design, build, calibrate and test the Mars Exploration Rover cameras. Approximately 35 of those people were from JPL.
Conjuring Images, Step One
In 2000, Mars Exploration Rover scientists gave camera engineers at JPL a lengthy list of requirements for the cameras that would eventually play a key role in the rover's mission on Mars -- phase one of a long assembly line of work that produced 42 cameras: 20 on the twin rovers, 18 for test rovers on Earth and four spares. Each rover would contain two panoramic cameras, four hazard avoidance cameras, two navigation cameras, a microscopic imager camera, and a descent image motion estimation system camera, located on the lander.
"Time was so tight for this project," said JPL Camera Payload Element Manager Mark Schwochert. "We had to build a large number of cameras in just two years, so we tried to keep the design simple, yet robust."
"We had two classes of requirements, one for pure science, and the other for mission support," said Dr. Jim Bell, camera payload element lead scientist from Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y.
A key science and engineering requirement called for two high-resolution, color cameras known as the panoramic cameras on each rover. These cameras, used together, would provide full-color, three dimensional, 360-degree panorama images of the terrain around each rover -- a very important aid to engineers who are driving the rovers.
"We set a benchmark with the camera by asking that they have resolution at least as good as the human eye with perfect vision," Bell said. "And of course, we wanted really stunning pictures."
To get these images, scientists choose which filters to take the image with out of 11 available color filters. These filters help them acquire and reconstruct a reasonably accurate color image and, more importantly, determine the composition of rocks and soil on the martian surface. An additional two filters are included to help photograph the Sun. This not only helps scientists determine the dust abundance in the atmosphere, but also allows each camera to serve as a "solar compass" to determine a rover's orientation.
"The rovers really are like robotic geologists," said JPL Senior Test Engineer Tom Elliot. "What the cameras are seeing on Mars is very similar to what we would see if we were there looking around."
The camera team included specialists from five major disciplines: optics, charge coupled devices, electronics, mechanicals, and assembly and testing.
With valuable input from key contractors, the optics team at JPL designed, built and tested the tiny camera lenses, each custom-tailored to the function its camera was to perform. To meet their requirements, the team had to carefully consider using smaller consumer parts, some of which weren't capable of handling a journey to Mars.
"One of the stressful things about being an optical designer is that you have to be one of the first ones finished so other engineers in the mechanical and thermal areas may do their work," said Principal Optical Engineer Ed Hagerott. "All the people who worked on this project put in very long hours and did a super job of meeting the requirements, sometimes even ahead of schedule."
Step Two, Three and Voila! Images!
While the optics team developed the lenses, a second team designed, built and tested charge coupled devices, the "electronic film" which would convert the optical images (patterns of light, or an image as we would normally see it) into patterns of electronic signals. These signals would then be radioed to Earth and reconstructed into pictures.
Meanwhile, a third team developed the electronics that would operate the camera and process the charge coupled devices' electronic signal. This provides electronic images to the rover computer for transfer to Earth, often via spacecraft that are orbiting Mars.
"Acquiring the images using the rover cameras isn't the black magic that it seems," said Elliot. "The operations team has to decide which filters to use, command the camera, and then process the resulting image after it has been transferred to earth. In fact, the rover cameras, in many ways, are less complicated than consumer digital cameras."
Practice Makes Perfect
"By the time the mission team got the cameras, it was like buying a new car with 25,000 miles already on it," Schwochert said. Prior to delivery, the camera team performed a rigorous series of tests and reviews, referencing designs from Sojourner, Viking and other missions for ideas and problems that they might encounter, such as whether dust would accumulate on the lenses.
"Different missions have different ways of fulfilling their requirements, and it was helpful for us to look at what was successful and where problems were encountered in the past," Elliott said. "Of course, we had our own bag of tricks."
The team conducted camera and rover tests in vacuum chambers and in JPL's In Situ Instruments Laboratory, a building that contains a patch of realistic "Mars" terrain. Camera testing included operation at temperatures as low as -120 degrees Celsius (-184 degrees Fahrenheit), even though the rover cameras on Mars are typically operated at temperatures above -45 degrees Celsius (-49 degrees Fahrenheit).
"After days of electrical testing and retesting under the most rigorous conditions that I could think of, I knew that the camera electronics design was solid, but in this business there always room for more testing," said Lead Camera Electronics Engineer Arsham Dingizian. "I wanted to be prepared for the worst because no design is perfect. To my surprise, although they didn't work properly at -120 degrees Celsius, the cameras electronics survived and worked perfectly at above -55 degrees Celsius (-67 degrees Fahrenheit). This proved to me that the camera electronics design not only met its specifications but also exceeded them. At that moment I knew that the camera electronics could handle almost anything Mars could come up with."
After the cameras were built and thoroughly tested to ensure mission success, the camera team turned them over to the Assembly, Test, Launch and Operations team, who placed them on the rovers. Members of the camera team have since moved onto other projects, although a handful of them still work daily with the Mars Exploration Rovers.
"There was so much riding on these missions, I found myself waiting, like everyone else, into the early hours of the morning until the first images came down," said Elliott, who no longer works with the rovers but is now helping develop the navigation camera on the 2005 Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter and the 2009 Space Interferometry Mission.
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Jan shared interesting information that partly answers your question.
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I think it's fair for me to say, as a guy my age dealing with my socioeconomic level, that I've seen a lot of theater. While most boys save their pennies for the latest videogame system or computer game, I was busy reading something, not working, and trying to scam a door guy at some low level performance art house. That said, you won't catch me at too many Broadway Productions, but I've seen enough to understand what they're about. I know experimental theater best. You know, the weird stuff. The stuff so off the wall an audience member might be paid to see so the creative team doesn't feel their work was in vain.
I can't help myself. I love theater. I'd go to more Broadway shows if I could afford them, but I can't, so I stick to shows at PS122 or wherever I can get a reasonably priced ticket. When I first heard of The Lily's Revenge, I was excited that for $20 I'd get five hours of theater. It's like a junky suddenly getting thirty bags for the price of ten! But then there was the fear of overdosing and I felt that fear creeping in as a probability as I waited in the rush ticket line from 9am-7pm the first time I saw the show, feeling ever so terrible from my escapade the evening before involving no sleep, lots of drugs/booze and casual sex.
It's been about a year and a half, and I remember thinking as I waited in line, "This is it. I'm gonna walk outta here a full blown junkhead or I'm going to overdose and be really pissed off." Even as the play began and the actress playing Time warned the audience that we'd all die or be stuck inside the play forever, I knew it must be fate. I'd waited this long though so there was no way of turning back, a junky never turns back…
Now zoom forward a year and a half and my life has radically changed! I'm living in NYC and I'm a full-fledged Lily lovin' zombie! Oh what a difference five hours (and a year and a half) can make when not planted in front of the television munching on popcorn and slurping fingers for tidbits of greasy chicken. Living in NYC afforded me the lovely opportunity to meet Taylor Mac (whose theatrical outer exterior suggests he's a club kid that got smart and done good!) last winter and after listening to him gush about the re-staging of The Lily's Revenge in San Francisco, I knew I needed to return to that city to mainline my favorite drug, and so that's exactly what JT and I did. We contacted the Magic Theater, found a way to get tickets without having to pay for them (THANK YOU PATTIE!) and headed west…
It was weird for me because the first time I saw The Lily's Revenge I had traveled in opposite directions: I'd come from my old homestead in San Francisco to NYC to dose myself on ten days of theater. For ten days JT and I saw one to two plays a day, and The Lily's Revenge was just another name of a play I was supposed to try and see before I saw it. Now, The Lily's Revenge means so much more to me. It's the one show that I know will "take me there." Nothing I have ever seen is as unique and thoughtfully put together as The Lily's Revenge. Future play writes beware: your works have major competition in my heart…
A major reason The Lily's Revenge is so life changing lays in its communal spirit. No other play that I've seen is as radically interactive as The Lily's Revenge. Unless you're blind, deaf and mute, it's just about impossible for you to go see the show and not walk away with a new friend. I made my first new friend the moment I sat down. The elderly woman seated next to me struck up a conversation with me. I told her my love for Taylor Mac and she was thrilled to hear it because she was feeling a little apprehensive about the five hour part of the disclaimer for the show. A few moments later Taylor Mac (dressed as the lily) started to hobble up the aisle. The woman then asked if I knew about the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence. I whispered a quick hello to Taylor then returned my attention to the woman. She then told me her boyfriend wants to join the Sisters but can't pass the high heel test, referencing Taylor as he hobbled into the seat directly behind us.
Ten minutes later the play was in full swing and the spotlight hit Taylor for the first time since he had left the audience to join the play. He stole the show from the moment he got up there and the audience erupted in laughter as everyone seated seemingly joined him and I was swept away once again.
Having seen the show before in NYC, I focused a lot of my attention on observing the audience's reactions. San Francisco and NYC are my two favorite cities in the country for many reasons but a big part of my love for them is due to their vast differences and similarities. For example, when the Bride called Time a "shriveled up, old, feminist, nazi, lesbian" few in the SF audience seemed to think it was funny. The line brought the house down in NYC but in San Francisco the audience by and large seemed to identify with the definition, leaving the use of it in an offensive context to make them furrow their brows. Oh San Francisco (M-F-TF-M-T-MT-F-M-F Queen that you are)! How I love you and your identity politics!
Another thing about the play I love are the parties and interactive performances that take place in between acts. It's like every intermission is a "happening" in and of itself, and the cast in SF sure knew how to party! During the first intermission I even exchanged cheek kisses with the costume designer! For those of you that saw the show you understand just how wondrous a soul the designer possesses.
Another highlight came a few intermissions later when I received a dildo massage by another cast member. I didn't realize she was thumping dildos on my back till the very end, when I sat up and asked what she was using to extract the tension in my back. Brilliant.
An additional great example of the interactive, celebratory nature of the play came in Act 3 when the Bride announces she needs the toilet that's placed in the audiences seating area… seconds later she pushed an older gentleman off the toilet and he sat next to me on the floor laughing hysterically. After exchanging glances I couldn't help but join him in ecstatic exhalation. Meanwhile the disgruntled bride fearing monogamy proceeded to try a plethora of things she'd never tried, before she ultimately sealed the deal. One of her experiments involved eating pussy for the first time, and the majority of the cast onstage, largely comprised of the Flower Girls, erupted into absolute chaos while the bride munched on a fellow actress. Behind the chaos (which I might add, was better executed in SF in comparison to NYC) Taylor, The Lily, ever so slowly moved across the background of the stage with Time dressed as wind standing before him, beckoning him onward, creating a great moment of audience participation and rejection, and minute movement versus slap-stick comedic chaotic movement.
Now, sadly, I must confess my only major qualm with the production of The Lily's Revenge in San Francisco. For those unfamiliar with the play, its plot is basically about a lily trying to marry a woman. The lily is told by an evil Curtain that a lily can't marry a woman and so the lily goes on a quest to prove that it can. The Curtain is the arch nemesis of the lily and is the plays villain. In NYC, the actor that played the Curtain, James Tigger! Ferguson, did an outstanding job instilling fear in the audience. He thoroughly invoked a balance of humor and evil from the moment the play began until the very end. His greatest moment came during Act 3 when he is stripped of his curtain, providing the audiences with one of the greatest burlesque performances I've seen while being literally stripped of his power. Shortly after however, the cast builds him back up as a powerful force to be reckoned with by placing red cocktail napkins on his body and covering him up again. Unfortunately, the woman that played the Curtain in SF failed to invoke any sort of fear and she didn't come across as all that evil either. At her initial entrance to the stage I thought her casting was a great idea; she seemed like a powerful black woman, one that I expected would come across as a dominatrix/disciplinarian type well versed in the art of burlesque. Her first take to the stage exuded power but her delivery continually grew weaker as her curtain persona shrank along with her. By Act 3, when I was expecting to watch her deliver a burlesque performance comparable to what I saw in NYC, I sadly saw nothing and felt she needed to go to both Dom and Burlesque school in order to accurately fill the role she was cast for. I'm sorry Mollena Williams, I'm sure you're a lovely soul (a bit too lovely, it seems), but the play is a Hero's Journey and it's essential that a hero's journey have a strong domineering evil villain to move away from.
By and large, the casting in NYC was stronger than the one of the SF showing. Not to say the SF cast wasn't talented, or that it didn't have it's amazing performers, rather, it seemed just a gentle reminder of how drastically hodgepodge and untogether-all-over the place SF is compared to NYC. That said, those are two traits of SF that I love (you all know how hodgepodge and un-put together I can be)! In spite of me sometimes feeling this way, what is most import for this five hour mega play is that the energy is there: the communal spirit that the play inspires and the bond that forms between cast and audience that no other play I've seen champions the way that Lily's does. This energy, which is at the heart of The Lily's Revenge and what I feel is the essence of the experience, I can happily say, is in San Francisco in spades. In fact, my friends that saw it there for the first time probably didn't detect any of my inner thoughts at all. They were all whisked away to where I had been a year and a half ago and that was a beautiful thing to watch. If anyone has ever wondered what happened to David Bowie, well let me tell you, his soul fled to a California boy named Taylor Mac because it was tired of only writing songs and needed to write a five hour play. It knew the revolution wouldn't be televised and it needs more than song to succeed, it needs an entire community.
-Stephen Boyer
I faked crippling gas to skip work and see the play. I had no idea what to expect, except eating like a camel before to prepare for the length of it. 5 hours. And not one moment did it feel 5 hours long. Glitter, radicals, and fierce trannies! It's impossible not to fall in love with Taylor.
-Alicia Dyche
Hi! I brought my mother with me from Albuquerque, NM to see Lily's revenge. During the first act we sat separately and my mom met a man from the UK who had come to San Francisco just to see the play. By the third intermission she took a picture of him with a giant daisy and exchanged email addresses so she could send him the picture. I loved this play so much my heart hurts. In fact, it made me question a lot of the decisions I've made in my life so far. It made wonder what is possible for me, if this play is possible. I loved the play and the cast and Taylor Mac with all my heart. I didn't want it to stop because I just wanted my whole life to be like that night! Thanks!
-Elizabeth Maher
It was an interactive blissful rage of blossoming verse and verve. It was hard to tell what sort of spin San Fran could bring to this tale of adoring agriculture. The cast bursting with life.. and uhm.. death as it were beckoned me into a magical world for an unfelt 5 hours. I danced and I cried and was forever illuminated by the works of a one, Taylor. My sweet Lily moved me in ways that only a plant probably could.
-Sarah Taylor
Tongues flailing ebbs of shrieks and swarming laps around the stage that end in cartoon writhing. And there was some suggestion of transformative thinking but a performance of a narrative and then deployment of non-linear-narrative tropes that seemed just as strict. The intermissions inevitably became as memorable as the play: a time when most of the chorus-like-cast members taking on sideshow acts that often beckoned participation and showcased their talents. The dildo massage felt great. I was fascinated by the crowd, and computing how it was maybe different in ny. here in san fran, where theater feels so small, people who dress up for the theater were there. Like suburban broadway glamour, which I suspect experimental downtown New York City theater would have to beg for.
-Ariel Goldberg
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The Lily's Revenge is the most generous theatrical performance I've ever participated in. This is not to say that I have appeared in The Lily's Revenge, or that I have had anything to do with it at all except for attending two different performances of it, it is merely to say that to see The Lily's Revenge is in many ways to be in it. To live in it. To share in a theatrical event of such magnitude that there is no way for you, as long as your memory is functioning normally, to ever forget it. What Taylor Mac has given us is one of the more selfless acts of love I have ever witnessed, while simultaneously being one of the more self-celebratory. With The Lily's Revenge, Taylor gives us a little bit of everything beautiful, important and theatrical, while somehow putting himself at the pieces center. The fact that he even fits as much wonder as he does into his five hour opus still seems nearly impossible and I say this even though I've been living with this play inside of me for over a year and a half now. I have never seen so convincing a display of one person's love for the theater and to share in it is a life changing experience.
Though Lily's is by no means a perfect play it is a bold and triumphant one. It makes its points gracefully without being very graceful. It manages to somehow be both extreme and intimate, beautiful and ugly, comic and tragic…so many contradictory things.
Seeing a new production of a play you love is always an exciting and worrisome endeavor; seeing a new production of a play you REAAAALLY love is even more worrisome. I had talked up The Lily's Revenge a lot to my friends and acquaintances in the year and a half since I had seen it, telling many of my closest non-theater going friends that I had seen something that even they would have loved to have been a part of. They rolled their eyes and smiled at me, possibly believing me but secretly thrilled that they would never have to endure the five hour work I was describing. When it was announced that The Lily's Revenge was coming in an all new production to my home state and that I would be going, my friends all knew that they were now expected to attend. Quiet terror was in their souls.
As the lights went down at The Magic Theater and the play began, I kept a quick eye on my friends seated across from me, praying that they would feel some of what I felt before, hoping that at last this would be the kind of theater we could share in and celebrate together. My foot tapped, I laughed nervously and my eyes darted back and forth from the action unfolding in front of me, to my friends unsuspecting faces on the opposite side of the stage. At first I was unsure what they were thinking, nervous that maybe this was it, the moment I fucked up and would lose their trust, a moment where the thing I am most passionate about outside of my personal life would fail to transcend, and then…Taylor took to the stage, my friends faces turned to smiles, then to bigger smiles and finally they all started to laugh. Suddenly we all breathed in together and arrived collectively at a universal theatrical experience, and somehow that experience continued to last until the lights went down some five-ish hours later. For that opportunity alone I will forever be thankful.
To describe the plot of The Lily's Revenge is kind of like describing the plot of The Bible, so I'll refrain from trying to do that. It should be noted however that there is a plot and it is involving, it's just hard to do it any sort of justice here in a summary. In one sentence I'll say that there is a lily that wants to marry a lady but has to go on a hero's quest and do many nearly impossible things for the chance to do so. Thematically the play is mostly about community (ie the cast and the audience) and the pitfalls of institutionalization — with particular regards to relationships (ie marriage) and stories with stock characters (ie narrative theater). Of course there is a lot more going on than a dissertation on these themes and the play is a hell of a lot more fun than I just made it sound, but that's why I'd rather talk about how the play made me feel as opposed to what the play is "about."
The production itself was wonderful. The cast was talented, the sets and costumes were spectacular and the energy was overwhelming and infectious. There were some things in San Francisco that were better than they were in New York, and other aspects that New York's production took the cake for. The San Francisco production's third act "Dream Ballet" in which we see all of the bride and groom's hopes and desires fully manifested by their dream personas, was far clearer and more engaging than I'd found it to be in New York. In fact, I thought this act was the San Francisco versions greatest improvement on the play. There was a clarity that was lacking when I'd seen it before and the act packed a surprisingly powerful punch. That is, at least the ballet segment of the act did… Unfortunately where San Francisco's production failed was in the casting of Mollena Williams as The Curtain or "The Great Longing." In New York the roll had been played by a male, James Tigger! Ferguson, and initially the thought of the plays villain being played by a plus sized black woman struck me as an exciting and bold new choice. I anticipated a domineering, boisterous, soulful and terrifying performance and sat on the edge of my seat waiting for Williams to show her teeth. Unfortunately, those teeth when gnashed were of the toddler variety. You can't have a hero save the day without a life threatening evil to save the day from. James Tigger! Ferguson's performance in New York at the end of the third act struck terror into everyone in the audience's soul, giving the play the balance it needed and keeping the drama from being only of the more sentimental sort. Without his comedic timing or dramatic prowess, the great longing continually came off more like The Petty Wanting. That this very integral part of the show was unsuccessful and the show as a whole still was a success speaks even greater for the play that Taylor has written and for the production that The Magic has mounted.
Just as it was in New York, between three of the play's five acts the audience was sent out of the theater and into the rest of the building to participate in various activities and performances while the theater is re configured for the next act. At the first intermission, all of my friends and I were led outside and down a fire escape with a breathtaking San Francisco bay sunset as our backdrop. As if we hadn't felt like we were in Oz already, this confirmed our arrival. The world of the play seemed to have exploded into the sunset and we were whisked away with a few others to a private cabaret. We sat on blankets and smiled as we listened to two members from the cast sing us show tunes and standards. We got gently groped, wrote and sang a song together and kissed our surrounding strangers and friends on the cheeks. We all fell in love again with each other, with the show we were seeing and with everyone around us. It was as if we all took a vow. At the show's conclusion, we all sat side by side as Taylor instructed us towards the shows inevitable end. None of us were holding hands or looking into each other's eyes but it somehow felt like we all were. None of us said I do, but it felt like we all did. Five hours after our arrival, after all the beauty and ceremony we had witnessed and been a part of, the lights went down and our smiles lit up. We were all Lily's, all of us sunsets, all of us lovers and we all felt it. We all knew it. I didn't even need to check my friend's faces to be certain of it.
Special Thanks to Patti at The Magic Theater for getting Stephen and I press tickets and letting us take our friends to the show's friend's and family night preview. We thank her and the creative team for inducting us into their family before they even knew who we were and hope that with our collective reviews we have done all of them some justice for their love and hard work. You made too out of towners feel right at home.
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I've been downloading my processes and insights to my blog for a couple years now, and in an effort to better-organize my content and help you more easily find content that will be helpful to you as you're creating and executing your Marketing Gameplan, I've changed up how I've categorized my posts. I've aligned everything with my Marketing Gameplan process and the Marketing Triad, which are the cornerstone of my marketing development philosophy. You can learn more about said philosophy in my program, How Should I Market Myself?
In order to benefit from the content on my blog, I think it might be helpful to share a bit how I'm "wired" as a marketer and how I've organized this content to support you. At my core, I am a strategist and a process person. I take the "big picture" and develop the road map for getting there. I know a lot about marketing (eat it, breathe it, love it), but I'm a different kind of marketer. It seems that a lot of marketers have an "area of focus" (social media, search, publicity, "a plan," website, etc). They will advise you based on their expertise and help you with a "piece" of your overall gameplan.
My great passion is in bringing the pieces together and creating a system to execute all the administrative tasks related to marketing and growing your business. I want this blog to illuminate processes and patterns for you, to challenge your thinking at times, to clarify the decision-making process, to support you in building a platform that will rocket you to the next level.
I often find myself in conversations with both my marketing colleagues, clients and the marketplace in general that go something like this:
- I tried [this strategy], and we made progress, but it created a backlog of responsibilities over here that just sunk the ship. Or I didn't have time to manage it well, plus take care of my clients and meet my other deadlines.
- It's stressful trying to do all these marketing things! (Typically, their business model doesn't include any leverage for managing and sustaining their momentum.)
Roger Hamilton calls people who are wired like me "Mechanics." We learn the business side of things, and put the systems in place that create efficiency and growth. This is the "space" I come from as I discuss growing your business. "Mechanics are great at systems and perfecting the details," he explains. I'm often told I'm a balanced amalgum of creative and business, right-brain and left-brain, whereas most people are predominently one or the other.
Enough about me, the point is YOU, and how I want to help you. Each link below represents a blog category and will help you explore the content on my blog.
Marketing Gameplan process
I'm a big believer in sequencing: doing the right things in the right order. Strategic decisions must be made within the framework of context, and determining the context that provides the backdrop for decisions takes time, intention and effort. When I begin working with a new client, the first thing we do is explore the full context of their business and the marketplace (as much as we can discern, anyway) so that we hedge our bets in decision-making and ideally, set the conditions for sustainable success. It's very frustrating to spend time and money on marketing efforts, only to realize through lack of success that we executed prematurely, or in the wrong sector, or we were missing key components.
If you take the time to build things right, you will save yourself a lot of time and money. More importantly, you'll get traction to begin contributing and making a difference in meaningful ways–which is the goal, right?
- Step 1: Know What You Offer
- Step 2: Know Your Customer
- Step 3: Package Your Solutions to Solve Your Customer's Problems
- Step 4: Determine Your Marketing Strategies
- Step 5: Create Your Tools
- Step 6: Execute Your Plan
Marketing Triad
I developed the Marketing Triad to help my clients understand how the different marketing strategies related to each other, and to emphasize the strategies that were important for independent professionals to execute first. The core triad (showcasing, networking, and grassroots marketing) represents the most important strategies for you to execute as an independent professional (speaker, author, coach, consultant, trainer – someone packaging your knowledge and expertise).
Stacking Strategies are secondary strategies (like publicity, advertising, trade show marketing, sponsorships, etc) you should execute after you've got the infrastructure and support for executing your core strategies in place, and you've been consistently hitting your benchmarks. AFTER you've tested and solidified your Triad's strategy, you might begin focusing time, money and intention on the Stacking Strategies. This is important – it's a very common mistake for people to spend a lot of time and money on executing Stacking Strategies, only to realize later on that while they may have kicked up some dust, they're not growing their business.
Beyond this, there are a few other areas that I've been blogging about lots that deserve their own separate categories:
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SEM | SEO | Website | Social Media
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These guys came up as a result of starting a new book on the French Revolution! Citoyen Duclos is a royalist, a lesser valet to the dauphin prior to 1792; citoyenne Courtois, on the other hand, is an overzealous radical with a penchant for sharp and shiny objects. Citoyen Verdier is a tired gunsmith who loves big cannons a bit too much and citoyen Jacquinet is a middle-class, assistant surgeon with strict principles despite his easy smiles. Too bad if I did a story with these guys, they'd probably all end up killing each other…or getting executed I'm no history expert, though I like to think I have a focused interest in it: patterns and colors are arbitrary for the time period, but the cuts and styles shouldn't be too far off


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The Bachelor of Arts in Communications presents a combination of theoretical knowledge and analytical skill oriented to the recognition and solution of communication problems as they occur in their various forms and within diverse contexts and media; students have the opportunity to apply what they have learned in related activity and production courses as well as internships; they may concentrate their study in either Public Relations or Journalism. The general emphasis is upon breadth and flexibility in preparation for a diversity of career opportunities.
Students are expected to have completed the equivalent of 2 years of college coursework prior to applying for admission. Transfer courses will include all lower division general education requirements, and students are advised to have all general education coursework certified. It is recommended that all lower division general education requirements be completed prior to admission to ensure timely completion of the program.
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A judge ruled Friday Gordon "Steve" and Maria Green will not be granted custody of 6-month-old Bree and her older brother before their trial in October.
The home was initially deemed unsafe with concerns about the couple's license to grow and use medical marijuana and two children were removed from the household by Child Protective Services. The judge says he needs more evidence before the Greens will regain custody of their children. He says he has reason to believe that marijuana was being smoked in front of the children by the parents and also by people coming in and out of the house, and that the room the drug was being grown in was not locked. The parents have a pending felony of manufacturing marijuana out of Oakland Co. that the judge says affected his decision as well. The judge ruled the couple is able to visit Bree as often as they like, as long as it is under the supervision and in the home of Bree's grandmother, who currently has custody of the child.The medical marijuana is used to treat Gordon's multiple sclerosis and epilepsy. Maria joined in the Let It Rip discussion Thursday night about this issue, and says she has multiple sclerosis too and admits to having used the drug in the past to treat it, but has not smoked it since getting pregnant and giving birth to Bree. The Greens continue to fight back with the help of a coalition of attorney, parents, students and legislators. They're calling on the state to recognize and adhere to the Michigan Medical Marihuana Act, and stop removing children from the homes of licensed medical marijuana caregivers and patients.
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John Fogerty gives fans a little taste of his upcoming album, Wrote a Song for Everyone , in a new trailer posted on his official website and YouTube channel. The video, which runs about a minute and 20 seconds, shows the ex- Creedence Clearwater Revival frontman working in the studio with many of the stars with whom he collaborated on the project.
Among the artists seen alongside Fogerty in the behind-the-scenes clip are Bob Seger , Foo Fighters ' Dave Grohl , My Morning Jacket 's Jim James and country stars Keith Urban , Brad Paisley , Miranda Lambert and Alan Jackson . Serving as the trailer's soundtrack is the new rendition of CCR's "Born on the Bayou" that Fogerty recorded with Kid Rock for the album.
Wrote a Song for Everyone is scheduled to be released on May 28. Complete details about the album can be viewed at JohnFogerty.com .
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Is your driveway toxic?
Protecting your home and property from the elements seems like a fail-safe goal, but recent research says your good sense of maintenance could actually be harming you.
Protecting your pavement from the harsh effects of winter ice and summer heat can be smart home maintenance — if you're not coating your driveway with carcinogens. Scientists at the U.S. Geological Survey found that coal-tar pavement sealant, typically used east of the Continental Divide, contains 1,000 times more polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), which are byproducts of fuel burning, than its asphalt-based counterpart used throughout the West. What's more, these known cancer-causing compounds might be tracked indoors.
After sweeping up samples of pavement dust from across the U.S., a USGS team discovered much higher levels of PAHs in the dust from pavement coated with coal-tar sealant than from pavement coated with asphalt-based sealant or no sealant at all.
"We thought that concentrations of PAHs were so high in parking lots that they may be affecting house dust," says Barbara Mahler, a hydrologist involved in the research, which was published in Environmental Science & Technology in November 2008.
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Her hunch was right. For a follow-up study published this month in the same journal, the team found that PAH concentrations are 25 times higher in homes next to parking lots with coal-tar sealant because people naturally ferry road dust inside on their shoes and clothes. Based on human toxicology data, Mahler says the level of PAHs detected in these homes translates, minimally, to an increased cancer risk for preschoolers, who often crawl around and ingest things on floors and whose young bodies are still developing.
Another team of researchers, working for Austin, Texas, began studying PAHs several years ago; they quickly determined that the compounds are also an environmental health problem because they drain into aqueous environments as runoff. Members of that team began talking to the Environmental Protection Agency about their findings in 2005, but say it took the agency five years to take their warning seriously. "Coal-tar seal coat needs to be phased out," team member Nancy McClintock says. "It's a nationwide problem."
Austin, Washington, D.C., and Dane County, Wis., meanwhile, have banned its use, and Minnesota has banned the purchase of coal-tar seal-coat products by state agencies by July 1.
Such phase-outs don't come easily, but there is precedent for them. Back in the 1940s, manufacturers began chemically treating lumber used in playgrounds and decks with a preservative called chromated copper arsenate to protect against rot and insect damage. CCA contains chromium and arsenic, toxic compounds that leach out of the wood and into soil — as with PAHs, putting children who crawl in the contaminated area at risk. After an EPA assessment, manufacturers phased out the use of CCA for virtually all residential wood products by the end of 2003. (Existing nonresidential uses include utility poles and crossties.) It has been replaced successfully by new water-based preservatives and composites such as recycled plastic lumber.
According to McClintock's team in Texas, asphalt-based seal coat is currently the only widely available, affordable alternative to coal tar. A product from Carbon Plex, made from a blend of asphalt-based seal coat and recycled tires, appears promising, but a gallon is about 15 times more expensive than a similar amount of coal tar — and, the researchers say, it's not commercially available, especially to smaller cities like Austin. Ushering in a viable alternative is a manufacturing and investment hurdle, compounded by a bad economy, they say.
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The Austin team isn't certain that an alternative to seal coat is even needed. Manufacturers claim that coal tar-based sealants preserve the appearance of pavement, as well as protect it from water, salt, gas and oil penetration, extending its life span. But scientific studies about seal coat's efficacy have thus far been minimal. "We're not convinced seal coat is a terribly important product," Austin research team member Mateo Scoggins says. "But the PAHs in it are a serious problem."
This is not a yes-no? good-bad? question. Avoid chemicals, drive on dirt or gravel - opps, got dust in the air. Lookie, our body is composed whatever 87% (guess) of water. We need water, get too much water - ya drown and die. Okay, maybe I'm messing with yo mind. Point is, ya gotta use whatever you got righteously. "Sealing" is an inexpensive way(comparatively), to maintain and extend the life of asphalt. Sometimes, a lot of times, it's not justified to add 1 1/2 or 2 inches lift of asphalt on a driveway. "Sealing" of and by itself is not bad, although some products or services can be a total rip off. Nah, you ain't gonna die from it, and your plants beside the driveway shouldn't die, which should reassure you somewhat. OF COURSE it's not healthy! It doesn't allow plants to grow thru it, use native gravel or rock and post a "drive slow" sign if that's what you want. And then you may want to spray deadly chemicals on said gravel to keep your gravelway passable. Right!- ?
I spent 27 years in a public works street department. None of this stuff is without risk. Getting out of bed isn't without risk. Well, shucks, staying in bed isn't risk free either. This is much ado about nothing, unless you are unusually sensitive. That is the price of civilization.
With all due respect, which ain't very stinking much, this is another fear-mongering bologna Internet article of no value. You may have a driveway of native dirt, local or imported gravel, brick or block, asphalt or concrete, solid gold if you can afford it (and if so, hey, I'm really in love with you); but there ain't no "healthy" driveway , nor even pathway. Man, even the native deer paths occasionally exhibit some animal excretions!
Where is the comparative study between old crumbling asphalt (okay, maybe not that bad, but in "need" of resealing) versus newly "sealed" surface. Let's be scientific, show me the study of floating carcinogens or whatever on an old, original untreated driveway versus a resurfaced driveway at two months, 6 months, 1 and 2 years. Well, either that don't validate any headlines, or our researcher didn't research squat, except how to push our "dumb" buttons. I've shoveled a lot of asphalt, not got the 'eye' to rake, but do have the eye to see this article shouldn't have been shoveled off the barn floor.
I've owned an asphalt maintenance business for 18 years. A family member forwarded this story to me. It scared the crap out of me. I am no longer using T-Gel when washing my hair! Seriously though, I get the enviromental impact argument. For example, I have always recycled rinse water and reused it on the next load of sealer. When I read some other stories about the Austin study I was a bit concerned. Finding "flakes" from a sealed parking lot tells me there was a spill or poorly prepared surface. This stuff does not "run off" in sheets. "Sealing is not necessary." Neither is painting your house or washing your car. It's called maintenance. Asphalt has petroleum in it. When it dries out it starts to leave the area pebble by pebble. Sealer slows that down considerably. Only people making their fortune paving/cementing will tell you differently.
Also, to any of you who have pavement please do not wait 5 years to seal it. If it is new pavement simply take your garden hose out and spray it. If the water "beads" it is not cured enough. I tell people to wait at least 6 months. Sealer will NOT stop your pavement from cracking. It is what is under it that determines the structurual integrity. That's why we don't pave over grass. If your pavement does develop cracks (say, pencil size or so) do not neglect them! Get them filled with a RUBBERIZED filler. Cold crack fillers are junk. Period. Even better is to find a reputable contractor (me) and have them clean them out with a heat lance and then fill them with a hot rubber material.
If you are scared by the story from Austin you should Google the following and do a little reading:
Germs on shopping carts
VRE (Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococcus)
Once you read about this stuff you'll be too worried about whether there's an "**** gasket" in the bathroom at Home Depot to care about how dangerous it is to seal coat your driveway!
Something tells me this skullpuppy guy never took a chemistry course. Just because you know a few guys who have been in the asphalt business for years and who don't have cancer doesn't mean there is nothing to be concerned about; you're sample size is much too small to draw any conclusion from it. Also, the article mentions that children are at a much higher risk for cancer than adults.
Putting petroleum on the ground is basically a dumb idea to begin with.
Doubt it will happen in our lifetime, but will bet if we stop using all these toxic chemicals, birth defects, especially most intellectual disabilities with kids will diminish. It has always been big business, big govermnment that allows these products to make it to the production line, when clear dangerous evidence is ignored or hidden. Think asbestos and you'll get the picture. I don't need a scientific study to tell me the sealcoats on driveways is toxic. My nose tells me so. Humans can be so greedy and selfish, and pros at ignoring the truth.
These materials are hazardous. My husband died of Doyle's carcinoma (bowel cancer), and a colleague of his also got the same cancer. They both worked with creasote - a known carcinogen for this cancer - and other sealing materials for bridge construction. We are poisoning ourselves, our world and our waterways unnecessarily. Please view Frontline's poisonous water program. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/poisonedwaters/
The best thing for our world is not to use these hazardous impervious materials, decrease run-off and deal with the reality we are part of an ecosystem, not outside of it. You can't destroy the natural world to have plants without bugs etc. etc. To OldFashionedFy I say you are being self-centred and short-sighted. To save our water and environment for the next generation, we have to learn to live with nature, not dominate it. Forget about any chance of suing these people who make this stuff... they just come back again and again with arguments that it could have been caused by any known carcinogen in our environment etc. Wake up before it is too late. I am a widow, supporting three children. This is personal now. To Carrdog, look for another job. Your life isn't worth this. Agree also with


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I set this up in my backyard as a test. Easily a one-man job. One negative: the Velcro door and window storm hook patches had stuck to the mosquito netting. When you remove them they tear holes in the mosquito netting. The Velcro should be attached to its receiver patch during packing to prevent this snagging. Item 2: Without a Rainfly, I'm hoping I don't have to "blue tarp this tent."
The tent was easy to set up, But with all the guy lines and vent lines very much a tripping hazard. If all the lines and vents were set up, it would require 30 stakes. The vents are zipped on the outside of the tent, which is very inconvenient. I set it up to air out overnight. We had some rain and water was puddled all along the inside walls of the tend and at the base of the tent pole. In all, I am not very happy with this purchase.
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