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Movie Review: "Planes: Fire & Rescue"
Movies like "Planes: Fire & Rescue" are the bane of a movie critic's existence, but not for the reasons you might suspect. It has a rock-solid moral center, preaching the virtues of bravery and self-sacrifice for the benefit of others, and those are important things for young children to learn in the event that their real-life role models aren't teaching them those things already. It also has some inspired voice work by a well-chosen cast, and some impressive visuals. However, in order to make said point about the virtues of bravery and self-sacrifice, the story line and dialogue are stripped of nearly all nuance, and in the end we are left with a Message Movie, and a straight-to-video Message Movie at that. (That might sound harsh, but last year's "Planes" was originally meant to go straight to video.) Even Disney knows that these movies are second class to films like "Frozen" and "Wreck-It-Ralph." It's a place filler until they unveil their next tentpole release. Easily consumable and earnest, but knowingly lacking, and absolutely not worth paying extra cash to see in 3D.
Newly crowned race champion Dusty Crophopper (Dane Cook) is enjoying his moment in the sun as the It Boy of aerial racing, but his mechanic Dottie (Teri Hatcher) advises him that he has a part that is both faulty and irreplaceable, and if he continues to push the limits, he will crash. Of course, he does exactly that, and sets off a chain of events that exposes the airport he calls home as being unsafe. They need another rescue vehicle and, realizing that his racing days are all but over, Dusty volunteers to be the rescue vehicle. Fire truck Mayday (Hal Holbrook) sends Dusty up to train with Blade Ranger (Ed Harris), and Dusty quickly, and repeatedly, learns that this job is much harder than it looks.
And there's the rub: if they don't go overboard on the message, it will likely be lost on those who need to understand it the most (the kids). As a result, the parents are left suffering through a metric ton of expositional dialogue about how each member of the crew does its job, and how damned important each one of those jobs is to the team as a whole. Again, these are valuable lessons to impart, but it's difficult to do so without looking like a thinly veiled recruitment film.
This is where the voice casting and visuals come in as the spoonful of sugar. Cook was not the first choice to play Dusty – they had originally cast Jon Cryer, who had to bow out – and while Cook isn't necessarily wrong for the role, it's clear why they opted for Cryer first. Dusty is the straight man in the movie, and that is not Cook's strong suit. He's not bad at it, but Cryer would have been better. Harris can do his role in his sleep, but delivers just enough bite to show that he has a vested interest in how it turns out. The supporting cast, though, is exceptional; Julie Bowen, Wes Studi, John Michael Higgins, and Curtis Armstrong all deliver memorable performances in their respective roles, with admirable backup by the likes of Patrick Warburton, Brad Garrett, and Stacy Keach, not to mention a heartbreaking moment between Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara. The climactic action scene, meanwhile, is stunning. Better than it has a right to be, really.
"Planes: Fire & Rescue" has material that will entertain people of all ages, but it's done in the old-school manner that Pixar basically destroyed. The majority of the movie is not just aimed at kids but does so at the expense of the adults, and the jokes they slip in for the adults are inappropriate for children (Bowen's plane is stalking Dusty, and talks about how her parts are "real" yuk yuk). The rule for animated films should be that a good joke for adults is one that is both funny and can be explained to children. Here, we have a female airplane talking about her rack. The kids won't get it, but that doesn't matter – it shouldn't be there. John Lasseter, I expect more from you than that.
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Hybrid Transceiver
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by Ken K4EAA
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Kenwood TS-520, TS-520D, TS-520S, TS-520SE, TS-520SP, TS-820, TS-820S, TS-530S, TS-830S, R-820
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|My Primary Station as of November, 2005. Pictured starting from left: SM-220 Station Monitor, VFO-240 Remote VFO (Top), TS-830S Gold Edition Hybrid Transceiver, MC-50 Microphone (Top), SP-230 Remote Speaker with filters, AT-230 Antenna Tuner SWR & Power Meter (Top), - Vibroplex Deluxe circa 1963 (Foreground)
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Killing: Season One, The (US - BD RA)
Gabe checks out AMC's controversial remake of a Danish television series...
The Killing
Respected detective Sarah Linden (Mireille Enos) is wrapping up her time on the Seattle police force in preparation for an early retirement. Her plan is to marry her fiancé Rick Felder (Callum Keith Rennie), and move herself and her only son Jack (Liam James) out to Sonoma, California. On her final day Sarah is partnered with a rookie homicide detective Stephen Holder (Joel Kinnaman), a transfer from an undercover assignment in vice and narcotics. Sarah's plans are dashed when she and Stephen are called to a crime scene that leads them to the body of Rosie Larsen (Katie Findlay). The body is discovered drowned in the trunk of a car belonging to the mayoral campaign of city councilman Darren Richmond (Billy Campbell). Sarah decides to stay on the case for just a few days more as the case begins to unravel.
AMC's equally celebrated and despised series The Killing opens with a semi-vague homage to Silence of the Lambs. We're introduced to lead protagonist Detective Sarah Linden as she takes a run through a forest. Outside of the intercutting with footage of the murder in question, this more or less the same way audiences were introduced to Clarice Starling in Jonathan Demme's film adaptation of Thomas Harris' novel. Perhaps it's just my penchant for noticing Silence of the Lambs in everything cop related (I'm an occasionally slavish fan), but show runner Veena Sud admits that Sarah was at least somewhat inspired by Starling, and it's easy enough to pretend Sarah could represent something Clarice would've become following the events of Hannibal (the film, not the book). Assuming she became a cop and moved to Seattle. Mireille Enos plays Sarah very low-key for most of the series, but doesn't underplay important moments, and her cool headed choices help earn her occasional bouts with explosive volume levels – all things I could easily say about Jodi Foster in Lambs.
The Killing owes a lot to previous and popular murder mysteries and cop thrillers, not just Silence of the Lambs. This defining trait is both a hindrance and an advantage. When the writers are inverting the tropes it is an advantage, but all too often they're depending on the tropes. The problem begins with the characters and relationships, which are a bit more usual than I'd prefer. Based on the obvious base comparisons I kept waiting for the series to Twin Peaks-out, but David Lynchian degrees of weirdness never appear. The Killing's real value, or lack thereof, depending on the viewer, is in its slow burn approach, and general lack of action. The show also distinguishes itself from the crowded cop drama market is its interest in the victim over the killer. The Giallo, slasher and serial killer genres have set a lot of emphasis on murderous villains and anti-heroes, while the vast majority of TV shows are concerned with the detectives, lawyers, and/or the moral/political implications of the crime. This occasionally The Killing focuses on the cops too, but distinguishes itself by giving the Larsen family about a third of the plot. The family's mourning occasionally turns mawkish, and eats up a lot of screen time, but rarely feels disengenuine(disingenuous). The validity of eye-for-an-eye vengeance is uniquely studied in a manner usually reserved for stoic, violent and depressing South Korean films. The most tragic side effect of this plot is Michelle Forbes, who does her best with the thankless role as Rosie's perpetually mourning mother. Her counterpart, Brent Sexton, gets a more interesting back-story, and has a more dynamic character arch, but Forbes languishes in swollen-eyed sadness, bad choices, and repetitive accusatory sequences.
The one relationship I found it impossible to care about was Sarah and her soon to be second husband's. There's no real dramatic tension here because we all know Sarah won't be quitting the case before it's done, rendering the impending nuptials moot. Besides, her already overly clichéd relationship with her son more than covers the fact that she needs to leave town, and puts a countdown on the situation. Her son Jack isn't much more satisfying, and brings the story to an utter standstill just as the climax begins to finally rear its head (though I have to admit the resulting episode is one of the best of the season from a standalone perspective). Sarah's relationship with her relatively untested partner (another overused cop story cliché) is much more engaging, thanks in large part to Joel Kinnaman's unique and realistic performance. Sarah and Stephen's interactions are among the warmest in the series, and their relationship is an entertaining, sometimes even touching mix of master and apprentice and sibling-like interaction. The lack of sexual tension is especially refreshing.
The political side of The Killing is also hit and miss, but generally speaking one of the better and more striking story aspects. The writers ask some hard and unpopular questions about stuff like the burden of proof. Some viewers will likely see a moral agenda being pushed through the idealistic Darren Richmond, while others will see his constantly painful plight as a defeatist's cynical view. I'm not seeing quite that degree of complexity in the character or his morals, but do think the writers are approaching such things with more elaborate thought than the usual Law and Order episode. Outside of the over-dependence on cop show clichés, the shows major problem is that it's often irregularly drawn-out. The writers earn the TV series runtime (as opposed to a single film runtime) by building up their characters and exploring the murder's effect on the greater community, but the basic whodunit narrative is awkwardly dependent on red herrings masquerading as real characters. Red herrings are traditionally an important part of murder mysteries, but in a serialized, 13-episode format the bait and switch pattern is tiring. As soon as a character is dropped as a suspect they also drop out of the narrative altogether, which feels, for lack of a better word, like an insult, and as the pattern begins to emerge it's all to easy to ignore further suspects until we get to the 11th or 12th episode, when the 'real' suspect will be revealed. There's a good mystery here, it just repeatedly stalls out. Oh, and then there's the matter of the final episode which (spoiler, I guess) doesn't reveal the killer, leaving the series open to another season, and burning viewers so badly many have vowed in anger to not bother to watch another 13 episodes next season. Based on reactions I read around the time the finale originally aired I was prepped for the lack of closure, but understand the fury.
The Killing embraces the Seattle stereotypes, and revels in dismal and desaturated images, as if it's constantly grey and rainy. Because it is constantly grey and rainy. I'm not sure if I can stress enough how desaturated and grainy this transfer is, and I do suspect some viewers will be nominally disappointed with the overall look given the vibrant colours and general cleanliness of most modern television. That said the show was shot on 35mm, which means the 1080p image quality is more than welcome. Detail levels change depending on lighting, and the largely natural lighting makes for some difficult to discern darkness on occasion, but overall there's plenty of close up textures and sharp edges. The only problem here is that the high contrast levels leave some relatively thick, hard to miss haloes along the blackest edges. The beauty shots of Seattle are gorgeous in their grey and grainy way, and reveal heavy levels of deep-set details. These mostly do not feature the same degree of edge enhancement, and stand out because the bulk of the series is shot using relatively shallow focus, leading to defocused backgrounds with fuzzy, grain-enhanced edges. There are some nice, pure colours throughout the series too, despite the dark and rain-soaked look and its greenish tinting. These hues are limited, likely through a digital grading process, and include a really consistent vegetation green, a soft, light blue (usually found in clothing), rich burgundy reds, and a few purple and yellow highlights. The black flecks of grain do affect the hue purities a bit, but there aren't any major signs of compression noise or bleeding.
The Killing is not a particularly aurally intensive series – in fact, it thrives on eerie silence – but this DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 soundtrack gets basic credit for its natural and clear sound. Most sequences are dialogue heavy, and even outdoor discussions are soft in terms of background ambience. Reasonably long sequences take place on boats in busy harbors, and the bulk of the background noise is practically sucked out of the scene. What we're usually left with is a whisper of ambience sitting quietly in the center channel. There are, of course, exceptions. For instance, a sequence early in the 11th episode features Sarah wandering through a casino, and the buzz and clang of gambling machines leaks through the stereo and surround speakers with relatively believable directional motion. The omni-present rainstorms also give the LFE and surrounds a bit more to do. Frans Bak's music, on the other hand, gets plenty of multi-channel support and LFE thanks to a lot of throbbing percussion, though it's far from wall to wall – there's still a lot of silence. The score is usually pretty abstract, building dread beneath some of the more upsetting events, but there are also some definitive and powerful themes, specifically the mournful music that plays in the first episode when Rosie Larsen's body is discovered.
The extras begin on disc one, with a commentary track on the pilot episode (which was directed by Monster director Patty Jenkins) featuring executive producer/show-runner Veena Sud. Sud starts the commentary discussing the sequence of Sarah running, and disappointingly never connects the image to Silence of the Lambs (even though she connects later images to Demme's film). From here she starts on a slightly stale and conceited discussion, waxing pseudo-philosophically on the 'ethos' (her favourite word) of the story. She's good at giving credit to her crew, and the track is very good when Sud is discussing the production process and behind the scenes anecdotes (this is a very full track, with little blank space), but the pervasive tone is wearying. She's also laying groundwork to defend the final episode. The second commentary appears on the season finale, Orpheus Descending (directed by Session 9 and Machinist director Brad Anderson) on disc three, and features lead actress Mireille Enos and executive producer/writer Nicole Yorkin. These folks are also generally pretty stale and low-key, and spend too much time discussing the on screen action and obvious character traits, but also have a bit of fun speaking together. These two run out of steam a bit faster than Sud, and start to leave blank space as the episode ticks on. There is discussion of the negative audience reaction, for which they seem genuinely surprised.
Disc three also features An Autopsy of The Killing (16:50, HD), a behind the scenes documentary featuring interviews with executive producers Veena Sud, Kristen Campo, Nicole Yorkin, Mikkel Bondesen and Dawn Prestwich, actors Katie Findlay, Mireille Enos, Joel Kinnaman, Billy Campbell, Eric Ladin and Brent Sexton. This covers Sud's original short story and the original Danish series, both of which inspired the series, the differences between the series (without spoilers), the writing process, character amalgamation, casting, dividing the narrative, research, and the lack of climax. The disc ends with a reel of 23 deleted scenes, spanning the entire season (13:20, HD), and a blooper reel (4:50, HD).
For every great performance and heartfelt character interaction The Killing features an equally frustrating narrative dead end. Those of us experiencing the series for the first time with the knowledge of a lack of closure intact won't be as furious with the series' writers for not answering the overlying question, but there's still no excuse for a bait and switch this blatant. The Blu-ray release looks pretty good, despite some edge haloes, and is true to the series' gritty and grainy style. The low-key soundtrack also meets expectations, and the extras, though pretty brief compared to what I'm used to these days from television set collections, are pretty entertaining.
* Note: The images on this page are not representative of the Blu-ray image quality.
Review by Gabriel Powers
State Member Join Date: September 2010 Location: United Kingdom Posts: 25
The Danish one told you the killer at the end of the series...
djblack1313 Member Join Date: April 2006 Location: United States Posts: 529
i like this show but when show runner Vena Sud blatently lies and says that we'll learn who the killer was by the end of ssn1 and then DOESN'T....people online were so angry and vowed to not watch the show anymore. i admit i was irked as well. Sud actually in the recent TVGUIDE blamed the audience for expecting her to be true to her word. what a douche. anywho...i really like the show and i'll be tuned in for ssn 2 on Sunday.
EDIT: Gabe, i commented on this before i read your review and we say almost verbatim the same thing! LOL.
EDIT: Gabe, i commented on this before i read your review and we say almost verbatim the same thing! LOL.
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Disc Details
Release Date: 13th March 2012
Discs: 3
Disc Type: Blu-ray Disc
RCE: No
Video: 1080p
Aspect: 1.78:1
Anamorphic: No
Colour: Yes
Audio: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 English
Subtitles: English SDH, French, Spanish
Extras: Creator and Actor Commentaries, An Autopsy of The Killing, Deleted Scenes, Blooper Reel
Easter Egg: No
Feature Details
Director: Various
Cast: Mireille Enos, Billy Campbell, Joel Kinnaman, Michelle Forbes, Brent Sexton, Kristin Lehman, Eric Ladin, Brendan Sexton III
Length: 587 minutes
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Eat well. Be well.
Breakfast Poems
From This is Just to Say by William Carlos Williams
I have eaten
the plums
that were in
the icebox
and which
you were probably
for breakfast
Forgive me
they were delicious
so sweet
and so cold
From A Confession by Czeslaw Milosz
My lord, I loved strawberry jam.
From A Miracle for Breakfast by Elizabeth Bishop
At six o'clock we were waiting for coffee,
waiting for coffee and the charitable crumb
that was going to be served from a certain balcony
–like kings of old, or like a miracle.
It was still dark. One foot of the sun
steadied itself on a long ripple in the river.'
From My Father's Geographies by Afaa M. Weaver
At breakfast I talked in French with an old man
about what he loved about America–the Kennedys.
From The Bistro Styx by Rita Dove
She swallowed, sliced into a pear,
speared each tear-shaped lavaliere
and popped the dripping mess into her pretty mouth.
From Reading Biographies by Gary Soto
She took a deep breath
And wiggled the goose of her tasty fanny
Into the kitchen. There, she poured pancakes
Onto a skillet as old as this country,
And Frost, a pioneer for all writers,
Picked up his beaver-thrashed pencil and proclaimed,
O Sweet Youth, etc.
Aim for 4-5 servings of fruits & veggies, every day.
From Artichoke by Pablo Neruda
The artichoke
of delicate heart
in its battle-dress, builds
its minimal cupola;
in its scallop of
Around it,
demoniac vegetables
bristles their thickness,
devise tendrils and belfries,
the bulb's agitations;
while under the subsoil
the carrot
sleeps sound in its
musty mustaches.
From Blackberrying by Sylvia Plath
Nobody in the lane, and nothing, nothing but blackberries,
Blackberries on either side, though on the right mainly,
A blackberry alley, going down in hooks, and a sea
Somewhere at the end of it, heaving. Blackberries
Big as the ball of my thumb, and dumb as eyes
Ebon in the hedges, fat
With blud-red juices. THese they squander on my fingers.
I had not asked for such a blood sisterhood; they must love me.
They accommodate themselves to my milkbottle, flattening their sides.
From "Cabbage" by Ruth Stone
In the apartment leaning against one wall,
your daughter's painting of a large frilled cabbage
against a dark sky with pinpoints of stars.
The eager vegetable, opening itself
as if to eat the air, or speak in cabbage
language of the meanings within meanings;
while the points of stars hide their massive
violence in the dark upper half of the painting.
You can live with this.
From Cutting Greens by Lucille Clifton
curling them around
i hold their bodies in obscene embrace
thinking of everything but kinship.
collards and kale
strain against each other
away from my kissmaking hand and
the iron bedpot.
the pot is black.
From Fiddleheads by Maureen Seaton
The first time I saw hundreds of
fiddle head ferns boiling in an enor-
mous pot I realized
What an odd person I must be to
hear tiny cries from the mouths of
cooking vegetables
From Gooseberry Fool by Amy Clampitt
Altogether, the gooseberry virtues
take some getting
used to, much as does trepang
tripe à la mode de Caen,
or having turned thirteen.
From Work by Mary Oliver
The green pea
climbs the stake
on her sugary muscles.
The rosy comma of the radish
fattens the soil!
From The Mango of Poetry by Lorna Goodison
But now I think of a ripe mango
yellow ochre niceness
sweet flesh of St. Julian,
and all I want to do
is to eat one from the tree
planted by my father
three years before the sickness
made him fall prematurely.
From The Onion by Wistawa Szymborska
Natures rotundest tummy,
its greatest success story,
the onion drapes itself in its
own aureoles of glory.
We hold veins, nerves and fat,
secretions' secret sections.
Not for us such idiotic onionoid perfections.
From Orchard by H.D.
I saw the first pear
as it fell-
the honey-seeking, golden-banded,
the yellow swarm
was not more fleet than I,
(spare us from loveliness)
and I fell prostrate
you have flayed us
with your blossoms,
spare us the beauty
of fruit-trees.
From To a Poor Old Woman by William Carlos Williams
munching a plum on
the street a paper bag
of them in her hand
They taste good to her
They taste good
to her. They taste
good to her
You can see it by
the way she gives herself
to the one half
sucked out in her hand
a solace of ripe plums
seeming to fill the air
They taste good to her
From Metaphors by Sylvia Plath
I'm a riddle in nine syllables,
An elephant, a ponderous house,
A melon strolling on two tendrils.
O red fruit, ivory, fine timbers!
This loaf's big with its yeasty rising.
Money's new-minted in this fat purse.
I'm a means, a stage, a cow in calf.
I've eaten a bag of green apples,
Boarded the train there's no getting off.
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In your extended absence, you permit me
use of earth, anticipating
some return on investment. I must report
failure in my assignment, principally
regarding the tomato plants.
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From daddy's garden
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Jacqueline Vienneau became the first player in Suffolk women's basketball history to reach the career milestones of 1,000 points, 500 rebounds and 300 assists.
Vienneau grabbed 11 rebounds Feb. 5 in Suffolk's 65-39 victory over Johnson & Wales University, bringing her career total to 500.
The senior guard had scored her 1,000th career point earlier in December, while she reached the assist marker last season.
Vienneau becomes the fourth player in Great Northeast Athletic Conference (GNAC) history to reach the triple milestone, joining Emmanuel's Iman Davis '10 and Brianne Bognanno '02 and Rivier University's Jess Mellen '10.
Through 100 career games, Vienneau has scored 1,164 career points, fifth among all scorers in Suffolk University Women's Basketball history. She becomes the 13th player since the 1982-83 season at Suffolk to grab 500 career rebounds, and she holds the all-time record in assists with 420. She set the assist mark on January 21, passing 2002 graduate Amber Conte's previous mark of 394.
During the 2012-13 season, Vienneau has averaged 13.4 points per game in 21 contests. Her 5-assist-per-game average leads all players in the GNAC and puts her 24th among the nation's NCAA Division-III Women's Basketball players.
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Daily Links, June 14: Bishops say the darndest things
This morning, U.S. Catholic managing editor Bryan Cones did another spit-take when reading Cardinal Timothy Dolan's response to the U.S. bishops being told by the head of their national review board that they need to do a better job following their own norms on sexual abuse. To Dolan, that meant "keep up the good work!"
That wasn't the only story today that had us scratching our heads. Bishop Fabian Bruskewitz of Lincoln, Nebraska admits he hasn't read the "Obamacare Protection Act" (I think he means the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Is the name that hard to get right?). But he heard somewhere that Muslims are completely exempt from the entire law (not true). Good to see the bishops are well-versed in the law they are so strongly opposed to. [UPDATE: Greg Metzger writes more about how Archbishop William Lori and John Garvey responded to Bruskewitz's question. In short, they admit to not really knowing about how the law affects Muslims.]
Archbishop William Lori talked about resistance, even among Catholics, to the bishops' "religious liberty" campaign, saying "these things ... show us how very great is the need for our teaching, both in our culture and even in our own church." What teaching is that, exactly? Obviously not on birth control, because as the bishops have repeatedly stated, that's not what this fight is about. And not on politics either, because this is a nonpartisan effort. And I don't think there's any church doctrine on public policy or legislative issues.
But what the bishops really need is better PR. At least that's one conclusion they arrived at during their meeting in Atlanta. I'm sure that's not meant to be a knock on the head of their communications office, who happens to be a Sister of Mercy, since the church is not attacking women religious.
If you want to join the bishops in praying for religious freedom, here's their "Litany for Liberty."
Meanwhile, the church's fight against same-sex marriage continues, with an Australian bishop saying "marriage is now under fierce and hostile attack" and the church in England arguing that allowing gay marriage "will be divisive and delivers no obvious legal gain."
Anthony Stevens-Arroyo raises a good question about the marriage issue: Since the Defense of Marriage Act was declared unconstitutional by a federal court, do Catholics choose to stand with their church or in defense of the constitutional rights of all Americans? After all, we know how important it is to Catholics to defend the Constitution.
And just for some variety in your bishop news, they're also challenging Sen. Marco Rubio on the DREAM Act.
Finally, jury deliberations are still moving slowly in the Philadelphia sex abuse trial, as the jury tries to sort out all they heard during the nearly 11 weeks of testimony. They've been denied the chance to hear testimony again. And the defense attorney is so angry that the jury has more questions that he scolded the judge and slammed his cell phone against a wall.


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TRACY - Rivers End Marina has a slogan: "Where the Fun Begins."
TRACY - Rivers End Marina has a slogan: "Where the Fun Begins."
At the moment, however, the fun lasts only a few hundred yards upstream from the boat launch, where owner Bill Pease's customers - if there were any - plow into a solid shag carpet of water hyacinth.
The invasive weed is a well-publicized nuisance around Stockton-area waterways, but you haven't seen hyacinth until you've stood along Old River, close to the giant export pumps that send water to south San Joaquin Valley farms.
The pumps pull in not only water but also an entire year's crop of hyacinth from across the Delta, concentrating it in the area around Pease's marina.
Only over the past two years, however, has the infestation intensified to the point where even the smallest pools of open water are hard to come by. A state program to spray the weeds has been delayed both years because of a bureaucracy as entangling as the weeds themselves.
"It's just out of control now," Pease said, gesturing across the green expanse. "As far as you can see. There's no stopping it."
After more than a year of pestering state and federal officials, Pease says he wants Congress to get involved.
Unlike other areas of the Delta, where hyacinth is a summertime hassle, the floating mats are a bigger problem here during the winter. They collect near the giant pumps like a clog of hair in the shower drain.
Last winter, Pease's boats weren't able to push free until February.
The lack of access has forced fishermen to bluer waters, costing the marina $60,000 to $70,000 last winter alone, Pease said.
He doesn't blame the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, which operates the export pumps.
The bureau was working Monday to alleviate the clog. A conveyor belt lifted the dripping vines out of the water, and trucks dumped them in huge heaps on a nearby field. During a six-week period earlier this fall, crews collected more than 1.1 million cubic feet of hyacinth - enough to fill a dozen Olympic-sized swimming pools.
No, Pease puts blame on the state Department of Boating and Waterways, which runs the spraying program.
Asked to explain the delays, Boating and Waterways referred an interview request to the federal agency that must approve the spraying - the National Marine Fisheries Service, which wants to make sure salmon and other sensitive species aren't harmed.
Garwin Yip, who handles consultations like these for the Fisheries Service, said Boating and Waterways "has not provided adequate information" in the past, forcing the federal agency to correct the state's reports.
Then, two years ago, the feds started sending those reports right back.
"Considering my staff's workload, we can't continue to do action agencies' jobs for them," Yip said.
The back-and-forth resulted in delays in spraying for 2011 and 2012. In 2011, for example, the feds did not have enough information to even begin considering the spraying permit until March 28 - too late to prevent the weed's unabated growth.
The agencies are working on a longer-term five-year permit that should alleviate the scramble of the past two years, Yip said. But it's unclear whether that permit will be done in time to avoid another hyacinth headache in 2013. Yip said there are still "gaps in the (state's) analysis," although improvements have been made.
Pease is hoping to avoid a third year of frustration.
"I can't sustain this," he said. "It'd put me out of business."
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