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Vargas returns to fond memories in Seattle
SEATTLE -- When the Mariners were still planning Safeco Field's reconfigurations last year, general manager Jack Zduriencik made sure to pick the brains of his best pitchers, to see how they felt about moving in the fences at a ballpark that had played so favorably to them.
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SEATTLE -- When the Mariners were still planning Safeco Field's reconfigurations last year, general manager Jack Zduriencik made sure to pick the brains of his best pitchers, to see how they felt about moving in the fences at a ballpark that had played so favorably to them.
Jason Vargas' response: "Give me a four-run lead and trust me."View Full Game Coverage
"He's a guy who's very confident," Zduriencik said of the starting pitcher he traded to the Angels for designated hitter Kendrys Morales in December. "He really believes in himself. And I think when you watch the progression of how he developed into the kind of pitcher he is today -- and I knew him back when he was in Long Beach State -- confidence is a big thing for him. He really believes in what he does, he has a plan for who he is. He's smart."
A slow start to 2013 notwithstanding, Vargas has established himself as a reliable innings eater in the big leagues, coming to the Angels on the heels of a three-year span in which he racked up 611 innings, won 33 games and posted a 3.96 ERA.
On Sunday, he'll make his first start against the Mariners -- the organization that helped breed that patented confidence.
When Vargas arrived in Seattle on Dec. 11, 2008, as part of a three-team, 12-player trade, he didn't know where his career was headed. The former second-round Draft choice had been traded three times in four years, from the Marlins to the Mets to the Mariners. He had compiled a 5.81 ERA in 127 Major League innings from 2005-07, missed the entire '08 season due to hip surgery and was two months shy his 26th birthday.
"I think I was just trying to figure out if I was really going to still have a good chance at doing what I wanted to do, and that's being a successful big league pitcher," Vargas said. "Any time you get to the big leagues early, and then kind of struggle or have injuries or fade a little bit, it always questions your confidence and where you're at."
Vargas struggled a bit in '09, posting a 4.91 ERA in 23 games (14 starts), but he cracked the rotation heading into 2010 -- even though Cliff Lee had come over in a trade, Doug Fister was still on the team and Felix Hernandez was already on board.
"Making the team and being in the rotation out of the gate there really gave me a lot of confidence," said Vargas, who goes into his Sunday start with a 5.82 ERA but is coming off seven innings of three-run ball against the Rangers.
The philosophy has changed since Vargas last pitched here, even if that was only about seven months ago. An organization that once tried to win with pitching and defense now looks to outslug opponents with its shorter dimensions, which is why swapping Vargas for Morales -- two players who will be free agents this fall -- appealed to Zduriencik.
Vargas admits he was surprised by the trade.
"Especially since I didn't hear anything about that or anything leading up to that after the Trade Deadline," the 30-year-old lefty added. "I thought that I was going to be a part of it, but they had other plans. And baseball changes quick, man. To be able to be a part of this [with the Angels], you couldn't ask for a better situation. Things happen the way they happen."
Alden Gonzalez is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his blog, Gonzo and "The Show", and follow him on Twitter @Alden_Gonzalez.


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It seems like your genealogical research is going on really well until you find out that your great-grandfather is listed in separate sources with two different wives at the same time! Or the bump in the road might come when you find two different census records listing different birthplaces for the same person, one in Kentucky and one in Ohio. The crisis may also appear when it turns out that the Albert Jones you have been researching for years really was married to your great-great grandmother but to some one else. The worst case, it seems, is always just around the corner.
Let's face it, some genealogical records, even supposedly primary source records are just wrong. People are human and make mistakes. I was recently asked to look into a well know pioneer family in Arizona with hundreds, perhaps thousands of related descendants. I was given the standard pedigree sheet listing my friend's great-grandfather as the first person on the sheet born in 1862. So we were already back aways to start. I hesitate to use any of the names of the parties due to the ongoing research and lacking permission from my friend to publicize the research, but the general facts illustrate the issues in finding contradictory data.
I will just refer to them as ancestors of the primary person who I will call Richard Roe. Roe's father is listed as being born in 1830 in Georgia. He was the pioneer who died in Arizona in the 1800s. Let's get some parameters here to start, that is always useful in trying to untangle years of poor research and records. Georgia was one of the first states to ratify the U.S. Constitution in 1788. English settlements in the area called Georgia began in the early 1700s with the original charter issued in 1732. Why is this important? Well, this is just the barest of beginning to resolving contradictions and anomalies. How can you possibly know if the dates and places listed in your genealogy are correct without placing them in the historical context?
Here is a summary of what I found on the pedigree chart (with the names changed):
Richard Roe (b. Calhoun, Gordon, Georgia 1862 - d. Arizona 1951) son of
Howard Roe (b. Franklin, Georgia abt 1830 - d. Arizona 1878)
Robert Roe (b. 1795 Georgia - d. Dalton, Whitfield, Georgia 1870)
Richard Roe (b. abt 1768 Wilkes, Georgia - d. 1830 Murray, Georgia)
Richard Roe (1768) is the end of the Roe line. At this point I should remind you that this family has thousands of descendants and has been "active" in genealogy for years.
But here are some of the dates and places for the spouses listed on the pedigree:
Gladys Doe Roe, wife of Howard (1830) (b. DeKalb County, Georgia 1828 - d. Arizona 1888)
Mrs. Roe, wife of Robert Roe (1895) (b. Indian Territory, Georgia 1801 - d. Dalton, Whitfield, Georgia bef. 1880)
Evelyn Soe Roe, wife of Richard Roe (1768) (b. Franklin County, Georgia 1777 - d. Carnesville, Franklin, Georgia 1856)
So here are the locations and the dates: (The convention on printed or written pedigree charts for years has been
to add extra commas in front of a location to indicate missing details
as to town or county. So look for these commas).
Calhoun, Gordon, Georgia 1862
Franklin County, (as indicated by an extra comma) Georgia abt. 1830
Georgia (not further identified) 1795
Wilkes County, (again by an extra comma) Georgia abt. 1768
DeKalb County, (again by an extra comma) Georgia 1828
Indian Territory, Georgia 1801
Dalton, Whitfield, Georgia bef. 1880
Franklin County, (again by an extra comma) Georgia 1777
Carnesville, Franklin, Georgia 1856
Murray County, (comma again) Georgia 1830
Quite a list. Now, remembering all the effort and time that has gone into compiling this pedigree, I do not want to cast aspersions on anyone. So, I am proceeding very carefully. Umm, I think the first thing I would do, is to check if any place and date on this list makes any sense at all. Going to the that fount of all knowledge, Google, I find the following:
There is quite a history of Calhoun, Gordon, Georgia. See Wikipedia:Calhoun, Georgia. But it passes the first test. The place did exist in Gordon County in 1862.
Franklin County was incorporated as Georgia's fourth county in 1784, so the first date passes muster but the second date in 1777 is before the county was created. We are starting to see some anomalies.
The references to Georgia are OK since the state has been around since the ratification of the U.S. Constitution in 1788. Well, now we do have a problem with Wilkes County. The first eight original counties, including Wilkes, were created in 1777 and Wilkes was the first real county, the others having been formed from colonial parishes. So it looks like a strike out with a reference to Wilkes County in 1768.
DeKalb County was created in 1822 from Henry, Gwinnett and Fayette counties. So the date of 1828 is OK so far.
Indian Territory? What is that? The date of 1801 is a problem. Yes, there was Indian Territory but that designation doesn't tell us much at all. The U.S. Government took over all the Indian lands beginning in 1802 that hadn't already been ceded to the government of Georgia. So saying Indian Territory doesn't tell us much at all.
Both Dalton and Whitfield Counties were around in 1880 so that works. Also, Carnesville is the county seat of Franklin County.
Murray County is another issue. It was not created until 1832 and contained, at the time of creation, Dade, Walker, Catoosa, Whitfield, Murray, Gordon and parts of Bartow and Chatooga Counties. So who knows where the event occurred.
This analysis illustrates my point. There appears to be some substantial work that has gone into this pedigree, but it also appears that so far, no one has looked to see if the information recorded is consistent with historical reality. As you can tell, some of it is and some of it isn't. Since I have no source citations for any of the entries. I am basically back to the beginning of any previous research. If this project is to proceed any further, whoever does the research is going to have to figure out where all these events took place and see if there is a moderate chance that the record can be fixed and then extended.
I am not ever going to be through with this topic.


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So this is Jane Campion working from home. It's a glorious morning in Glenorchy. One to spend watching the sun scorch the mist off the ridgelines above the village sitting at the northern reaches of Lake Wakatipu. But Campion is in the local pub with a bunch of tough blokes.
Outside, the sign might say Glenorchy Hotel. Inside the main bar it's a different time of day and a different world, just another set in the twilight zone of television series Top Of The Lake.
Those involved say it reminds them of David Lynch's foray into primetime, Twin Peaks, or something from the Scandinavian crime wave of page and screen.
But right now, Campion's attention is being beamed through stern glasses at the front of a mane of silver hair. She's focused on Scottish actor Peter Mullan.
He stands at a microphone, addressing the bar in a speech which starts by thanking those gathered for their efforts in the day's search to find his missing daughter, Tui. But his appreciation quickly turns to a veiled threat, one reinforced by two young henchmen - his tattooed sons, played by locals Jay Ryan and Kip Chapman - who swagger through the bar.
As Mullan's volcanic speech is delivered in successive takes of slight variation, you can feel the tension coming through the wall into the bar next door where I'm observing on a monitor.
After each take, Campion comes in close to Mullan for a quiet word, making suggestions about the right temperature and tempo for his delivery.
Eventually, the director is satisfied. And even before the finished scene is edited into its place early in the series, it's clear that Mullan's character, Matt Micham, will be the latest in a line of complete but compelling bastards created for the screen by Campion. What's also clear is that today Mullan is earning his pay.
"It's a very subtle thing and the thing my experience has given me is knowing that moment when an actor is cooked and the souffle doesn't explode, or collapse, or whatever," says Campion on a break later at the local Glenorchy Hall, the production dining room, where stag-head hunting trophies peer from the walls.
"When it's working, it's happening, I really feel it in my body. I feel myself watching and not doubting."
The gregarious Mullan, whose past directors have included Steven Spielberg and Danny Boyle, has a kind of deep, if perplexed, respect for Campion's way of doing things, and the character she's created for him.
"She's a talky director. Some directors, you can't get a word out of them.
"Today Jane gave me seven different completely contrary directions. F*** it. Jane gets what she wants and that is all I care about. Where Jane is very good is, she knows when you are getting too safe.
"She'll come in just at the moment you are getting a little bit safe and give you something that will make you mess up again and hopefully you'll find something more interesting in it."
Mullan is in a cast which also includes Elisabeth Moss - Peggy in Mad Men - as the lead detective on the case of the missing 12-year-old, Tui (played by young Aucklander Jacqueline Joe), who runs away after it's discovered she's pregnant.
As well as several local faces in supporting roles, including Robyn Malcolm, the series also stars Australian David Wenham as a local cop and Holly Hunter, who Campion directed to a best actress Oscar in The Piano, the haunting Bronte-in-the-bush period film which won Campion the Palme d'Or at Cannes, as well three Academy Awards - one for Campion's screenplay and the other to an 11-year-old Anna Paquin, for supporting actress.
There's another pre-teen girl in Top Of The Lake in a major role, while Hunter plays G.J, the terse, silver-haired androgynous leader of a women's commune, which was among Campion's early ideas for what became the series.
"I thought I would like to write a story about a post-menopausal women's camp, where women went who felt ... they had fallen out of social reality because they were un****able, or unsexy or whatever, and I think being un****able in our society is fairly invisible, because it's such a sexualised society.
"I liked the idea of them as old Vietnam vets, but love vets, soothing their wounds but not being able to give up enough to know their day is done."
Campion says Hunter's leader was influenced by a yoga guru she found inspirational. But she was a reluctant recruit.
"Holly was terrified. Holly rang me up to say she didn't think she could do it - 'how can I do this?' - and I didn't seem to hear her.
"She said, 'Jane, I am used to being your leading lady' and I was 'no, no she's the most amazing character in the whole piece. You'll be great. You'll be able to do something with it' and somehow I talked her into it without realising she was trying to dump me," chuckles Campion, in her infectiously booming laugh.
As well as a Campion-Hunter reunion, the largely BBC-backed production is her first work in New Zealand since the 1993 film.
That was after Campion first came to attention with debut feature Sweetie and her Janet Frame screen biography An Angel At My Table, which had originally been destined for television before its acclaimed release as a movie.
Now, Campion, our most distinguished and literary-minded maker of art cinema, is back doing television after seeing the likes of HBO's edgy western, Deadwood, and realising that there "was TV out there that was very daring and amazingly well done".
She convinced the BBC and, initially, Australia's ABC - which pulled out when Campion determinedly cast American Moss in the lead, rather than an Australian actress - with an idea for a crime mystery story to which she could add her own distinctive touches and texture.
It's a genre she's tackled before, in the 2003 thriller In The Cut, which, like her other contemporary work, 1999's Holy Smoke!, confounded audiences with its confronting eroticism.
As Mullan says: "The script is full of that Campion-esque off-centre weirdness. She's a weirdo. She writes good weird."
Her choice to set Top Of The Lake against the Queenstown area wasn't just because of the scenery. She's a local, of sorts. Long-based in Sydney, Campion has a cottage on the high country Rees Valley Station further up the road from Glenorchy, where she's lived and written on and off over the years.
"I don't think you are really a local until you live there all year round. I am certainly very attached, after 40 years of coming and going and my daughter going to school there, even. I feel very privileged to have some strong connections to at least a couple of families in the area."
With a $15 million budget, the six hours of Top Of The Lake were co-written with novelist-screenwriter Gerard Lee, an old mate who co-wrote Sweetie, and half of the six episodes are co-directed by young Australian commercials director Garth Davis, a dab hand with helicopter camerawork and technology. He would have been directing that day's pub scene, but for the impending arrival of a baby.
The initial idea and the casting choices were hers, but Campion figured early on she needed to spread the workload.
"I just couldn't manage it. Before, when I made Portrait Of A Lady, which was three hours ... halfway through that I was, 'I am never, ever going to do this myself again'."
Many months after that day in Glenorchy, and a few weeks after Top Of The Lake launch screenings at the Sundance and Berlin Film Festivals, a relaxed-sounding Campion is talking down the line from India.
After finishing editing the series before Christmas and the festival appearances, she's headed to Jaipur in the northern state of Rajasthan to a favourite yoga retreat for a holiday she hopes will be the start of an extended break, after the run of Top Of The Lake's writing/casting/filming/editing deadlines.
She's heartened by the reaction at the festivals. At Sundance, they screened the entire six hours - "I expected to turn around and see no one there" - to shining reviews. She's hoping if people miss the pay-TV broadcast of the series, they might put aside a weekend for a binge-viewing on DVD and take it all in, like a novel.
Asked what Top Of The Lake says about where she, at 58, is in her life and career, Campion says it's a mature work but she won't be prodded into self-analysis about it.
"I never make it my job to worry about myself like that. I just discover what comes out of me and what I am going to enjoy or find fascinating. I work with the fiction that I am attracted to ... then I work to make it solid and a good shape and all that sort of thing - I don't think 'Oh, what does this mean about me?'
"Of course, it does [mean something] but I leave that to others to work out."
Well, after her sweetly chaste last feature Bright Star - about poet John Keats and Fanny Brawne, which many critics thought her best work since The Piano, even if it went largely unheralded - the brooding transgressive world of Top Of The Lake might actually be seen as a return to familiar territory. And it's fitting she should do that in New Zealand.
After all, like The Piano, Top Of The Lake takes place somewhere near the edge of the world.
"It's more about a community at the end of the line, at the edge of things. People who have chosen to live as far away from the centre as they can ... and often they do it because they are in love in the landscape."
She thinks, or possibly hopes, the home town crowd will be savvy enough to realise the series is a work of fiction and isn't a commentary or a literal representation of the area where it was filmed.
"It's called Lake Top deliberately because it doesn't represent any town I know, and we want to take people away from thinking this really goes on there. I know it doesn't really go on there."
And while it may have a crime-mystery plot engine, like many of Campion's past works, it's also a setting for a psychological - and often physical - battle of the sexes.
There is Micham and his boys facing off against the female commune which has set up in "Paradise" - not the idyllic spot near Glenorchy itself, but inspired by it and filmed down the road at Moke Lake - on land they consider is theirs. There is Moss' troubled detective, a former local, dealing with Wenham's boys' club of a constabulary and an ex-boyfriend with connections to the case. And there's young Tui, pregnant and unwilling to divulge who the father might be.
"This is the final battle!" Campion hoots when it's suggested those six hours of screentime give her time for a truly epic gender conflict.
"This is the Lord Of The Rings version - the patriarchy and the matriarchy, they're really going to fight it out."
Her own campaign done, Campion now finds herself wondering what to do next among the other unnamed film projects she has backed up.
But she has a little more freedom these days and doesn't have to be based in any one place anymore, since her teenage daughter, Alice Englert, finally left home and got a job - as a movie actress.
She's just graduated from indie films to post-Twilight witch fantasy Beautiful Creatures, which her mother hasn't yet seen.
So, no wise maternal warnings about the dangers of the movie biz?
"It's her life. She's very good at it. She's my daughter, what can I say? If she gets good reviews, that's great, but she is always going to get good reviews from me."
Top Of The Lake starts on March 25, 8.30pm on UKTV.


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YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, Wyo. — Members of a tour group have been ticketed for getting a closer look at Old Faithful after someone watching on a webcam several states away saw them walking on the cone of the iconic geyser, according to Yellowstone National Park rangers.
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"We will see a few people off the boardwalk at Old Faithful every year," park spokesman Al Nash told the Bozeman Daily Chronicle. "I don't know that anybody recalls an incident in modern times with this number of people at one time getting that close.
"Thirty people were clustered about the cone of an active geyser. Certainly if it would have erupted while they were in that area, we would have found ourselves responding to an incident with many people seriously hurt."
Someone watching from Wisconsin called rangers Wednesday evening to tell them about the errant tourists, according to a news release. When the first park ranger arrived, she found about 30 people around the geyser's cone taking pictures.
The tourists said they didn't see the signs that spell out the dangers of thermal areas and the requirement to stay on boardwalks and designated trails.
The Yellowstone trip planner brochure warns visitors of the dangers of the park's hydrothermal features. "Their waters are frequently near or above boiling. The crust surrounding them is thin and breaks easily, and often overlies more scalding water. People have died in these pools. Be safe, be careful — enjoy the hydrothermal areas from a distance."
Old Faithful erupts with scalding blasts of 204-degree water. The eruptions occur every hour or two — less predictable than the geyser's name suggests.
The group leader, the bus driver and one member of the first group of four visitors were cited with a $125 fine.
Information from the Associated Press was included in this report.
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Holiday lighting is an American tradition that touches the heart. Families know that there's nothing like pulling into the driveway on a December evening and seeing their home lit up in celebration of the season. Whether in snowy Maine or tropical Hawaii, holiday lights evoke warm memories, high spirits, and sometimes even a closer connection to the Almighty.
For decades, people designed and hung their own holiday lights. Untrained, unprofessional, and mostly unaware of the dangers of frayed wires and electrical overload, homeowners and business owners would use the same lights year after year, climbing rickety ladders to put up and take down their displays.
To be fair, some of the results were terrific. More often, they were less so. Sometimes they were even dangerous, as people augmented their displays from year to year but didn't call in electricians. It was not uncommon that house fires started due to holiday lighting displays.
Starting a couple of decades ago, we in the landscape business did what we do best: we came to the rescue. Some of us came to understand that holiday lighting is just another kind of outdoor lighting to be designed, installed, and maintained.
The only real difference is that unlike most outdoor lighting, holiday lights are temporary.
That's a good thing. We get paid to put them up, and we get paid to take them down. They're an annuity that can be part of your core business, just like shrub and lawn maintenance, hardscape design and build, or irrigation installation.
In some ways, holiday lighting is even better than those landscape contracting staples. People like their lawns, their patios, their annual beds, and their drip irrigation systems. They love their holiday lights.
"It's an emotional buy," says Craig Tkaczenko of Creative Images Landscape, Little Ferry, New Jersey.
"Customers don't get impassioned about other things in our business the way they do about their holiday lights. Even now, when the economy is softer, people will still find the money to put up their lights because it's Christmas and the lights make them happy. As one of my customers said to me, 'Even if I have to sacrifice a vacation, I'll find the money to do the Christmas lights.'" Tkaczenko emphasizes the 'kid factor.' Not only does a homeowner's beautiful holiday lighting display evoke memories of a simpler time, but the display also makes cherished holiday memories for the homeowner's children. As Tkaczenko says, "They know their kids will absolutely love it."
For all the love showered on holiday lighting displays, it's still a hundred-day business. You'll begin work in earnest in October, doing designs and hanging lights in time for Thanksgiving. Then, following New Year's, you'll take those lights down.
When landscape contractors first began to install holiday lights, they worked mostly with strings of lights owned and stored by their customers. You'd arrive at the customer's home on an October fall day, the customer would bring out some boxes with their strings of lights and tell you where to put them.
Now, things are different. Many landscape contractors are in the lighting design business as well as the installation business. Jimmy Tompkins, JT Landscape, Wake Forest, North Carolina, does his designs for customers with the help of Drafix's PRO Landscape software. There are other software programs exclusively for holiday lighting. These software packages let the customer see what they're getting even before any lights are hung.
"We go into the customer's home," says Steve Ruth, president of Pro- Curb Lawn Care and Landscaping Services, Darlington, Maryland. "We meet with them, do a design with a price quote, and show them a map of their property that indicates what we can do for them."
Many contractors won't hang lights that the customer either owns or stores. These contractors insist on owning the lights themselves, and storing them at a clean, dry, and secure off-site storage facility. Bernard Wilson, owner of Cutting Edge Lawn Care & Christmas Lights in Pelzer, South Carolina, is one of those contractors who won't work with lighting strands provided by a customer.
"It's a matter of efficiency and safety for both the customer and for me," he says, "as well as economics. If I let the customers store their own lights, and the wire gets chewed up by their dog at the very end, I might not get to see the chewed part until I've spent hours on the ladder."
"My first year doing installations, I did install with customers' lights," Wilson recalls. "To be frank, it took too long. I found myself wondering who would be liable if there was a serious problem with the wiring. The customer's insurance company would blame me. My insurer would blame the customer. It would be a mess."
Wilson has been installing holiday lights for just a few years. He got into the game after reading about and talking with Tanner Maxson, who runs the Christmas Light Installer University program, in conjunction with a landscape contracting business in Flower Mound, Texas. Maxson offers a video, e-book, and marketing package that covers applicable subjects from electricity calculations, to bidding, to the intricacies of hot glue.
Like many contractors, Wilson has moved to a system where he designs, installs, maintains, removes and stores. "At least if I store it, I know it's safe," he adds.
Other contractors say there are also bottom-line reasons for only installing lights that you've purchased for your customer and store in your own facility. You can charge more. If you're working on an hourly-fee basis, all you can earn is your hourly rate. If you're at $75 an hour to hang a customer's own lights, and you work four hours, your gross maxes out at $300.
On the other hand, if the lights are yours, it's easier to charge a flat fee for the whole process of install/maintain/remove/store (and you can add "design" to the mix, too.) You can build extra profit into your flat fee. Customers won't question it.
Call this design/install/maintain/ remove bundle "full service." Ruth has been in the landscape contracting business for 24 years, and added holiday lights to his mix of services offered in 1996. His full-service business has been a true success, amounting to between 30 and 40 percent of all his revenue in recent years.
"We're in a service business," he reminds, "a service business that is driven both by tradition and 'looks.' Some new customers just want to duplicate what they've done year after year. Some folks want us to create something new. We try to make it as easy as possible for the customers to get what they want."
"From year to year, customers can change the combination of their decorations," Ruth says. "Some want only white, some want red and green; we don't charge to change colors. It's an easy process, particularly now that we've moved so many customers to LEDs."
Convincing customers to move to the more expensive LEDs has not been all that difficult, Ruth says. "Let's say there's a customer who now wants an entire roofline lit, instead of just a section. Once we point out that while there's not enough electricity to power that new string of lights with old-fashioned incandescents, but there'd be no problem with safer LEDs, they tend to go for the LEDs. The long life of LEDs and their strength against the elements also helps to make the 'sale.'" The word 'sale' is inside quotes, because what many contractors who hold on to their customers' holiday lights in the off-season are doing is much closer to a 'lease' than a sale. "We own everything," says Tkaczenko. "We provide a decorating service, from soup to nuts, and we store the lights. If there's a problem, we come out and fix it within 24 hours. The homeowner doesn't have to do anything but enjoy the lights."
Even in a lease arrangement, there may be the occasional year when a customer decides not to put up their holiday lights display. In this case, many contractors will continue to store their lights for them, at a nominal fee. "At some point, if the customer doesn't come," Ruth explains, "we can recycle their lights into the displays of others, or put them to use in another way."
Leased or not, you still need to educate yourself before you go to work. That's when training services like Maxson's "University" or a franchise agreement with a company like Christmas Decor in Lubbock, Texas, can be helpful.
Maxson covers everything from marketing to sales to the nitty-gritty of the work itself. For example, he talks about using hot glue to fasten strands of lights to a home. "Don't put hot glue on any painted or stucco surface," he cautions. "When you remove it, you'll lose the paint or stucco, and you'll find yourself with quarter-size circles all over the painted or stucco exterior. Just tell the customer 'no,' that lights can't or shouldn't be hung in those locations. They'll appreciate it."
On the franchise side, Christmas Decor gives the newbie in the business a complete turnkey holiday lighting operation, with nothing left to chance. With upwards of 350 franchisees across the country, Brandon Stevens, president of Christmas Decor, says that franchisees can take advantage of shared information. "If it can happen out there in the field, it has probably happened to one of our franchisees, which means we know about it. You can go to school on the experiences of others."
Being a franchisee also means you can take advantage of the buying power of the franchisor. Stevens says that Christmas Decor sends representatives to China to work directly with lighting manufacturers, and to purchase millions of dollars of hardware yearly.
Whether you are a franchisee or on your own, holiday lighting can also provide great non-economic benefits for you. "One of the best parts of the business," Tompkins reports, "is that it allows us to hold onto our employees. We could charge more than we do, I suppose, but I got into the business as a 'labor thing,' and that's still driving my thinking. It's such a pleasure not to lose my best trained and most reliable workers in the off-season."
Tompkins also points to backdoor marketing benefits. "Houses with big holiday displays tend to be high-end homes. These are the kinds of customers we want for our landscaping business. I've seen that the holiday lighting business can be an introduction for us to these homeowners. It's a way to convert them to regular clients."
Clement Clark Moore, who wrote "The Night Before Christmas," in December of 1822, was—sigh—not a landscape contractor. If he had been, maybe he would have changed the last two stanzas of his unforgettable poem:
We speak not a word as we do our work,
Not a gutter, or rooftop, or tree do we shirk.
'Til the lights are all ready for that first wintery night,
When the switch is flipped; oh, it's glorious, and bright!
The family cheers, even cries tears of joy,
Especially the littlest of girls and of boys.
As for us, we exclaim, as we drive out of sight,
"Happy Christmas to all, and to all a goodnight!"


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Seven buses with an open hop-on hop-off platform at the rear hit downtown streets on 20 February, running on route 38, between Victoria Station and Hackney, an east London neighbourhood.
Between the 1950s and 2000s, royal red double deckers sported distinctive open platforms in the rear. But in 2005, authorities took that Routemaster model out of service, replacing it with versions that only have an entrance at the front.
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Washington: Noting that India continues to suffer from low, but improving, levels of economic freedom, the latest Index of Economic Freedom ranks the nation 120th globally and 25th among 43 countries in the Asia-Pacific region.
Although India is rated a "mostly unfree" economy, the country achieved its highest score ever in the 2014 Index of Economic Freedom, published annually by the Heritage Foundation and the Wall Street Journal.
The country's economic freedom score is 55.7, which is unchanged from last year. Over the 20-year history of the index, India has advanced its economic freedom score by almost 11 points, according to the index.
"India has been slowly but surely improving its economic freedom in recent years. However, the economy still continues to perform below its potential," said Terry Miller, co-author of the 2014 Index of Economic Freedom and Director of the Heritage Foundation's Center for International Trade and Economics.
From a low base, India has achieved double-digit improvement in half of the 10 indicators of economic freedom, most notably trade, which improved by over 65 points.
"The government efforts to combat corruption have been well noted, and seem to be making a difference. However, the economy remains relatively closed off from the rest of the world, and government officials have resorted to protectionist controls this year. Economic freedom must be on the agenda as the country prepares for elections in May," Miller said.
The Index of Economic Freedom rates 186 countries in 10 categories of economic performance such as rule of law, regulatory efficiency, limited government and open markets. Hong Kong and Singapore finished first and second in the rankings for the 20th straight year.
The world average score of 60.3, which is seven-tenths of a point above the 2013 figure, is the highest in the history of the index. Singapore and Sweden were among 43 countries that achieved their highest scores yet. Among the 178 countries ranked, scores improved for 114 countries and declined for 59.
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Runs occur every Thursday night at 5:69p (6:09p) during daylight savings time (summer), and 1:69p (2:09p) on Sundays during regular time (winter).
Anyone over 21 is welcome to join, and the run easily accommodates all abilities.
After the hash, we go to a local restaurant/pub for tasty beverages and nourishment.
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MAX follows a dedicated transit-only guideway (its own road) and mixed-traffic streets that run parallel to the BNSF Railway between the South Transit Center (south of Harmony Road) and Downtown. It is served by 12 stations and stops.
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LAUREL HILL � Safe Haven Horse Rescue Center rehabilitates and finds homes for abandoned and neglected members of the equine species, but the horses themselves can help rehabilitate and provide comfort for those in need.
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The facility welcomes soldiers with wounds, sickness or post-traumatic stress disorder to experience the horses� healing qualities, Bryan said.
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Pegasus, a blue-eyed miniature horse who needed rehabilitation after four years of seclusion in a wooded area, is one of Safe Haven's inhabitants. A miniature horse is 32 inches or shorter, Bryan said. Pegasus is 30 inches and weighs nearly 150 pounds.
Now, Pegasus is training to visit retired and serving U.S. Air Force personnel at Bob Hope Village in Shalimar.
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A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child
Dir. Stephen Hopkins
After surviving attempts on her life by dream-demon Freddy Krueger, Alice soon begins to have nightmares about him again in which she's not in control. She realises that he is using the dreams of her unborn child to get to her and she must face him and attempt to destroy him one last time...
The phenomenal success of The Dream Master automatically green-lit a further
Several screenplays were written in parallel, with horror novelists John Skipp and Craig Spector recruited to write one, and Leslie Bohem another. Bohem's central premise was actually based on an idea that was considered for Freddy's Revenge, with the dream dwelling killer menacing an unborn child and using its dreams to wreck havoc. Producer Sara Risher apparently dismissed this idea as she was pregnant at the time Part 2 was made, but when Part 5 went into production, the concept was given the thumbs up and amalgamated with aspects of Skipp and Spector's screenplay to form the final draft, which was written by David S. Schow. Too many cooks me thinketh!
The Dream Child was released at the same time as the eighth Friday the 13th film, Jason Takes Manhattan. There had actually been plans to bring Freddy and Jason together in a film, but that particular project would take many more years before it ever came to fruition. Perhaps because the Golden Age of the slasher movie was well and truly over by the end of the Eighties, or maybe because audiences had just grown tired of Freddy's shenanigans, but The Dream Child was, while still fairly successful at the box office, the least successful title of the series so far, and evidence that its popularity was waning. Also, bear in mind that at this time audiences were privy to Freddy's misadventures on the small screen, too. Overkill much?
Opening with one of the queasiest loves scenes outside of a David Cronenberg film, The Dream Child picks up after the events of The Dream Master. Alice (Lisa Wilcox) is graduating college and making plans with her new friends when she discovers she is pregnant. She begins to feel that she's not in control of her dreams anymore and soon realises that Krueger is attempting to reach her through the dreams of her unborn child. It's a concept that has chilling potential, but what ends up onscreen is a retread of earlier films in which Krueger shows up and says something witty before/while killing someone in their dreams. Director Stephen Hopkins makes a bid to return the series to its dark roots, and The Dream Child hangs heavy with a grim gothic atmosphere. It also depicts what was only described in prior films: the moment when Krueger was conceived - his mother Amanda finding herself accidentally locked inside the asylum where she works and repeatedly raped by the inmates. However, despite this unsettling beginning, as Krueger remains the same wise-cracking, pun-spouting clown he had been from the third movie on, the attempts to darken the tone are eventually thwarted by his presence. There are a few spookily atmospheric moments when Alice wanders into the dream world looking for Amanda and finds herself in a gothic asylum/church/castle with its myriad shadowy corridors and moodily lit spaces, but they're smothered under Freddy's mouthy antics.
Part 5 is as stylised as its predecessor, and contains some genuinely unsettling imagery. Alice's dreams are plagued by visions of Amanda in the asylum, giving birth to a hideously deformed baby that scurries off into the dark and emerges from the shadows as Freddy Krueger. With all the monstrous newborns on display, this film has real shades of It's Alive. We also learn through Alice's ethereal encounters with Amanda in spectral nun form, that in order to destroy Krueger, Amanda's earthly remains must be freed from their resting place where he hid them after he murdered her. Despite Hopkins attempts to tone things down, this entry also boasts some of the most ridiculous death sequences from the whole series, including Alice's boyfriend being welded to his motorbike as he races along a motorway at night ('Better not dream and drive!'), a wanna-be model force-fed until she chokes to death, an athlete menaced in a swimming pool when her diving board becomes one of Krueger's claws, and best/worst of all, an A-ha music video inspired death where a comic-book geek is sucked into one of his drawings, turned to paper and shredded by Krueger. The pacing is also rather uneven and it really only picks up towards the climax, set in an impressively realised Escheresque maze, with Alice trying to rescue her son from Krueger's clutches as stairways twist and turn before her eyes.
Rather unexpectedly, abortion is briefly discussed as a means to stop Krueger, who is feeding the souls of his victims to Alice's unborn child to corrupt him. If this film was in any way as intelligent as the first, discussions like this would have lent it a certain dark gravitas. As it is, they just don't sit well with all the Freddy jokiness and pun-tastic deaths. The Elm Street series never really boasted the same 'sex-equals-death' mantra of its slasher peers (Friday the 13th and Halloween had cornered that particular area of the market). It drew crowds with the promise of outlandish special effects and flamboyant death scenes, not bare breasts. Indeed the opening credits of this film depicts one of only very few sex scenes throughout the whole series, and it doesn't end with the copulating couple getting murderlised; but finding out they're going to be parents. Throughout the series, most adults are depicted as weak and ineffectual – the parents' attempts to cover up their part in Krueger's death actually leading to their children being killed by him. While this entry also features overbearing and grotesquely unfeeling parental figures, it also depicts a deeply maternal Alice fighting to protect her unborn child and patching things up with her former alcoholic father. Krueger's mother even puts in an appearance, albeit a spectral one, to guide Alice in her attempts to stop him once and for all.
While it unfurls as a haphazard mishmash of ideas and tones, The Dream Child does contain an interesting concept, and at times boasts a welcome gothic atmosphere. Unfortunately, with its 'business as usual' barrage of bad one-liners, SFX driven set pieces and inappropriate comedy, the whole film is naked of tension and intrigue, and is merely held together by soulless effects and a strange, pulpy cruelty.


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Specially fitted compression stockings are designed to help blood circulate in your legs. They may help prevent deep vein thrombosis . If you have had deep vein thrombosis, they might help relieve symptoms and prevent problems.
Compression stockings are tight at the feet with a gradually looser fit on the leg (graduated compression). They are as thick as two pairs of regular panty hose and cover the leg from the arch of your foot to just below or above your knee. Compression stockings are also available as panty hose or trouser socks.
You can buy them from a medical supply store or a pharmacy if you have a doctor's prescription. And some stockings are available without a prescription. These can be purchased online. If you buy online, be sure to buy the correct compression level recommended by your doctor. And be sure to buy the correct size stockings. If they fit right, they should be snug but comfortable.
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Senior co-captain Kevin DiSilvestro scored two goals against MIT (Gil Talbot).
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Collegiate Water Polo Association (CWPA) Northern Division play continued Friday as Harvard dropped an 8-4 decision to Cambridge rival MIT in the Blodgett Pool opener.
The Engineers jumped to a 2-0 advantage through seven minutes before Luka Babic got Harvard on the board with 42 seconds remaining in the first quarter. The Crimson nearly tied the score just before the first period buzzer sounded but MIT goalie Columbus Leonard barely deflected a Harvard shot to register the save.
Kevin DiSilvestro tallied a Crimson goal in the second but MIT scored twice to take a 4-2 lead into halftime.
MIT added to its lead in the third quarter with four consecutive Andrew Dorne goals in 2:07 of elapsed game time. Harvard shutout MIT for the remaining 11 minutes but the flurry of goals by Dorne was enough for the Engineers to secure the victory.
DiSilvestro added his second goal of the contest to make the score 8-3 entering the final frame and Max Murphy closed the scoring with a fourth quarter goal.
Harvard moved to 4-8 overall and 0-3 in the Northern Division.
Action at Blodgett Pool continues tomorrow with the Crimson facing Ivy League rival Brown. The noon game has been announced as the Harvard Student Rewards and breast cancer awareness game. For the occasion, the two teams will be wearing special breast cancer suits and the first 50 Harvard students in attendance will get a free Crimson t-shirt.


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Captain Tidy vs. the Litter People
Originally published in The Miami Herald March 4, 1990
It's 10:36 on a Thursday morning in downtown Miami. The suspect is standing at a bus stop on Biscayne Boulevard, smoking a cigarette. There's a tough-looking crowd around him. A street crowd. This could get sticky.
We're watching the suspect from a short distance away. We can see his every move, but he can't see us, because our limousine has very dark windows.
The suspect takes another drag on his cigarette. He's getting ready to make his move. We can feel it.
He flicks the cigarette butt onto the sidewalk. This is it.
"Let's do it, " says my sidekick.
We open the limousine door fast and hit the street running. As we race toward the suspect I feel a powerful adrenaline rush. Partly this is because of the feeling of danger, of not knowing what's going to happen next. Partly it's because this is broad daylight in a major metropolitan area and I'm wearing bright red women's tights.
"Hey!" says somebody in the crowd, looking at my uniform. "Captain Tidy!"
That's right, pal. Captain Tidy and his faithful sidekick Neatness Man. Mister Litterbug's worst nightmare. And this is one suspect who picked the wrong time to toss his butt.
The suspect is backing up, watching us. He may be tough, but a person automatically tends to be wary of men wearing tights and masks and capes made from large garbage bags.
"Sir!" says Captain Tidy. (Captain Tidy is always polite; it's Rule One of the Captain Tidy Code.) "Sir, you just threw your cigarette butt on the sidewalk."
The suspect tries to weasel out of it. He shrugs elaborately. "Where did I throw it?" he says, pretending to look around. "You say I threw it, so where is it?"
"Sir, you know you threw it, " says Captain Tidy, firmly.
"You don't want to throw it on the sidewalk, sir, " observes Neatness Man, who is quite large, for a sidekick. "You want to keep Miami clean."
"OK, " says the suspect, cracking. "I threw it." He picks up the cigarette butt. He's smiling now.
"Thank you, sir, " says Neatness Man, who then turns to the crowd and adds, "and thank you all, for keeping our city clean."
A few people actually applaud. This is Miami, a city where homicide is only a misdemeanor, and they're applauding us for chastising a litterer. Neatness Man and Captain Tidy are thrilled. We give super-hero-style wave/salutes to the crowd and leap back into the limousine, which ideally would at this point roar dramatically off, except that the traffic is heavy, so it just sits there for a while.
The crowd continues to stare at it. They are no doubt very impressed. They will probably mention this incident to their families and friends. "It is certainly a bad idea to litter!" they will probably say. Or: "We should all try to keep our city clean!" Or: "How would escaped mental patients get hold of a limousine?"
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If you're like me, which I bet you are, there are certain acts of rudeness that just make you nuts. Telephone rudeness, for example. The phone rings, I drop whatever I'm doing to answer it, and it's a wrong number, which happens all the time in South Florida, where many people apparently operate the phone by dialing numbers at random in hopes of reaching somebody they know. Instead, they reach me, and they often act as though this is my fault.
"I'm sorry, " I'll say, "you have the wrong . . . "
"(Bad word) BANG" goes the phone. Then of course they dial the same number again, and when I have the gall to still be me, they become furious and hang up so hard that little pieces come shooting out of the earphone. I hope that some day I'll be able to avail myself of a convenient new phone-company feature called Caller Electrocution. But for now all I can do is seethe.
Which is also how I react to line-butting. You're in a convenience store, waiting in line for the cashier, and up marches a person who simply cannot be bothered with lines, a person who brushes past the rest of you ordinary civilians as though you were noxious weeds, the implication being that his particular bag of Doritos is needed at the hospital immediately for use in an emergency organ transplant.
But the form of rudeness that really, really frosts my shorts is littering. You're at the beach, and it's a beautiful day, and the world seems peaceful and pure and clean, and suddenly the afternoon stillness is shattered by the arrival of: The Swine Family. You know these people. They have a large nuclear-powered radio and enough food to supply several Canadian provinces, and they immediately transform themselves into a high-output litter machine, cranking out potato-chip bags and beverage cans and sandwich wrappers and chicken bones and critical-mass poopy diapers weighing more than the infant that generated them, all of this forming an ever-expanding Ring of Garbage, some of it blowing festively down the beach. Hey! Here's an empty Bud Light can, skittering, crablike, onto our blanket! And here's a chili-dog wrapper! With some chili still in it! Thank you, Swine Family.
And when it's time to leave, these people simply . . . leave. Just get up and walk away from what looks like the scene of a tragic Dumpster explosion. Oh, sure, there are trash cans around somewhere, but who wants to pick up all this crap? Chicken bones? Used diapers? Yuck! You could get your hands dirty! No, the thing to do, after a fun day at the beach, is to just leave your garbage where you dropped it and head on home, maybe dial some wrong numbers.
And let's talk about all you fastidious motorists out there, the ones who like to keep your cars nice and clean by throwing everything out the window. A lot of you people are so clean that you don't even want to soil your ashtray. Heck no! Why mess up a sharp-looking ashtray interior when you can use the entire planet, right? Or maybe you use your ashtray, but when it gets full, you thoughtfully dispose of the butts by . . . dumping them on the ground. Ha ha! Good thinking, you MORONIC SLIME-EXCRETING PUKEHEADS WHY DON'T YOU TAKE YOUR CIGARETTE BUTTS AND . . .
Forgive me. I get carried away. I realize that there are more serious problems in the world. It's just that littering is so unnecessary, so avoidable, so -- forgive me for waxing philosophical here -- stupid. And it's everywhere you look. Forget the streets and sidewalks. Go anywhere. Go to the most beautiful, most remote spot you know, and it'll take you two seconds to find some dirtbag's plastic six-pack holder. I hate this. But I never did anything about it except mutter and seethe. And I probably would have continued doing nothing until eventually I suffered a fatal stress-related heart attack and got buried in a grave with Slim Jim wrappers fluttering over it, except that a dramatic turning point occurred in my life, an event that transformed me from a seething mutterer into a Man of Action. This turning point -- as you may have already guessed -- was: a visit to my optometrist.
My optometrist's name is Dr. Jeffrey Jeruss, and although he looks like a normal human being (only larger), it turns out that he is fundamentally -- and I mean this as a compliment -- insane. I found this out during a routine eye examination, when Jeffrey was shining his little light into my eyeballs, making that hmmmmm noise that medical professionals are trained to make, and I happened to mention littering. Do you remember in the TV show The Incredible Hulk, when Dr. Banner used to transform himself from puny little geek Bill Bixby into the extremely wrathful, frog-colored and structurally impossible Lou Ferrigno? That's essentially what happened to Jeffrey, right there in the examination room: His neck muscles bulged out and he began stomping around, denouncing the beer-can tossers of the world and waving his eyeball light around like the Hammer of Thor.
Watching him, I realized that I'd finally found the perfect sidekick for Captain Tidy.
Captain Tidy is a concept I've fantasized about for many years, a masked avenger for the forces of neatness. When a person littered, Captain Tidy would come swooping out of nowhere and explain to the litterer, in polite terms, that he or she is being a jerk. What kept me from acting out this fantasy was basically the fear of being embarrassed, by which I mean having my nose punched into my brain. But I knew that if Captain Tidy had a sidekick, a large sidekick, a large trained optometrist sidekick, that would be a whole different story.
Thus Jeff and I became: Captain Tidy and Neatness Man. We wore special costumes, which I painstakingly assembled in about 15 minutes with the expert advice of my 9-year-old son and a costume-store salesperson named Ethel.
"Most of your super heroes wear red and blue, " Ethel advised.
"That's right, " said my son.
So Jeffrey and I wore the aforementioned red tights (size triple-extra large); plus red Superman-style boots; plus blue shorts and T-shirts with our super hero names professionally lettered on them; plus the garbage-bag capes; plus white gloves; plus special utility belts from which were suspended dustpans, rubber gloves and pink feather dusters. Needless to say we also wore hoods and masks to preserve our Secret Identities. When we put our costumes on and stood in the official super hero stance -- hands on hips, chests thrust out, garbage bags blowing out dramatically behind -- there was no way you could look at us and not say, with genuine emotion in your voice: "What a pair of dorks."
True. But we didn't care. We knew that Right was on our side, and although the world might laugh at us, we had the strong support and encouragement of our families and friends.
"You're going to get shot, " they said, virtually in unison. They did not think it was wise to go around handing litter back to Miamians, who tend to use firearms the way people in other cities use turn signals.
Nevertheless, Jeffrey and I were determined to proceed. We agreed to meet at The Miami Herald, and at the appointed hour, Jeffrey walked into my office, his face a mask of grim concern.
"I forgot my tights, " he said.
Fortunately I had another pair. "Always carry spare costume elements, " that is Rule Two of the Captain Tidy Code.
And so it was that on a bright Thursday morning the Caped Crusaders of Cleanliness strode impressively through the Herald newsroom, drawing many respectful stares, and marched manfully out of the building, into the back of a black rental limousine, a.k.a. The Tidymobile. Also with us were the executive director of Keep Dade Beautiful, Ana Maria Monte-Flores -- a funny, charming, warm and caring woman who, if she saw you drop a gum wrapper, would rip out your trachea -- and her sidekick, Luisa Alvarez, who became a convert to the anti-litter cause a few years ago when she threw out the remains of her fast-food lunch on 27th Avenue and a police officer made her go back and pick it up, not that there is any reason to reveal this embarrassing incident in the newspaper.
The Tidymobile driver was David Levin, who hails from London, England, and therefore has the ideal accent for chauffeuring super heroes. Later in the day he even started wearing a mask. (He feels that the United States needs more trash cans. "When I first came to this country, " he said, "I was looking for a place to throw some paper, and finally I threw it into this blue thing, which turned out to be a mailbox.")
* * *
As The Tidymobile cruised slowly down Biscayne Boulevard, we quickly discovered that it's not easy to apprehend litterers in the act. It's easy to find people who are probably going to litter -- people smoking cigarettes, carrying drink containers, etc. -- but it's difficult to be right there when they drop these items. But drop them they definitely do, because the streets are a mess. Crud swirling everywhere. A Festival of Filth. It does not reflect well on Dade County or the city of Miami, and you will therefore be surprised to learn that a large quantity of this litter was placed here under the official sponsorship of: Dade County and the city of Miami. Yes. Two days earlier there was a ticker-tape parade for the national champion University of Miami football team, and the municipal governments honored their heroes, as is the custom, by dumping trash on them, and much of it is still here. Good thinking, government people! Next time, let's go all out to support our team! Let's break some windows! Let's have municipal employees form gangs and spray-paint their names on the People Mover!
But most of the litter is provided by private citizens. And most of them know better. I base this statement on the way people generally reacted to being confronted with their litter by Captain Tidy and Neatness Man. With chagrin, is how. Apologetically. Suddenly eager to dispose of the litter properly. They seemed to genuinely understand that what they had done was wrong. Either that, or they feared that we were potentially homicidal tights-wearing perverts. Either explanation is fine with me, as long as they think twice next time.
* * *
Flagler Street. A woman store clerk, leaning in a doorway, playfully tosses a crumpled napkin at a man. Seconds after it touches the sidewalk, Neatness Man and Captain Tidy are politely returning it to her. She is embarrassed. The man is vastly entertained, and urges the woman to pose for pictures with the Masked Avengers.
Actually, the Masked Avengers do not draw a whole lot of attention on Flagler Street, where several ordinary civilians are dressed at least as weirdly. It takes a lot to shock people in this city. I was once walking past a restaurant on Biscayne Boulevard when an armed robber came racing out, knocked down a pedestrian, and jumped into his getaway car, which I was able to immediately identify as a Japanese model because it started right up. He then drove wildly out of the parking lot, barely missing me and several other people, and raced off down the street, swerving violently from lane to lane, which was a shrewd maneuver because it made him indistinguishable from all the other drivers on Biscayne Boulevard.
I alertly observed his license plate number and several other Important Clues, and then, congratulating myself on being so calm in the face of danger, raced into the restaurant, prepared to find a scene of shock and panic. Instead I found a scene of people cheerfully snorking down their entrees. Ho-hum, another armed robbery. If this had been, say, Topeka, there would have been SWAT team helicopters landing on the roof. But here in Miami, maybe four minutes after the robber had left, it was On With The Meal. I had chicken.
My point is that Captain Tidy and Neatness Man did not set off widespread shock waves of public excitement. But we definitely made an impression on a few people.
* * *
Noon at Coral Gables High School. The students are getting out for lunch. Captain Tidy and Neatness Man dash across LeJeune Road to confront one of them. It is not a flawless operation: We are unable to locate the exact item dropped by the student, and, worse, Neatness Man forgets to pull down his mask. (Rule Three of the Captain Tidy Code: "Always pull down your mask to preserve your Secret Identity.") But the student cheerfully agrees to pick up another piece of litter, and the Dynamic Duo agrees that henceforth we will shout "Masks down!" before leaping from The Tidymobile. We also agree that our Official Parting Slogan will be: "Be Tidy!"
Our voices are definitely getting deeper.
* * *
Now we're staked out in the parking lot of a 7-Eleven right near the high school. The students are going in there and coming out with hilarious adolescent concepts of balanced meals, most of which are essentially compressed wads of harmful preservatives.
We watch two Cool Dudes saunter out, one of them carrying his lunch, which consists entirely of:
* nine powdered-sugar doughnuts, and
* one can of Sprite.
Sitting in The Tidymobile, we watch Cool Dude No. 1 sit down on the curb and eat. Five minutes pass.
"Holy Solid Waste, Tidy, " remarks Neatness Man. "Those doughnuts sure look good."
One by one, the doughnuts disappear. In The Tidymobile, we're making bets on what the Dude will do with the doughnut box. But there's really no question. He gets up, brushes himself off, leaves the box on the ground.
We're out of The Tidymobile. The Cool Dudes are staring.
"Young man, " says Neatness Man to Dude No. 1, "you don't want to leave that box there."
"Yeah, " says Dude No. 2, suddenly a Concerned Citizen. "You don't want to leave that box there!"
"Right!" says the Dude. He hustles over very cooperatively and starts kicking the box around the side of the 7-Eleven.
"No!" says Neatness Man. "It goes into the trash can."
"Oh!" says the Dude, genuinely surprised by this new wrinkle. He picks it up and throws it into the can. Everybody exchanges high fives.
"Be Tidy!" say Captain Tidy and Neatness Man.
"Right!" say the Cool Dudes.
* * *
We cruise by the high-school grounds. Groups of students are sitting on the lawn, eating. There are food wrappers blowing around. We decide to make an educational appearance.
The students stare at us as we stride toward them. Clearly they are impressed.
"What are they?" says one.
Undeterred by this display of callousness, Neatness Man and Captain Tidy go from group to group.
"You young adults aren't going to leave these food wrappers lying around, are you?" asks Captain Tidy.
"Nooooo, " they answer, shaking their heads in comically exaggerated fashion.
"You're going to pick this up, right?"
Leaving the school grounds, Captain Tidy encounters another young adult.
"Be Tidy!" says Captain Tidy.
"**** you, " replies the young adult.
* * *
Back in The Tidymobile, friction develops.
"You were getting a little lecture-y there, Captain Tidy Bowl, " remarks Neatness Man, displaying quite a bit of sarcasm, for a sidekick.
"**** you, " replies Captain Tidy.
* * *
Our spirits bounce back after a hearty lunch at a Burger King, which has the approval of Keep Dade Beautiful's Ana Maria Monte-Flores because, unlike some other chains, it serves food only in biodegradable packaging. As we're waiting in line, a woman behind the counter checks out our costumes.
"You want to tidy up here?" she asks. "You want to clean these floors?"
I explain that we're more involved with the conceptual aspect of cleanliness.
"Yeah, " she says, looking disdainfully at my utility belt, "that dustpan ain't never seen no dust."
* * *
Back in The Tidymobile, Neatness Man finds a gum wad stuck on his boot.
"Now I'm REALLY mad, " he says.
* * *
We get even madder when Monte-Flores directs us to a site in West Dade County, just off Northwest 25th Street near 107th Avenue. There's a canal back there with a dirt road running alongside it, and next to the road, as far as you can see, are mounds of junk -- construction rubble, bags of garbage, old cars, old boats, furniture, medical waste -- everything. Especially tires. Hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of tires. Mega-littering, is what this is. Also disgusting. Also of course illegal. The Dade County agency responsible for stopping it is the Department of Environmental Resource Management. DERM has a special anti-dumping task force called Dump Busters, which sounds very impressive until you learn that it's supposed to patrol all of Dade County -- which has dozens and dozens of these illegal-dumping sites -- with three agents. Of course the county has many other, higher priorities. Such as planning those ticker-tape parades.
As Neatness Man and Captain Tidy stand there, hands on hips, surveying the waste-violated landscape, a man drives past in an empty pickup truck. He looks at us, smiles, gives the thumb-up sign.
"You didn't dump anything here, did you?" yells Captain Tidy.
The man makes an exaggerated gesture -- Who, ME? -- then drives off, laughing, in a cloud of dust.
In situations like this, you really regret not being able to fly.
* * *
Outside a West Dade restaurant, a man opens a cigarette pack, drops the wrapper. Neatness Man is sprinting after him, cape flapping, before The Tidymobile has time to stop. As Neatness Man politely blocks the path of the man, who is saying he has to get to work, Captain Tidy comes running up and hands the man his wrapper.
"Every litter bit hurts, sir!" says Captain Tidy, who has been dying to say this all day.
Striding back to The Tidymobile, we are feeling good. We are scratching a major itch, here. Bring on the Exxon Valdez.
"When I pull down this mask, " says Neatness Man, "I AM Neatness Man."
* * *
Now we're near Bayside in downtown Miami, posing for our Official Action Photos, practicing leaping out of The Tidymobile, chatting with tourists, really getting into being super heroes and commanding the respect and admiration of the public. An elderly man watches us for several minutes, then says something in Spanish. Monte-Flores translates: "He says, 's --- -eating Americans don't know what to spend their money on.' "
* * *
Now we're on the 79th Street Causeway, stopped at a raised drawbridge. Next to us is a pickup truck containing two large men whom I would describe as "rednecks" if I were the kind of person who engaged in shallow cultural stereotyping. The man on the passenger side is smoking. We're sure he's going to flick his cigarette butt onto the ground; the question is, will he do it before the bridge goes down, and traffic moves? Also, do we really want to confront this man? Rule Four of the Captain Tidy Code is: "Use appropriate caution when confronting a person capable of lifting you up by your neck with one hand and dropping you into the bay."
The bridge is going down. The man is taking his last drag. The bridge is down. The man flicks the butt.
Heart pounding, Captain Tidy, whose entire body is the size of this man's right forearm, exits his vehicle, picks up the butt, holds it out.
"Sir!" says Captain Tidy, very politely. "Could you please put this in your ashtray, instead of on the ground?"
The man looks at Captain Tidy, then at the driver, then back at Captain Tidy, then down at Captain Tidy's bright red tights. This is definitely the kind of man who is fond of keeping and bearing firearms. This is the kind of man who probably showers with a firearm.
The man looks at the cigarette butt in Captain Tidy's outstretched hand. The butt is still smoking.
"OK, " says the man, taking it back. Then he smiles. He smiles sheepishly.
"Thank you sir!" says Neatness Man.
"Be Tidy!" says Captain Tidy, who is beginning to wonder if maybe he can fly.
* * *
And so it went. And by the end of the day, thanks to the vigilant efforts of just two men armed only with high ideals and a rental limousine and a low threshold of dignity, Dade County had been transformed from a place strewn with garbage into a place strewn with garbage. There is a long way to go, with this. But Jeffrey and I felt a lot better, which counts for something.
And consider this: A few days later, I was at an airline ticket counter, and two men butted to the front of the line. Ordinarily what I do in these situations is stare with silent hostility, then maybe write a vicious humor column. (My wife believes that one of the main reasons I became a humor columnist is so I'd have an outlet for my anger that does not ultimately lead to criminal prosecution.)
But this was different. This wasn't just me; this was also Captain Tidy, who, although he could not reveal his identity, also could not stand idly by and watch this assault by the forces of jerkness. And so, thinking quickly -- it's amazing what your brain can do, when it has to -- I came up with a Plan of Action.
"Hey, " I said, to the two men. "There's a line here."
They started doing what line-butters always do when you object, namely acting as though there's something wrong with YOU, for objecting. But suddenly they shut up. Because now the entire line was getting on their case.
"YEAH, " people were saying. "You just BUTTED IN LINE." And: "Why don't you WAIT YOUR TURN?" It turned out that all these people had been seething. What it took, to get them to speak up, was the realization that they weren't alone.
I wish I could report that the line-butters got the punishment they deserved, such as being sent to the end of the line, or, ideally, falling through a trapdoor into a vat of scorpions. Unfortunately, however, they did get waited on ahead of us. But at least they knew what we thought of them. They turned away, hunched over the counter, necks red, afraid to look back at this new, bolder, less sheeplike line. They felt worse and we felt better. So there.
And another few days later, without a costume OR a sidekick, I leaped out of my car at a stop light on Red Road and got the driver in front of me to take her cigarette butt back.
Once again let me stress that I don't think that problems like rudeness and littering are as important as, say, the Greenhouse Effect. I'm just saying that the nonjerks of the world should try not to be intimidated by the jerks. Speak up, is what I'm saying; there are more of you than you think. If somebody butts in line, ask him to please wait his turn. If a beach-goer is playing his radio so loud that the crabs are sprinting away with their claws over their ears, ask him to please turn it down. If somebody litters, ask him to please pick it up. What's the worst that can happen to you? OK, death. So be careful. "Don't get killed and cause Captain Tidy to become involved in a costly lawsuit, " that's Rule Five of the Captain Tidy Code.
Speaking of which: Wouldn't you love to own a T-shirt just like Captain Tidy's? Heck yes, you would. Well, you can get one merely by sending a $15 check to Keep Dade Beautiful, 1700 Convention Center Drive, First Floor, Miami Beach, FL, 33139. Specify Large or Extra Large. All proceeds will go to Keep Dade Beautiful, which is the local chapter of Keep America Beautiful and which needs your money to educate people about litter and solid-waste disposal. You may notice that wearing a Captain Tidy T-shirt causes a mysterious transformation in you. You feel braver. You walk a little taller. Your thighs suddenly contain less cellulite. You may even start wondering how you'd look in the full uniform, in which case you should remember Rule Six of the Captain Tidy Code: "Always go to the bathroom BEFORE you put on your tights."


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