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Kent McDaniel
Surf washed in, and the darkening sky glittered with stars. On the beach, Alan McVickers lay, grizzled head on his sneakers, bare toes in the warm sand. From the corner of his eye, he glimpsed brown shoes. A large body in tan slacks and blue work shirt loomed over him; Alan was five-ten, and this guy would stand head and shoulders taller. Weary eyes twinkled from the face above, a face Alan recognized with a start. Those enormous ears. They stuck out from a head round as a bowling ball, a stubble of black hair on top. The mouth was wide, and the nose long, with large nostrils. The last three weeks, wherever Alan was, so was this guy.
In Dade County Municipal Court, where Alan watched the cases, he'd begun to notice the stranger, always three or four seats away. Then at the library, he spied the stranger over his shoulder. Next day, behind the Winn-Dixie, as Alan pawed the rubbish for doughnuts, the stranger ambled past. Often as Alan went to sleep, on a bench or in the grass, the stranger lay nearby. They had never spoken.
Soothed now by the ocean air, Alan smiled. "You been following me?"
Fluidly the stranger sat down, cross-legged. "Actually, yes. I've been filming you for my show."
His show. Right. Alan rose to sit, slipping a hand under his hair, where it ended at the base of his neck, and rubbed. "Your show, huh? Gee, network or syndicated?"
"Syndicated." The stranger's voice was deep and smooth. "I'd like to interview you."
"Syndicated," Alan said, "like Povich or Springer?"
The stranger's large dark eyes shone. "I hope my approach is less sensational. And my audience is more diverse."
His audience. Is more diverse. "Great," said Alan. "Surprised I never saw you."
"Hardly a surprise." The stranger laughed. "But really, I want you on my show." He ran a hand across his shirt and trousers. "I should tell you. These function like a cam-corder, and are transmitting a recording of our conversation to my studio."
Ooh, his clothes are really a camera. "That's okay." Alan stroked his scraggly beard. "But I'll let you know about the interview. It's been a long day." He lay back down, and glanced from the corner of his eye. The stranger was lying down ten feet away.
When Alan woke, the stars were fading, and the stranger still slept. Silent as a burglar, Alan lifted his socks and sneakers and tip-toed off. A hundred yards north, where the beach curved, he looked back. The stranger lay silhouetted in twilight, and Alan lumbered around the curve.
Yesterday morning he'd followed the shoreline from Miami for Cape Canaveral, where in six days a space shuttle was to lift off. He was glad to walk the hundred miles to see that. As the sun turned the ocean red, he plodded on, hungry and dazed, but enjoying sun, sea, and sand. In another hour sunbathers appeared: here a mother and toddler, there a portly couple with pale skin, here a college-age couple, gazing at the ocean.
Along a deserted beach, a figure waved from under a palm two hundred yards away. Alan got closer, and his stomach clenched. Under the palm sat the stranger, still looking frazzled, yet tranquil.
Pausing every few steps, Alan stumbled over. "How…"
"Did I catch up?" The stranger smiled. "I teleported up the beach."
"Like Star Trek or something?"
"The process is similar." The stranger's eyes twinkled. "I didn't dissolve into scintillating fragments, though."
Alan sat down beside him. "You're my first hallucination."
The stranger smiled. "No hallucination. Though what I am, you may doubt." He stared at Alan. "An extraterrestrial. From the world Shuvara. My name is Chawaray."
"You ever see a psychiatrist?" Alan cocked his head.
"You must've left before daylight, and yet here I was. Can you explain that?"
"Maybe you drove down here."
"That would explain it." The stranger nodded. " But, I assure you, I teleported."
As a breeze came off the ocean, Chawaray gazed at him. "I'm from a confederation of innumerable worlds."
Alan's mouth twisted.
Chawaray nodded. "Countless life-forms, a trillion beings linked by communication networks, interstellar flight, and law."
Alan had met weirdoes, but this guy…"What brings you to Earth?" He tried to sound sincere.
"I host a show on primitive life-forms. I'm a scientist and journalist."
Alan sighed.
"The show airs on seventy-four planets," Chawaray continued, "spread over twenty galaxies."
Voice rising, Alan demanded, "What's all this got to do with me?"
Chawaray wagged a finger. "You caught my interest. I've already done a segment on you, to which viewer response was positive. I'd like to interview you on my ship."
"Lemme guess. We'd teleport up."
"Of course. And my producers would pay. Ten thousand of your dollars."
Alan dug the toe of his shoe into the sand.
Chawaray held up a finger. "We would insist on erasing your memories of our encounter."
Maybe Alan should call his bluff. If the guy was nuts, they weren't going anywhere. "You'd have to erase my memories?"
"Surely you can see why."
Alan stared down. "Yeah, well." He looked up. "My memory's already got too many blanks. I don't want any more."
Chawaray pressed his lips. "Given your history, I can see that." He raised one hand sideways and dropped it. "And who would believe your story if you shared it?"
Alan leaned forward.
"So." Chawaray paused. "I'll bend the rules. No memories erased. You'll agree to the interview?"
Chawaray tapped Alan's shoulder reassuringly, closed his eyes, and they were no longer on the beach. In a room with a monitor screen, they sat on a white couch, comfortable-looking chairs on both sides. The floor gleamed like marble and had mandala-like parquetry, but felt neither slick nor hard. The walls were a deep gold, and through an oval window fifteen yards to Alan's left, stars without number shone.
Alan's voice came out a croak. "So you aren't crazy I guess."
Chawaray patted his shoulder again, crossed the chamber, pressed the wall, and from a drawer that slid out, took something. He returned, slipping a bracelet onto his arm. Gleaming like white gold, the segmented bracelet adjusted snugly around his bicep.
He sat down beside Alan. "We'll do the interview here." His weariness seemed to be lifting. "But we can eat, and if you like you can rest."
"Great." Alan pointed. "But I can't help noticing. Since you put on that bracelet, you look more relaxed, not so shot."
Chawaray nodded. "This is a talisman, I believe its name would translate. When a nervous system has received stress, this heals the injury. Your world's negativity is overwhelming. The talisman is returning me to normal."
"Why don't you wear it on Earth? Why let things build up?"
"We take no more technology down than essential." Chawaray leaned back. "And a talisman is calibrated to the individual nervous system. If a human somehow came into its possession, irreparable damage to his or her nervous system could result."
Limbs quivering, Alan asked. "Could you make one for one of us?"
Chawaray frowned. "It would be unusual. But it could be done."
"Could you get me a talisman.?" His heart pounded. Since Vietnam, he'd been shattered, he knew. Could this heal him?
"I return home in three months." Chawaray slowly shook his head. "Under any circumstances it would be extraordinary. That soon–impossible." Alan slumped, and Chawaray added, "I just can see no way. I'm sorry."
Two aliens entered. Like Chawaray, they were tall and stocky and had gigantic ears, but their skin was striped purple and gold. As Alan gawked, Chawaray laughed. He nodded toward them. "My assistants. My coloration too, but it might make me a little conspicuous."
Alan kept looking back and forth between Chawaray and his assistants.
A hint of laughter still in his voice, Chawaray said, "My coloration should be back to normal in about a week."
One of Chawaray's assistants showed Alan to a dining room with an oblong table of mauve wood with a large swirling grain, and then to a spacious bedroom. A screen filled its right wall; a padded chair with no legs floated near the opposite wall. In the far left hand corner lay a thin lavender rectangle, eight feet by four, and in the far right hand corner was a green square, three foot across.
He turned to his guide. "Where's the shower?"
"Shower?" Then understanding showed on the assistant's striped face. "Ah, you want to bathe."
He led Alan to the corner. "Stand on the square."
Wondering how he was supposed shower dressed, Alan stood on it. Nothing happened, except after a few seconds, he felt clean all over. He glanced down: his ragged clothes were spotless. He grinned. "Wow."
The assistant lead him back to the dining room. From the kitchen, the assistant brought Alan a plate that held a small loaf of what looked like fire engine red tofu. Wrinkling his nose, Alan looked at him. "Don't worry. Perfectly edible for your species."
Alan grimaced, picked up a serrated spoon and took a bite. The stuff tasted like lemonade.
When he had eaten, an assistant lead Alan back to the studio. After introducing him to the audience, Chawaray began, "When we first discussed this interview, you had spent the prior day walking along the beach away from Miami. I'm curious: why?"
"I was walking to Cape Canaveral." Alan smiled. "A space shuttle's lifting off next week."
"You were going to watch?"
Alan leaned forward. "I catch a lift-off any time I can. The greatest fireworks." He squinted. "But it's not just that: Those astronauts leave the whole world behind." He stared at Chawaray. "I mean up there in space. Not even gravity can touch them."
"I think I understand." Chawaray paused. "May I ask you: what was it like where you grew up?"
Alan told of Lone Oak, his hometown in Western Kentucky, of school, little league baseball, shooting marbles, riding bikes out to swim in the creek, lying in bed nights, haunted by some train's wail.
Shifting in his chair, Chawaray asked, "And at nineteen, still a child really, you entered the military?"
"I got drafted."
"What was the nature of your training?."
Alan furrowed his brow.
"What did they teach you?" Chawaray asked.
Alan glanced at the parquetry. His voice was matter of fact. "To do what I was told, mainly. And to kill."
He spoke then of corpses stacked high, hiding behind them fighting for his life, of atrocities, brothels, opium dens, Vietnamese pot, rock and roll blasting amid battles, a mortar shell whistling through the night as he padded down a jungle path, spinning to look several paces back into his friend Jocko's eyes an instant before the shell ripped Jocko apart.
And yet he felt like laughing; he'd chosen way back to view it all as a joke. He left unsaid that it was all crazy, beyond his control. He made Chawaray laugh at tales of red-tape, incompetence, and absurd orders. He even made the government's lies somehow laughable.
Chawaray showed a clip from an earlier broadcast, which followed Alan in Miami: the cheap hotels where he roomed till his disability check ran out, the beaches and parks where he slept then, his foraging behind supermarkets, whiling away the hours as a courtroom spectator or by the ocean.
Chawaray opened his mouth as if to speak, but more incredulous than he'd felt yet, Alan interrupted. "People all over the universe watched that?"
Chawaray spread his hands. "I don't know if you'd call them people, exactly."
Alan blew a breath out. "Joke's on me, I guess."
"Our viewers found the circumstances of your life incredible." Chawarays's face was serious. "How did you go from warrior to derelict?"
Alan's breath hissed over his teeth. "When I got back to Lone Oak, nothing seemed real." He looked at Chawaray. "I'd meet some old friend on the street. We'd be talking. The whole time, I'd be hearing B-52's. Or seeing my friend's face explode. It got weirder and weirder."
He told it all, grinning from time to time: How he'd spent hours on his bed staring at the ceiling. How he smoked grass, drank, and talked nonsense. He stayed out late, and if he wanted, slept in the front yard, or in the neighbors' yard, or in the outfield in the American Legion Ballpark. He made late-night calls to strangers all over the country. A mountain of dirty clothes piled up in his room, and his mother complained, until in the wee hours one morning, he hauled the clothes into the street, doused them with gasoline, and made a bonfire. He liked to skinny dip in the town swimming pool after midnight alone. The police arrested him for it so often that the Judge threatened him with prison.
He babbled to women in bars, his attentions welcome as a drug bust. Just as unwanted were the hundred red roses or three pound boxes of chocolates he sent them accompanied by notes of pure gibberish. His parents kept institutionalizing him, and he started to get a veteran's disability pension, from which his parents gave him an allowance.
Alan grinned at a somber Chawaray. "Things went on like that, until December of 1980 I beat my parents to the check." He leaned back in his chair. "I cashed it and caught a bus to Miami."
"Did that help?"
Alan shrugged. "I guess. I've spent a few nights in jail, but I never been back to the loony bin."
After the interview, Alan sat for some time by himself in the studio staring out an oval portal at stars stretching to infinity.
In his room, he slept on the lavender rectangle, soft as down. When he woke, his jeans and t-shirt lay folded on the floating chair, mended, it seemed. He rubbed his forehead. How could they have repaired the frayed edges of his t-shirt and all the tiny holes? And his tattered jeans were like new. He went to the dining room, where Chawaray sat before a plate of what looked like phosphorescent pink spinach. An assistant strolled in from the kitchen, and brought Alan a plate of it, which tasted like mustard and garlic.
"I hope you don't mind our supplying you with new clothes," Chawaray said. "Your old ones were beyond repair. We replaced them with facsimiles." His eyes gleamed. "Much more appropriate for a media sensation." He waved aside Alan's quizzical look. "Over seventy percent of viewers, humanoid and non-humanoid, found you appealing. They'd like to see more. I have only three months, but I think we could do the rough footage for a documentary."
Alan's mind staggered: A hit, documentary, three months, the talisman. "How about a talisman?" He gave an anxious smile. "That part of the deal?"
Regret showed in Chawaray's eyes. "I see no way."
Alan nodded.
Chawaray leaned forward. "My producers are very interested in the documentary. They would pay well."
Alan would hold out for a talisman. He'd never hang on to the money anyway. But a talisman–maybe wholeness. He shrugged.
"I think that they would pay much more than ten thousand dollars for this," Chawaray said.
Alan let both hands rest on his legs. "The deal's got to include a talisman."
Chawaray shook his head. "Maybe it could be arranged, given time. But I can't promise that. I'm sure it couldn't be done before I leave."
Chawaray gave him a wallet containing ten thousand dollars. He also gave him a suitcase filled with jeans, slacks, shorts, and shirts. "I thought these might be in order given your new status." He smiled.
Then, suitcase in hand, Alan found himself on the beach. It was just after dawn, surf splashed in, and he stood near the palm where he and Chawaray had talked. He strolled several blocks to a Holiday Inn and checked in. He was clean and well-dressed, and the young woman behind the counter smiled as she handed him his key. It was almost stranger than teleporting to an alien's spaceship.
That evening, he had supper in the motel restaurant, and that night sat at the bar among a crowd in their thirties. A deejay blasted hip-hop and power pop, and the crowd danced. He felt like a spy.
In the morning he showered, and leaving the bathroom, a towel over his shoulders, froze. In a plastic chair by the dresser, sat a crimson girl with protruding eyes, her irises as crimson as her skin, her eyeballs golden. Up she sprang and strode over, her smile revealing pointed golden teeth. She stood maybe four eleven.
"The name is Norp," she beamed, taking his hand in both hers and shaking it. "I caught you on Chawaray's show. You remember Chawaray? Okay." She spoke like a commercial's disclaimer. "Here's an offer you can't refuse. I'll pay you two hundred thousand dollars to help me make a documentary about you."
Alan ran his fingers through his hair. "Mind if I get dressed?" Water trickled down his forehead.
"Oh sure, sure," Norp exclaimed. "Don't let me stop you." She waved the back of a crimson hand at him.
He gathered up his clothes and shambled into the bathroom. Just when you think it can't get any weirder. When he emerged, Norp lounged in the chair by the dresser again, eyeing him.
"It'll only take a week," she enthused. "I'll interview you, then connect you to a reactivator, which stimulates recall of experiences while recording them. Then I intersperse interview with recorded memories." Norp smiled ingratiatingly. "I have to wipe your memory of our encounter. Chawaray can do what he wants. But I play by the book. Back on Earth you'll be contacted and get a debit card and the number of an account in your name. We'll deposit ten thousand a month in it, for twenty months. But you won't remember anything"
His heart raced. "Could you get me a talisman as part of the deal?"
Forget it," Norp scoffed. "Just take the money. If you're worried about getting paid, I'll show you the account in your name before we begin."
"You're not the same as Chawaray, are you?" Alan looked into Norp's crimson eyes.
"Chawaray is Shuvaran. I'm Krasp, a much more distinguished life-form."
"You're an adult?"
Norp bristled. "Of course. Krasp are petite and graceful, not lumbering hulks." She gave her head a shake, and her raven hair swished just above her shoulders. "Two hundred thousand dollars. A deal?"
"I need to think about it."
She lifted one palm, turned her head, and spoke as if at someone. "He sleeps on park benches. He eats garbage. And he wants to think about it." She turned back. "You want to think about it?"
He grinned.
"I'll give you till three this afternoon. Then you let me know."
He nodded.
"Okay, okay," she said, "think about it. But don't be a fool. Take the money." Poof, she was gone.
Over ham and eggs he thought. On a walk to the ocean, past cafes and shops and along the beach, he thought. Two hundred thousand…Norp…No talisman…Memory wiped…Still, a chance…He felt his thoughts slipping into incoherence and stopped thinking.
He ambled back. The clock over the front desk read a few minutes before one. He went to his room and lay down. He guessed not. Norp gave him bad vibes. He got his suitcase and strolled down to the lobby, paid his bill. Outside, in the midday heat, he lugged his suitcase. Just as he reached the parking lot, Norp scrambled from under the shrubbery beside the building.
He kept walking. She trotted up and matched him stride for stride. "Yes," she said, "I was afraid you might skip out." She clasped his arm and stopped, glancing around the empty parking lot. She flung down his arm. "Now listen to me, you substandard Neanderthal. We are going to make this documentary. Whether you like it or not."
The muscles around her eyes tensed. She grabbed his arm, and then they sat in a large circular room, in black leather chairs with chrome arms. Black carpet covered the floor, and the metal walls were gleaming white with oval windows every six feet. Chrome framed the windows, beyond which deep space loomed. Norp sprang up, stalked to a small desk, and jerked some papers from a drawer. She stomped over and shook them in his face.
"Look at these, moron," she sneered, thrusting them into his hands. "They're a contract in which you agree to make the documentary. I agree to pay you two hundred thousand. You want to cooperate, fine. Otherwise, I just connect you to the reactivator and get what I want. I'd like to interview you. But if you won't help, I can use Chawaray's interview."
"What makes you think I'll sign?" he asked.
"You'll sign," she said. "Maybe I can't make you do an interview as good as Chawaray's. But making you sign your name, that should be easy, a pleasure even." From the pocket of her t-shirt, she withdrew a black object about the size and shape of a ballpoint pen. Smiling, she pressed a button on it.
He screamed, pain searing through him.
Norp smiled with her lips closed. "See? That was quarter power. You'll sign." She gave him another jolt. His body throbbed like a smashed thumb. He howled once more.
What looked like a male with Norp's crimson skin and protruding eyes came into the room. Norp indicated the newcomer with one hand. "My assistant, Jard." She pointed a thumb at Alan. "You know, I'm about reconciled to making this without his cooperation. We just hook him up to the reactivator and get his memories. Interwoven with Chawaray's interview, that should make an incredible package."
Jard raised his eyebrows. Norp shrugged. "Oh, we'll just see that he signs the contract." She fondled the cylinder in her pocket. "Afterward we wipe his memory. We return him to Earth and pay him. Everything as the contract stipulates. We're covered." She hugged herself, smiling raptly.
Black cylinder aimed at him, Norp marched Alan across the room to another black leather chair. She shoved him into it, and Jard fastened clasps that held Alan's wrists to the chair's arms and his feet to the floor.
"Now," Norp cooed, adjusting the controls of a small black box on a stand beside the chair, "let's garner some raw material." She bared her pointed teeth in a grin and peered into his face. "Ready for a trip down memory lane?"
Across the room a yellow light on the wall began blinking, and Jard called out in a strange language.
In what was probably the same language, Norp snarled back and returned to the controls.
Suddenly it was night, and he treaded a jungle trail. Gunfire erupted from both sides. His platoon attacked the right side. Alan stormed into the brush. He stumbled onto a Viet Cong, who looked about twelve. Alan wrenched up his M-16, when with jarring abruptness he was back in Norp's studio, with a splitting headache. The clasps were off his wrists and feet, and Chawaray leaned over him holding his shoulders and looking into his eyes. "Are you all right?"
Alan nodded, frowned. "What are you doing here?" Ten feet away Norp stood with crossed arms, glowering.
Chawaray smiled almost bitterly but spoke in his usual mellifluous voice. "You will recall, Alan, that when you departed I presented you with clothes?"
He nodded.
"You will recall also,: Chawaray said, "that I filmed you in Miami using equipment that was disguised as clothing?"
Alan nodded harder.
Chawaray spread his hands. "So perhaps it will not shock you if I say that all the clothes you received were also equipment for recording and transmitting."
Alan stared.
Chawaray looked into his eyes. "I apologize for the invasion of your privacy. But you were a hit with billions of viewers. I owed it to you to monitor your life temporarily to protect you from some unscrupulous operator–"
Norp jeered. "Why don't you just say it? You wanted to 'protect' him from me. You never forgave me for stealing that little dancer from under your wing."
Chawaray's eyes narrowed. "I resent that you exploited Sheerana and corrupted her. That she died of chemical dependency–yet a child."
"What you resent," Norp shrieked, "is my talent! My success! You wish you had either!"
Chawaray stared. "I've never begrudged your success," he said at last. "I regret how you squander your talent. On the superficial, the sensational."
Norp threw a hand derisively in his direction.
He turned back to Alan. "All that she did was transmitted to my ship and recorded. An assistant alerted me that they'd forced you to connect to the reactivator. I called and let Norp know I had it all recorded. She allowed me to teleport on board."
He glanced over his shoulder at Norp. "Under the law, she is liable to spend years in a correctional institution."
Alan's glance had been shooting like a pinball between Norp and Chawaray. "Wait a minute, Chawaray. Do we have to report all this?"
"Why wouldn't we?"
"I might be willing to work with Norp. Maybe–" he stammered, "maybe we could make a deal."
Comprehension began to steal across Chawaray's face, and his eyes laughed. "Well, Alan, I'd say you're in a strong bargaining position. Wouldn't you agree, Norp?"
A few hours later, Alan and Chawaray sat in Norp's communications room, listening over a translating device as she talked to her producer. At an oval blue table, Alan sat to Norp's right, Chawaray to her left.
"Yeah, yeah, Norel," Norp exclaimed, "it's a new direction for me. First off, Alan and I make the documentary on him. That's a hit, definitely. Then he works with me on a whole series of features about his world. I mean, with his viewer appeal the series is gonna be really hot, hot, hot. I'm like really excited. I'm going to spend the next six years doing features on this planet, with him as consultant. I mean, real in-depth journalism."
By the time Norp finished talking, the producer had agreed to the series. He seemed as exited about it as Norp pretended to be. She cut off the communicator.
"Okay, so you got your deal." She jerked her thumb at Alan. "But do I have to let him stay onboard?"
"Have you forgotten, Norp?" Chawaray tucked his chin slightly. "You agreed to arrange that Alan receive a talisman."
A moue of distaste twisted her face.
Chawaray leaned back. "He has to have free access to your ship in order to use it."
Norp glared at the ceiling. "All right, all right."
"In six years," Chawaray added, "you, Alan, and I will meet to decide where he goes from here."
Norp looked ready to throw up.
One part of the deal, Alan thought, got her most. The Shawarans had a device called a remediator, used to develop a conscience in the sociopath. Chawaray insisted Norp use one, and he'd keep tabs on it.
Chawaray smiled at Norp. "Your work these six years may be a new high point for you."
Alan's headache had subsided, and he felt overwhelmed, pleasantly.
Chawaray's eyes still smiled as he gazed at Norp and Alan. Then Chawaray looked out one of the portals, where twenty thousand miles below, Earth lay. "And what a period on which to report, Norp," he exclaimed. "A planet approaching the early stages of civilization. Or will it self-destruct? What a subtext for your work!"
"I hope," Norp growled, "we get one decent show."
Alan leaned toward her. "I got some ideas."
Norp rolled her bug eyes.
"Walking To Cape Canaveral" originally appeared in Allegory and is copyright 2009 by Allegory.


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News of the "Arctic Vortex" - the punishing winter weather that most of North America has been struggling under since before Christmas has even reached as far south as Loreto - albeit courtesy of satellite TV and, if I do say so myself, it has brought some comfort and perspective to those of us who spend the winter here in this extreme southern Temperate climate.
Comfort and perspective, because for Loretanos, living as we do just north of the Tropic of Cancer, this is our winter season as well - admittedly a kinder and gentler form of winter than is the case for many of you living in the Great White North, but relatively speaking - winter none the less. From about the middle of December until about the middle of February is the general time frame for our version of winter this far south, and along with shorter daylight hours come cooler nights - much cooler nights!
Most of the homes in Loreto Bay are built around a central open air courtyard, and for most of the year the doors and windows can be left open day and night. But at this time of year I leave interior doors open to the courtyard when I am away during the day, but after I return home, once the sun has set about 5:30 pm, I close up the house to keep the daytime warmth in and the cooling evening air out. Likewise, I keep the bedroom closed up during the evening and overnight to keep the chilly air out.
While this has been a predictable pattern for this time of year ever since I have been here, I don't think it is my imagination to say that the cool evenings have been cooler than usual this year - which is perhaps not surprising, when one considers the impact that the record breaking "Vortex" effect has been having over much of North America in the past several weeks. After all, however far south we may be from where the extreme weather that has been breaking records further north - we are still connected to the rest of the continent and our ambient temperatures have to be affected as Arctic air plunges further south than normal.
Add to that, this is also the time of year when we can get prevailing North-easterly winds blowing down the length of the Sea of Cortez which of course moves more of the cooler air further south. Fortunately, although there has been several windy days in the last few weeks, the winds don't seem to be as strong or frequent as I have experienced at this time of year in the past.
However, when the sun rises it doesn't take very long to start warming air again in the morning, and I notice a big difference in that air temperature between 8:00 and 9:00 am when I leave my bedroom to walk through the courtyard to the living area for breakfast, and an hour later when I am leaving the house for my bicycle commute to the Office. Typically, by about 10 am on a calm day, with the sun shining out of a usually clear blue sky, we have almost reached our daytime high in the mid-twenties Celsius or mid-seventies Fahrenheit and all is forgotten about the chill in the air from the night before.
This cooler weather also has a noticeable effect on people's wardrobe at this time of year. First of all, for the native Mexicans this is winter for them, perhaps the only winter they have known, depending on where they may have lived, and so it is not unusual to see them on these chilly mornings bundled up in their warmest clothes - down vests, fleece jackets, and scarves wrapped around their necks. Because, of course, as acclimated as they are to the extremes of heat here in the summer, the chilly mornings at this time of year must seem as cold to them as below zero temperatures do to the inhabitants living with winter in most of North America.
This also results in some unusual sartorial contrasts between the local Mexicans and the ex-pat population here in Loreto Bay - when a quilt jacketed Mexican meets up with a Gringo wearing shorts and a T-shirt it is obvious that there are two parallel realities happening here! But the differences in clothing can be more subtle than that. For instance, because I have been spending more than 8 months of the year here for the past 6 or 7 years, I too have become somewhat used to this climate and feel the "cold" here more than someone here for a short visit from up North.
Therefore, it is fairly easy to identify those of us who spend more time here from those "just visiting", as they are wearing the shorts and T-shirts that they packed for their Mexican winter getaway - while we "long timers" are often in long pants, long sleeves and even light jackets. Also, because most of the restaurants in town are at least partially outdoors, let alone the more casual street food vendors set up at the side of most main streets in town during the evening, when I say that at this time of year we "dress" to go out to dinner, I mean we wear the warmest clothes we have here, and some of the better places have patio heaters to make dining "al fresco" more comfortable.
So, in our own way, we too are dealing with winter - just on a more comfortable scale. In most homes that have built-in air conditioning the a/c units can also operate as heat pumps enough to take the chill out of the air in a room. But, as I have learned, using the system in heat mode is just as expensive in power consumption as it is cooling in the hot weather, so Mexican blankets are a popular living room accessory. Also the adobe-style construction of most of the Loreto Bay homes provides great insulation against the cold air, as well as holds daytime heat that warms the interior at night.
The purpose of this week's Blog is not to make those of you who find yourselves enduring record breaking winter conditions jealous of our milder version of the season (well, maybe just a little), but instead to point out that we too have different seasons here as well. And while our "winter" is much kinder and gentler, it is still a change - and one that ultimately makes us appreciate even more, the warmer days and milder evenings that we will be enjoying here in just a few short week's time. Taking a moment to recognize the passing of the seasons, and be grateful for the near ideal climate that comes with the natural beauty of this place, helps me realize why I love "Living Loreto".


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As the flagship school of the University of Texas system, The University of Texas at Austin uses the proud slogan, "What Happens Here Changes the World." But before you go changing the world, you'll first need to figure how to pay for your UT Austin education.
For the 2018-19 school year, the sticker price for one semester at UT Austin fell between $5,056 and $5,810 for Texas residents, and $17,998 and $20,628 for nonresidents, and just for tuition and fees. But chances are you won't need to pay full price, hopefully getting help from the many grants, scholarships and work-study opportunities available.
You might also need to borrow federal or private student loans, but proceed with caution: The average UT Austin student graduated owing $26,824 in 2017, which can be a lot of debt to manage when you're fresh out of school.
Read on to learn about your financing options, so you can enjoy UT Austin without stressing about costs.
|Costs of attending The University of Texas at Austin
|Tuition (in-state)
|Longhorn fixed tuition (in-state)
|Room and board
|Estimated cost
|Typical debt after graduation
|All info current as of 10/10/2018. Sources: The University of Texas at Austin and TICAS.org
Note in the chart above that UT Austin offers a "Longhorn fixed tuition rate" option to entering freshmen. While the fixed rate is slightly higher than the non-fixed option, it will stay the same over all four years. So if you're concerned about rising tuition costs, selecting the fixed tuition rate has the potential — though not the guarantee — to save you money over the long run.
Unlock financing options with the FAFSA
You have a variety of options when it comes to paying for The University of Texas at Austin. Financial aid can come in the form of grants, scholarships, work-study or student loans.
But before you can access this aid, you'll need to submit the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA). The FAFSA becomes available on Oct. 1, and you'll need to fill it out every year to remain eligible for financial aid.
If you're a Texas resident but not a U.S. citizen, you should also fill out the Texas Application for State Financial Aid, or TASFA. This form, which is available in English and Spanish, will connect you with state-level financial aid. International students who are neither Texas residents nor U.S. citizens should fill out the International Student Financial Aid Application, or ISFAA.
Grants for The University of Texas at Austin students
As a UT Austin student, you could qualify for grants — free money for college generally awarded to students with financial need.
The Department of Education offers a few different grants to college students, while the state of Texas offers grants to local students through its College for All Texans initiative.
Make sure to submit the FAFSA to put yourself in the running for these federal and state grants. Some aid is doled out on a first-come, first-served basis, so complete the FAFSA as soon as you can. Here are some you might be offered:
- Pell Grant: Up to $6,095 in the 2018-19 year for undergraduates with financial need.
- Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grant: Up to $4,000 per year for students with financial need.
- TEACH Grant: Up to $4,000 per year for undergraduates who plan to teach high-need subjects at schools that serve low-income students.
- Texas Public Education Grant: Amounts vary for this grant, available to both residents and nonresidents with financial need. Funding is limited, though, so not everyone who qualifies will receive funds.
- TEXAS (Toward EXcellence, Access and Success) Grant: This variable-amount grant goes to Texas students with financial need who meet certain academic criteria.
Besides federal and state grants, you might also win grants from private organizations. You can search for private grants online or ask your school counselor for suggestions. Note, however, that private organizations might have their own application forms along with the FAFSA. Make sure to check for any extra requirements or deadlines so you don't miss out on free money for college.
Scholarships for University of Texas at Austin students
Like grants, scholarships are a type of gift aid that doesn't need to be repaid. But unlike grants, they are often awarded for reasons other than financial need, such as academic performance or extracurricular activities.
UT Austin supports its student population with a variety of scholarships. Some of these are available to students across the university, while others are awarded within certain colleges or departments. Here are a few options for UT Austin students:
- Presidential Scholars Program: This is a prestigious program for students with strong academic achievement and high financial need. It involves an annual scholarship award, as well as participation in an enrichment program with opportunities to network.
- University Co-op / George H. Mitchell Award: Awards of $2,500, $5,000, or $12,000 are available to seven undergraduate students for their academic or creative achievement.
- University Leaders Network Scholarship: This program offers $5,000 per year for four years to 500 UT Austin freshmen with financial need.
- Roy Crane Award in the Arts: This scholarship gives $1,000 to $4,500 to a UT Austin student for their creative effort in the arts.
- UT System Regents Award in Arts & Humanities: The $1,500-$2,500 award goes to an individual or group of students who excel in music, visual arts, poetry or short essay writing.
- Forty Acres Scholars Program: This is one of those rare "full-ride scholarships" that will cover your entire cost of tuition. The competitive scholarship goes to students with strong academic credentials and communication skills, as well as demonstrated leadership and involvement in extracurricular activities and community service.
Along with the FAFSA, you might be required to submit UT Austin's "scholarship interest form," which is available through your UT Austin online student account.
Apart from institutional scholarships, you could also apply to scholarships from private organizations. There are thousands of opportunities across the country, and you can find them with online scholarship search tools such as Scholly or College Board Scholarship Search. For instance, students planning to major in a STEM field could apply for the Astronaut Scholarship Foundation award or the Barry Goldwater Scholarship.
If you're in high school, you could also speak with your school counselor about local opportunities. By applying far and wide to scholarships, you could get major help paying for college — and you won't have to take on as much student debt as a result.
Federal and Texas work-study programs
If you've got financial need, the work-study program can help you find a part-time job, either on or off campus. Although it doesn't guarantee employment, it usually gives you a leg up on the competition, since certain jobs are only available to students with work-study.
Both the federal government and the state of Texas provide work-study funding. The federal program is open to any qualifying student, while the Texas work-study program is only available to Texas residents.
UT Austin offers a variety of on-campus work-study jobs, including jobs in lab research, social science research, photography and curatorship, child care, library services and housing and food services.
You might also participate in off-campus community service work-study. These jobs are typically with nonprofit employers in public television, museums, child care centers, health care clinics or tutoring programs.
Once you've accepted your work-study award, you can search for available work-study jobs on the Hire a Longhorn Job Bank.
Federal student loans
After exhausting your options for grants and scholarships, you might need additional funding for college. If that's the case, it could make sense to borrow federal student loans from the education department.
A popular federal student aid option for undergraduate students is the direct loan. You don't need to pass a credit check to qualify — in fact, anyone attending an eligible school (such as UT Austin) can take out a direct loan.
There are two types: unsubsidized, which accrue interest from the date of disbursement, and subsidized, which don't require you to pay interest until your grace period ends and repayment begins.
Your financial aid package from UT Austin will detail which loans you qualify for and how much you can borrow. Federal student loans tend to be better options than private ones, since they come with the following benefits:
- Income-driven repayment plans: Plans such as income-based repayment, income-contingent repayment, Pay As You Earn and Revised Pay As You Earn that adjust your monthly payments along with your income and family size. If you still have a balance at the end of your 20- or 25-year term, it will be forgiven.
- Forbearance and deferment: Programs that allow you to postpone payments on your loans if you return to school or run into financial hardship. Note that interest might continue to accrue during these periods.
- Eligibility for federal loan forgiveness programs: Programs such as Public Service Loan Forgiveness and Teacher Loan Forgiveness will wipe away part or all of your federal student loans in exchange for qualifying service.
- Fixed interest rates: While some private student loans come with variable rates that could change over time, federal student loans have fixed rates that will remain the same over the life of your loan.
The Department of Education also offers PLUS loans to graduate students or parents of undergraduates paying for their child's education. Grad students or parents can borrow up to the school's full cost of attendance in PLUS loans, but they must pass a credit check to qualify. Note that the only income-driven PLUS loans are eligible for income-contingent repayment, and you must consolidate the loans before applying.
This table compares the interest rates and origination fees of the various federal student loans.
|Federal student loan
|Who can use it?
|Interest rate (2018-19)
|One-time loan fee*
|Interest paid for you during deferment
|Annual loan limit
|Undergraduate students with a demonstrated financial need
|Up to $5,500 per school year
|Undergraduate students
|Up to $7,500 per school year for dependent students
Up to $12,500 per school year for independent students
|Unsubsidized (for graduate students)
|Students working toward a graduate or professional degree
|Up to $20,500 per school year
|Graduate students and parents of undergraduate students
|Cost of attendance, after all other student aid is applied
|All information current as of Oct. 4, 2018. Source: Federal Student Aid
Although federal student loans can be a useful tool for paying for college, make sure you understand what you're getting into before you borrow. Use a student loan repayment calculator to estimate your future monthly payments and the amount of interest that will accrue. By doing your due diligence now, you can avoid taking on too much debt.
University of Texas at Austin student loans
Federal student aid is likely your best option for borrowing student loans, but UT Austin also offers two types of short-term loans to students in need:
- Emergency cash loans: Up to $500, and the loan is due back within 30 days.
- Tuition loans: Up to the balance of your tuition bill for Texas residents, and up to 50% of your tuition bill for non-residents. This loan must be paid back within 30 to 90 days.
While a UT Austin loan can help you out of a tight financial spot, it isn't a long-term solution for financing your education. If you're a Texas resident, you might also look to the state's College Access Loan (CAL) Program.
The CAL Program provides loans at a 5.30% interest rate to Texas residents who are unable to meet their school's cost of attendance. You must pass a credit check to qualify or apply with a cosigner who can.
In the past, Texas also offered a zero-interest loan to state residents. If they graduated on time, this loan would be forgiven. Unfortunately, the Texas B-On-Time (BOT) Loan Program isn't funding new loans, but it is offering renewal loans for existing BOT loan borrowers.
Private student loans
Since federal student loans come with borrowing limits, you could still end up with a gap in funding after you've borrowed. In that case, you might explore your options for private student loans.
Private student loans can come from a bank, credit union or online lender such as CommonBond or College Ave. Each lender sets its own requirements, but most look for strong credit and a stable income. The majority of undergraduates can't qualify on their own, so they apply with a creditworthy cosigner, typically a parent.
Private student loans differ from federal ones in a few ways. For example, they might have a variable interest rate, though a fixed rate option is often available as well. Also, you can choose repayment terms, often between five and 20 years when you borrow, but you usually can't change your terms after that.
Private lenders don't generally offer income-driven repayment plans, deferment or other options that come with federal loans. In most cases, the only way to restructure your debt after you've borrowed is through student loan refinancing.
Since each lender is different when it comes to interest rates, term lengths and other loan features, it's a good idea to shop around and compare offers. By connecting with a few lenders, you can find a student loan with the best terms.
Apart from looking for the lowest rate, don't forget about other perks as well. For instance, you might find a lender that offers forbearance if you run into financial hardship after graduation. Or you could look for one that offers cosigner release after a certain period of on-time repayments. Ascent even offers the perk of a 1% cashback reward upon graduation if you meet certain criteria.
So while comparing interest rates is important, also keep an eye out for other benefits that could give one lender an edge over another.
Paying for The University of Texas at Austin
When planning on how to pay for a University of Texas at Austin education, remember to max out your options for gift aid before turning to student loans.
After grants and scholarships, your next stop might be federal or state student loans, but if you still have a financial gap, private student loans can be useful. Just make sure you understand the terms of your debt before borrowing.
And even if you're just starting college, it's never too early to come up with a plan for repayment. By laying out the details now, you'll be better prepared to hit the ground running after you graduate. You might even find ways to pay off your student debt ahead of schedule.


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So, what happens when you take the High Altar of Geek and plonk it in the very heart of mainstream, high-culture London?
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You know I'm intrigued by the nature of geekdom – the marketeer in me labels it the customer-base of my company – but I'm still a fangirl at heart and Forbidden Planet's people are less statistic and more friend. Not so the milling hordes in Leicester Square last weekend! Busier than even the organisers expected, the shoulder-to-shoulder crush was sightseers, tourists, families, theatre lovers and luvvies; the urban(e) heart of the West End who stand outside my demographic and who don't give Star Wars so much as a sniff of disdain.
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Dressing up is one of those things we never grow out of. It breaks our boundaries, transcends the faintly bitter taste of 'role-play' and embraces the sweet allure of 'stage and screen'. With us, once again, were our friends from the UK Garrison – this time clad in a variety of movie-class costumes – and fronting the 'come-as-you-aren't' theme of the FP tent. They epitomised what the packed throng of visitors were teasing at the edges of – the desire to be the legend, the hero, the star.
Returning to my personal mission statement about the new age of geek credibility, it seems that West End Live blurred the ever-fading line between geek and chic even more… On a weekend where the Mayor collects Marvel and the ol' comic store becomes the new green room, there's no limit to how cool a geek can get!


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The "economy" is the highest ranked "issue" in this election. But what does "economy" mean? It's actually about several issues: job and family security; poverty, wealth and distribution of income; infrastructure, quality of life and of course, trade. Healthcare is also a vital economic issue.
Rather than address these issues, Harper prefers to remain ideological. His newest slogan is "protect the economy", which implicitly means he's Big Brother watching over us all. If he gets challenged about the issues that matter to Canadians he has his back-up plan: divisive wedge politics. It's about managing perception, not serious human policy considerations.
Healthcare is a significant part of "the economy" and is always ranked near the top. The $200 billion sector accounts for over one-tenth of the GDP, much larger than the oil, gas and mining sectors combined. Alberta's tarsands account for only 2% of our GDP. Yet Harper has had nothing to say about Canada's growing healthcare crisis; he hides behind provincial jurisdiction while he pursues his Petro State.
Healthcare is a great teacher about the real economy. It's a public service that is central to our Canadian identity. It's about meeting human needs, as much as possible through a non-profit market. And, if we look closely, the healthcare crisis exposes Harper's simplistic, ideological approach.
Had Harper been in government in the 1960s we would never have gotten federal-provincial cooperation to achieve universal healthcare. His hands-off approach allows a two-tiered system to grow, to the benefit of the private-for-profit medical industry. Over the last ten years we've seen the cost of prescriptions drugs escalate. Recently we've seen how venture capitalists have increased drug prices by a hundred, even a thousand-fold. Harper would call this "economic growth" but it's just pharmaceutical price-gouging.
For the first time in our history seniors outnumber youth; there are now over 5 million of us. Yet with Harper's hands-off approach the growing needs for homecare and chronic care are ignored. Crisis management rather than preventative care, warehousing rather than holistic care, are becoming the norm. If the healthcare sector of our economy is not about meeting our changing human needs, then what is it for? Is the economy simply for profit-making and taking? Is that what Harper means by protecting the economy?
Healthcare is part of the service sector, the biggest part of the economy.Yet is has been sidelined as Harper has created policies that favour resource exports, especially fossil fuels. This has distorted rather than protected our economy. Harper Conservatives relentlessly repeat their mantra about lowering taxes, balancing budgets and leaving it up to the corporate sector to invest and create jobs through trickledown economics. The barrage of talking points doesn't change the fact that this has backfired.
We like to think of ourselves as having one of the world's best universal healthcare systems, but a comparison of Commonwealth countries now puts Canada right near the bottom. Harper has refused to give leadership on Pharmacare or homecare, the best ways to enhance care while reducing healthcare costs. This is part of an ideological pattern: he is also committed to privatize rather than build up public pensions.
The Liberals and NDP appeal to the struggling middle class as a way to counter Harper's economics, but they haven't quite called a spade a spade. This appeal leaves youth who will not be able to make it into the middle class out of the political equation. High youth unemployment and high youth debt are surely important economic issues.
And while the parties debate federal deficits, debt load continues to be offloaded onto Canadian families. For every dollar of earning power, on average, Canadians now have $1.60 in debt. This is another consequence of Harper's hands-off approach. After six straight deficits, Harper was only able to create a pre-election "surplus" through under-spending in a wide range of government services, including aboriginal communities, which face the greatest of all economic problems. "Protecting the economy" means fixing the budget so it can be part of a reelection, "issues management" plan; cynical to the core.
This offloading has moved us further towards two-tiered healthcare. Nearly one-third of healthcare costs ($60 of $200 billion) are now paid for directly by Canadians. This includes drug costs, homecare and dental care, and various therapies which would be part of a comprehensive system. Meanwhile only two-thirds of Canadians have access to private insurance to help with these costs. The "economy" that Harper wants to "protect" excludes millions of Canadians.
If we look at other economic sectors we find a similar pattern. This is true for secure housing, which is out of reach of many young people, and is one of the best indicators of health. When Harper says he wants to "protect the economy" he doesn't mean that he wants to ensure that Canadians have access to health services or to socially-useful jobs or affordable housing. He wants to protect the high-profit corporate marketplace.
When Harper says he wants to put money back in the pockets of Canadians, he means he wants us to have to buy higher-cost services as individuals, and not to cooperate to ensure that we all get our needs met. Cooperation to care for each other is the principle upon which Medicare was built. Even with a few tax deductions, say for providing otherwise unavailable homecare through family members, we will still end up with less money in our pockets. And more debt load. And if there is pressure to talk directly about what's really happening in the economy we know what Harper will do: more wedge issues.
Harper's attempts to appropriate nationalism, patriotism, our values and even citizenship, his desire to play "Big Brother", is typical of authoritarian politicians everywhere. Isn't it time to protect the people of Canada and Canada's real economy from Harper?
Next time I'll discuss what might occur on Oct. 20th.


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Risk Factors for Obesity
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A risk factor is something that increases your likelihood of getting a disease or condition.
It is possible to develop ]]>obesity]]> with or without the risk factors listed below. However, the more risk factors you have, the greater your likelihood of developing obesity. If you have a number of risk factors, ask your doctor what you can do to reduce your risk.
Risk factors for obesity include:
Poor Diet
If you eat high-calorie, low-nutrient foods, you are likely to eat more calories than you burn each day, thus increasing your risk of becoming obese. Another risk factor is eating until you are full and eating quickly.
If you are pregnant, your diet may also affect your child's risk of obesity. For example, skipping breakfast and smoking may increase your child's risk of becoming obese.
Children may also be at risk for becoming obese if they do not eat their regular meals with their family.
Lack of Sleep
Not getting enough sleep may put children at risk for obesity. How much sleep in enough for kids? Here are general recommendations:
- Aged 5 years or younger—11 hours or more
- 5-10 years—10 hours or more
- 10 years or older—9 hours or more
Physical Activity
Lack of Physical Activity
If you don't get enough physical activity (exercise), you are likely to burn fewer calories than you eat each day, thus increasing your risk of becoming obese. For children, too little exercise and spending too much time watching TV or playing on the computer can increase their risk of gaining weight and becoming obese.
Working Varied Shifts
Working shifts at different times of the day and night increases your risk of becoming obese.
Medical Conditions and Medications
Certain medications, rare hereditary diseases, and hormonal imbalances (such as hypothyroid and Cushing's disease) increase your risk of obesity.
If you are a smoker and want to ]]>quit]]> , you may worry that quitting will increase your weight. Keep in mind that you can overcome this weight gain by reducing how many calories you consume and by exercising more. Overall, the health benefits of quitting smoking far exceed the risk of gaining weight.
If you are pregnant, smoking may increase your child's risk of becoming obese.
The incidence of obesity more than doubles between the ages of 20 and 55. However, this may be related to a decrease in activity levels. A recent study found that within 30 years, over half of a large group of normal-weight men and women became overweight.
Genetic Factors
Specific, rare hereditary diseases may increase the risk of obesity. In addition, there seems to be a general tendency for obesity to run in some families, though the reason for this is not well understood.
There is a higher incidence of obesity among certain races or ethnic groups. In the US, obesity affects 66% of middle-aged black women and 68% of Mexican American women, compared with 45% of white women.
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Longboat employees win, parking lot melanoma, Colony Resort, Dan Dowd and the Generation of Fools
Editor & Publisher
The Medieval idea of spontaneous generation — that rats are born from hay — has a corollary in local politicians.
But before we make hay with poor decisions, indecisions and the amazing maze of emotional rhetoric at the latest Commission meeting, let's talk about something positive our group of seven leaders accomplished. And while positives in our commission is usually an implied negative — in that we can be sure they do their best work when they accomplish nothing — in the case of retaining two employee benefits for 44 general town employees, their support is deserved.
Here is a snapshot of what our Town Commission accomplished this year to date with the general employees:
Financial bleeding stopped
In an effort to control spiraling pension costs, all the general employees will be moved on September 30 from a defined benefit to a defined contribution plan where the Town will pay a maximum of 9% of salary (if employees contribute 6%) into a 401A retirement account.
The employees had little to no negotiating ability since they opted not to unionize, which the Fire and Police departments had done previously. This led to the employees pleading emotionally for two benefits that have been in place for many, many years — early retirement and a DROP benefit. (see news story on homepage)
House divided
The Commission was completely divided at the thought of adding these two benefits back into the frozen plan with Phill Younger and Lynn Larson and Dave Brenner opposing the idea and voting against the measure and Terry Gans, Jim Brown, Pat Zunz and Jack Duncan supporting the program.
For some it was a matter of fairness and evenhandedness since Fire has a DROP in its contract. Others saw it as a promise kept — something that has been in place in the case of early retirement since the dawn of the community. They objected to the idea that many have worked for the Town for decades only to now face being forbidden early retirement.
Those opposed argued the cost to taxpayers — a possible $10,000 per year in the case of early retirement — was egregious and yet another unnecessary expense.
But for a group of workers who have had their pensions ended and reconstituted as far less generous with no raises, no pay steps for years and even their birthday cakes taken away, the option of early retirement seemed like an alternative to the more Kevorkian solution of quitting, as many have done over the past year.
Scintilla of appreciation
The meeting was long, emotional and a nail-biter for the employees. In the end, kudos is deserved for the four Commissioners who did something right by not changing what has been in place — the early retirement and DROP programs.
The DROP will sunset when the last of eight eligible employees finishes and the early retirement is essentially a wash financially and allows 37 of 44 general employees to find a scintilla of appreciation in Town Hall.
And during the discussion the usual mode prevailed: Younger spoke earnestly and philosophically and rationally about how we cannot keep adding to the unfunded liability.
Lynn Larson was a bit more emotional, and that is generous, and spoke of how it was a sad day for taxpayers. I suppose she forgets that all of the employees do nothing else than serve the taxpayers and the theory of "You need to do more for less" fails to motivate after it is said year after year.
Fairness and eloquence
Another problem is Larson used the moral equivalent of a reverse Oresteia trilogy. She went from legislatively considering an issue last month to personal vendetta. Behind the scenes Larson was busy making public record requests of decade-long employee Steve Shield's email and phone records to try and bolster her rationale for voting and arguing against general employee benefits. The good news is the records revealed no improper use of email or phone calls or waste of staff time.
All of Larson's actions belie an intrusion and intimidation of staff by a Town leader. In essence, it is Town Manager Dave Bullock's job to monitor and evaluate employees. To have a Commissioner impose this kind of hostile approach during the middle of a debate on this issue smacks less of clear policy-making and more of a small town Lady Macbeth trying to win her day by any means necessary.
Pat Zunz spoke clearly about the fairness of offering the same programs that Fire enjoys and that the cost is finite and will sunset.
Terry Gans spoke eloquently about the need for fairness and keeping the expectations of what was in place in the workplace and reminding Commissioner Younger that we are not in Detroit and we must not diminish morale by financially whipping every staffer until the janitor must be called with a mop.
In the end, we should be proud that 4 of 7 of our leaders did the right thing for the employees and the community at large.
Brave New World
The rest of the meeting was something bordering on Thomas Mann's Death in Venice — another reminder that if property owners do not pay careful attention to who is running our Town and what policies they are inflicting, the Longboat Key you love will erode faster than any damage from a storm surge.
Government in the sunshine at Publix
The good news is Town Manager Dave Bullock said the demolition of the old and final remaining section of the previous Publix store ought commence in September. This marks the end of the final piece of that aging and ugly yellow structure.
But I got into a strange discussion with a current Commissioner who was shocked that I found that the Commission made an egregious error in its consideration of the Publix site plan and we will forever pay for their lack of oversight.
Melanoma maker
In short, you can blame the Town Commission if you have no hair on your head and you develop melanoma shopping at Publix. The reason is they were told over and over by resident and engineer Brad Saivetz that the new parking lot was grossly under-shaded and would never develop into the magnificent parking oasis we had previously.
Of course the new Publix is an improvement as is the layout of the center. But we had one thing that was unique to Longboat and made our store a far better shopping experience — namely most every parking spot was full of shade.
And that is sacrosanct in strong planning. The spacing of the trees and the type of trees — a high proportion of palms instead of live oaks — means shoppers must now let their expensive cars bake in the sun and return and watch their gelato turn into soup as it rolls around the trunk.
It was avoidable, but the Commission refused to address the issue and instead chastised Saivetz off and on over the years. They looked at shade values for the overall site and opted to impose the Viet Cong buffer of jungle between the CVS and Gulf of Mexico Drive rather than create a refreshing and park-like parking area. At least it will be pleasant on cloudy days in January and during the occasional solar eclipse.
Tirade over Dan Dowd
Of final interest was the tirade by Commissioner Jack Duncan at the most recent meeting over his objection to Dan Dowd, a columnist who writes under a penname in Longboat Key News on occasion.
Duncan ripped with volatility at what he thought were warrantless and unsupported criticisms of the Commission. Then he defended Dave Brenner who Dowd criticized as being overly concerned with commercial interests at the expense of residential residents and their values.
Duncan intoned that neither he nor Brenner want a Pharmaceutical company or Wal-Mart on Longboat Key, etc, etc. That droned on for about 5 minutes.
Here is what Dowd actually wrote about Brenner:
"David Brenner rubs me the wrong way. He is so enamored with business and growth for the Key that he has lost the approval of a great many citizens. I don't think the residents of Longboat want more business than they have now. Most are satisfied with the residential beauty of Longboat. They don't want to ruin it by Miamization of the area. I think most people love what they have."
If that brings hostility and defensiveness, I suggest four feet fill the same shoes. In fact, I would argue that while Brenner has been an extremely hardworking and public figure, it is completely and almost wholeheartedly as an advocate for the business interests and of the commercial interests of the Key and mainland.
Brenner supported the parking and development excesses at the Key Club, the Mar Vista and has weakened Longboat Key's regulations regarding cell phone towers and was instrumental in the support of all the code rewriting that was found illegal and cost the resident group IPOC about $1 million dollars to overturn and fight in court. This all in a fairly brief career. Not to mention the vote to weaken the vegetative buffers between commercial and residential zones as well as finding maintenance codes intrusive.
All of the above frightens many and most residents and part-time residents who are more concerned with maintaining our status as premier residential community then finding a fast track to ordinary.
Density under assault
Realize this: the policies that have made Longboat Key the destination it is today and have endured numerous assaults on its pristine and highly regulated construction environment are now and have been under assault by many on this sitting Commission.
In short, what makes us unique and allows us to control our destiny are the laws that preserve Longboat Key. They have been challenged, weakened and that weakening has been through less-than-balanced policies.
So where does this lead us? Unfortunately, the Commission is teeing up to undermine the most important control this community has — the one that has made Longboat, Longboat.
In short, a majority of Commissioners said this week they want to end the density cap that voters wanted and overwhelmingly supported in 1984. That is the cap that downzoned Longboat Key from 85,000 planned residents to 25,000.
Mayor Jim Brown and Brenner and others said they want to handle density issues at the Commission level and it appears they want to use the passage of House Bill 537 as a means to that end. That is for another editorial in the near future.
But make no mistake; Brown said those who fear the Commission making density decisions smacks of "paranoia." I disagree. Paranoia is unfounded fear and concern.
This Commission flubbed the Key Club — and cost the Club a more rational approval by our leaders over-accommodation and contortions to grant approval. The Commission flubbed at the Mar Vista and the Commission almost or still may flub at The Colony.
Colony dilemma
The Commission, spurred by the Redevelopment Task Force, talks of taking the density away from the Colony if the owners do not get their act together by a series of arbitrarily set deadlines — the next one set for this December 31.
If that happens, the Town will be drawn into lawsuits that will make all of the weeds and debris at the Colony not spontaneously generate into rats, but even more egregious —a plague of land use attorneys will rise from the morass. And then the unit owners, Murf Klauber and the Colony Lender can finally reach profitability — yet another payday at the Colony due to poor decisions at the expense of Longboat Key taxpayers.
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Yarilo Contemporary Music Society Presents, Before and Beyond Time, On the Boundary of Two Millennia!, showcasing the music of contemporary Bulgarian composer Gheorghi Arnaoudov.
Bulgarian composer Gheorghi Arnaoudov speaks a musical language that combines the traditions of European modernism – Western and Eastern – with spiritualism and aesthetic mysticism that comes from Eastern traditions. This is a music of stasis, a kind of intense minimalism that tells no conventional stories but rather meditates on an idea. His vital use of a variety of literary sources, aesthetic ideas, and collaborations with other art forms distinguish his music in today's European concert culture. These works, from Bulgaria's most cosmopolitan compositional voice at the height of his powers, musically capture the freedom of flight and engage in timeless conversations with poets, philosophers, and folk traditions across the ages." (Eric Salzman, New York)
On the program: FOOTNOTE (...und Isolde/ns Winkfall lassen...): an imaginary interlude to the second act of Tristan und Isolde, based on the poem "A prayer" by James Joyce - A piece, voted as one of the best ever 20th-century classical music works! Also on the program his "Way of the Birds - I, II and III" and "Gates of Dream!"
Conductor - Lesley Dala
Performers: Heather Pawsey, Rebeca Wenham, Kathryn Cernauskas, Anna Levy, Jane Hayes, Johanna Houser, Nick Anderson, Marc Destrubé, Jonathan Bernard, Adrian Verdejo, and Anne Duranceau.
A reception will follow after the concert with an opportunity to meet the composer himself, Gheorghi Arnaoudov, who will be coming from Europe for this special event!
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Opulenz a la Marie Antoinette by Luigi + lango, for Vogue Germany, Styling by Patti Wilson. https://www.vogue.de/ https://www.streeters.com/artists/photographers/luigi-iango
Opulenz a la Marie Antoinette by Luigi + lango, for Vogue Germany, Styling by Patti Wilson. https://www.vogue.de/ https://www.streeters.com/artists/photographers/luigi-iango
Erin O'Connor, photographed by Koto Bolofo for Vogue Germany, October 2005. https://www.vogue.de/ https://kotobolofo.com/
Marine Vacth, photographed by Paolo Roversi for Vogue Italia, October 2012, Styled by Jacob K. https://www.vogue.it/en/ https://www.paoloroversi.com/pages/bio.html
Kati Nescher, photographed by Inez & Vinoodh for Vogue Paris, November 2012, Giambattista Valli haute couture, Fall 2012. https://www.giambattistavalli.com/ https://www.vogue.fr/…
Olga Sherer in 'A Magic World', photographed by Tim Walker for Vogue Italia, January 2008. https://www.vogue.it/en/ https://www.timwalkerphotography.com/
Coco Rocha, photographed by Tim Walker, for Vogue UK, November 2006. https://www.vogue.co.uk/ https://www.timwalkerphotography.com/
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Stella Lucia photographed by Camilla Akrans, for Vogue Japan, December 2015. https://www.vogue.com/ https://www.lundlund.com/photographers/camilla-akrans/
Kwak Ji Yung, photographed by Zhang Jingna, for Fashion Gone Rogue, wearing Phuong My's spring-summer 2015 collection. https://www.fashiongonerogue.com/ https://www.zhangjingna.com/ https://www.phuongmy.com/
Linnea Grondahl in 'Blossom Beauty' by Sam Bisso, 2015. https://www.fashiongonerogue.com/ https://www.sambisso.com/