Incubation: A Space for Monsters
by Bhanu Kapil
"My mother, smiling euphorically, smoothed the aluminum foil over the pillow and went to sleep, dreaming of mechanical sheep flying through a sky of tungsten. Copper and tulle" (67).
by Bhanu Kapil
"My mother, smiling euphorically, smoothed the aluminum foil over the pillow and went to sleep, dreaming of mechanical sheep flying through a sky of tungsten. Copper and tulle" (67).
Because: You're unbreakable, unmistakable, highly capable lady that's making loot, a living legend too. Just look what heaven do: send us an angel. And I thank you. (Hey Mama.)
Because: The Beatles, the silhouettes, Love, and can we add this hum to the collection?
Because: Charlie's laugh, British accents, inevitable sibling interaction
A ship is expected to leave the Port of Oakland this week carrying 2,000 gallons of San Francisco's recycled paint bound for Zambia, Africa.
At least twice a year for the past half-dozen years, San Francisco's garbage company, Norcal Waste Systems, has sent the recycled paint to countries around the world. San Francisco is the first city - and apparently the only one - to do so. Mexico, El Salvador, Tonga, Fiji and Mali, among other countries, have received the paint.
The most-recent shipment should reach Zambia's capital and largest city, Lusaka, at the end of March, when it will be used to paint schools and hospitals. Many buildings put up by communities and international aid organizations need paint, which can be expensive and hard to come by.
A worker at San Francisco's hazardous-waste center, Mali-born Ousmane Sy, is helping to guide the project that has sent 25,000 gallons of recycled paint out of the country. His previous experience working with an international conservation group has helped the garbage company find contacts, obtain permits in foreign countries, and determine proper shipping routes.
Sy will fly to Zambia to help parcel out the paint in April.
"A 5-gallon bucket of paint at Home Depot costs $100. In Zambia, you can buy a lot with $100. Those folks live off $1 a day," he said.
Norcal has found 13 communities in Zambia where people plan to use the paint during the week Sy will be there. He plans to also make sure that money that would otherwise be used to buy paint will be spent on food, medicine and other items.
The paint comes from the thousands of gallons of extra paint that San Franciscans have dropped off at the city's hazardous-waste center on Tunnel Road. No counties allow residents or companies to toss unused paint into the regular garbage.
In San Francisco, workers have strained and sorted the paint into three useable colors - a shade of green, red and off-white.
And there is a lot of it.
"San Francisco is a really rich city. People bring us cans that are half full, three quarters full. Maybe they have bone-colored paint and decide they want white," said Robert Reed, spokesman for Norcal, the parent company of Sunset Scavenger Co. and Golden Gate Disposal and Recycling Co.
Much of the city's recycled paint stays in the Bay Area, and goes to local uses such as painting schools and covering graffiti. What can't be recycled is shipped to Southern California and used as an ingredient in cement.
It costs more to send it to the Southern California cement site than to ship it to other nations, Sy determined.
"We can save a little money and we can do a lot of good," he said.
Since 2002, Norcal has shipped two to three times a year with loads of 2,000 to 3,000 gallons each.
Sy said he doesn't know of anyone else providing such a service.
Sy, who moved to the United States in 1992, started working at SF Recycling and Disposal 10 years ago. His job is to ensure that Norcal companies comply with federal, state and city laws and regulations.
In Mali, he was a teacher and worked for five years with the International Union of Conservation of Nature, the IUCN, known as the World Conservation Union, based in Switzerland. The group had a land-management program in Mali sponsored by the United Nations, educating forest communities how to live with wildlife and the flora, Sy said.
Sy, who has a degree in social anthropology, also worked for the organization in Zambia, Guinea, Niger and Nigeria.
The local paint-distribution system relies on connections city workers have in places such as Mexico, Central America and Africa.
Although the paint is donated by Norcal, Sy pays his own way to visit the countries where the paint is used. While in Durango, Mexico, he visited seven communities over five days, he said.
"Oh, yes, definitely, they were happy to get the paint," he said. "Whatever money they save, they can buy school supplies, medicine and food."
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/02/05/BACQUS02T.DTL&hw=recycled+paint+zambia&sn=001&sc=1000
At least twice a year for the past half-dozen years, San Francisco's garbage company, Norcal Waste Systems, has sent the recycled paint to countries around the world. San Francisco is the first city - and apparently the only one - to do so. Mexico, El Salvador, Tonga, Fiji and Mali, among other countries, have received the paint.
The most-recent shipment should reach Zambia's capital and largest city, Lusaka, at the end of March, when it will be used to paint schools and hospitals. Many buildings put up by communities and international aid organizations need paint, which can be expensive and hard to come by.
A worker at San Francisco's hazardous-waste center, Mali-born Ousmane Sy, is helping to guide the project that has sent 25,000 gallons of recycled paint out of the country. His previous experience working with an international conservation group has helped the garbage company find contacts, obtain permits in foreign countries, and determine proper shipping routes.
Sy will fly to Zambia to help parcel out the paint in April.
"A 5-gallon bucket of paint at Home Depot costs $100. In Zambia, you can buy a lot with $100. Those folks live off $1 a day," he said.
Norcal has found 13 communities in Zambia where people plan to use the paint during the week Sy will be there. He plans to also make sure that money that would otherwise be used to buy paint will be spent on food, medicine and other items.
The paint comes from the thousands of gallons of extra paint that San Franciscans have dropped off at the city's hazardous-waste center on Tunnel Road. No counties allow residents or companies to toss unused paint into the regular garbage.
In San Francisco, workers have strained and sorted the paint into three useable colors - a shade of green, red and off-white.
And there is a lot of it.
"San Francisco is a really rich city. People bring us cans that are half full, three quarters full. Maybe they have bone-colored paint and decide they want white," said Robert Reed, spokesman for Norcal, the parent company of Sunset Scavenger Co. and Golden Gate Disposal and Recycling Co.
Much of the city's recycled paint stays in the Bay Area, and goes to local uses such as painting schools and covering graffiti. What can't be recycled is shipped to Southern California and used as an ingredient in cement.
It costs more to send it to the Southern California cement site than to ship it to other nations, Sy determined.
"We can save a little money and we can do a lot of good," he said.
Since 2002, Norcal has shipped two to three times a year with loads of 2,000 to 3,000 gallons each.
Sy said he doesn't know of anyone else providing such a service.
Sy, who moved to the United States in 1992, started working at SF Recycling and Disposal 10 years ago. His job is to ensure that Norcal companies comply with federal, state and city laws and regulations.
In Mali, he was a teacher and worked for five years with the International Union of Conservation of Nature, the IUCN, known as the World Conservation Union, based in Switzerland. The group had a land-management program in Mali sponsored by the United Nations, educating forest communities how to live with wildlife and the flora, Sy said.
Sy, who has a degree in social anthropology, also worked for the organization in Zambia, Guinea, Niger and Nigeria.
The local paint-distribution system relies on connections city workers have in places such as Mexico, Central America and Africa.
Although the paint is donated by Norcal, Sy pays his own way to visit the countries where the paint is used. While in Durango, Mexico, he visited seven communities over five days, he said.
"Oh, yes, definitely, they were happy to get the paint," he said. "Whatever money they save, they can buy school supplies, medicine and food."
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/02/05/BACQUS02T.DTL&hw=recycled+paint+zambia&sn=001&sc=1000
http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?videoId=155947&title=tim-gunn&byDate=true
Because: Why isn't everyone as reasonable as you as a human being?
Because: Why isn't everyone as reasonable as you as a human being?
http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?videoId=155946&title=stephenconan&byDate=true
Because: 6:21, take it take it take it.
Because: 6:21, take it take it take it.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=8jIRO2IR0iM
Because: Jason Mraz has the sexiest hum in the world (though it's not showcased here), the harmony, bare feet, it's all about Love.
Because: Jason Mraz has the sexiest hum in the world (though it's not showcased here), the harmony, bare feet, it's all about Love.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=dOdd7OoEoi4
Because: Random dancing in an office building, bursting into song, faith.
Because: Random dancing in an office building, bursting into song, faith.