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|U.S. Rep. Gary Peters
The 16 days of a partial government shutdown has done nothing for the popularity of Congress.
But individual members who opposed the shutdown are getting a boost in some political polls, while those who supported it aren't.
A poll released Wednesday as Congress teetered on the edge of ending the shutdown showed U.S. Rep. Gary Peters, a Bloomfield Township Democrat, ahead of Republican Terri Lynn Land in the race for U.S. Senate next year.
The poll of 642 registered voters in Michigan was taken by North Carolina-based Public Policy Polling on behalf of the liberal group American United for Change Oct. 14-15.
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It showed Peters with a 43-36 percent lead over Land, but that expanded to 50-36 percent when voters were told that Peters opposed the shutdown.
Polling was also conducted in Iowa, Louisiana, Georgia, Arkansas and North Carolina — all states with active Senate races next year.
Overall, voters polled were opposed to the shutdown 65-27 percent.
according to a different poll released Wednesday.
Collectively, the approval rating of Congress is at 7 percent,


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Designer John Lyle looks right at home in his 3500 square foot Design Studio, a chic Long Island City loft overlooking the iconic Manhattan skyline. This is the home of John Lyle Design, his expansive furniture collection, and of INOX New York, his exciting new line created in stainless steel. During an inspiring career spanning more than 25 years, Lyle has created furniture, accessories and unique interior designs. Featured often in such top design magazines as Elle Décor, Architectural Digest, Interior Design, Veranda, New York Spaces, and Traditional Home, Lyle continues to influence the pulse of what's trending. Recently showcased in the Donghia NYC flagship showroom, INOX New York dares to be the city's next big thing.
Transplanting from Jackson, Mississippi to Manhattan in 1980 he's as much New York as Central Park and brunch. At one with the city with his remarkable duality, he's a true Southern New Yorker. His work aesthetic reflects this multi-dimensional flavor and sophistication. His design is rooted in the balance and form of Classicism with a creative, unique, and simply undeniably fresh twist. For our late morning interview, he arrives on his Vespa, dressed in a t-shirt, dark jeans, and all sports toe shoes—he's just left the gym, and one instantly notices his youthful vitality. We ride up the elevator, making small talk, and I can tell he's a little nervous, a surprising yet charming thought considering his vast knowledge and expertise. But I understand, because we are friends. And it is one of the things I love most about him. This humble designer rarely ventures to steal the spotlight away from his work, his passion. During those rare moments, over brunch or dinner, or walking the streets of Manhattan, we chat about his chance encounters with writers Truman Capote and Eudora Welty or his endearing Lady Bird Johnson story, Lyle's southern drawl taking center stage, and for a brief instant, I see the young man who "naively" created his very own "New York, New York."
I roam around the loft, taking a few pictures of the stunning Console Tables, Andirons, and Floor Lamps made in materials such as shagreen, ebony, bronze and parchment. After he sets the stage—always the quintessential host—with champagne served in crystal flutes and Chet Baker humming in the background, we settle down at the Dagmar Desk, sculpted from bronze and white French limestone, one of my favorite pieces, and begin talking about his colorful journey into design.
Riley: How did you make your way from Mississippi to New York?
John Lyle: I never grew up thinking ooh I'm gonna live there someday—I only knew the city from books, movies and television shows. One day in the late 70's to Mississippi came the International Ballet Competition, of all things they hold it in Jackson. The thing to do for those few days was go to the ballet so of course I went, and I was introduced to a couple of the featured dancers who were my age, and I said, "I'll take you around town and take you to dinner so you won't be bored."
Kimberly Graves, William Starrett, and I went to a few dinners together. Some time passed, then one day Kimberly called from New York and said, "I'm going on tour this summer. Do you want to take care of my cats and my apartment?" With no hesitation, I answered, "Yes!" Once I was here for a couple of weeks, I thought, I better find another apartment or sublet, because I'm not finished with this place yet. I am still here.
Riley: Did you fall in love with New York immediately?
Lyle: I did. I think the thing I found most alluring was I couldn't take it all in at one time. It kept me occupied visually and intellectually. I remember someone just said something to me like "you belong in New York." And I as naïvely, thought, I do? I do! . . .
Riley: One of the interesting things about you is the fact that you're still very southern in many ways, holding onto that romantic identity. And yet you are very New York. How do you do it? How do you hold onto and embrace a little of both extreme cultures?
Lyle: Well, my family and my roots—I love being in the South, maybe not the heat. And I love my family. They will always draw me back. I love the food, the music, the writers, and the mannerly culture of the south. The Blues was born 20 miles from my house. I love the blues and jazz.
You know that silly song, "New York, New York?" I remember I was singing it on the plane on the way here—"If you can make it there, you'll make it anywhere, It's up to you, bla, blab la.."—all excited, 21 years old; and somehow I am still here. At first I just made it along, job to job, fleeing or being fired from every last one of them. I made it clear to myself what I should not be doing as a job.
Riley: What kind of jobs? You didn't fall right into design when you first arrived?
Lyle: Nooo. I was in a bar and a guy asked if I wanted to work there as a bar back. I asked, "What's that?" I worked there for a short time. Place closed at 4 and you're still cleaning up at 5am. And I said this just isn't for me. I quit that one.
So I got a job next at a place called Lady Continental Shoes on 69th and Madison at the bottom of the old Westbury Hotel. The highlight there was meeting Lady Bird Johnson. One day, I wasn't supposed to answer the telephone, but I did. I answered, "Lady Continental Shoes." A purring French accent responded. "Hellooooo, this is Pauline Trigere, I have Mrs. Johnson here and I'm wondering if you have any size 7 AAA." There could only be one Mrs. Johnson. Without looking, I said, "Yes of course we do. Well send her over; she can ask for me, John Lyle." I went rummaging downstairs in all those shoes and found 3 pairs that were 7 AAA, and they were all 5 inch heels, metallic snake skin cha-cha shoes. She came in with the secret service, sat down, and I put the shoe on her foot. She stood up and looked at herself in the mirror. She said, "These are really attractive but I know my smile would fall in half an hour if I had to wear them. You've been very kind though."
From there I did Telephone sales to lawyers, while working at a publishing company. Then I worked at Phil Porter and Cindy Hughes's startup fashion design company. After the business started struggling, I heard that Tracy Mills was looking for someone in sales. Got the job. Not into it. They fired me. Then I went through the telephone Yellow Pages under Interior Designer and started calling interior designers. By the time I got to G, for Bob Gans, I landed an interview and then the job as an assistant. That lasted until I left a client's door unlocked, and then I was let go. Cried a little that time. I was getting close to something that really interested me.
I went to the D&D Building and was told Barrett Hill was hiring. They hired me for a secretarial job. It was like hiring Lucy. I couldn't even type. One day the manager/owner Michael Kennedy came in and I said, "Good morning." And he said, "Not for you, you're getting fired today." This time I laughed. And then he said, "One day you're going to thank me for this. You're meant for bigger things and need to move on."
I worked as a Fashion Photographer's rep—did well at that for quite a few years. Then I said those fateful words to one of the photographers, "my heart's just not in this anymore". And suddenly I wasn't a photographer's rep anymore. I started painting, very abstract. I had a couple of little gallery shows; I didn't sell much.
I met Mark Umbach at the gym and we struck up a conversation about Art and Classicism, a shared interest. We became friends and discussed how we'd like to make furniture that would be appropriate to use with antiques and antiquity. We made it happen and cast a pair of bronze lamps, based on an ancient oil-burning lamp, and sold them at a friend's antique shop. Then we thought, now what? Shortly after, I walked into the New York showroom, Luten Clarey Stern, with a lamp in my hand—very earnest, twenty-six years old. The owner's wife, Ellen Hanson said, "Sure we'll take you on." That would never happen again. All of a sudden I was in LCS, the best showroom in the country. Our products were really well made and sold really well. I still have dear friends whom I met there over 25 years ago.
The collection grew from one to many table lamps, floor lamps, and torchiere. First working in bronze then steel I expanded to tables, chairs, benches, fireplace items, etc.… I love working with talented artisans. One is my old friend Michael Stromar who transformed sisal rugs into hand painted masterpieces. Our first big commission was the giant red hand painted "Aubusson", featured in Architectural Digest, for Francine Coffey. We also made a huge one for Ralph Lauren and they were collected and sold well for about ten years. Michael can't crawl around like that anymore and I never met anyone else who could work his magic.
LCS went out of business and I sought other representation.
In' 88, '89, I Linked up in Chicago with Holly Hunt. As she opened new showrooms across the country I grew with her. Same as David Sutherland—he was in Dallas then he opened in Los Angeles. It kept growing like that. I started doing interior design too.
A friend asked me to redesign his apartment, combining 3 big apartments in The Century Building, Central Park West. I agreed with one caveat: he didn't get to tell me what to do—he had to allow me creative freedom. The finished apartment was published 4 times. That felt very good for a first project. That was Marlon Young, and he was great to support my creativity like that.
Riley: Intimidated by those big projects?
Lyle: I was excited by it.
Every time I come into a design job, when I first get it, it's almost like having a term paper assignment. What am I going to write about? What's it going to be like? And there's that moment of stress until you find a direction. And then everything springs off that direction. Whether it is a color, a fabric, a shape or an art collection. Comfort. Comfort always drives my design; add wit, and a sense of humor. Things that are too static and too serious lose their spontaneity, and the rigidity is reflected in the way people live in the space. Because your whole life can be affected by what's around you, obviously. That's why I think interior design is relevant.
We become enriched by our surroundings wherever they are. If I can bring people's sensibilities up or to a comfortable place or inspire them with a certain feeling when they walk into their home, then I feel like I've done a good job.
Riley: Are your showrooms across the world?
Lyle: Only in the U.S. so far. I'm looking forward to being international.
Right now I'm in the following showrooms:
Holly Hunt: New York, Chicago, Minneapolis, and DC
David Sutherland: Dallas, Houston, LA, and Miami
Johanna Spilman: San Francisco
Jennifer West: Seattle
Furn & Co: Boston
My new line, INOX New York, is represented with Donghia; in New York, LA, Chicago, Atlanta and Miami.
Riley: I had the pleasure of attending Donghia's NYC flagship showroom event with you this past September. Let's talk about how INOX New York came to be a part of it all.
Lyle: I do love to create and saw an opportunity to start a new line made from one material, stainless Steel. I remember thinking, Donghia doesn't have any stainless steel furniture, yet it would be a perfect addition. They're very modern and luxurious. I started a conversation with a sales person and asked how to get in. She sent me to the Manager, who sent me to the Creative Director—and it took off from there.
Donghia has one of the most beautiful showrooms in the country. They've really raised the bar as to what a showroom should be.
Riley: Best design advice?
Lyle: Many years ago I asked Holly Hunt, the impresario of design, "What shall I do; what direction shall I take?" And she said "Do what you do best. Bronze. Keep designing your fireplace equipment." I went from having 4 styles of andirons to having 50, as well as fire screens, fire grates and fire tools; I listened and followed Holly's suggestion, and it is a big success.
Riley: What's your designing vibe?
Lyle: I don't have to have anything special around me or any music in particular to design, it just happens. I am a compulsive sketcher. I could be designing every waking hour but I can't make everything I think of; I have to be really disciplined.
Riley: Do you have a certain person in mind when you design?
Lyle: No, I really don't. I design with materials in mind and the possibilities of the materials. I love finding new materials.
Riley: Family is very important to you. Have you found a sense of family in New York?
Lyle: Absolutely. I'm a very loyal friend and it takes me a little while to be friends and warm up but once I do, I'm steadfast.
Riley: What is your Favorite piece in this showroom?
Lyle: I love the Klismos Chair. It's one of the earliest things I did, but I keep reincarnating it in new materials. The Klismos is an ancient shape and I tweaked it to be modern.
Riley: If someone works with John Lyle, what can they expect?
Lyle: To be Surprised and delighted.
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The Jets' infatuation with Mark Sanchez began last month on a high-school field in Southern California. In retrospect, it was their first productive West Coast trip in some time.
In a private workout, they were impressed with his passing and struck by his leadership. But to make him a Jet, and to keep him from the clutches of Redskins owner Daniel Snyder, they needed help from the man who presided over last season's West Coast follies.
Thanks to Eric Mangini, the Jets have a new franchise quarterback.
Adding a delicious subplot to a blockbuster trade, the Jets made a deal with the Browns - Mangini's Browns - to land the former USC star Saturday at the NFL draft. Sitting in the 17th spot, the Jets moved up 12 places for Sanchez, a giant leap for a quarterback and a bigger leap for a franchise looking to create a buzz in the post-Brett Favre era.
"It is ironic, but we also looked at it as an opportunity," GM Mike Tannenbaum said with a grin, commenting on striking a deal with the man he fired only four months ago.
Actually, the Jets almost made another deal with Mangini. When the Browns were sitting at 21 after trading down again, the Jets tried to obtain the pick to select Florida wide receiver Percy Harvin, according to a league source. At that point, the Jets didn't have enough ammunition to get it done.
To acquire Sanchez, the Jets traded their first- and second-round choices (17 and 52), plus three marginal players - defensive end Kenyon Coleman, quarterback Brett Ratliff and safety Abram Elam. (This means Mangini has eight former Jets on his roster.) Only Coleman was projected as a starter. Ratliff was a favorite of many in the organization, deemed as a possible quarterback of the future, but all it took was an underwhelming performance in last week's minicamp to earn a ticket out of town.
On paper, it looks like the Jets got great value in the deal for Sanchez, who became the Jets' highest-drafted quarterback since Joe Namath was selected first in the 1965 AFL draft. The pressure on Sanchez, 22, will be immense.
"I don't think he's afraid of the big stage at all," coach Rex Ryan said.
Sanchez - who about five hours after he was drafted sent his first "Tweet" ("J-E-T-S . . . Jets! Jets! Jets!!! Hello NYC!") on the popular site Twitter - will compete with Kellen Clemens for the starting job, according to Ryan, who can start his regime with his hand-picked quarterback. Ryan said he'd have no problem starting a rookie; his former team, the Ravens, did it last season with Joe Flacco.
Clemens has the advantage of three years in offensive coordinator Brian Schottenheimer's system, but as Sanchez said on a conference call from Irvine, Calif., with the New York media, "I didn't grow up dreaming of being a backup, and I'm sure Kellen feels the same way." Ryan called Clemens immediately after Sanchez was picked. He said Clemens took it well.
Despite public support for Clemens and Ratliff, the Jets were desperate to add some sizzle at quarterback. After failing to trade for Jay Cutler, they ratcheted up their interest in Sanchez, targeting him in the days leading up to the draft. On Friday, they called the Browns to propose a trade, as reported in the Daily News. The conversation included Tannenbaum, Mangini, Ryan and Browns GM George Kokinos.
Ryan said he was sold on Sanchez at his private workout in Mission Viejo, Calif., not far from where the NFL owners' meetings were taking place. After the field work, they snuck him through a back door at the league's posh hotel in Dana Point, where the Jets rented a suite and quizzed Sanchez in a chalk-talk session.
"We saw the great feet, we saw the poise and how confident he was," said Ryan, recalling the workout at Sanchez's old high school. "Brian put him through every route known to man and he passed every throw with flying colors. We knew right then this is the guy we wanted."
There is some risk involved, considering Sanchez started only 16 games at USC. After capping a brilliant, 34-touchdown season with an MVP performance in the Rose Bowl, he turned pro against the wishes of coach Pete Carroll, who felt Sanchez wasn't ready. Indeed, there's a high bust rate for junior quarterbacks.
Is he a one-year wonder?
"I bring up Matt Cassel. He didn't start at all and look what he's doing," said Sanchez, referring to his former USC teammate.
Sanchez, realizing the league would be skeptical because of his lack of experience, knew he'd have to blow teams away in his postseason workouts. And he felt he did just that.
"They wanted to make sure, 'Is this guy for real? We've only seen him for 16 games,' " he said. "When they saw me throwing in shorts and a T-shirt, they were amazed."


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A University of Wyoming cross-cultural communication class will host a banquet to raise money and general awareness for the women of Tanzania Thursday, Oct. 25, from 7-10 p.m. at the Laramie train depot.
Women's Education and Economic Centre (WEECE) Director Valeria Mrema will lead the discussion on gender equality and the economic stability of Tanzanian women. WEECE, a nonprofit organization that supports marginalized women and their families in the Kilimanjaro region of Tanzania, joins the UW students to raise money.
"It is common in the Kilimanjaro region for girls to be uneducated or only educated through primary school," Mrema says. "This limited education undermines women in their ability to be economically self-reliant; in their having the knowledge, skills and ability to exercise their rights; and in their ability to foster a healthy future for themselves and their children."
Proceeds collected from the event will go toward expanding existing girls' schools. Contributions purchase educational materials such as books, paper and writing utensils for the future education of Tanzanian women and children.
Catered appetizers and refreshments will be provided. The Wyoming African Students Association (WASA) and the UW Belly Dance Club will provide entertainment for the evening.
Tickets cost $15 for students, $25 for non-students and $40 for couples. Five tickets can be purchased together for $100. Children 12 and under are admitted for free. To purchase tickets and for more information, call Sierra Johnson at (307) 760-5440 or email firstname.lastname@example.com. Tickets also will be sold at the door.
The UW cross-cultural communication class also has held benefits for a water spigot in Botswana during 2011 and a silent auction for Kenyan orphans in 2010.
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Detroit Lions at Chicago Bears (ESPN): The Bears are coming off an inconveniently scheduled bye week this year. Two weeks ago, they destroyed the Jacksonville Jaguars 41-3, after smoking the Cowboys (34-18) and the Rams (23-6) the previous two weeks. They were rolling, man! And then they had to hit the pause button before a divisional game.
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Digital 395 is rapidly gaining traction from both ends of the state and is slated to end up breaking ground in Ridgecrest and China Lake in the next month.
According to Mike Ort, CEO of Praxis Associates, the company overseeing construction of the massive project, everything up to Red Mountain is already complete.
Digital 395 is rapidly gaining traction from both ends of the state and is slated to end up breaking ground in Ridgecrest and China Lake in the next few weeks.
According to Mike Ort, CEO of Praxis Associates, the company overseeing construction of the massive project, everything up to Red Mountain is already complete.
"We have completed construction from Barstow to Red Mountain," Ort said Wednesday "We have permits from Red Mountain to continue into Ridgecrest."
Ort said the company plans to begin construction work for the cable in Ridgecrest in the first two weeks of January and finish up by the end of the month.
"We are expecting to begin to build one of our nodes in Ridgecrest in the next week or so," Ort said. The node would help bolster network refreshing rates, Ort said.
China Lake Naval Air Weapons Station will undergo work over the holiday season as well.
"We will also be working with the Navy on the China Lake base beginning the last week of December, or first week of January," Ort said.
The Digital 395 Middle Mile Project is a 583-mile fiber network winding up and down the Sierra Nevada from Carson City, Nev. in the north along U.S. Highway 395, and connecting to Barstow on Highway 58.
The California Broadband Cooperative was formed to govern the project.
The project will service Sierra Nevada communities in San Bernardino, Kern, Inyo and Mono counties in California, six Native American reservations, and in Nevada to Carson City. From there it will eventually connect to Reno.
Ort said Praxis was making progress in the north as well.
"In the north, we've completed our work between Coleville and Bridgeport," Ort said. "We are beginning our work between Bridgeport and Lee Vining."
Its intent is to usher in a new age of Internet access for the people of the Eastern Sierra Nevada, enhancing all public services such as the Ridgecrest Police Department, City Hall, local schools, the Indian Wells Valley Water District and the Ridgecrest Regional Hospital.
The project received $81.1 million in funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Recovery Act) and an additional $19 million from the California Public Utilities Commission's California Advanced Services Fund.
As of November, Ort said that the project has spent approximately 45 percent of its budget.
While the project will be an eventual boon for "last mile" providers like Mediacom and AT&T, its primary focus is public institutes, yielding a delivery rate of up to 150 gigabits of information.
"As an example, we can deliver in one second all the data for 200 movies," Ort said.
Digital 395's crowing achievement aside from utilizing local labor for the project's duration is the fact that it connects people from both ends.
If one end gets cut off for some reason, data still flows the other way without much interruption.
The project's deadline is July 2013.
"We're gaining momentum," Ort said.
He did confirm some areas along the project route still required cultural and historical permits.
"The irony of the thing it is easier to dig that it is to get permits," he said. "It took us two years to get permits and one year of digging."
Ort expects to get the project done on time and on budget, but it's a matter of timing and area of installation.
"It's a little like landing on an aircraft carrier in the open sea at night," Ort said. "It's constantly moving. You can't be 400 yards off."
In the mean time, progress can be tracked through the project's website at digital395.com. which includes an interactive map and photos of the project done to date.


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Friday, July 9, 2010
Eyes shining bright...
Just a brief note to update all of you on the state of my eyesight. I had the procedure on Monday afternoon 5 July, and everything went really well. Although I am black and blue around my eyes, feel like I was hit by a 2 x 4, and things are still a little cloudy, my doctor is very pleased both with how the procedure went and with the outcome at this point.
Once again I want to Thank You most sincerely for all of your prayers, kind thoughts, and warm wishes. Also I want to give a VERY LOUD shout out to Carol at Reflections From The Fence who must have a very BIG heart because it's so filled with warmth for anyone who needs it. Thank You so very much Carol!
It's great to be part of such a wonderful blogging community. I guess the world really is just a slightly oversized little town, and I'm so glad to be a part of it.
And, as always, I hope the sun is shining on your part of the world today.
Cheers! Jennifer
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That is wonderful news. Glad to hear the procedure went well. Carol is an awesome lady.ReplyDelete
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Hi Hummer and Terri, Thanks. I appreciate it. Cheers! JenniferReplyDelete
I am thrilled to hear such a fabulous upbeat report on your surgery. I could not be happier for you.ReplyDelete
As far as the shout out and hummer's kind words, well, shucks gals, blush blush. Thank you.
But, the story here is a good surgery and clear insightful days ahead! WAHHOOOOO
THANK YOU CAROL! You are a fabulous woman! I think my favourite 'word' from now on will be WAHHOOOOO! JenniferReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 9, 2010 at 12:16 PM
Your American Cousin Kathleen in Florida is reading your blog... I hope we can re-connect. I don't know what your diagnosis is but I am legally blind from Glaucoma which is what Anne Magee had. I am glad your surgery went well !ReplyDelete
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The gig: As chief executive of the California Assn. of Physician Groups in Los Angeles, Donald Crane represents more than 160 medical groups and their 60,000 doctors statewide on health policy and other industry issues.
Paper route: Crane, 60, grew up in Sherman Oaks, and his first job was delivering the Los Angeles Herald Examiner. In addition to throwing papers onto porches, he was responsible for collecting payments on subscriptions and learned the importance of customer service.
Crane tried to emulate the work ethic of his father, who was a manufacturer's representative for candy companies. The family garage sometimes doubled as a warehouse for chocolate, Sweet Tarts and Tic Tacs.
Clearing the bar: At UC Berkeley, the Eagle Scout completed an undergraduate degree in an unusual major: rhetoric. In class, he studied how authors such as Charles Dickens and William Shakespeare used language to achieve certain effects. Crane considered business or medical school but ultimately opted for Loyola Law School with aspirations of being a trial lawyer. He recalls bearing down to study for three months to prepare for the bar exam. He passed on his first try.


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CateH necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 126 diseños de 30 diseñadores freelance.
Interior Works
I am leaving an established interior design firm to start my own business. My new company, Interior Works, helps homeowners, retailers and businesses (e.g. lawyers and physicians) create stylish and functional interior environments. The overall interior designs that we produce are not only cutting edge, they also take into account the functional use of the space (the "Works" in Interior Works).
Our designs are typicaly modern but always have something a little bit unexpected.
Our audience consists of design-concious homeowners and small and medium businesses that know that the design of their interior space is important to their corporate image.
The logo needs to communicate two messages:
1) Style - It needs to be fashionable and stylish like our interior designs.
2) Functional - Our interiors "Work". They take in to account how the people use and move in the space and make the most of it. The logo needs to communicate that.
We want the logo to include the business name "Interior Works" in it. The logo could be created exclusively using the letters of the business name or could include a separate graphical element.
I like the texting and concealed options given on this web page:http://www.logolounge.com/articles/default.asp?ArticleID=680
I would like the logo to be readable and appropropriate for a business, not for a t-short design.
The logo should incorporate one to two colours. A contemporary/edgy font is encouraged.
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This blog discusses current weather, weather prediction, climate issues, and other topics
Friday, June 3, 2011
Weather Video Podcast Online for June 3
KUOW Information:
If you are interesting in supporting a petition to reinstate my weather segment here is the petition site: http://www.petitionbuzz.com/petitions/cliffmassonkuow
Facebook web site:
23 comments:
I have really been enjoying your blog and I hope you continue to blog the fascinating weather stuff that you do. But i hope it doesn't turn into all video.. Just saying..
thanks for all the great stuff you are teaching us almost daily about our weather.
- June 3, 2011 at 9:24 AM
- Vinelady said...
Glad to have you continuing your forecasts. Would love to see more podcasts especially with more educational content.
- June 3, 2011 at 9:35 AM
- James said...
Cliff, why not embed the video?
- June 3, 2011 at 9:38 AM
- JewelyaZ said...
A little basic, but otherwise, lovely! Thanks so much for bringing us some nice weather. FINALLY. ;-)
- June 3, 2011 at 9:50 AM
- Getting there said...
I'll be the first to step up and say 'Yea!' LOVE The podcast.. So much better than you know who.. asking somewhat incoherent questions.. One thing though.. What about the Math?!...Kidding!! ;)
Thanks Cliff!
Looks like Great sailing weather.. Like those tight isobars over the sound.... GG
- June 3, 2011 at 10:02 AM
- Jennifer said...
I love the web cast, Cliff, and not just because we're in for good weather! Very informative. Thanks for all you do!
- June 3, 2011 at 10:08 AM
- Katie said...
I am really enjoying the video posts! I find that it makes more sense to me being able to listen while watching the animations.
My only suggestion would be to imbed them in your posts. It would be more convenient for readers not to have to click through (and you might be losing people who don't want to click through).
Thanks for sharing your expertise with us! You are a precious resource to those of us in the PNW, even if KUOW is completely oblivious to that fact.
- June 3, 2011 at 10:11 AM
- Don said...
Great! Much better than the audio only KUOW broadcast. The video makes a world of difference and we can access the url's ourselves to do our own updates as the weekend progresses.
- June 3, 2011 at 10:24 AM
- Tony said...
One of the most informative weather forecasts I have ever heard/seen. Thank you Cliff.
I just hope people appreciate all your hard work - it seems many don't understand just how much they are demanding from you. Perhaps they should ask themselves much volunteer work they do.
Many thanks for all you are doing, including the fight for better math and getting us more of the truth.
- June 3, 2011 at 10:29 AM
- d33ann said...
Great format! I never did remember to tune in to the radio anyway, so this is perfect! Thanks!
- June 3, 2011 at 10:50 AM
- seattle photographer said...
Being a visual biased person, I like this even more than your KUOW broadcasts. And I can always watch it again with my kids when they come home from school.
- June 3, 2011 at 10:56 AM
- Benjamin said...
I like the video forecasts. Keep up the good work!
- June 3, 2011 at 12:31 PM
Love this! Maybe basic for some, but very good for me! Much more educational than listening on the radio and now I can begin to really understand what I am looking at!
Thank you for your time and energy--it is very appreciated.
- June 3, 2011 at 1:15 PM
- Randy said...
Thanks Cliff. I really like having both the video and your regular blog posts. Great stuff!
- June 3, 2011 at 1:43 PM
- William said...
Outstanding Cliff! We're looking forward to the warmup here in Sequim.....finally! Keep the video blogs coming even if you go back to PBS.
- June 3, 2011 at 1:51 PM
- M'sFan said...
Nicely done, Cliff! Thanks for taking the time to do this. I really enjoy having the reasons behind the forecast.
- June 3, 2011 at 2:06 PM
- Wayward Cabinetmaker said...
Well done Cliff! Don't look back!
- June 3, 2011 at 4:12 PM
- larchitech said...
Hi Cliff, I like the podcast/video a lot. It's very informative. I like that you can point to the maps and explain what is happening as you scroll through them. It makes my understanding better and I will be able to look at the products on the UW and NOAA sites and interpret them myself better now.
- June 3, 2011 at 8:38 PM
- MaryAnn K said...
Cliff, having your forecast with the visuals is outstanding! As someone else said, having you talk us through the weather maps and satellite photos really helps us understand them better.
Maybe the KUOW kerfuffle has been a blessing in disguise. BTW - you have a great "radio voice".
Keep doing these - maybe for unusual weather events, too.
- June 3, 2011 at 10:19 PM
- Mike DeMarco said...
Bingo! Thanks.
- June 4, 2011 at 8:49 AM
- Larry said...
Whatever happens with KUOW, I hope you continue with the Podcasts. I love them...
- June 5, 2011 at 6:48 AM
- Dan McShane said...
Love the pod cast
- June 5, 2011 at 7:20 PM
- Scott M said...
the podcast is excellent, please keep posting them.
- June 6, 2011 at 4:27 PM


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A New Orleans-style brass band led a lively parade from the ceremony to the reception.
It was a clear and sunwashed April day in Paris. Young New Yorkers Jared and Amanda meandered down cobbled streets, sipping wine at sidewalk cafes and enjoying the promise of romance and intrigue that lies around every corner of this great city. That evening, at their rented flat, Jared serenaded Amanda with a song he had composed just for her. His lyrics ended on a high note: "Will you marry me?" Moved to tears, Amanda said yes; and the two dashed out for a twilight champagne toast. They married in an historic wood-shingled chapel on a small, lush island off the eastern shore of New York, close to relatives and friends who lived along the East Coast. "We wanted something simple: a party at the beach that celebrated our friends and family," Amanda recalls. Amanda and Jared's wedding was inspired by their passion for music and theater. So they enlisted the help of some very talented friends. "I was talking to a friend who comes from a long line of New Orleans jazz musicians," Jared says, "and we decided to end the ceremony with a surprise performance by his second line band." It turned out to be the highlight of the day. The band hid in the church balcony during the ceremony, bursting into song after the couple said "I do" and leading guests in a high-spirited parade from the chapel to Shelter Island Yacht Club for the reception. Amanda and Jared also had another trick up their sleeves. Instead of a traditional first dance, they choreographed a 1930s-inspired number in which Jared flaunted Fred Astaire-worthy tap-dancing skills even his closest friends didn't know he had. The couple also incorporated several elements of Amanda's Jewish faith into their day, including the traditional hora dance. When the reception ended, the celebration didn't. Amanda, Jared and nearly all of the wedding guests hopped on a ferry to continue the party in a town across the water. Jared's sister had placed a bubble machine on the boat, and as the ferry made its way across the bay, shimmering, translucent orbs trailed it through the moonlit October night—a magical ending to an unforgettable day.
The ceremony was held at an historic Long Island chapel, built in 1875.
The reception was held at the Shelter Island Yacht Club, one of the oldest in the country.
After the ceremony, Amanda watched the gentle autumn light fade.
Reception table numbers were personalized with childhood photos of the bride and groom.
Marrying beneath a chuppah is a Jewish wedding tradition that symbolizes a couple's future home.


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WILLIAMSBURG, June 2, 1774.
In our last, we mentioned the intention of the late respectable House of Burgesses to solemnize the 1st of June with fasting, humiliation, and prayer; and it is with pleasure we assure our readers that every inhabitant of this city, and numbers from the country, testified their gratitude, in the most expressive manner, by attending the worthy and patriotic speaker at the courthouse, and proceeding from thence, with the utmost decency and decorum, to the church, where prayers were accordingly read, and a sermon, suitable to the important occasion, was delivered; by the reverend Mr. Price from the 103d psalm and 19th verse. "The Lord hath prepared his seat in Heaven, and his kingdom ruleth over all."
Virginia Gazette (Rind) June 2, 1774
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Virginians sought to support Boston, whose port had been closed after the Boston Tea Party, with a day of fasting and prayer. George Washington, a member of the House of Burgesses, wrote in his diary on June 1, 1774, "Went to Church & fasted all day".
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Celebrating illustration, design, cartoon and comic art of the mid-20th century.
Saturday, June 19, 2010
William A. Smith Art Exhibit
During WWII William A Smith spent time in China in the service of the Office of Strategic Services. There he created propaganda art - its purpose, to demoralize the occupying Japanese forces. Smith also did many sketches and paintings of the Chinese people who were enduring that occupation and of the towns and villages and the surrounding countryside in which they lived.
These personal art works are an admirable testament to the tremendous respect and affection Smith felt for the people he encountered. They are also an important historical document that sheds a personal light on a troubling time in a place to which not many of us here in the west have much of a connection.
With this being Father's Day weekend, I thought I should bring to your attention one daughter who recently went to a great deal of effort to share the memory of her father - and his work - with us. Kim Smith is the daughter of William A Smith, and the curator of a show of her father's artwork from his WWII tour of duty in China.
If you happen to live near San Rafael, CA, this is a show you won't want to miss. Perhaps its even something you might like to take your father too (though unfortunately not this weekend - the gallery is only open from Monday to Friday).
* For further information contact Sandi Chin, Director of University Community Exhibitions at Dominican University, at the phone number or email address above.
* See much more of William A Smith's work and read about his career on the William A Smith blog.
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Thanks, this is just over the hill from us and I'm looking forward to seeing the exhibition.ReplyDelete
Thanks for another great post, Leif-- as always, you have your finger on the pulse of what is going on in the illustration world.ReplyDelete
Smith was terrific artist who led a colorful life, and people certainly deserve a fresh chance to see his work through this show. I have been looking for a chance to get out there before the end of the year to see it myself.
Kudos also to Smith's dedicated daughter Kim, a highly talented artist in her own right. This took a lot of work to put together, and it's a wonderful thing for many reasons.
- Nikolas12:16 PM
Wow! Logged on this morning, checking the updates around the blog world and this comes up. I am living in san rafael, about 3 minutes from this gallery. I am huge fan of his, I am so pumped to see his work in person. Leif, you deserve a humanitarian award, for all the insight you share.ReplyDelete
Thank you
I shall have to sprint down from Petaluma to see this. A twenty minute drive. thanks for the heads up.ReplyDelete
I hope you all can come to see the show. The reception is the evening of July 8th. I'm hoping the show will continue to a couple of other venues. People are LOVING it!ReplyDelete
Thanks, Leif, for posting this.
Cheers to all.


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September 17, 2012
Wabash Day had great weather in SE Michigan -- we were rolling in the "D" near the corner of Wabash and Michigan Avenue in Detroit at the Tour-de-Troit, in its 11th year as a 20-plus mile bike tour of the city of Detroit, benefitting the Greening of Detroit, which has raised over $100,000 in its quest to improve Detroit through the creation of safe bike ways in the city. We served food from local restaurants to over 5,000 riders and volunteers.
Our volunteers in this group picture included:
Dr. Kursh Alam '93
Caleb Mast '09
Terry Hamilton '89
Emily Hamilton (daughter of Terry in her 5th or 6th Wabash Day -- we can't remember)
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text: After Having a fun and crazy '06 season, Hannah Teter is making an effort to give a little back. She and her family have started a charity organization called Hannah's Gold, which sells specially branded 100% Vermont maple syrup. The proceeds of which will go directly to World Vision, which helps to feed the poor and starving children of the world. Bottles of the syrup sell for $15 and can be purchased at hannahsgold.com. Buy a bottle today and own a little piece of snowboarding history and some of the tastiest pancake syrup of all time.


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Track and Trace Gains Prominence in the War Against Counterfeit Drugs
Regulation and technology lead the fight against counterfeit pharmaceuticals.
Counterfeit pharmaceuticals are a major ongoing threat to patients and pharmaceutical manufacturers alike. Not only do they result in reduced treatment efficacy and sometimes failure, but they also harm manufacturer reputations, reduce revenues and lower return on investment (ROI) in research and development. In fact, they are responsible for an estimated 2,000 deaths daily worldwide and represent a grey industry anticipated to be worth up to $205 billion touching Europe, America, Japan and emerging markets [1].
The problem is worsening. According to a directive from the European Union, the number of counterfeit medicines seized at its outer border has tripled between 2006 and 2009 to reach approximately 7.5 million items, not including patent issues [2]. More alarmingly, whereas the issue of counterfeit pharmaceuticals was previously primarily related to lifestyle medicines, now innovative and life-saving drugs are increasingly falsified, with dangerous implications for the patients who rely on these drugs to survive [3].
As the counterfeit drug problem continues to grow with widespread media attention, public confidence in public health systems as well as in pharmaceutical brands is eroding. There is an urgent need to understand why and how the counterfeit drug market evolved, as well as for governments and pharmaceutical manufacturers to unite to implement programs that protect consumers. Advances in regulations and track and trace technology are proving to be the solutions needed to combat this deadly and costly challenge.
An evolving and threatening black market
Over the past few decades, various factors have contributed to the growth in counterfeit drugs.
Due to globalization, regional economies, societies, and cultures have become integrated through communication, transportation and trade, making it easier for counterfeiters to trade and transport falsified drugs. Additionally, the economic crisis had a global effect, leading cash-strapped consumers to find more cost-effective pharmaceutical sources, which served to bolster counterfeiting in the healthcare industry.
The rise of the Internet has also facilitated the purchasing of counterfeit drugs. Over 50 percent of medicines purchased on the Internet from illegal websites that conceal their physical addresses have been found to be counterfeit [4]. However, counterfeit products increasingly find their way into the legal supply chain [5]. Previously, online pharmacies were traditional targets, where counterfeit drugs were typically sold in small quantities to individuals, resulting in only limited gain for counterfeiters. Now, counterfeiters are switching their focus to pharmaceutical wholesalers supplying medicines worth hundreds of thousands of pounds, euros or dollars traded in a single transaction, causing more widespread damage and public affliction.
Counterfeiting is most prevalent in regions where regulatory and enforcement systems for medicines are weakest. In developing countries, one in four medicines sold in street markets is estimated to be counterfeit, according to the World Health Organization (WHO [6].
Protecting patients and preserving brands
Pharmaceutical manufacturers, industry suppliers and governments have been uniting to combat counterfeit drugs. While international regulations and guidelines have been developed to help accomplish this, regional and local regulations vary at present. To address this issue new EU Serialization will be introduced in 2014 followed by the new FDA/California Serialization standard in 2015. Both of these initiatives aim to harmonize coding and require manufacturer to implement serialization systems. Additionally, the World Health Organization (WHO) has established the IMPACT (International Medical Products Anti-Counterfeiting Taskforce) initiative, involving a range of stakeholders in collaborative efforts to protect consumers from buying and using counterfeit products [7]. Further, international institutions such as Interpol, the World Customs Organization (WCO) and The European Directorate for the Quality of Medicines (EDQM) are working closely with governments and companies to create a global security system and strengthen regulations.
As globalization has created more steps between production and consumption of pharmaceuticals, manufacturers have implemented various approaches to detect and prevent counterfeit products. A combination of anti-tamper, serialization and authentication technologies can be used to detect real versus counterfeit products, creating several layers of security for original pharmaceutical producers.
Anti-tampering is the first step in any brand-protection strategy. It can be achieved by designing packaging with features like perforated openings. Serialization is the second layer of protection, relying on printing on each package a unique serial number that is recorded at production in a database. Any subsequent packs with the same serial number will be flagged as suspect. Finally, authentication serves as the third layer of protection with overt, covert and forensic methods. Overt methods such as visible holograms or color-shifting can be used on product packaging, whereas covert methods like infrared and ultraviolet pigments and microtext can be read with specialized equipment. Products using forensic authentication solutions, such as molecular markers and biological tracers, must be tested in laboratories.
Track and trace is one method of serialization to help managers protect against counterfeiting and expiration throughout the supply chain. Its advantage is that it enables the serial number to be recorded at various points throughout the supply chain on a central server or on the product itself; facilitating the discovery of where counterfeit products have entered the supply chain. It also allows full traceability of products on a global basis.
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Information Theoretical Estimators (ITE) Toolbox
News: ITE
- in Python has been released [link; Nov. 18, 2016],
- has appeared in JMLR [abstract, PDF],
- has been presented at NIPS-2013: MLOSS workshop [PDF, PDF (highlight)].
ITE is capable of estimating many different variants of entropy, mutual information, divergence, association measures, cross quantities, and kernels on distributions. Thanks to its highly modular design, ITE supports additionally
- the combinations of the estimation techniques,
- the easy construction and embedding of novel information theoretical estimators, and
- their immediate application in information theoretical optimization problems.
ITE is
- written in Matlab/Octave,
- multi-platform (tested extensively on Windows and Linux),
- free and open source (released under the GNU GPLv3(>=) license).
ITE can estimate
entropy (H): Shannon entropy, Rényi entropy, Tsallis entropy (Havrda and Charvát entropy), complex entropy, Phi-entropy (f-entropy), Sharma-Mittal entropy,
mutual information (I): generalized variance, kernel canonical correlation analysis, kernel generalized variance, Hilbert-Schmidt independence criterion, Shannon mutual information (total correlation, multi-information), L2 mutual information, Rényi mutual information, Tsallis mutual information, copula-based kernel dependency, multivariate version of Hoeffding's Phi, Schweizer-Wolff's sigma and kappa, complex mutual information, Cauchy-Schwartz quadratic mutual information, Euclidean distance based quadratic mutual information, distance covariance, distance correlation, approximate correntropy independence measure, chi-square mutual information (Hilbert-Schmidt norm of the normalized cross-covariance operator, squared-loss mutual information, mean square contingency), Lancaster three-variable interaction,
divergence (D): Kullback-Leibler divergence (relative entropy, I directed divergence), L2 divergence, Rényi divergence, Tsallis divergence, Hellinger distance, Bhattacharyya distance, maximum mean discrepancy (kernel distance, current distance), J-distance (symmetrised Kullback-Leibler divergence, J divergence), Cauchy-Schwartz divergence, Euclidean distance based divergence, energy distance (specially the Cramer-Von Mises distance), Jensen-Shannon divergence, Jensen-Rényi divergence, K divergence, L divergence, f-divergence (Csiszár-Morimoto divergence, Ali-Silvey distance), non-symmetric Bregman distance (Bregman divergence), Jensen-Tsallis divergence, symmetric Bregman distance, Pearson chi square divergence (chi square distance), Sharma-Mittal divergence,
association measures (A), including
measures of concordance: multivariate extensions of Spearman's rho (Spearman's rank correlation coefficient, grade correlation coefficient), correntropy, centered correntropy, correntropy coefficient, correntropy induced metric, centered correntropy induced metric, multivariate extension of Blomqvist's beta (medial correlation coefficient), multivariate conditional version of Spearman's rho, lower/upper tail dependence via conditional Spearman's rho,
cross quantities (C): cross-entropy,
kernels on distributions (K): expected kernel (summation kernel, mean map kernel, set kernel, multi-instance kernel, ensemble kernel; special convolution kernel), Bhattacharyya kernel (Bhattacharyya coefficient, Hellinger affinity), probability product kernel, Jensen-Shannon kernel, exponentiated Jensen-Shannon kernel, exponentiated Jensen-Renyi kernel(s), Jensen-Tsallis kernel, exponentiated Jensen-Tsallis kernel(s).
conditional entropy (condH): conditional Shannon entropy.
conditional mutual information (condI): conditional Shannon mutual information.
ITE offers
- solvers for
Independent Subspace Analysis (ISA) and its extensionsto different linear-, controlled-, post nonlinear-, complex valued-, partially observed models, as well as to systems with nonparametric source dynamics,
- several
consistency tests(analytical vs estimated value),
- illustrations for
information theoretical image registrationand
distribution regression(supervised entropy learning, and aerosol prediction based on multispectral satellite images).
Citing: If you use the ITE toolbox in your research, please cite .bib.
Download the latest release:
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Ambrose Bierce
Negative number FN-00734.
1 photograph : print mounted on cardboard ; 20 x 15 cm
Ambrose Bierce, Portraits collection, PC-PT, California Historical Society
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Improved strain of Chioggia.
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HARVEST AND STORAGE: Fork or undermine, lift plants, wash and hydrocool, and store bunches 10 days at 32°F/0°C and 95% relative humidity.
WINTER STORAGE OF ROOTS: Sow about 10 weeks before heavy freeze is expected. Cut tops, wash, and store 6 months at 32°F (0°C) and 95% humidity.
DAYS TO MATURITY: From direct seeding; subtract 14–21 days if transplants are used.
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Cyclist 101 (Satire)
For some motorists, walking is too limited. It's not fast enough, or it doesn't get them across the vast distances they need to travel. Sometimes it's nearly half a mile to the nearest grocery store, and that's obviously too far to walk. There must be a better way.
For distances too far to walk, yet short enough to avoid driving, consider riding a bicycle. Riding a bicycle is much like driving a motor vehicle, though the speeds are much lower. However, cycling is unlike driving because the bicycle operator is required to maintain his balance on two wheels while moving his feet in a circular motion called 'pedaling', and he must do this while paying attention to road conditions, traffic, pedestrians, and wayward dogs.
This is difficult to believe, but the bicycle was invented long before the motor vehicle. Over a century ago, back in the Pleistocene, people used it for basic transportation. Cave paintings depict early men riding bicycles as they hunted mastodons. The popularity and low cost of bicycles put many livery stables out of business. Henry Ford saw the assembly lines churning out bicycles and applied the idea to the manufacture of automobiles.
If you're determined to attempt riding a bicycle, remember this line from Samuel Clemens "Get a bicycle, you will not regret it, if you live."
But before going into Bicycling 101, let's review what motorists commonly know about cyclists. Most motorists see bicycle operators from time to time. From inside a motorist's cocoon of steel and glass, the typical cyclist looks like any other potential axe murderer or wild-eyed maniac. Here are some of the more common types:
Sidewalk cyclist: A maniac riding on the sidewalk.
Vehicular cyclist: A maniac riding in traffic, obeying rules and regulations.
Wrong-way cyclist: A maniac riding against traffic (see Darwin).
Recumbent cyclist: A maniac riding a rolling lawn chair.
Mountain biker: A mud-covered maniac with a mud-covered bicycle hanging on an immaculate SUV.
Pack or peleton: A rolling group of maniacs.
Darwin: Possibly the patron saint of intellectually-challenged cycling maniacs.
Never feed cyclists. They'll learn about the easy handout and return again and again. They subsist quite nicely on their regular diet of Gatorade and inhaled bugs so please don't feed them.
Do not honk at cyclists. They'll return the one-fingered salute, or on some occasions, all five fingers – for emphasis.
Keep your windows tightly closed when near a cyclist, especially at a red light. They smell very bad. They spit in all directions, though they can achieve good distance by spitting down wind, and cyclists ALWAYS know the wind direction. They are known to shoot 'snot rockets' from their nostrils. These are their GOOD points.
Never engage recumbent cyclists in conversation about their outlandish machines. They're referred to as 'bents' for good reason. They'll extol the virtues of their bicycles until your eyes glaze over. You'll wish that, like a muskrat, you could gnaw off a limb in order to escape. Bent riders are the bicycling equivalents of Moonies. Do not get sucked into the cult.
Never ask vehicular cycling maniacs a simple question about bicycling unless you have a lot of time for a complicated answer citing at least three different studies, mountains of statistics, and the obligatory reference to John Forester. Trapped muskrats have it easier.
If at this point, you're still committed to joining the ranks of socially-challenged, morally impaired bicyclists and become yet another Spandex-clad affront to public decency, I have just one thing more to say.
The first step is learning to balance. If you've mastered Walking 101, it's likely you're capable of mastering this skill as well. Most cyclists learned this in grade school and many of them haven't progressed since. So despite having the ability to balance and the knowledge of how to drive an SUV the size of a small country, you may not be prepared to ride a bicycle in traffic.
Here are a few tips:
Stop signs and red lights.
If you regard these as merely 'advisory' when riding your bicycle, see 'Darwin' again.
Sidewalks are for pedestrians, people who walk as a means of locomotion. Cyclists ride on the street, safe from pedestrians.
Railroad tracks, trolley tracks, manhole covers, painted lines.
Very slippery, especially when wet. They cause cyclists to fall and collect patches of 'road rash'. Pavement is also likely to tear away large sections of spandex, possibly opening the cyclist to an indecent exposure charge.
Seams, cracks, and grates in the road surface.
When wide enough, these can trap a wheel and cause a crash. See 'indecent exposure'.
If you prefer to go without one, see Darwin. Helmets are not a substitute for common sense, nor do they protect against all hazards.
Pedestrians are capable of changing speed or direction in a single step. Their actions are highly unpredictable. Skaters, small children, and dog walkers are all potentially pedestrians.
Impeding traffic.
If you're stopped by a police officer saying you're impeding or obstructing traffic, refer him to the "Binary Instruction Handbook for Law Enforcement Officers". It says that in a 35mph zone, for instance, you can be stopped for speeding if you're traveling at 36 mph. You can be stopped for impeding traffic at 34 mph. The handbook is available as a hard copy, Word document, or pdf file. Additionally there's a comic book version available for county sheriffs.
Dogs feed on slower cyclists. Try to stay in the front or middle of the pack. Of course, everyone else will have the same idea, leading to an impromptu sprint. If riding alone, you'll discover the true value of sprinting. Think of dogs as meat-eating personal trainers planning to dine on your leg.
After riding on the street, you may believe that motorists are maniacs in motor vehicles. Congratulations! You've come full-circle. While some cyclists believe that motorists are deliberately trying to kill them, it is not true. There's seldom anything deliberate about it. Motorists may be distracted by a cellular phone, an AM radio talk show, screaming children on the back seat, an inflammatory article on the sports page, or a fumbled burrito that just landed in their lap. When they inadvertently run over a cyclist or pedestrian in such a situation, they inevitably say, "But officer, I never saw him!" They sometimes pay a stiff fine totaling several hundred dollars.
Welcome to the ranks of the cycling elite! You can say with pride that you're riding a bicycle to save money/lose weight/shaft the multi-national oil companies/turn your back on consumerism/help the environment/cause wide spread panic/get rid of static cling/ or like I do, to take over the world! (With apologies to Pinky and the Brain, of course!)
(Seriously, if you're thinking about taking up cycling as a way to save on fuel costs, please consider taking a League of American Bicyclists Road1 course. See http://www.bikeleague.org/educenter/index.html for a course in your area. The goal of Road1 is to educate cyclists and make them safer, more confident riders in a short time. Many of us have learned the hard way – through long and sometimes painful experience – what Road1 teaches in a few hours.)


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Media Statements & Speeches
Chairman Jon Wellinghoff Statement
December 20, 2012
Docket No. AD13-2-000
Item No. A-3
2012 Assessment of Demand Response and Advanced Metering
Thank you David and the entire Team for this briefing and for producing a very informative report.
And I would like to thank all those who responded to this voluntary survey. As a result of their time and effort, we have a good representation of the work that has been going on around the country. It allows readers to see the significant trends in development of both advanced metering and demand response capabilities.
I would like to ask you a couple of questions.
- What are some of the factors driving the increase in demand response capability?
- As part of the Demand Response Assessment in 2009, a tool was developed that allows utilities, state regulators and other interested parties to use the data for their state to analyze the effects of developing the demand response potential in their area. Is this tool still available on FERC's website and can the data from the report we are releasing today be used to update the tool with this new information on installed metering and demand response capabilities?
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I was leafing through the current issue of The Flock, the newsletter of Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice, (available here) when I came across an article by the redoubtable Mrs Daphne McLeod about Our Lady of Quito—otherwise known as Our Lady of Good Success—who appeared several times to Mother Mariana, Abbess of the convent of the Immaculate Conception in Quito, Ecuador, at the end of the sixteenth and the beginning of the seventeenth centuries.
On one of these occasions, she made a particularly remarkable prophecy. You will see why—knowing Mrs McLeod's passionate concern for the religious education of our children, and her repeated warnings over the years about the consequences of the denatured and insubstantial superficiality of what they are now fed as RE—she draws our attention in The Flock to this particular apparition of Our Lady.
My source for what follows is an admirable and extremely useful site, snappily entitled "Apparitions and Shrines of the Blessed Virgin Mary which have been approved by legitimate Church Authority".
Early in the morning of January 21, 1610, the Archangels St. Michael, St. Gabriel and St. Raphael appeared to Mother Mariana. Then Our Lady appeared to her and predicted many things about our own times: this is part of what Mother Mariana afterwards related that she told her:
"…. I make it known to you that from the end of the 19th century and shortly after the middle of the 20th century…. the passions will erupt and there will be a total corruption of customs (morals)….
"They will focus principally on the children in order to sustain this general corruption. Woe to the children of these times! It will be difficult to receive the Sacrament of Baptism, and also that of Confirmation…
"As for the Sacrament of Matrimony… it will be attacked and deeply profaned… The Catholic spirit will rapidly decay; the precious light of the Faith will gradually be extinguished… Added to this will be the effects of secular education, which will be one reason for the dearth of priestly and religious vocations.
"The Sacrament of Holy Orders will be ridiculed, oppressed, and despised… The Devil will try to persecute the ministers of the Lord in every possible way; he will labor with cruel and subtle astuteness to deviate them from the spirit of their vocation and will corrupt many of them. These depraved priests, who will scandalize the Christian people, will make the hatred of bad Catholics and the enemies of the Roman Catholic and Apostolic Church fall upon all priests…
"Further, in these unhappy times, there will be unbridled luxury, which will ensnare the rest into sin and conquer innumerable frivolous souls, who will be lost. Innocence will almost no longer be found in children, nor modesty in women. In this supreme moment of need of the Church, the one who should speak will fall silent." In a subsequent apparition, Our Lady told Mother Mariana that these apparitions were not to become generally known until the twentieth century.
Now, it is true that Our Lady's prophecies here are concerned particularly with what will happen more than three centuries in the future "in what is today the Colony and will then be the Republic of Ecuador", where, she says, "Satan will reign almost completely by means of the Masonic sects". All the same (though I can't quite see the few harmless Masons I have known bringing in the sovereignty of Satan here) the relevance of these prophecies to English Society and the English Church (indeed to the whole modern world) in the twentieth century—and therefore now—is obvious enough. She even homes in on the sixties: she times this "eruption" of the passions to take place "shortly after the middle of the twentieth century".
Particularly striking, you may think, are Our Lady's words about how "the Sacrament of Matrimony …will be attacked and deeply profaned", and that remarkable passage about some "depraved priests, who will scandalise the Christian people, [and who] will make the hatred of bad Catholics and the enemies of the Roman Catholic and Apostolic Church fall upon all priests…"
Mrs McLeod sees particular relevance to her own concerns about the woeful state and dire consequences of what our children are taught in Catholic schools, and draws attention particularly to Our Lady's prophecy that those who do Satan's will "would 'focus particularly on the children in order to achieve this general corruption. Woe to the children of these times!' ". Mrs McLeod observes that "We can see only too clearly what she meant now that the inadequate, even false, religious teaching given to the children in so many Catholic schools and parishes leaves them highly vulnerable to the explicit classroom lessons on sex, not to mention the television programmes and computer games, which inevitably corrupt and deprave them."
No doubt someone will throw doubt on that analysis, and say that the prophecy really isn't about RE in rainy old England but about what's supposed to be going on now in Ecuador (incidentally does anyone out there know anything about what IS going on in Ecuador?); but if anyone does say that, I think they will be quite wrong. Our Lady's prophecies are usually universal in their application: and we live in what is sometimes ludicrously called a "globalised world". These prophecies are just as much about about Europe and North America: there is surely no doubt that these extraordinary words are meant for us, too. A few translations to modern idioms and modern forms of collaboration with Satan may be necessary: I have just mentioned the mild and unthreatening nature of English masonry. But it hasn't been like that everywhere. In 1952, for instance, the Grand Lodge of France passed a series of resolutions against the Catholic Church, including one "to unmask by every means the subtle scheming of the Vatican State Secretariat, which aims at imposing the shameful guardianship of religious and political-economic dictatorship on the whole of mankind . . . and to accept, in the relentless struggle against clericalism, every alliance compatible with the Masonic ideal."
Well, there are plenty of anti-clerical cults today, consumed by a fanatical anti-clericalism of exactly the same sort, who wage a constant struggle to get God out of modern culture in any way they can think of, large and small; How about this example, reported approvingly by one of these anti-God cults, The Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science, in which an outfit called New York City Atheists is joining one Dr. Michael Newdow, a California-based Atheist "physician/lawyer", in a suit to get the words "In God We Trust" removed from American coins and currency. That would be a small but significant victory in the unending culture wars of our times.
You can all think of a hundred other examples, emanating not just from hard-line cultists like Dawkins, but from soft-core and mostly low-key almost subconsciously anti-Christian organisations like the BBC. It all adds up to a cultural explosion, the effects of which have indeed erupted, as Our Lady prophesied, in "a total corruption" of our mores and many of our institutions, both within the Church and in the wider secular society of which we are part.
The most important thing to understand is that it would be just wrong to despair at all this. The fightback is underway. For, in the end, Our Lady of Quito's prophecies do not end with spiritual catastrophe. In a later apparition she foretold that "In order to free men from bondage to these heresies, those whom the merciful love of My Most Holy Son will destine for that restoration will need great strength of will, constancy, valor and much confidence in God. To test this faith and confidence of the just, there will be occasions when everything will seem to be lost and paralyzed. This, then, will be the happy beginning of the complete restoration."
I believe we have seen that faith and valour over the last half century, above all in the present Holy Father and his heroic predecessor; and that that complete restoration has indeed happily begun.


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HSBC strategists believe that the onset of a "currency war" would see foreign-exchange markets increase in importance to asset allocators.
The strategists said "the resurrection of the [idea of] currency wars has revived the prominence of foreign exchange as an appropriate asset class to express a view."
The term "currency war" refers to the situation where countries seek to devalue their currency to boost their trading position against rivals.
Currencies had lost their allure as a pure-play asset-allocation tool, as investors struggled to work though the implications of unconventional easing, the HSBC strategists said.
Global central banks injected massive amounts of liquidity into asset markets to support the global economy after the recent financial crisis, but with different results for currencies. Quantitative easing in the U.S proved to be U.S. dollar negative, but quantitative easing in the U.K. was neutral for the British pound, the strategists said.
And the euro zone's long-term refinancing operations, popularly known as LTRO, eventually had a positive impacted on the euro, they said.
Previously, it was far easier to express a quantitative-easing view via bonds or stocks, the strategists said.
However, in a "currency war" environment, foreign exchange suddenly "becomes the obvious way to express a given view," they said. "If countries are heading for conflict, foreign exchange will of course be the front line."
Offering the Japanese yen as an example, the strategists said that, if an investor believes Japan will succeed in weakening the yen, then the logical way to bet on that view is via the currency.
True, Japanese stocks may benefit from a weaker yen, but they "will not lead the way," HSBC said. Japanese bond-market investors, meanwhile, would be caught between additional buying from the Bank of Japan and the threat of an overly successful reflation, they said.
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Mayor Don Wesely's Concert and Entertainment Task Force has released the results of a survey designed to gather public opinion about concert opportunities in Lincoln. The survey was distributed in April through the Lincoln Journal Star, entertainment venues, campuses and other locations, and more than 500 questionnaires were returned to the Mayor's office.
Among the survey results:
The Concert and Entertainment Task Force began meeting in January 2000. The survey results will be part the Task Force's report to the Mayor, now scheduled for release in mid-June.
The survey was developed by the task force with help from Cheryl Wiese, Associate Director of the UNL Bureau of Sociological Research. Results were compiled with the assistance of the box office employees at the Lied Center.
Those who filled out and returned the survey by April 15 were entered into a drawing for a "Fun in Lincoln" prize package. The winner, drawn by the Mayor May 26, was Rick Goldsby, who had filled out a newspaper form. The package includes tickets to local events and other gifts donated by Warner Enterprises, Three Eagles, the Lincoln Community Playhouse, the Star City Dinner Theatre, UNL Athletics, the Lied Center, Pershing Auditorium, Lazlo's/Jabrisco/Empyrean Ales, the Douglas Theatre Company and Amigo's.
(Complete survey results are available by fax by calling Diane Gonzolas at 441-7831.)