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Tuesday, August 9, 2011
It Won't Be a Taxi Driver Summer
Here are a few scenes showing the power of screenwriter Paul Schrader and Director Scorsese's vision:
In the movie, the sick and dysfunctional city makes Travis Bickle even crazier. Only a quirk of fate leads him to kill people who need killing (the pimps, hustlers, and corrupt cops keeping a 12 year old as a prostitute) instead of the Senatorial candidate. In other words, a Breivik who kills say, vicious pimps instead of school kids on a resort island. Bickle like Breivik is of course quite scary in that his insanity is matched by organizational toughness. A corrupt, lawless city has a thriving black market in guns. Bickle is obsessive about working out. His initial idiotic dry run on the Secret Service leads to a change of plans and a sudden Mohawk (completely changing his appearance). Crazy cities create and nurture crazy people.
But that's just a movie. And real life is not a movie. In real life, Morgan Freeman is not the voice of God, but a weird guy aiming to marry his (adopted) Grand-daughter. In real life, Woody Allen is not a charmingly neurotic artist but a guy who married his step-daughter. In real life, Whoopi Goldberg is not the Wise Black Woman but a nutty host on "the View." In real life, we've had about fifty plus years of multicultural, PC-driven, "anti-racist" stuff that tolerates the kind of scum that made Bickle wish for a real rain to wash it all away.
And the type of rampages aimed against PC and Multiculturalism amount to just one: Breivik. That's it. Oh sure there's the "Beta Male Rampage" (probably not the best word for it) of disturbed guys like Cho, Sodini, and others. The killings of various jihadis, probably including the Beltway Snipers, Lee Boyd Malvo and John Mohammed. But the only guy who even approximates Travis Bickle in the last fifty years is some Norwegian guy who was a Freemason, an organic farmer, and a member of the middle class who spoke another language (English) and could write it as well.
There won't be any violence against "the Long Hot Summer" of Black Flash Mobs, and various organized lootings/beatings/robberies/arsons (as in London). Because its a LOT easier to simply run away. Opt out. Stay away.
REITs (Real Estate Investment Trusts) are going to pay a heavy price. All those yuppies wanting to move to city centers to find better mates, are going to re-think and move to the suburbs when their leases are up. New leases and sales will be hard to come by, and heavily discounted, hurting cash flow and rates of return. Thus you'll see heavy pressure on mayors and such to do what it takes, to suppress the mobs, but likely far after anything effective short of the National Guard remains.
Meanwhile, Amazon looks to reap rewards from people stopping their mall-shopping habits in favor of online shopping. Netflix, Amazon, and other online video folks will benefit as people seek entertainment at home, and online dating places will gain as people shun city centers as mate-market auctions. Bars and restaurants will hurt, and telecom providers win, as the shift to opt-out becomes easier.
No one wants to live in Travis Bickle's world. Even in the mid 1970's, it was relatively easy to avoid the hell of NYC for suburban places. Now its even easier. Which has several strategic implications.
First, an opt-out White population is going to want specific subsidies aimed at THEM, and have little patience for the populations that in effect cleansed them out of public spaces. This means no money for Black/Hispanic public schools, and lots of money for online education. The same goes for Welfare, TANF, WIC, and so on. Travis Bickle shooting a pimp and some corrupt cops and johns doesn't fix a corrupt to the core NYC. But White flight/opt-out changes the funding completely.
Secondly, the "magic" of the First Black President is over. He's now, Tyrone Willingham. People demand results. A miserable economy, a lost AAA credit rating, a stock market dive, and a "Long Hot Summer" of Black Flash Mobs and possibly, London-style riots/arson/looting won't cut it. People expect results. Obama had about three years to produce results, and considerable good will, all gone now. Hostility and intimidation is likely to produce, not surrender but opt-out. It is not the 1960's any more. People are experiencing hard times themselves, have no sympathy for rioters, and are more likely to agree with the basic desires of a Travis Bickle if not the methods.
Third, the impact of Black Flash Mobs has been to harden racial attitudes (basically, the view that Blacks and Hispanics are dead-weight that White America would do well to shed in a desperate economic struggle). A "Long Hot Summer" won't result in vigilantes, but a ruthless restructuring to regain economic competitiveness and exclusion of non-Whites and non-Asians from most public expenditures and public life. Gone: Affirmative Action (too expensive). Gone: policies investing in urban centers (hostile territory to the White Yuppie/Middle class). Gone: investing in education and in particular physical public schools. Gone: faith in the elite to even tie their own shoelaces, much less order the nation from the food people eat to light bulbs in their homes. Gone: legitimacy or even interest in the media, which has acted to suppress information about the Black Flash Mobs.
The worst thing that would happen for the Liberal Welfare State and the associated NGOs (Ford, Pew, Annenberg, and Gates Foundations), talking heads, permanent governing class, and media hangers on would be a "Long Hot Summer" of most American cities burning down in racially motivated riots. Something like that is impossible to ignore, and will harden attitudes of the pressed White middle and working class immediately. It is not 1968. Whites are not likely to react with buy-off appeasement and guilt. Indeed, 1968 is as distant to us in 2011 as 1925 and the Jazz Age was to 1968 and the original "Long Hot Summer." Flappers and Al Capone were as relevant to the time of the Watts Riots as Martin Luther King's assassination is to us today.
Margaret Thatcher said that the problem with Welfare States is that they eventually run out of other people's money. The problem is far worse, and accelerated, when there is a huge economic dead weight of those with far lower wealth. The Wealth Gap per household is $113,000 for Whites, $6,000 for Hispanics, and $5,000 for Blacks (median net household wealth) according to the Pew Foundation.
Hard pressed White households, watching say Cleveland, Detroit, Philly, and Obama's hometown of Chicago burn, mostly fueled by Black mobs, in a "Long Hot Summer" are likely to conclude that hey, the money would go a LOT further, and be spent on THEM, if say, those people were included out of the disbursements.
People want results. Notre Dame and Washington have not hired another Black coach since Tyrone Willingham. With the great turn-over in college and pro coaches, Willingham is not coaching currently according to Wikipedia. Obama had a long leash to produce results as the First Black President, but even he had to produce results. His likely play of Chicago-style politics (all he knows) of urging the mobs forward, and then posing as "the one man able to turn off the violence" is likely to only further harden attitudes.
It won't be a Taxi Driver Summer. No matter what sort of riots and mobs happen. Bickle is a sad, crazy figure because he's totally alone, and the alienating city only makes that worse (by making nearly impossible any social connections the character wants). But he's just words on a page and a performance by a gifted actor. He wasn't and isn't real. He's just a character. Real life features not White violence in mobs or vigilantes but massive opting out and a reshaping of the social and political and economic life of America. The challenges are just too great.
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Good. I hope the entire white middle class opts out and goes ghost.
Leave Black Run America to its own devices and let it feed on itself.
- August 9, 2011 at 5:18 AM
- njartist said...
"This means no money for Black/Hispanic public schools, and lots of money for online education. The same goes for Welfare, TANF, WIC, and so on."
No, this will not happen: as long as we have the progressive elites in charge of the system Black/Hispanic dystopia will be funded: see NJ where hte NJ Supreme Court usurped the power of the purse and dictates that inner city schools receive a disproportionate share of the school funds to the detriment of suburban schools and populations.
- August 9, 2011 at 6:39 AM
- Scott said...
I agree with njartist. This will happen eventually but by the time it changes it might already be too late. Some of these people really can't see the connection. I can show them 8-10 black mobs attacking white people and they'll miss the trend and say "not all black people are like that" (duh? but still a trend)or "it's because we don't invest enough in their education and the white man has kept them down. Upper middle class kids love to believe the diversity is good for us myth. (I'm an upper middle class kid who somehow missed believing this crap)
- August 9, 2011 at 8:33 AM
Whiskey. Thank you for another generous shot of truth!!!
- August 9, 2011 at 9:28 AM
Civil War is coming.
- August 9, 2011 at 12:28 PM
It won't be civil at all.
- August 10, 2011 at 12:11 AM
I am not as sure that there will not be direct confrontations. It depends on the flash mobs not attacking somewhere where someone will defend themselves. One concealed carry holder defending himself, and it may well blow up into the "traditional" race riots.
In Denver, groups of blacks with baseball bats are attacking white couples leaving upscale restaurants. These are not in "black" areas of the city; but rather yuppie urban renewal areas. While the City and County of Denver is the most resistant in Colorado to issue of concealed carry permits, they are there, and the permits are statewide once issued.
In Chicago, the flash mobs have been hitting the "Miracle Mile". While only criminals and politicians carry concealed legally in Chicago; if someone who is made has to defend himself ....
Just like in the London riots, where police retreats emboldens the rioters; a white middle class retreat will only mean that the enemy will follow. The white middle class is where the money is [Willie Sutton theory of bank robbery] and that is where their kicks of robbing and beating them are. Running away may just postpone the inevitable confrontation.
Subotai Bahadur
- August 10, 2011 at 1:03 PM
- daniel said...
Watch what happens with the philly mayor's call for hip hop artists to condemn the flash mobs to see the front edge of this. He's being very shrewd and bold with what he's been saying. I would speculate that IF one or two "Young Jeezies" or "TI's" or "L'il Waynes" would respond to the mayor's call their rap careers would be over. Mayor Nutter may get a couple of radio-friendly hip hop or r&b singers to join him, but they lack the street cred to have any effect.
Understanding what hip hop culture is about and understanding why it is so appealing to young blacks and whites is key to appreciating all of the interesting angles to this. And it could very well get very, very, interesting. I guarantee every single one of these flash mobbers listens to hard core gangster rap several times per day. I would also speculate that most of them also do a good deal of singing along, dancing along, smoking weed along, and generally acting, as best they can, along with the lyrics as well. Its "just music" but its also a lifestyle.
- August 11, 2011 at 2:52 AM
- Deacon Matson said...
Interesting take indeed.
- August 11, 2011 at 4:40 AM
Gone: Affirmative Action (too expensive). Gone: policies investing in urban centers (hostile territory to the White Yuppie/Middle class). Gone: investing in education and in particular physical public schools. Gone: faith in the elite to even tie their own shoelaces, much less order the nation from the food people eat to light bulbs in their homes. Gone: legitimacy or even interest in the media, which has acted to suppress information about the Black Flash Mobs.
Really? Most of these folks are living with a belief system that will not be switched off over just a few riots. These PC multicultural socialists are devout in their religion. They won't get it until their house is on fire, their wives are raped (and impregnated), and their daughters have been gang banged to death. Even then the power of rationalization will set in -
Let the slaughtering of the scapegoat(s) commence.
- August 11, 2011 at 5:47 AM
- pdxr13 said...
I won't go downtown to save the corrupt city center, the hive-apt's, no parking/$34 ticket zone, toy trolley/light rail, City Hall, police stations, etc, but I will defend my neighborhood Asian grocery along with the blocks the house is on.
I betcha there are a dozen Chinese or Korean young men who will do the same when their parents explain the consequences of having the shops burned out and gangs going down the blocks. Yes, your late-model Honda/Acura drifting/street-racer will be flipped and burned, with insurance payout value of about 25% of what's into it.
It probably won't be too hard to get local merchants to double-up on fire extinguishers and get the high-capacity kind. Local FireSafetySupplyCo. may even offer a good discount on a group buy/refill.
A mapping and hiking club might be just the ticket.
- August 11, 2011 at 11:50 AM
- pdxr13 said...
*above comment* Anon -August 11, 2011 5:47 AM
I didn't get around to what happens to cute young "uncovered meat" (outstanding phrase from the Arabic) in the form of daughters and wives.
Females need to become much more lethal to OpFor in addition to being included in support role of group defense.
- August 11, 2011 at 11:57 AM
Some really interesting observations in this blog entry. I've watched Taxi Driver a half dozen times over the last 30 years and with every viewing it gets better. I have to disagree with you, though, that Bickle and Breivik are substantially different from Cho, Sodini, and name-any-rampage-killer. Notice in this scene that the man who looks as if he is stalking Betsy (Cybill Shepherd) is Scorsese himself. Travis Bickle is Martin Scorsese, and Taxi Driver is the artistic sublimation of his homicidal rage. He (Bickle, Scorsese) hates hates HATES women who reject him, which is pretty much the entire gender. Bickle wanted to kill the senator because Betsy was attracted to him. Instead, he settles on killing the pimp because he wants to "save" Iris (Jodie Foster) from her pimp, even though she has absolutely no desire to be saved. In the movie's final scene, it's clear that Betsy now finds Travis attractive...after he has killed 3 men!
I wouldn't expect you, of all people, to soft peddle the underlying nightmare of Taxi Driver: the horror, THE HORROR of female sexuality!
- August 11, 2011 at 6:08 PM
- Whiskey said...
Quentin, Taxi Driver is first and foremost Paul Schrader's work, and very similar to other things he's done thematically (the ugliness and emptiness of porn, the toxic nature of modern urban life, alienation, and corruption). Scorsese is quite important, but only filmed did not write the scenes.
Bickle is not like Cho or Sodini or Breivik, in that he's made ill by the city, very deliberately in the script, and makes several attempts to find things to "keep him busy" -- driving the cab, Daisy, and so on. Yes it is Daisy's rejection that leads him to plot to kill the Senatorial Candidate Palatine, and only blind luck leads him to kill the guys holding Iris hostage -- but that's a good thing.
Iris is a child, only 12, and as such under the sway of pimp "Sport" as the movie shows (Bickle urges her to leave, in a tender father-daughter moment at the diner, but Sport preys upon her, because Sport is a pimp). The movie makes it clear that only cathartic violence can free Iris -- the cops are on the pad/take, and nothing else will suffice. No one Bickle kills will be missed, and the script makes clear that that the audience approves.
- August 12, 2011 at 2:16 PM
- Whiskey said...
HOWEVER ... the ending of the movie makes it clear that the toxic nature of modern alienating society has not ended, and Bickle is still a ticking time bomb who "next time" won't be the hero that he is as the movie ends. Hence the disturbing thing he sees in the rear view mirror -- himself.
What is wrong with the NYC of Taxi Driver? Sex and pornography without love, which Bickle himself is subject to. Isolation and loneliness. Corruption, in not just Sport by Easy Andy (the traveling gun salesman). Racial tensions with no end in sight. A disconnected and removed urban White professional elite (Cybil Shephard and Albert Brooks) far distant from the White Blue Collar characters of Bickle and Peter Boyle's character.
My point being that Blue collar guys like Boyle's and DeNiro's have basically just ceded the urban landscape, and retreated. Like Dylan they're not there.
The movie is not about the "horrors" of female desire which is almost entirely absent -- it is about a "rogue male" entirely created by modern pc elite driven society.
- August 12, 2011 at 2:21 PM
The movie is not about the "horrors" of female desire which is almost entirely absent --
If this scene isn't about female desire, then I've never seen one before. It's also the only scene that is not from Travis Bickle's point of view. The abscence of female desire in the scenes that include Travis is the very point: Women only find him attractive after he kills and becomes famous.
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Modern Electronic Communication
Pearson/Prentice Hall, 2005 - Technology & Engineering - 923 pages
Now in its eighth edition, "Modern Electronic Communication" thoroughly examines the key concepts in electronic communications. The book contains many examples of communication circuit troubleshooting and includes extensive use of Electronics Workbench Multisim throughout. This edition has expanded the coverage of digital communications to present readers with the latest techniques and methods which reflect current practices in industry. ATroubleshooting with Electronics Workbench MultisimA sections at the end of each chapter help readers gain the understanding of an important concept presented in the chapter by presenting circuits in a tutorial manner. This edition still features the best of older communication circuits with new content on current circuits, data sheets, and communication techniques from Philips Semiconductor, Maxim, Analog Devices, Lectrosonics, and Zarlink. Updated wireless digital communications topics include direct sequence spread spectrum (DSSS), spreading and de-spreading the signal, pseudo noise (PN) codes, Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM), phase-shift keying (PSK), and frequency shift keying, troubleshooting cellular telephone problems. A thorough and up-to-date reference for Electronic Technicians.
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I have somehow managed to uninstall all my terminal emulators.When I try to run xterm from the applications menu in mate I get
Could not launch xterm Failed to execute child process "xterm" (No such file or directory)
. Also, if I try to use a tty using 'Ctrl + Alt + F1' etc all I get is a blank screen.
So, I would like to know if there is a way to install xterm again.
Last edited by adwaita45 (2013-03-22 15:32:13)
Use Ctrl + Alt + F2?
Log out of X?
Boot into a live Arch Linux CD and arch-chroot to victory?
Last edited by drcouzelis (2013-03-22 13:50:30)
use a runner
login as root (to avoid the sudo prompt) on kde, press Alt-f2 (by default), and enter
pacman -Sy konsole
pd: haven't tried it, but cannot think any reason why it wouldn't work.
pd2: also, i'm pretty sure you can unistall terminal clients, but i'm also pretty sure you still have a bash prompt somewhere
xterm is the terminal emulator for Xorg, so it use the GUI.
I don't know if is possible delete all terminal from the system, i think the basic terminal have dependencies with the core.
So the problem is all your tty are GUI related (BAD! leave at least one of them as text-only).
Actually you can solve this by booting linux in the runlevel 3 (no GUI) just by editing your boot and adding a final 3 on the "kernel" string.
This procedure vary from bootloader to bootloader, but can be done "on the fly" without using live cd or other "trick"
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How will you interface with the system without a terminal? Bizzare.
asus ux303la, core firstname.lastname@example.com, 8 gb ram, 500gb hdd, hd4400 gpu, crux x64 with openbox
In addition to all of the above, ssh into the box.
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chroot did the trick! Thank you everyone
A related question. Just for curiosity and to learn.
I don't understand why the CTRL+ALT+FX tty's don't work in this case. Are they xterm? I always have though that they are indeed text virtual consoles by default, and that "xterm" was the name for a terminal window: terminal emulator for X to use the terminal from a GUI. Isn't it?
Somebody mentioned
So the problem is all your tty are GUI related (BAD! leave at least one of them as text-only).
It this even possible? I mean, without having to go through a complex set of steps that probably require you to know what you're doing?
X terminal emulators are completely separate from agetty, which runs (or 'runs on') the tty. DE dependencies aside, I suppose it's easy to have some kind of graphical environment installed, but no terminal emulator.
In the initscripts days you could easily disable ttys through inittab. Presumably you could disable all but one for X. Don't know if it's possible under systemd.
It could just be that the OP encountered a bug, or graphical issues with KMS/framebuffer/etc.
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There is no seperate *getty package installed per default anymore. It seems to be part of systemd now. I could only think of a bad configuration or maybe a forced removal of bash.
A related question. Just for curiosity and to learn.
I mean, without having to go through a complex set of steps that probably require you to know what you're doing?
well, basically it is as easy as editing one text file. Practically you have to pay attention at what you do, as always
from: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Start_X_at_Login
Note: You can replace the -eq 1 comparison with one like -le 3 (for vt1 to vt3) if you want to use graphical logins on more than one VT.
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There is no seperate *getty package installed per default anymore. It seems to be part of systemd now. I could only think of a bad configuration or maybe a forced removal of bash.
# find / -name *getty
pacman -Qo /sbin/agetty
/sbin/agetty is owned by util-linux 2.22.2-2
Nope, not part of systemd.
Multi-init booting with apg Openrc and systemd coexisting
Automounting : not needed, i prefer pmount
Aur helpers : makepkg + my own local repo === rarely need them
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Cops: Grayslake man confused before freezing to death
A police investigation has found a 20-year-old Grayslake man likely became confused in a subdivision and walked the wrong way as he tried to return home before freezing to death in brush near a small airport last month.
Round Lake Park Police Chief George Filenko said Wednesday the in-depth probe showed foul play was not involved in the death of Joseph "Joey" Frase. Volunteers found his body near Campbell Airport in Round Lake Park the morning of Jan. 22, about two days after he was last seen alive.
Filenko said the Lake County Major Crime Task Force and other investigators collaborated to learn the chain of events before Frase's death. He met with Frase's family to discuss the now-closed investigation Tuesday.
"It's a tragedy," he said. "I really felt we needed to give the family a biographical background so we could give them closure."
Lake County Coroner Thomas Rudd said Frase died from hypothermia and succumbed to the cold temperature wearing a minimal amount of clothing. Hypothermia occurs when the body loses heat faster than it can produce it.
Rudd said tests showed Frase's blood-alcohol level was 0.09 percent, just over the legal threshold of 0.08 percent for drivers. An additional set of tests for the presence of several known hallucinogens came back negative, Filenko said.
Frase started the evening of Saturday, Jan. 19, by walking from his home to meet friends at a downtown Grayslake bar, Filenko said. The chief said Frase was wearing jeans, gym shoes, a couple of T-shirts and a hooded sweatshirt for the short jaunt.
Two cabs were called to the bar after the group decided to attend a birthday party in a house on the 300 block of Highplains Road in Round Lake's Madronna Village subdivision, according to the investigation.
Filenko said Frase was the only one in the group who didn't know the man celebrating the birthday. Frase wasn't at the home long when he went outside to smoke a cigarette and then intended to walk home early in the morning Sunday, Jan. 20.
Investigators learned Frase previously walked to his Grayslake house from Madronna Village, using a path east along Route 120 to Lake Street. It's believed Frase became confused in a maze of subdivision streets and walked in the opposite direction toward Campbell Airport while the temperature dipped to the 20s and winds gusted to 40 mph, Filenko said.
Part of the problem for Frase may have been a lack of defined east-west and north-south streets in Madronna Village, Filenko said.
Frase was found with frozen jeans and what looked like a water line on his T-shirt, Filenko said, and investigators believe he may have fallen into a pond or stream in a wetlands near the airport. Authorities said Frase's body was located deep in the brush.
Filenko said the investigation found Frase received a call on his wireless telephone from a friend at the party about 1:30 a.m. Jan. 20. Frase indicated he was lost and cold near Washington and Lake streets in Grayslake, Filenko said, adding hypothermia was the probable cause for why he was confused about his location.
Those who knew Frase remembered him for his enjoyment of spending time with friends and family, working on his car, playing basketball and fishing.


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It's been a tough couple of months for the carwashing industry. First we lost John Jurkens, the founder of Octopus Carwash who died on January 7. Next we lost Sonny Fazio, the founder of SONNY's The Car Wash Factory, on April 17. Then Kerry Shimada of Arcadian Services passed away on May 4. And, finally, we lost Lucian "Mac" McElroy, founder of Proto-Vest died on May 8. All four were well-known and respected men amongst the industry. It makes me wonder who the new distinguished faces of the industry will be. Will we continue to have icons and luminaries? Hopefully, people involved now are making their mission statements, policies and personalities well known and respected so that carwash owners and operators have a person they can talk to and trust when they have a concern or question.
And now I would like to address a very important topic that needs to be taken very seriously. I have found myself coming across more stories online about carwash workers being disrespected while at work. Some carwashes in California and New York have been investigated and fined and charges are pending. The carwash workers were brave enough to come forward and tell their stories. Good for them. I don't understand how this keeps happening and how a carwash owner could allow any of their employees to be disrespected or not paid fairly or given proper breaks. If you a carwash owner who has been called out for unfair practices, or even if you're an owner who has not been caught, and you're reading my editorial right now. I suggest you rethink your business practices and seek help. The carwashing industry is one of integrity, altruism and pride and you're not welcome in this industry if you're not treating your employees fairly.
If you are an owner or operator who treats their employees with respect and fairness, I applaud you and would like to remind you to stay the course. Your way of doing business is not something that should have to be complimented, it is just the way things should be. Yet, I applaud you any way, because you're not only representing the industry in a positive way, but you're also making a positive difference in your employee's life.
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This copy is well done, and I only have one critique:
It has been toned down. The original is more exaggerated. Where?
Especially in the eyes:
Let's analyze the expression in the original.
The open eye is wide open and big or tall -taller even, than the left eyebrow. The closed eye is small and the eyebrow that goes with it is also small.
If you wanted to caricature this, then you would take the descriptive adjectives and add "er"
I would make the open eye TALLER. The closed eye SMALLER. MORE white space than pupil.
I haven't yet asked anyone to take a drawing and caricature it, but that's coming.
But I have cautioned about toning down drawings - or "maintaining the guts" when copying. When you draw a pose or expression less specific or exaggerated than the original, you are underturing.
This is something that seems to happen with a lot of us naturally and something we should resist. Analyzing the contrasts (in words) in a drawing helps you avoid underturing them.
Thanks TJ for the example and I will critique more of your drawings in the next week if you like. This particular one just happened to illustrate this:


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The afternoon will begin with a viewing of the items for auction and an international sampling of hors d'oeuvres including French, Italian, Vietnamese, Indian, Danish and other delicacies. Viewing will begin at 12:15 p.m. The auction will begin at 1 p.m. There will be more than 200 items up for bid, including quilts, jewelry, gilt mirrors, art glass, bronzes, lamps, dolls, crystal, rocking chairs, paintings with several listed artists, an antique screen and silver tea sets. The event also features a jewelry sale.
The auction will include a late-1800s painting by John B. Whittaker. He was one of the founders of the Brooklyn Museum of Art, which still has several of his paintings.
The auctioneer is Bob Deull and the co-chairs are Ginger McNally, Michael and Laurie Ryan, and Mary Maj. The honorary chair is Carol Rogers.
The auction will support the Community Missions Crisis Services Program, which includes the soup kitchen (called Community Kitchen), food pantry, homeless shelter, "Mark's Place" home for people living with AIDS, and parole re-entry participants. Crisis Services at Community Missions provides more than 70,000 meals each year in its soup kitchen, while its homeless shelter provides more than 8,000 nights of shelter to more than 500 individuals and families.
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NEW HAVEN, Conn.- The Yale heavyweight crew will host Dartmouth at home when the two teams compete for the Olympic Axe this Saturday, Apr. 12. This will be the Bulldogs' second race of the spring season and first in a series of three consecutive weekends of racing.
Yale opened its season of dual-racing three weekends ago against Brown, defeating the Bears in two out of the three races that day. Yale's first varsity and second varsity were the first to cross the finish line in their respective races, with the third varsity eight coming across the finish line just behind Brown in the final race of the day.
Dartmouth's heavyweight squad also only has one day of racing under their belts so far this season, having competed against Columbia and Holy Cross last weekend. In that contest, the Big Green was able to win only the fourth varsity race. In all the races between the faster boats, Dartmouth finished second behind Columbia and before Holy Cross.
This weekend will mark the ten-year anniversary of the competition for the Olympic Axe, which was first raced for in 2004. In each of the nine meetings since its creation, the Bulldogs, who will look to continue their streak this Saturday, have claimed the Axe.
"It has been a couple of weeks since we last raced so I think everyone is chomping at the bit wanting to get back out on the water and compete," said senior veteran Grant "Skip" Olscamp. "We've done some internal competition, but the real fun is race day, duking it out with another crew."
8:00- Second Varsity Eights
8:45- Varsity Eights
9:30- Third Varsity Eights
Spectator busses will be departing from Payne Whitney Gymnasium at 7:30 a.m. and 8:30 a.m. Gilder Boathouse is located at 280 Roosevelt Dr, Derby, CT, and is the best location for viewing the races.
Report filed by Ari Zimmet '16, Yale Sports Publicity.


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Editor's Note: The Editor's Corner column in the Jan. 11 issue commented on the outcry to Wisconsin Sen. Glenn Grothman's call to ban the African-American observance of Kwanzaa and its teaching in schools, saying that its founder had a dubious past and that it creates a separation of races. Although the uproar has died down a bit, and the idea apparently lacked support, it drew a response in the column from the head of the Pocono Mountains Buffalo Soldiers Motorcycle Club USA.
Editor's Note: The Editor's Corner column in the Jan. 11 issue commented on the outcry to Wisconsin Sen. Glenn Grothman's call to ban the African-American observance of Kwanzaa and its teaching in schools, saying that its founder had a dubious past and that it creates a separation of races. Although the uproar has died down a bit, and the idea apparently lacked support, it drew a response in the column from the head of the Pocono Mountains Buffalo Soldiers Motorcycle Club USA.
Cleo Meriabut Jarvis, chairwoman of the Kwanzaa Committee of the African American Network, also sent in this response. AAN held a public celebration at the Eastern Monroe Public Library Hughes Branch in Stroudsburg last month.
The African-American Network of the Poconos was formed to meet a need in the Pocono Mountain Region as more African-Americans moved to the area. The intention was to unify, support and fortify. Many of our members liked the concept of Kwanzaa's Principles because they provide African-Americans a venue to unify, share with and uplift one another, which supports our bylaws. The members, therefore, voted to create a celebration open to the entire community.
Many of our members began celebrating Christmas on Dec. 25, followed by Kwanzaa on Dec. 26 through New Year's. We exercised our Kujichagulia and determined for ourselves that we, as a community, needed this activity. And just as other holidays had an inception — becoming popular over time — so has Kwanzaa. Our audiences have been more than 100 in attendance, and we always embrace everyone, including local politicians and their families.
At our Kwanzaa events, African-Americans from all backgrounds are joined by family and friends, including those of other cultures, to celebrate and learn about the best of African-Americans. We also come together to learn about the contributions of African-Americans because we were never taught the information in school.
Likewise, the principles of Kwanzaa are utilized by many people around the world. The unifying, and healing power of Kwanzaa has been well established. During the 1960s and '70s many African-American family members were divided by differences along religious lines. They were angry, arguing and some even stopped speaking to each other. Additionally, December was the month when most contentions arose as many impoverished African-Americans felt the need to purchase items they could not afford at holiday time.
With the advent of Kwanzaa, folks were able to come together and say, "We are here to celebrate our accomplishments, to share our plans for the future and, as a family, discuss how we can help each other accomplish our goals — on that we can agree." Families were healed by celebrating Kwanzaa, and it was absolutely beautiful.
Along the same lines, students who were introduced to the principles of Kwanzaa during the height of gang warfare and the influx of a drug epidemic tended not to engage in gang or drug-related activities. They were supported by family and friends to exercise their right to determine for themselves what was best for them. They were fortified by a strong knowledge of their ancestors, upon whose shoulders they stand.
Now what's wrong with that? What is so wrong with an event that makes people who were feeling isolated, unloved and unwanted realize that they are not alone — they have family, a rich and diverse heritage to be proud of, and that they have something to live for in the hope for tomorrow provided by the youth?
It is well established that a positive self image helps youth make good choices. Equally, elders as models or mentors help youth develop a positive self-image. Should it not be of more concern to model for the youth that we live in a melting pot of diverse people and beliefs? Although we may not choose to engage in certain activities, we must defend the right of others to do so, as we would wish for them to defend our life choices. That's the ideal of America. That's the America we love — a democratic society.
In such a society, diversity is a reality. It's the true Americans who can agree to disagree. The true Americans understand the concept of melting pot, understand that we may not act, eat, dress, dance or speak the same, but we allow others the privilege of doing what they deem fit.
It must be stated at this point that when other cultures speak fondly of their ancestral heritage, many African-Americans cannot do the same because of a collective shame and inferiority complex imposed by negative stereotypes of people of African ancestry throughout the world. Kwanzaa was created as a remedy to such feelings and sought to uplift the elders and fortify the youth to do their best.
An attack on Kwanzaa came to public attention from Wisconsin Sen. Glenn Grothman, calling for a ban to the holiday, or the real reasons behind it; however, we will continue to exercise our right as tax-paying citizens to choose to learn about and celebrate the accomplishments of our people, as well as teach our youth of the great things their ancestors have contributed to the world. Those of other cultures who wish to learn and celebrate with us are welcome.
We have been told by participants of Latino, German, Asian and Irish ancestry, as well as our local elected officials, what a great time they had at our celebration and how much they learned. Members of our audience also stated that they were inspired to want to learn more.
We live in a democracy. Our constitution upholds certain rights and freedoms for all citizens of our country. In order to maintain these rights, citizens must allow those they disagree with to exercise their right to choose. And just as we honor the right of people of other cultures to have parades and other public programs to celebrate their cultures "� we expect the same respect. We will defend everyone's right to choose for themselves, and Kwanzaa is our choice.
This is a cynical world we live in, where more people express their dissatisfaction with their lives violently. Yet, some elected officials seem to be idle enough to find time to posture in the media about something they themselves deem as unimportant.
It is quite apparent to we who celebrate Kwanzaa that the senator in question and his friends have never experienced a real Kwanzaa celebration. As we all know, experience is the best teacher and if they had, they would never find fault.
African-Americans are as diverse and eclectic a group as any other. Therefore, it is not unusual for folks to disagree about any given topic. What is disturbing in this case is the source of opposition. We are wondering why a senator and his friends feel that Kwanzaa is not a real holiday, and that "most" African-Americans don't want to celebrate it despite the evidence of millions who celebrate it around the world. If that premise is indeed accurate, then what is the purpose of his campaign against Kwanzaa? Would his time be best spent focusing on matters that impact all of his constituents, such as providing better educational opportunities for all, creating jobs and providing health care, for instance?
In conclusion, Kwanzaa is real to us, a time when we celebrate "The Best of Us." This is one of the few times that no one cares about religion, gender or social status. We all share the same ideals, to be the best we can, and to help create a wonderful future for our youth and, beyond that, our country and the world.
Cleo MeriAbut Jarvis
Author, educator, speaker, avocate
Chairwoman of the African American Network Kwanzaa Committee


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Antebellum U.S. Labor Markets
Joshua L. Rosenbloom
The United States economy underwent major transformations between American independence and the Civil War through rapid population growth, the development of manufacturing, the onset of modern economic growth, increasing urbanization, the rapid spread of settlement into the trans-Appalachian west, and the rise of European immigration. These decades were also characterized by an increasing sectional conflict between free and slave states that culminated in 1861 in Southern secession from the Union and a bloody and destructive Civil War. Labor markets were central to each of these developments, directing the reallocation of labor between sectors and regions, channeling a growing population into productive employment, and shaping the growing North–South division within the country. Put differently, labor markets influenced the pace and character of economic development in the antebellum United States. On the one hand, the responsiveness of labor markets to economic shocks helped promote economic growth; on the other, imperfections in labor market responses to these shocks significantly affected the character and development of the national economy.
Ideas of Race in Early America
Sean P. Harvey
"Race," as a concept denoting a fundamental division of humanity and usually encompassing cultural as well as physical traits, was crucial in early America. It provided the foundation for the colonization of Native land, the enslavement of American Indians and Africans, and a common identity among socially unequal and ethnically diverse Europeans. Longstanding ideas and prejudices merged with aims to control land and labor, a dynamic reinforced by ongoing observation and theorization of non-European peoples. Although before colonization, neither American Indians, nor Africans, nor Europeans considered themselves unified "races," Europeans endowed racial distinctions with legal force and philosophical and scientific legitimacy, while Natives appropriated categories of "red" and "Indian," and slaves and freed people embraced those of "African" and "colored," to imagine more expansive identities and mobilize more successful resistance to Euro-American societies. The origin, scope, and significance of "racial" difference were questions of considerable transatlantic debate in the age of Enlightenment and they acquired particular political importance in the newly independent United States.
Since the beginning of European exploration in the 15th century, voyagers called attention to the peoples they encountered, but European, American Indian, and African "races" did not exist before colonization of the so-called New World. Categories of "Christian" and "heathen" were initially most prominent, though observations also encompassed appearance, gender roles, strength, material culture, subsistence, and language. As economic interests deepened and colonies grew more powerful, classifications distinguished Europeans from "Negroes" or "Indians," but at no point in the history of early America was there a consensus that "race" denoted bodily traits only. Rather, it was a heterogeneous compound of physical, intellectual, and moral characteristics passed on from one generation to another. While Europeans assigned blackness and African descent priority in codifying slavery, skin color was secondary to broad dismissals of the value of "savage" societies, beliefs, and behaviors in providing a legal foundation for dispossession.
"Race" originally denoted a lineage, such as a noble family or a domesticated breed, and concerns over purity of blood persisted as 18th-century Europeans applied the term—which dodged the controversial issue of whether different human groups constituted "varieties" or "species"—to describe a roughly continental distribution of peoples. Drawing upon the frameworks of scripture, natural and moral philosophy, and natural history, scholars endlessly debated whether different races shared a common ancestry, whether traits were fixed or susceptible to environmentally produced change, and whether languages or the body provided the best means to trace descent. Racial theorization boomed in the U.S. early republic, as some citizens found dispossession and slavery incompatible with natural-rights ideals, while others reconciled any potential contradictions through assurances that "race" was rooted in nature.
Liberty, Slavery, and the Louisiana Purchase of 1803: The Incorporation of the Territory of Orleans
Jennifer M. Spear
On December 20, 1803, residents of New Orleans gathered at the Place d'Armes in the city center to watch as the French flag was lowered and the flag of the United States was raised in its place. Toasts were made to the US president, the French First Consul, and the Spanish king (whose flag had been lowered in a similar ceremony just twenty days earlier), and the celebrations continued throughout the night. The following day, however, began the process of determining just what it meant now that Louisiana was a part of the United States, initiating the first great test for the United States of its ability to expand its borders, incorporating both territories and peoples. The treaty ratifying the transfer, signed in Paris the previous April 30th, promised that "the inhabitants of the ceded territory shall be incorporated in the Union of the United States" where they would experience "the enjoyment of all these rights, advantages and immunities of citizens of the United States." These inhabitants included thousands of people of French and Spanish descent, several thousand slaves of African descent, and about fifteen hundred free people of at least partial African ancestry; most of these inhabitants spoke French or (far fewer) Spanish and practiced Catholicism. In addition, the territory was home to tens of thousands of indigenous peoples, many of whom still lived on traditional territories and under their own sovereignty. For a few inhabitants of what would become the Territory of Orleans and later the state of Louisiana, incorporation did lead to "the enjoyment of all these rights" and gave some small grain of truth to Thomas Jefferson's hope that the trans-Mississippi region would undergird the United States as an "empire of liberty," although even for Europeans of French and Spanish ancestry, the process was neither easy nor uncontested. For most, however, incorporation led to the expansion of the United States as an empire of slavery, one built upon the often violent dispossession of native peoples of their lands and the expropriated labor of enslaved peoples of African descent.
Race and the Origins of Plantation Slavery
Justin Roberts
"Twenty and odd" Africans arrived in Virginia aboard a Dutch vessel in 1619 shortly after permanent colonization of the English Americas began. There has been significant academic debate about whether the enslavement of peoples of African descent in England's early 17th-century colonies was an inevitable or "unthinking decision" and about the nature and degree of anti-black racism during the 17th century. The legal and social status of African peoples was more flexible at first in the English colonies than it later became. Some Africans managed to escape permanent enslavement and a few Africans, such as Anthony Johnson, even owned servants of their own. There was no legal basis for enslavement in the British Americas for the first several decades of settlement and slave and servant codes emerged only gradually. Labor systems operated by custom rather than through any legal mechanisms of coercion. Most workers in the Americas experienced degrees of coercion. In the earliest years of plantation production, peoples from Africa, Europe, and the Americas often toiled alongside each other in the fields. Large numbers of Native Americans were captured and forced to work on plantations in the English Americas and many whites worked in agricultural fields as indentured and convict laborers. There were a wide variety of different kinds of coerced labor beyond enslavement in the 17th century and ideas about racial difference had yet to become as determinative as they would later be. As the staple crop plantation system matured and became entrenched on the North American mainland in the late 17th and early 18th centuries and planters required a large and regular supply of slaves, African laborers became synonymous with large-scale plantation production. The permeable boundaries between slavery and freedom disappeared, dehumanizing racism became more entrenched and U.S.-based planters developed slave codes premised on racial distinctions and legal mechanisms of coercion that were modeled on Caribbean precedents.
Women and Reproduction in the United States during the 19th Century
Shannon K. Withycombe
Throughout the 19th century, American women experienced vast changes regarding possibilities for childbirth and for enhancing or restricting fertility control. At the beginning of the century, issues involving reproduction were discussed primarily in domestic, private settings among women's networks that included family members, neighbors, or midwives. In the face of massive social and economic changes due to industrialization, urbanization, and immigration, many working-class women became separated from these traditional networks and knowledge and found themselves reliant upon emerging medical systems for care and advice during pregnancy and childbirth. At the same time, upper-class women sought out men in the emerging profession of obstetrics to deliver their babies in hopes of beating the frightening odds against maternal and infant health and even survival. Nineteenth-century reproduction was altered drastically with the printing and commercial boom of the middle of the century. Families could now access contraception and abortion methods and information, which was available earlier in the century albeit in a more private and limited manner, through newspapers, popular books, stores, and from door-to-door salesmen. As fertility control entered these public spaces, many policy makers became concerned about the impacts of such practices on the character and future of the nation. By the 1880s, contraception and abortion came under legal restrictions, just as women and their partners gained access to safer and more effective products than ever before. When the 19th century closed, legislatures and the medical profession raised obstacles that hindered the ability of most women to limit the size of their families as the national fertility rate reached an all-time low. Clearly, American families eagerly seized opportunities to exercise control over their reproductive destinies and their lives.


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Cannondale call their new SuperSix EVO an evolution of the current bike. While everything about it is claimed to be better — weight, stiffness, strength, compliance and aerodynamics — they acknowledge that it's born from the SuperSix pedigree, meaning it's an all-round road racer. Here, Matt Pacocha delves into the construction process that's created such an extraordinary bike.
First things first: weight
A 56cm SuperSix EVO frame is said to weigh just 695g. While some manufacturers' claimed weights at launch later prove to be way off the mark, Cannondale's figure is a 'normalized' weight provided by third-party testers Zedler Fahrradtechnik.
To ensure bikes from different brands can be accurately compared, the German company use a protocol which adds or subtracts grams to/from the bare frame weight to account for items like derailleur hangers, seat clamps, headset type and even sloping frame geometry (sloping frames need longer seatposts) to make sure everything, save for the components, is accounted for.
Actual weights for the new EVO vary by graphics and paint package. The Ultimate model's matte finish is the lightest at 727g; the clear coated frame, sold as the base model equipped with SRAM Red, weighs 750g; and the painted models that include white are 800g to 810g. The team paintjob is the heaviest Cannondale offer, adding roughly 60g over a normal clear coat.
The base EVO comes in a clearcoated carbon package, which happens to be the second lightest frame, at 750g, next to the Ultimate model
"Target weight wasn't my biggest problem," said Peter Denk, Cannondale's director of technology. "The first bikes were very light, but the next step was bringing stiffness into the frame. We added some stiffness fibers and increased the weight of the frame a little bit, and we came up with the new stiffness-to-weight record [according to Zedler]."
Why so light, you might ask, especially since the UCI continue to enforce a minimum complete bike weight limit of 6.8kg (15lb). For amateur riders unconstrained by the governing body's regulations there are clear benefits, but there are advantages for WorldTour racers too. "It affords the [team] riders the ability to run SRMs [powermeters] all the time," Chris Peck, Cannondale's vice president of R&D, told BikeRadar. "They also like to use alloy handlebars."
"We use the team to test product, even if we have to put weight in it for them to use it," Peck added. "We wouldn't understand anything about the product if we made special team bikes." Cannondale have made something special for the team, however: a range of precisely calibrated, plastic coated, steel slugs that they use to bring the weight of the new bike up to the UCI limit. They've even made slugs to account for the different weights of the wheelsets the team use, so that they can always be at the limit and not over.
The rear derailleur cable is routed internally on the SuperSix EVO
Feature wise, the EVO sports an almost all-carbon design; the only metal found is in the seat clamp, front derailleur boss and rear derailleur hanger. The headset cups and dropouts are carbon fibre, and the frame uses SRAM's Press-Fit30 design so that it too can be made solely of carbon. But simply describing the featureset doesn't do justice to just how much work went into the new EVO frame.
Cannondale are especially pleased with their new rear dropout design. "The EVO chainstay dropout is completely hollow," said Denk. "Compared to one of the lightest frames on the market, only by this technology we save 34g [17g per side]. In addition to that, our fibers run along the chainstay through the outside of the dropout so the stiffness is higher than a lug type dropout. It's a key technology as to why this frame is so light."
"I remember very early in the project when Peter discovered this and he called me all excited and said, 'I have an entirely new concept for a dropout'," said Peck. "I said, 'that's a really small metal or carbon part, how much weight can be saved?' and he said, '17g per side'. And I knew; that's a lot. With a carbon frame at this level sometimes you're fighting for 1g, 2g or 3g — 17g per side, that's fantastic."
Stiffer, stronger, smoother and more aerodynamic
While many companies can build light bikes, this often involves a compromise when it comes to stiffness or strength. Cannondale say they've avoided this on the SuperSix EVO. The new bike is said to boast the best stiffness-to-weight ratio in the business, based on Zedler archived test data. Cannondale claim a 20 percent increase in full-frame torsion stiffness over the SuperSix. According to Vand, this makes it their most precise, best descending bike yet.
Cannondale say the new bike is also stronger than the SuperSix, a claim that's backed by the use of the brand's Ballistic Carbon — a material introduced on their mountain bikes and used to create the super-light Flash and Jekyll. The material uses a blend of high strength fibers, which were originally developed for ballistic body armor, for its main structure. The high strength fiber is then 'tuned' with high modulus fibers laid in an intricate stepped manner along the sides of the tubes to offer precisely engineered stiffness attributes.
Finally, these two 'performance' fibers are laid over another fiber with higher elongation properties; this third, innermost layer acts as a sort of safety net which will bend instead of break if the more brittle outer layers fail. The result, according to Cannondale, it that the EVO is even stronger than their workhorse CAAD9 aluminum frame. The company say that the EVO was mostly finished a year ago and had passed all CEN testing, but because it narrowly failed one of their internal strength tests they continued working on it for another year before offering it up for sale.
The EVO's Speed Save stays are dramatically flattened
The EVO features a new design, which Cannondale are calling Speed Save, that acts as a sort of micro suspension for the bike. This engineered flex, which comes directly from the Flash mountain bike, is employed in two key areas of the bike: at the dropouts (on both the fork and chain/seatstays) and in the seat tube. "We're not using Speed Save for rider comfort, but more for the performance of the bike," said Peck. "The suspension in a Formula One car isn't to keep the driver comfortable… [it's] to help keep the wheels and the tires connected to the track... We want the frame and fork to have some compliance to help the wheels stay in contact with the pavement better and to give that sensation of floating."
Cannondale claim that Speed Save improves the bike's acceleration, rolling efficiency and cornering grip. The chain- and seatstays are ovalized so that they can bend vertically, creating a micro suspension system, while maintaining lateral rigidity. Conceptually, it makes sense — the tubes want to bend vertically in the flattened area yet strongly resist any sort of lateral bending in the same area. The fork uses a similar design, and Cannondale have also increased the curvature of the legs to promote this bending, while keeping the offset the same by repositioning the dropouts.
The Delta seat tube is also borrowed from the Flash, but it's been refined, through its carbon layup, so it can be used with any seatpost; the Flash depends on a proprietary post to meet a similar end. The seat tube is molded as one piece with the bottom bracket shell, with a lugged connection to the down tube and tube-to-tube connection with the chainstays. It changes from round at the top to oval at the bottom.
A look at the ovalized connection between the bottom bracket and Delta seat tube
High-modulus stiffening fibers are laid solely on the drive and non-drive sides of the Delta seat tube, so that it can flex forwards and backwards. This fore-aft flex, which is designed into the fork steerer and legs as well, is achieved using a sort of basket weave of Cannondale's Ballistic Carbon at 40º and 70º angles. (Unidirectional carbon is extremely strong in tension, so if it's laid vertically along the front and rear of the tube it won't flex; by angling it, Cannondale encourage flex in such a direction.)
By reducing key tube diameters on the new EVO, Cannondale claim to have cut aerodynamic drag by 20 percent compared to the SuperSix. The head tube taper has been reduced to 1-1/8in to 1-1/4in, which drops its outside diameter by 11 percent, the fork blades are 15 percent thinner and the down tube is 20 percent smaller, bringing the frontal area of the new bike, and thus its drag coefficient, down.
Cannondale point out that the rider is 80 percent of the aerodynamic equation and while they believe in the use of a very wide top tube, they've modified its shape to that of a subtle hourglass so the rider can bring their knees in closer to the tube to allow a knee-in pedaling position. Regardless of its aerodynamic affect, this shape will be appreciated biomechanically by many riders, especially if they pedal knees-in and tend to come into contact with large top tubes.
Engineering behind the carbon construction
Cannondale have stuck with mostly round tubes for the EVO because they believe these give a better blend of stiffness and aerodynamics than squared tubes. The frame is built in three sections: a one-piece top tube, head tube and seat tube assembly; a seat tube and bottom bracket lug component; and a one-piece monocoque chain- and seatstay unit.
To achieve their target weight, Cannondale's frame builders have to make sure the carbon layers are placed precisely and stay where they're laid during the molding process. To achieve this precision they use a preformed EPS (expandable polystyrene) mandrel that's latex dipped. The carbon plies are laid over the mandrel, in tension so they stay placed, and the latex then serves as the expandable molding bladder in the curing process.
The sections are then joined using whatever method Cannondale have deemed most appropriate for the forces that connection or tube sees. The down tube joins to the bottom bracket via a lugged connection, which is heavy, but has purpose. By doubling the wall thickness in an engineered point on the down tube, by way of the lug, Cannondale say they can can drastically reduce tube deformation and subsequent torsional bending by even the most aggressive professional sprinters. Apparently they'd been prototyping tubes with 'stiffening rings' on their insides, but realized the lug has the same effect, while also serving as the connection.
A 'continuous carbon' layup is used on the EVO's PressFit30 bottom bracket shell
The chain- and seatstays are attached using a tube-to-tube process, in which the components are bonded with an industrial adhesive and then wrapped with pre-preg carbon sheets. The key, however, to Cannondale's construction process and the way they keep weight so low and stiffness high, is their new 'continuous carbon' layup. Loops of high-modulus carbon fiber travel from the chainstay, over the joint, around the bottom bracket and then back over the connection, effectively turning it into a continuous layer. This 'continuous carbon' design is also used on the down tube lug, up the seat tube and between the seatstays and top tube.
A second new layup process is also used on the EVO frame. Cannondale's 'graduated layering' process involves the use of overlapping carbon stiffening layers along the sides of the tubes. These stiffening layers don't have common starting and ending points, rather they're staggered and precisely built up in areas where loads are the highest. For example, they may start as just one ply at the end of the tube and build up toward the middle where the tube needs the most help resisting lateral and torsional flex.
Key to the system: Cannondale's force maps
The EVO's low weight and high claimed strength is the result of using the minimum amount of material in the most efficient way possible. To make sure the bike would stand up to real-world riding forces, Cannondale created 'force maps' using two databases that no-one else in the industry has access to. These contain over 30 years' worth of lab testing and data acquisition, including feedback from Liquigas-Cannondale team riders.
Ted Ciamillo's carbon Gravitas brake and the EVO's 'Thinline' seatstays
The maps not only show typical load mapping but the direction in which the forces are traveling through the tubes. This allows Cannondale to precisely specify the carbon layup schedule, tube shape and size, all of which are then tested using FEA analysis and in the lab before heading out under riders for on-road testing.
"We've always been obsessed with testing, efficiency, building the best product for our professional athletes," said Peck. "We spend a lot of time measuring forces on a bike. Our testing lab can simulate up to 10 years of life in just a couple of days."
The future, now
In addition to the frames now in production, Cannondale have produced a version, which Denk is currently riding, that has a weight of just 630g. This weight is achieved through an entirely different layup and new material that Cannondale were remaining tight-lipped about.
At this time Cannondale have no plans to sell this model because the material and the lay-up placement tolerances are too costly to allow any sort of large-scale production. "It's far enough along that it was worth sending to Zedler," said Peck. "Maybe in the future it'll make it to market, but at the moment we made it as an R&D frame to show ourselves what we're capable of and what we can consider for the future."
Peter Denk's R&D model EVO weighs just 630g, with paint, graphics and all of its bits


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See How They Run
Production Photos
a farce in 3 acts
by Philip King
Galloping in and out of the four doors of an English vicarage are an American actor stationed with the air force in England, an ex-actress now married to a vicar, a cockney maid who has seen too many American movies, an old spinster who touches alcohol for the first time in her life, and four men in clergyman suits presenting the problem of which is which, for disguised as one is an escaped prisoner. Then enters a sedate Bishop aghast at all these goings on and the trumped up stories they tell him. Mayhem ensues as the Bishop tries desperately to figure out who is who and what stories are true.
IdaRachel Wirsing
Miss SkillionStephanie Moore
Lionel Toop Peter Balser
Penelope ToopLoni Bright
Clive WintonBen Thornton
The IntruderTanner Dornacher
The Bishop Matt Hughes
HumphreyManuel Cervantes
SergeantAlejandro Valdes
DirectorAnna K. Kurtz
Stage ManagerHolly Vrhel
Set DesignerTim Boles
Costume DesignerKaitlin Hailey
Lighting DesignerIan Wankerl


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FAA Budget Cuts: Go for the Paper Clips
If you're a student of the First Amendment�especially the part about redress of grievances�aviation gave you a great week. If you're a frustrated deficit hawk�that's my tribe�it was further cause for despair and yet another lesson in how we the people contribute mightily to tying the government into one hopelessly tangled knot.
Specifically, the Air Line Pilots Association, Airlines for America and the Regional Airline Association sued the FAA to prevent it from beginning to furlough controllers this week as a budget cutting measure. Recall that the week prior, the bipartisan Protect Our Skies Act seeks to stop the FAA from closing 149 contract control towers, again, in part, to save the $637 million the FAA must cut from its budget under the Budget Control Act of 2011, otherwise known as sequestration.
The lawsuit claims that the petitioning groups would be irreparably harmed by the controller furloughs and that the cuts aren't necessary anyway. Lending support to the claim that the FAA is just trying to cause the public pain in order to extract more money from the national wallet, Sen. Tom Coburn said the agency could make smarter cuts, including reduced spending on consultants, supplies and travel�the paper clip strategy. Coburn said the FAA could save even larger sums by trimming the airport improvement program. He failed to mention, however, that pork-seeking legislators in 2011 made the Airport Grant-in-Aid program exempt from budget cutting, effectively making it aviation's version of entitlements. Coburn, at least, voted against the Budget Control Act.
Let's break this down. No one really knows how disruptive the controller furloughs will be, but they will be disruptive to some degree. While there may be some room for fat trimming in the workforce, cutting the typical Center or TRACON shift by 20 percent isn't the way to go about it and, as Coburn rightly points out, there must surely be better ways to trim fat. It's thus easy to see why the lawsuit has merit even if it's not possible to know if a court will see it that way.
Implicit in the lawsuit's pleading and Coburn's argument is that budget cutting can be done intelligently and with finesse to spread cuts around evenly. But, perversely, Congress and the administration specifically designed the Budget Control Act to be the nuclear option, with cuts so draconian that they would never be enacted, thus forcing Congress to the table to enact responsible budget reform. Never happened and even though agencies like the FAA don't need encouragement to engage in meat cleaver budgeting, that's exactly what the Budget Control Act did and continues to do. Thus, redress comes via the courts.
Coming full circle back to the tower closures, it's not all the fault of Congress. Our advocacy groups�with AOPA as the leading example�argued forcefully that none of the 149 should be closed and with the whiff of pork in the breeze, the bi-partisan Protect Our Skies Act seeks to keep the lights on in all of them. (It should really be called the Government-Funded Full Employment Act.) Here, AOPA had an opportunity to engage in the special interest version of Coburn's smart budgeting that we could all cheer, but instead, it saw the issue as a fund raising opportunity to sustain what looks ever more like a hedge fund operation. I've gotten two fund raising letters from AOPA in as many months, one claiming the tower closures were the biggest threat GA has ever faced. Please.
Based on our surveys and e-mail, I'm confident that the sentiment among pilots and owners is overwhelmingly that some of these towers should be closed and many shouldn't have been opened in the first place. Just as assuredly, some shouldn't be closed, either. But to determine which is which requires responsible governance and management and meaningful representation from our advocacy groups.
Both are sadly lacking.
LATE A.M. MONDAY UPDATE: Well, that didn't take long. Adding this from the Tampa Airport, where my flight to Atlanta has been delayed 45 minutes due, says Delta, to "effects of the ongoing budget sequestration." So the pain begins.


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As I mentioned, designing the colors for my new store collection was my favorite part of the process. I named the colors after my favorite places and things - each evokes a special memory for me. Each week I'm going to feature a post about one of the colors to help you know exactly what the color looks like in person and to help you know the history behind it.
Privet Berry Blue
When we were planning our wedding (almost three years ago... I can't decide if it feels like 2 or 10!) I fell in love with privet berries. I loved their dusty, deep, muted blue color. They are close to a navy blue, but have a bit more of a grey undertone, instead of the royal undertone of navy.
Here is one of the long dining tables at our reception. Each menu card had a sprig of privet berries.
Here is another view of the table settings.
The other colors in our wedding were muted - Chadwick Grey, Navajo Cream & Bliss Blue - of course. The deep Privet Berry Blue really added some sophisticated contrast.
You can see more of our wedding photos here.
Isn't it funny how our favorite things happen to pop up everywhere? Before our wedding, I had only seen privet berries in the pages of Martha Stewart. Then six months later when we had moved to New England, I discovered Privet Hedges (above in winter) in East Hampton. They are everywhere. Another one of my colors in the collection is called "East Hampton Hedge" - it is a spring green sort of color... maybe I'll write a feature about that next week.
Here are the Privet Berry Blue candles made by Creative Candles (the Creative Candles name for this color is "Wedgwood").
Here I have the candles shown with the Linen Hemstitch Napkins with a "Seaside" monogram.
These are the 12" Taper candles, $10.50 for the pair.
You can also order embroidered monograms and custom printed labels in Privet Berry Blue.
Last weekend at the market, I saw a bunch of Privet Berries for sale - the first time I've ever seen them to buy. I knew I had to get them.
I used them a couple of different places - in this pitcher in the Living Room.
I also started noticing this sort of muted deep blue in other spots around my house - here the accents in the Living Room Rug have a deep blue-grey color. Do you remember the Great Rug Debate?
And here is my Seaside hat in a very Privet Berry Blue looking color... I know Seaside hat in Privet Berry Blue... things are getting a little confusing around here!
Browse the entire Color Collection of Linens, Labels & Candles, here.


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Loose Threads is this blog's message board for anything and everything.
Some things you might want to discuss:
1. Do you think the Red Sox have turned it around?
2. Your thoughts on the Phillies' chances regardless of their opponent.
3. The ever popular, who should the Mets keep or get rid of.
4. What about the Players Association sticking up for Barry Bonds?
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5. Your favorite Rolling Stones song.
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The weekend is here, which means it's time for me to rest after a busy week filled with Mila's birthday festivities. My parents came down last weekend, which was so nice. My mom helped entertain Mila and my Dad cooked dinners and served us wine at 6 o'clock. You can't really ask for anything else. But now we are getting back into reality (I still serve myself wine at 6 o'clock...but never mind). Do you have any fun plans this weekend, or are you just chillin'?
We'll be taking a blogging break on Monday (we're actually meeting up for an in-person blogging date - a rare treat!) and will be back to our regular programming on Tuesday!
Here are your lovely links:
I made this onion-apple pork tenderloin the other night and it was delicious. Even Mila loved it. And she's hard to please when it comes to meat. Thanks Sherri Lynn!
I am in love with Cozamia. Isn't her artwork just stunning? Found on Luella and June.
Yep, everyone is talking about J. Crew Fall 2012 (including us). Liz has a great roundup here.
Aren't these mini cakes the cutest?
Faux macaroons (that look delicious)!
My favorite Whitney Houston song. I can't get over her hair in this video!
P.S. Have you entered our giveaway yet from Sassyrae yet?
P.P.S. A very happy birthday to my wonderful friend Sharon.
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Monday, July 9, 2007
Trader Joe's Espresso Chocolate
It's been well over a year since I had my first Pocket Coffee. They're not easy to find in the United States, so I've been looking for an adequate locally-found replacement. I tried the Anthon Berg Coffee filled chocolates as well, but I haven't been able to find just the espresso ones (the other flavors are a little too sweet for what I'm looking for in this case).
So I was quite excited when I saw these at Trader Joe's, Espresso Chocolates. The package says that they're "Rich, Dark Chocolate filled with Liquid Espresso Coffee." Exactly what I've been looking for.
The package holds 3.88 ounces, and by my count, that's 11 or 12 individual pieces (I can't remember how many I ate ... except for "all of them.")
The pieces are about the same size and shape of Pocket Coffee (or Mon Cheri) with a pleasant little wood grain on the top. Like it's a log filled with espresso ... you know, the kind that you find in the Black Coffee Forest.
The chocolates are gorgeous and all were prefectly formed with no cracks or bleeds. Unlike the Pocket Coffee, these have no internal sugar shell (though they might form one eventually ... see above where I admit that I've already eaten them all and can't experiment). The ingredient are: Cocoa Mass, Wheat Syrup, Sugar, Lactose, Cocoa Butter, Espresso Coffee, Soy Lecithin. Now, I suspect that the Wheat Syrup and Espresso Coffee are the syrupy filling (as I can't imagine Wheat Syrup integrating well with chocolate and the Espresso filling is definitely sweet).
The filling is thicker than espresso, it's woodsy and tangy and has a good coffee flavor but also some other notes rather like molasses or barley. The chocolate shell is sweet and tasty.
I'm not quite sure who makes these for Trader Joe's, but the box says that they're made in Germany, so I don't think they're made by Ferrero (the ingredients aren't quite the same either). The package is very kind to list the caffeine content: 22 mg for a serving of 4 pieces. Compare that to a small cup (6 ounces) of brewed coffee which has 100 mgs. Sleep easy and have one in the evening!
Notes from the box:
While it recommends one bite, I like biting off one end and holding it upright, drinking the syrup center, then eating the chocolate. Melting them in your mouth is a completely different experience, because it reverses things and you get your chocolate first and an espresso chaser.
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Video: Paul Smith's Death Defying New Underwear Campaign
Nigel Campbell | October 2, 2013
Paul Smith is taking his new underwear campaigns to death defying new heights! We watched this with our jaws dropped practically to the floor--and not even for the usual reasons!
The UK designer tasked director Sébastien Montaz-Rosset and apparent daredevils Antoine Moineville and Tancrède Melet with scaling the French Alps and skywalking in their skivvies!
We almost passed out at various points and it had nothing to do with these men being practically in the buff. (Well, almost nothing.) Watch!
Thankfully, wearing Paul Smith underwear doesn't have to be such a high risk endeavor, but kudos for a very brave and exciting campaign!
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Respondents agree at a rate of 81 percent that a cap-and-trade system should auction permits to polluters and only 9 percent prefer the United States to give them away for free.
Most expert economists agree that reducing greenhouse gas emissions can help avoid a major economic malfunction, according to a survey conducted by New York University's Institute for Policy Integrity (IPI).
The institute released its findings Wednesday in a report called Economists and Climate Change: Consensus and Open Questions.
More than 84 percent of the top economic experts responding to the poll said that the effects of climate change will create significant risks to important sectors of the United States and global economies. There was near unanimity—98 percent—that a price on carbon will increase incentives for efficiency and innovation.
The survey was sent to 289 economists who published at least one article regarding climate change in the top 25 economic journals over the last 15 years—144 of those responded. By limiting the sample to the economists with the most expertise on climate change, the institute's survey achieved a high response rate and reduced the risk of error. Though the responses to the questionnaire were submitted anonymously, and not every economist responded, the caliber of expertise among the original pool ensures the high quality of the cumulative results.
Respondents to this survey have published work in highly prestigious peer-reviewed journals such as the American Economic Review or Journal of Economic Literature. These journals publish only the highest quality scholarship, including Nobel Prize winning work on the most important economic topics.
New York University School of Law Dean Richard Revesz said, "We can now say that economists agree about the severe effects of climate change on our economy, just as scientists agree about the severe effects of climate change on our planet. There is a clear endorsement for action among the economists who study this issue."
The survey found that:
"Reducing our greenhouse gas emissions is an insurance policy against what economists fear are tremendous risks to America's long-term prosperity. By limiting our carbon emissions soon, we can avoid serious damage to our economy," said Michael Livermore, IPI executive director.
IPI at New York University School of Law is a non-partisan think-tank dedicated to improving the quality of governmental decision making through balanced economic analysis. Revesz and Livermore founded IPI in 2008. Inimai M. Chettiar, a Legal Fellow at IPI, writes for Environmental Protection's Planetshed blog.


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Used Truck - 2000 Ford Expedition Eddie Bauer 2WD in San Antonio, Tx
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2000 Ford Expedition ReviewThis car review is specific to this model, not the actual vehicle for sale.
Strength, refinement and road manners.
Ford's Expedition is selling like hot cakes at least partly because it does everything it was designed to do and it does it well. Its good looks certainly don't hurt.
For 2000, power adjustable pedals are standard, while a new sonar Reverse Sensing System alerts drivers to objects behind the vehicle when backing up. Optional side-impact airbags are also available.
Two trim levels, XLT and Eddie Bauer, make up the Expedition model range. With little demand for plain, entry-level vehicles in this class, Ford equips the XLT well and the Eddie Bauer even better. Visual differences between XLT and Eddie Bauer are confined to paint and trim. Checking off items from a long list of optional equipment for the XLT blurs equipment level distinctions between the two.
XLT and Eddie Bauer trim levels are available with two-wheel drive or four-wheel drive. The Expedition derives much of its chassis and mechanical hardware from Ford's F-150 pickup.
Expedition borrows the best styling elements from the Ford F-150 pickup and Explorer sport-utility. From nose to windshield, the Expedition shares sheet metal with the F-150. From the front doors back, the Expedition has the contours of an Explorer. No panels interchange between Expedition and Explorer, but the resemblance is unmistakable.
This combination works well. The Expedition is handsome, with a sloping hoodline and rounded front end that reflect attention to aerodynamics. It's a design that pays off with improved fuel efficiency and reduced wind noise. As a matter of necessity, the sides and back are shaped more for utility than style. But clever use of trim and rounded corners provides some visual definition.
Stretching more than 17 feet from nose to tail, the Expedition is certainly no compact. There's no way to disguise that. The Ford Excursion and Chevy Suburban are even longer. Ford touts the Expedition's shorter length as a benefit when trying to fit into a garage. An Expedition will fit into some garages that are too small for a Suburban, but check yours to be sure as garage sizes vary.
The Expedition's generous outside dimensions provide for a large, commodious interior. Two seating configurations are available. Ordered with optional front bucket seats and a center bench, the Expedition can comfortably haul five passengers. Ordered with the standard front full-width seat and center bench makes room for six passengers. Well-padded chairs provide comfortable seating.
The optional third-row bench provides seating for two more passengers -- three if they are small. Getting in and out of the third seat requires some agility, though, so it helps if they are small and young. Our XLT came with attractive color-keyed door- and dash panels, power windows, mirrors and door locks, air conditioning, a tilt steering wheel and a good audio system. First- and second-row occupants get separate heating, ventilation and air conditioning controls; a third set of controls for the third seat is optional.
A curved dashboard houses instruments and controls where they can easily be reached. An optional large center console offers additional storage space and a place for front-seat occupants to rest their arms. The Eddie Bauer comes with an overhead console with a digital display that provides compass headings, date and time and average fuel economy; a switch operates power swing-out rear quarter windows.
Attractive and durable materials are used throughout the Expedition's cabin. Soft-touch coverings are applied to switches and door panels. The window switches are lighted internally at night, a nice touch that not all vehicles carry. Optional adjustable pedals allow the driver to adjust the pedal cluster at the touch of a dashboard-mounted switch. With a range of adjustment of three inches, this feature allows shorter drivers to find a more comfortable driving position with greater ease.
Driving Impression
From the driver's seat, you can't help but notice the size of the Expedition. Speed-sensitive variable-assist power steering works in the driver's favor by keeping steering effort low. Brake pedal feel is light, yet precise. Lots of large windows, along with big mirrors, make it easy to see in all directions. Extra care and attention is required when maneuvering in close-quarters, however.
The ride quality is good, though it is not as soft as that of a traditional family sedan or wagon. The two-wheel-drive Expedition is slightly smoother on the highway, but both two- and four-wheel-drive versions ride nicely considering their size and weight. An advantage of the Expedition's long wheelbase is a resistance to pitching over freeway expansion joints and other irregularities. When driven on back roads, the Expedition does not lean unduly in corners, nor does the front end dive excessively under hard braking.
An optional load-leveling system ($815) uses compressed air to compensate for varying loads while improving ride quality. Built into the system is a one-inch increase in ride height. When parked, the system can make the Expedition 4x4 kneel down to lower the step-in height, which makes getting in and out of the vehicle easier.
Four-wheel-drive Expeditions are more competent off road than their size and fancy trimmings suggest. While serious rock-climbing is not suggested, occasional forays off the beaten path can be undertaken without fear of being left stranded. By simply turning a rotary knob on the dashboard, the driver can choose between two-wheel drive, part-time four-wheel drive, full-time four-wheel drive and low-range four-wheel drive.
Beyond the choice of two- or four-wheel drive, the buyer also chooses between two V8 engines. The 4.6-liter and 5.4-liter V8s are identical save for displacement. They are smooth and quiet. Both engines are mated to a four-speed automatic transmission.
The larger 5.4-liter unit delivers extra pulling power for full passenger loads and heavy trailers. The 5.4-liter V8 produces 345 foot-pounds of torque, enabling it to pull a trailer of up to 8300 pounds when ordered as a 4x2 with 16-inch wheels and the 3.73 axle ratio limited-slip rear differential ($255). An Expedition 4x4 with the smaller 4.6-liter engine and big 17-inch wheels can only muster 5500 pounds.
The Expedition offers a blend of strength, refinement, comfort, good road manners and exceptional finish quality. The lure of the Expedition is its versatility. The Expedition can carry a large family in limousine-like splendor, pull a trailer, move cargo or explore places beyond pavement's end.
Model Lineup
XLT 2WD ($29,750); Eddie Bauer 2WD ($36,040); XLT 4WD ($32,620); Eddie Bauer 4WD ($39,790).
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Wayne, Michigan.
Options As Tested
all-terrain tires ($230); 16-inch cast aluminum wheels ($250); limited-slip differential ($255); skid plate package ($105); trailer towing package ($390); load-leveling suspension ($815); Comfort Convenience Group ($1,495) includes captain's chairs with center floor console and six-way adjustable power driver's seat, third-row removable bench seat rear seat, rear heating and air conditioning, privacy glass, dual illuminated visor mirrors, illuminated running boards, overhead console with compass and outside temperature display.
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Expedition XLT 4x4 ($32,620).
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San Antonio, Tx. 78218
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Watchismo is proud to announce our coolest new addition, Ziiiro Watches
To celebrate our introduction of Ziiiro, Watchismo is giving away the Ziiiro Mercury to one lucky person!
ZIIIRO displays time in a simple and unique way: The tip of the inner swirl represents the current hour, while the outer swirl displays the minutes, with a continuous gradient movement showing the passing through time.
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