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Seeing the Opportunities
As superintendent of the Sioux Falls School District, Dr. Pamela Homan, class of 1981, is committed to providing students the opportunities they need today to succeed tomorrow.
If there's one thing you need to know about Dr. Pam Homan, it's this: she's never been one to shy away from a challenge. In fact, you could say she thrives under pressure.
Take a cool spring weekend in 1981, for example.
On Friday night, Homan (then Baker) was at her wedding rehearsal dinner.
By midday Saturday, she was in her wedding gown. Later that day, she married her college sweetheart, Tim Homan '81.
On Sunday morning, she was up early, getting ready for another ceremony. In her black gown and classic mortarboard, she made her way to Augustana's Commencement Ceremony to receive her college diploma.
A crazy weekend? Maybe to some. But to Homan, it was an economical and travel-friendly way for family members from various geographies to celebrate two milestone events.
Sure the planning, organizing and choreographing was hard, frenzied work – not to mention the academic commitments and professional preparation a student undertakes prior to graduating – but, in the end, it just made sense.
Finding calm amid the storm is something Homan has done well her entire life. Today, as superintendent of South Dakota's largest school district, complete with 23,000 students, 24 elementary schools, five middle schools, three traditional high schools, an alternative high school, a project-based learning high school, a career and technical education academy and one post-secondary technical institute, she has successfully led students, educators, families and community members during a decade of unprecedented social, technological and economic change.
Seeing Everything as an Opportunity
As a kid, Homan grew up in central Sioux Falls, near Garfield Elementary School. At the time, the state's orphanage was located just down the street, at the corner of 15th St. and Western Ave. Some of the residents were Homan's classmates at Garfield.
"I always reached out to them. I had a sense that they didn't have what I had in my family. I would bring them home to my house so they could experience my family. I became involved with helping kids with disabilities through the YWCA."
As a teen, Homan even helped start a Y-teen club for young girls with cognitive disabilities.
After graduating from Washington High School, she enrolled at Augustana, double-majoring in elementary education and special education.
Choosing education as her major, Homan says, was a natural fit.
"I knew that I always found myself in positions of helping others learn and helping others explore. That became an obvious fit to career."
After graduating, she took a job teaching Special Education at an elementary school in Luverne, Minn., where she served emotionally and behaviorally disturbed students and children with learning disabilities.
"I've always asked myself: 'How can I contribute to others? How can I help others see that 'there's a way' when they feel there isn't one?' I love to help others think. I never see challenges or barriers. I see everything as an opportunity."
After teaching in Luverne, Homan spent two years teaching in Webster, S.D., before accepting a position in Brandon. After her second daughter was born, she spent two years at home raising her children before returning to teaching. (Two of her three children are Augustana graduates – Fenecia, class of '05, and Betsy, class of '07.)
After what she calls "a lot of soul-searching," she decided to pursue her Master's degree.
"I had this thirst for knowledge. [With two small children and very limited income], it was hard. But I knew I wanted to step forward and lead. I can remember so many late nights, rocking a baby to sleep while trying to work on a paper. It was tough, but I made it through."
A short time after receiving her Master's degree in Education from Augustana, she was offered the chance to start a school program and lead certification initiatives for CharterHospital (a former psychiatric institution in Sioux Falls). She got the program going and got it certified in no time.
In 1990, the Sioux Falls School District invited Homan to come on board to start the "Day Adolescent Program" at McKennan Hospital, an initiative designed to serve high school students challenged with diagnoses such as post-traumatic stress syndrome, schizophrenia and adjustment disorders who couldn't function in traditional classrooms.
At the same time, she began pursuing her Ed.D. at the University of South Dakota. Following that same thirst for knowledge, she commuted to classes in Vermillion at night, on weekends and during the summer.
"Status quo feels problematic to me. I've always felt that there needs to be ways to continue to improve – to grow and to accept change. Change is a vibrant part of life."
She later served as an elementary principal in Sioux Falls and started the District's Assessment Department where she led assessment and research.
When the Superintendent's position opened up in 2004, she applied because "I felt there wasn't a better place to be."
Preparing Students to Succeed
In her current role, Homan says she sees every day as new opportunity.
"Our mission is to educate and prepare each student to succeed in a changing world. We're committed to making sure each child has the full opportunity to succeed and to go out of this school district fully able to compete and be a part of this world in which we live."
That's no small challenge in a city like Sioux Falls which, due to population growth, has experienced a surge in students, many of whom come from diverse backgrounds and live in a wide range of social and economic conditions.
"We're growing. We're growing in diversity; growing in number of students who live in poverty; growing in different family demographics. There are 57 different languages spoken in our district. Nearly 50 percent of our children live in poverty. We look at those numbers as gifts – they present a chance to serve a very diverse culture and to find opportunities for each student to succeed."
While much of her job as Superintendent is about the numbers, Homan says the core of her role is about much more. It's about the students and the educators who serve them.
"It's about each child. From day one, I've committed myself to believing that each student doesn't learn in the same way or same manner. I'm proud that we've worked relentlessly to open the doors of 'multiple pathways' so students have multiple ways to reach our goal of graduation. Each student should be valued for who they are. No child should feel like they're a failure because they didn't fit some traditional pathway."
The brick and mortar of new facilities are one thing, Homan says, but the real key to helping a student succeed is the teacher.
"I always tell people that every teacher is a leader. They model the way. They model those core values. We're about igniting the hearts and minds of our students. Teachers need to be able to inspire; they need to challenge the process when necessary; and encourage others to come into the fold. A teacher's passion invites every single child to be a part of a community of learners. Passionate teachers don't just love their subject area – they love to bring their students along with what they're teaching."
In South Dakota, the debate over what classifies a teacher as "passionate" and how that passion relates to student performance is a heated one. Following the economic crisis, the state decreased aid to K-12 education by 6.6 percent in 2011. Earlier this year, Gov. Dennis Daugaard proposed sweeping reforms to K-12 education that includes a merit pay system and the elimination of teacher tenure. In an effort to emphasize the importance of the natural sciences, Daugaard has also proposed annual bonuses for teachers who specialize in math and science.
Public reaction to Daugaard's proposal has been mixed and many in the state's education community have been critical, saying the reforms won't fix student performance and could instead, create undue competition among teachers who should be working on the same team, toward a common goal.
"Indeed, times are changing," Homan says. "But, there seems to be a mindset that one size fits all and that's not true."
"There are solutions being offered for problems that just don't necessarily exist in our school district. Right now, we need 99 elementary school teachers over the next three years. We need seven math teachers and 12 science teachers over the same period."
The bottom line, she says, is that public education shouldn't be looked at as an expense.
"It's a sad day in our society when a free, appropriate education is viewed as an expense rather than an investment. Public education lies at the core of our democracy."
The Future
Looking back, Homan reflects fondly on her time at Augustana.
"For me, it was about the Augustana Community as a whole – the people, the beliefs, the support system, the climate, culture – it all came together for me. I felt a part of it. It was a community that surrounded me with the support, the resources, the challenges and the expectations to develop myself into a better person and to prepare me for a profession I'd commit my heart and soul to."
Looking ahead, Homan says she is passionately committed to serving the Sioux Falls School District.
"Every part of me lives and breathes this school district. I see myself continuously serving here and being a relentless advocate for each child of this district so they can have the best future – so they can become contributing, great people in this world."
Homan will be the featured speaker at the Augustana Thought Leader Forum at 11:30 a.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 26. Visit www.augie.edu/thoughtleader for more details.


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We then read a little bit online about jellyfish and learned some cool facts....some of the highlights:
- Jellyfish are not fish!
- Jellyfish have no brain
- Jellyfish eat AND "go potty" through their mouth (followed by a chorus of *eeeews*)
- Some jellyfish are reeeeally big (as big as Daddy) and some can fit in the palm of your hand
- Jellyfish have long tentacles that they use to catch food, keep themselves safe, and would sting you if you touch them!
I also found this video on YouTube that we watched over and over (and over) again. Very calming and peaceful! We might work this into our bedtime routine at the end of a busy night...
Moving on- our jellyfish craft (and stArt project!)
And we continued the jellyfish theme into lunch (thereby officially earning me the Mom-and-Babysitter of the Week award, methinks!)
Check out these FUN jellyfish-hot-dog-pasta creatures! I saw this in a magazine in a Dr's office - I don't know, maybe a year ago? And thought of it just as I was pulling out hot dogs for lunch on the Day-O-Jellyfish. I just did a quick internet search and can't find the source but I'm guessing it came from Parenting, Family Circle, etc...something like that! It was so easy- I just stabbed some uncooked spaghetti into hot dog pieces and threw it all in a pot to boil. The pasta that was actually inside the hot dog was a little crunchy for Gracie's liking but the other two didn't seem to notice or mind. Fun times!
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I don't know about you, but I'm about done with winter – for some reason this one seems endlessly gray, cold and dreary.
But change is in sight, I think; this week I noticed that the days are a bit longer, with the daylight fading into darkness just a few minutes later than last week.
I found myself looking through my stack of cookbooks looking for some inspiration, and lingered over one with a beautiful image of a sun-soaked bowl of golden cherries on the cover: a collection of recipes from Gangivecchio, a restaurant in Sicily that dates back to Roman times.
I'm not sure what the weather is like in Sicily at this time of year, but somehow I feel warm imagining myself walking around the winding streets of Palermo, shopping the outdoor markets.
Lidia Bastianach, the Italian chef and cooking teacher, describes in her book Lidia's Italy how the North African summer sun gives food produced there here an intensity not found anywhere else in Italy
"…the tomatoes are sweeter, the oil is more deeply flavored, the fennel has more licorice, capers are nuttier, and the anchovies and sea urchins taste more of the sea".
Sounds good to me. In the spirit of hot summers to come, I roasted a batch of cashews and seasoned them with some of the intense tastes of Sicily: fennel, cumin, anise, hot pepper and orange.
Sicilian-Spiced Roasted Cashews
Crunchy seasoned cashews roasted for a low-carb healthy snack.
- 2 egg whites
- 2 tablespoons honey or agave nectar
- 1 tablespoon sesame seeds
- 1 1/4 teaspoons coarse salt or 1 teaspoon fine sea salt
- Freshly ground black peppercorns, to taste
- 1/4 teaspoon each: ground cumin, fennel, cayenne, paprika, anise seed
- 3 cups raw whole cashews
- Grated fresh orange or tangerine zest
- Heat oven to 325 degrees.
- Whisk together all ingredients except the cashews and zest until combined. Toss in the cashews and stir them around until they're evenly coated.
- Spread the cashews on a baking sheet in one layer. Bake 20 -25 minutes, stirring after 10 minutes, until golden brown and fragrant. Cool on a rack - they will crisp up after about 10 minutes. Grate orange zest over the cashews while still warm.
Nutrition Information:
Serving Size:1
Amount Per Serving: Calories: 230Total Fat: 16gSaturated Fat: 3gTrans Fat: 0gUnsaturated Fat: 12gCholesterol: 0mgSodium: 629mgCarbohydrates: 18gFiber: 2gSugar: 7gProtein: 6g


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There's a major change happening in products for your skin and hair care regimen in reaction to growing consumer demand for products with fewer or no toxic substances. Health-conscious folks are looking for ways to cut the load of toxins that enter their bodies, and environmentalists are increasingly pointing at what they call "non-point sources" of pollution to our waterways. Unlike, say, a factory dumping waste into a river (which is a "point source," a growing part of the chemicals that make their way into our waterways are coming from our own homes — working their way into the fish and other animals that share our ecosystem. And plenty of people are erring on the side of caution: The truth is that most chemicals in our personal care products are on the Food and Drug Administration's GRAS list (Generally Recognized as Safe), which means that the chemicals haven't necessarily been tested for safety — just that they haven't been proven to cause health problems yet.
So now that you have the curiosity and the motivation, here's how you can green your skin and hair care regimen.
Don't try to do it all at once: We all have products we love and depend on, and the best way to stick with less-toxic versions of those products is to find a replacement that really works for you. The good news is that unlike old natural products, new formulations work just as well as chemically laden ones.
Choose two or three products to replace first. These should be the ones that you use the most often; usually, your body soap, hand soap, shampoo and moisturizer are the most regularly used products. After you have replaced those, move on to things you use less often, like face masks, shaving creams and hair treatments.
Do some research: With your favorite old products in hand, check out the Skin Deep Cosmetics Database. You can enter the products' names and find out how toxic they really are. The site provides a simple 1-10 rating system (with the higher number being most toxic). Sometimes what you are already using might score low on the toxicity scale, which might mean that you want to keep it around.
You will probably find that some or all of your existing products contain chemicals that are linked with health issues or negative health consequences (you can dig deep into the research on Skin Deep and see the chemicals' effects). This is where you have to make a decision for yourself, based on your life: Are some mildly toxic chemicals OK? Are you looking for completely chemical-free products? The Cosmetics Safety Database will explain the various levels and their potential impacts.
Start shopping: If you have a good local health food store or Whole Foods (which independently evaluates its bath and body products) near you, these stories are a great place to start. The experts there can help guide you to what's popular, what works, and which products are the most natural and organic. Not all natural or organic products are completely chemical-free, so be sure to do your homework, even on products from health food stores. You can also find some natural brands at retailers like Target and Walmart.
Other places to find natural products for your skin and hair care regimen are online beauty stores that are kind of like Sephora, but with toxin-free products; each of the sites below vets all the products it sells and includes ingredients listings.
You also might consider trying a subscription natural beauty trial system, like Goodebox, which sends a curated box of trial-size natural beauty products each month, so you can decide what you like without making the commitment (or creating the waste) of full-sized products.
Try new products: Give some time to try out new natural and organic products; while most of them will work similarly to the conventional products you have been using, there might be some differences. For instance, most natural products foam or suds less — which doesn't mean that they are cleaning less effectively. The high volumes of foam in conventional hand soaps and shampoos are the result of chemicals and are not indicative of cleaning power.
That being said, not all natural products will be right for you — just as with chemically laden drugstore brands, some will work with your skin and hair, and some won't. Keep going if you end up with a product you don't like.
If costs end up being a concern to you (most natural products do cost more than the cheapest drugstore brands, but about the same as mid-range conventional brands), consider investing in larger jugs or containers of products that work for you. Buying bulk online or in the store will save money and packaging too. You can always keep pretty jars or containers in the shower and refill them if you don't want big jugs in your bathing area. Another way to save money is to make some of your own products; body scrubs and shaving creams are the easiest to whip up, and tend to be the most expensive to buy.


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Weve all be there. Standing at the chalkboard, (remember chalkboards?) we've all forgotten to carry the two, or made the cardinal sin of mathematics by attempting to divide by zero. Hey, it happens to the best of us sometimes.
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Twitter Throws Japan a Lifeline
The natural disaster that struck Japan in March of 2011 came with serious consequences — nearly 16,000 fatalities and upward of 2,800 people unaccounted for, at last count. Since then, the government of Japan has worked on disaster preparedness contingency plans in case of another massive earthquake.
The country may have a little more help (outside of the Red Cross, that is). Twitter's Tokyo team launched "Lifeline" on Friday evening, a feature that allows users in Japan to more easily locate Twitter accounts that deliver pertinent local information in the case of another disaster.
So, according to Twitter's example, if an earthquake hit in Yokohama, all a user would need to do is type in their postal code on Twitter.com. Lifeline brings up a list of relevant Twitter accounts from local media outlets and utility companies that service residents of that particular area code.
As of today, the service is only available in Japan; Twitter has joined the Prime Minister's Lifeline Commission, and worked with different levels of government to get the project off the ground. But the company hopes to go beyond Japan at some point: "Since Twitter often becomes a de facto lifeline during crises everywhere, we hope to eventually expand this functionality to more locations around the world," product manager Jinen Kamdar wrote in a company blog post.
Which makes sense. Twitter has played a role in global events for years now, from the Arab Spring uprisings to the Occupy Wall Street movement more recently. And there's the more relevant example to Lifeline, in which survivors of the 2010 earthquake that devastated Haiti used Twitter to raise funds and, in some instances, find survivors among the wreckage.
Of note: Another social network, Nextdoor, is already trying to do something somewhat similar to Twitter's Lifeline program. Nextdoor is aimed primarily at neighborhoods, and is working with local government in select cities to provide updates to residents in particular neighborhoods on civic issues, with local government playing a role in doing the broadcasting of information.
The problem with initiatives like Nextdoor's and Twitter's, however, is that, obviously, not all residents are social-media-savvy, or even signed up for the service. So government still must rely on more traditional broadcast media — namely television and radio — to reach constituents. In other words, don't expect the Emergency Broadcast System to go away overnight.
Still, these types of programs are beneficial for both the social networks and the government agencies that adopt them: Politicians and the city get to provide their citizens with more services, usually with little additional overhead, while social networks get the added benefit of more distribution to wider, non-techie demographics.
Self-interested or not, more safety measures are almost always a good thing. Let's just hope we don't need to put them to use anytime soon.


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alexh wrote:FPGA is too small to do anything great. MiST FPGA is approx 200% bigger FPGArcade is about 500% bigger
farvardin wrote:very nice, but expensive as hell!
alexh wrote:FPGA is too small to do anything great. MiST FPGA is approx 200% bigger FPGArcade is about 500% bigger
Dal wrote:Some could argue this is what allows the Spectrum Next to retain some of the spirit of the original machine.
Greenious wrote:In many ways, this is like someone designing an ST(E), with integrated accelerator, FPU, hardware overscan + other hardware improvements people have come up with over the years, added HDMI/VGA output, SD-card etc while still keeping all the ST's ports and thrown in a few more videomodes with a spriteengine for good measure, made it fit in an ST case or designed a new atari-inspired one, all for the price of buying an all out pimped STE. without the hassle...
Looking at the kickstarter, they got like 1450 backers, 60 of them opt for the board only, more than 1300 is going for the out-of-the-box ready experience at double the price. ie, the case alone is to most worth more than what is under the hood.
While I adore MiST, IMHO, putting just a stock ST(E) in an FPGA in a plain black box without most of the original ports alienates a huge potential audience. My friends can go gaga over my old ataris/retrogear, but to them, the MiST has no soul whatsoever.
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That's an interesting point of view. I too am a fan of MiST, and the work done on some cores, including the Spectrum one, is incredible. What does the Spectrum Next offer over a FPGA board like the MiST? For some, I think that the Spectrum name, and the case design, carries more weight than the contents.
A MiST is cheaper than a Next, its Spectrum core has a faster maximum CPU speed than the Next ("accelerator" aside (which is Pi Zero)), and the MiST has the FPGA space to run many more cores. However, as you suggest, the packaging itself makes a difference - witness many positive comments made about simple case renderings. If your MiST was hidden inside a ST case, maybe even making use of the original keyboard, would that give it a soul?
The "enhancements" are also interesting (sprites, 256 colour modes), but that got me thinking as well. This "new" Spectrum will only be known to a few, so is it really a Spectrum at all? That then raises a further question about plugging together parts to make a new core (rather like the MiST tutorials, where a CPU is added to a video generator) - based on the features and cores already available for MiST, what would you pick and chose to put into a totally new MiST computer? A 68020 CPU? SID sound? A video mode from an existing machine (tile mode from the MegaDrive perhaps)?
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Eric Jaffe is the former New York bureau chief for CityLab. He is the author of A Curious Madness and The King's Best Highway.
It's difficult to categorize Jarrett Walker's excellent new book, Human Transit. It's not quite for a popular audience, though it's written with engaging ease. It's not for academics, though it's as thorough as most published research and far more approachable. It's not strictly for a policy audience, though it's fresh grist for any transit wonk's mill.
Its closest literary cousin may be a good language book, for it feels capable of teaching anyone, beginner or beyond, to speak Transit more fluently.
Walker, a consultant known for his Human Transit blog, sees his audience as "a curious and thoughtful person who cares about whether we find our way to more rational forms of urban mobility." To that end he clarifies many misguided perceptions held by those concerned with better transit development.
Instead of focusing on speed, we should elevate frequency; instead of debating technology (e.g. light rail v. bus) we should consider geometry; instead of glorifying direct service we should build more connections; instead of linking transit with restraint we should associate it with the "freedom to move."
Walker recently offered a few more transit insights to the humans who read Atlantic Cities.
You've been writing the Human Transit blog for some time. What made you decide to turn those ideas into a book?
The book was urgently needed. Twenty years as a transit planning consultant had convinced me that the greatest obstacle to better public transit is that well-intentioned people, including many opinion leaders and activists, simply don't understand it. Most have never seen a readable explanation of how transit works as a tool, or of the real choices it requires us to make.
I suspect that's why much of the public discussion of transit is about externalities (emissions, economic outcomes, fun, "look and feel," and so on) while strikingly little is about helping people to get where they're going, or to access more of the city easily.
For years, transit professionals have lamented the absence of a clear and friendly book that would explain transit network design, the trade-offs it requires, and what it implies for sustainable urban form. Human Transit is meant to be that book. It's not about imposing my values, but giving you the tools you need to advocate yours.
The subtitle of your book emphasizes "clearer thinking about public transit." Is there something about the subject of public transportation that invites confusion?
Most influential people in our society are motorists, which means they instinctually understand how roads work. If that's your reality, you may unconsciously try to think about transit in those terms. But transit is just not like roads, and if you haven't stopped to think about the differences, you can make innocent but consequential mistakes.
The most obvious "motorist's error" is confusion about frequency. In urban transit, frequency is freedom. Frequency is how transit approximates the freedom that's inherent in your car or bike. Frequency also governs waiting, which is everyone's least favourite part of using transit. Finally, frequency determines how well lines can fit together into a network, so that you can go anywhere easily, not just to points in one line.
Motorists rarely have to wait long periods before they can go anywhere, as you do on an infrequent transit service, so they often don't "get" how crucial frequency is, even if they understand it in the abstract. All I can say is: "Imagine a gate at the end of your driveway that opens only once every 30 minutes." Motorists making transit decisions need to ask themselves if they're valuing frequency enough. Because once you do, you see transit issues very differently.
You talk a lot about the advantages of building a transit service that runs at all times of the day, as opposed to one that exists primarily to serve the peak hours. What's the main benefit of all-day service?
In a low-density outer suburban area, most people consider transit only for the peak commute into a city, because driving a car is the rational thing to do for most other trips. So they care about peak-only service. There's nothing wrong with that.
But inside denser cities, and anywhere that you want to encourage more sustainable transport choices, transit needs to be there all day, for all of life's purposes.
Neither of these perspectives is wrong, but they imply utterly different kinds of service. Futile arguments arise when one person has a peak-commute focus while the other has an all-day focus, and they're not aware that this is the essence of their disagreement. The balance between a peak focus and an all-day focus is one of several questions that arise unavoidably from the geometry of transit, and that communities should be urged to think about.
You also make a convincing case that connections (or transfers) can often reduce travel time and create simpler, more useful networks. How do you get communities and transit riders to buy into a "connections are good" mindset?
Connections are a tough issue. I devote two chapters to them and they probably need their own book. But the geometry of transit presents us with a simple choice. You can accept the need for connections and in return get simplicity, high frequency, and a high degree of personal freedom for the customer. Or you can try to avoid connections by running a few direct services from everywhere to everywhere else. That approach yields low frequency and a network so complicated that nobody dares to explore it outside of the one or two routes they know how to use. One of the chapters is called "Connections or Complexity?" Because that really is the choice.
You explain that low-density suburbs must choose between cost-effective transit or high-quality transit. Why can't they have both?
Because the design of the typical low-density suburb makes it geometrically impossible. Yelling at your transit agency or elected officials won't change the facts of geometry. Once you see that, you can move beyond blame and start thinking about what kind of transit is reasonable in each situation.
You can also think about how suburbs and cities could be better designed to avoid creating barriers to good transit. The book is about urban planning, not just transit, because we desperately need planners, developers, and architects to understand what makes transit efficient, and therefore abundant. (Remember: wherever resources are limited, efficiency and abundance are the same thing.) I've seen too many development plans — even self-proclaimed "sustainable" or "transit-oriented" ones — where the geometry ensures that transit will be inefficient, and therefore sparse.
The book also suggests much better futures that might arise with more transit-conscious planning. For example, the typical suburban boulevard lined with car-based commercial strips could be the site of superb transit and incremental, affordable redevelopment, because it's well suited to the geometry of efficient transit. Achieving this vision will require street designers and transit planners to think together much more creatively, but there are great possibilities for transit in that built form.
A similar dilemma exists with the "contradictory mission" between ridership and coverage goals. What's the most important thing for people to understand about why these missions can't coexist?
Ask yourself: What would my transit system look like if ridership (and cost recovery) were its only goal? I've been staring at ridership statistics for over 20 years, and the pattern is the same everywhere. Top performing services are usually either commuter express routes that run only when they're crowded or a network of all-day high-frequency services covering areas of medium to high density. So like any business, a network whose sole goal was ridership would focus on those successful products. They would run little or no all-day service to low-density suburbs, because ridership on that product is predictably low.
So when transit agencies do run that low-ridership service, as most do, it doesn't mean they're failing, as anti-transit conservatives often assume. It just means they have a goal other than ridership. Coverage goals, often expressed by a policy like "95 percent of population will be within walking distance of service" cause service to be spread out over large areas despite low ridership.
There's nothing wrong with either goal, but they're competing goals. So I offer tools for how to think about the choice between them. Reno's transit agency, for example, has adopted a policy about how the budget should be divided between these two goals. This is wonderful, because finally transit planners aren't attacked for reducing coverage every time they increase ridership, and vice versa.
You've been on transit systems around the world. What do you consider the most efficient ones you've ever seen — and what do they do that's so great?
Efficient (and therefore abundant) transit systems focus on the five elements of useful service: frequency, duration, speed, reliability, and capacity. They choose technologies not just for emotional appeal but for the ability to deliver those outcomes. When they do this, the results are often very emotionally appealing, because people love to get where they're going, and to move freely and spontaneously around their city.
For example, you may not think of Paris as a bus city, but in the last decade Paris has created bus lanes on virtually every boulevard, all over the city. Imagine how many decades it would take for an American city to do that. They didn't just do one incomplete and compromised demonstration project in anxious hopes of public approval, because they realised the public wouldn't see the benefit unless they delivered speed and reliability across a large network. So they did it, creating bus lanes (and bike lanes) at the expense of cars. Suddenly the bus system is a rational and obvious choice for getting around Paris, so people use it.
Meanwhile, the buses now appearing in Paris are beautifully transparent. Riding a Paris bus I feel I'm still on the street, able to enjoy everything that's going on around me. Fare collection is off-board, so you don't have that awkward and time-wasting process of paying the driver. Everything about these buses conveys a sense of freedom while using them. So all kinds of people use them.
I'm also optimistic about Los Angeles, not just because its geography is superb for transit but because there's a widely shared understanding of what must be done to move forward. Its bus system gets too little respect, but it's tremendously effective at what it does and has been a leader in the "Rapid bus" revolution of the last decade.
So great things are happening in many cities, and many more great revolutions are on the cusp of happening. But to make them happen, more people need to understand the essence of how transit works, the choices it presents, and how it can serve our freedom.
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Now more than ever, public transportation is not just about ridership. Buses, trains, and subways make urban civilization possible.
The coronavirus crisis stands to dramatically reshape cities around the world. But the biggest revolutions in urban space may have begun before the pandemic.
As reports of harassment and assault against Asian Americans increase, community advocates are finding new ways to tackle the spread of xenophobia.
With cities in lockdown and workplaces closed, the big drop in traffic and transit riders allows road repair and construction projects to rush forward.
What do we know so far about the types of places that are more susceptible to the spread of Covid-19? In the U.S., density is just the beginning of the story.


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Art with 'X' appeal
As a muralist, Adriana Garcia is accustomed to dealing with the snags that come with creating art outside the confines of a studio. But the site of her latest project — the ornate ticket booth of the old Texas Theater on Houston Street — posed a challenge she hadn't dealt with before.
"The space was really small and intimate," says the 35-year-old artist. "I (thought), 'Well, I can't do the big ol' piece that I thought I was going to do.'"
Garcia is one of more than a dozen artists featured in "Cut and Paste," the latest installment of "X Marks the Art," a downtown storefront exhibition program organized by the city's Department for Culture and Creative Development.
Public Art San Antonio enlisted artist Cruz Ortiz to lead the group of artists selected in an open call to create installations in 13 vacant properties on East Houston, East Commerce and North St. Mary's streets. Each site is marked with a blocky 'X.'
As the title of the exhibition implies, artists were asked to create works that involve cutting and pasting.
The original intent was to have the artists work with sheets of colored coroplast, or corrugated plastic, which is frequently used in signage.
"The thing was that we needed something durable and something that would also look cool and kind of different," says Ortiz, who designed a 20-page zine with a screen-printed cover for the exhibition.
Not all of the artists opted to use the coroplast.
"They all used the materials differently," Ortiz says. "That was the thing, too. We didn't want to be really pushy on it, so as long as it had some element of cutting and pasting."
Garcia primarily used paper and vinyl to create delicate-looking cutouts of hummingbirds hovering among hibiscus flowers. She had previously used the image of the tiny birds, which are able to fly upward, downward and backward, in a wedding gift she made for a friend.
Initially, Garcia planned to mount the cutouts on the windows of the ticket booth, "but when I saw the space, I was like, 'How can I change it up? How can I add another dimension to it?'"
The artist, who earned her bachelor of fine arts degree from Carnegie Mellon University and also studied art at La Universidad Politecnica de Valencia in Spain, had been thinking about creating a kinetic artwork, so she went online and bought a disco ball motor for $25. Then she began exploring her options. Ultimately, she affixed the blue paper cutouts to a cylinder that rotates inside the ticket booth. The illuminated piece, titled "Nuptials," evokes an antique rotating motion lamp. Black vinyl cutouts affixed to the glass of the ticket booth add another dimension.
Nearby, Jenelle Esparza's "Us and Them" occupies three windows of the Book Building, also on Houston Street. The artist, who studied photography at UTSA, saw the project as an opportunity to explore her interest in palmistry, the practice of reading character or telling fortunes based on lines on the palm of a person's hand.
"I've always been interested in palmistry as an art form," says Esparza, 27, who has a collection of books — some "hoaxy," others "serious and scientific" — about the practice.
For the piece, Esparza collected handprints from more than 60 people, many of them artists. When she began working on the project, she tried making appointments for her subjects to have their handprints done, but soon realized their busy schedules wouldn't allow it.
"Of all of them, I was able to schedule two or three," she says. "With everyone else, I carried all of my equipment with me every day, everywhere I went — to art openings, to a bar, anywhere — and I would get five or six handprints in the night."
The installation is composed of oversized prints of the handprints, each of them spangled with a smattering of rhinestones. Strands of twine dotted with small reflective discs dangle in front of them. The piece as a whole is illuminated with sparkling string lights.
The light that some of the installations bring to vacant storefronts is one of the important aspects of the project, says District 1 Councilman Diego Bernal. "X Marks the Art" was launched in 2011 in response to his idea of activating vacant storefronts to create a more attractive environment for visitors and residents.
"People who live in San Antonio, when you ask them why they don't come downtown, there's really two or three things they say," Bernal says. "One of them is parking and one of them is that it's kind of dark in certain areas."
The Downtown Tuesday program, which features free parking at city-operated parking garages, lots and meters, was created to offer a modicum of relief to the parking problem, and "'X Marks the Art' is the other half," Bernal says. "'X Marks the Art' is taking empty storefronts, putting something in them, and lighting them. So not only does it feel safer, but it's also an opportunity to display talent, so it's sort of a two for one."
For artist Rigoberto Luna, the project was also an opportunity to point the way to an overlooked downtown institution — the Jesse James Leija/San Fernando Gym on West Travis Street.
Working from photographs, Luna created graphic images that he then used to make black vinyl cutouts. Dual images feature the gamut of boxers who train at the gym, from young kids to seasoned title-holders.
As Luna was mounting the piece on East Houston Street, passers-by stopped to talk to him.
"Because it's vinyl, it just looked like I was putting up signage" says Luna, a graphic designer who studied at Pratt Institute in New York. "It was funny because a lot of people were excited that there was going to be a gym opening there. Some people were interested in boxing, some people just wanted to get in shape, but (the gym is) literally two blocks down from where that window is, and nobody knows it's there."
Public Art San Antonio is hosting free walking tours noon to 1 p.m. and 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. Friday. The tours depart from Argo Plaza, 175 E. Houston St. Space is limited. To sign up, call 210-207-1435. A map of sites is available online at xmarkstheart.com. The zine designed by Cruz Ortiz is available at PASA Studio, 400 N. St. Mary's St.


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Only in America. With ironic boasts of how they'd "check[ed] their egos at the door" SF at the behest of producer Quincy Jones, a slew of U.S. singers lent their chops to "We Are the World," a charity song which thematically "could be regarded as tub-thumping for America." KL The lyrics naively proclaimed "the problems of the starving…to be no match for the power of positive thinking." MA Billy Joel said most of the performers didn't care for the song and that, if memory served, it was Cyndi Lauper who said to him, "It sounds like a Pepsi commercial.'" SF
Much like the soft drink giant, though, it moved a lot of product, selling over a quarter million copies in one weekend AMG and leaping to #1 in a mere three weeks, the fastest since Elton John's "Island Girl" in 1975. BR1 It was the only song to hit all five major Billboard charts of that time.
"World" was the U.S. counterpart of "Do They Know It's Christmas," a song penned by singer Bob Geldof in response to a BBC documentary he saw about the Ethiopian famine. TB He enlisted many of the U.K.'s biggest pop stars for a charity single that movingly pondered how the starving Africans would spend their holidays. The song's 3.5 million sales were bigger than the country had even seen.
Singer Harry Belafonte decided the U.S. should undertake a similar project and called manager Ken Kragen, who contacted Lionel Richie, Michael Jackson, and Jones, who had produced Jackson's Thriller. Jackson and Richie took three days to work on it individually and then came together to write the song in a matter of hours. KL On January 28, 1985, the day of the American Music Awards, 46 recording artists gathered to record the song in a 12-hour session. SF Vocalists, appearing in order, included: Lionel Richie, Stevie Wonder, Paul Simon, Kenny Rogers, James Ingram, Tina Turner, Billy Joel, Michael Jackson, Diana Ross, Dionne Warwick, Willie Nelson, Al Jarreau, Bruce Springsteen, Kenny Loggins, Steve Perry, Daryl Hall, Huey Lewis, Cyndi Lauper, Kim Carnes, Bob Dylan, and Ray Charles.
- one of the top 100 songs of the rock era, according to the DMDB
- one of the top 1000 songs of all time
- DMDB song of the year
- Cash Box's Top 100 Songs, 1958-1996
- Grammy Award for Record of the Year
- Grammy Award for Song of the Year
- one of the world's best-selling songs
- one of the RIAA's top 365 songs of the 20th century
- top 100 adult contemporary songs of all time
- one of the top 100 songs of the 1980s
Resources and Related Links:
- the DMDB page for "We Are the World"
- AMG All Music Guide
- BR1 Fred Bronson (2003). The Billboard Book of Number One Hits (5th edition). New York, NY: Billboard Books. Page 605.
- KL Jon Kutner/Spencer Leigh (2005). 1000 UK Number One Hits: The Stories Behind Every Number One Single Since 1952. London, Great Britain: Omnibus Press. Page 302.
- MA Dave Marsh. (1989). The Heart of Rock and Soul: The 1001 Greatest Singles Ever Made. New York, NY; New American Library. Page 459.
- SF Songfacts.com
- TB Thunder Bay Press (2006). Singles: Six Decades of Hot Hits & Classic Cuts. Outline Press Ltd.: San Diego, CA. Page 217.


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The European Evaluation Society (EES) recently invited you to participate in a survey about a Voluntary Evaluator Peer Review (VEPR) system prepared under the aegis of the Professionalization Thematic Working Group. My Presidential message in the 2013 September issue of Connections deals with this strategic issue.
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A British ship equipped to locate a jet's black boxes arrived in the area where a Chinese patrol ship detected a signal that could have come from missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370.
Air Chief Marshal Angus Houston, the chief coordinator of the Joint Agency Coordination Center, said Sunday in Perth, Australia, that the pulses remain unverified. Still, he said, the signals were "an important and encouraging lead" in the search for the jet.
The first signal was detected Saturday by a "black box detector" deployed by Chinese ship Haixun 01 in the Indian Ocean. The pulse was picked up around 25 degrees south latitude and 101 degrees east longitude, according to China's official news agency, Xinhua.
Sunday, Haixun 01 reported it had detected the signal again for 90 seconds within 1.4 miles of the original signal.
The Australian vessel Ocean Shield, equipped with U.S. detection equipment, investigated a separate acoustic detection, Houston said.
The race is on to find the two boxes before the batteries die and the boxes no longer emit a signal. The batteries generally last 30 to 45 days.
The Boeing 777, which had 239 people aboard, lost communication with civilian air controllers soon after it took off early March 8 from Kuala Lumpur International Airport in Malaysia. No emergency signals or distress messages were received before the jet vanished from radar.
The latest pings revived hope that the jet — or its wreckage — and the black boxes could be found soon. The cockpit voice recordings and flight data could shed light on the mysterious disappearance that has dominated global news for a month.
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Xinhua reported Saturday that a Chinese air force plane spotted a number of white floating objects 56 miles from the signal site in the search area, which is northwest of Perth.
"I (have) made clear, that these signals and the objects could not be verified as connected to the missing aircraft … that remains the case," Houston said.
He said the characteristics of the sounds reported by the Chinese are "consistent with the aircraft black box."
CNN, citing a senior Malaysian government source Sunday, said Flight 370 flew around Indonesian airspace after it disappeared from Malaysian military radar. The jet may have been intentionally avoiding radar detection, the source told CNN.
Up to 10 military planes, two civil planes and 13 ships assisted in Sunday's search for the jet, according to the Joint Agency Coordination Center.
Three separate search areas, which total approximately 83,000 square miles, were viewed Sunday about 1,243 miles northwest of Perth.
As the search for the missing jet reaches nearly one month with no results, Malaysian Defense Minister Hishammuddin Hussein on Saturday announced the creation of a multinational investigation team and said the hunt would continue with "vigor and intensity."
Malaysia will continue to lead the investigation, yet an independent "investigator in charge" will be appointed to head a new investigation team, he said.
That multinational team will examine three main areas related to the missing jetliner. It will look at airworthiness, including maintenance, structures and systems; operations, such as flight recorders and meteorology; and medical and human factors such as "psychology, pathology and survival factors," he said.
The team will include representatives from Australia, as well as China, the United States, Britain and France, Hussein said.
A prayer service Sunday in Kuala Lumpur for families of passengers aboard the missing jet drew thousands of supporters.
"This is not a prayer for the dead, because we have not found bodies," said Liow Tiong Lai, president of the government coalition party that organized the two-hour session. "This is a prayer for blessings and that the plane will be found."
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captureverb apprehend, arrest, capere, carry away, catch, comprehendere, confine, hold captive, hold in cappivity, immure, impress, imprison, incarcerate, jail, lock up, make an arrest, make prisoner, net, repress, restrain, seize, subdue, take by assault, take by force, take captive, take into custody, take possession of, take prisoner
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