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John Forester, M.S., P.E.
Cycling Transportation Engineer
Consulting Engineer, Expert Witness & Educator in
Effective Cycling, Bicycles, Highways & Bikeways, Traffic Laws
7585 Church St., Lemon Grove, CA 91945-2306
619-644-5481, forester @ johnforester.com
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Since 1944, American society has disapproved of lawful, competent cycling. It was then that bicycles were removed from the class of vehicles and became "devices" whose riders became subject to three discriminatory laws prohibiting cyclists from exercising the full rights of drivers of vehicles. These laws prohibited cycling away from the edge of the roadway, from riding outside of bike lanes, or for using the roadway at all if a path usable by bicycles was nearby. The bikeway system was devised by motorists to provide the physical enforcement of these laws that, motorists think, make bicycling safe by keeping "their" roads clear of bicycles. The environmentalists were suckered into this bogus safety argument and now demand bikeways to make bicycle transportation safe and popular. With the government spending more and more money on bikeway programs, lawful and competent cyclists are being more and more limited to operating on bikeways that are unsuitable for lawful and competent cycling. As long as bikeways are tied to the three discriminatory laws, bikeway promotion is carrying out the motorists' intent of discriminating against cyclists for their own convenience.
Most of the rest of this website explains the advantages of lawful, competent cycling and the engineering and safety defects inherent in doing anything else. That is all support for what must be done now, fighting for repeal of the three discriminatory anti-cyclist traffic laws. Vehicular cyclists and bikeway cyclists must join forces to reform the national policy for bicycle transportation so that it serves cyclists rather than serving the convenience of motorists.
The rights and duties of drivers of vehicles enable traffic to flow safely and efficiently. But motorists, for their own convenience, denied cyclists important rights, thus making cyclists second-class road users, trespassers subject to discrimination by police and harassment by motorists, and unable to take advantage of the safety and efficiency of obeying the standard traffic rules. Repealing the restrictive laws that deny cyclists the full rights of drivers of vehicles is the most important task for those cyclists who recognize the value of obeying the rules of the road for drivers of vehicles. Because these rules violate both traffic-engineering and legal principles there are reasonable arguments for repealing them. Repeal discussion
When you do it right, cycling is enjoyable. The enjoyment of cycling is the most important reason for doing it. For some people, it is economical transportation, or a way to exercise for health, or competitive racing, or provides the means of entering areas from which motor traffic is excluded, or transportation that doesn't use petroleum, but, in today's U.S.A., if you don't enjoy cycling you won't long continue doing it. Like any other activity, if you do it wrong you will find it unpleasant and unsatisfactory. The important thing is to cycle properly so that you do enjoy it.
How many ways are there to enjoy cycling? Well, there is motoring out into the country to find a deserted road or a rail-trail, so you can cycle without, so you think, any worries at all. That seems to be the most prevalent hope about cycling. If you stay in town, most people hope for a bikeway to keep you away from traffic, to make cycling safe, again so you can cycle with few worries. The supposed lack of safe places to ride is the most frequent reason people give for not cycling, and, therefore, for not getting the enjoyment that cycling would give them. Does that make sense? To tell the truth, it does not make sense, not when you know the facts and feel the enjoyment of cycling properly. When you cycle properly in traffic, you find the traffic no more annoying than if you were motoring; indeed, if congestion is bad, you are less delayed when cycling than when motoring.
There are many skills associated with cycling, some having to do with the bicycle itself, others with the match between you and your bicycle, others explaining how to ride with least fatigue, others with how to handle the environmental conditions of heat and cold, rain, darkness, winds, and hills. Several books provide instruction in these skills, although I think that the most comprehensive is my Effective Cycling (The MIT Press).
However, most people are most concerned about what they consider to be the dangers of motor traffic. Staying away from traffic is how they describe safe cycling, and if you cannot stay away from it you have to fight it, which makes cycling worrisome and dangerous, so they say. Fighting with cars would be utterly foolish, but that's not what you do. Instead of fighting with cars, you cooperate with other drivers, so that you all get home safely. Participating in, cooperating with the traffic system, obeying the same rules of the road as other drivers, acknowledging their rights while claiming your own, that's the key to safe and confident cycling in traffic. Vehicular cycling, so named because you are acting as the driver of a vehicle, just as the traffic laws require, is faster and more enjoyable, so that the plain joy of cycling overrides the annoyance of even heavy traffic.
That is the guiding principle that cyclists should recognize and government and society should obey. But government does its best to prevent cyclists from recognizing this principle. Motorists fear that competent cyclists would delay them.
|Cycling advocacy is for cyclists.
|Bicycle advocacy is not cycling advocacy.
|Bikeways neither make cycling much safer nor reduce the skill required. They probably do the reverse.
|Government knows that bikeways don't make cycling safer, but it uses the public superstition that they do.
|The government's bicycle program is designed by superstition for the convenience of motorists.
|Cyclists react to the government's bicycle and bikeway programs.
|The government's bicycle design standard encourages riding at night without lights.
|The government's bicycle design standard is based on engineering incompetence.
|Proper traffic laws treat cyclists as drivers of vehicles.
|Government bike planners mix cyclists with pedestrians.
|Effective Cycling is safer, faster, and better.
|Teaching Effective Cycling to all ages
Changing the erroneous American policy regarding bicycle transportation has proved to be a very difficult task. Three things have been accomplished. Some of the most dangerous bikeway designs have been removed from the approved standards. This has been accomplished by demonstrating that the policy not only has no scientific support but contradicts known traffic-engineering knowledge. We have a confrontation between technological knowledge and public opinion. So far, public opinion has won, thus endangering cyclists and making bicycle transportation less useful.
In the context of American society, any organization that attempts to change American policy and practice regarding bicycle transportation has to start with a core of cyclists who operate lawfully and competently, in accordance with the rights and duties of drivers of vehicles. This core demonstrates the possibility and practicality, contrary to American belief, of such lawful and competent operation. Any organization that represents cyclists must advocate the best policies for its cyclist members. The League of American Bicyclists pretends to be that organization. Since "Cyclists fare best when they act and are treated as drivers of vehicles", LAB should be advocating for lawful, competent cyclists. However, LAB has been taken over by the bicycle sellers and the bikeway promoters to obey their interests instead of cyclists' interests. The resulting mismanagement has become so blatant that the long-needed reforms seem possible. See The League Must Be Reformed
The greatest defect in American bicycling is the predominance of incompetent, unlawful, fearful, and superstitious cycling behaviors and beliefs among the population, both bicycling and general, and the corresponding paucity of lawful, competent, and confident cyclists. Any organization of lawful, competent cyclists that intends to advocate for their interests has to have programs to inform, encourage, educate, and train existing and prospective members about the core principles of the organization. In America, the only source of training lawful, competent cyclists is an instructional program run by and for vehicular cyclists. For a few years, in the late 1970s and early 1980s, the League did this through its Effective Cycling Program, but it ceased to provide proper instruction and training once the bikeway advocates took over. The core of such a program is the training and certification of Effective Cycling Instructors.
The Effective Cycling Instructor's Manual that was developed then but later discarded has now been modernized and is available for download and study.
Also available is the manual for intermediate level instruction, Effective Cycling at the Intermediate Level.
Any organization that expects to change American policy and practice regarding bicycle transportation must present a clear and encouraging message. See Mission Statement
Any organization that expects to change American policy regarding bicycle transportation must develop its strategy around this public opinion. See Bicycle Politics
Any organization that expects to change American policy and practice regarding bicycle transportation must be organized so that it can apply the strategy with the greatest probability of success. See Bicycle Transportation Engineering Organization.
The Bicycle Transportation Engineering Organization was proposed when it appeared possible to reform America's road transportation system to suit vehicular cycling. That possibility has now disappeared; the most that appears possible is establishment of an organization devoted to preserving cyclists' endangered right to operate according to the rules of the road for drivers of vehicles, no matter what other operating methods government tries to require. An organization suited to this mission could be named the Vehicular Cycling Organization. A preliminary mission statement and basic organizing information is to be found at: Vehicular Cycling Association.
For John Forester's articles on cycling subjects: Articles
For John Forester's books on cycling and cyclist education: Bicycle books by John Forester
John Forester's personal history of American cycling since 1940: Cycling History
This is a .pdf file. I will be making additions until I think it sufficiently complete.
John Forester acts as a consultant and expert witness in bicycle accident cases.
For information about John Forester's professional services: Consult
For information about the controversy with James M. Green: Green
Republished Papers: Some published papers in bicycle transportation that are no longer available from the original sources are republished here.
National Safety Council: Study of Bicycle Accidents and Usage among Young Adults
John Forester has also written about maritime subjects: Maritime Articles
John Forester' E-Mail address is: forester @ johnforester.com
Index page last changed: 02-Apr-18
There is another John Forester who teaches at Cornell University: www.crp.cornell.edu/forester


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BROCKPORT, NY—Joe Scibilia was 21 of 33 for 374 yards and three touchdowns as Brockport (2-0) defeated visiting Buffalo State (1-1), 38-24, today to reclaim the I-90 Bowl trophy for the first time since 2009.
Buffalo State junior quarterback Casey Kacz (Amherst/Sweet Home) finished 26 of 47 for 295 yards with one touchdown and two interceptions. Caesarae Lewis (Newbern, AL/Sunshine) was the Bengals' top receiver with seven catches for 80 yards and a score, and added 180 yard on returns. Pasquale Vacchio (Glen Head/North Shore) led the Buffalo State defense with 12 tackles.
Andrew Mrozek was Scibilia's top target, catching six passes for 129 yards and two scores, and Jordan Hogan had four grabs for 97 yards and a score. Tyrone Nichols had 27 carries for 89 yards and a score.
Brockport piled up 533 total yards, compared to 321 by Buffalo State. Both teams were heavily penalized with the Bengals committing 12 infractions for 114 yards, and Brockport had 14 penalties covering 134 yards.
Brockport jumped out to an early 14-3 lead. Buffalo State scored first on the opening possession on Nate Benoit's (Grand Island/Grand Island) first collegiate field goal from 22 yards, set up by a 67-yard kick return by Lewis. Brockport found the end zone on each of its first two possessions, however. The Golden Eagles took the lead on 1-yard plunge by Nichols, and after stopping the Bengals on a fourth-and-1, Brockport struck again on a 61-yard reception by Hogan.
Buffalo State responded on the next drive, taking advantage of a pair of Brockport penalties and then scoring on a 35-yard catch and run on a bubble screen by Lewis to cut the deficit to 14-10 before the end of the first quarter.
The only points of the second quarter came on a 33-yard field goal by EJ Genzano to make the score 17-10. John O'Hagan thwarted a Bengals' scoring chance with an interception at the Brockport 15 and returned in 33 yards to near midfield with 21 seconds remaining in the first half. Chris Hall (Pasadena, CA/St. Francis) answered with his fourth interception in two games just three plays later, however, picking off a Scibilia pass at the Bengals' 1-yard line with just two seconds remaining.
Brockport's Colby Morabito took a pick-6 25 yards to the house, eliminating Buffalo State's first possession of the second half and extending the Golden Eagles' lead to 24-10. Buffalo State answered with a 10-play drive that covered 75 yards and was capped by a 1-yard touchdown run by Rich Pete (Utica/Proctor), cutting the lead deficit to just seven.
Brockport took control from there, however, answering with its own nine-play, 75-yard drive, culminating with a 32-yard scoring pass from Scibilia to Mrozek. The same connection worked again for Brockport early in the fourth quarter, and Scibilia and Mrozek hooked up again, cover 70 yards, pushing the Golden Eagles lead to 38-17.
Buffalo State completed the scoring on a 1-yard quarterback keeper by Kacz after Hall came up with a fumble recovery on a Bengals' punt.
Buffalo State will travel to meet the No. 1 team in the nation and three-time defending national champion Wisconsin-Whitewater next Saturday.

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The Food of Love
The piece consists of seven hanging cords, each of which bears a series of brass castings in the form of dishes and plates. The brass was hand cast by the artist in Pietrasanta, Italy. In performance, the sculpture becomes a percussion instrument to be played by the artist/musician.
Fighters and Lovers
G-84-79: Male boxer - half figure; G-84-80: Male boxer - half figure; G-84-81: Male boxer - half figure; G-84-82: Male figure, young boy - half figure; G-84-83: Two male boxers; G-84-84: A couple kissing; G-84-85: Man and woman; G-84-86: A couple kissing; G-84-87: A couple kissing (G-84-86 and G-84-87 are a diptych); G-84-88: A couple kissing
Breaking Screen
Two projectors throw slide dissolves onto a screen which together form the image of a house; image of a bed spinning in a room with polka-dot wallpaper is seen, the model of a bed of which we find spinning behind our backs; text accompanies the slides; Fracturing of the work occurs - house turns red, splits and comes together again
Righteous Living
Installation composed of five works: 'Wise Blood', 'A Snake Finds A Place to Sleep and a Big Snake Leaves my Body Forever', 'Piling Blood', Six Pages From: 'The Sanctity of Blood', and 'Good Friday'. See individual documents for each work - G-89-277 a,b,c,d,e.
Everything you ever wanted to know about Indians from A to Z
An installation piece consisting of 26 individual parfleches made of linen and rawhide and painted in acrylic, placed on a ledge which is made of three pieces of plywood and also painted in acrylic (blue). Across top of ledge is a list of names of Native tribes, one beginning with each letter of the alphabet. The ledge is supported by six triangular pieces of Plexiglas
37 hats which are suspended from a ceiling or displayed on mannequin heads
Neon is used to depict a young boy. An image of a doctor, holding a stethoscope, emerges and disappears from behind a plastic curtain.
Television Spots
Work consists of 12 photographs with 12 corresponding text panels and 12 corresponding videos for television on the colour videotape, with the following titles: Musical Vendor; Spectated Man; Sneeze; Male Naysayer; Female Naysayer; Lit Lot; My Attention; Answering Machine; No Problem; Funny Bus; Box Office; Slap Happy. Each photograph and its accompanying text panel are matted together. Each text panel describes in detail the corresponding video.
The installation is comprised of three acrylic on canvas paintings hung on wallpaper-covered walls. Each painting is inscribed with the word AIDS which is a play on Robert Indiana's LOVE. The paintings are in bold colours - (a) red lettering on blue and green ground, (b) green lettering on red and purple ground, (c) dark blue lettering on yellow and red ground. The silkscreened wall paper is similarly coloured and repeats the word AIDS.
Judge consists of an image of a boy sitting at a desk reading. This image is painted in white on a sheet of white Plexiglas and is lit from the ceiling with a flood light. After a few seconds, this light goes off and the lights behind the Plexiglas sheet turn on, at which point a hidden image of a judge sharing the boy's desk becomes visible. After a few seconds the light's reverse again and the judge disappears. This repeats continuosly.
Volcano Saga
Volcano Saga is a installation consisting of the following: 12 drawings from the 'Maps and Birds' series with the individual titles as follows: Birds I, Birds II, Birds III, Birds IV, Birds V, Birds VI, Maps I, Maps II, Maps III, Maps IV, Maps V, and Maps VI. All the drawings are gouache, chalk, enamel, acrylic and fabric paint on paper; 7 cibachrome photographs titled as follows: Resonance, Buried Fence, Glacial Debris, Lava Flow, Shelter, Warm Lake and Inquisitive; 2 wall drawings which are also from the 'Maps and Birds' series which have been produced as a conceptual work and need to be projected onto a wall; videotape of Volcano Saga; sculpture which is in the shape of a ruler and made primarily of maple together with dye, varnish and enamel and also has an accompanying drawing of chalk and acrylic on canvas exhibited with it and entitled Vanishing Point (ruler); a sculpture using pieces of Quebec granite which is placed on the floor to simulate volcanic material and is entitled Vanishing Point (stone piece). Lines and circles of chalk have been drawn on some of the pieces of granite; three works conceived together and entitled Vista. It is composed of a drawing (fabric paint, chalk and gouache on paper) together with 2 pieces of silk fabric with an oak stand. The videotape of Volcano Saga is 28 minutes long. Titles of components and corresponding accession numbers: Birds I (G-94-51 a); Birds II (G-94-51 b); Birds III (G-94-51 c); Birds IV (g-94-51 d); Birds V (G-94-51 e); Birds VI (G-94-51 f); Maps I (G-94-51-g); Maps II (G-94-51 h); Maps III (G-94-51 i); Maps IV (G-94-51 j); Maps V (G-94-51 k); Maps VI (G-94-51 l); Resonance (G-94-51 m); Buried Fence (G-94-51 n); Glacial Debris (G-94-51 o); Lava Flow (G-94-51 p); Shelter (G-94-51 q); Warm Lake (G-94-51 r); Inquisitive (G-94-51 s); Drawing on Wall: Birds (G-94-51 t); Drawing on Wall: Maps (G-94-51 u); Volcano Saga videotape (G-94-51 v); Vanishing Point (two components: ruler, G-94-51 w and drawing, G-94-51 x); Vanishing Point (stone piece) (G-94-51 y); Vista (three components: drawing, white and red piece of silk: G-94-51 z,aa,bb)
A Portrait of David
Installation consisting of 75 full-length portraits of men and boys who are named David, from ages 1 to 75. They are all posed with their hands clasped in front of them. Below each portrait is the title of the work and the age of the individual. All the portraits are of Winnipeg residents.
Installation consists of a royal blue velvet backdrop which is suspended on a large, u-shaped rail. The rail has wooden spikes on end-like horns, and at three points (centre, 2 mid) which are set atop columns for support. In the velvet are studs and sparkles which represent 'constellations' used in navigation. In front of the backdrop, are 8 black, wood, rectangular panels (monoliths) embedded in a beach of sand. The panels have painted surfaces to ressemble burnished metal and are carved with erosion patterns. The panels are names as follows: Thirst, Storm, Turn, Home, Share, Heal, Honour, Spirit. There is a hole in 'Heal' panel surrounded by a swirl pattern that continues to all panels. There is a stuffed raven atop the 'Heal' panel. Standing before all this, is a metal podium with a painted glass support showing Buckminster Fuller's fluid geography map. Set upon curved forward section of podium, is an angled wooden shelf with an open book of images by the artists covered with plexiglas. Images that appear are a raven with noose, astrological charts, fish, tied bone, elemental images and a turtle.
Dérives Noires Contigues I
Installation consists of three black and white silver prints, each of which depicts a tree, together with two wood and glass sculptures.
A three channel video installation juxtaposing images of the Prairie landscape with images of Byzantine churches, grain elevators and farm auctions which examines Ukrainian culture in western Canada in addition to the Prairie landscape.
Memories of a Collective Reality - Sour Springs
All the images are taken in Sour Springs, Ontario, Six Nations Reserve. G-97-316 a: wood-frame house which belonged to the artist's grandmother; G-97-316 b: landscape with tree trunk in foreground; G-97-316 c: churchyard, where the artist's father is buried, viewed through a window; G-97-316 d: pile of apples laying on the ground; g-97-316 e: head and shoulders portrait of the artist; G-97-316 f: interior with two windows; G-97-316 g: field with small trees and houses in the background; G-97-316 h: interior with chair; G-97-316 i: head and shoulders portrait of the artist's uncle; G-97-316 j: landscape with row of trees; G-97-316 k: landscape with road; G-97-316 l: pole with street light on it; G-97-316 m: ground with shadows of trees on it; G-97-316 n: pool of water with trees reflected in it
Paintings for Dimly Lit Rooms
Work consists of six untitled paintings which are numbered 1 to 6. Panel 1: River in foreground with buildings in background; Panel 2: River with boats in foreground and an island in the center; Panel 3: River in foreground, trees in background with a figure standing a lower right; Panel 4: Landscape with river and waterfall; Panel 5: Numerous standing figures among trees; Panel 6: Three figures on a path flanked on either side by row of trees
Storyteller III. 1-9
The slides have been erased and their emulsions and frames gessoed white and painted Mars black and reframed in poplar frames. They are hung in lines or grids. The work may have the additional installation component of slide projectors that emit light on an opposite or adjoining wall.
Sanctum Sanctorum
Installation piece consisting of a freestanding, cruciform closet. The closet contains the belongings and clothing of its owner. A door to the back of the closet leads to an inner room. The inner room consists of a small sleeping area: a small bed, side table, oil lamp, army rations and covered pail.
Buffalo Bone China
Installation consists of eight antique finish industrial stanchions, red rope and nylon ribbons, 60 pounds of smashed British fine bone china and two copies of the video on a one hour loop. The centre of the installation is a pile of fractured British fine bone china placed inside a circle that has been constructed by red rope and stanchions. The centre represents a metaphoric sacred circle with the four gates facing the four directions. The "bones" have been placed in the circle and honoured.The video projection is on a one hour loop continuously playing the 8-minute video titled Buffalo Bone China. This short video studies the movement and form of the buffalo and further, their extermination. Eventually, the fine bone china is regenerated by the touch of Indian hair and healing hands. An Indian man welcomes the buffalo back from the bones.
Snow on Steps
Almost-to-full scale model of the front porch and steps of the artist's home in London, Ontario. Simulated snow on the steps and porch on which are imprints of footsteps approaching and leaving the door.
I really should ...
The artist has covered the front of the refrigerator with a series of statements, handwritten in Magic Marker, all beginning with "I really should". The work was created at The Winnipeg Art Gallery by the artist for her exhibition Important Instructions For Changing the World, (April 5 - September 16, 2001)
Visible Difference
Five etched glass disks, each with a portrait of a man, are laid out on the floor. Each disk is supported on one side by a book.
Final Moments - Thinking Of You
Twelve piece photography installation depicting various scenes as follows: stormy sky with grey clouds and evergreens, seascape, flames, forest floor with grass, rocks, wood and flowers and what appears to be an extreme close-up of white, patterned beading.
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The Sweet, Hectic Life of a Golf Tour Wife
Why PGA Tour wives call it the 'traveling circus'
I have been hanging out with the girls recently, girls being what the PGA Tour wives mostly call each other. Their numbers have dwindled for this week's season-concluding PGA Tour Championship in Atlanta, with its field winnowed to 30 by the previous three FedEx Cup Playoffs events. But at most full-field tournaments the majority of players have their wives or girlfriends in tow, and usually their kids, too, if the kids are young. More than one Tour wife made the analogy to a traveling circus.
"It's like a large family out here, more than anything else," Sybi Kuchar (wife of Matt) told me at the Barclays last month. "Most of it's great, but ask me on Sunday mornings about the glamour."
That's when the wives, assuming their husbands are still in the tournament, usually have to check out of their hotels. With two kids and possibly a nanny, a Tour family might occupy three hotel rooms and travel with a dozen bags, including giant ones for everything from toys to extra golf equipment.
The stereotypical image of pro athletes' wives isn't entirely misplaced on the PGA Tour. If you need help spotting Tour wives as they follow their husbands during tournament rounds, look for two or three women walking together, often in their 20s or 30s with giant sparkling rocks on their left ring fingers. They are, as a rule, uncommonly pretty, but mostly under the radar. The public sees a wife mainly when hubby wins an event and she herds the children, inevitably adorable, onto the 18th green to give him a hug. That doesn't happen after Homer Bailey throws a no-hitter or Kobe Bryant hits one at the buzzer. Golf is a different universe.
Among the few generalizations I can make about Tour wives, based on conversations with about a dozen, is that most make a point of walking the course for some of their husbands' rounds each week.
"It's mild exercise," said Diane Donald. "And it makes Luke feel better."
Back in their younger days—Diane now is 30 and Luke is 35—the two used to flirt more on the course. Now not so much. "We're old and jaded," she joked. But Luke knows she's there and occasionally, even though she isn't much of a golfer, she notices something. Once she was able to point out that Luke's putting routine had become too quick.
"Nothing I do on the course really makes much difference," she said. "But it's good to know what he's going through. If Luke plays bad and comes home upset, the last thing he needs is for me to be upset, too. What he needs to come home to, or to the hotel to, is a calm family atmosphere." Diane and the couple's two daughters accompany Luke to 15 or so events a year.
Like many of the wives I talked to, Diane Donald can't believe she's married to a sports star, much less that she doesn't have a career of her own. She grew up in Chicago, the daughter of a working mother. "I was in day care from 3 months old, that's how much of a career woman my mom was," she said. She got a journalism degree at Northwestern (where she met Luke). After graduating she started in a job that paid $25,000. "That was for an entire year," she said. "That's less than Luke was making in a bad week." Especially once the kids came, it made no sense for her to continue.
Unlike athletes in team sports, pro golfers are independent contractors, so wives are key parts of the family business. A handful are involved directly with the golf side of things. Patrick Reed's wife, Justine, was on the bag last month when he won his first Tour event, at the Wyndham.
Billy Horschel's wife, Brittany, serves as a kind a traveling coach. She played golf at the University of Florida (as did Billy) but had to abandon her own pro dreams after a series of wrist surgeries. She sits in on Billy's lessons with instructor Todd Anderson and helps during tournaments to keep Billy on plan. She has a sports-management degree from Florida.
"All the wives help manage their husbands in one way or another," she told me.
I walked a few holes at the Barclays with Sybi Kuchar and Dowd Simpson (wife of Webb). Good friends, they were thrilled when their husbands were paired together for the first two rounds. Among other topics, they extolled the virtues of Target, which their kids love partly because the stores provide continuity from one town to the next, and of Chipotle restaurants, where Dowd has standing orders she zaps to the nearest franchise from her smartphone for takeout.
The worst things about life on Tour? When kids get sick, Dowd says: "You spend a lot of time in emergency rooms." Sybi voted for guys in the gallery who learn you're a Tour wife and say, "I'll bet you can't wait to spend that check" when Matt is in contention. "What? I mean, it's very offensive. All you can do is laugh and move on," she said.
Amy Mickelson told me the happiest wives on Tour are those with a lot of self confidence. "It's a weird life. You find yourself in a lot of situations where you're just known as the 'wife of.' You have to be able to handle that," she said.
But she said life on the Tour these days is better than it's ever been, thanks to the huge increase in prize money in the Tiger Woods era, which makes it financially feasible for most players to travel with their families. "When Phil and I first came out [in the mid-1990s], only maybe the top 30 or 40 players at most could afford to bring their wives and kids on a regular basis," she said.
The Tour provides free day care, referred to as "school," with the same traveling teachers each week. "My kids probably know the kids out here on Tour better than anyone else," Lori Points (wife of D.A.) said. Many of the wives also bond during outings sponsored by the PGA Tour Wives Association, now in its 25th year. "People might think we're just a club, but our main purpose is to go out into communities and make a difference," said Amy Wilson (wife of Mark), the group's president and a former management consultant with Accenture. In 18 to 20 Tour-stop cities a year, the wives do things like help finish Habitat for Humanity homes and pack backpacks with food and supplies for poor children. To raise money for charity, the group has also published a coffee-table book, "Beyond the Fairways and Greens: A Look Inside the Lives of PGA Tour Families." (And yes, it's not exactly a tell-all.)
Last week at the BMW in Chicago, a dozen wives donned pink aprons to cook a meal for the residents of a Ronald McDonald House. Among them was Diane Donald, who happens to be on regional Ronald McDonald charity board.
"No one wants to meet just us wives, because frankly we're not that interesting," she said. "But we do have some visibility and it would be a shame to let that go to waste."
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Corrections & Amplifications
The first name of Patrick Reed's wife, Justine, was incorrectly given as Nicki in an earlier version of this article.
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This Palindrome video is for fun or for creating confusion. But it ultimately says that family and children are/should be more important for women than work.
We always see that women worry about combining marriage, children, and a career. Do the members of the 'lost generation' ever ask: 'why don't men worry about combining marriage, children, and a career?' Or do they believe household chores and child care are a woman thing, not a man thing?


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Flex Strategies to Attract, Engage & Retain Older Workers—Executive Case Report
workplace flexibility case studies find benefit for older workers and their employers
March 2012—A new research paper by the Sloan Center on Aging & Work at Boston College finds that workplace flexibility initiatives, when properly matched to employee needs can provide strategic benefits to older workers and their employers."Flex Strategies to Attract, Engage & Retain Older Workers" is a series of corporate case studies across a variety of industry sectors that demonstrate the value of workplace flexibility's ability to recruit, retain, and engage older workers.
The three employers involved in the project are Central Baptist Hospital, Marriott International and MITRE Corporation. The most common strategies used by all organizations surveyed were: offering part-time positions (42%), hiring retirees as consultants or temporary workers (40%), and offering flexible work arrangements for older workers (36%).
"Now is a critical time for us to understand the issues affecting older workers and their employers," said Samantha Greenfield, Employer Engagement Specialist at The Sloan Center on Aging & Work. "The leading edge of the baby boom generation has already reached traditional retirement age. At the same time, our country's economic challenges have forced many of these older workers to extend their work-retirement horizon."
The paper describes the workplace flexibility strategies and a promising practice of each organization and revealed the following:
- Workplace flexibility strategies tend to be more informal than formal. Among these strategies are practices that specifically meet the needs of older workers.
- Many issues help form the business case for flexibility, including the ability to recruit, retain and engage older workers.
- In developing flexibility practices, companies must take into account the ways in which perceptions of age are influenced. A concept has been called the "Prism of Age" by the Sloan Center.
- The best, and most promising, flexibility practices are those that address managers' concerns about such things as trust, losing control and coaching older workers.
"Flex Strategies to Attract, Engage and Retain the Older Worker" grew out of a project launched by the Sloan Center in 2011 to study promising practices that address the needs of older workers and business.
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Steve M. / No More Mister Nice Blog:
THE BREITBART/O'KEEFE-IZATION OF AMERICAN POLITICS, PART MCMLXXVII — I haven't been able to watch the Benghazi hearings, but I've checked my Twitter feed, and the lefties who've been watching are 100% convinced that Hillary Clinton has been wiping the floor with the Republicans who are trying to take her down.
Discussion: The Other McCain, Twitchy, Weekly Standard, blogs.telegraph.co.uk, TheBlaze.com, Balloon Juice, BREITBART.COM, SOOPERMEXICAN and The Agonist
Robert Stacy McCain / The Other McCain: Liberal Blogger: 'How Dare You Smear Hillary by Quoting Her Accurately!'
Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard: Clinton Shouts: 'What Difference ... Does It Make?'
Nile Gardiner / blogs.telegraph.co.uk: Hillary Clinton flounders on the Benghazi front
Meredith Jessup / TheBlaze.com: It makes a big difference, Madame Secretary
Washington Wire:
Text of Hillary Clinton's Senate Testimony on Benghazi — Here is the prepared text of Hillary Clinton's testimony on Benghazi. — SECRETARY OF STATE HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON SENATE COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN RELATIONS — WASHINGTON, DC — Mr. Chairman, Ranking Member, Members of the Committee, thank you for this opportunity.
Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit: Hillary Clinton Chokes Up During Benghazi Testimony - Defends Response After 4 Americans Murdered (Video)
Bryan Preston / The PJ Tatler: Secretary of State Clinton's Stunningly Incomplete Opening Statement on the Benghazi Attack
Jeff G. / protein wisdom: Hillary: the truth is somewhere in my cankles. Gaze upon them if you dare.
Talking Points Memo:
Hillary Clinton Erupts At GOP Senator Over Benghazi Attack — Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Wednesday fired back at Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) over accusations that the Obama Administration misled the public by claiming the Benghazi attack was the result of a spontaneous protest.
Discussion: TheBlaze.com, The Maddow Blog, Fox News Insider and National Review
Madeleine Morgenstern / TheBlaze.com: ANGRY CLINTON EXPLODES AT QUESTIONING ON LIBYA PROTEST: 'WE HAVE FOUR DEAD AMERICANS …
Steve Benen / The Maddow Blog: 'What difference, at this point, does it make?'
Fox News Insider: Explosive Q&A: Clinton Asks 'What Difference Does It Make?!' If Benghazi Attack Happened as Result of Protest
Nathaniel Botwinick / National Review: Hillary Clinton: 'What Difference At This Point Does It Make?!'
Washington Free Beacon:
Paul to Clinton: 'I would have relieved you of your duty' — RAND PAUL: One of the things that disappointed me most about the original 9/11 was no one was fired. We spent trillions of dollars, but there were a lot of human errors, these are judgment errors, and the people who make judgment errors need …
Discussion: TheBlaze.com and The PJ Tatler
Meredith Jessup / TheBlaze.com: Video: Rand Paul lays the verbal smackdown on Hillary Clinton
Mackenzie Weinger / Politico:
Ron Johnson: Hillary Clinton evaded with 'theatrics' — Sen. Ron Johnson on Wednesday knocked Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for dodging his questions with "theatrics" during their tense exchange at today's Benghazi hearing. — "I wasn't trying to get under her skin …
Sarah Parnass / ABCNEWS: Hillary Clinton Says Budget Cuts Undermine Diplomatic Security
Ann Althouse / Althouse: Ron Johnson — by raising his voice, getting testy, and interrupting — tricks Hillary Clinton …
Matthew Cooper / NationalJournal.com:
Why Benghazi Hasn't Brought Down Hillary Clinton-and Won't
Why Benghazi Hasn't Brought Down Hillary Clinton-and Won't
Discussion: neo-neocon, The Heritage Foundation, Hot Air, Nice Deb and TheBlaze.com
Nice Deb: Summary of Hillary's Senate Testimony on Benghazi: "What Difference Does It Make?" (Video)
Meredith Jessup / TheBlaze.com: Will Benghazi scandal have any effect on Hillary Clinton's legacy?
Adam Nossiter / New York Times:
Some Algeria Attackers Are Placed at Benghazi
Some Algeria Attackers Are Placed at Benghazi
Discussion: Telegraph, Hot Air, The Jawa Report, The Lonely Conservative, Weekly Standard, The Gateway Pundit, The Right Scoop and Atlas Shrugs
Duncan Gardham / Telegraph: Algeria BP attack terrorists 'also took part in Benghazi US consulate attack'
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air: Hillary: What difference does it make if there were no protests in Benghazi?
The Lonely Conservative: Finally, Hillary Clinton Will Be Questioned About Benghazi - Updated - Hillary Speaks
Thomas Joscelyn / Weekly Standard: From Benghazi to Algeria? — Ahead of Secretary of State …
Pamela Geller / Atlas Shrugs: myjihad Pig Flying Moment! NY Times Discovers Jihad
Igor Bobic / Talking Points Memo:
Hillary Clinton Wrangles With Senators Over Benghazi Attacks
Hillary Clinton Wrangles With Senators Over Benghazi Attacks
Discussion: Stinque
Washington Wire:
Excerpts: Heated Exchanges at Benghazi Hearing
Excerpts: Heated Exchanges at Benghazi Hearing
Discussion: The Other McCain
Robert Stacy McCain / The Other McCain: Hillary Gets Bitchy on Benghazi: 'What Difference, at This Point, Does It Make?'
David Taintor / Talking Points Memo:
Clinton: I Did Not Select Susan Rice To Deliver Message On Benghazi Attack
Clinton: I Did Not Select Susan Rice To Deliver Message On Benghazi Attack
Discussion: Washington Free Beacon
Julian Pecquet / The Hill:
GOP critics get opportunity to grill Secretary Clinton on Benghazi
GOP critics get opportunity to grill Secretary Clinton on Benghazi
Discussion: ABCNEWS, CNN, Politico, New York Times, Weekly Standard, americanthinker.com and Alan Colmes' Liberaland
Sarah Parnass / ABCNEWS: Hillary Clinton Says Iran, Afghanistan Diverted Embassy Resources
Paul Steinhauser / CNN: What Benghazi hearing could say about 2016 White House race
Michael R. Gordon / New York Times: Clinton Cites New Security Steps After Libya Attack
Olivier Knox / Reuters:
Choking up, Hillary Clinton says Benghazi is 'personal'
Choking up, Hillary Clinton says Benghazi is 'personal'
Discussion: msnbc.com and Atlas Shrugs
Jonathan Weisman / New York Times:
Obama Speech Leaves G.O.P. Stark Choices — WASHINGTON — President Obama's aggressive Inaugural Address on Monday presented Congressional Republicans with a stark choice over the next two years: accommodate the president's agenda on immigration, guns, energy and social programs and hope …
Discussion: JustOneMinute, The Moderate Voice, The Plum Line, Daily Kos, Booman Tribune, Washington Post, Hullabaloo and Pundits Blog
Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute: Ongoing 'West Wing' Fantasies
Prairie Weather / The Moderate Voice: We Could Always Try "No Taxation Without Representation"
Greg Sargent / The Plum Line: The Morning Plum: GOP's magic debt ceiling plan won't solve the problem
Laura Clawson / Daily Kos: Republicans scramble to make debt limit vote look like something other than surrender
Greg Sargent / Washington Post: Keep letting Boehner twist in the wind
Thereisnospoon / Hullabaloo: If it's a center-right country, why cheat? by @DavidOAtkins
Matt Mackowiak / Pundits Blog: Gun issue could decide midterm elections
Jonathan Weisman / New York Times:
House Votes to Extend Debt Limit to May, Averting Fight — WASHINGTON — Avoiding an economic showdown with President Obama, the House on Wednesday passed legislation to suspend the nation's statutory borrowing limit for three months, without including the dollar-for-dollar spending cuts …
Discussion: Wall Street Journal, The Buzz Florida Politics Feed, Politico, The Plum Line, The Week and Hot Air
Jake Sherman / Politico: The GOP's 48-hour debt ceiling makeover
Greg Sargent / The Plum Line: GOP exchanges debt limit fantasy for budget fantasy
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Boehner: Let's Destroy Math Instead of the Economy
Boehner: Let's Destroy Math Instead of the Economy
Discussion: Politico, Business Insider, The Maddow Blog, Washington Wire, msnbc.com and The Hill
Jake Sherman / Politico: Boehner: House to vote on budget
Walter Hickey / Business Insider: For Paul Ryan To Balance The Budget In 10 Years, He's Going To Have To Crush Most Government Social Programs
Damian Paletta / Washington Wire: House GOP to Take Aggressive Stand on Deficit
Morgan Whitaker / msnbc.com: New GOP budget may have unprecedented spending cuts
Mickey Kaus / The Daily Caller:
GOP Jiu-Jitsu — I don't quite see why the Republicans' move …
GOP Jiu-Jitsu — I don't quite see why the Republicans' move …
Discussion: Weekly Standard
John McCormack / Weekly Standard: House Passes Bill to Suspend Debt Ceiling Until May 19
Lolita C. Baldor / bigstory.ap.org:
AP SOURCES: PANETTA OPENS COMBAT ROLES TO WOMEN — You are here — Home » United States government » AP sources: Panetta opens combat roles to women — WASHINGTON (AP) — Senior defense officials say Pentagon chief Leon Panetta is removing the military's ban on women serving in combat …
Discussion: Daily Kos, Jezebel, Crooks and Liars and Gawker
Meteor Blades / Daily Kos: Panetta said to be lifting military's ban on women in combat
Katie J.M. Baker / Jezebel: Breaking: Military Lifts Ban on Women in Combat
Susie Madrak / Crooks and Liars: Panetta Removes Ban on Women in Combat
BREAKING NEWS: Military to open combat jobs to women — By Chris Lawrence, with reporting from Barbara Starr — The U.S. military is ending its policy of excluding women from combat and will open combat jobs and direct combat units to female troops, CNN has learned.
Discussion: The Political Carnival
Joe Biden 'intoxicated' by 2016 run — Joe Biden summoned more than 200 Democratic insiders to the vice presidential residence Sunday night to chat about the 2012 triumph — but many walked away convinced his rising 2016 ambitions were the real intent of the long, intimate night.
Discussion: American Prospect, Associated Press, Raleigh News & Observer, The Week, Weasel Zippers, Taylor Marsh, The Fix, Post Politics, NBC Politics, Twitchy, Reuters and CNN
Chris Cillizza / The Fix: Joe Biden is running for president
Felicia Sonmez / Post Politics: White House defends Secretary of State Clinton on Benghazi
Michael O'Brien / NBC Politics: Biden not shying away from 2016 speculation
Arlette Saenz / Reuters: Biden Hints at Presidential Run
Paul Steinhauser / CNN: Biden's moves spark talk of a 2016 presidential bid
Greg Holyk / ABCNEWS:
Clinton More Popular than Biden; Let the 2016 Handicapping Begin
Clinton More Popular than Biden; Let the 2016 Handicapping Begin
Discussion: msnbc.com, Political Capital, Ballot Box, ABCNEWS, Politico, Shakesville, CNN, Taegan Goddard's …, The Hill and The Political Carnival
Abby Borovitz / msnbc.com: Hillary Clinton takes on the Hill
Alexandra Jaffe / Ballot Box: Poll: Clinton more popular than Biden
Z. Byron Wolf / ABCNEWS: Biden, Clinton and the Medicare-Eligible Primary That Could Be
Katie Glueck / Politico: Poll: Hillary Clinton more favorable than Joe Biden
Melissa McEwan / Shakesville: Take Your Boobs to the White House Watch
Paul Steinhauser / CNN: Clinton faces hearings with numbers on her side
Amie Parnes / The Hill: Biden undecided on 2016 White House run
Mary Elizabeth Williams / Salon:
So what if abortion ends life? — I believe that life starts at conception. And it's never stopped me from being pro-choice — Of all the diabolically clever moves the anti-choice lobby has ever pulled, surely one of the greatest has been its consistent co-opting of the word "life." Life!
Discussion: National Review, LifeNews.com, Mother Jones, Twitchy, Care2 Causes and Guardian
Steven Ertelt / LifeNews.com: Salon Article Says Unborn Baby is "A Life Worth Sacrificing"
Asawin Suebsaeng / Mother Jones: Poll: Record High Support For Legal Abortion in the US
Thisistwitchy / Twitchy: Salon writer: Abortion is killing, and I'm OK with that
Jill Filipovic / Guardian: Roe v Wade at 40: what American women owe to abortion rights
Shushannah Walshe / ABCNEWS:
Aretha Franklin 'Really Laughed' About Beyonce Lip-Sync Controversy — Beyonce sings the National Anthem at the inauguration, Jan. 21, 2013. ; Singer Aretha Franklin performs during the inauguration ceremony for President Obama at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., Jan. 20, 2009.
Discussion: CNN, Reuters, ABCNEWS, The Week, Guardian, New Jersey Online, Gawker, The Hinterland Gazette and theGrio
Jim Acosta / CNN: First on CNN: Inaugural audio boss on Beyoncé: 'It's something that Beyoncé should disclose'
Caitlin McDevitt / Reuters: Aretha sticks up for Beyoncé — Queen of Soul Aretha Franklin …
Michael Falcone / ABCNEWS: Hillary Clinton's Challenge (And Opportunity) (The Note)
Vicki Hyman / New Jersey Online: Beyonce brouhaha: Aretha Franklin says she gives fans 'the real thing'
Caity Weaver / Gawker: Beyoncé Lip-Synched: Coping with the 7 Stages of Star-Spangled Grief (UPDATE)
Janet Shan / The Hinterland Gazette: Aretha Franklin on Beyoncé Lip-Syncing: She "Did A Beautiful Job with the Pre-record"
Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Contemplating Obama's Place in History, Statistically — With President Obama's second term under way, we have begun to see more reflections on how he might come to be regarded historically. — As common sense might dictate — and as the statistics will also reveal — it is far too soon to conclude very much about this.
Discussion: Balloon Juice
Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Boehner: Obama's goal is to 'annihilate' the Republican Party — Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) said he believes the primary goal of President Obama's second term is to "annihilate the Republican Party." — "Given what we heard yesterday about the president's vision for his second term …
Discussion: CNN
Deirdre Walsh / CNN: Boehner says Obama's focus is to 'annihilate the Republican Party'
Michael D. Shear / New York Times:
Wayne LaPierre of N.R.A. Has Angry Response to Obama — WASHINGTON — Wayne LaPierre, the executive director of the National Rifle Association, angrily accused President Obama on Tuesday of demonizing law-abiding gun owners and of wanting to put "every private personal firearms transaction right under …
Discussion: The Hill, Washington Monthly, The Raw Story, The Reaction, Hot Air, Online NewsHour and Shakesville
Meghashyam Mali / The Hill: NRA's LaPierre: Obama making 'mockery' of nation's freedoms
Ed Kilgore / Washington Monthly: LaPierre the Proud Absolutist
David Edwards / The Raw Story: Connie Mack: Ban LGBT marriage, but 'you cannot legislate morality' on guns
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air: NRA chief not exactly wowed by Obama inaugural speech
Melissa McEwan / Shakesville: Quote of the Day — [Content Note: Guns; racism.]
Reid J. Epstein / Politico:
NRA's LaPierre: Absolutism is virtue, not vice
NRA's LaPierre: Absolutism is virtue, not vice
Discussion: The Moderate Voice and First Read
Elijah Sweete / The Moderate Voice: NRA Thinks Shark Jumping Is An Olympic Sport
Matthew Yglesias / Slate:
Everything You Think You Know About Health Care Spending Is Wrong — This is the chart that I think ought to dominate the conversation about public-sector health care spending in the United States, and yet it is curiously ignored. The data show government health care spending per capita in the United States and Canada.
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Sen. Durbin: Democrats lack votes to pass talking filibuster reform — Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin (Ill.), a leading liberal, said Wednesday Democrats do not have enough votes to implement the talking-filibuster reform. — He said Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) …
Discussion: Politico, Wonkblog, Slate, The Political Carnival, Daily Kos and LifeNews.com
Ginger Gibson / Politico: Senate Dems introduce gun bills
David Weigel / Slate: Are the Democrats going nuclear on filibuster reform?
GottaLaff / The Political Carnival: Senator Durbin: Democrats lack votes to pass talking filibuster reform
Steven Ertelt / LifeNews.com: Democrats May Not Have Enough Votes to End Filibuster
Anthony Faiola / Washington Post:
Sting operations reveal Mafia involvement in renewable energy — PALERMO, Italy — Inside a midnight-blue BMW, a Sicilian entrepreneur delivered his pitch to the accused mafia boss. A new business was blowing into Italy that could spin wind and sunlight into gold, ensuring the future …
Veronique de Rugy / National Review: Taxing the Rich to Fund Cronyism
Steven Hayward / Power Line: Green Weenie of the Week: The Mob
Betsy Newmark / Betsy's Page: Listen to what Phil Mickelson said this weekend, not the walkback that he has since made.
Quinnipiac News + Events:
Release Detail — January 23, 2013 - New Jersey Voters Back Christie's Rap On GOP 5-1, Quinnipiac University Poll Finds; Voters Tell Lautenberg To Step Aside — Gov. Christopher Christie was right to criticize Congressional Republicans for delaying a vote on Hurricane Sandy relief …
Discussion: CNN, Taegan Goddard's …, The Fix, Firedoglake, Hot Air, Politico, Ballot Box, The PJ Tatler and Philly.com
Ashley Killough / CNN: NJ voters overwhelmingly back Christie's rebuke to House Republicans
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air: Quinnipiac: Voters want Booker to spank Lautenberg rather than other way around
Katie Glueck / Politico: Frank Lautenberg's age an issue, poll says
Alexandra Jaffe / Ballot Box: Poll: Booker leads Lautenberg by double-digit margin
Bridget Johnson / The PJ Tatler: Christie Enjoys Massive Approval in N.J., Beats All Dem Challengers
Kori Schake / Hoover Institution:
Flawed Diamond — A vanity project masquerading as anthropology. — Over the decades, academic scholarship, with its jargon and narrowness, has grown both impenetrable and unenlightening to general readers. Few academics even attempt to look at the big picture or to render their prose intelligible to the public at large.
Discussion: Vox Popoli
Majority of senators back Keystone XL pipeline — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A bipartisan group of more than half the 100-member Senate has urged President Barack Obama to approve the Keystone XL pipeline project, which would connect Canadian oil sands to refineries in Texas.
Martin Wolf / Financial Times:
America's fiscal policy is not in crisis — The urgent challenge is to promote economic recovery — The US confronts huge challenges, at home and abroad. Its fiscal position is not one of them. This is a highly controversial statement. If one judged by the debate in Washington …
Discussion: Washington Monthly, Washington Wire and Economist's View


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We're seeing more advice from experts about how to save up those massive piles of cash we'll need to live on once we're all unemployed. Whereas in a normal situation you'd be advised to pay off your credit cards because credit cards are odious instruments designed to keep consumers in perpetual bondage at high interest rates, more experts now suggest that you actually forget about paying off your cards and just make the minimum payment while you stockpile cash.
Because credit cards are unsecured debt, it's not as if your credit card lenders can actually repossess any of your belongings if you stop making payments -- which you'll probably have to do if you go unemployed for long enough.
As creditors remain resolutely obnoxious in the face of consumers' rapidly worsening financial situations, they give people fewer and fewer reasons to actually honor their obligations. Millions of faithful credit card users who have never missed a payment or exceeded their credit limit have been astonished over the past several months to find notices in the mail informing them that their creditor is raising their interest rates to unheard-of levels.
Why? Not because of anything the consumer did. No, the creditor is just in a bit of a pinch, due to all the bad bets they made on people they never should have lent to, and now the cost of those bad bets has been passed on to the responsible consumer.
Congress passed a law to prevent precisely this kind of arbitrary rate-hike, but it won't go into effect until mid-2010. And now some people are warning that if the law takes effect at all, it could cause a further freeze in the credit markets as lenders refuse to extend credit to anyone if they can't "adjust for risk" in the future.
It seems more likely that lenders will simply have to make more considered decisions to begin with, and lend to people who are capable of actually repaying. Of course, those very people may not want to borrow from the lenders who treated them so shabbily just a few years before.
And this, in a nutshell, is why the American credit industry is doomed -- and deservedly so.
Sara K. Smith writes for NBC and Wonkette. She keeps most of her holdings in gold doubloons, wampum and beads.


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My T-rex is an Ostrich?? Dinos evolve in Art
Ok, this picture doesn't exactly represent what I'm getting at here, but who can turn down a chance to put up a "Dinosaucers" still for all to see. And it does kind of fit in with the story in a round about kind of way…Anyway… [ Continue Reading ]


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Drawing was a childhood hobby for Shadin. During the time of working at Galleria On Third, he was able to take his boyhood hobby and turn it into a practical career opportunity. After years of advising and framing other artist's work, Shadin has finally traveled full circle and has returned to his own artistic passion and is creating a unique style that combines pop art sensibility with folk art. Working with a combination of acrylics, epoxies, plastic, paper and most of all an indelible spirit. Shadin's 3-D collage pieces are gaining the attention of art lovers everywhere and was recently featured on NY1 as the New Yorker of the Week this past August 2011. President Barak Obama, First Lady Michael Obama, The Senator Chuck Schumer, The Member of Congress Carolyn B. Maloney, The Former Mayor of New York Michael Bloomberg, Mayor Bill de Blasio, they all praised Shadin because of his art work which are based on New York City's themes. Busses, Trains, Skylines, Buildings are the most favorite part of his work. In addition to being a talented artist, Shadin also been recognized for his philanthropic nature as he hosts Benefit Art Shows throughout the year which caught the attention of the New York Daily News, Art Business News and Décor Magazine. The proceeds of these charity events have benefited a variety of organizations with a focus on helping needy children including partnerships with World Vision and Smile Train. READ MORE


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Bodø is the largest city and capital in the county of Nordland in Norway. Its population is above 45 000 people, which makes it the second largest city in Northern Norway, after Tromsø.
The city is the largest within a 600 km radius, making it an important centre of commerce and a hub for exploring the North of Norway.
The town is known for its powerful winds, so it would be wise to bring a wind jacket.
Bodø is the end of the line of the national railroad system, and you will have to go through Trondheim to get there. It takes about 10 hours to take the train from Trondheim to Bodø, and about 18 if you go from Oslo. Trains leave and arrive several times a day, but only two a day come all the way from Trondheim (a day train and a night train). They are great if you want to have a look at the Norwegian scenery and nature, taking you from the rolling hills of Trondheim, through Saltfjellet mountain, to the weathered and rough terrain of Northern Norway. Tickets from 199 NOK if you book early enough.
Bodø airport serves many domestic flights, from the larger cities as Oslo and Trondheim, to smaller regional towns as Leknes, Brønnøysund and Mosjøen. The airport is within walking distance of the city centre, around 10-20 minutes, or you can take the airport express bus or a taxi. A taxi will cost around 60 NOK. Tickets from 250-350 NOK and up to 2500 NOK for coach. Student/youth discounts.
Bodø is a long, slender city around 2-3 km in width and over 10 km long in a roughly east-west line. This makes communication by bus well established for a city this size, and during weekdays busses go every fifteenth minute to-and-from town westwards. The Sentrumsrunden bus brings you everywhere you want within the city centre, and there are also busses going northwards to the sattelite towns there. The bus system is zonal, meaning that you pay more the further you are going.
There is also a service of regional busses to other cities, but they only go a couple of times a day, or rarer if the distances are long. A bus to Sweden goes on weekends, making it possible to take a weekend trip, Friday to Sunday, to anywhere between Bodø and Skellefteå.
Many international car rental businesses are established in Bodø. The city has a good road network and many scenic roads. A car is desirable if you are planing to stay in town for a while, or see the areas outside the suburban bus network.
Taxis are also available, but with typical Norwegian prices, you should be cautious about using them on longer trips. A 10 km trip costs about 200-250 NOK in a normal size car, and you pay for the trip, whatever the number of passengers. A full car, four people, will often be cheaper than bus fare, to a certain point.
You can also bike virtually everywhere in Bodø and suburbs, and there is many scenic routes to see.
The first being a rather new popular-music festival, growing fast. Artists like Chris Cornell and Turbonegro have been there, along with major Scandinavian artists like Bo Kaspers Orkester, CC Cowboys, Dum Dum Boys and Timbuktu.
Nordland Musikkfestuke is a more 'cultural' festival, concentrating on jazz, choirs, classical, and many internationally renowned musicians.
In recent years, the alternative music scene of Bodø has flourished. Bodø Hardcore Festival, a festival that attracts basically anything in the Scandinavian alt scene, is held every late autumn, and the very experimental Nødutgangfestivalen, with a focus on Industrial and Avant-Garde, is arranged every summer. Large names that have visited are Faust, The International Noise Conspiracy, and KK Null.
Bodø does not have a great abundance of eateries, but there is a decent selection of cheap restaurants, as well as a couple of good gourmet restaurants.
As with everywhere in Norway, alcohol is expensive and limited to those over 18, a law that is vigourously enforced. liquors stronger than 22% vol. is limited to those older than 20. Beer can be bought at groceries, wine and spirits must be purchased at special outlets, Vinmonopolet. There are two of these in Bodø, one a short walk from the Glasshuset shopping mall, the other one inside City Nord, another shopping mall a bit away from the city centre.
Norwegians are known to engage more in binge drinking than many other nationalities, mainly because the culture of starting evenings with pre-parties at home drinking shop bought alcohols. They also tend to drink little during weekdays, with the exeption of Wednesdays, something that gives them a tendency to consume a tad to much during weekends.
Most travellers only pass Bodø on their way to the Lofoten islands. You can go there by boat(ferries or the coastal express), or by plane to one of the airports, one located close to Svolvær, and one located in Leknes. The plane trip to these places take about 25 minutes, while ferries take several hours.
You can go to Narvik by bus, and you can travel to most parts of Nordland by boat.
There is also a bus connection to Skellefteå from Bodø, which stops several places both in Norway and Sweden.
Bodø is the last station on the Nordlandsbanen rail line, with which one can travel directly to Trondheim and a large variety of locations in the Helgeland region.
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BODO, a seaport on the north-western coast of Norway, in Nordland amt (county), lat. 67° 17' N. Pop. (1900) 4827. The rock-bound harbour admits large vessels, and there is a brisk trade in fish and eider-down. The neighbouring country has many scenic attractions. Sixty miles inland (E.) rises the great massif of Sulitelma on the Swedish frontier, with its copper mines, broad snow-fields and glaciers. The fjords of the district include the imposing Beierenfjord, the Saltenfjord, and the Skjerstadfjord, at the narrow mouths of which, between islands, a remarkable cataract (Saltstrbm) is formed at the turn of the tide. On this fjord is Skjerstad, a large scattered village.
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Hmmm well this is going to be a very short post!! I actually didn't buy any books in May!! I have checked and rechecked!! But nope, nothing!! I did however pick up a preorder from the YA Preview Night, which was Unexpected Everything, which I also got in my YA Chronicles Box !! Oh and I received The Crown, which I preordered from the book depository.
I am though, tempted to pick up Since You've Been Gone, by Morgan Matson!! Ya never know today is May 30, and I do have to go through the city (technically straight past Boffins - via a little detour) to get to my appointment in Fremantle this afternoon!!!!!
And.... I am happy to report that I have read them both!
Unbecoming by Jenny Downham
The Replacement by Brenna Yovanoff
Scripted by Maya Rock
The Sidekicks by Will Kostakis
The Crown by Kiera Cass
The End of the World as we Know it by Iva-Marie Palmer
The Next Together by Lauren James
The Unexpected Everything by Morgan Matson!
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Directed by Alfonso Cuarón (Warner Bros., 2013)
Films like Alfonso Cuarón's magnificent Gravity are few and far between. Too often, American moviegoers are set adrift between the opposite extremes of banal Hollywood spectacle and opaque independent art fair. Cuarón's exceptional new film manages the rare feat of creating a heart-pounding special effects tour de force while also providing thoughtful content in a style worthy of the best art films.
Gravity begins with a stunning shot where the camera circles almost weightlessly around a small crew of astronauts doing repair work on the Hubble Telescope. An accident soon sends two astronauts, Dr. Ryan Stone (Sandra Bullock) and Matt Kowalski (George Clooney), desperately searching for safety. The precariousness of their fragile humanity in the vastness of space is powerfully foregrounded through wide-angle shots and a depth of field brilliantly enhanced by 3-D.
Discontented with technical mastery, Cuarón pushes the film to never lose track of the central story. Amid the staggering emptiness of space, the fear of death, and the failures of technology, the human connection shines through. The stories Matt and Ryan share, the personal objects that float past the screen, a tear that drifts from Ryan's eye toward the camera—these things draw us beyond the masterful special effects to discover the story of rebirth at the film's center.
Cuarón uses a brilliant leitmotif of infancy to help establish this. A cathartic shot of Ryan floating in the fetal position backed by an airlock door, an icon depicting the Christ child being carried by a saint, and the unexpected transmission of the sound of a child crying—all of these moments make us aware of another journey taking place. It marks a deeper one from death to new life. In fact, Cuarón cleverly opens the door to interpreting this journey through the lens of God's grace. Gravity, then, is a rare film indeed.
This article appeared in the December 2013 issue of U.S. Catholic (Vol. 78, No. 12, page 42).


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More than 60 residents of a Mamaroneck apartment complex are without homes following a fire that sent nine people to the hospital for smoke inhalation, according to Town of Mamaroneck Fire Chief Paul Tortorella.
The department received the call for a mattress fire around 4:12 a.m. Friday in a fourth-floor apartment at 3 Dillon Road, the chief said.
By the time firefighters arrived the mattress and contents of the room were on fire, sending heavy smoke into the surrounding areas, including the hallways were other residents were evacuating, causing nine to suffer smoke inhalation, he said.
All were transported to Jacobi Medical Center, White Plains Hospital and Montefiore New Rochelle Hospital for treatment, no one else was injured.
Firefighters were able to contain the fire to the one apartment, but smoke and water damage, along with the fact that apartment shares a firewall with the apartments at 1 Dillon Road, caused more than 60 residents to be displaced when power was cut to the buildings for safety reasons.
"There was fire and water damage to the walls, floors, and electrical, causing the need to cut the power, the chief said.
"There is going to need to be extensive repairs done before residents will be able to move back in," he added.
The fire inspector said the cause of the fire was electrical in nature.
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>>>Athlete of the Week Archive
MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga. – Junior shortstop Daniel Bick (Alpharetta, Ga.) of the Georgia College baseball team (29-16, 16-11 PBC) was chosen Bobcat Athlete of the Week for his efforts during the week ending April 28.
Bick was 7-for-14 (.500) on the three-game week, helping the Bobcats take a series from the University of Montevallo. The junior shortstop drove in six runs and scored five more, ripping three doubles among his seven hits. His best game came Saturday in the series-deciding matchup, going 4-for-5 with three runs and three RBI, tagging a pair of doubles. Bick ranks second in the PBC in runs (61), seventh in stolen bases with 16 and 15th in hits at 67.
The Bobcats are back in action Saturday, May 4 at 1 p.m. traveling to the University of North Georgia.
The Georgia College Department of Athletics, two-time winners of the PBC Commissioner's Cup, sponsors 11 varsity athletic programs at the NCAA Division II level. As a Division II program, Bobcat Athletics prides itself on balancing the life of the student-athlete, evidenced by the teams' multiple appearances in post-season competition as well as documented academic success and community-service involvement. Sign up at www.twitter.com/BobcatSports and www.facebook.com/gcbobcats for up-to-the-minute reports, and visit www.GCBobcats.com for more information, and to nominate your favorite former Bobcats and Colonials to the GC Athletics Hall of Fame.


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Among the many laws that went into effect Tuesday was one making more strict a prohibition against the use of hand held cell phones by people who are driving.
Though texting while driving and using a hand held cell phone while driving already had been declared illegal, under the law that went into effect Tuesday, police no longer have to have another reason to pull over a driver.
The law is especially poignant for the Hurd family, of Abingdon. Heather Hurd was killed in 2009 in Florida by a truck driven by someone who was distracted while texting. Since then, prohibitions against texting while driving and other uses of mobile communications devices have been enacted across the country, many bearing the name Heather's Law.
"Our pain is something that remains the same," Russell Hurd, Heather Hurd's father, said last week for an article on the new law going into effect.
"But no matter what we do, if you can reach at least one family, then that's enough."
An unfortunate reality, however, is that highway safety in general isn't held in high regard, so it remains to be seen what effect, if any, having stricter driving safety laws on the books will have.
Moreover, there's a sentiment expressed by some in positions of responsibility in the government that driving safety laws are intrusive.
In commenting on the cell phone law going into effect, Sen. Nancy Jacobs, who represents southern and eastern Harford in the Maryland General Assembly, said: "Next they'll be telling us we can't listen to the radio or eat."
Sen. Jacob's point is well taken. Laws can be intrusive, and it is certainly true that eating, drinking a soda or coffee or changing the radio station can be every bit as distracting as talking on a hand held cell phone. Why outlaw one and not the other? Why not leave it to drivers to determine if they're able to drive and hold a phone?
Similarly, Del. Susan McComas, who represents Bel Air in the state legislature, expressed general support for safe driving, but reiterated that she voted against the law that went into effect this week, in part, on the grounds that it has the potential to increase law enforcement costs.
The legislators make points that have an element of reason associated with them, but historically personal liberties in this country limit out when they start to impose on someone else's personal liberties. With regard to driving safety, risky behavior on the part of one person can have a deadly result for someone else, even as the person engaged in the risky behavior is unharmed. That's why there are traffic laws, and that's why as new technologies come into being, traffic laws need to be updated.
For years, it was common to point out that alcohol affects different people in different ways, so setting limits on blood alcohol levels wasn't necessarily a fair measure of the degree to which a driver is impaired. The problem then becomes figuring out what measure to use to determine whether a person is too affected by alcohol to drive. It turns out to be much more practical to set a relatively low blood alcohol content to promote the greater good of keeping people impaired by alcohol off the roads.
Similarly, the concerns of Del. McComas, Sen. Jacobs and others concerned about personal liberties notwithstanding, the dangers of unsafe driving are all too easy to quantify. Traffic accidents happen every day in Harford County and deadly traffic accidents are far too common, indicating that personal liberties of those behind the wheel continue to bite into the right of everyone else to use public roadways without fear of being injured or killed.
As it turns out, drinking and driving laws and enforcement of those laws was only part of the solution to the substantial problem drinking and driving deaths had become in the 1970s. Though impaired driving remains a problem, generally speaking, there's a level of social deterrent that has come into play. It just isn't as acceptable in polite company as it once was.
Unfortunately, as drinking and driving has decreased as a cause of traffic accidents, it has been replaced by distracted driving, and cell phone use is as distracting as it gets, certainly more so than eating, drinking soda, coffee or changing the radio station.
It remains to be seen if the crackdown on cell phone use behind the wheel allowed under the new law will have a big effect, but the reality is it probably won't have a big effect by itself. Only when, as a society, we are loathe to not only to hold a cell phone while behind the wheel, but also or talk with someone behind the wheel who is holding a phone, is there likely to be a big effect.
Fortunately, unlike drinking and driving, there is a technological solution to the problem that could allow drivers to safely talk on the phone, namely hands free devices. It may well come to pass that the cell phone laws on the books end up becoming entirely unnecessary as hands free phones come into more common use.
Meanwhile, while it's fine to continue the discussion of the degree to which traffic enforcement infringes on personal liberties, it behooves us all to comply with traffic laws that are on the books.
More importantly, we all would do well to make safe driving a higher priority than getting to our destinations as quickly as possible.


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IKEA backs off from legal action against IKEA Hackers site
The globally renowned website that brought us news of an epic IKEA cat playground built by a Texas pet owner for his cat has survived an attempt by the furniture giant to shut it down.
Ikeahackers.net was ordered to hand over its domain name in a cease and disist letter sent earlier this year but after extensive negotiations IKEA has agreed to open the door to finding a solution.
The IKEA Hackers founder, who goes by the name of Jules Yap who is based in Malaysia, had already persuaded the Swedish company to allow her to keep her domain name as long as she removed all advertising on the site but Yap still feared the loss of revenue would mean an end to her 8 year project.
Now, after a global outcry, IKEA has backed down and says it is willing to find a more amicable resolution.
IKEA told Yahoo news in a statement, "It has of course never been our ambition to stop their webpage. On the contrary, we very much appreciate the interest in our products and the fact that there are people around the world that love our products as much as we do.
"We are now evaluating the situation, with the intention to try to find a solution that is good for all involved."
It means we will still be able to search the site for new ideas on how to transform ordinary IKEA flat pack into new and creative structures.
The cat playground posted by a user identified only as Jason from Texas was just one highlighted by gadget site Gizmondo. Joining it was a gerbil house made out of the Expedit shelf unit and the winner of the 2013 best Ikea hack: a mini bar made from combining the same Expedit shelf with a desk. Check out other hacks in the gallery above.


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