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One year after the United States launched a drone strike and executed US-born Muslim cleric Anwar al-Awlaki and US citizen Samir Khan in Yemen, Columbia Law School's Human Rights Clinic and the Center for Civilians in Conflict have released a report that aims to further ignite debate over drone technology that has quickly become the future of warfare.
Titled, "The Civilian Impact of Drone Strikes: Unexamined Costs, Unanswered Questions," concludes "all variations of targeting procedures have a civilian impact." The report does not attempt to draw "firm conclusions about drone use and civilian harm" but rather aims to challenge "current assumptions about drones as a panacea for counterterrorism efforts."
The report admits that the number of people killed by drones is debatable, however, it adds so too is the number of people designated as "militants" or "civilians." And it focuses in on the secrecy surrounding US covert drone operations, what is known about the role of Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and military's Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) in carrying out attacks and what it says are the "inherent limits of using drone platforms outside of full-scale military operations, which has implications for civilian protection and harm response."
Naureen Shah, Acting Director of the Human Rights Clinic at Columbia, told Firedoglake the "degree of secrecy" around drone strikes is "unprecedented," expressing a concern that is become more and more common. "The US government is refusing to say that these operations are conducted by CIA [or] JSOC themselves. The government is refusing to say how many are being killed." And, according to Shah, policymakers have gone along with the secrecy is because of "the mistaken belief" in the "greatness" of drone technology.
According to the report, there are three forms of intelligence the US is using for strikes: drone video, signals intelligence and human intelligence. It is true drones have the capability of surveillance for long periods where they can gather "huge amounts of information," but that does not necessarily guarantee pinpoint accuracy. If "intelligence and underlying analysis is incorrect," it could be difficult to distinguish between a civilian and a "targeted individual." Former CIA officer Bruce Riedel has noted, "You can only see so much from 20,000 feet." In fact, in April 2011, the report mentions a Predator was "unable to discriminate the highly distinctive combat outline of two Marines (with full battle equipment) from the irregular enemy" during a "combat engagement involving the Marines and the Taliban."
There is also the issue of what the report terms the "soda straw" effect. A drone can zoom in to pinpoint a target, but if it loses the "wider picture of the area—like viewing a small amount of liquid through a soda straw, instead of the entire glass," then "the soda straw effect creates a risk that civilians may move into the vicinity of the strike without being noticed by drone operators." For example, drone pilot Matt J. Martin targeted a truck in Afghanistan of "insurgents." Two young boys Martin had not expected appeared after Martin had fired a missile. All he could do is watch as the two boys were killed along with those in the truck.
Signals transmitted through communication and electronics systems have their use, but drone strikes are being launched in "low-technology environments." The report describes:
…The value of phone intercepts is limited by several factors. First, in low-tech environments, it may not be possible to corroborate phone intercepts with other signals intercepts, if they do not exist. Second, phone intercepts are easily subject to manipulation. Members of armed organizations in Afghanistan and Pakistan are reportedly aware that the US relies on phone communications for intelligence, and deliberately mislead US operators. Where the location of a phone is being used to find a target, individuals can deliberately swap SIM cards or phones. Third, even absent direct manipulation, the accuracy of signals intelligence is limited. Where the location of a phone is being used to identify a target, the target may not be the person holding the phone at the time of the strike. Accuracy will also be affected by the GPS limitations of the particular phone technology being used, the quality of the network, and whether or not the location can be triangulated–all factors which are limited in northern Pakistan and other regions in which drones operate…
The "reliability and vetting of local informants and foreign cooperating government personnel" is questionable. Informants are reportedly paid "$300-$1000 or more" and there are multiple stories suggesting, "Families and rival groups use locator chips to have their enemies targeted and to settle personal vendettas." Local informants may offer "sketchy" information, leading to drone operators firing on people without confirming their identity. And intelligence may be obtained from foreign governments or military officials, who may seek to have the US target their "enemies" instead of the individuals or groups the US wants to target.
The CIA & JSOC
The report draws attention to what it concludes is a "common misperception"—the idea "US drone strikes fall neatly into two programs: the military's overt drone strikes in Afghanistan and the CIA's covert strikes beyond Afghanistan."
…US government disclosures—mostly in the form of leaks to the press— suggest that the military and CIA are both involved in covert drone operations around the world.
Conventional military forces have some involvement in operations conducted by the CIA. Air force personnel reportedly pilot drones owned by the CIA. However, the scope and frequency of this cooperation and assignation is unclear. In particular, it is unknown whether personnel seconded to the CIA follow CIA protocols, and whether they continue to be bound by Department of Defense rules of engagement and directives. Because CIA and military cooperation is not limited to the operation of drones, these questions also apply to contexts such as intelligence-gathering and detention…
The profound secrecy makes it possible for the CIA and JSOC to conceal drone operations. Moreover, the report makes a salient point about the "blurring roles" between the CIA and JSOC. Recall, President Barack Obama "swapped" General David Petraeus and Leon Panetta
…General Petraeus is now the director of the CIA, but as commander of the military's CENTCOM he oversaw the expansion of special operations, including JSOC authority. Panetta, now director of the Department of Defense, presided over the CIA's rapid escalation of drone strikes in Pakistan under Obama. We note that, in practice, this exchange may in some instances benefit civilian protection, since General Petraeus was a primary driver behind counterinsurgency strategy in Iraq and Afghanistan that favored limiting civilian casualties as a strategic imperative…
The report alludes to problems that stem from the militarization of intelligence operations. For example, CIA and JSOC have become increasingly indistinguishable on the ground:
…"[C]o-mingling at remote bases is so complete that US officials ranging from congressional staffers to high-ranking CIA officers said they often find it difficult to distinguish agency from military personnel," reported the Washington Post in 2011. According to another report, "American military and intelligence operatives are virtually indistinguishable from each other as they carry out classified operations in the Middle East and Central Asia." During the al-Awlaki strike, "the operation was so seamless that even hours later, it remained unclear whether a drone supplied by the CIA or the military fired the missile that ended the al-Qaeda leader's life." Being unable to identify which agency carried out an operation could make it difficult for the public and policymakers to assign responsibility in the event of abuses or mistakes, particularly for civilians looking for an explanation or redress…
That may be a key reason why JSOC has been granted responsibility to carry out operations. In Daniel Klaidman's book Kill or Capture, he suggested what made JSOC appealing was the "near-total secrecy" in which this "relatively small, nimble" group is able to operate.
… Until recently, the Defense Department did not even officially acknowledge its existence. Some of its missions were so compartmentalized that they took place without the relevant combatant commander's knowledge. Moreover, unlike the CIA, JSOC was not required by law to brief Congress on its clandestine operations. Law and politics so constrained Obama's ability to influence counterterrorism policy. It's easy to appreciate the lure of JSOC, which was sometimes referred to as the president's "secret army."…
JSOC was President George W. Bush's personal army, a squad he could issue direct orders. For example, in September 2003, Bush issued an Al Qaeda executive order that "authorized JSOC operations in Afghanistan, Iraq and a dozen other countries, reportedly including Pakistan and Somalia." This order was never made public and, under Obama, Petraeus has reportedly expanded and updated the order to support the US military's "clandestine activity in the Middle East."
Civilian Impact
Like a report released by clinic at the law schools of Stanford and New York University on September 25, this report affirms the reality that the civilian impact of drones is being entirely overlooked and ignored or, at best, downplayed. Adding to the debate, the Columbia report suggests that civilians mistakenly targeted are experiencing "stigmatization" because of the "fabled precision of drones."
The fabled precision of drones can mean that civilian victims of drone strikes are assumed by their community to be connected to militancy. Victims face the double burden of dealing with the physical attack and also clearing their name.
In one drone attack in Pakistan, instead of striking a Taliban hideout, missiles hit the house of Malik Gulistan Khan, a tribal elder and member of a local pro-government peace committee. Five members of his family were killed. "I lost my father, three brothers, and my cousin in this attack," said Adnan, his 18 year-old son. Adnan's uncle claimed, "We did nothing, have no connection to militants at all. Our family supported the government and in fact…was a member of a local peace committee." The family provided Center for Civilians in Conflict with detailed documentation of the deaths of the five family members, including a report from the Assistant Political Agent of South Waziristan and a local jirga requesting that the government pay compensation.
The Columbia report summarizes the "psychological toll" civilians experience from drones. The conclusions are, again, similar to conclusions in the Stanford/NYU report:
Civilian deaths, injuries, displacement, and property loss caused by conflict are always traumatic for the population. Covert drone strikes take a particular toll, striking unannounced and without any public understanding of who is—and importantly, who is not—a target. For victims in particular, there is no one to recognize, apologize for, or explain their sorrow; for communities living under the constant watch of surveillance drones, there is no one to hold accountable for their fear.
But, perhaps, the most important aspects of the report are the points where conventional wisdom promoted by policymakers is entirely discounted or discredited. For example, the report includes a note from David Kilcullen, former counterinsurgency adviser to General David Petraeus, and Andrew Exum of the Center for a New American Security and a former US army officer in Iraq and Afghanistan, on why the US drone war is guaranteed to have unintended consequences:
Imagine, for example, that burglars move into a neighborhood. If the police were to start blowing up people's houses from the air, would this convince homeowners to rise up against the burglars? Wouldn't it be more likely to turn the whole population against the police? And if their neighbors wanted to turn the burglars in, how would they do that, exactly? Yet this is the same basic logic underlying the drone war.
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In the month of February, burglars have targeted 10 houses in the city and decamped with cash and jewellery. The police, however, have not been able to arrest the accused in any of the cases.
In the last two weeks, four houses have been burgled by unidentified miscreants in Sector 23. All the houses which were broken into are those allotted to government employees. On Monday, the accused who burgled one of the houses managed to flee despite the presence of police officials who were deputed to nab the miscreants.
"At first, owners of three houses in the same locality in Sector 23 had reported incidents of burglaries. All the incidents were similar. The miscreants had targeted the houses when the residents had gone for work in the morning and afternoon," said a police official of Sector 22 Police Post.
Vandana, a resident of Sector 23, said, "This is not the first time that one of the houses in our locality has been burgled. Many incidents have taken place here. Despite us telling the police officials who patrol the area to keep a watch, cases are increasing."
When contacted, Deputy Superintendent of Police (Central) Ashish Kapoor said, "The accused managed to escape the police officials on Monday. But we have deputed special teams in Sector 23. We also sought help from the crime branch."
On February 7, residents of Sector 38 West had reported burglaries in two houses and an attempt was made to burgle another house. A complainant, Davinder Kumar Sharma, had suffered a loss of 45 tolas of gold, Rs 70,000 in cash, $750 and a coin collection of different countries weighing about a kilogramme. Loss from the other house which belongs to Pritam Singh could not be calculated as the owner is in the US. The miscreants also tried to break into Sharma's nextdoor neighbour's house.
A day before the incident happened, Pritam and his wife had left for the US to visit their daughter. Pritam's brother Dr Darshan Singh who is looking after the house noticed the lights of the house open and found the house ransacked.
These houses in Sector 38-West were burgled between 2 pm and 5 pm when the residents of the houses and that of the neighbouring houses were not at home.
Admitting that the police have failed to find any leads in the case, DSP (South) Surjit Singh Malik said, "We are trying our best to arrest the accused. But there is no clue. The dump data from the mobile towers in that area was taken but there was nothing in it."
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Alaskan: Palin 'spinning' on Bridge to Nowhere claims
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Yesterday the John McCain campaign unveiled what they called a Truth Squad to protect GOP Vice Presidential nominee Sarah Palin.
Today, the Obama camp responded with what they call their Alaska Mythbusters, featuring former Alaskan Gov. Tony Knowles and Ketchikan, Alaska, Mayor Bob Weinstein.
Knowles, the previous governor in Alaska, says he thinks its bad form to criticize a sitting governor. But he said the stakes were too big now for him to reserve comment. He discussed the Troopergate controversy involving Palin, who is accused of firing her public safety commissioner. Palin reportedly fired Walt Monegan after he refused to get involved in firing her former brother-in-law, a state trooper who was involved in an exceptionally nasty divorce with her sister.
Knowles said that when Palin was told it was inappropriate to continue to be involved in the case, she did not pull back, but ultimately fired the public safety commissioner. And Knowles said Palin changed her position that the inquiry would be open and cooperative with the investigators.
Bob Weinstein is the mayor of Ketchikan, the home of the Bridge to Nowhere. He denies that Palin ever told Congress "thanks, but no thanks" regarding getting congressional funding for a bridge to Gravina Island. The island hosts an airport but the only other access is by ferry.
He said Palin couldnât say anything to Congress, because she was not yet governor when Congress was dealing with whether or not to ultimately decided not to fund the bridge. And he says she took exception to people calling the project a bridge to nowhere.
Another new television ad by the McCain campaign claims â based on an article by a Wall Street Journal reporter - that the Obama camp sent out a team of attorneys and opposition researchers to Alaska the day after Palin was selected as VP. The Obama team denies that.
When asked by a reporter on the conference call if any independent or third party groups have come to Alaska to reseach Palin, Ketchikan Mayor Bob Weinstein bashed the McCain campaign team for doing little if any vetting of Palin.comments powered by Disqus
One thing they sure missed: the horrible "leadership qualities" Palin shows when she just giggles as shock jocks to call a cancer survivor a "cancer and a b****" --and then she claims she'd be honored to have them in the Governor's Mansion. These are people I do not want in the White House: http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=sara+palin+bitch+cancer&hl=en&emb=0# The Anchorage Daily news reported this on January 25th, 2008 http://www.adn.com/opinion/story/293639.html
While we're all discussing the very interesting Ms. Palin. There is the $200 billion taxpayer bailout of Fannie & Freddie. As I understand it none of this money will go directly to prevent foreclosures, altho more than $10 mil will go to severance packages for the CEO's. I also heard that the decline in values of public pension funds which were major holders of the now worthless shares will force raises in state & local taxes. Do we really want to continue the people like McCain who created this mess. It's rather like the "surge." Had it not been for the folly of going to Iraq in the first place we wouldn't have needed a surge. (& for the record Osama hated Hussein almost as much as he hates the West. Hussein was a bad guy but the Iranians weren't crazy about him either. We're being distracted here from a debt that our children's grandchildren will be paying.


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BEIRUT (AP) — The leader of the most formidable rebel group in Syria pledged allegiance Wednesday to al-Qaida but distanced himself from a claim that his Islamic extremist faction had merged with the terror network's Iraqi branch.
Al-Qaida in Iraq said Tuesday that it had joined forces with Jabhat al-Nusra or the Nusra Front — the most effective force among the disparate rebel factions fighting to topple Syrian President Bashar Assad. It said they had formed a new alliance called the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant.
Talk of an alliance raised fears in Iraq, where intelligence officials said recently that increased cooperation was already evident in a number of deadly attacks. And in Syria, a stronger Nusra Front would only further complicate the battlefield where Western powers have been trying to funnel weapons, training and aid toward more secular rebel groups and army defectors.
But the leader of Nusra Front, Abu Mohammad al-Golani, threw doubt on the merger. In a statement posted on militant websites, he said he was not consulted ahead of time and only heard about the union through the media.
He did not, however, deny the two groups had merged, and remained vague on the point, only saying that the announcement was premature. He said his group will continue to use Jabhat al-Nusra as its name.
"The banner of the Front will remain unchanged despite our pride in the banner of the State and those who carried it and sacrificed and shed their blood for it," he said in a reference to al-Qaida in Iraq.
The message appeared to be, at least in part, an effort by Nusra Front to reassure Syrians that the group remains dedicated to the uprising to oust Assad and is not beholden to non-Syrian interests despite its pledge of fealty to al-Qaida leader Ayman al-Zawahri.
"What you saw from the Front of its defense of your religion, honors, and blood, and its good qualities with you and the fighting groups, will remain as you experienced it," al-Golani said in remarks addressed to the Syrian people. "The announcement of the pledge of allegiance will not change anything in its (Nusra's) policy."
Earlier this week, al-Zawahiri urged Islamic fighters in Syria to unite in their efforts to oust Assad. That may have provided at least part of the impetus for the announced merger with al-Qaida in Iraq, formally known as the Islamic State in Iraq.
The purported unification was announced by ISI leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in a 21-minute audio message posted on militant websites late Monday.
In his recording, al-Golani confirmed his group's long-standing, close ties with al-Qaida's Iraqi franchise, and expressed gratitude for what the money and manpower it provided to help get Jabhat al-Nusra off the ground.
Al-Golani's message was first reported by the SITE Intelligence Group, which monitors extremist websites.
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|Ben Whiting - Mesa Unified School District
|Ben Whiting
|1801 E. Lockwood St. Mesa, AZ 85203
|Campaign Phone:
|Campaign EMail:
|Campaign Website:
|Occupation/Main source(s) of income:
|Previous Occupations:
|Financial Services Representative- Wells Fargo Bank
|Arizona State University, University of the Pacific School of Dentistry
|Birth Date:
|January 24, 1973
|Wife: Sherri; Children: Colton, 12, Darren, 10, Stetson, 8, Brianna, 5, Braden, 3, and Jordan, 3 months
|How long have you lived in Arizona?
|Native, 35 years
|What is your party registration and how long have you been registered as a member of that party?
|Republican, 17 years
|Previous public offices you have sought/held:
|Civic organizations in which you have been active?
|Save the Family
Mesa United Way board member
Boy Scouts of America
|Are you using public funds in your campaign?
|Do you have any sort of a criminal record or any outstanding civil judgments? Please be specific.
|What is the best piece of political advice you ever received?
|'It's hard to complain if you're not involved.'
|What character trait best serves a public official?
|What character flaw most harms a public official?
|Lack of Integrity
|What is your favorite book (besides a spiritual text)?
|I Dare You! by William H. Danforth
|What is your favorite place in Arizona?
|White Mountains
|Which Arizona political figure past or present do you most admire and why?
|Jeff Flake, he stands by his principles
|Why are you running for school board?
|As the grandson, son, and even son-in-law of former teachers in Mesa Public Schools, and graduating from the district, I was taught and have come to understand the importance of a great educational model. As a father of 6 children who are and will be students in the district, I have an interest in the future success of our district, and am excited for the opportunity to help continue the great traditions of achievement here.
|Describe the top three educational challenges your district will face in the coming school year and explain your strategies to overcome those challenges.
|� Continuing to deliver a quality product with a reduced amount of finite resources. I will listen to and work with the community members, teachers, staff, superintendents, and the Board to make the difficult decisions needed in order to make this an extremely positive and transparent experience for our district.
|� Matching expectations with the capabilities of our students. Post-secondary success must be a goal of our curriculum. I will work to continue the development and maintenance of programs allowing students to pursue areas of interest; ie Project Lead the Way and BioScience, and encourage an increased utilization of technology in order to allow more flexibility and maintain student interest.
|� Communication with the community. In a time of flux, I will work to increase awareness in our community about the successes and needs of our schools and the district.
|What spending issues in your district's budget do you challenge and what would you do instead?
|With changes in our district which affect our district's budget, continued evaluation and monitoring of our district's budget has become even more important.
|While school districts cannot advocate an override, what can be done to help market an override for districts that have had recent defeats?
|We must, in the public's perception, link student success with the override.
|What effect has the emphasis placed on high results on the AIMS test had on your district, schools and personnel? Do you think it should be a high school graduation requirement?
|The AIMS is simply a measurement of minimum competencies. Like testing for a driver's licence, the skills tested don't ensure success in all environments. For lower performing students it has done phenomenal things, giving them a goal to shoot for, and many have succeeded. However, for some higher performing students, it seems to have fostered an attitude of complacency. It has fulfilled one purpose, yet seems to have hurt another. Therefore, I believe that high-stakes tests should not be a graduation requirement.
|What role should schools play in issues such as sex education and preventing alcohol/drug abuse and teen suicide?
|I advocate the idea that sex education is the responsiblity of caring parents. However, I'm not so naive as to believe this is available universally in our community. I do support the district sex education committee for the work they do which has served the ideology and choice of our community.
I also support the district's Tough Talk series for alcohol/drug abuse, and believe teen suicide concerns require constant monitoring.
|Should more schools in your district consider requiring uniforms or more standardized dress? Why or why not?
|I, personally, am in favor of them; however, I support the policy in place which allows each school to make that choice.
|What should your district do if anything to compete with charter schools, private schools and neighboring school districts? What should your district do to boost student enrollment?
|I am in favor of parent choice. The increased prevalence of 'competition' for our public schools has only made the public schools stronger. New programs have and will be designed and available in order to provide the same choices to parents at the public schools as are found at the charter or private schools. And hopefully, they will be even better than what will be found elsewhere.
|Are there any particular programs or programs in the curriculum that you'd like to see changed? Please explain.
|I believe programs which will promote academic rigor and opportunity should become more available. With all the technological advances, we can provide incredible opportunities for our students to excel and advance much quicker and efficiently.
|Are you satisfied with the performance of the superintendent and overall district leadership?
|I am pleased that Mesa Public Schools is consistently receiving accolades and awards. And that as a compliment to the district, Dr. Deb Duvall received Superintendent of the Year in Arizona last year.
|Are you satisfied with the technology available to teachers and students in the district? If so, explain. If not, what specific technology would you support?
|No, this is an area I feel is in need of improvement. The question may now seem cliche, but do we make the kids power down to come to school? The students can be given opportunites to excel and advance much faster in their education through the use of technology; ie online classes.
|How do you feel about year-round schools?
|For schools who want it, I would support it.
|Do you feel your district sufficiently communicates with parents and the community? If not, how would you improve that communication? How can you get the community more involved in schools?
|This is another area which is becoming increasingly critical, and I see this as an area of improvement. Mesa Public Schools must make the community aware of its successes and needs in order maintain and increase the level of support we have enjoyed for so long.
|If redistricting is an issue for your school district on the November ballot, what do you think about the issue? Are you in favor or opposed? Why?
|Not applicable
|With the closing of the Thomas J. Pappas Schools for the homeless this year, how should districts serve the influx of these students?
|Mesa Public Schools has already been serving a large homeless population for several decades, and will continue to be of service to anyone needing it.
|What changes if any do you think should be made to the No Child Left Behind Act? How has NCLB affected your school district?
|While a good question, I advocate waiting to see what changes come after the presidential election.
|How long have you lived in the district?
|I am a Mesa native, 35 years.
|Do you have children in the district? If so, what schools do they attend and what grades?
|-Colton, 12, 6th grade, Hermosa Vista Elementary (previously at Franklin Northeast and Johnson Elementary)
-Darren, 10, 5th grade, Hermosa Vista Elementary (previously at Franklin Northeast and Johnson Elementary)
-Stetson, 8, 3rd grade, Hermosa Vista Elementary (previously at Franklin Northeast)
-Brianna, 5, Kindergarten at Hermosa Vista Elementary
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Kostakopoulou, K; Vargesson, N; Clarke, JDW; Tickle, C; Brickell, PM; (1997) Local origin of cells in FGF-4 - Induced outgrowth of amputated chick wing bud stumps. International Journal of Developmental Biology , 41 (5) 747 - 750.
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Urodele amphibians are the only vertebrates that can regenerate amputated limbs, even as adults. However, we have previously shown that amputated chick wing bud stumps can be induced to 'ragenerate' and to form a complete set of correctly-patterned skeletal elements, following implantation of beads soaked in fibroblast growth factor-4 (FGF-4). We have now performed DiI injection experiments to determine which cells contribute to FGF-4- induced chick wing bud 'regenerates'. We show that the FGF-4-induced outgrowth of the regenerating wing bud stump is comprised of mesenchyme cells that originate from a region within 200 μm of the FGF-4 bead, and that cells proximal to the bead move distally.
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Edmorel - You state your product is designed assembled and manufactured in the USA. Is there any way for me to get additional information from you? Thank you.
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neck tie seems to be such a small product but yet so complex... :) i am the third generation in neck tie business , we have jacquard and dobby power looms and a stitching unit ; BUT we are still learning everyday. Actually the problem is trends and fashions change rapidly but its difficult to change the manufacturing infrastructure with the same speed.
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Jay, I read your post, and have a small but unique re-design of the traditional men's necktie. I have a provisional patent on the design, and am looking for a US based manufacturer to produce the initial prototypes, get off the ground, etc. If you have interest in discussing further, please email me at email@example.com
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How's it going Jay? I would like more information about your tie factory here in NY. I'm part of a membership that's establishing a tie line. However, unlike most of the ties, we also have a provisional patent on a design, and have begun to set our company to sell. We want to focus on keeping out style somewhat couture, so we won't be mass producing our ties just yet. We are adamant about producing and manufacturing ties here in the US. I can be reached at email@example.com, or would like your company's information so that we can discuss. Thank you.
Hi Jay,
I'm new to this forum. I posted a message earlier, but wasn't sure if the message was directly sent to you so I'm posting it again. I'm also located in NY. I'm also looking to start my own bow tie business and I am looking for a manufacturer. Can you email me at firstname.lastname@example.com so we can talk further about this?
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SACRAMENTO—With a onetime State Farm official and a former insurance lobbyist in top staff jobs, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is repeatedly siding with insurers in legislative battles as they maneuver to fend off fees, fines and concessions to policyholders.
A veteran insurance lobbyist, Dan Dunmoyer, is now the governor's deputy chief of staff, helping to craft his entire policy portfolio. Former State Farm official Kathleen Webb is Schwarzenegger's insurance advisor, vetting insurance-related bills that reach his desk and recommending which he should sign into law.
When insurance-related bills have crossed Schwarzenegger's desk, he has sided with -- or at least not opposed -- the industry nearly nine times in 10, a review of 56 bills tracked by insurance groups shows. At other times, he has sought to kill or blunt legislation before it reached him.
Administration officials have sent letters to lawmakers, for example, warning of their opposition to bills that the industry wants defeated -- letters that in some cases coincide with industry lobbying campaigns to beat back the legislation.
"I don't know that I can point to one pro-consumer bill that has made it through and been signed by the governor in recent history," said Sen. Deborah Ortiz (D-Sacramento).
The governor vetoed one bill that would have extended for nine years insurance industry fees that pay for seismic research. He rejected another that would have barred insurers from raising auto rates for home healthcare workers who use their cars to assist low-income patients. He also vetoed a measure that might have required insurance companies, rather than the state, to pay the medical expenses of certain accident victims.
"People expected of Arnold Schwarzenegger independent advisors who would bring a fresh perspective," said Doug Heller, executive director of the Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights. "Instead, the governor has brought in State Farm and its cronies."
Meanwhile, insurance money has poured into Schwarzenegger's campaign accounts. Since he jumped into the recall campaign in 2003, he has collected about $4.4 million in donations from insurance interests, state records show.
Schwarzenegger promised as a candidate in 2003 that he would purge the capital of powerful "special interests." But he pleased environmental activists in 2003 by hiring one of their own, Terry Tamminen, who was among the governor's most influential aides before resigning last month. And Richard Costigan, a former lobbyist for the California Chamber of Commerce, the state's chief business advocate, is the administration's top liaison to the Legislature.
Now Schwarzenegger has elevated insurance interests to senior levels of his government, giving them too much influence, in the view of consumer groups.
The governor's aides insist that the industry receives no special treatment. If consumer groups don't see the governor's staff, it is because they haven't asked, they said.
Consumer activists said they've seen no point in contacting insurance advisor Webb.
"It's pretty much assumed that under this administration, we were not going to get anything meaningful signed," said Amy Bach, executive director of United Policyholders, a nonprofit group that offers information to the public on insurance matters.
Bach added: "As an advisor, it's incumbent on her to seek us out."
For Dunmoyer's part, his involvement in insurance issues is limited to offering "expertise" to colleagues inside government who are responsible for insurance matters, said Adam Mendelsohn, Schwarzenegger's communications director.
"No industry or organization gets a more sympathetic ear from this administration to the exclusion of another industry or organization," Mendelsohn said.
But insurers see in the governor a reliable ally. Stephen Lilienthal, chief executive officer of CNA insurance companies, wrote in a June letter soliciting money for Schwarzenegger's reelection that the governor "has been a critical first line of defense" for the industry.
CNA, a commercial insurer, has spent $275,000 lobbying in Sacramento since Schwarzenegger took office.


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Last week, Notre Dame University architecture students were told that "mobility is a room with a view." Rooms, they heard, are not necessarily only spaces inside buildings. "Looking out of the window of a train, a ship or a car is also a room with a view," Francine Houben explained during her lecture.
But the well-known Dutch architect was in town to explain, as well, about the First International Architecture Biennial in Rotterdam next May. Houben invited 11 cities, including Beirut, to participate.
NDU will be the gathering point for the Lebanese proposals, under the guidance of Nadim Karam, dean of the Faculty of Architecture.
This will be Rotterdam's first gathering of international architects, and its theme is mobility. According to the event's website, mobility "refers to the physical movement of people from place to place … The essence is how mobility and its infrastructure shape and reshape the city and its landscape, in the past and in the future."
Essentially, then, viewing mobility "as an expression of cultural identity from an architect's point of view."
Mobility is a topic Houben is familiar with. Houben is a founder of Dutch architecture firm Mecanoo, and a professor of architecture and mobility aesthetics at the Technical University Delft part of Holland's "high establishment of architecture," according to Karam.
In 1999 Houben introduced the idea of mobility aesthetics in the context of spatial planning, and has since won numerous awards on that theme.
Before explaining her concept of mobility further, Houben talked about the importance of history in architecture.
"Your country consists of a thousand years of layers of history, mine only a few hundred," she said.
One of her first architecture projects to bring her recognition was the conversion of a church into an avant-garde theater, "avant-garde meaning no money," she quipped. The architect had to chose cheap materials, and she then was inspired by the nature of theater. "They work with light and with colors, so I did the same."
Later in her lecture, Houben discussed how the view from a car window of rows of traffic, with the roads lined with boxy office buildings and shopping malls, is becoming increasingly dominant. Urbanization is spreading almost uncontrollably, replacing nature and landscape vistas.
"It is a big problem. We must do something about it," she said.
Mecanoo made a case study about the infrastructure of the most densely populated area in the Netherlands, collecting facts about mobility and infrastructure: How many kilometers of highway there are, what means of public transportation exist along the roads, how many gas stations there are, where are they located, how many cities and industrial centers are connected by the highways.
Afterward, Mecanoo installed four video cameras in a car to capture the views along the highways.
The architects subsequently determined that most views were not pleasant at all.
"We asked ourselves: Where are the typical Dutch landscapes with the windmills?" Houben said. Well, there were some left. "But we noticed the uncontrolled urban spread: Holland is becoming as suburban as the United States."
In response, Houben drew sketches of houses and high-rise buildings along, above and underneath the highways.
"The idea is to concentrate the buildings in one area, thus leaving room for the historical Dutch panorama of channels, tulip fields and windmills," she explained in her lecture.
She said that she likes the skyscrapers of Rotterdam, "the only Dutch city with a high-rise policy," which create the "Dutch mountains."
"Our landscape is mostly below sea level, so a concentration of high-rises is a creation of artificial mountains which I find beautiful," Houben said. "People can identify with these modern panoramas, as well as they identify with historical panoramas of landscape."
But does this concept work for a country like Lebanon? Beirut is squeezed in between the sea and the mountains, thus a concentration of high-rise buildings seems inevitable. But do Lebanese identify with the ugly concrete buildings rather than with the red-roofed villas?
"I am proposing solutions that are specific to the Netherlands," Houben said. "Every country is different and therefore, it has to have different solutions to the same problem."
This is why Beirut's attendance at Rotterdam's International Architecture Biennale is so important for Lebanon. The most important criteria is to give a future perspective to the problems of mobility, thus creating visionary projects that can be implemented. Rotterdam will be the forum to discuss these projects. As for whether any of these projects will ever be implemented "I am not yet a politician," Karam said laughing.
He added that "NDU will collect the hard facts and make the case study for Lebanon. But the call for proposals is open to students and professionals."
The call for proposals isn't limited to architects only, however, but is open to landscape-designers, urban-planners, interior-designers, graphic artists, film-makers and artists as well. Although certain basic methods are required in each proposal such as the case study collecting facts about the city's mobility, and the videos recording the views out of a car's window Houben "would like to see an interdisciplinary approach to the project."
The project proposals will be sent to Houben, who will select the best ideas to present in May in Rotterdam.
"I think it's great that Lebanon was selected to participate in the biennial," Karam said. "We should profit from this opportunity."
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In light of the recent global public health crises, like Ebola, happening in other parts of the world, we're reminded that it's vitally important for all dental professionals to be up-to-date on the epidemiology of infection control. Bring the entire office staff along with you and join us on September 19 for an important and timely educational activity.
Course Description
The NC Administrative Code specifies that each health care organization in the State, including dentistry, shall designate a staff member to direct infection control activities. The designated staff member in each dental office shall complete a course in infection control addressing 7 specific areas. This course satisfies the required Infection Control training as mandated by the Statewide Program for Infection Control and Epidemiology (SPICE).
Who should attend?
New staff members, dentists, dental assistants, hygienists and the untrained designated staff member who has been identified as the person who will oversee the infection control activities in your office. Any time the person placed in charge of Infection Control for your office changes, the new person should attend the NC required infection control course for dental care offices training program.
At the completion of this activity, participants should be able to:
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2. Discuss principles and practice of asepsis
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7. Discuss techniques that reduce the risk of sharp injuries to health care workers
8. Review additional state laws regarding HIV and Hepatitis B
8:30 a.m. Registration
9:00 a.m. Review of NC Laws Concerning Infection Control in Dental Practices
9:30 a.m. Epidemiology and Risk of Infection in the Dental Office
10:45 a.m. Break
11:00 a.m. Principles/Practices of Asepsis and Hand Hygiene
11:45 a.m. Environmental Issues in Dental Practice
12:15 p.m. Lunch
1:15 p.m. Disinfection and Sterilization in Dental Practice
2:30 p.m. Break
2:45 p.m. Engineering Controls, Work Practices and Personal Protective Equipment
3:45 p.m. Outbreaks and Safe Injection Practices
4:15 p.m. Question & Answers; Evaluations
4:30 p.m. End of Program
About the Speakers
Dr. Ralph Leonard is the practice director of the Dental Faculty Practice and holds the Jim and Isabel Harrell Distinguished Professorship in Family Dentistry. He is a member of the Department of Operative Dentistry and is primarily responsible for clinical teaching comprehensive care program and patient care in the Dental Faculty Practice. Dr. Leonard graduated from the UNC School of Dentistry in 1985 and is a member of Omicron Kappa Upsilon Dental Society. He was in private practice before joining the UNC dental faculty full-time in 1989. He is a member of the UNC School of Dentistry's Infection Control Committee. Dr. Leonard's research interests include patient care delivery systems and nightguard vital bleaching.
- D.D.S., Doctor of Dental Surgery, University of North Carolina, 1985
- M.A., Public Health, University of North Carolina, 1978
- B.S., Biology, Appalachian State University, 1975
Dr. Valerie Murrah currently serves as a professor and chair of the School of Dentistry Department of Diagnostic Sciences. She also holds a joint appointment with the UNC School of Medicine in the pathology and otolarynology. Dr. Murrah obtained her D.M.D. from Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville before pursuing her advanced training in oral and maxillofacial pathology at the University of Minnesota and her anatomic pathology training at Hennepin County Medical Center in Minneapolis. She served on the faculty at the University of Minnesota School of Dentistry from 1983-87 where she was Director of the Oral Diagnosis and Emergency Clinics and the school's first Infection Control Committee Chair. In 1988, Dr. Murrah joined the Department of Pathology at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. In 1994, she moved to Atlanta and joined the Pathology Department at Emory University School of Medicine where she served as research director for the Division of Oral, Head and Neck Pathology. Dr. Murrah has received teaching awards from multiple universities. Her research focuses on tobacco and viral co-factors in oral carcinogenesis and aspects of gene therapy for oral cancer.
- M.S., Oral Pathology, University of Minnesota, 1983
- D.M.D., Dentistry, Southern Illinois University, 1980
- MA. Ed., Education, Washington University, 1977
- B.A., Biology, Washington University, 1972
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Registration Fee and Credit
The registration fee is $290 for dentists and $190 for team members. UNC Continuing Dental Education designates this activity for 6 hours of continuing education credit. The registration deadline is September 12, 2014. A continental breakfast and boxed lunch will be provided with your paid registration.
Refund Policy
Since considerable advance planning is necessary for this continuing education program, a registration refund, less a $50 fee, will be issued for cancellations received by September 12, 2014. The cancellation fee is necessary to cover materials and facilities costs incurred for each participant, which are non-refundable to us. No refunds will be issued after September 12, 2014.
Disclosure Statement
In accordance with the ADA CERP Standard V., everyone involved in planning or presenting this educational activity will be required to disclose any relevant financial relationships with commercial interests and this information will be made available to participants at the start of the activity.
As a continuing education provider, UNC School of Dentistry is responsible for ensuring the content, quality and scientific integrity of all continuing dental education activities for which credit is provided. The School is also responsible for taking steps to protect against and/or disclose any conflict of interest of the faculty/instructors presenting those courses.
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This continuing education program is presented by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Dentistrys Department of Prosthodontics, and the Continuing Dental Education program. The UNC Continuing Dental Education program is an ADA CERP Recognized Provider. ADA CERP is a service of the American Dental Association to assist dental professionals in identifying quality providers of continuing dental education. ADA CERP does not approve or endorse individual courses or instructors, nor does it imply acceptance of credit hours by boards of dentistry. Concerns or complaints about a CE provider may be directed to the provider or to ADA CERP at www.ada.org/goto/cerp.
The University reserves the right to cancel or postpone any course due to unforeseen circumstances. In the event of cancellation or postponement, the University will fully refund registration fees but is not responsible for any related costs or expenses to participants, including cancellation fees assessed by hotels, airlines, rental car or travel agencies.


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Furnishing Your Apartment on a Budget: The Bedroom
As they say on MTV "Cribs", this is where all of the "magic" happens. But, if you have a sleeping bag and a pillow as your bedroom set, you're certainly going to have to be a magician to make anything happen. So here are a few ways to make your bedroom magical on a budget:
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Futons can give greater versatility, but if you go the bed route, avoid waterbeds; some places don't allow them. Go with something basic and easy to move. You may want to consider an inflatable bed as a good low cost temporary solution.
Discount department stores may be your best bet. Splurging on a higher thread-count may be worth it, but definitely avoid the designer labels. Martha Stewart's Everyday line at K-Mart can provide you with a set for well under $100. You can also find great bedding bargains on the internet from sites such as the Company Store or Overstock.com. Keep in mind that good sources for linens are also convenient places to get towels, shower curtains, and other bathroom items.
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Bonnie Triyana was buying men's magazines for his friends back home while attending a conference in Brazil eight years ago when he realized he had better buy a more respectable publication to put atop the pile.
That turned out to be Istoria, a Brazilian magazine on popular history.
Though Bonnie could hardly read Portuguese, the pictures and graphics told a vivid story of war and conflict.
For the avid history buff, it sparked a dream to create something similar for Indonesians.
Last April, Historia, the first Indonesian popular history magazine, was born.
Bonnie, 33, its founder and chief editor, hopes the issues it raises will spark a deeper understanding of his country's rich but checkered past.
The monthly magazine comes at a time when many Indonesians are keen to learn more about history. It also organizes regular discussions and film screenings.
"In Indonesia, the version of the government has been the only truth, but this is not the case," says Bonnie, in an interview at Historia's office in Jakarta.
"Many also long for the past today. But the past was not always great."
Although Indonesia has seen a dramatic political opening-up since the fall of strongman Suharto 15 years ago, history textbooks and TV documentaries are still fairly one-sided. And that can be hard to change.
For example, last year, the national human rights commission — for the first time — declared the 1965 mass killings of hundreds of thousands of suspected communists towards the end of Sukarno's reign to be a gross state-sponsored human rights violation.
It recommended that the government set up a committee for truth and reconciliation and apologize to victims' families and survivors.
Top officials shot it down, saying that while there were victims, Indonesia would not be where it is today without the crackdown.
Bonnie hopes efforts like his can help Southeast Asia's largest country one day come to terms with a more honest and balanced assessment of its past.
Born in Rangkasbitung, Banten, Bonnie lived in Sumatra in his younger days as his father was a plantation manager there.
His decision to study history at university was partly inspired by newspaper articles about a farmers' rebellion in Banten in 1888. He graduated from Diponegoro University in Semarang in 2003.
As a student, he and several friends formed a history discussion group, inviting former communists and victims to campus to discuss the events of 1965.
"After Suharto fell, we felt it was our job to bring these people back into the public eye," he said.
"We just wanted to present a history that had hitherto been hidden."
Bonnie, who is married to a former journalist and has a five-year-old daughter, worked as a journalist for seven years while looking for investors.
By April 2010, he had raised enough to rent office space from a friend and assemble a website called Historia.
On the first day, it got 5,000 hits. As its popularity grew, Bonnie got to know political observer and then lawmaker Jeffrie Geovanie, who threw his financial support behind a monthly print edition.
They printed 7,000 copies for their launch edition, and before long, picked up regular subscribers. The magazine is not profitable yet, but advertising is picking up, Bonnie said.
A typical issue seeks to stay close to the news: When a spate of intolerance against Shi'ite Muslims erupted last year, Historia explored the history of Shi'ites and their contributions to the region.
Its December and February editions had packages on the history of Christianity and on the Chinese in Indonesia.
Bonnie is also looking at featuring conflicting claims and the Sulu Sultanate — amid ongoing developments in Sabah — for an upcoming edition.
He is against the use of history by some politicians who romanticize Indonesia's past, like the Majapahit empire, to talk about recreating a powerful Indonesia.
"Not only is such talk inaccurate, it is dangerous," he said.
"It's like how Hitler thought of Germany as the Third Reich. This has the potential to make us fascist."
"Majapahit succeeded because it fought and conquered, but it did not care whether people went hungry or were poor. Today, countries do well by greater interaction with other countries, not the Majapahit way," he added.
Bonnie hopes to put out an English-language edition before long that will be the first Southeast Asian history magazine.
"Asean is talking about becoming an integrated community, and this is something we can look to the past for background on," he said, noting that the region has had much in common, from food to clothing.
"History is like a rear-view mirror. You don't need to keep looking but from time to time, you need to check back."
Reprinted courtesy of The Straits Times


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Khorixas residents will take to the streets today to demand the axing of town council employees implicated in the disappearance of about N$400 000 at the council.
The town's chief executive officer, Nicodemus Gaeseb, housing department head Daniel Geiseb, Eben Xoagub, Swapo councillor Jeremias Kheimseb, Sipho Ganeb, a local preacher, Barry Goamub and Xoagub's wife were arrested in October last year by the Anti-Corruption Commission in connection with a fictitious construction tender.
The demonstrators will also call on local councillors, of the United Democratic Front and Swapo alike, to resign because they are allegedly condoning corrupt practices by council officials.
Sakarias Dawids, who is organising the demonstration, says the mayor, Andries !Aebeb has the power to suspend corrupt officials but has failed to do so.
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Two blocks are pulled across a frictionless surface by a $240\ N$ force, as shown in the diagram below: $60\ kg$ - - - cord - - - $20\ kg$ → $240\ N$. If the blocks are accelerating at $3\ m/s^2$ what is the tension of the cord in between the two blocks? So I don't really have a strategic approach to this problem. I Isolate $20\ kg$ and see that $f = (20\ kg)(3\ m/s^2)$. Therefor it takes 60 newtons for that block to accelerate at $3\ m/s^2$ and the other 180 newtons are used to pull the second block and therefor $180\ N$ is the tension.
- Is that correct, my teacher never gives me the answer sheet :(
- Is there a step by step approach I can apply to tension questions?
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Gnarly Adventurer
Joined: Sep 2008
Location: New Zealand
Oddometer: 120
Servicing has been incredibly easy so far - I'm only on the 2nd spark plug, mainly I change the oil & filter (pretty easy job) and get the bike shop to replace tyres. I did change the belt once, surprisingly easy with an air wrench. I've replaced rear brake pads (pretty easy) but am still on the original front pads.
My Burg 400 has been VERY reliable and has easily handled some long trips. I use it often as a city commuter and it does that job well too.
I have gone camping a few times:
TBH I load up with way more gear than I really need. It handles that gear & weight without any problem though and I haven't found gravel roads to be overly difficult to ride on.
Joined: Sep 2011
Oddometer: 35
I for one just could not be seen on a cruiser. I'm afraid of guilt by association with the loud pipes,
fringe leather, Barney-Badass cloaked pile of obnoxious dorkdom.
I don't have a problem with the quiet, honest scooter dorkdom image at all. :)
In motorcycles, I have gravitated to the standard/naked ones with quiet, stock exhausts (with one exception
in my cheap, misguided youth.) They also need to corner at high lean angles at high speeds, something
no cruiser does as well, even the ones that do so better than other cruisers. You can't have it all?
If the manufacturers only produced two practical bike models, to please both of us, that would probably
leave them without many sales--few others would choose to buy them. Marketing people drive
the world.
I've ridden an old (CX-like) Silverwing. It buzzed a LOT, but it was old. I've chanced upon rides on bikes
of my youth (seventies, eighties) and they all were a lot nicer to look at than ride. I believe chassis smoothness,
engine smoothness, and handling have come a LONG way in 20+ years.
And scooters are easier to bathe! But they are not geared toward quick maintenance. Yes, I don't
know what the problem is with hydraulic valves, why manufacturers don't use them. I know some
have had issues, especially when faced with dirty oil. Maybe they don't like lives above 5K rpm or so?
I'm thinking of my 86 Goldwing. It rarely went above 5K and it had hydraulic valves. But don't
even Burgman 650s get ridden frequently above that? My Burgman 400 certainly does.
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Location: People's Democratic Republic of Tarsnakestan
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Here's why - my apples-to-oranges thinking happens because I am always looking for a contradictory combination of attributes and components from completely different types of PTWs; striving to find one bike that will "do it all" - (in my case) a retro-styled, EFI, disc-braked, liquid-cooled, bench-seated scooter - well-sprung, rack-equipped, with great back support, relaxed riding position, highway-pegged, accomodating change of leg/body position, stable and gust-resistant at high speeds, perfect for slow threading and flicking through traffic in town traffic, under three hundred pounds. With fantastic mileage. and hydraulic valves.
In short, the perfect scoot - for me - would violate inviolable principle of engineering, physics, and manufacturing/market economics.
The closest I ever came was a Honda PS250 Big Ruckus, but only once it was amped with a JCosta variator, upjet, and JDM scoops for extra airflow at high speeds. I will not quote what it could do on the slab - people scoff and bad feelings ensue - but it would perform that way all day long for days on end. The down side was that it was way, way too muscular for the brakes. I didn't mind that it looked like a water heater laid on side.
Some current maxis approach my list of ideal attrubutes...but they all look like the great ocean-going mammals, and I hate that look. Retro-styled maxis - the larger BVs - in urban traffic cannot get out of their own way, are stodgy at low speeds and unhandy at traffic manuvers. The Vespa GTS 300ie Super... I had a 250 - those scoots hate passengers, the seats are intolerable, and no Italian bike can hope to have the box-o-rocks reliability of the Japanese/Taiwanese marques, nor the parts/infrastructure support. It means something that Honda is killing Vespa market share - in Italy.
We all seem to want bikes that combine things in a way that can't be had - wherefore apples-oranges-bananas, pears...
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None of my cruisers have had fringe or loud pipes, though many cruiser riders go that direction, you don't have to. Most of them have been set up as touring bikes with saddlebags, a windshield, and a riders backrest. I also don't like the looks of a lot of the newer cruisers which try to copy Harley. But I don't ride cruisers for the way they look. I ride them for their comfort and practicality. A cruiser can be set up almost like a Goldwing. I have had 2 Goldwings, an '85 1200 LTD, and currently have a '95 1500 Aspencade. It is also a very comfortable bike, but sometimes more bike than I want. I had planned to trade it for a maxi scooter, but after trying out several, I decided to either keep it, or sell it outright. I didn't see the maxi scooter as an improvement. I guess I just like my scooters small. The Vulcan 750 comes in a very close second comfortwise to the GW and has about the same performance, and actually handles better. The Vulcan with hydraulic valves has a 9500 rpm redline. I have owned 2 of them, a '93 and my current '02. Between the two, I have almost 160,000 miles on them, and have never had any issues with the valves. They have been ridden mostly on the highway, at 75-80 mph.
I'm beginning to think that what the OP really needs is a midsized touring cruiser, like the Yamaha V-Star 950 tourer. It is in the same price range as the Burg 400, and IMO more comfortable, and with better performance. I finally went down to the stealer and sat on one after this came up in another thread. I found it to be extremely comfortable, and with a riders backrest, it would be about as comfortable as driving a car. It comes with really nice bags that have more storage capacity than the Burg, plus you can use a tank bag and a T-Bag, which attaches to the passengers backrest. It has a very low seat height, and if you wanted to mess up such a beautiful bike, it should do a lot better on dirt and gravel roads than a maxi, it has more ground clearance, better suspension, and full sized wheels. It is belt drive, and the valves are super easy to get to. And, it comes with quiet pipes and no fringe, and I recommend leaving it that way.
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naw. the OP wants a Burgie. He'll love it!
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Sorry, I'm lazy and didn't read this entire thread. Wondered if you have considered the Yamaha Majesty? A great 400. I only slightly tweaked mine by adding Dr. Pulley 14gr sliders (stock are 15) and the acceleration difference is noticeable. Ride in the NC mountains 2-up with no problems. Highway speeds? No problem.
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I don't believe Yamaha still makes the Majesty. I tried both the Majesty and 400 Burg, and found the Burger to be a bit more comfortable and controllable in tight spots, due to the too wide floorboards on the Majesty. Problem was, even with their small cc engines, neither one was really an improvement over my 1500 Goldwing. I was wanting to get rid of the 'Wing because I have severe arthritis and am afraid I may drop it in a parking lot or at a stoplight sometime. But none of the maxis felt any more secure in those situations either. I never got a chance to try out any of the maxis on the open road, which I'm assuming they would be at their best. The Majesty does have a valve adjustment interval of 25,000 miles, with no check required after break in. But according to the Majesty forums, you have to pull the engine out to get to the valves, about $600 at a dealer. 25,000 miles would be about 2 years for me. I don't know about the Burg, but if that is what you want, then I would definitely go for it. Definitely a good idea to be riding what you like, if you can afford it.
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I think I went to far
I did sort of the same. Went from a VTX 1800 which I just wasn't happy with, to a KLR 650 and really liked it. I now own a Yamaha Morphous and at 6'7" I really like it,but I think I want something bigger for trips. I've looked at a lot of the Maxi's and would go Honda or Suzuki myself, and I would buy used I see a ton of almost new scoots out there for great discounted prices. Have a great time with what ever you decide on.
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Piaggio group has 32.8% of the market share in Italy (April 2012 report) in large part due to the BV and SRV which increased their market share by 1.7% since their introduction (BV 350 and SRV 850). http://www.4-traders.com/PIAGGIO-C-S...rket-15453949/ Best number I can find for Honda's market share is 18.2% while other sources report 17.85%.
4 Piaggio models in the top 10 including the number 1 spot, 3 Hondas. Combine the two BV models and they outsell the Honda SH.
TOP 20 Gennaio-Giugno 2012 / January-June 2012
Marca / Brand modello / models tipologia / type quantità / units
PIAGGIO LIBERTY 125 PPTT Scooter 9389
YAMAHA TMAX 500 Scooter 7023
HONDA ITALIA SH 300 Scooter 4657
HONDA ITALIA SH 150 Scooter 4081
PIAGGIO LIBERTY 125 RST Scooter 3445
PIAGGIO BEVERLY 350 Scooter 3271
HONDA ITALIA SH 125 Scooter 3000
PIAGGIO BEVERLY 300 Scooter 2981
KYMCO AGILITY 125 R16 Scooter 2419
YAMAHA XMAX 250 Scooter 2302
KYMCO DOWNTOWN 300 Scooter 2125
PIAGGIO VESPA GTS 300 SUPER Scooter 2093
HONDA INTEGRA Scooter 1894
PIAGGIO VESPA LX 125 Scooter 1765
HONDA VISION Scooter 1745
BMW R 1200 GS Enduro 1706
YAMAHA XENTER 150 Scooter 1559
YAMAHA X-CITY 250 Scooter 1473
HONDA PCX 125 Scooter 1372
HONDA NC700X Enduro 1332
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The GT series scoots have experienced headshake, not in all specimens, but in enough to cause wide remark. Ordinary fixes for such a thing, in weights, tire changes, headstock adjustment, have not consistently fixed it. It's enough of a question for me to wonder about the bike geometry itself.
The seating for pillions is an Abu Ghraib Stress Position. I was not wild about the rider's seat shape, either; not the groin-splitter/Prostate Exam divide shape, or the slope. For me, these problems emerged in extended day trip riding after weeks of around town.
As to Vespa vs Honda vs everybody else's sales in Italy, Europe, wherever, bully to Piaggio's rebound after eating it - and for no short time - upon the release of the SHi bikes. That was about the same time that the GTS 300 scoots came out to a chorus of complaints about inadequate bodywork primer and the formation of rust on brand new units, since sorted at the plant.
As for my experience of the BV500 that I tested for an afternoon, the seat was indeed way better. It was the bike's performance in crowded local streets that I did not care for, though I am sure it would more than satisfy on the slab. It just seemed - to me - like a scooter-shaped thing with a case of Gigantism. Again, that is a personal take. Others will see and feel it their way.
This is my experience of the scooters to hand. Many will not agree. The opinions and perceptions of all are valid - for each. The GTS was a bike I truly expected to love. I did not. Cachet, style, even many admirable elements of performance were not enough. For me. And that's why I sold it.
And here endeth my threadjack.
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Thread: snowboard painting / Mt. Hood
September 23rd, 2008 #1
snowboard painting / Mt. Hood
this is my friend Shawn Craddick doing a switch 360 at Mt. Hood in Oregon... he asked me to paint this for an add... I don't think it's good enough yet... I have to make the foreground a little clearer... the mountain in the background a little lighter... and the clouds a little lighter... anything I can do to make this really pop, stand out... 'cuz he wants to use this for some add or something... the painting is 3' x 4'... thank you so much...
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That's either a tiny guy or a huge ramp. Or both.
...Where's his right arm?
September 23rd, 2008 #3
It's in front of his leg on the snowboard.
Even though it's silhouetted, it could probably be a bit more defined, or bring the arm out a little more to make it look more apparent - it kind of looks like it's just the leg.
Also, I think you want to make the snowboarder the focal point, but right now it's not. Trying to think of how to make that come out more.
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September 25th, 2008 #4
here is what i got... i think i did what you were saying with the guy...his arm... made it stand out more... as for the size of the guy, I worked from a photo... this is real size, he is not tiny, he's just going huge... thank you for your comments, much appreciated...
closer up
and here is a close up of the guy...
September 25th, 2008 #5
did some more on it...
and here is the photo I worked from...
September 25th, 2008 #6
Hi Markb, I really like the focus of your piece.
The drama you're trying to relate with Shawn's pose is pretty evident, but if you define his body a little more I think it could really stand out.
In addition, I like how the reference image showed him and the mountains in the background in a warm tone, with the sky a deep blue violet colour. If you follow the image along those lines, a warm and cool colour juxtaposed you could really make it pop more.
I like where it is going, but I fear using the same mixture of colours, as well as the same texture for both him and the background muddy it a bit, and let him recede too much.
Actually, I really liked that crop of just him, as well as the tilt you put on him to better convey the action. I think you could play around with the picture more for a really interesting composition and a truly epic moment. Keep at it man!
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September 29th, 2008 #7
i took your advice HNguyen, or at least I tried to... thank you here's the painting...
and here is a close up of the guy...
... the photo of the first one is not the best...
September 30th, 2008 #8
did a little more... and it's a better picture...
September 30th, 2008 #9
nice progress one thing that bothers me is that the ramps top is perfectly lined up with the ground which creates a very apparent line and completely splits the page in half, I know its in the photo as well but you may want to raise the ramp line up slightly, it would help the eyes move up to the figure and add greater depth to the piece.
September 30th, 2008 #10
October 1st, 2008 #11
Nice Progress Markb, I'm happy some of what I said was of use to you. Thanks for thanks as well, as a newbie to the forum I looked at it quizzically for a moment
I may have missed it before, but it looks like you played with the middle ground some more, I like how you've tightened it up.
I also like that you're playing with the composition more, as well as the highlights and definition on the body.
My favourite part of your most recent updates are the sky you've built around the top of the image, it elegantly silhouettes him. With the sky so bright, I think you could haze out the background a little bit, particulaly that dark bit in the middle to the level of the mountain next to it.
I think with the last crop you could add just a bit of the top of the ramp to the bottom of the edge, maybe at a tilt or with a slight curve on the top to convey space. It would anchor the user to the foreground [use a little bit of a blur filter for a nice field of view gimmick]. Just copy it and play with it as a layer, so if you don't like it you could always dump it. Aside from all that, I'm glad to see you've kept on it, as it is really shaping up.


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Obscene opulence offends me to some degree. I have no idea how someone can have more wealth than they know what to do with, can not feel guilt beyond despair when they see the state of common people.. it would haunt me constantly.
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Bar Nothin' Squares - record ad
This ad for Bar Nothin' Squares, the live album recorded with Bud Udick calling, proclaims proudly, "DON'T USE MONOTONOUS RECORDS WHERE ALL THE COUPLES DO THE SAME THING." It's an early indication of the direction that modern square dancing would go.
Abilene Lift - Rickey Holden
An early description by Rickey Holden of the so-called "Abilene lift," a distinctive style of incorporating a two-steps into square dance movement.
Tags: Abilene lift, Bob Sumrall, Carl Journell, Rickey Holden, Texas
Texas Cowboys - dance poems and lore
A collection of pieces related to square dance in southwest cowboy culture, published in 1925
Cowboys' Christmas Ball - Anson, Texas
Poem written in 1890 describing the Cowboys' Christmas Ball in Anson, Texas. For more information about the author, see this website on cowboy poetry. The Ball continues, following the original rules requiring women to wear skirts and men to check their hats and spurs. Chittenden's poem was set to music and included in John Lomax's Cowboy Songs and…
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Four Bachelor Boys - Richard Kraus
Let's Square Dance!, Album 5
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Square Dances With Calls - Lee Bedford, Jr.
In 1949, Texas caller Lee Bedford released on Imperial Records a four-album set of recordings with music provided by The Big D Ranch Hands. The liner notes, written by Paul Erfer, start by noting, "The interpretation of the figures described follows the style of square dancing as dances in some parts of Texas."Each record had a patter call on the A…
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Four In Line You Travel (clip) - Lee Bedford, Jr.
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Arkansas Traveler (clip) - Lee Bedford, Jr.
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Cowboy Loop (clip) - Lee Bedford, jr.
This dance was called by Mildred Blakey at the big 1950 Santa Monica dance.
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The Girl I Left Behind Me (clip) - Lee Bedford, Jr.
In his brief look at the development of singing calls, Tony Parkes cites the publication of this dance in 1928 as "the earliest description of a singing square I've found so far (in fairly shallow digging)." This SDHP website includes an 1893 reference, plus other early mentions of the dance.
Lines About Squares - Western Square Dancing
In this article, part of his long-running column, the author looks at the typical programs of Western square dancing in the late 1940s and early 1950s. He discusses the different kinds of patter, mentioned the predominance of singing calls at this time, and looks in depth at Rickey Holden's "Star By the Right."
West Texas Square Dances - Index
This is the cover and index of the booklet published by Jimmy Clossin and Carl Hertzog, showing dances that were common to that region around 1950. The book offers a dictionary, "Around-the-Ring Dances," suqdrilles, and "Callers Chatter."
The title page announces that this is "A Revised and Enlarged Edition of "Honor Your Partner" The Original…
The title page announces that this is "A Revised and Enlarged Edition of "Honor Your Partner" The Original…
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Saturday Night Square Dance - Jim Boyd, 1949
"Saturday Night Square Dance" was released in 1949 as a Soundie; the footage included here is all that we have been able to locate. (We would appreciate information from anyone having a complete copy of the film.)
Featured here are Jim Boyd and His Men of the West. Jom Boyd was the brother of Bill Boyd, well known for western swing music, and…
Featured here are Jim Boyd and His Men of the West. Jom Boyd was the brother of Bill Boyd, well known for western swing music, and…