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Papé Field at a Glance
Trivia: The first season attendance record was set with 954 fans on Oct 5. 2012 vs UCLA.
Completed in August 2012 as a gift to the University from Phil and Penny Knight, the Randy and Susie Papé Complex is one of the newest and most advanced facilities in the country.
The most noticeable new feature is the UBU M6 Turf field with the giant Oregon logo at centerfield. Not many collegiate programs feature turf playing surfaces, giving the Ducks a home-field advantage over opponents.
The facility sits adjacent to PK Park and Autzen Stadium and is utilized by both the women's soccer and women's lacrosse programs. Each team has their own locker room featuring individual maple lockers for each player and eight 55" flat screens.
The team meeting room used by both programs is outfitted with two 55" screens and one 55" SMART teaching board. Soccer and lacrosse coaches also have offices in the building and the two programs share a training room as well.
The stands provide outstanding sightlines for nearly 1,000 fans, including accessible seating and restroom facilities. Musco field lighting illuminates the field of play, while a custom Daktronics scoreboard with integral graphics sits opposite the stands.
The facility is themed by a comprehensive graphics package featuring sports specific images and University of Oregon themes. There is a full permanent concession stand as well as a permanent ticket window right next to the south-facing main entrance.
The soccer playing field's dimensions of 75 yards x 120 yards comfortably meet the NCAA standards for width (not larger than 80 yards or less than 65), and length (not more than 120 yards or less than 110). Papé field's dimensions also accommodate lacrosse nicely, as an area of 120 yards by 70 yards is desirable for lacrosse play. For lacrosse games, visual guidelines are placed along the edges of the field to aide in officiating.
Other field of play dimensions are as follows: goal area (20 x 6 yards), penalty kick line (12 yards), goal box (44 x18 yards), circle (10-yard radius), coach / team boxes (20 yards wide).
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Parking is available next to the venue, free to fans during most Oregon Soccer and Oregon Lacrosse events.


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Traveling Through Layers: Yuri Pattison and his Leakers
Yuri Pattison's RELiable COMmunication, 2013
Through the prism of the 1991 attempted coup d'état in Russia to bring down Mikhail Gorbachev's government and restore hard-line Communist Party rule, Yuri Pattison's newest work, RELiable COMmunication, repositions 2013's defining story: Edward Snowden's revelations about the U.S. National Security Agency's global surveillance operations.
Artist Profile: Steve Roggenbuck
The latest in a series of interviews with artists who have developed a significant body of work engaged (in its process, or in the issues it raises) with technology. See the full list of Artist Profiles here.
Steve Roggenbuck.
LD: You recently posted AN INTERNET BARD AT LAST!!! (ARS POETICA) on YouTube about your vision of poetry on the internet. You talk about the importance of poets harnessing social media as a powerful way to change the life of someone else, anywhere in the world. Why is it so important for you to share this message at this time?
SR: the importance of sharing this message now is that our whole society is currently struggling to determine the role of these social platforms. corporations are trying to learn how to make money from them, families are trying to learn how to stay connected through them, everyone is asking "what value can there be in a 6-second video?" and it's all moving so fast, Vine blew up to 40 million users in its first 7 months. but the poetry world has largely been ignoring social media, mainly just using twitter and facebook to post links to standard, plain-text poems. my message is this: if our job is to move people with our language, these platforms give us endless and powerful new ways to do that. the tools to make our language visual and auditory have been democratized; the ability to maintain actual relationships with hundreds of our closest readers across the world is now a reality. i have no publisher, i've only been working at this for ~3 years, and my poems reach thousands of people each. i think social media represents the biggest set of new opportunities for poetry since the printing press.
Running a Marathon
Douglas Coupland, I Miss My Pre-Internet Brain (2013). Pigment on lacquered apple plywood 22" x 17". Courtesy of The Daniel Faria Gallery, Toronto.
With the Frieze Art Fair now in full swing, London is undeniably where the art world is at. For those not exhausted by art fairs and panel discussions about postinternet art, we encourage you to keep up the (pun intended) pace for the 89plus marathon at the Serpentine on Friday night and all day Saturday. Curated by Ben Vickers, notable vestment-wearing participant in yesterday's "Post-Net Aesthetics" panel organized by Rhizome at the ICA, and forming a part of Hans Ulrich Obrist and Simon Castet's long-term research project of the same name, the marathon focuses on concerns facing the generation born in or after 1989—those "Younger than Rihanna," as Harry Burke put it in an article for Rhizome—who have never known a world without Tim Berners-Lee's world wide web, or with the Berlin Wall.
A diverse range of performances, talks, screenings, and installations will consider the subjectivities that have emerged in this period in history and offer speculations about the future. Notable participants include Zaha Hadid, Brad Troemel, Jake Davis aka Topiary, Hito Steyerl, Smári McCarthy (Icelandic Modern Media Initiative), Douglas Coupland, Harry Burke, and Le1F.
For those not in London, the event will luckily be livestreamed via the 89plus Clubhouse, beginning at 2pm EST / 7pm GMT today.
Scenes from the London 3D Printshow
Matthew Plummer-Fernandez, Digital Natives (2012)
"The internet changed the world in the 1990s, the world is about to change again," read much of the promotional literature for the recent 3D Printshow in London. The commercial exhibitors might have benefited from a far more modest tag line, but the art work exhibited, separate from the main trade section of the show, gave much new to think about regarding the the relationship between technology and craft.
Frederik de Wilde, M1ne IIII (2012)
I was immediately intrigued by the two sculptural objects on display by Frederik de Wilde. The cobalt chrome models had been printed from data gathered from Belgian coal mines. They presented themselves as futuristic objects with a link to Europe's industrial heritage. The representations of the coal mines came to the 3D Printshow as seemingly abstract objects but, were actually formed by a much more political process. It had been a laborious process for de Wilde to get access to the data. He remarked that being granted permission to use a data source as an artist is almost an art form in itself. The Belgian government are protective over the information as the mines contain elements of interest to multinationals and other nations. De Wilde was not permitted in the work to reveal the location of the mines and had to abstract the forms so that interested parties could not gain commercial advantage. The custodians of the data had a large say in what the outcome of the piece would be. This is an intriguing collaborative process if it can be considered as such. The models of the coal mines had been stacked inside each other to create fragile vessels, that also further abstracted the context of the data. The production values of both objects were also noteworthy. I ...
Dresses Made from Tweets and Tropical Fish Musical Scales at London Data&Art Hackathon
Recently, Digital Sizzle staged a data and art hackathon at Mozilla HQ in London.There were no rules – the only expectation was to share ideas and skills. The hackathon began with a handful of participants pitching ideas. The weekend's aim was to make art but, its context also showcased developers as creative practitioners who are just as engaged in the process of making as artists are. In the end, two themes of opposing approaches defined the weekend: generating data vs. using data sets and material outcomes vs. screen based outcomes. Tonight a selection of the projects will be shown at Whitechapel Gallery...

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Updates to Sandbox Reservation Internet Access Policy
Due to changes in our networking policies, we are updating the internet access policy within our sandbox reservation instances.
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With Summit Entertainment's The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1 hitting theaters tomorrow at midnight, it's time for our final interview and it's with director Bill Condon. During my exclusive interview, Condon talked about how he got involved in the franchise, what props he took home, whether or not he did any test screenings, if the DVD/Blu-ray will have an extended edition, deleted scenes, the Easter eggs (you should stay through the credits), Bella's transformation, and his future projects. In addition, Condon revealed that his first cut of The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2 was 2 hours 14 minutes and now it's about 1 hour 52 minutes without credits. Hit the jump to watch.
Finally, for more of our Twilight: Breaking Dawn interview, here's Kristen Stewart, Taylor Lautner, Robert Pattinson, author Stephenie Meyer, screenwriter Melissa Rosenberg & producer Wyck Godfrey, and Ashley Greene.
- Condon took home Michael Sheen's head (or at least the prop version of it) from the set. His partner is a collector, so there is no room in their house to bring too much home.
- 1:00 – Condon suggests he was approached about the previous Twilight movies, but the timing wasn't right before Breaking Dawn. He met with the producers and author Stephenie Meyer to pitch his take on the book.
- 2:00 – Condon discusses his perspective on meetings in Hollywood.
- 3:00 – The film was test-screened with a "tiny audience." Condon calls it the "least tested movie" he's ever worked on. But he showed it to friends to get reactions.
- 4:10 – There won't be a different cut of the movie on the initial home release in the spring, but maybe down the line.
- 4:30 – There are just a few minutes of deleted scenes, but nothing that was really hard to cut.
"Just a few minutes [of deleted scenes] on this. This movie represents the movie as my preferred version of the movie. There's nothing that I lifted that I regret lifting, or that I'm desperate for people to see. I mean, there were good things— for example, we used to bookend the movie with the Volturi. And now they're just a taste of what's to come at the end of the movie as opposed to the start of the movie. And I think that was right, you know. Right to not have them."
- 5:00 – There is an easter egg in the credits. Condon explains that he put it in the middle because the end credits are so long.
- 5:50 – Condon talks about putting together the first cut for Part 2 and his vision for Bella's transformation.
"Part of what I was turned on by with this whole thing was being Kristen Stewart's collaborator as she now steps through the looking glass and becomes a vampire. You've watched these vampires from a distance. It's only been her point of view. Now she is one. She— we are vampires. It's seeing the world through the eyes of vampires as imagined by Stephenie Meyer."
- 7:00 – The rough cut of Part 2 is currently 1 hour 52 minutes without credits, down from 2 hours 14 minutes in the first cut.
- 7:45 – He is reading scripts and eager to do another movie after 2+ years of Twilight. However, he is still immersed in post-production on Part 2.


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The only real difference that I see is that Han's head doesn't jerk so bad, he tilts his head barely, as if the shot just tickled his ear (although it is, as said, 2 ft away)...If the real OT doesn't make it out on DVD soon after the SE, I'm buying the bootleggs. Take that, George.
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The temperatures were in the low 70's when I got out from work. The sun had been burning most of the precipitation off of the pavement, and the winds were a favorable 7 miles per hour out of the north. Not exactly a tailwind, but I'll take a diagonal push over a headwind any day.
Long story short: even though I'm on my mountain bike, it would practically be a sin to let an afternoon like this go to waste by taking the bus. I went on the Trek ride after I got home, too. Total, I snuck in more than 35 miles today, all on the Sorrento.
Long story long: I got changed and packed as much of my belongings as possible into my backpack. Friday, I accidentally left my new tennis shoes at work and wore my dress shoes home. My old tennis shoes were used this morning to get me to work and they were still water-logged. I left them there with my dress shoes, and wore my new tennies home.
I took Wyandotte to 13th or so, then zigged over to Baltimore to continue south toward Southwest Boulevard. The bridge is still out over I-670, and I was met with some construction netting, road blocks, and a foreign pedestrian who was entirely bamboozled by the situation. "How to go other side?" she inquired. Heavy equipment sat idle on the tattered bridge. I told her to walk across carefully. No one was around. I bunny-hopped and rode over some of the construction netting and took the bridge as well.
Once across, I was home-free. The rest of the trip was business as usual. I did notice something that I wish I'd seen ages before. At one of the little parks near Turkey Creek Trail, there is a water faucet. This is about 2/3 to my apartment from work, and I don't know how many times I've found myself near that fountain running critically low on water.
After making some dinner for my wife and I, I took off to the Trek Store ride. Badger (whom I usually see when I ride with CommuterDude) met me there. All in all, there was a pretty massive turnout. They're changing locations for the forseeable future, over at 82nd and Metcalf. Mark Thomas will send me some shortcut tips, but I think the end result will actually be a shorter distance to the Monday night rides if I cut across 91st street.
Anyhow, I wrapped up the day with a little more than 35 miles of riding. Not awesome for a Monday, but not a bad day overall.
Also, I raised my Sorrento's seat up a bit on the way home as I passed through Rosedale and it helped with the leg fatigue I was getting. Given the forecast tomorrow, I'll probably end up on the road bike, but next time I use the Sorrento, it should be much easier to ride. It gave me no problems at all during the Monday night recovery ride, so I think it's dialed in properly again.
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Monday, October 08, 2007
35 miles on the mountain bike
The temperatures were in the low 70's when I got out from work. The sun had been burning most of the precipitation off of the pavement, and the winds were a favorable 7 miles per hour out of the north. Not exactly a tailwind, but I'll take a diagonal push over a headwind any day.
3 comments:
- Sirrus Rider said...
35 Miles on an MTB.. Hey that's my commute.. ;D
- October 09, 2007 12:11 AM
So, why are they moving the Trek ride away from the Trek store? I haven't been able to come since August to the ride because my son is on a gonzo overachieving kids football team in BV (of course) and they practice 6-7:30.
I did B4B Sunday before last, I thought you were going to ride it??
- October 09, 2007 11:18 AM
- Noah said...
Sorry Tim, couldn't make it to Bike For The Brain. That sounds like a bunch of zombies! Mmmm. Braaaains. My weekends have been crazy lately.
The reasons Mark pointed out:
* La Tienda Casa Whatever at 82nd and Metcalf is a team sponsor, and Mexican food is good.
* We've worn out the nuance of all the roads near the Trek Store and it's time for some new adventures.
I think these might have something to do with it, too:
* Trek Store is closing earlier in the off-season.
* The Trek Store don't like us drinking beer, crowding the store and making a mess after closing time, which we've been doing a lot of lately.
- October 09, 2007 12:21 PM
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Faculty and Staff of Color Network
Welcome to Lehigh's Faculty and Staff of Color Network website. This site is an online network and resource for new and current faculty and staff. Our goal is to provide useful content and links for all faculty and staff of color.
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Newtown High School of the Performing Arts
Too often society judges women by their size; we are too fat, too thin, too short or too tall. Judged not by who we are but how we appear. We must measure up or face ignominy. As a girl who stands 6 ft tall, measurements and comments have been a regular part of my life.
Investigate how these Adelaide Eastley and Jenny Watson have explored their personal experiences as women in society through their art practice. Consider how each artist has used scale, colour and materials such as textiles to their advantage to explore and reveal a female sensibility.


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- 1 tablespoon butter
- 2 tablespoons brown sugar
- Juice of one lemon
- 1/4 cup water
- 2 cups chopped apples
- Splash apple brandy
- 1/4 teaspoon cinnamon
- 2 eggs, separated
- 2/3 cup milk
- 1 tablespoon melted butter
- 1 cup sifted flour
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1 tablespoon sugar
- Drizzle of Steenís 100 percent Pure Cane Syrup
- Shaker of powdered sugar
- Preheat the fryer. In a saucepan, melt the butter. Stir in the brown sugar and cook for 30 seconds to dissolve the sugar. Add the lemon juice, water, apples, brandy and cinnamon. Cook the apples for about 3 to 5 minutes or until the apples start to wilt. Remove from the heat and cool completely. In a mixing bowl, whisk the egg yolks, milk, melted butter and cooled apple mixture. Stir in the dry ingredients into the liquid mixture. Blend until the batter is incorporated. Cover the batter, place in the refrigerator and let rest for 2 to 4 hours. In a standing mixer or with a whisk, beat egg whites until stiff. Remove the batter from the refrigerator and blend until smooth. Fold in the beaten egg whites. Using a large spoon, drop the batter into the hot oil and fry until golden brown, about 3 to 4 minutes. Remove from the oil and drain on paper-lined plate. To serve, Mound the warm fritters on a platter and drizzle with cane syrup. Garnish the fritters with powdered sugar.
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By: Jacob Elyachar, jakes-take.com Last night, The Voice: Season Seven continued their Blind Auditions! Adam scored three new singers (Kelli Douglas, Mia Pfirrman and Alessandra Castronovo), while Blake recruited John Martin, Kensington Moore and Bree Fondacaro to his team. Gwen Stefani handed out three "Team Gwen" shirts to Jessie Pitts, Troy Ritchie and returning […]
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- Free practical driving test
- Usually booked for the last afternoon of your course unless you request otherwise
- Use of your instructor's car for the test is presumed but at the instructor's discretion
- 24 hours one to one in car driving tuition with a fully qualified local independent DVSA approved driving instructor
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Who is the 6 day / 24 hour intensive driving course for?
If you can answer yes to all of the following this course should suit you
- I like learning to drive
- I want to be a confident driver and pass my test as soon as possible
- I have already had at least 20 hours of professional driving tuition
- I have a current Driving Theory Certificate not due to expire for 3 months
- I need more practice with just one of the following
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Advice regarding the suitability of courses should be considered an approximate guideline at best. Your course will be strictly one to one, tailored to your individual strengths.
About your intensive driving course
Course days are normally Monday to Friday. Each day of this intensive driving course will usually be 4 hours total driving time. No more than 2 hours without at least a 15 minute break. All between 8 am and 6pm. Exact schedule to be agreed with your driving course instructor who will contact you at least 14 days before the start of your course to introduce him or her self and confirm the details.
To prepare you for your practical driving test, your instructor may carry out part of the training around your test centre area and include a mock driving test. During a mock test your instructor will talk and act just as the examiner will on your test day. So when you take your test for real, it will feel as if you have already done a test so you can relax and drive to the best of your ability.
Your Practical Driving test
Your Practical Driving Test will normally be arranged for the last afternoon of your intensive driving course if possible. If that is not possible the last day may be held over until the actual test day. It is not possible to book a practical test until the theory has been passed so it is essential that you tell us you have passed the theory test as soon as possible to avoid unnecessary delay between the end of your course and your practical driving test.
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This recipe is from the book You Can Trust a Skinny Cook by Allison Fishman which I'm really enjoying. I loved this salad along with many other dishes including the tabouli. This is not a diet book; it's a book filled with delicious and healthy, whole food recipes.
Quinoa Orange Ginger Salad
Serves 6
3/4 cup dried quinoa
1-1/2 cups boiling water
1 cup freshly chopped parsley
Grated zest of 1 seedless orange, plus orange sections, roughly chopped
Grated zest of 1 lemon, plus 1 tablespoon lemon juice
2 tablespoons pine nuts, toasted
1 scallion, green and white parts thinly sliced
1 teaspoon grated fresh ginger
1 tablespoon olive oil
1 teaspoon kosher salt
Add the quinoa to a medium pot and cover with the water. Bring to a simmer, cover, reduce the heat to medium-low, and simmer until you can see the opaque ring of the grain, 15 minutes. Let the quinoa steam in the covered pot, off the heat, until all the water is absorbed, 10 to 15 minutes.
Meanwhile, in a large bowl, combine the parsley, chopped orange, orange and lemon zests, lemon juice, pine nuts, scallion, ginger, olive oil, and salt. Toss to combine.
Add the cooked quinoa to the dressing and mix well. Serve chilled or at room temperature.
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ESSAY- No holiday: McCain & Clinton, see the error of your ways
The writers of The Federalist Papers were right: our political system pretty much demands our candidates pander to our short-term, self-involved thinking.
"Courageous" John McCain and "fighter" Hillary Clinton are only the latest in a long line of politicians to "see which way the parade is going and get in front." But their pandering today is terrifying.
In spite of the long-term economic, social, financial– and especially rational– common-sense observation that America needs to raise gasoline taxes to decrease single-occupancy driving, these presidential candidates are pandering by offering voters a gas tax holiday this summer.
To put it simply: making driving "easier" and "cheaper" will eliminate any chance of solving America's primary issues.
We've already sent our sons and daughters to the Middle East at least partially over its oil. We're already the fattest people on the planet in part because we no longer walk or bicycle anywhere. We're already creating the most greenhouse gases in the world because 87 percent of our commute trips are alone in a car. We're already so congested that it's costing over $63 billion annually. We've already found cancer-causing gasoline additive MTBE in the groundwater of 28 states.
Already, importing oil is the largest single chunk of our foreign trade deficit. Already, air pollution– excluding global warming– from car exhaust is costing us a minimum of $24 billion annually.
We already don't know our neighbors because we rarely get out of our cars.
Indeed, according to one study, the unrecovered cost of gasoline not included in the price we pay at the pump is over $10 a gallon. We're shooting ourselves in the foot because we and our politicians– even Al Gore, who pulled a similar stunt during the 2000 campaign– won't recognize that our drive-first attitude is hugely destructive.
From Nobel economist Gary Becker to energy guru Charles Maxwell to N.Y. Times editorialist Robert Franks– and, yes, even President Bush– every knowledgeable person who studies oil, environmental, health and foreign policy issues today says fairly clearly that we must address our addiction to oil.
Unfortunately, history shows that the only thing that slows America's thirst for foreign oil to burn in our 2.9 trillion– yes, with a T– driving miles is higher gasoline prices.
As humans, we Americans love to blame the "thems" of the world, but the fact of the matter is America can't leave the Middle East because we– with less than five percent of the world's population and 2.7 percent of the world's oil reserves– use 26 percent of its petroleum annually. Two in three barrels of proven oil reserves are in the Persian Gulf.
We love to blame the "thems," but traffic planners have said for a decade that America can't build our way out of congestion. Every single highway project gets more people to drive more places at more times and usually worsens our suburban sprawl.
We love to blame the "thems," but since "Daddy" George Bush's Clean Air Act gave power and manufacturing plants an economic incentive to emit less sulfur dioxide, industry has reduced CO2 emissions by 23 percent relative to GDP. Today, America's largest producer of greenhouse gasses– and fastest growing emitter– is our transportation sector. Our planes, trains, and automobiles create the most global warming and the most pollution of all the sectors of the economy.
We emit almost half of the world's automotive CO2.
We love to blame the "thems," but for 20 years HMOs– and CEOs and MDs– have been telling us to make our kids get exercise. Today, though, only 17 percent of kids arrive at school under muscle power (compared to seven in ten in 1960 when we were still a healthy nation), and "adult onset diabetes" no longer waits for puberty.
Senator McCain, you know very well that Americans need to take personal responsibility (or act Republican) to mitigate so many societal issues, or act Democratic by 1) taxing gasoline and diesel significantly to discourage frivolous use; 2) using the new and saved monies to build mass transit as fast as we can while 3) halting construction of more automobile infrastructure.
You say, Senators, that you have the "experience" of reaching across the aisle. Where, Senator McCain, is your vaunted "courage" for showing us the truth? Or, Senator Clinton, your "readiness to answer the 3am call" from across the world?
With 75 percent of 38,000 Pew Trust respondents worldwide saying that America is fighting in Iraq not to spread democracy or even to stop weapons of mass destruction, but to seek oil, you must be aware, Senators, that our thirst for oil is destroying our foreign policy.
Certainly, you know that Venezuela's Hugo Chavez threatens, regularly, to cut us off. You should know that Nigeria is on the verge of a civil war. And you must know the other nine OPEC nations are all Islamic.
America, as both of you have to understand, needs higher gasoline taxes. A tax holiday today will only put each of your administrations– should either of you be successful– further behind a horrifying eight ball.
Randy Salzman, a former communications professor, is a Charlottesville-based freelance writer.
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Thank you for the intelligent and spot-on essay regarding oil and transportation issues in America. As I stop at the traffic light before crossing 29 N on Rio Rd during my daily bike commute to work, I typically count the single occupancy vehicles. Sadly, it is always 95-100% of cars with only a driver, usually on a cell phone. The last few drivers always stomp the gas to make it through the intersection on a red light only to slam on the brakes for the red light at Albermarle Sq. Too many drivers only think about racing to the next red light. I look forward to the day when gas hits the $7 dollar/gallon range and people change their oil consumption habits. It is an issue that crosses all socio-economic divisions and includes all the ignorant "if I can afford, I can have it" Hummer drivers. Let's work to keep the focus local and support the forward thinking initiatives of the Alliance for Community Choice in Transportation (ACCT). Thank you for the great essay! No Gas Holiday!
this is an important essay-- a must read. Perhaps we can get serious about alternative transportation and contribute towards making the situation better, greener. this issue extends beyond our wallets and our parks. the issue is international, it is one of foreign policy, and we are on the losing team.
This essay speaks truth to power. Our current lifestyle is unsustainable and anyone who thinks a little will know this is true.
I started commuting on foot or by bike last June. I lost the 10 pounds I'd been wanted to lose for years and found it not nearly as hard to do as I had expected. No parking fees or trouble finding parking. Gas prices don't affect me that much.
It's a change we need to make. My wife talked me into it, and she was right to do so. I heartily encourage anyone who can do so to make this change. The world needs it.
I'm in my 50s with at least another decade of commuting ahead of me. If I can do it, a lot of you can do it, too.
It is highly unlikely that we can slow Global Warming without eliminating fossil-fuel-derived energy (oil, coal), which produce Greenhouse gases. Energy demand continues to soar worldwide while oil production begins to decline. Those in denial pray for a technological miracle, while doing nothing to modify their automobile-dependent life styles. Can we continue to stay pillowed in our comfort zones when UN Demographers predict a 48% increase in an energy-hungry world population of 9.2 billion by 2050. Those who would emulate Nero should buy violins.
Andy, just because a person chooses to wrap themselves up in 7,000 pounds of metal (Hummer) doesn't mean they are ignorant. I think it makes them pretty smart after watching the same drivers out here that you just commented on, the ones who drag race from red light to red light, and the ones who stomp on the accelerator and run red traffic lights. It's not a pretty picture when they run over somebody on a bicycle. I would never get out on the public highways on a bicycle or a motorcycle.
Randy, you've written a smart, overdue essay and it deserves wide circulation. I realize it's politically difficult for candidates to call high gas prices a good thing, but Hillary's and McCain's pandering is truly inexcusable. We have just gotten a glimpse of the environmental policies they would support if elected.
Yes, the proposal of a gasoline tax holiday is pandering to the electorate, especially since this proposal is unlikely to be enacted in 2008. Moreover, the 18.5 cent per gallon federal gasoline tax, which is supposed to be a highway user fee, is way to low, especially since no sales tax applies to motor fuels.
There are no easy solutions to these problems. Higher gas prices are helpful though. But, lets not forget about public policy. How much money is this region going to spend to build a road through a public park (aka Meadow Creek Parkway)?? The commenter above who complained that it is too dangerous to walk and bike in this area has a point. How many pedestrians/bicyclists have been struck by vehicles? Especially on Rio Road?? How much money is this region spending on building infrastructure to make walking / bicycling safe? If you follow the money you will know where the regional priorities lie. So, while higher gas prices may affect driving, what can we do to affect public policy?? How do we get our politicians to see alternative transportation not as a fringe expenditure but rather as part of an integrated multi-modal system?
I wish people would respond to rational sensibility rather than waiting for escalating prices to get us to conserve, but they will not. Salman's perscription is the only medicine that will work.
Randy, your essay hits the nail on the head. Cable media ignoring Peak Oil and sustainability issues is a criminal act in my opinion. A gas tax holiday does nothing to properly address this.
Five years ago, I made a bet with myself to try to "get by" on 50 gallons of gas for an ENTIRE YEAR. I succeeded in squeeking in under 50 gallons and have made this bet with myself every year ever since. I don't drive a hybrid, but parked the car, and use the City trolly every day.
Oh no, Peak Oil! The world as we know it is coming to an end.
I think I'll suit up in my tin foil hat and underwear!
Yes, the idea of biking on a highway is frightening but this town is made up of more city streets than highways so there are plenty of alternative routes - google is even trying to get involved with a "Bike There" option. Never say never. Instead, why not support our local organization Alliance for Community Choice in Transportation (ACCT) to make our city streets better equipped for ALL modes of transportation and leave the highways to the hummers.
Sick of the Local Rambos offers an easy excuse to buy a Hummer over biking or walking: as long as everyone else is driving crazy, I have to rely on an automobile too. All of the reasons given in Salz's essay make it clear that we have to find a way to change this kind of thinking. Either we need more people courageously volunteering to go first (the more that switch to bikes and walking, the safer both modes become!). Or it will have to be the government's job to make everyone switch to alternative modes at the same time. I think we can accomplish a lot by taking the first steps ourselves, today. This coming week is bike week. Hope to see you out there.
Yes--and most of all, we need a return to traditional (as in, pre-Bauhaus, pre-WWII) urban design practices so that walking from home to a shop, school, office, or restaurant becomes possible, let alone practical and pleasant.
For those worried about safety on a bike...A few years ago I did that research and in 2002, 690 people died on a bicycle from all causes and 43,300 something died in a car from accidents (did not include other health factors like heart attacks enroute --which were included in bike fatalities because if had heart attack, then you'd wreck your bike.)
Furthermore, the research out of Europe is very clear. The more bicyclists there are, the less absolute number of and percentage number accidents there are.
Also, Alexis Zeigler has an insightful piece on the overall issue at http://realitysandwich.com/
Checking it out will provide you with more "Reason, Research, Resonance, Real Word Events" that Howard Gardner's "Changing Minds" indicates we must have to make a difference.
Thanks to Randy Salzman for creating this piece for us to reflect upon. I am a single parent with a 7 year old child. The best thing we have done is pass along our car and buy a used tandem bicycle. We bike 6 miles to school and back and then some most days. We feel more connected to our environment around us and traverse our city at a slower pace-- which does contribute to greater contentment.
Plus, Community Bikes has taught us how to repair our bike as needed and enabled us to share with others.
I would love to be able to bike to work or shopping, but can't afford to live anywhere close around here! Biking in to work on 29-S would be totally impractical.
Yes - avoid blaming the "thems". I realize that some people have 4 kids and drive into town daily and commuting by bike just isn't an option for everyone. But take a moment to look at your lifestyle. How can carpooling help out? How can combining errands help out? How can planning where you live and work impact each other? Would you actually SAVE money moving closer to town? Try to do things more local. If your kids see you jump into your car each and every time you go anywhere, they are going to learn the same habits. I know it takes thought, but will help all of "us" and save "you" money as well.
Gas at 7.00 a gallon would change our habits, but it would also mean my bananas would cost 3 bucks a pound at the grocery. Lets try to fix this mess ourselves before we are forced.
Go ACCT!
What a great collection of comments :) to follow a truly excellent article. There are countless reasons to change our transportation habits and start traveling through our environment in a more practical way,... **huge health benefits from biking and walking, **dramatic environmental consequences if we don't start using the bike, transit, and our feet more for our daily trips, **huge economic savings for ourselves, our community, and our society, ****and it is so much more enjoyable than driving and sitting in traffic every single day of our lives!
as this article points out, maybe it is time for us to **stop feeling that it is too much for us to get out of our cars and try other options, **stop giving completely impractical, unsustainable, and societally debilitating subsidies to driving alone in an automobile, **and stop believing we are going to be saved by some technological fix that makes a completely impractical lifestyle practical.
i hope we can use the current and upcoming gasoline "crisis" to climb out of this impractical lifestyle that is based around the automobile. this is a great opportunity and i hope we can make the most of it!
Get involved with ACCT or donate money for this type of work if you are ready for some local change in this arena!!!!
Again, I've done some of the research which illustrates what many of the commenters are saying.
The conservative estimate of the subsidies America and American communities provide for driving is $295 billion annually. This does not include the cost of importing oil, about $275 billion annually, or the cost of "going after it" in places like Iraq, or the Persian Gulf, where we now have two complete carrier groups assuring the flow doesn't stop.
We truly are in a Catch 22. The real solutions are in local communities -- quit making driving easier and cheaper -- but the effects are primarily national and international and the only real solution, a serious gasoline tax has been destroyed by the population's inability to connect the dots of congestion, pollution, global warming, health and foreign policy. There is no incentive, truly, for local planners like Juan Wade or Harrison Rue to even think about Global Warming or Peak Oil. Let's praise them for being willing to look outside their "job boxes" and see the bigger picture.
We want the "easy solution" but NOTHING about this issue is easy; not to understand and not to address and not to solve.
Let's begin by saying clearly, no matter how much we might oppose his policies, that President Bush at least admitted that America is addicted to oil. This took political courage that even Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and John McCain won't show. Let's, furthermore, admit that it's our actions -- our default position of putting the key in the ignition -- that made it easier for him to go to war than to try and tell us the truth. Let's admit that industry is actually decreasing emissions compared to Gross Domestic Product and quit instantly blaming them. Let's recognize that U.S. oil companies control only 4 percetn of world petroleum reserves and quit blaming them for providing us what we demand -- the basis of the economic system.
Every single economist, from the left or the right, has said that we have to change our transportation behavior and one energy analyist has put it in these terms: "We may be seeing democracy in its death throes."
Of course, we may also be seeing Global Warming destroying 1/4 of all species on the planet in less than seven years UNLESS we curtail our C02 emissions -- most of which, in America, come out of our tailpipes.


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Britain marks Charles Dickens' 200th birthday (video)
LONDON -- He wrote about life in the modern city, with its lawyers and criminals, bankers and urchins, dreamers and clerks. He created characters still known to millions -- Ebeneezer Scrooge and Tiny Tim, Pip and Miss Havisham, Fagin and Oliver Twist. And it made him a star, mobbed by fans on both sides of the Atlantic.
Britain on Tuesday marked the 200th birthday of Charles Dickens, the first global celebrity author and chronicler of a world of urban inequality that looks a lot like the one we live in today.
"You only have to look around our society and everything he wrote about in the 1840s is still relevant," said Dickens' biographer, Claire Tomalin. "The great gulf between the rich and poor, corrupt financiers, corrupt Members of Parliament ... You name it, he said it."
Dickens' mistrust of the wealthy and compassion for the poor haven't stopped him being embraced by Britain's high and mighty.
Prince Charles and his wife Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, joined Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, actor Ralph Fiennes, a host of dignitaries and scores of Dickens' descendants at a memorial service Tuesday in London's Westminster Abbey.
A simultaneous event was held in Portsmouth, southern England, where Dickens was born, the son of a navy pay clerk, on Feb. 7, 1812. In a message read out there, Charles called Dickens "one of the greatest writers of the English language, who used his creative genius to campaign passionately for social justice."
In London, the heir to the throne laid a wreath of white roses and snowdrops on the writer's grave in Poet's Corner -- resting place of national literary icons -- and two of Dickens' youngest descendants added a pair of small white posies.
Fiennes read from Dickens' "Bleak House," and there were prayers for the poor and marginalized, and for the writers, artists and journalists chronicling modern society.
Historian Judith Flanders, who attended the service, said it was "enormously moving" -- and Dickens would have hated it.
"Dickens said in his will that he wanted no public ceremonies, no statues, no public acknowledgment," said Flanders, author of the forthcoming book "Dickens' London."
"He wanted to be buried and die as a private man. He wanted his books to stand as his monument."
He got his wish. Dickens' novels and characters are more popular than ever.
The Royal Mail has just issued two new stamps featuring Dickens characters. Right now in Britain you can catch up with new television adaptations of "Great Expectations" and "The Mystery of Edwin Drood," go to an exhibition about Dickens at the Museum of London or visit a theme park called Dickens World. A new film version of "Great Expectations," starring Fiennes and Helena Bonham Carter, is due later this year.
"The quality of the writing is part of why we still relate to him today," said Jo Robinson, a graduate student at King's College London who is researching Dickens. "He's an incredibly vivid writer. He has such an array of characters and there's so much to get out of him ... Each generation sees it in their own way."
Part of Dickens' staying power stems from his incredible productivity. An insomniac who often roamed London's streets by night, he wrote more than 20 books, had 10 children, toured the world on lecture tours and campaigned for social change until his death from a stroke in 1870 at the age of 58.
"He believed he knew London better than any person alive, because he spent so much time walking the streets," said Alex Werner, curator of the exhibition "Dickens and London," running at the Museum of London until June.
Dickens' drive and productivity were fueled by early poverty. When he was 12, his father was sent to debtors' prison and Dickens went to work in a factory, fixing labels on jars of boot polish.
Those early experiences were reflected in his novels. Dickens exposed the cruelty of workhouses in "Oliver Twist," the harshness of child labor in "David Copperfield," the chasm between the rich and the poor in "A Christmas Carol" and the brutality of the legal system in "Bleak House."
He also was one of the first writers to depict the modern industrial city -- a place where millions of us still live.
Many features of his world are still familiar. The 19th century was an era of fast-paced technological change, and Dickens embraced it. He traveled Britain on newly invented steam trains -- though he hated the juddering journeys -- and crossed the Atlantic in 1842 on one of the first steamships.
He was also a commercially astute writer. His books were published in monthly installments, in an inexpensive magazine-style format interspersed with ads for everything from "Alpaca Umbrellas" to "the gentleman's real head of hair."
"It feels very modern," Werner said. "A bit like TV soaps -- you have to get through the adverts."
Werner thinks that if Dickens were alive today he'd write for television -- he always wanted to reach the widest possible audience.
He might not have approved of another major celebration, the 2012 London Olympics. Dickens was not a fan of the 1851 Great Exhibition, a huge popular display of imperial self-confidence. The next year he began publishing "Bleak House," with its depiction of the city's extremes of poverty and wealth.
Werner says it's a vision that chimes with our own times -- though he hopes it won't eclipse Dickens' humor.
"Maybe 20 or 30 years ago his work didn't have that same cutting edge," he said. "It was a more optimistic time. Now everything feels a bit more gloomy. The gap between rich and poor -- it feels very close to the Victorian world.
"There is an attraction right now to the darker side of Dickens. But he was very funny."


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NBC's Katy Tur reports on the discovery of multiple suspicious packages in New York and New Jersey, as the area prepares for Sunday's Super Bowl festivities.
Initial testing of seven suspicious letters or packages sent to hotels and other locations near the site of Sunday's Super Bowl in East Rutherford, N.J., found they were not hazardous, according to the FBI and a law enforcement source.
Additional testing was being performed, but preliminary results on the letters found in New York and New Jersey indicated that the security scare was a hoax, the law enforcement official told NBCNewYork. A tweet from the FBI's New York office also indicated that "substances in suspicious letters ... were deemed non hazardous."
Earlier, federal officials told NBC News that one letter examined at an unidentified location was found to contain only baking soda.
The security scare erupted early Friday afternoon when the FBI and New Jersey police issued identically worded statements:
"The Joint Terrorism Task Force and Hazard Materials units have responded to several locations that have received a suspicious letter and substance," the statements said. "There are no reported injuries at this time, and the locations are being secured. This situation is being thoroughly investigated and more information will be provided when it becomes available."
FBI and New Jersey law enforcement sources told NBC News that six of the packages were received in the north New Jersey area and one in Manhattan.
Authorities would not identify the sites that received the packages or describe why they were considered suspicious. One FBI source, however, told NBC News that one of the suspicious letters was sent to the offices of former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, though it was addressed to someone else in the office.
Read more coverage from NBCNewYork.com.
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Jul 23, 2014 10:20 AM PT
Strong iPhone and Mac sales droves Apple to achieve record revenue for the June quarter -- quarterly revenue of US$37.4 billion and quarterly net profit of $7.7 billion, which is $1.28 per share and about a 12.3 percent rise in profits. Interestingly, Apple managed to bump up its profit margin, too: Gross margin was 39.4 percent compared to 36.9 percent in the year-ago quarter.
In addition to crediting a record 35.2 million iPhone sales for the period ending June 30 -- despite heavy rumors of a larger-screened iPhone 6 arriving in September -- Apple CEO Tim Cook called out the iTunes and the App Store ecosystem, loosely pointing out that its growth reflects how well customers interact with their Apple devices.
"It was another strong performance for the App Store and the other services contributing to the thriving Apple ecosystem. In fact, for the first nine months of this fiscal year, the line item that we call 'iTunes Software and Services' has been the fastest-growing part of our business," Cook revealed.
"iTunes billings grew 25 percent year over year in the June quarter and reached an all-time quarterly high thanks to the very strong results from the App Store," he said.
As for the Mac, Apple sold 4.4 million Macs at a year-over-year growth rate of 18 percent, despite an overall slowdown in the PC market.
"Demand has been very strong for our portables, in particular, and we had a great response to our new higher-performance, lower priced MacBook Air," Cook noted.
Apple has achieved PC market share growth in 32 of the last 33 quarters, noted recently appointed Chief Financial Officer Luca Maestri. Basically, as fewer people buy PCs, customers continue to buy Macs.
Meanwhile, Whither the iPad?
The dark spot on the day for Apple was the vaunted iPad, the hero of Apple's "Your Verse" marketing campaign: The company sold 13.2 million iPads, down from 14.6 million a year ago. Cook tried to get ahead of the news here, noting on the call, "iPad sales met our expectations, but we realize they didn't meet many of yours."
Cook indicated there wer some inventory issues with the iPad, as well as softness in the U.S. and European markets, and he reiterated that customer usage was important to Apple, which of course, relates back to the success of the iTunes ecosystem as an indicator of relevance to customers.
Plus, it turns out that approximately 50 percent of Apple's iPad sales are still going to someone who is a first time tablet buyer.
"I get excited when I see that our retail share, according to the NPD in the month of June, was 59 percent of units and over 70 percent in terms of dollars," Cook said.
In response to analyst questions about the decline in iPad sales, Cook gushed about Apple's recent deal with IBM, noting that Apple believes it will be able to open up an important new sales channel for the iPad through IBM's global enterprise reach.
In fact, Cook believes "the opportunity is huge," and noted that the tablet market still has a lot of growth potential.
"I just think we have to do some more things to get the business side of it moving in a faster trajectory, and I think we're now on to something that can really do that," Cook said.
Conservative Guidance
Apple's guidance for the next quarter, which ends with September, is particularly interesting. If Apple has a big lineup of new products coming -- including two rumored models of the iPhone 6 that are connected to a rumor that Apple is requesting around 70-80 million units from its suppliers -- does the guidance imply that the iPhone 6 rollout might come late in September rather than earlier?
Hard to say. Apple expects its fiscal Q4 to generate between $37 billion and $40 billion. The guidance could take into account the rise in knowledge over Apple's product rhythms and likelihood of an impending iPhone 6. That could cause some potential customers to hold off on their next smartphone upgrade until it's released, which of course could result in fewer-than-normal iPhone sales in July and August.
And What About World Domination?
Clearly we expect our savvy readers to recognize a little hyperbole, but the point remains: In the conference call with investors, after mentioning recent releases like CarPlay, HealthKit and HomeKit, as well as the enterprise deal with IBM, Cook uttered a carefully crafted sentence that encapsulated the entire Apple vision.
"We're extending iOS in even more dimensions as customers around the world make iPhones and iPads an essential part of their lives at home, at school, at work, and on the go. We're putting a huge effort into delivering the best experience for our customers wherever they use iOS. That includes a safe and intuitive user interface while driving -- called CarPlay -- which is being integrated by 29 major car brands including Audi, BMW, Ford, General Motors, Honda, Hyundai, Mercedes, Toyota, and Volvo -- and after-market systems like Pioneer and Alpine," Cook said.
"We've created a new tool for developers called HealthKit, which lets health and fitness apps work together and empowers customers to choose what health data they share. We're taking the first steps in this area in collaboration with the Mayo clinic, whose new apps can automatically receive data from a blood pressure app, for example, and share it with a physician -- or a nutrition app can inform fitness apps how many calories are being consumed each day. Our own health app will provide an easy to read dashboard of all health and fitness data," he explained.
"We're enabling new ways to control light and doors and thermostats and other connected devices around the house using Siri with the HomeKit feature of iOS 8. And in the Enterprise, we are including new security, productivity, and device management features in iOS 8. We forged a relationship with IBM to deliver a new class of mobile business solutions to enterprise customers around the world," he said.
And then the nugget: "From the pocket to the car, to the workplace, home and gym, we have a very large vision of what iOS can be, and we're incredibly excited about our plans."
There you have it. iOS everywhere. Enterprise, home, car, gym... it's already in bed with millions of customers around the world each night. Sure sounds like Apple is going for world domination. Just saying.


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If you're playing XCOM on PC, you might have noticed a little discrepancy between the standard in-game visuals and those of the game's cutscenes, which can look a little blurry.
You can actually change that. Reddit user loinbread did some looking through the game's folders and found that, in addition to the video files that play by default, the PC version includes the same clips in 1080p, resulting in much nicer videos.
All you need to do to enable these is to...batch rename all the files. That or wait for Firaxis to release an update that lets you select it as an option.
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From the Institute's website comes confirmation of my earlier post that the former Rector of St. Francis de Sales Oratory in St. Louis, Fr. Karl W. Lenhardt, will celebrate the Traditional Latin Mass that will be televised by EWTN on September 14:
On Sunday, September 14th, members of the Institute of Christ the King Sovereign Priest will celebrate a Solemn High Mass at Our Lady of the Angels Monastery of the Poor Clares of Perpetual Adoration in Hanceville, Alabama. The conventual Mass will be broadcast live by EWTN, the Global Catholic Network, to a worldwide audience of 140 million homes, through TV, radio, and live streaming video online.
September 14th marks the first anniversary of the implementation of Pope Benedict XVI's motu proprio "Summorum Pontificum" [PDF]. The Solemn High Mass will be in commemoration of, and thanksgiving for, this pivotal document of His Holiness, which confirms that the Latin Rite in its ancient form as presented in the 1962 liturgical books of the Roman Catholic Church was never abrogated and is available to all priests and all faithful who desire it.
The live broadcast from Our Lady of the Angels Monastery will take place at 8:00 AM Eastern Time USA, 14:00 Central European Time, 12:00 UTC.


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Police yet to receive report of promotional model mobbing
Police are yet to receive any information on an incident at Summernats that saw promotional models mobbed on the weekend.
Three young women, working as promotional staff for auto parts company Sidchrome, were travelling in a car along Tuff Street on Saturday.
They were surrounded by a group of men, who stopped the car, and attempted to grab them.
The young women were doused with water, and had their clothing partially ripped off.
Witnesses told Fairfax Media the young women had to run half-naked down the street to safety.
ACT Policing were yet to receive a report of the incident about 2.30pm Wednesday, but have urged anyone with information to come forward.
Summernats organisers have issued similar pleas, with co-owner Andy Lopez saying the incident was a concern.
''Nobody wants to have an incident like that happen at a festival; it is a pretty isolated one. It wasn't reported to our event security controllers at the time, so we're just trying to catch up on it now and see what we can do to assist," he said.
''If there's anyone that saw the incident, it would be really helpful if they could maybe get in touch with ACT Police or get in touch directly with the office of Summernats.''
Sidchrome is questioning the behaviour of security personnel, and a spokesman said there were concerns they may not have acted quickly enough to help the young women.
The spokesman said the three women were rattled but had a break, dried off, and were able to continue working later in the day.
Police were generally pleased with the behaviour of the crowds. No arrests were made inside the grounds, but police were investigating two assaults.
They arrested two people outside EPIC and issued three summons for traffic offences.
A further 50 vehicles were issued with defect notices.
UPDATE: Someone involved in the alleged incident has since contacted police, disputing those version of events and did not make any formal complaint.


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Black Friday may be this week but sweets lovers across the nation hung their heads in sorrow on a dark Friday last week as Hostess announced they would cease making their line of products, which include the iconic Twinkies brand, because of the Bakers Union Strike.
But now, as the brand heads toward liquidating and selling off its assets, a Mexican company may be angling to resurrect the golden Twinkies.
According to the Christian Science Monitor, while food producers ConAgra and Flowers Food — the American company behind Nature Valley granola — have expressed interest, along with Little Debbie baker McKee Foods, Mexico's Grupo Bimbo may hold the inside track.
Grupo Bimbo is the world's largest bread baking firm, which already owns parts of Sara Lee, Entenmann's and Thomas English Muffins and previously made what was considered a low-ball offer of $580 million a few years ago, Forbes reports. Now Hostess may only be worth $135 million.
Economists say high sugar prices tied to US trade tariffs were a big reason Hostess was struggling, but a Mexican company could be a lifeline for Twinkies because it would be able to take advantage of access to lower-priced sugar in Mexico.
While Hostess was clearly struggling, analysts believed Grupo Bimbo had an eye on the company since the early 2000's because it saw Hostess as a key ingredient for North American expansion with delivery routes that penetrated across the country into convenience stores, gas stations and grocery markets, according to Forbes.
Daniel Servitje Montull runs Grupo Bimbo, which was founded by his family in 1954. His family is worth $4 billion.
Servitje Montull has already worked magic before, taking on Mexico's tortilla market and positioning white bread in Latin America.
If Grupo Bimbo pulls off a deal with Hostess for Twinkies, his next challenge will be resurrecting an American favorite.


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Thomaston PD refuses gift of watermelon from local man charged with threatening
THOMASTON >> Carrying a watermelon they bought from a local grocery store, Carmine Cervellino and his teenage sons nonchalantly strolled into the Thomaston police station Friday afternoon.
Cervellino summoned The Register Citizen to watch as he and his children walked up to the receptionist, who sat behind a thick pane of bullet-proof glass, and asked for Chief James Campbell. They came bearing gifts: paper proof of Cervellino's recent negative drug test, administered by Concentra Medical Center in Waterbury; and a medium-sized piece of fruit at the center of a controversy enveloping the small town police department after Cervellino's arrest went viral.
"He better eat this," Ryan Cervellino said, gently slapping the watermelon.
"It's a good watermelon," remarked the elder Cervellino.
Upset with the "process" that led to his arrest last week on a warrant for second-degree threatening and disorderly conduct, Cervellino and his sons staged the melon drop-off to prove a point.
He said he was never interviewed and police didn't talk to other witnesses, relying only on the word of the alleged victim, who claims she returned home July 4 to a menacing gesture supposed to "intimidate" her. On the counter top was a watermelon that had been gashed by a knife, which stuck out of the fruit.
The police department receptionist took the drug results, telling Cervellino to hold on to the watermelon, then summoned an officer.
When that officer finally came to the front, he returned papers from the drug test back to a fruit-bearing Cervellino, telling him the department doesn't accept gifts and didn't appreciate the "photo stunt."
Cervellino delivered the drug test results because he wanted to show police he's "not the person they claim me to be." He declined an extensive interview with The Register Citizen on the advice of his attorney.
But Carmine Cervellino still provided a copy of a Tuesday drug test, which was reviewed by medical officer Todd Simo, and shows Cervellino came back clean for marijuana, cocaine, amphetamines, opiates, PCP, barbiturates, benzodiazepines, methaqualone, methadone and ecstasy.
It will likely be a key point raised by Cervellino's attorney, Arnold Potash, at his client's next court appearance on Aug. 28., since much of police's case originated from a victim's claim that she found marijuana and Percocet pills in Cervellino's toolbox.
She snapped a photo of the contraband which she showed police, but officers never recovered the drugs and he was never charged with any drug offenses.
To be sure, the test was performed independently of probation officials in the Litchfield Judicial District, and Cervellino must still submit to weekly drug screenings while his case is pending.
He said he didn't have the results of an initial screening from probation at Bantam Superior Court, but expects it, like the results he tried showing police on Friday, will prove he doesn't have drugs in his system.
Already, experts told The Register Citizen, they see serious problems with the case against Cervellino.
John Thomas, a professor of law at Quinnipiac University, said he envisions a state prosecutor having trouble proving intent to a jury if the case ever goes to trial, in large part because the stabbing of the watermelon didn't take place in the presence of the victim, who was out picking up her child from a friend's house.
"It's going to be difficult, if not impossible to prove," Thomas said.
According to instructions found on the state's judicial website, a jury must first find Cervellino made a threat. A threat is defined as "the expression of an intention to injure another person. A physical threat is a threat accompanied by some action, such as words accompanied by a threatening gesture."
In addition, Cervellino would have to have the ability to carry out the threat.
"Mere words are insufficient to constitute a physical threat ... A threat can only be punishable when it is a true threat ... that a reasonable person would understand as a serious expression of an intent to harm or assault, and not as mere puffery, bluster, jest or hyperbole," according to the judicial site.
Thomas said he expects the case to get thrown out, but he understands why police made an arrest since the alleged threat involved "disturbing behavior."
"The police have decided discretion is the better part of valor," he said. "In doing the most to protect the victim, they have charged [him] with the most serious offense and are leaving it to the judicial system to sort out what is most appropriate."
At face value, it's "far-reaching" to think Cervellino's intent was to threaten the victim, unless it was accompanied by menacing glares or fear-inducing words, said Ira Mayo, the Torrington defense attorney handling the high-profile case of murder suspect Tosha Strahan.
Still, he doesn't agree with Thomas that the case gets thrown out, based off his experience with district prosecutors.
"It's in Litchfield County," he said. "It's not getting dismissed."


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While I support the cause, I think moustaches are cheesy. With that in mind, I made these savory choux puffs with a home-made cheese dip.
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Savoury Choux Puffs w/ Cheese Dip
(recipe makes ~ 24 puffs, or moustaches… whichever you prefer)
1 cup water
1 stick butter (1/2 cup)
1 cup all purpose flour
1 good pinch of salt
1 cup eggs (4 large eggs)
*recipe borrowed from SteamyKitchen
Cheese Dip:
1/2 cup of cheddar cheese, shredded
2 tablespoon milk
1/2 cup cream cheese
1/2 tablespoon chicken seasoning (such as Knorr Vegeta)
1/2 tablespoon paprika
1 tablespoon dried parsley
Preheat oven 425F.
For the choux (pronounced like SHOE… yep, just like the things you wear on your feet):
1. In a medium pot, bring the water and butter to a simmer on medium heat. Add the flour and with a wooden spoon or spatula, stir very quickly. Carefully watch and you'll see that the flour starts absorbing the liquid — and a dough will form. Keep stirring to continue cooking the flour and cook off some of the water, another minute or two. At this point, I remove the pot from the stove. When the dough comes clean off of the sides of your pot, this is an indicator your dough is ready for step two.
2. Transfer the dough to the bowl of a standing mixer fitted with the paddle attachment or to a bowl if you're using a hand mixer. Add the salt and the eggs one at a time mixing rapidly until each is combined into the paste. The paste will go from shiny to slippery to sticky as the egg is incorporated. The pâte a choux can be cooked immediately at this point or refrigerated for up to a day until ready to use.
4. Spoon the dough into a large gallon-sized plastic bag (or piping bag.) Pipe onto a baking sheet into little puffs, keeping the puffs 2-inches apart. With your finger, press down the peaks (as they can burn.) I used a cool silicon multi-purpose mold, and piped the dough into the cavities (just to put a little twist on things).
You can take the easy way out and pipe out little round puffs.
Bake at 425F for 10 minutes, then 350F for 18-30 minutes, depending on the size of your puffs. You want them to turn a golden brown color, and rise about twice the size.
For the cheese dip:
In a small sauce pan, combine milk and cheddar cheese. Heat on low heat, just until the cheese is melted (stirring constantly to avoid burning). Allow to cool slightly.
In the bowl of a mixer, combine cream cheese and seasonings. Using your whisk attachment, mix on medium until light and fluffy. Carefully add melted cheese, and whip until the mixture comes together.


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The Berlin Radio Choir is Germany's most successful mixed choir. It has numerous recording prizes to its name, including three Grammys and multiple ECHO Klassiks, which are testament to its international calibre. Since 2001 the British conductor Simon Halsey has been the choir's chief conductor and artistic director.
Founded as the Berliner Funkchor in 1925, the choir was reborn in 1973 after the merger of two separate choral groups. From the beginning, it carved out a reputation for performing premieres and German and Berlin first performances. These included works by Milhaud and Weill and, after the war, by Bartók, Boulez, Henze, Orff, Penderecki, Prokofiev, Shostakovich, Stravinsky and many others. The major choral works from Bach to Schoenberg form the choir's core repertoire. Since the 1990s the Berlin Radio Choir has also been a commissioning choir. It has a strong tradition of working with the great Berlin orchestras and the world's best conductors – from Klemperer to Salonen. Recently the choir has developed a programme of including amateur musicians in particular projects, for instance the singalong concerts.
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