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Google Maps & Label Readability
Terrific UX rundown of the Google Map UI by 41latitude:
Why Do Google Maps's City Labels Seem Much More "Readable" Than Those of Its Competitors?
For months, I've been trying to figure out why Google Maps's city labels seem so much more readable than the labels on other mapping sites.
To me, Google's labels seem to "pop" much more than the other sites' labels. Major cities also seem to stand out much more. [1] And whenever you're quickly scanning the maps, the label you're searching for seems to stand out just a little sooner on Google's maps.
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How Facebook is Adding an Identity Layer to the Internet | Social Hacking
"What users may not realize is how much data they're already sharing. This new style of Facebook Connect actually mirrors the behavior of Facebook itself. When you visit a Facebook application for the first time, it automatically knows who you are and can access your public data. When you then click "Allow" to authorize the app, you give it access to all of your private data. Currently, an external web site knows nothing about you until you click "Connect." If you do click, it has the same access to your private data as an authorized application. Now, Facebook is letting sites initially act like new applications by giving them access to your public data prior to full authorization.
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"For years, Viacom continuously and secretly uploaded its content to YouTube, even while publicly complaining about its presence there. It hired no fewer than 18 different marketing agencies to upload its content to the site. It deliberately "roughed up" the videos to make them look stolen or leaked. It opened YouTube accounts using phony email addresses. It even sent employees to Kinko's to upload clips from computers that couldn't be traced to Viacom. And in an effort to promote its own shows, as a matter of company policy Viacom routinely left up clips from shows that had been uploaded to YouTube by ordinary users. Executives as high up as the president of Comedy Central and the head of MTV Networks felt "very strongly" that clips from shows like The Daily Show and The Colbert Report should remain on YouTube."
Monday March 15, 2010 at 13:5333 notes
PSA: If you're going to attempt insurance fraud, you might want to avoid posting on YouTube [w/video] — Autoblog
Unfortunately for Chen, during the paperwork processing following that 'second' accident, the body shop informed Chen's insurance company that it had been holding on to the mangled GT-R since March. Investigators then searched YouTube for any evidence of the incident, and apparently they believe that they've found it – the insurer alleges that the footage shown after the jump incident shows damage consistent with that of Chen's GT-R after a mountain run with a Mitsubishi Evolution IX MR goes awry. The actual crash doesn't look all that bad, but the apparent $76,000 repair bill shows that near-supercars can cost a boatload of money to fix. Regardless of the severity of the accident, as a result of the investigation, Chen has officially been charged with six felony counts of insurance fraud, and his sister has been charged with one count.
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"One of the strangest challenges porn faces is competition from online games like World of Warcraft, though the connection may at first seem random. "It is all entertainment that you are getting involved in the same way as porn is entertainment," said Aiden. "The games are competition for porn. Fans jerk off to porn and are done, but you can keep playing a game.""
Sunday January 17, 2010 at 9:1710 notes
Kindle Fans Punish Publisher For Delaying Ebook Releases By Giving Books One-Star Reviews | Techdirt
Last month we pointed out what a bad idea it was for book publishers to go against the market's wishes and to delay the release of certain ebooks, hoping to drive more people to the (higher margin) hardcover versions of the book. This is incredibly anti-consumer thinking and assumes, incorrectly, that people will happily accept the format the publisher gives them. Not surprisingly, consumers are starting to rebel. Apparently some of the books are getting hit with one-star reviews on Amazon as punishment. For example, HarperCollins — one of the leading supporters of these silly "windowed" releases — is discovering that its well-hyped book Game Change is filling up with one-star reviews. Going against what your consumers want is almost never a good idea.
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Dishwashers, and How Google Eats Its Own Tail
Google has become a snake that too readily consumes its own keyword tail. Identify some words that show up in profitable searches — from appliances, to mesothelioma suits, to kayak lessons — churn out content cheaply and regularly, and you're done. On the web, no-one knows you're a content-grinder.
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I have an overwhelming amount of PSDs to organize in my PS folder D: also, most of the stuff I am organizing are textures D:
If you have any questions, please message me! I hope this helps everyone! Thank you!
sooo sorry I wasnt around much today X_X I was being a lazy bum today. honestly idk who the heck I am apologizing to, whatever.
I love Part of Me and Wide Awake by Katy Perry…and the video for Wide Awake is so pretty lol.
I wanna play in photoshop. Just learned about PSD's (photoshop documents) and I wanna find some nice ones already made to use in my photo and gif editing ^_^ you can inbox me if you have some you want to share :)
What else? A friend of mine is traveling to London this weekend so I wrote up plans for her.
ANDY MURRAY WON THE US OPEN OH MY GOD! THE UK WON A GRAND SLAM, FIRST TIME IN 76 YEARS!! So happy for him ^_^
Yah okay I wanna reblog stuff now and make gifs and listen to musiccccc <33
what do you use to make gifs?
Afternoon, Anon. To make gifs I am using PhotoShop Creative Suite 5 Extended. There is a newer version out PSCS6 but I haven't gotten it yet, quite pricey :) Hope that helps you!
I was having fun with PSCS5 and decided to gif the whole music video so I am 2/3 done, tomorrow I finish the rest. Lyrics to the Humanoid album are now being posted on a daily basis. Our blog still has no fan submissions. If you ever met the guys, went to a signing and got an autograph, been to a show, or have a photo with you and them, you can submit it to tohoaliennation and you will receive credit. Trying to think of more ways to engage our followers as we count down the days till the new album release and its first single! Exciting stuff coming our way.
Gisel has photoshop again so I am looking forward to what she comes up with too. I really need to do a basic walkthrough of the program and how to do basic things, an easy tutorial.
I have a very important doc appt tomorrow. I just wanna say quick, thank you to my followers. I am amazed that I have as many of you that I do and I can honestly say I love all of your blogs.Wish some of you guys would message me to just talk, even on anon doesnt matter as long as its not hate etc or bullying then its cool.
Have a healthy snack then bed time <3
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you're talking like a confused little overly excited mouse or something.. :') aw
I do feel that way lol, but if I dont sleep I will never get over this cold :(
I feel like this right now:
and it's 6:30am lol. also, i cannot stop sneezing, and and…im warm, lol, and i have to pee and idk, i am doing a really awesome gifset of Don't Jump/Spring Nicht in Photoshop for my Tokio Hotel blog…but I keep putting that mix of Katy Perry on to listen to that I uploaded a little while ago.
I know I am not making sense X_X oh wells, prolly a little tmi as well, you made me smile though XD
i feel like a dead fish, if a dead fish can feel anything, which it probably cant therefore it is irrelevant. anyways!
i spent a lot of time playing in photoshop tonight to customize the logo and background image for tohoaliennation dot tumblr dot com and i have found an awesome person to co-run it with me! very exciting.
now if i can get the html coding to do what i want it to O_O
anyways i have had enough of the computer for one night.
another episode of Skins UK and sweet sleep.
Skrillex fans, hope you all like the photo edits I did today, and Aliens can check out the homepage updates to my Tokio Hotel blog and also the lyrics section»it will be updated daily until all of the song lyrics are up ^_^
night dogs, dove you logs, i kees you all <3
time to have some fun in photoshop whilst drinking ice water yummm ^_^
got a lil surprise for the Sonny Moore / Skrillex fans.
a new "THIS" photo edit by yours truly.
had to make it after finding a really great photo of Skrills and also finding a custom made "Skrillex" font pack for free online awe yeah. Hope you all like! You can use it if you want to, just please don't remove my watermark <3
dove you logs ^_^
hope no one minded my mini photo spam from my vacation. i was experimenting with watermarking photos in photoshop with a custom made watermark!!! i am very proud of my watermark :D
final fantasy font plus the chocobo in the middle of "mogalicious" and "tumblr" is pretty badass looking.
hope you all enjoyed the photos. i will be watermarking the rest of my photos and uploading the nicest ones to tumblr for everyone to enjoy…over time. no worries i am not spamming you for the rest of the night, i promise :)
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Aha thank you so much! I don't remember how long it took me to get that final product on that one, but minimum time was about an hour prolly more like 90 minutes lol. The hardest part was applying the watermark believe it or not, since it seems Photoshop is temperamental about how you do it. Read a couple different ways to do it online and I used the one that was quickest and easiest for me to do and remember! :) The movie that gif is from has SO many opportunities and little 2-3 second scenes that can easily be captured in a gif. What is also nice, is that from having looked through the tags for that movie last night, not too many of the scenes have been giffed already :D I didn't wanna go through and regif something if it has already been done…and I am not pro enough yet to make a gifset or do anything super cool with texts and backgrounds yet :P The "lifestream" gif has been on tumblr before…I thought it was a good sample of animation to learn from as far as breaking it down into frames and layers and reassembling it with PSCS5, then applying the watermark :) I wonder how they teach this stuff in graphic design classes in colleges and shit aha :P
My very first *complete* .gif with watermark in Photoshop Creative Suite 5. I used a bunch of different tutorials and explanations from all over the web and right now I just want to share this little happy moment with everyone.
The .gif is from the beginning of the animated film Final Fantasy Advent Children Complete. The blue you see moving is the "lifestream". If you're a Final Fantasy fan, you will know what that is ^_^


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Here is my personal list for learning about "Product Design"
1. Read this free ebook from 37 Signals, a web products company.
2. Read "Influence" By Robert Caldini
(~ 14 days)
3. Read this blog post by Kyle Neath from Github
(~ 10 minutes)
4. Read the Innovator's Dilemma by Clayton Christensen
(~ 21 days)
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(~ 30 minutes)
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(~ about 2 hours)
3. Watch this video presentation by Simon Sinek
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Its fairly quiet around me. I try to drown out the people talking from the stands, the people that just finished their heat, those a few yards behind me waiting for their turn. I close my eyes. I stretch out again, secure my feet into the starter blocks. Its just like practice. I dust off the gravel around my finger tips. My head is lowered. I feel calm. I feel ready. I can see the first hurdle a dozen yards away. Things go quiet all around.
"Runners to your marks"
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I started thinking about this story while sitting in front of my laptop. I have my code open in front of me. I'm switching tabs, refreshing to see changes. Believe it or not, i started to see a lot of parallels between this moment and the one above (10 years ago). I ran track in high school (110 high hurdles & high jump) and played varsity basketball. On occasion i would run the 4x100. I'll be the first to admit, i was not the best athlete. Though, tell me that 10 years ago and you'd be in for a lot of grief.
Playing sports all my life has taught me a lot about entrepreneurship. As a short, skinny, indian kid there was no reason i should have been on the track or on the court. But, I didn't care. I loved to play. It did not matter who the competition was, i always felt like i could compete. And, I always would. I did not care if you were taller than me, faster than me, could jump higher than me. I could care less if you were 3-stepping hurdles coming out the womb. I'm here to work. I'm here to win.
This ethic has kept with me to this day. There are still those around me that will look down and ask why are you here? They may have more funding, a better office, the top-dog VCs, etc. It does not matter to me. I love to play. I'm here to work. I'm here to win.
I try to remind myself to block out those in the lanes adjacent to me. Just like 10 years ago. Only now, there is no starter pistol. There isn't anyone there to tell me to get ready. There isn't a clear path to the first hurdle. There is no calming consistency of the stretches between the hurdles to follow. I've learned to fire my own pistol. I listen to what i know. I work my ass off to be best I can be.
For me, entrepreneurship is another version of being an athlete. You will be challenged mentally and physically. Its a must that you surround yourself with a team that will support you and fight no matter the opponent. There will be people better than you.
But, if you love to play, you're here to work, then its more likely that you will win.
Here is a simple idea to help education around science and engineering. Create an aggregated video feed of product demos and hackathon projects. Showcase what a few people build in short blips of time.
They should be max 2 mins long and the portal should just auto play.
Make this available first to elementary schools and high schools. Show students what is possible and trigger their own curiosity about what else is possible.
If you know of something like this that exists, I'd love to hear about it.
Engineers today are typically regarded as royalty in silicon valley. The better your skills are the more attention you get and the more people will let you get away with. When building a company, its often easy for founders (engineers and non-engineers alike) to think that they should just allow their engineers to do whatever they want as long as they ship code.
This kind of thinking is misdirected. Now, i do believe in granting engineers freedom to explore new ideas, hack on crazy ideas, and build their knowledge base. But, i wouldnt advocate to engineers that i want to hire that if they work for us, they will be treated like geniuses that can do whatever they want.
I would advocate that our company is a place where engineers (and this extends to all job functions really) have all the resources they need to be the best engineer they choose to be. We do not put engineers up on pedestals. Rather, we give engineers all the tools necessary for them to build their own pedestals.
The really good engineers want this more than wanting to come in to the office after 12pm, drink endless amounts of caffeine & carbonate beverages, or retreat to happy hours once a week. If the engineer is motivated by frivolous perks like these, then they are probably only worth what these things cost. The rockstar engineers will actually take advantage of everything you offer for them to better themselves and will end up paying back dividends far greater than you could have imagined.
When you're looking for engineers, dont use these cliche, pseudo perks as recruiting material. Instead, focus on making your company the best platform for any rockstar engineer to continue to build their skillset and make themselves better. As an added bonus, if you can get this platform right, you can afford to bring on younger, less experienced talent, and develop them into rockstars.
If you're interested in hearing some of my thoughts on creating this environment, please leave a comment or email me. If people really are curious i'll collect my thoughts and thoughts from others and post them here.
You often hear about or wonder about the entrepreneurs that make it big. They will often be asked, "what was your inspiration" or "what was your 'Aha!' moment?". I think those are cool stories, but not particularly instructive for people who want to be entrepreneurs and need to find their own inspirations. This post is meant to provide a least one way that i've come to identify opportunities that I'd use as a starting point for evaluating an idea. It starts with (earmuffs children) the phrase "WHY THE FUCK…".
Usually when you go through some annoying or frustrating experience, one of the core questions that comes to mind (at least for an engineer like myself) is, "why the fuck does <X> work like this?"
To break this down, there are 2 key components at play here. One is a sense of curiosity about some issue ("<X>"). You're involved with the issue enough to want to question its inner-workings, you question its reason for existence. This is really important. There is an answer, you may know it subconsciously or you may not. But, the fact that its shooting to your conscious thinking means something. Something has triggered you to ask this question.
The 2nd component of this is the "FUCK". Not to be crass, but its just as important. Usually the cursing is an indicator of some sense of passion. You will not emphasize your frustration or curiosity if you did not care. For entrepreneurs, its usually best to focus your ideas on things you are passionate about. For some people, its hard to know what exactly they are passionate about. In my opinion, this passion tends to surface itself at odd times and when you're not directly thinking of it. The cursing here is one way that i believe it shows itself.
I would bet that preceding any "Aha!" moment, there is a "WHY THE FUCK…" questioning. When you are looking for opportunities, go back to the times you've said that to yourself or to a friend. If you start dissecting what you're questioning, listing out what you know, what you dont know, how it could work, how you get others to not ever think to ask that question again, then you'll come to your "Aha!" moment.
I won't be the first person to admit that we, in silicon valley, live in a bubble. Before today, i would readily speak to how much I wish I was not so tied to this bubble. I would even fantasize about escaping to another country to experience some of what the rest of the world is going through. Even if just for a little while.
However, today i realized that i'm actually grateful that i am where i am. I think there is a reason for it. Today i realized an appreciation for the optimism and positive attitude that permeates our bubble.
What's sad to me is that we are the exception, not the rule. Any time i come across news about whats going on outside our bubble, its a constant stream of negativity and rhetoric designed to build on people's fears. Unemployment at record highs. On 9/11, a day with all the opportunity to rejoice in our ability as a country to become closer together, to celebrate the bravery of those that died to help their neighbors & perfect strangers, i see stories about how we're not safer than we were 10 years ago. Again, just to bring people back to a place of fear, doubt, and discouragement.
I'm done with that. I came home today from a brunch event to meet with my fellow bubble citizens. We were not talking about the economy, countries going bankrupt, or anything else. No, we were coming up with new ways to hire people because we could not hire fast enough. We were discussing how we could make the lives of our customers better while doing so more cheaply and finding ways to scale that to millions of others.
Now, i'm not a veteran like Warren Buffet and I've got a lot more ahead of me than i've seen. But, in my short history as an entrepreneur i've seen a tech bubble bust, the rise of another, and one of the deepest recessions in our country's history.
No matter what was going on, in our silicon valley bubble, we've continued to innovate and do better for our employees, customers, and society. Its never stopped.
So, i'm changing my tune. I'm not going to denigrate this bubble that i'm blessed to be a part of. I'm going to switch my focus to spreading this positive feeling to everywhere else i go.
At dinner tonight, our conversation started to discuss competition as it relates to new startups. Both my friend and I are working on getting our new companies off the ground and we were trading ideas about different ways to react to the competitive landscape.
Now, I dont think competition is to be ignored. Its important to think about. But, what i suggested in our conversation was that its probably better to focus your energy on building a 10x solution to a problem.
What's a 10x solution? Its a product that solves a problem that is an order of magnitude better than anything that has existed in order to lessen the pain your customer is experiencing. This is by no means an easy task, but its vital that you keep this as your focus.
If you can achieve a 10x solution, your customers will appreciate you and will give you their full attention as your product is solving the heart of their problem. And better yet, you and your team will be able to get great insight into what is driving your customers to you. Your competition becomes the status quo and your team and your customers merge together to build something that pushes past marketing, copy-cats, and anything else your "competitors" will do.
This is not a new concept. Its what Henry Ford accomplished when building the Model-T (competition: horse-drawn carriages). Its what Apple created with the iPhone (competition: cellphones that could not use the full-internet..remember WAP-browsers?). Its what Google accomplished with their search engine (competition: essentially manually curated lists of web sites).
I can go on. The point is to make the status quo your competition and beat it by an order of magnitude. Make it so that the world will never go back to what it was before your product came on the scene.


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Law firm Lander & Rogers announced four new senior appointments to its Sydney and Melbourne Insurance Law & Litigation group. The appointments reflect a continuing trend which has seen the firm's insurance practice grow at average rate exceeding 15% for over ten years.
Charles Thornley, formerly of Wotton + Kearney, joins the firm as a partner in its Sydney office. Charles has specialised in insurance law for nearly 20 years and is well known in the Sydney market – particularly in the construction litigation area. His key areas of practice include construction, property/ISR and professional indemnity.
Charles said, "Construction projects are becoming increasingly complex and we have seen an associated increase in the past couple of years in property and construction-related litigation.
Lander & Rogers Insurance Law & Litigation group is well known and well respected both nationally and internationally, and I'm excited by the opportunity to work with Ari Abrahams and the team to continue to grow the property and construction area of Lander & Rogers' insurance practice."
Mark Williams, who leads the firm's Sydney insurance practice, said, "We are delighted to have Charles join our firm. His skills and experience in construction and property/ISR add further depth to our Sydney team and will enhance the service we currently provide to our insurance clients in this area. Charles is a great fit both within our team and with the culture of our firm."
Senior associate, Robert Muir, has joined the firm's Melbourne office. Rob previously acted on behalf of two of Australia's leading private medical defence organisations. He now specialises in matters relating to medical insurance including the defence of litigation against public hospitals and general practitioners.
Sonia Hay joins the firm's Sydney office as a senior associate. Sonia's experience spans all forms of dispute resolution, including informal negotiations, mediation and court litigation. Sonia has advised national insurers, medical defence organisations and private hospitals in relation to claims, including providing technical and strategic advice. She also has experience working on large scale litigation on behalf of insurers and public inquiries.
Stephanie Lecouvey joined the firm's Melbourne office as a senior associate. Stephanie, who joined the firm from TressCox Lawyers, practises in insurance law and litigation with a focus on professional indemnity and general commercial disputes. She acts on behalf of professionals such as accountants, financial advisors, lawyers, real estate agents and directors and officers on instructions from insurers.
Co-head of Lander & Rogers' Insurance Law & Litigation group, Lisa Newcombe, said, "Our practice continues to experience strong demand for our services across all areas of the insurance market, and particularly in professional indemnity, medical indemnity, construction and Property/ISR. Our firm's reputation and the quality of our clients means that we are able to attract lawyers of the highest calibre, such as Charles, Robert, Stephanie and Sonia."


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by Sara Abraham-Oxford
The University of Texas at Arlington's Student Chapter of WTS (Women's Transportation Seminar) emphasizes the strength of its networking component as an integral benefit of membership. "One thing we highlight in our orientation meeting is that WTS has a really good networking program from students to professionals and also within the professional level," says Chapter President Alexandra (Xie) Tracz, a dual masters student in City and Regional Planning and Landscape Architecture.
The chapter recently hosted a panel discussion where professionals shared experiences related to their work, the tools they use, and differences between the nature of work of transportation consultants in the private sector and planners in the public sector. Two of the panelists, Kendall Wendling and Chad Edwards, are School of Urban and Public Affairs Alumni who earned Master of City and Regional Planning degrees. "We really appreciate their help in inspiring our students to pursue a career in transportation and promoting education in planning," says Dr. Jianling Li, faculty advisor to the student group.
The WTS student chapter, one of several student organizations at SUPA, recently held officer elections for 2014-2015 positions. The elected officers are: President – Kharrolyn Amissah-Aidoo; Vice President – Ayeh Sajjadieh Khajouei; Secretary – Lawrence Agu; and Treasurer – Stephanie Dubinsky.
WTS seeks to support and promote females within the transportation industry through mentorship, networking and professional development. The Greater Dallas/Fort Worth Chapter of WTS, which supports the UT Arlington Student Chapter, offers scholarships to undergraduate and graduate female students. Membership in the student chapter is open to all UT Arlington students.
To connect with the WTS Student Chapter, email President Alexandra (Xie) Tracz.
by Sara Abraham-Oxford
Creating a stronger connection between the academic and professional facets of planning is a primary aim of the Student Planning Association (SPA), one of several active student organizations at the School of Urban and Public Affairs.
Current SPA President and Urban Planning and Public Policy Ph.D. student Reza Sardari says part of the organization's purpose is to "help our members have a better idea of what will happen when they graduate. We want to link to professional planning situations, for example having city planners talk with us, which will give members ideas of different career paths where planning is used." Sardari added that the organization also wants to maintain a strong link to academic issues. One way to do that, he says, would be to have faculty talk to the organization about their new research topics, which would be a useful resource for students.
Recent SPA events have included a presentation about the parks planning process by De'Onna Garner, Park Planning Manager at the City of Arlington, and a demonstration of a site analysis. Possible future activities include a photo exhibit focused on city planning issues, a newsletter to share faculty and student research work, and a planning-themed film series.
SPA is supported by the American Planning Association and SPA membership is open to any University of Texas at Arlington student with an interest in planning.
Connect with SPA on its Facebook page or email SPA President Reza Sardari.
by Sara Abraham-Oxford
School of Urban and Public Affairs Assistant Professor Andrew Whittemore focused on his research of cluster developments and the planning tool used for them, Planned Unit Development (PUD), while on Faculty Development Leave as a guest scholar at UCLA during the fall semester. He notes that historically planners hoped that these developments would allow for denser housing and more affordable housing in the suburbs. He also found that expectations that PUDs would combat suburban sprawl were "overly hopeful," adding that "it takes a very sophisticated developer with a lot of capital" to implement such developments successfully.
Whittemore used a case study of PUD use in Los Angeles. Planners there hoped to use PUDs to preserve hillsides and promote affordable housing development but they were confronted by neighbors' fears that the developments would result in substandard housing. The resistance to the developments made them politically and economically unfeasible. Whittemore has submitted an article based on this research to the Journal of Planning History.
He is currently focusing on the use of PUDs in Dallas' Oak Lawn neighborhood. He found that PUDs were used quite extensively in Texas as they "allowed unique zoning to cater to specific needs." He is studying Oak Lawn to understand "how PUDs are used, what developers are getting and what the community is getting." Whittemore is preparing an article on this topic for publication.
The School of Urban and Public Affairs hosts guest speaker Rebecca Ryan who will address the question, "Is the Dallas-Fort Worth Region Future Ready.
In this fast-paced, dynamic keynote, futurist Rebecca Ryan shares:
- Four trends that will rock your community in the years to come
- Why NOW is the moment for action, and
- How smart communities are leveraging these trends and forcing disruptive changes to make their communities more engaging, responsive, and attractive to current and future generations.
Ms. Ryan is an entrepreneur and the founder of Next Generation Consulting. She is the author of ReGENERATION: A Manifesto for America's Future Leaders and Live First, Work Second: Getting Inside the Head of the Next Generation. She was named 2004 Entrepreneur of the Year by the U.S. Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship and 2006 Communicator of the Year by Women in Communications.
The event takes place on Friday, January 31, 2014, from 5:30-8:30 p.m. in Room 204 of the School of Architecture Building. The event isFREE but a reservation is required due to limited seating. The event begins with a reception at 5:30 p.m. followed by Ms. Ryan's presentation and a Q&A session. Students, faculty, alumni, professionals and their guests are welcome.
by Joanne Lovito-Nelson
Dr. Michan Conner, assistant professor of Interdisciplinary Studies in the School of Urban and Public Affairs examines the San Fernando Valley secession movement in his article"'These Communities Have the Most to Gain from Valley Cityhood': Color-Blind Rhetoric of Urban Secession in Los Angeles, 1996–2002″ published by the Journal of Urban History.
He notes, "the history of American suburbanization is marked by efforts by the affluent to draw boundaries that keep disadvantaged people out and tax dollars in, and the campaign for Valley secession partly fits this mold." Connor goes on to say "the campaign was unique because groups that had previously favored anti-busing and anti-immigration politics were forced to seek allies among the Valley's fast-growing Latino population."
Connor argues "as American cities' budgets grow tighter, suburbs grow more diverse, and competition for resources among cities and neighborhoods grows fiercer, the politics that drove the secession movement will be replayed in metropolitan areas across the country, as affluent communities try to shed fiscal obligations to poorer ones."
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Director of Interdisciplinary Studies Dr. Donna Akers' research focuses on Native American history, aiming to connect the legal and extra-legal historical actions of the U.S. government and its citizens with consequences for Native Americans. She is currently working on an article titled "Decolonizing the Master Narrative: Treaties and Other American Myths" to be published in the spring edition of the Wicazo Sa Review. She says the article discusses how U.S. college-level history text books tell a less-than-truthful version of westward movement without portraying the authenticity of the Native American experience of warfare, taking of land, conquest and exploitation.
Akers, a member of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, is also working on a book, Genocide in America: The Destruction of Native Americans by the U.S. Government, to be published in 2014. She has authored two previous books about Choctaw history and culture.
A mainstream narrative in elementary school that contrasted greatly with the history she had learned from family spurred her study of Native American history, Akers recalls. Her Choctaw grandmother's comment that "we don't interfere with the stories they tell themselves" also stayed with her and provided additional motivation to pursue graduate school. "I wanted to write about Native American history from an indigenous point of view. Native scholars call this field Decolonization History and it is considered a counter-narrative to mainstream U.S. history," Akers says.
Akers, who is an Associate Professor in the School of Urban and Public Affairs (SUPA) at UT Arlington in addition to serving as the Director of School's INTS program, spoke about her research to SUPA's Ph.D. Colloquium earlier in the semester and presented a lecture titled 'How to Discover Your Native Roots' in November as part the University's Native American Heritage Month.
Dean Barbara Becker weighs in on urban villages in a recent article titled Uneven road to renewal: Fort Worth debates success of urban villages published by the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. Becker notes that "West Seventh is an example of an urban village done right." Full Story.
The Arlington Urban Design Center was the focus of a CBS 11 News story. The Center is a partnership between the University of Texas at Arlington's School of Urban and Public Affairs, School of Architecture, and the City of Arlington, Texas. See video and story.
Brian Guenzel, director of the School's Institute of Urban Studies, served on the Lamar (Colorado) ULI Advisory Services panel that "made recommendations for changes to the built environment that would encourage people to get out and exercise." Full story.
by Joanne Lovito-Nelson
Dr. Karabi Bezboruah's paper "Community Organizing for Health Care: An Analysis of the Process" was published in the Journal of Community Practice, Vol 21.
A blog post discussing Bezboruah's paper and its relevance notes, "New research from The University of Texas at Arlington presents three ways to overcome common barriers that nonprofits face when building capacity to address community needs."
The blog post states, "Bezboruah offers three conclusions to overcome the nearly universal barriers of exclusion of low-income individuals, stake-holders' misaligned ideologies and approaches, and public apathy. And they're not all that different from previous community-based participatory initiatives."
The post found on Georgia Nonprofit NOW, a blog from the Georgia Center for Nonprofits, outlines Bezboruah's conclusions as noted below:
Grassroots identification of the problem: Allowing the service beneficiaries to identify the needs of their community will translate to more appropriately informed results as potential solutions and the organizational processes develop.
Identification of community specific solutions through collaborative discussions: With the leadership of a facilitator and the inclusion of all stake-holders — community members, service providers, public officials, and beneficiaries — in the development of goals and objectives, consensus can be achieved, creating more holistic solutions to the community-identified issues.
Building public buy-in: Advocacy is an essential piece of nonprofits' responsibility in their communities (and even more broadly for more universal issues). Through the "use of community resources to educate the public and generate opinion about the critical problems faced by the community," awareness and support can be built among stake-holders and the general public alike.


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Agents with the U.S. Marshals Task Force and Tuscaloosa Police Crime Suppression Unit arrested Rashawn Holifield in the 4800 Block of E Skyland Blvd. Holifield was wanted by the Tuscaloosa County Homicide Unit for shooting into an occupied dwelling.
Holifield, of Tuscaloosa, was arrested for 1 count of Shooting into an Occupied Dwelling. He was placed in the Tuscaloosa County Jail.
Evangelist Franklin Graham prayed on a sidewalk outside the Pentagon Thursday after his invitation to a prayer service inside was withdrawn because of comments that insulted people of other religions. More>>


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I just thought the clip was sweet especially when he talks about dreaming of walking around with his pregnant woman. My man wants that too, but I'm just not ready to go through all that again #extremely personal.
I think the show was expecting shock value, but he is coming through with the learning lessons. I hope it helps some people get it through their thick heads. no es una mujer.
Anyways, I hope he wins the money for his top surgery. Also, when I talk about insurance, access, and health care I always want to include transgender benefits. In my family it has proven to be impossible to save for the surgery. I just want to graduate and get some good benefits for my man asap.
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Auction houses generally err on the side of aggressive pricing with their pre-sale estimates. It is a rare day that we find a work seriously under-valued when compared with the track records of similar works by an artist. But such appears to be the case with a work by Zhang Xiaogang, The Big Family No. 6 (1997), which will be auctioned at this Saturday's sale of Asian Contemporary Art and Chinese 20th Century Art at Christie's Hong Kong.
Estimated at $310,738–414,318, The Big Family No. 6 would be the least expensive work from its peer group to sell at auction. A Big Family from 1995 sold at auction for $76,622 in 2003, although it was resold in October 2006 for $1,452,075.
Even if The Big Family No. 6 sells for double the pre-auction estimate, this particular Xiaogang work will still rank on the low side for its peer group where works have routinely sold for more than $1 million…
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Keith Fenimore takes a lightning look at what's been trending this week. [Oct 13 - Oct 19]
A photo of a Russian plumber who has an uncanny resemblance to "House" star Hugh Laurie is being circulated around the web. The man has never seen the star and can't figure out why he's being stared out when he walks down the street.
In an unforeseen twist, Hugh Laurie can't figure out why he's getting calls to snake people's shitters.
"Project Eternity," a fantasy role-playing game being created by Obsidian Entertainment, is the most funded game in the history of Kickstarter, raising over $3,500,000.
Two million of those dollars should be given back to the donors and put toward a socialization program for overly obsessed fantasy role-playing gamers in hopes they will one day meet a nice girl.
The live stream of Austrian Felix Baumgartner's free-fall from space was a YouTube phenomenon. The stunt broke an internet video record as the most watched live event ever.
It was so popular, there's another jump being planned that will feature the Honey Boo-Boo clan. Only this time the balloon will go even higher into the stratosphere so when they step off the platform they'll float away from earth. Now THAT would be "a giant leap for mankind!"
Quarterback Tom Brady was taunted via Twitter after losing to the Seattle Seahawks. Cornerback Richard Sherman tweeted a photo of himself and Brady with a thought bubble that read, "U mad Bro?"
As a comeback, Brady should have tweeted a pic of his Brazilian supermodel wife Gisele in a thong with a thought bubble that said, "What game?"
The very cute "Charlie bit my finger" kids, who went viral in 2007 with one of the most watched videos on YouTube, are back as stars of a new commercial for Ragu.
In other commercial news, Brad Pitt is starring in a new Channel No. 5 ad that is so bad that he may have no choice but to fill a bathtub full of Chanel No. 5 and drown his agent in it.
@imkeithfenimore and that's, as I see it, what's trending in social media this week!
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'Melo, Felton lead Knicks past Pacers in matinee
New York, NY, United States (4E Sports) – Carmelo Anthony tallied 26 points and nine rebounds as the New York Knicks returned to their winning ways with an 88-76 triumph over the road-weary Indiana Pacers Sunday at Madison Square Garden.
Anthony had a so-so shooting night, making just nine of 22 attempts, JR Smith came off the bench and scored 13 points while playmaker Raymond Felton added 11 markers and eight assists for the Knicks (7-1), who bounced back after tasting their first loss of the season to Memphis.
"Tonight we did what we had to do to win the game," Anthony told the MSG Network after the game.
Veteran Rasheed Wallace and Steve Novak had nine points apiece while Ronnie Brewer had eight for New York, which got the win despite shooting 36.7 percent from the field, capitalizing on the Pacers' 19 turnovers which they turned into 18 points.
"Guys are buying in and they understand that if you do that play defense at a high level, you put yourself in position to win games," said Knicks coach Mike Woodson.
Jason Kidd was limited to 23 minutes after he bumped heads with Lance Stephenson while attempting a three-pointer in the first period, cutting the right side of his head.
Kidd used a headband to minimize the bleeding and made all three free throws before going to the locker room to receive seven stitches. He returned to the court with 8:08 left in the second quarter.
Paul George scored 20 points on 6-for-15 shooting and David West added 13 points and seven rebounds for the Pacers (4-7), who suffered their sixth straight road loss.
The Pacers played without leading scorer Danny Granger, who will be sidelined three months with a sore left knee. He averaged 18.7 points per game last season.
Anthony scored 12 points on 5-for-9 shooting to give the Knicks a 21-18 cushion in the first quarter, where the Pacers shot just 7-for-22.
It was Felton's turn to shine in the second period, scoring seven points as the Knicks extended their lead to 41-30 at the break.
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Imagine a world with no geographical boundaries between countries. I think that if it happens then there would be more peace on Earth.
This idea has occupied my mind for a long time and finally I think that it is the time to discuss it with the world. Imagine such a world where there are no geographical boundaries between countries, I think in this way the cultures will merge together and there would be a blend of different values. There would certainly be less or no racism and I think that all in all we will have a more peaceful world where we all can live in mutual harmony!
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Aug 5 2013: Peace depends on the willingness to share resources, not the absence of geographical boundaries.
Even if there were no boundaries, the resources upon which we all depend would still be concentrated in certain areas and they would still be regarded as the property of the community nearest to it, or coveted by other communities elsewhere who depend on it. That is no recipe for peace.
The more globalised we become, the less world peace is possible.
As I see it, the only way peace is possible is for the re-emergence of local communities and local economies. That is the only way democracy and respect for our neighbours can be possible. True democracy and respect for others is more likely to end in peace on Earth - it can only happen only on a small scale.
Qamar RiazAug 5 2013: Allan, i think if we are going to count earthly resources, you are right. It limits our imagination and we start believing that Resources are scarce. This scarcity is a paradox and paradox does not exist in nature.
Today, this is a known fact that universe is not scarce. If Jupiter, can take more than 70 thousand earths and is a giant ball of methane, i think fighting over earthly methane and maintaining nuclear arsenals to protect this tiny gas reserves is the stupidest act of mankind.
Universal age has come upon us and we must say goodbye to old notions of resources. Emergence of universal languages is another indicator that local communities are ready to connect to universal networks. This way i feel the global peace is not a mere dream anymore, EU is best example to quote here.
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America's Fun Shortage: Three out of Four People Need More Fun
Dave & Buster's Declares National Play Day on May 25th;
Gives Away $10 in Free Game Play to Kick Off Summer
DALLAS - May 24, 2010 /PRNewswire/ — Americans are more in need of summer fun than ever in 2010. According to a recent survey, nearly 75 percent of people say they don't have as much fun in their lives as they would like, despite the fact that 99 percent think that having fun on a regular basis is important.
In the face of a fun crisis, Dave & Buster's has declared Tuesday, May 25th "National Play Day," kicking off a summer of fun with free play for Americans of all ages. Whether you're on the singles scene or a parent with children, Dave & Buster's is giving America an excuse to play on National Play Day with $10 in free game play. The free game play can be used at any Dave & Buster's location on hundreds of the latest games, including Guitar Hero™ and Jumpin' Jackpot.
"Summer is about having fun with friends and family, and we heard what America said: we need fun!" said Sean Gleason, chief marketing officer for Dave & Buster's. "National Play Day gives everyone a head start on their summer fun. We can't wait to start the summer with a bang!"
Beginning today, Dave & Buster's will give everyone who goes to www.FreePlayDay.com a coupon for $10 in free game play to use on May 25th, National Play Day. To redeem, simply print out the coupon and bring it to any Dave & Buster's. The survey also found that:
- 3 out of 4 people think the economy will have an impact on how much fun they have this summer
- 84 percent of people have a hard time finding fun, affordable activities to do in the summer
- 9 out of 10 people would choose $10 free game play instead of a free ice cream cone, chicken sandwich or breakfast.
"America doesn't just need fun --- it needs affordable fun, " continued Gleason. "This survey made it clear to me that people want to play more and they're having a hard time finding places to do that. That's why we have our Eat & Play Combo and Half-Price Games Wednesdays all summer long. It's an affordable way to get away from it all for a couple of hours."
Dave & Buster's will also award a National Play Day grand prize – ONE YEAR of free game play. See www.FreePlayDay.com for full contest rules.
Those participating in National Play Day can share the fun with friends and followers online by using the #PlayDay hashtag on Twitter, and share videos and photos on the Dave & Buster's Facebook page.
About Dave & Buster's
Dave & Buster's was founded in 1982 and is the country's premier entertainment/dining concept with 57 locations throughout the United States and in Canada. Dave & Buster's is famous for the Eat & Play Combo, where guests can get an entrée and a $10 game card for only $15.99. The popular Half-Price Game Wednesdays continue all summer long. More information is available at www.daveandbusters.com. Find us on Facebook and Twitter!


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Happy Valley is a populated place located in Blount County at latitude 35.609 and longitude -83.957.
The elevation is 1,283 feet. Happy Valley appears on the Calderwood U.S. Geological Survey Map. Blount County is in the Eastern Time Zone (UTC -5 hours).
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Warren is an incorporated place (Class Code P1) located in Warren County at latitude 41.8439 and longitude -79.145. (Warren Panoramio Photos). The elevation is 1,184 feet. Warren appears on the Warren U.S. Geological Survey Map. Warren County is in the Eastern time zone (GMT -5). Observes DST? Yes. Current Time. | Warren, PA ZIP Code Maps | Warren local area photos
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Warren had a population of 9,340; a land area of 2.91 sq. miles; a water area of 0.18 sq. miles; and a population density of 3,206.32 people per sq. mile according to the US Census Bureaue estimate of July 1, 2009. Latest Census Estimates for all incorporated places in Pennsylvania.
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(Washington Post) Americans believe there's too much religion talk in the public sphere, and these days, it's especially easy to be cynical. Scratch the surface of any passionately held faith-based position between April and November of an election year, and find a political agenda. That's because issues like gay marriage and religious liberty motivate voters in the right and left base who might otherwise be lackadaisical or unmoved by their choice of candidates.
Too often politically motivated religious leaders say "souls" when they really mean "votes."
What is one to make, then, of the "Evangelical Statement of Principles for Immigration Reform," a document signed last week by 150 prominent evangelical Christian leaders from across the conservative-liberal spectrum?


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James van Riemsdyk and Nazem Kadri also scored for the Maple Leafs (9-4-0) who have won three of their past four to take over sole possession of first place in the Atlantic Division, moving ahead of the Tampa Bay Lightning.
James Reimer stopped 43 shots for his 11th career shutout.
Richard Bachman stopped 22 shots for the Oilers (3-9-2), who have lost four straight.
Edmonton outshot Toronto 43-26.
Toronto started the scoring just over a minute into the game on its first shot of the game.
Kadri made a nice play to hook a pass to a hard-charging Kessel on his way to the net and he was able to fake out Oilers goalie Bachman with a quick move to score his eighth goal of the season.
Edmonton had its chances in the fast-paced first period. Most notably on a drop pass from Nail Yakupov that defender Nick Schultz shot wide of an empty net. The Oilers outshot the Maple Leafs 14-12, with Reimer making all the stops through 20 minutes.
Bachman was able to keep it a one-goal game early in the second on a big glove save on Mason Raymond, but couldn't do it again a minute later as Kessel dished a 2-on-1 pass off to van Riemsdyk, and he chipped it into the net.
Toronto went up 3-0 with 11 minutes left in the second period as Bachman lost track of a deflected shot that went behind the net and Kessel displayed his skill by barely pulling the puck over the goal line before putting it in the roof of the net for his second goal of the game.
The Maple Leafs added to their lead six minutes into the third period as Morgan Rielly finished off a tic-tac-toe passing play by rifling a puck off Kadri and in.
Kadri also had two assists in the game.
The Maple Leafs play in Calgary on Wednesday to play the Flames. The Oilers remain home to face the Detroit Red Wings on Saturday.
Notes: It was the second and final of two meetings this season. The Maple Leafs beat the Oilers 6-5 in overtime on Oct. 12 in the previous meeting as Joffrey Lupul scored with under a minute left to force the extra period before Dave Bolland scored the winner. ... Lupul was back into the Toronto lineup after missing the past two games with a foot injury. ... Out for the Leafs were scratched defenseman John-Michael Liles and forward Troy Bodie and injured players included forwards Nikolai Kulemin (ankle), Tyler Bozak (lower body) and defenseman Mark Fraser (knee). ...


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The air quality forecasting system for the National Capital Region (NCR) of Delhi is now operational and issuing daily reports to inform on the movement of the criteria pollutants in the city. The daily reports are updated @ 6 AM with forecasts for 48 hours. More details on the program @ air quality forecasting system for Delhi.
The forecasting system is supported by the meteorological model WRF and 3D Eulerian chemical transport models CHIMERE/FARM, utilizes a geo-referenced and time-profiled emissions inventory (segregated into multiple sectors) @ 1km x 1km resolution over the NCR region. The daily updates from the system include
- Animations of hourly maps for the six criteria pollutant concentrations
- Animations of hourly maps for the meteorological fields
- Daily (24 hour) average concentrations for the six criteria pollutants
- Air Quality Index (AQI) @ 37 locations in Delhi
- Time series of pollutant concentrations @ select locations
- Vertical profiles @ select locations (available up on request)
- An interface with "google earth".
Animations for individual pollutants
Relevant papers from the SIM Series
SIM-22-2009: AQM in Delhi: Then, Now, & Next
SIM-25-2009: Air Pollution Chemistry in Delhi, India
SIM-28-2009: Measuring Autorickshaw Emissions to Inform Air Quality Policy
SIM-29-2009: Monitoring & Mapping Urban Air Pollution: One Day in Delhi, India
SIM-31-2010: Role of Meteorology on Urban Air Pollution Dispersion: A 20yr Analysis for Delhi
SIM-32-2010: Estimated Air Pollution & Health Benefits of Metro System in Delhi, India
SIM-36-2011: Air Quality Forecasting System for Cities: Modeling Architecture for Delhi, India
A brief description of the chemical transport model FARM, "Flexible Air quality Regional Model" utilized for forecasting air quality over Delhi, India is presented here.
This system is developed by France based Aria Technologies SA and Leosphere SA, in technical collaboration with the Central Pollution Control Board of India. The system will pilot before the start of the Commonwealth Games to be held in October 2010. More details at forecasting modeling system for Delhi.


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Multiple Peril Crop Insurance (MPCI)
Multiple Peril Crop Insurance was developed by the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation and provides coverage against unavoidable crop loss for most crops. MPCI is the general category of all products currently available. The different products are designed so farmers can customize their risk management strategy, even by crop.There are products that protect against individual yield loss, price or a combination of yield and price; dollar amount products for specific crops that are production based; plus products using county-based yield loss and revenue loss. Rates are set by the FCIC, so cost does not vary from company to company or agent to agent.
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April, according to T.S. Eliot, is a damn cruel month, and my guess is T.S. Eliot spent most of his life on his ass writing poems and none of his life riding bikes, because if T.S. Eliot were a cyclist living in the Northern Hemisphere, he would have started his famously unreadable poem "The Wasteland" like this: "April is a totally awesome month/ mixing bicycles with buds on the branches turning into leaves/ and taking cyclocross bikes out on rainy days…"
Well, we can only hope he would have done a better job with the language than that. He was, after all, a great poet who spent his life in a chair making art.
We are cyclists and are therefore not suffering under the same artistic burden to achieve greatness in verse.
All we need to do in April is ride our bikes.
We. I don't use that word much in connection with cycling as much as I should. We cyclists can't ride alone forever. Or maybe we can. Maybe some of you do.
Lord knows, I spend most of riding time alone, which I will admit is mostly my fault. I'm new in town, true, and the wise move would be to attend one of the group rides, but each of them conflicts in some way with my schedule, I guess. Or, if I were bent on proving to the world I really didn't deserve to get picked on during recess in fourth grade, I could go to criterium practice on Thursday nights—only two miles from my house!—and see if I can hang tough with kids twenty years younger than me in all-out race one and all-out race two.
Alas, I'm in a competitive profession, so when I'm riding my bike, I want to emphasize vibes concomitant with sanguine and mellow and laid-back and hippie-chill.
Don't get me wrong: I am for sure in serious training—putting in the miles, keeping ice cream away from my mouth, et cetera—but if serious training turns me into a Type-A dipstick with a power meter and heart-rate monitor and a training log, if cycling turns my romantic, artsy-fartsy life into something akin to a machine solely purposed for maximum speed over prescribed distances, I'm looking for another way to get my exercise.
Okay. I'll be honest. If I went to criterium practice, I would probably get dropped or, worse, I would probably crash. So I'm afraid of humiliation and injury, and who wouldn't be?
And about group rides, I live in Wisconsin, and if you've paid even the slightest attention to the news over the last year, you will note that essentially every other person in this state has opposing political views. The last thing I want to do is show up for group ride and end up in a shouting match about politics.
Cycling for me = mellow time. End of story.
Nevertheless, after two months of living here, I still haven't gone on a ride, start to finish, with a local cyclist, and I've been riding just about every day.
Anyway, to get the mopes out of my system, I did the right thing last weekend and got the hell out of town and took a train from Wisconsin all the way to the town of Carbondale in southern Illinois, where I lived for a number of years and rode multiple tens of thousands of miles with a group of really good friends who, even though I don't live there anymore, are still my really good friends.
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We do things a little differently in southern Illinois. Isn't that funny how I used "we," even though I don't live there anymore?
We ride cyclocross bikes even when it's not cyclocross season, and this is because 1) the rural roads are often in beyond-crappy condition and 2) the dirt road network is vast and hilly and about as much fun to ride as this old hippie cyclist can imagine.
So on April 20, a hippie holiday of some repute, ten of us left Carbondale on cyclocross bikes and rolled easily westward in the direction of the Mississippi River and the epic set of bluffs known as Larue Pine Hills. The temperature was in the high sixties with clouds and a possibility of rain that we didn't discuss. We were too happy to contemplate rain. We talked. We laughed. Nobody hammered off the front or dropped off the back in despair. We were a group of cyclists with one thing in mind: riding together.
Four hours later, we were still together but in a wet-shivering-dog way. When we hit the dirt portion of the program, the rain blubbered from the sky, and the temperature dropped to about fifty degrees, with nasty winds. We kept plowing forward, naturally, and cranked up the endless steep dirt hills and screamed blindly down the equally endless dirt descents, and by the time we reached the place we planned to stop for a break—a winery south of Carbondale—we were an hour behind schedule and completely soaked to the skin and also covered with a fine sandy grit that our tires had released from the wet dirt roads. We were shivering. We were starving. We were delirious. We were miserable but without complaint.
One of the coolest riders in our group, a laid-back audiologist we call Chief, sat near me at the table we had at the winery and shivered and seemed unable to speak, kind of a rarity for him.
I said, "Classic ride?"
He did not pause. We had another hour of riding to get home. We had southern Illinois wine. We had sandwiches on the way out to us from the winery's kitchen. We had puddles forming below each of our seats.
He said, "I'd call this a semi-classic."
I said, "Why?"
"We could be in tougher conditions than this."
Outside, the rain was transforming into a cold drizzly mist, and the temperature was dropping into the sewer system of discomfort. Wind whipped the trees and the vines in the vineyard, and to the untrained eye, nothing about all this could add up to anything good. Some of us have been racing this spring, some of us have been, like me, training for events in the future, some of us have been riding just because we think it's an excellent thing to do.
Chief was right. We could have had it tougher.
But then again, we could not have had it better, because whatever our individual interests might be in cycling, just then, on that harsh April day, we were doing this together. If that's what semi-classic means, I'm all in for it.


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159 E. Houston St.
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Category: Bars and Clubs
Region: Lower East Side
Tonight Oktave resident Jeff Derringer celebrates two years of shuttling his techno parties between New York and Chicago by showcasing Glasgows Edit-Select, who for his part has been crafting dubby techno for the likes of CLR for over a decade. Raised on krautrock and Latin freestyle and later inspired by Detroit techno and Chicago house, Droid Behavior collectivists (and brothers) Raiz have been bringing a little aural sophistication and a sense of history to Los Angeless electronic scene.
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Wagamama (Moorgate)
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You know what you're getting at Wagamama. This is one of the branches in the city. It's pretty quiet on school nights, but busy at lunch and on traditional drinking nights, such as Thursday. I don't know what it's like at weekends, but I'd imagine it would be like a ghost town.
Otherwise it's a standard Wagamama setup. Good enough food to keep most people happy, possibly a little overpriced. This one isn't so aesthetically placed, however. And it can get quite noisy.
But it's convenient and, later this year, it will be on the doorstep of a Crossrail station. So it's probably here to stay. I use this restaurant to fill a hole, rather than go out.
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Goodnight Roger
Today the world has lost a true artist and a singular voice. Roger Ebert, at the age of 70, has lost his battle with thyroid cancer. I am not going to list his numerous achievements or discuss his incredible career in depth. There are plenty of other places to seek out that wonderfully inspiring and fascinating information.
Instead I am going to remember the impact that he had on my life, and the lives of all those who consider cinema to be an ever burning passion. While I am a young man who is hopefully at the very beginning of a career in the world of film, I have been a life long cinephile. A major reason for that is in large part due to Mr. Ebert. The other side to that cinephile coin was my father, who I lost almost four years ago to colon cancer. As I devoured every film that he showed me, I began to become more and more interested in more critical approaches to film. The perfect entry point to the world of film criticism was the informative yet accessible writings of Roger (though I did not know him personally, I still feel comfortable calling him Roger). Though his writings could be consumed by people of all ages, they were far from simple. Instead his passion, wit, and frankly his genius was so bright and clear that he could convey the most intellectual observations in a way that could be understood by even the youngest readers.
In Roger's final blog post just the other day he spoke of the "leave of presence" that he planned on taking.
What in the world is a leave of presence? It means I am not going away.
These words are even more poignant now that he has left us, because he really hasn't gone away. My words, and the words of every person in my Twitter feed and across the entire web are a testament to the fact that he hasn't truly left us. The way that Roger's passing has deeply affected such a wide ranging group of people, whether they knew him personally or not, acutely shows what an incredible affect he had on all of our lives. Though his time on earth was ephemeral, his presence will be eternal.
The fact that two people who had such an enormous effect on my life's greatest passion, and hopefully my career, to cancer is absolutely rage inducing. This is a disease that needs to be stopped before it takes anymore amazing people from us. But that is for a different blog. So instead of devoting any more words to the disease that took them, I will instead spend my time remembering and celebrating their knowledge, joy and passion. I am sure my father has welcomed Roger with open arms and they are sitting down to view a wonderful piece of cinema in the great theater in the sky. Enjoy the screening gentlemen, we will be enjoying your eternal presence.
Update: Honored to have my piece featured over at Criticwire with so many other beautiful words about Roger. Head over there to be incredibly moved at the outpouring of remembrance: http://blogs.indiewire.com/criticwire/roger-ebert-obituaries
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