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The recent visit by Ken Loach and Eric Cantona to Dublin for the première of Looking for Eric drew a surprise guest who Loach, at least, was unpleasantly surprised to see. Former Taoiseach Bertie Ahern muscled in on the occasion, accompanied by his hapless brother Maurice on the latter's doomed election campaign. The Aherns presented the former Manchester United star with a personalised Dubs shirt. Loach, not surprisingly, accused Ahern of hijacking the première, and it's hard to disagree with him, particularly as Bertie came out with his standard guff about being a big fan of Loach and having met Cantona many times at Old Trafford. Loach wasn't impressed by this 'dodgy rightwing politician' who didn't care for the film enough to wait for the screening.
The release of a film about football by that most leftwing of directors provides an opportunity to examine the left's relationship to the game, a relationship that has long been an uneasy one. In Loach's case the link has always been there: despite his middle-class background, he has been a football fan for decades, and one of his earliest films Kes had a famous comic sequence in which the PE teacher, played by Brian Glover, commentated an imagined goal he scored for Man Utd.
Left View of Sport: 'war minus the shooting'?
But those anti-sport voices on the left have often been the loudest. George Orwell's comment that sport is 'war minus the shooting' has been the abiding dogma of leftist intellectuals, if not the left as a whole. Of course, Orwell's words have rarely been put in their context, i.e. the hugely successful Dynamo Moscow tour of Britain in 1945. It was a tour by the team most closely associated with the Red Army, and presided over by Stalin's NKVD chief Lavrenti Beria, that had the sole intent of propaganda. Most British fans were more interested in the mesmerising passovotchka football played by Dynamo but Orwell, being one of the first leftist critics of Stalin, and having lived through a six-year-war which challenged, but never broke, his internationalism, saw it differently. His distaste was perfectly understandable, as would be the later sporting boycotts of Apartheid South Africa and the Beijing Olympics.
But to use nationalism as a stick to beat international sport is misguided and largely beside the point. Loach put this well in his Cannes press conference for Looking for Eric when he said that football, on the contrary, provides an escape valve for national chauvinism, being the only time when it is really acceptable for those on the left to take excessive pride in their country. There are cases where the chauvinism does become ugly, and I will come back to them, but these days, at least, the passions unleashed by international football and sport are for the for most part good humoured.
The left, or at least the cosmopolitan left that has formed opinion in the west in the past forty to fifty years, has been largely suspicious of football. This has its roots in classical Marxism – Karl Kautsky was scornful of football, seeing it as an instrument of control of the working classes. The German and Scandinavian Social Democratic parties likewise opposed professionalism on ideological grounds, a view that still exists on leftwing fringes. Though French footballers in May 1968 – at the time, some of the most appallingly treated in Western Europe – mounted their own occupation of the French Football Federation headquarters, the soixante-huitards were indifferent to or dismissive of the sport. This was mainly due to their bourgeois backgrounds and the fact that France's football heritage at the time – a few glory years in the 1950s aside – was poor. Albert Camus was one of the few French intellectuals of any era to have any fondness for the sport, mainly because he grew up poor as a pied noir in working-class Algiers. There was even a bit of a shock among leftist French intellectuals when their beloved Ken Loach thought a subject as vulgar as football worthy of his attention. Serge Kaganski of Les Inrockuptibles wondered why Loach 'steered clear of the murkier zones of football' in the film. Kaganski clearly wasn't paying attention to the film or was ignorant of the history of FC United, the team formed by United fans in protest at the potentially ruinous takeover by the Glazer family. Looking for Eric features a lengthy scene in the pub – which is classic Loach – where supporters of the new club defend their abandonment of a club that has been stolen from them by an uncaring behemoth of American capitalism.
There are also those on the liberal left who have a simple personal distaste for football, such as Robert Fiske, whose bad experience at the hands of sadistic public school jocks has forever coloured his view of the sport. Christopher Hitchens thinks any sport, like much else in life, below him. Noam Chomsky probably has no opinion on the round-ball game, but he's very much of the 'bread-and-circuses' school of thought when it comes to his assessment of American sport. You cannot argue with anyone who just simply dislikes football, it hardly leaves a void in their life and there are more important things to be concerned about. But it sometimes is difficult to explain to some people why you can't meet them the night of an Ireland world cup qualifier or a Champions' League game. I feel like Umberto Eco, who when not wishing to be disturbed when watching his beloved Bologna on television on Sunday afternoons, instructs his family to tell highbrow callers that 'Professor Eco is listening to Brahms' so as to remain unmolested.
There are also those people, on the left as well as elsewhere, that love to bash football in favour of rugby (rugby 'fans', of course constitute a large number of these). I have already written at length on this elsewhere so I won't go on. Suffice to say that contrary to the hackneyed expression that tells us football is a gentleman's game played by thugs and rugby a thug's game played by gentlemen, I would say that rugby is simply a smug bastard's game played by smug bastards.
Football as a Political Tool
Football, as we have seen with Orwell, has been accused of whipping up nationalist passions, which is admittedly true though more often it has been the vehicle for more deeply seated poisonous energies. The famous football war between Honduras and El Salvador in 1969 used the controversial World Cup qualifier between the two nations as the pretext for a conflict that had already been simmering for a three decades. Nationalists both Serb and Croat built their militias in the Yugoslav wars around hooligan elements from clubs such as Red Star, Partizan Belgrade and Dinamo Zagreb. An attack by Zagreb player Zvonimir Boban on a Yugoslav policeman in 1992 is even seen by some to be the Gavrilo Princip moment of the conflict. The Old Firm, while certainly not blameless, is rather hysterically accused by some of being the sole source of sectarianism in Scotland and Northern Ireland. All too often political strongmen are happy to use football successes to their own advantage. There's a long history of it in Brazil, by both elected and military leaders, to the extent that when the country finally regained the World Cup in 1994, some of the players expressed the hope that the victory would not be exploited by the country's politicians. Argentina's generals were enthusiastic supporters of the sterile but successful anti-football employed by Racing Club and Estudiantes in the late 1960s. Colonel Gadhafi even managed to worm his son onto the books of Juventus (sponsored at the time by the Libyan state oil company Tamoil) despite the latter having no discernible football. But all one can really draw from this is that football, as a hugely popular sport, can be implemented in the service of mass political and social movements.
Footballers Turned Politicians and the Power of Protest
The left has not been completely absent from football either; there are teams with a clearly defined left-wing fan culture such as Celtic, Barcelona, Rayo Vallecano, Bologna, Livorno, Hammarby, St Pauli. Not that these have been without their own unsavoury elements from time to time either. There have been a number of players that have dabbled in leftist or left-of-centre politics, such as Gianni Rivera, a former Italian junior secretary for Defence and now a Social Democratic MEP, Grzegorz Lato, a former Polish Social Democratic senator, Dominique Rocheteau was an outspoken communist throughout his playing days and now heads the French Football Federation's ethics committee. Miguel Saldanha, who was originally set to manage Brazil in the 1970 World Cup finals, was a communist who resisted attempts by the Generals to interfere with team selection. He was replaced shortly before the finals began. Lilian Thuram is unaffiliated to any party but has not ruled out entering politics in the years to come. On the more Stalinist end of things, the trainer of Hungary's Golden Team Gusztáv Sebes was a staunch communist and former union organiser at the Renault motorworks in Paris, while Oleg Blokhin combined his stewardship of the Ukrainian national team at the 2006 World Cup with his role as a Communist Party deputy.
Football has also occasionally been the vector for left-wing liberation movements. Much of the organisation for anti-colonial movements in African countries came as a result of football, which, in many countries was the only means of assembly the natives were permitted. In countries such as Ghana, Nigeria and Rhodesia football stars such as Benjamin Borombo and Sipambaniso Manyoba doubled as union organisers. Football provided the sporting bulwark of the ANC in Apartheid-era South Africa and was one of the few areas of interracial activity. African countries, after a long struggle eventually forced FIFA to leave a South Africa that refused to field a mixed-race team out in the cold. Meanwhile the inmates at Robben Island maintained a fully-organised league for more than twenty years. And only last month, six Iranian footballers showed remarkable courage in wearing the green of the opposition protestors in a World Cup qualifier in South Korea.
Football Largely Apolitical
But these affiliations aside, football is a largely apolitical animal, something which has, no doubt, earned it the scorn of the militant left. This left sees a docile crowd cowed into submissiveness by its weekly fix of football; it sees the masses dissipating their revolutionary energies in the service of a commercial enterprise that has been magnified in recent years by television and spiralling salaries and admission fees. All very well but it omits to mention that much footballing culture is created by those very masses, it ignores the inventiveness and wit of those working-class fans who furnish the sport with its chants, its legends, its nicknames, its collective memory. No matter how much television, government and the world of big business and marketing may try it will always be the fans and not prefabricated franchises that will control the culture of football. This left also ignores the fact that many of the people who follow football also play it or organise it, usually for no material gain. It's an old cliché but it does keep the kids off the streets, often children from backgrounds that have very few other activities open to them.
Bill Shankly's famous line 'Football's not a matter of life and death; it's much more important than that' has too often been taken at face value. Something that is ridiculous given Shanks' renowned dry wit (he once denied taking his wife to see Rochdale play on their honeymoon – he said it was Rochdale Reserves), and his own socialist political leanings, forged in the Ayrshire mining community in which he grew up. Shankly, like Matt Busby at Manchester United and Brian Clough at Derby and Notts Forest, fostered a club culture of mutual respect, solidarity and a belief in entertaining and respecting the people who spent much of their modest wages supporting them. All of this came from traditional communal values that have been eroded by industrial and societal decay over the past thirty years; it's notable that Clough was a strong supporter of the striking miners in 1984. Shankly had the view that football, like anything else, should be undertaken with as much seriousness as anything else, but only a fool would think that he, Busby, Clough, Jock Stein or any of the great managers of that era thought it was the centre of the universe.
Footballers and Their Earnings
Of course the recent financial mushrooming in football, which has brought some good, and much that is bad, to the game, paradoxically has its roots in labour rights. The minor Belgian player Jean-Marc Bosman secured at the European Court of Justice in 1993, the right to leave his club for free once his contract was up. A basic right that was taken for granted by every other worker in the EU was now available to footballers. The Bosman ruling also decreed that workers' freedom of movement throughout the EU applied equally to football, and so the way was open for clubs to help themselves to players from other countries. This skewed the balance in favour of bigger clubs in bigger countries but also attracted more lucrative television deals – which larger clubs were already in the process of hogging for themselves – generating more and more money. The bigger countries cordoned off the lions' share of the Champions' League for themselves and players have since moved about more and more and earned more money than ever before.
Professional footballers, overwhelmingly drawn from the working classes, always did constitute a labour aristocracy of sorts, even if they were for long still attached to the communities from which they came. But apart from a few minor revolts in the 1920s and 1930s, in Britain at least, there was never much of a push for better wages or working conditions. Most players lived out an existence where they earned decent wages by the standards of the aspirations of their class, but were tied to a serf-like relationship with their employers, a situation vividly described by Gary Imlach in his memoir about his father, former Everton and Scotland player, Stewart. It was only when Jimmy Hill took over the Professional Footballers Association at the turn of the 60s that the old tyranny evaporated and the maximum wage was done away with. But Hill's intention was to move players away from status as workers and towards the entertainment strata. This gentrification of footballers brought more money to players for the duration of their career though at retirement poverty continued to bite those who didn't fall into the limited career options available at that stage of life. All of this changed in the mid-90s. Footballers are often scorned these days for the astronomical amounts they earn, and it is true than many of the wages paid are obscene. But it's hard to begrudge the players plugging away in the lower reaches of the professional game a wage that allows them to better plan for a life after the game.
Big Club Domination
But football suffers from the insane amounts of money being pumped in as power, both on and off the field, becomes increasingly concentrated in a limited number of centres. Gone are the days when teams from countries such as Sweden, the Czech Republic, Poland and Austria could genuinely expect to challenge for European trophies. In Scotland, which as recently as the 1980s saw unfashionable teams such as Aberdeen and Dundee United compete with the best in Europe, Rangers and Celtic now dominate more than ever before. Both sides would undoubtedly prefer more domestic competition but their own limited potential in Europe also depends on pulling away from the pack in terms of expenditure and income. Scottish Socialist Tommy Sheridan, himself a serious amateur player, in his book, Imagine, published a decade ago, suggested such imbalances could be reversed under a socialist sports policy. Perhaps, though it is in the very un-socialist world of American sport, with its draft systems where such a situation currently exists. Of course, this is in the service of leagues where the clubs are more consciously enterprises than football clubs were at the start of their existence. It certainly provides a greater level of competitiveness but it has also done away with the notion of a plucky underdog, something that is fading from European football too. Those few successful underdogs that do arise, like Hull City, Hoffenheim, Wolfsburg, Shaktiar Donetsk or Chievo do so thanks to the largesse of wealthy individual or corporate donors.
Supporters have in many cases seen their clubs taken from them, as in the case of Manchester United and Wimbledon, whose hardcore fans have founded breakaway clubs. It has left fans on the left with a quandary, as continuing to support clubs they have followed their whole life means pouring money into the coffers of capitalists as invidious as Silvio Berlusconi, Malcolm Glazer and Thaksin Shinawatra. Toni Negri, the renowned Marxist theorist continues to support his beloved Milan despite Berlusconi's patronage, saying in an interview with the irreverent left-leaning French football magazine So Foot last year that 'just because the woman you love becomes a prostitute doesn't mean you love her any less.' For many, the hijacking of their club by far-right thugs was already a strong enough challenge to their support, which, in most cases endured nonetheless.
Football the Preserve of Neither the Left or the Right
Despite the broadly working-class culture of football, it has only intermittently intersected with left-wing progressive politics. And there's no real reason why it ever should have. While only a fool would say football is, or ever was, apolitical, it has never been the preserve of either the left or the right. There have been times when football fans have resisted political domination, such as when 22,000 Irish fans defied the Catholic Church to watch their team play Yugoslavia in 1955 or during the Nazi Occupation of Norway when Norwegians boycotted en masse all football and sporting fixtures organised by the puppet Quisling regime. American neocons, who never fail to draw grotesque Panglossian morals from that which they do not know, like to claim that the US' lack of enthusiasm for soccer is a reflection of the country's love of competition and individuality. Latin America and Europe, supposedly saddled with their backward socialist and populist worldviews, plump for soccer, which, like socialism, enshrines collectiveness and mediocrity. Football's historical weakness in the US has more to do with historical accident than cultural inclination, but such a truth sits uneasily with the armchair Hegelians of the American Enterprise Institute.
No, football is not especially socialist, or leftist, any more than it is intrinsically fascist or reactionary. But it's not anything that should be particularly anathema to an intelligent lefty. After all, the history of glorious failures on the left mirrors those in the beautiful game: the left has its Luxemburgs and Liebknechts, its Connollys and Noel Browns, its Allendes and Popular Fronts; football on the other hand has its Hungaries from 1954, its Austrias from 1934, its Hollands from 1974, its Brazils from 1982. Funny old game…
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Larger and more brightly-colored than the related Mourning Dove (Zenaida macroura), the Passenger Pigeon would have been easily identified by its size (14-16 inches), long wings, and long, pointed tail. The male Passenger Pigeon had an olive-gray back, rusty breast, slate-blue head, and iridescent neck. Female Passenger Pigeons were similar to males, but were somewhat duller and browner. Before the latter half of the nineteenth century, the Passenger Pigeon was the most numerous species of bird in North America, if not the world. Between 3 and 5 billion Passenger Pigeons once inhabited the eastern United States and southern Canada. During the breeding season, massive flocks of Passenger Pigeons gathered to breed at a handful of locations in New England, the Mid-Atlantic region, the Ohio River valley, and the lower Great Lakes. Passenger Pigeon flocks rarely returned to the same breeding location more than once every several years as their breeding success was tied to long-term cycles of food abundance in that region. After the breeding season, Passenger Pigeon flocks wandered widely across eastern North America, arriving wherever food was abundant. Flocks sometimes strayed as far afield as arctic Canada, central Mexico, and Cuba. Passenger Pigeon flocks required large areas of old-growth deciduous forest in which to nest and feed. This species often did significant damage to the places it visited: Early naturalists recorded Passenger Pigeon flocks uprooting trees with their massive weight and smothering plants in the undergrowth with a layer of droppings several inches thick. Passenger Pigeon flocks ate massive quantities of seeds and tree nuts, including acorns, chestnuts, and beechnuts. Early naturalists observed flocks of Passenger Pigeons hundreds of miles long and several miles wide travelling from one feeding site to another. However, as European Americans moved west during the nineteenth century, humans began to exploit Passenger Pigeons and their habitat. Professional "pigeoners" shot countless Passenger Pigeons each year while loggers removed an ever-increasing amount of the old-growth forest this species needed to survive. In the latter half of the nineteenth century, Passenger Pigeon populations crashed, and the species never recovered. The last wild Passenger Pigeon was shot in 1900, and the species became extinct when the last captive Passenger Pigeon, a female named Martha, died in the Cincinnati Zoo in 1914.


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Editor: Mr. Geron, would you tell us about your professional experience?
Geron: I have an undergraduate degree from Bard College and went on to receive a law degree from Hofstra University School of Law. Between my first and second year of law school I interned for a bankruptcy judge. That experience fueled my interest in bankruptcy law, and when I finished law school I started working for a small bankruptcy boutique in New York which was comprised of three partners and three associates. I cut my teeth there in the bankruptcy field, handling both trustee and non-trustee matters, until late 1991 when I started my own practice. Over the years since then I became a trustee myself, grew the practice and then merged with Fox Rothschild LLP in February of this year.
Editor: Please tell us about your practice. How has it evolved over the course of your career?
Geron: When I started out after law school, I was handling high-end bankruptcy matters that entailed representing debtors and creditors, and was also handling some trustee matters because one of the partners at my firm had been a trustee. I got to close some of his bankruptcy estates, and I also received some training with respect to other trustee matters. When I started my own practice, at least initially, my work was largely focused on the consumer area, although I was never engaged in a volume-based practice. I tended to handle only the most complicated or delicate consumer work that required considerable expertise. By the time of the merger with Fox Rothschild, however, most of my practice had to do with either creditor or debtor representation in bankruptcy, with considerable effort committed to trusteeship matters. Over time, the focus of my practice has evolved from the consumer end of bankruptcy to corporate bankruptcy.
Editor: Please tell us about your appointment as a Chapter 7 Bankruptcy Trustee in the Southern District. How has this impacted your practice?
Geron: In late 1991 there was an opening on the trustee panel in Manhattan. I submitted my name, and I was ultimately granted the appointment by the Office of the United States Trustee. This was an extremely important step for me in that it provided excellent training and, in addition, it constituted a sort of legitimization for my developing practice. Over the course of my trusteeship I have been very fortunate to have been able to handle some extremely sophisticated cases. This is the kind of work that requires considerable expertise, and the more of it one handles the more expert one becomes. It has been a terrific education and, among other things, I have learned how to handle even the most complicated litigation matters as a result. I cannot overstate how important my trusteeship has been to my practice.
Editor: You have also had a parallel career speaking and writing on a variety of bankruptcy issues. How does this activity connect to your practice?
Geron: Speaking and writing allows me to stay current with new developments in the bankruptcy field. There are always new issues, and one of the best ways in which to stay abreast of them is to be a participant in the discussion. My speaking and writing, accordingly, is focused on emerging trends within the field.
Editor: How do you manage to juggle all of your commitments?
Geron: When I had my own practice I was able to commit a fair amount of time to lecturing, writing articles, and so on. That has become more difficult since joining Fox Rothschild because the volume of work has picked up substantially. There are rare times in the business cycle when the volume of work decreases, which afford me more time to devote to this kind of activity. Nevertheless, lecturing, making presentations, and writing articles is an extremely important part of a law practice, in my view - and particularly in the bankruptcy field, which is currently subject to ongoing revision and change - and time simply must be found to allocate to this process.
Editor: I assume there is a cycle to your practice that relates to the state of the economy. It is pretty clear what a bankruptcy lawyer does when the economy is not doing well. What kinds of things keep you busy in good economic times?
Geron: My debtor practice has been primarily focused on small- to medium-sized businesses. In my view, those businesses, although influenced by economic trends, are not as heavily impacted as the large enterprises. Wherever we are in the economic cycle, there is always a need for bankruptcy advice. I see a bankruptcy strategy as one of several key planning tools for any business organization. It is something that governing boards must be aware of, and much of my work involves being brought into the board room and educating directors on the bankruptcy issues that need to be brought into the strategic planning process.
The other aspect of my practice concerns my Chapter 7 trusteeship. That tends to be somewhat countercyclical to the ebb and flow that one sees on the Chapter 11 side. That is to say, if there are a great many Chapter 11 cases being filed where there is an ability to reorganize rather than liquidate, that generally means that things are relatively quiet in the trustee area. When the latter becomes busy, that usually means that a considerable number of Chapter 11 cases are failing or that they are not being filed at all.
Editor: What were the areas that Geron Associates, P.C. was handling prior to joining Fox Rothschild?
Geron: The primary emphasis of my practice has, at all times, been on bankruptcy, but over time, it did reach out to include a number of pre- and post-bankruptcy issues that were important to my clients. We did get involved in areas such as employee benefits, corporate structuring, corporate finance and finance and commercial real estate transactions. And, as a consequence, we developed a certain measure of experience in these areas. We did not focus our practice in those areas because we considered them tangential to our core bankruptcy practice. Fox Rothschild's great depth of expertise in those areas has allowed us to handle those additional areas much more efficiently since we joined the firm.
Editor: Will you share with us the factors that went into your joining Fox Rothschild after some 13 years of having your own practice?
Geron: First and foremost, I think the culture of Fox Rothschild is attractive. It is a firm built around entrepreneurial high-caliber attorneys, who work collegially in support of each other's practices. The firm encourages and supports its attorneys in developing their own practices. In addition, I now have the ability to tap into to a significant base of attorney capabilities within the firm, such as a first-rate tax department or trusts and estates, or corporate, or real estate, all of which is of great value to me, my practice, and my clients. I am in a position to serve my clients much more effectively than in the past. In taking this step, I was aware of the extended platform the Fox Rothschild offered to my practice. It was certainly the right step for me.
Editor: And, if you can, the factors that underlay the firm's interest in you?
Geron: I think the firm was looking for someone to establish their foothold in New York. They saw both my practice and my managerial experience as a means to establish and then grow a practice in the city.
Editor: Over the past eight months or so, has the integration proceeded as planned?
Geron: In terms of my practice, clients came to me in the past for very specific bankruptcy issues, whether they were creditors looking for assets within the bankruptcy field or debtors looking to file. Today I am seeing clients with a variety of broader needs, and many of these needs are beyond the scope of what I would have been able to handle for them before my merger. Corporations in the process of winding down have a multitude of issues. At an earlier point in my career, I would have been required to either hire additional counsel or put the brakes on what I was doing in order to tackle all of the issues that derive from the principal one on which, of course, all of my attention should have been focused. That problem has now been solved by the ready access I have to the firm's resources, both in terms of expertise and personnel.
Looking at the merger from Fox Rothschild's perspective, the firm has a strong financial services department, and at least three of its offices have sophisticated bankruptcy experience. Nevertheless, my presence serves to increase both the depth and the overall scope of the firm's bankruptcy capability. The firm has clients with very particularized financial service issues, and their representation is enhanced by my group's involvement in New York, particularly given the types and sizes of cases which are again being filed in New York's bankruptcy court. All in all, the integration process has evolved in a very satisfactory manner.
Editor: What about the future? Fox Rothschild has undergone considerable expansion in recent years. Do you see this continuing?
Geron: I can certainly speak for New York first. The continuation of my practice with the expertise and tremendous resources of a general practice firm of the caliber of Fox Rothschild behind it is a very positive step, and I see growth in the bankruptcy area for certain. With respect to the firm as a whole, the established presence that I have in New York, and the firm's strong reputation, has enabled the firm to anticipate the growth of other practice areas. For example, we are looking to build capabilities in the New York office in litigation, transactional work, and other areas. The firm has a New York trusts and estates presence now, with a resident partner and associate, and I think other practice areas are going to be represented here in the very near future. I believe we will quickly build the New York office to a critical mass of high quality attorneys within a short time, as much as Fox Rothschild has done in each of its other offices. Beyond New York, I think it is very likely that the firm is going to continue to grow, and the obvious focus of its attention is the New York-Washington corridor, and Florida, where the firm already has one office.
Editor: And your practice. Where do you see it in, say, five years?
Geron: I mentioned the fact that the bankruptcy field sees change on an ongoing basis. New statutory promulgations, case law, a vibrant literature that discusses emerging issues of increasing complexity and novelty, the bankruptcy area is an intense exercise in continuing education. One such change that is to become law in October may serve to make consumer bankruptcy relief under Chapter 7 much more difficult to obtain. It may also have a considerable impact on Chapter 11 cases. There has been a good deal of publicity on these developments, but we really do not have a sense yet of how it is going to affect practitioners and the practice generally. I certainly anticipate being very busy over the next few years, whatever impact the change in the laws, and I suspect that much of this is going to derive from the ever increasing sophistication of the clients I am called upon to represent and the increasing complexity of their issues.


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Throughout the early 2000's he began Collecting Trance Vinyls and soon began practicing mixing on turntables. As the decade progressed, he soon learned to be versatile Using cdj's and other types of equipment. Nico then began his career in electronic music and soon found himself producing Trance And House in his home studio.
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Genres: Action & Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Horror, Mystery & Suspense
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Mark Norvell | HOUSTON | 09/17/2007
(5 out of 5 stars)
"This review is for "Gorilla at Large", the reason I bought this disc. In 1954, the 3-D craze was at its' peak--especially with horror films and this included the gorilla movie as scare factor. 1954 saw "Phantom of the Rue Morgue" and "Gorilla at Large" pawing their way into theaters in 3-D and Technicolor, with better than average budgets. "Gorilla at Large" is set in a seedy carnival around a lurid sideshow called "The Garden of Evil" where beautiful trapeze star Mlle. LaVerne ( a young and beautiful Anne Bancroft paying her starlet dues) swings seductively over a gorilla pit where mankiller ape Goliath reaches for her, threatening to yank her down at any moment. LaVerne's troubled and hot-tempered husband (a stoic Raymond Burr) jealously oversees her act and LaVerne. He also manages the carnival. Two problematic things occur: a hunky new stuntman for LaVerne ( a young, hunky Cameron Mitchell) for a dangerous new thrill in her act and a brutal murder. The murder shuts the carnival down and brings in a hardnosed cop (Lee J. Cobb). Everyone suspects Goliath and his sinister trainer when another murder occurs. But there's more than meets the eye in the "Garden of Evil". This is a well made, enjoyable thriller with two gorillas. One a stunt man in a bad gorilla suit and the other being Goliath. The stunt man is supposed to step in at key moments in LaVerne's act when the ape gets too close to thrill the audience. The carnival atmosphere is colorful, lurid and vivid. The acting is above par as is the cast---a young Lee Marvin has a comedy relief role as a dumb lanky cop. The 3-D effects are noticable with Goliath and the dizzying carnival rides. And there's a wonderful scene where Goliath goes on a rampage through the deserted carnival one night inadvertantly setting off the rides, causing the whole park to come alive like a haunted fairgrounds. Later, he reaches through a window for a screaming Bancroft as she lies seductively clad in a sexy negligee. The cheesecake factor with Bancroft is rampant throughout. This IS a beauty and the beast tale afterall but one with a twist---it's also a murder mystery. Who's committing the murders Goliath or someone in the stunt suit? And will Goliath finally have at the teasing seductress LaVerne? See this for cheesy but fun 50's thrills and watch as soon-to-be-stars pay their dues in a gorilla movie. "Gorilla at Large" is a genuine time capsule from the 3-D 50's complete with a better than average cast, in gorgeous Technicolor and preserved in a nice print on this disc. Worth owning for old Hollywood star watchers. Enjoy. And don't make Goliath mad...."
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Andre Villemaire | Canada | 09/20/2007
(4 out of 5 stars)
"Midnight Movie Madness continues with great stuff from the past. The movie
mystery on Monster Island is so well preserved that it looks like it was
just recently made. Saw this movie as a kid, and one of the characters is
as stupid as i remember him...but was well worth seeing this movie again.
Nice to see Peter Cushing again...Enjoy"
GORILLA AT LARGE deserves a better double billing!
Brian T | Canada | 05/04/2009
(3 out of 5 stars)
"A real mixed bag here. One awesome flick, one horrible flick. The awesome: GORILLA AT LARGE, a solid circus noir with Raymond Burr, Cameron Mitchell and a very volutuous young Anne Bancroft--who routinely scoffed at the film once she became a "serious" actress--caught up in a clever puzzler involving a killer in a gorilla suit settling old scores on the fairgrounds and an actual gorilla that escapes its handler at suspiciously opportune times. This film, original in stereoscopic 3-D, gained a small second life in the early 80's when it was broadcast on many local American affiliate TV stations in anaglyphic 3-D (ugh!) much to the delight of kids like myself who were armed and ready (for headaches, mostly) with our specially purchased paper 3-D glasses. BWANA DEVIL also got this treatment, but GORILLA's a far more engrossing experience. The Spanish production THE MYSTERY ON MONSTER ISLAND (1981), on the other hand, is an utter waste of time. Peter Cushing and Terence Stamp each take top billing for about eight minutes screen time apiece, although one can't blame the producers for using such a ruse to lure audiences to this undeserving junk. Stamp's "character" appears for most of the film's climax, but he and his men are conveniently clad from head to toe so the producers can simply loop in Stamp's voice while some unnamed schmoe waves his arms around! The real stars are the lamentable non-actor Ian Sera, a regular for director Juan Piquer Simon (PIECES), and British vet David Hatton. Their adventure stranded on an island with an assortment of ridiculous creatures (including one dinosaur thingy that looks rather . . . inflated), an oh-so-clever monkey and a beautiful girl causes so much eye-rolling it hurts."
Bizarre Double Feature:Gorilla at Large(1954)/Mystery on Mon
James Simpson | USA | 01/30/2009
(4 out of 5 stars)
"This is one sloppily put together Double Feature.
While the packaging is nice,offering two seperate DVDs instead of the usual dual layer format,and both prints for the films are beautiful,re-mastered latterbox prints,neither film goes together with the other.
Gorilla at Large(1954) is a VERY fun timewaster with a great cast,and deals with murders committed at a sideshow.
The second is a 1981 US/Spanish production that features Peter Cushing in a small role in a film,supposedly based on Jules Verne.
Of the two,Gorilla at Large is a very well made thriller about a person committing murders in an ape suit!
Cameron Mitchell is the hero,Charlotte Austin(who will be involved in more monkey business in the Ed Wood written,Bride of the Beast(1958) is his girlfriend.
Raymond Burr plays a red herring,Lee J.Cobb plays a hard boiled detective(very well,too!),Lee Marvin(!) plays a cop on the case and Anne Bancroft steals it as a very sexy lady who has an interesting act with an ape.
Check this one out!
Mystery on Monster island(1981) is a bogus adventure film,set in the turn of the century about ship wreck survivors who get involved in high jinks on a mysterious island.
The film tries to be funny,and while pleasane,becomes something of a chore to sit through.
Before you complain about the monsters on the screen,understand that they are MEANT to be bogus,however,that just causes more problems with the plot.
Despite top billing,Peter Cushing is only in the film in the beginning and end,and dosen't have much to do.
Spanish Horror great,Paul Naschy,is wasted in a two minute cameo in the beginning,getting shot several times before blowing up a cave!(His name is credited as "Flint"!)
The locations are beautiful,but the film is overlong and has no real drive and feels like a waste of time.
Really not much more than could be said about this film.
Buy the double feature for Gorilla at large,but only the curious need see the latter.
Have fun!"


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Darren "D-Mac" McNamara has been competing professionally in the Formula Drift series since 2007. The native of Cork, Ireland won the 2006 Irish Prodrift series championship before Team Falken Tire gave him a full-time seat here in the USA driving his personally built Toyota AE86 Corolla with Nissan SR20 motor. Today, he drives this beast they call a Saturn Sky, and also co-runs the McNSport aftermarket parts label back in Ireland.
D-Mac's Saturn Sky has been revamped this year with an all-new chassis and aerodynamic package. Although the car is factory sponsored by Falken, the build was handled by Autosport Dynamics (ASD). In 2010, the Sky was one of the few roadsters on the Formula Drift grid, but ASD has switched it over to a hard top coupe for 2011. Saturn never offered the Sky with a metal roof from the factory, so the sloping rear line that the team has chosen bears close resemblance to the sister Pontiac Solstice Coupe that sold briefly as a 2009 model. Other panels such as the hood, fenders, front and rear bumpers are made out of dry carbon fiber to keep the overall weight down. The front splitter is made specially by APR for this application. On the rear bumper, a triangular deflector sits behind the wheel arches for some additional downforce when the car is getting sideways. Also, on the rear deck lid, a flush-mounted spoiler has been attached for even more aerodynamic stability at high speed. It all adds up to one wicked machine that is unmistakable out on the track.
The Falken Azenis RT-615K rubber is staggered with 255mm tires up front, and 275mm tires in the rear. HRE Competition Series C90 wheels are used to keep all four corners light, providing plenty of strength under load. Team Falken used to run SSR wheels on the Saturn Sky, but for 2011 they switched over to HRE wheels for all of the ASD-built factory cars. The white spokes with polished lip look totally killer on the blue and green Falken paint scheme.
In any drift car, you don't just need good tires, you also need good brakes to add friction and pull away the rear end. D-Mac's car has a textbook set of brakes provided by Wilwood. Up front, large 6-piston calipers sit over drilled rotors. In the rear, two sets of 4-piston calipers are mounted over equally sized rotors. Having a large rear rotor adds additional brake force in the rear, and the second caliper separates the hand brake from the foot brake. When only one of the two is engaged, to the driver, there is no difference from a single caliper setup. However, when the driver is already yanking hard on the hand brake, applying the foot brake does not unsettle the car because each act independently.
Under the hood sits what can only be described as a Frankenstein-like monster of an engine. Although it began its life from Chevrolet, this is no "LS" series swap. It is a 6.7-liter Sprint car V8 with an all-aluminum block, tuned by ASD to put out 790 hp and 719 lb-ft of torque. The engine is controlled by a MoTeC M800 ECU which allows for fine tuning of the camshaft timing and drive by wire throttle among other things. The transmission is a 4-speed dogbox that connects up to a Winters quick-change rear end. Race cars rarely get over 100 mph in Formula Drift, so this 4-speed box offers just the right gear ratios without the excess weight of a 5th or 6th gear holding it back.
With all of that power at D-Mac's command, the suspension must be ready to react whenever the steering wheel is turned. TEIN coilovers were selected to keep everything in line, and the damping force is controlled using TEIN's own Electronic Damping Force Controller (EDFC). It is mounted directly inside the cockpit so that the team can make micro-adjustments between each lap if D-Mac has any feedback about the car's performance.
Inside the cabin, a Sparco Evo bucket seat and full racing harness were fitted, holding D-Mac firmly in place while he twists the Sparco quick-connect steering wheel back and forth. The steering column and driver's seat were swapped over to the right-hand side of the car so it would be an easier fit for the Irish native. Instead of traditional gauges, a racing data acquisition system sits behind the wheel, giving readouts of speed, rpm, engine temperature, oil pressure, and much more.
Behind the seating area, a full roll cage mounts up with the independent fuel tank. This tank is set as far inboard as possible to avoid any deformation in a crash. The more protected the fuel is, the less chance there will be of a fire. The position is a bit awkward when it comes time to pull up to the gas pump - his name is Deane Steele. The whole rear window has to be removed and the mechanic must reach over the rear of the car to load it up with gas. D-Mac has a great crew backing him who are more than happy to go through these paces many times in a race weekend. It's all part of what makes a winning formula in the high stakes world of Formula Drift.
Over three years of development have gone into this finished product, and D-Mac himself characterizes this as the "best modern RWD platform available for a drift car." As of this writing he sits in third place in the 2011 Pro Championship standings behind Falken Tire teammates Justin Pawlak and Daijiro Yoshihara. He already has two podiums from Road Atlanta and Palm Beach, and will be sure to keep the pressure on the rest of the field as he fights for more in the remaining three competitions. Stay tuned to see what other trophies this short-wheelbase coupe will bring home in the coming months!
ESSENTIALS // Owner: Darren McNamara • Vehicle 2009 Saturn Sky • power 790hp/719 ft. lbs tq • Engine 6.7L Aluminum V8
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Holland Roden & Jessica Lowndes Are All About Alice + Olivia!
Holland Roden puts on her fashion face at the Alice + Olivia by Stacey Bendet Fashion Show during Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Spring 2015 at The Pierre Hotel on Monday (September 8) in New York City.
The 27-year-old Teen Wolf actress was joined by Jessica Lowndes, Jessica Stroup, Lyndsy Fonseca, along with sisters Paris and Nicky Hilton.
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Fisher Price has several sports toys that are a little more safe(and fun) than the real deal. As I'm sure you know, Fisher Price has been providing families with high quality toys for generations. They believe in the potential of children and in the importance of a supportive environment in which they can grow, learn, and get the best possible start in life.
Fisher Price sent Evan Tornado Tee Golf.
The fun of golf with a whole new "twist"—"spinning" air tee tornado action that "magically" floats the ball above the tee! Just tap the "golf ball" pad to float the ball…and swing. Includes 3 balls, stationary tee for beginner or windy-day play and universal golf club for right- or left-handers. Requires six "D" batteries.
Tornado Tee Golf is so much fun and extremely easy to use. There are two modes. Kids can use it like regular golf and hit the ball off of the tee, or they can switch it to tornado mode and air makes the ball float in the air.
When in tornado mode, simply tap on the white golf ball button at the bottom and a ball will be released.
After a few seconds the ball will start floating in the air and kids(or parents) can take a swing.
When it Tee mode, you simply put the golf tee in the hole. They were brilliant to put a notch on the tee so that it fits into a slot and doesn't fly out if the kid hits the golf tee instead of the ball.
Put the ball on the tee and take a swing!
Here is a video of how it works when it tornado mode.
Tornado Tee Golf has every feature that I could think of. The only thing that I would change is for them to include more balls. With swinging balls all over the place, I feel that we will loose a couple. There are only 3 and I can't find anywhere that you can buy just the balls. The balls are incredibly light and feel like their made out of foam so I don't think any other ball would work.
It even has a space for everything when being stored. The tee goes in the back hole, the club in the middle hole, and then the balls go in the red caged area.
We have played with this toy almost every day in the past few weeks that we've had it. We can all play with it together so it keeps us all active outside. Even Isabella likes to chase down the balls and put them back where they go.
Be sure to visit Fisher Price to view all of their other products.
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You can purchase Tornado Tee Golf for $38.
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Smart grids and smart metering have a lot to offer in a world where improving energy efficiency and reducing emissions are seen as increasingly important goals. These new solutions can respond very flexibly to changes in tariffs and loads and will help reduce the need to build expensive peak-load generating capacity – and should also ultimately cut electricity prices and emissions.
Transforming a conventional grid into a smart grid calls for a new mind-set and the type of technology offered by Aidon, which provides open architecture-based tools for day-to-day network operations and managing energy usage at household level.
Flexible, scalable, and future-proof
Aidon's commitment to an open architecture and modularity means that the various components of a system can be chosen from different suppliers, and systems can be optimally tailored to a customer's specific needs – resulting in clear cost savings and improved levels of customer satisfaction.
The products in the Aidon 5500 family combine a reliable energy meter with a data communication bus and an associated system module. The latter connects the meter to the reading system and opens up the opportunity for recording time-stamped registry values, controlling loads, registering power outages, generating power quality and fault information, and reading external status information. Any requirements for changes in the future will be handled by remote software upgrades via OTAP (Over the Air Provisioning).
Compatible with most commercially available metering systems, Aidon meters can be adapted to any system via a system module engineered for the specific system in question. And if a system module needs to be replaced during the meter's life cycle, this can be done very easily without replacing the core meter.
The heart of the system
Aidon Gateware is designed to be transparent in terms of communication, and all communication and protocol-specific items are handled via drivers. This makes it easy to integrate with business systems. Operational control can be handled through a business system or the Gateware user interface.


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DOWNEY – Downey will participate in its second annual National Night Out this Tuesday, Aug. 5, from 5-9 p.m. in the civic center. The event, celebrated across the country on the first Tuesday of August, features crime prevention workshops, children's activities, community information booths, food, and more.
New York Life will be on-site to make children's identification cards for parents, free of charge. The ID cards feature their child's photo, fingerprints, and emergency contact information.
There will also be bicycle workshops for kids, and Helpline Youth Counseling will have information on Covered California.
Admission is free and families are encouraged to bring lawn chairs.
For more information, contact Jennifer Burkhardt at (562) 904-2374 or email@example.com.
National Night Out started in 1984 to promote involvement in crime prevention activities, police-community partnerships, and neighborhood camaraderie.
Published: July 31, 2014 - Volume 13 - Issue 16


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Bamboo bikes: green and growing
by Marie Autrey
photos by Jesse Brown
Mattress King. Lemon Ice King. The King of Queens. For an American city, New York has an awful lot of kings. You can't go more than a couple of blocks without passing a passel of these upstart monarchs. But there are some guys in Brooklyn who might just live up to the title, although they're too modest to claim it: they're leading people in a new way. They're expanding their influence across national borders. And they might just make history. Meet Sean, Justin, and Marty, Brooklyn's Bamboo Bike kings.
"Here, look at this." Sean Murray turns the computer monitor toward me. The screen shows a page from a Victorian bicycle catalog, the frame's tubes on it marked by a series of circumferential bumps. "Bamboo goes way back." He flips to another site, then another. Bamboo bicycles abound, all surrounded by the florid adjectives of 1890s ad copy. "We're not inventing anything new here."
Sean is just being modest. Frames, forks, and even handlebars were made from the woody grass as early as 1892, reliant on the material's springiness to pad that era's dusty wagon tracks. But those were essentially steel frames with the long tubes missing, and bamboo poles socketed into the lugs. The bamboo tended not to fit closely, and shrank as it dried. Few of those frames have survived, and the ones that have, nobody dares ride. Bamboo Bicycle Studio, where Sean and the other two kings hold court, has taken the old idea and brought it into the 21st century. Furthermore, they're preparing to spread beyond the continent, to make two-wheeled travel not onl – y sustainable and renewable, but also local.
"People are capable of building their own bikes." When Sean makes a statement like that, it's hard not to believe him. He's got a quietly earnest manner, and the kind of curly, not-worried-about hair you'd see on a J. Crew model. He used to teach school, and if he says you can learn calculus, or debate politics, or even build bicycles, you're willing to give it a try. As if to prove his point, there's a young Asian man at a workstand behind us, carefully wrapping the bottom bracket joint on a frame.
The studio is hosting a build for high school students at a downtown museum, and this guy probably didn't skip vocational ed to be here. He's dressed in a white oxford shirt under the rubber apron and gloves, but he's winding carbon fiber ribbon around the tube junction, squeezing voids and bubbles from the resin with a gooey finger. At that moment, there were 117 bamboo bikes on the road, each one built by its owner. The youngest builder was 15, the oldest, 68.
Motivated velo-nuts have been building their own frames for many years, through classes at United Bicycle Institute, among others. But these are highly technical experiences, where the participant has to learn metalwork in addition to framebuilding, with classes taking 4-10 days. Bamboo's students walk in Saturday morning and ride out on Sunday. And while a steel bike class makes a mess out of two thousand dollars, the bamboo bike – that's bike, with wheels and components and your ass on the saddle – leaves change from a grand. (Frame-only classes are currently $632.) Clearly, these guys have found a new way of doing things. A kit and a book are in beta testing, if you'd rather not leave home. For left-coasters, a San Francisco office opened at the beginning of 2011.
But why bamboo? Why not hickory, like an axe handle, or ash wood, like an archery bow? "Bamboo comes naturally in a tube, and the density of the fibers is higher to the outside of the tube," explains Justin Aguinaldo, the second king. Justin's shorter and slighter than his two compatriots, and moves with a studied intensity. It comes as no surprise to learn that he also works as a bike messenger. He picks up a bamboo sample from the workbench. It's the diameter of a shot glass, as long as a pencil, and light enough that it almost doesn't exist. The surface is the color of bread crust, hard and slick. Bamboo is composed of cellulose fibers, which run the length of the stalk, and a spongy matrix of lignin to hold the cellulose in position. It's a little like fiberglass or reinforced concrete, combining high-tensile fibers in a hardened goo that maintains their shape.
Aside from its apparent perfection, there's a lot to say for availability. The process starts in suburban yards in New Jersey and Staten Island. Gardeners plant bamboo as decoration but it can get out of control fast. Not confined to tropical zones, at least 18 species prosper in metro New York. Gardeners (or their neighbors) find it has spread beyond its bed, and the bike studio is happy to harvest. Stalks are selected for diameter, density, and integrity.
The green bamboo travels from the Zen garden to the workshop where it's dried and prepped for use. No one will reveal the details of the preservation process, but it involves drying in a solar kiln, and a coat of tung oil. Many procedures at Bamboo Bike Studio change from batch to batch, tweaking ease of use, sustainability, or just to see what will work. Occasional bikes get built with deliberate flaws. Justin is clearly warming up to his topic. "You have to figure out which concerns are assumptions, and which ones are valid. So we'll build a bike with something that we assume will break, and we'll test it to find out."
Oddly enough, they tend not to. Test bikes have been built with extra-light bamboo, or cracked stalks. "Or bug holes," interjects Justin. "You can ride a bike with splits in it for a long time. You have to have, like, four splits (for it to fail). These bikes don't fail catastrophically."
The bottom bracket sits in a piece of high-density foam, with little nubs that slip into the tube ends. A thick overlay of carbon fiber ribbon wraps the joint to form a weight-bearing skin. The head tube is another block of foam, pierced and steel-sleeved to accommodate a standard headset. The riding stresses are supported by the epoxy-impregnated fiber, so the foam needs less strength, and the overlay of fiber is heavy enough to make the frame look as though it grew in one piece. Justin made one bike with leftover Styrofoam cadged from a construction site. "These bicycles, you can get as complicated and technical as you want, but you can also get as simple." All the cuts are straight across, no mitering required.
BikeCAD (a bicycle frame design application) provides the measurements, and each bike's owner performs the labor. There are never more than four students for the three teachers. "So much of our procedure relies on execution," says Justin. "So that's why we want to give people direct assistance, without any chance of miscommunication." During my visit, the students are wrapping the joints with marine-grade carbon fiber tape. They can choose to build the Local, a bike with an upright rider position, or the racier Express. Both are single-cog, so that chain slap won't chew up the chainstay, and have 700c wheels.
So, how does it ride? Sean rolls his personal bike into the foyer. "It's like, the worst frame I ever built. Took maybe six hours." Like any bike geek, I heft it: lighter than my Columbus Aelle-tubed fixie, but not radically so. After an embarrassing period of re-teaching my SPD feet about toe clips, I'm rolling. I'd expected it to sound like a sailboat in a storm, all creaks and groans, but it's silent and solid. The sensation is of flying low to the ground: the pavement blurs by, but without the expected jar and clatter. A couple of hard sprints, with a lot of handlebar yanking, fail to upset it. Some lightly built frames let the head tube torque side to side, giving a disconcerting yaw under hard acceleration. Maybe a stronger rider could twist this one up, but maybe not. Even on some 19th century cobblestone, it remains unharried. All Bamboo Bike Studio frames (except the betas) use the same amount of joint wrap, the same lugs, the same types of bamboo. Maybe those Victorian inventors were on to something.
But making handcrafted bikes, as personal as your own thumbprint, isn't the point. Like a great many monarchs, the bamboo kings are invading another country. This time, it's Ghana. Why Ghana? Justin says, "It kind of got picked for us." The United Nations and Columbia University's Millennium Cities initiative were looking to alleviate poverty in sub-Saharan Africa, and bamboo bikes seemed like a good fit. "They had bamboo there, they used bikes there, and the bikes were terrible." Ghanaian craftsmen will build and sell bikes that other Ghanaians can afford, using locally sourced materials. Hence the emphasis on sustainability, natural ingredients, and simplicity. If a Brooklynite snaps his bamboo frame, he rides the subway til he can fix it. But if it happens in Ghana, the rider can't get crops to market or water to his home.
The Ghana bike resembles neither of the Brooklyn models. It's based on mountain bike wheels, with an extended rear triangle and a substantial bamboo rack built in. A low, sloping top tube allows easy mounting, and makes it as accessible to women as to men. It's got a coaster brake for simplicity. "Externally geared bikes were just out of the question, not just the front end, but on down the road," Justin explained. They expect to produce these bikes for about fifty dollars each, half the cost of the used-up Chinese cycles currently dominating the Ghanaian market. An investor has already leased a factory space in Kumasi and secured local commitments for harvesting labor. They expect to be in full production by the time you read this.
And what about Marty Odlin, the third king? When the studio was building frames with high school kids at a Manhattan museum, he was there, quietly encouraging the participants, then offering to run out for lunch. At the studio in Brooklyn, he hung back and let Sean be voluble and charming. With his deferential manner and basketball-star good looks, you might think he was the summer intern. But of the three kings, only Marty's resume shows an engineering degree. The photos I saw from Ghana show Marty in the factory, out harvesting bamboo, and instructing the locals. Previously, he worked at K2 Sports in product design and development, and his engineering studies focused on sustainability.
Maybe that's the way with kings: real power can be silent, its influence felt but not heard. It's not mouthy salesmen and marketing blitzes that change the world; it's the people who pick up tools and suitcases and bring people a way to help themselves. And three guys down by the piers in New York are doing just that. Justin puts it more modestly: "We're just trying to get more people on bikes."
For more information, visit www.bamboobikestudio.com and www.bamboobike.org.
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