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Monday, September 21, 2015
Helme(n)ts and Tickets: The Two-Pronged Approach to Cyclist Safety
Did you know the NYPD are ticketing you in order to save you?
In August, officers from the 24th Precinct handed out 135 summonses to cyclists for violating bicycle laws — such as running red lights, cycling the wrong way and riding on a sidewalk — up from 52 citations during the same period last year, police said.
That vigilance is paying off, with 12 injuries from collisions involving a bike or a car last month, compared to 20 during the same period last year, according to the precinct.
My first reaction upon reading this was to drop to my knees and thank the NYPD for saving us from ourselves. But then this thing I have called a brain kicked in, and I found myself asking the following questions:
1) Statistically speaking, does the difference between 12 injuries and 20 really mean shit?
2) If summonses are indeed the key to preventing injury, might this tactic be employed to better effect against drivers, who are the ones causing the majority of traffic-related injuries and deaths?
3) If this precinct is seeing fewer cyclist injuries, is it worth considering this may be the result of bike lanes and other street enhancements?
Nah. See, it's not about safety. It's really just about winning and losing:
When bicyclists run red lights, they could get seriously injured and are putting themselves in "unnecessary harm," said 24th Precinct Capt. Marlon Larin at a meeting Wednesday.
"I don't think bicyclists should be able to [run] a red light. A car's going to win," he said.
Thanks for clearing that up. So next time I run a light I'll be sure to do it in my car.
But hey, if you've ever gotten pulled over by the police, you know they're Just Doing Their Job:
The precinct gets a high volume of calls from residents complaining about cyclists who aren't adhering to the rules of the road, Larin added.
"We also have to take heed to the complaints we get," he said.
This I believe. See, people complain about cyclists because there aren't that many of them, but they don't complain about drivers because they've been beaten into submission by them for generations. That's why it's easy to kvetch about the new Citi Bike rack that just popped up, yet nobody complains about the murderous drivers who at this point are an accepted part of New York City folklore.
It's also unfair to say the police don't ticket drivers, because they certainly do. Unfortunately the problem is at they ticket drivers the same way they ticket cyclists, which is to say they park themselves at an intersection where everyone commits the same relatively benign infraction, flip open their ticketing pads, and let the ink fly. And in the NYPD's defense, what choice do they have? The most dangerous drivers are speeding, but the NYPD isn't allowed to go chasing after people and go crashing through fruit stands like they do in the movies. So instead we get the "Sitting 'round the ol' fishin' hole" method.
Nevertheless, let's take a look at some fun-tastic driving here in New York City this past weekend:
A man and a pregnant woman were both struck by drivers in separate collisions which occurred a block apart in the Bronx on Saturday.
In the first incident, police say a 26-year-old man was crossing over Union Avenue at East 155 Street around 3:30 p.m. yesterday when the driver of a black Ford Taurus intentionally hit him then fled. Witnesses told the News that the driver, 25-year-old Josue Gago, had been arguing with the victim before the incident. One witness said Gago "just got in the car and ran him over," then left the scene.
That's brilliant. Gago obviously follows the news closely and knows there's virtually no way he'll get in trouble. It's a total "gimme."
Then, this:
In the second incident, which occurred one block away and about two hours later, a pregnant woman was struck by a driver on E. 155th Street and Prospect Avenue. Witnesses say that the driver was distracted by television news trucks who were there to cover the earlier collision. "He was looking the opposite way at the news lady," witness Gina Tirado told the News. "He wasn't paying attention."
Also brilliant. "Ogling the hot news lady" is a completely acceptable excuse for running over a pregnant woman, right up there with "she came out of nowhere" and "mistook the gas for the brake."
And of course, according to the New York Post, both of these were "accidents:"
See that? It says so right here:
No word on whether the pregnant woman was wearing a helme(n)t.
Moving on to more cartoonish injustices, retired classics star and Hair Club For Men president Johan Museeuw doesn't think it's fair he gets crap for doping:
"I took drugs because everyone took them back then. But is it fair that only me and other familiar faces like [Lance] Armstrong and [Michael] Boogerd now serve as sinners? I think not. It makes me feel wronged. Even today I see riders in the peloton who also rode back then, but they remain silent," said Museeuw in a Q and A with De Zondag.
He has a point. Plus, it's not like anybody didn't know he was doping at the time:
Nothing fishy about that.
And let's not forget #gangrenegate:
Speaking of leg injuries, BMC has won the men's world TTT championship in Richmond, VA:
The 38.6km course in Richmond, Virginia, took riders from Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden through Richmond's historic Northside neighborhoods, then continued east of town down rural Route 5 before returning to the city for a 300-meter climb to the finishing straight.
I'm not sure why people get excited about time trials. They're the mathletes of the cycling world.
114 comments:
- Richrd Stinks said...
I can't possibly be first. Not at my age.
- September 21, 2015 at 10:16 AM
- September 21, 2015 at 10:16 AM
- Ted K. said...
60. In modern industrial society natural human drives tend to be pushed into the first and third groups, and the second group tends to consist increasingly of artificially created drives.
- September 21, 2015 at 10:17 AM
Ride Report: Did the 25 mile ride from white haven pa to jim thorpe on saturday. Outstanding weather! Great ride!
- September 21, 2015 at 10:18 AM
Top Ten!
- September 21, 2015 at 10:22 AM
- N/A said...
Tennis Elbow!
- September 21, 2015 at 10:25 AM
- September 21, 2015 at 10:27 AM
- N/A said...
I think if no Dunkin' Donuts are available, it is acceptable to hit a pedestrian with your car. I've been studying all of these accidents, and I can't seem to find anything to contradict this. My studies will be released to the public for a small administrative fee of $31.25 per copy.
- September 21, 2015 at 10:33 AM
Top tennis.
- September 21, 2015 at 10:35 AM
Just doing my job, sir
Yeah, and you're sucking at it
BBBBZZZZZZZZTTTTTTTT! Goes the Taser.
��You're in the jailhouse now��
Why do I feel sorry for Mr De Zongdong
- September 21, 2015 at 10:35 AM
- September 21, 2015 at 10:45 AM
- grog said...
Miss the babe.
- September 21, 2015 at 11:02 AM
Toppus XX
- September 21, 2015 at 11:11 AM
- crosspalms said...
Rode the North Shore Century yesterday in the suburbs north of Chicago. I was going to do the metric century, cause I had to ride 20 miles to get to the start, but missed a turn and wound up doing 50 instead. But the 50 plus the 20 there and back gave me 90 miles on a beautiful day (started out at 51F before sunrise and if it got up to 70 in the afternoon I'd be surprised). Well-organized and with thoughtful food options (lots of pickles, which I don't remember seeing before) at the rest stops. I think my neck muscles have recovered, but my legs complain when I go up stairs. Great fun.
- September 21, 2015 at 11:12 AM
No biking for me this weekend but did get in an epic (for me) hike in Franconia Notch. Beautiful up there this weekend. Feeling it this morning...
- September 21, 2015 at 11:38 AM
- DB said...
Congrats, Crosspalms!
I was in beautiful Itasca all weekend at a meeting. No time to ride, but was able to spend quality time at the Westin bar.
- September 21, 2015 at 11:43 AM
top twenty five...ride safely,all.the pope's heading this way.
- September 21, 2015 at 11:44 AM
- September 21, 2015 at 11:47 AM
Was the fetus wearing a helme(n)t? If not, did they charge the woman with child endangerment?
- September 21, 2015 at 11:57 AM
Wouldn't the most likely explanation for the drop in injuries be that there are fewer cyclists to begin with since everyone is avoiding the ticketing cops?
- September 21, 2015 at 11:59 AM
- N/A said...
There are fewer cyclists because they're being killed off by "accidents".
- September 21, 2015 at 12:03 PM
I got nabbed by the NYPD last week. 2nd Ave and 19th Street, running a red light.
Since you asked (ahem), here are the thrilling details: I was in the bike path, I saw that the light was red, also saw there were no pedestrians on the sidewalk or cars approaching on the sidestreet. So ---- FUCK YEAH! ---- I RAN THAT SHIT BABY!
It was like the car chase scene in The French Connection, except it wasn't: I was on a Citibike going at leisurely pace. And by the time I noticed the cops on the other side of the intersection, it was too late. One of them walked out and waved me down. "Fish in a barrel, eh?" I asked him.
He laughed: "Yeah."
Then he wrote me a $50 ticket.
- September 21, 2015 at 12:08 PM
- DB said...
I see where Lance congratulated Johan Museeuw on the Twitter.
- September 21, 2015 at 12:12 PM
If more cops were on bicycles then more bike seats would smell really bad.
- September 21, 2015 at 12:13 PM
TedK est un connard.
- September 21, 2015 at 12:30 PM
I've always disagreed with you on the one snob, but i love you just the same....
ticketing on a regular (i.e. not a crackdown) basis leads to predictable riding, predicative riding leads to more respect from other road users, more respect from other road users equals safer and more sane conditions...
yes so does more vigilance in automobile ticketing and greenly sane behavior from all road users...
....together we......can?
- September 21, 2015 at 12:36 PM
In other news JERSEY CITY is launching Citi Bike today. Suck on it, Hoboken! About fifty bikes lined up on Newark Ave. Think I'll check it out as long as they're not prejudiced against small bikes...
- September 21, 2015 at 12:39 PM
- BikeSnobNYC said...
Esteemed Etc.,
I don't disagree with ticketing. I just think the way they go about it is silly--plus this specific claim is absurd.
--Wildcat Etc.
- September 21, 2015 at 12:42 PM
"2) If summonses are indeed the key to preventing injury, might this tactic be employed to better effect against drivers, who are the ones causing the majority of traffic-related injuries and deaths?"
Against drivers??? What are you, crazed! Really early in the day to be hitting the weed.
- September 21, 2015 at 1:04 PM
Several years between winning the Monumental Classics.
The Lyin' of Flanders.
- September 21, 2015 at 1:08 PM
Good to hear it , etc.
now... where can I get a pair of those socks?
- September 21, 2015 at 1:08 PM
"...the NYPD isn't allowed to go chasing after people and go crashing through fruit stands like they do in the movies."
That's old school cinema (i.e. The French Connection). In today's movies they only hit Dunkin Donuts.
- September 21, 2015 at 1:09 PM
- Unknown said...
So let's review.
This week, ticketing cyclists may not be a deterrent.
Last week, ticketing motorists is a deterrent.
Hard to keep it straight.
I would recommend some reading on correlation and causation.
- September 21, 2015 at 1:22 PM
- JB said...
"When we closed the entire park to cyclists the injuries dropped down to 0."
- September 21, 2015 at 1:37 PM
- Ted K. said...
"...the mathletes of the cycling world."
Easy there. How would you feel if one or more of your 17+1? 18-1? offspring became a mathlete?
- September 21, 2015 at 1:40 PM
- Grump said...
Remember that Time Trials are like one third of a Triathlon.
I hate them.
- September 21, 2015 at 1:43 PM
This week, ticketing cyclists may not be a deterrent.
Last week, ticketing motorists is a deterrent.
Hard to keep it straight.
The problem of course is that ticketing is seen as random unless there's a high enough chance that the prohibited behavior will be caught & punished for the average person to decide compliance is worth the trouble.
For example, despite ample reports of yellow stretching to a very reddish hue, the reality is that most drivers do stop for the majority of the red light cycle. Conversely, very few cyclists will even come to a full stop at one. Both behaviors are equally illegal, but we generally accept that the first is wrong, while the second is viewed as overzealous cops being picky just because they can.
We would get better ticketing of traffic with camera enforcement, but there's ample evidence that this has been gamed for profit: drivers who fully intend to comply with the law fear being caught in a split second of accidental violation, and through the political process that appropriately shows up as limits on the number of cameras the state will allow the city. Look at bike lane cameras where it is substantially unclear to the average driver what at-times necessary behavior will constitute a violation in the camera's eye (trapped in the bus lane because no one will let you merge out of it? Certainly happened to me at times before I got rid of my car, ultimately there were roads I tried to avoid as I couldn't figure out how to navigate them in a fully legal manner) and it becomes clear why society is uneasy about the technology.
We don't trust the cops
We don't trust the camera operators
We feel free to ignore the laws we consider impractical, and get angry if we are "randomly" caught in their breach
It's not clear what the solution is, but one thing that is clear is that a lot of the ideas being advocated only make sense from the limited perspective of one transmit mode.
If you walk, you have one impression of what the rules should be, which is generally not practical for driving or biking.
If you drive, you have one impression of what the rules should be, which is generally not safe for walking or biking.
If you bike, you have one impression of what the rules should be, which is generally not safe for walking or practical for driving.
- September 21, 2015 at 2:02 PM
- P. Bateman said...
i got just got a pretty nice ticket. 90 in a 70.
that's Super Speeder material which is a designation in georgia for anything 30mph over or 85mph+ that results in some heavy duty extra fines.
but at least i'm getting some honors and recognition for my SUPER speeding ability to go with the many, many hundreds of dollars that this will cost.
the proceeds go to local hospitals so i feel like i've done a pretty charitable thing actually.
plus, the speeding got me to athens georgia a lot quicker so had even more time to soak in absolute hoards of scorching hot co-eds.
titties and charity - pretty solid weekend.
- September 21, 2015 at 2:16 PM
If you assume that the long term injury rate for the month is really 20, and it is Poisson distributed (a reasonable assumption, since this distribution was developed for just such a purpose), then 12 injuries is a significant decrease at a 0.05 level of significance (p-value=0.039). In plain English, in only 4 out of 100 years would you expect to see a month with 12 or less injuries, if the expected average was 20.
But . . . here's the catch: estimating the long-term average from last year's value is extremely problematic, since the measurement is very noisy at such small values. So if last year was a particularly high year for injuries that month, this would dramatically affect the results.
The correct approach is to estimate the long-term average from, duh, the long-term average, using multiple years. Failing that, if we are presented with only two data points, and have to estimate the true value of the long-term injury rate, we should use the maximum likelihood approach, which yields a long-term average of ~15. Under this model, then you could see 20+ injuries 14 % of the time and 12 or less injuries 20 % of the time, and it explains the data better than one in which the long-term average is 20.
Hope this makes some sense, and I am open to corrections by those better versed in statistics . . .
- September 21, 2015 at 2:18 PM
"i got just got a pretty nice ticket. 90 in a 70."
1. Was that on a bicycle?
B. What units? Miles per hour? Meters per second? Furlongs per fortnight? MSD per parsec?
II. How do you know the proceeds go to local hospitals?
- September 21, 2015 at 2:28 PM
P Bateman - Wow! That new bike of yours is really fast!
- September 21, 2015 at 2:29 PM
- P. Bateman said...
hi anon, it was in american miles per american hour.
not on a bike. in a rental. a chrysler 200 that was surprisingly nice.
because its part of the law they passed. sort of like some states where lotto goes to the schools, its like that. i mean, i have demanded an audit of the state's booking, but i figure they are in charge so they must be honest and all proceeds are being maximized in an efficient manner.
- September 21, 2015 at 2:49 PM
- Hans Solo said...
I just got a pretty nice ticket for making the Kessel Run in less than twelve parsecs.
- September 21, 2015 at 2:55 PM
OK, sorry to get all mathletic here, but I've got some further analysis:
Even with only two data points, we can formally test the model that the rate has declined versus the model that the rate has stayed the same.
The null model that the rate has stayed the same gives us the maximum likelihood estimate of 16 for the single rate.
The alternative model that the rate has declined gives us two parameters to fit: the initial rate and the new rate. Maximum likelihood estimates of these are exactly equal to the data points, so 20 for the initial rate and 12 for the new rate.
Likelihood (probability of observing these exact values) of the data under the null model = 0.0036
Likelihood of the data under the alternative model = 0.0101599100738
So the data are more likely under the alternative model, but this is not surprising since we've added an additional free parameter (the second rate). With more parameters you can always improve the model fit (or at least not make it worse). So we need a way of accounting for the additional parameter. Fortunately we have several methods available to do so.
Since we can transform the alternative model into the null model by setting both rates to be the same, they are considered "nested models" and we can apply the likelihood ratio test.
We compute a test statistic D as twice the negative natural logarithm of the ratio of the null likelihood to the alternative likelihood: 2.05328900586
This is expected to have a chi-squared distribution with degrees of freedom as the difference in the number of free parameters (in this case, 1).
Therefore the probability of getting a likelihood ratio at least this extreme with 1 extra parameter is 0.151877780942
This is not significant at any reasonable cut-off, and we fail to reject the null model.
Take-home message: the data provided do not support the conclusion that the injury rate has decreased.
- September 21, 2015 at 3:00 PM
Here in the Empire State you get a reckless driving chatge tacked on if you're 20 over the limit.
Those dawgs really whipped the gamecocks.
- September 21, 2015 at 3:05 PM
- Battle Mountain, Nevada said...
Someone here just got a pretty nice ticket for doing 85.71 in a 55.
- September 21, 2015 at 3:08 PM
"Those dawgs really whipped the gamecocks."
The correct term is whupped.
And what dawg can't beat a chicken?
- September 21, 2015 at 3:09 PM
I'm curious about what set Mr Gago off on such a violent rage...he was called Lady Gago?
- September 21, 2015 at 3:30 PM
Bateman - They actually call it that? "Super Speeder?" It's like they're daring you to do it! Probably they're like "speeding harms no one so let's make some dough from it" but just thinking freely here, what about a whole line of "super" crimes? Like maybe if you try a little harder you can be a Super Murderer? And of course all aggravated crimes become Super crimes, e.g. Super Assault, Super Robbery. Florida Man is gonna be all over it!
- September 21, 2015 at 3:32 PM
Or do they have to be alliterative like Super Speeder? How about Righteous Robber, Aggravated Assaulter (don't mess with a good thing that works), and Massive Murderer?
- September 21, 2015 at 3:35 PM
More-Murdery Murderer?
- September 21, 2015 at 3:35 PM
- P. Bateman said...
yeah, its actually called super speeder. my second one actually. they take it pretty seriously. got a lawyer for the last one - they plead it down, knock it down to 9 mph over so it doesnt go on insurance. but, cost a small fortune to get all that done and you still pay the fine. all in, its about $750 - $1,000
- September 21, 2015 at 3:35 PM
- September 21, 2015 at 3:42 PM
If ticketing cyclists for incidental infractions is a viable strategy for lowering the number cycling-related injury accidents, then shooting all cyclists on sight would be even more effective. Getting the number of cyclists on the road down to zero would seems to be the implied goal of "Vision ZERO."
- September 21, 2015 at 3:48 PM
A mostly (2/3) Portland team won the National Bike Polo Tournament in Lexington Ky this weekend. I think that is the first time for Portland. Sounds kind of surprising that they haven't won it before; but even Milwaukee has won it before....
- September 21, 2015 at 3:58 PM
I think they should call it speed racer........ya know,the mach 5.people of a certain vintage will know whom i'm speaking.
- September 21, 2015 at 4:02 PM
Obligatory doping reference.
- September 21, 2015 at 4:04 PM
- P. Bateman said...
@bad boy - love speed racer's gal Trixie. her and Jessica Rabbit would be a nice night out. maybe betty rubble too.
- September 21, 2015 at 4:12 PM
- CommieCanuck said...
Anyone driving above 55 in a Chrysler has balls of steel, possible by iron doping. That's way above woo-hoo on a product from a company that went bankrupt and now relies on eye-talians for quality control.
No NYPD fruit stand crashing, but TeeVee and Hollywood still have us believe every street corner in Manhattan has a news stand, where you can just pick up a paper and casually toss money down.
- September 21, 2015 at 4:27 PM
@p.bateman...yup,remember Trixie.cute gal.jessica rabbit,she's not bad.she's _ _ _ _/_ _ _ _ _/_ _ _ _/_ _ _.and betty,she's told old for me.
- September 21, 2015 at 4:58 PM
- September 21, 2015 at 4:59 PM
Racer X!
- September 21, 2015 at 5:00 PM
I meant....betty's too old for me....a little prehistoric.
- September 21, 2015 at 5:01 PM
don't forget "chim chim"
- September 21, 2015 at 5:03 PM
Phageghost, although Unknown already beat me to the punch, correlations do not imply causation, irrespective of t-scores, regressive analysis, or other massaging of the data.
- September 21, 2015 at 5:13 PM
Oops, regression analysis...
- September 21, 2015 at 5:14 PM
scranus analysis
its raining for the first time in fuckever - just in time for the pedal homeward
- September 21, 2015 at 5:52 PM
jaywalkers should be wearing helments.
- September 21, 2015 at 6:03 PM
- Victor Kaminski said...
vsk said ...
Wow, totally neglected my bikes even worse on vacation in that I stayed very far from them.
If I see a cop, I'll obey laws that haven't even been written yet.
Make sure they know it's not a Motor Vehicle Moving Violation with points etc. It's not sposed to be.
I come back to work tomorrow, what's changed in the NYC cycling culture, and scene, etc?
I can at least catch up on my passed missed daily Snobs when I get downtime at work!
Mixed emotions about the daily slog back into NYC. And it's globally freezing in the dark o'clock hours of the a.m. !!
I better go and run all my V8 engines.
I am on 2nd Ave from 36th to Chrystie on the way home. Thanks for the info about Smokey the Bear!!
- September 21, 2015 at 6:10 PM
- DB said...
Hey, New Yorkers:
Have fun getting around town while Pope Francis is in New York City.
- September 21, 2015 at 6:40 PM
Of course not, but what I was trying to show is that they haven't even established a correlation in the first place, let alone trying to get to causation. But sloppy statistics in government and news reporting is par for the course, I'm afraid.
- September 21, 2015 at 8:25 PM
- leroy said...
I hate it when my dog orders pizza and expects me to pay and tip the delivery guy.
- September 21, 2015 at 10:35 PM
- September 21, 2015 at 10:52 PM
@Esteemed - I've earned the respect of all of my fellow road users by always obeying the law when riding my bicycle. Apart from the ones who try to run me over, the ones who blow their horns and shout "get off the fucking road", the ones who drive through stop signs and cut me off, the ones who deliberately side swipe me, the ones who must get in front before turning in front of me, the ones who try and knock me off my bike by deliberately opening their doors in front of me, the ones who tell me to go and get fucked when I ask them why they tried to kill me, etc, etc. Yep I've earned their respect and I have no doubt that it is due to my lawful predictable cycling.
(By any chance you don't work for Bicycle Network Victoria do you? They justify their approach of lobbying for more enforcement and heavier fines by saying it'll earn the respect of other road users - basically they are fuck-o's).
- September 21, 2015 at 11:29 PM
Just made an offer on a Salsa BIG MAMA. Has anyone here rode a BIG MAMA? Do BIG MAMA'S feel squishy when one really starts applying the torque to the bottom end? I have never ridden a BIG MAMA and I have never actually caught my buddies riding a BIG MAMA but I hear it's fun unless you get caught. It says she has not seen a ton of action but how do I know guys have not been riding her hard and putting her away wet on the QT or the DL.
- September 22, 2015 at 6:38 AM
- Pathetic Old Cyclist said...
Blinded by respect,
You mean to say that you haven't been egged, spanked or had a Big Full tbown at you yet?
- September 22, 2015 at 7:31 AM
I was sad that I had no shoes, until I met a man who had no scranus.
- September 22, 2015 at 9:26 AM
Those who write on bathroom walls
- September 22, 2015 at 9:39 AM
No scranus? Did we recently meet?
- September 22, 2015 at 9:53 AM
roll their shit
- September 22, 2015 at 9:56 AM
in little balls
- September 22, 2015 at 10:04 AM
CC 427 "...TeeVee and Hollywood still have us believe every street corner in Manhattan has a news stand,"
Every corner now has a Starbucks, some intersections have more than one. How Dunkin Donuts keeps getting hit, instead of Starbucks, is beyond me.
- September 22, 2015 at 10:17 AM
- David Pearce said...
Dear Snob,
Maybe Johan Museeuw is just angry because he's being fondled by the disembodied hand of the great and large Mario Cipollini?
Am I right? I say (in the disgusted voice of Charlie Brown), "Am I right?"
- September 22, 2015 at 10:30 AM
I would give anything to have a scranus. I lost mine in the Gulag.
- September 22, 2015 at 10:33 AM
Free the Nepal!
- September 22, 2015 at 10:40 AM
Those who read these words of wit
- September 22, 2015 at 10:41 AM
- David Pearce said...
I really can't look at Professional Bike Racing, otherwise known as the P-B-R, any more. After seeing that contrived Museeuw finish and hearing the overwrought crank-by-crank narration, I can't believe in bike racing any more.
The racers don't look like me, the biking they do doesn't look anything like the biking I do. I mean, it doesn't matter if they're all hopped up on uppers and steroids or not, it's like watching an unknown species at a zoo. What's the point?
I better watch out. In another sec, I going to start questioning my watching of Professional Football.
- September 22, 2015 at 10:43 AM
Eat those little balls of shit
- September 22, 2015 at 10:55 AM
I want to invite all you ladies out there to join me in Hawaii.
- September 22, 2015 at 10:56 AM
Stupidest graffiti I ever saw: Some guy left a feces-smear of a thumbprint on the stall wall, drew a picture frame around it in ballpoint pen & signed it Pablo Pickasshole.
- September 22, 2015 at 11:00 AM
This week, ticketing Scranuses may not be a deterrent.
Last week, ticketing Scranuses is a deterrent.
Hard to keep it scranus.
- September 22, 2015 at 11:00 AM
DOP - "some guy" - is that like "it's for a friend"
- September 22, 2015 at 11:11 AM
I saw it in the mens room. I'm going to assume it was left by a guy. There was enough of a smear to render the print useless for identification of the culprit, and dna testing was years away.
I say thumbprint, but I'm no expert & it could have been the index finger of a large woman. Perhaps even the pinky of a really, really large woman. There may have been a long line in the womens room, or she could have joined her boyfriend in the gents for a joint.
- September 22, 2015 at 11:18 AM
Keep the scranus side down.
- September 22, 2015 at 11:19 AM
- N/A said...
Anonymous at 10:17 got me to thinking that all of these accidents are a plot by Starbucks. FUCKING STARBUCKS, MAN! "Starbucks" is an abbreviated anagramized portmanteau of "Specialized". Do I need to spell it out further?
It's all a little too convenient, don't you think?
- September 22, 2015 at 11:27 AM
Viva Los Scranus!
- September 22, 2015 at 11:34 AM
Try a little Scranus
- September 22, 2015 at 11:35 AM
DOP - might have been the pinky of McFly's BIG MAMA
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- September 22, 2015 at 11:37 AM
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- September 22, 2015 at 11:37 AM
- N/A said...
- September 22, 2015 at 11:37 AM
Well, my scranus is tired, time for a new Snob to drop!
Here we are, entertain us.
- September 22, 2015 at 11:40 AM
Scranus of Fire
Love is a burning thing
And it makes a fiery ring.
Bound by wild desire
I fell into a scranus of fire.
I fell into a burning scranus of fire,
I went down, down, down as the flames went higher
And it burns, burns, burns,
The scranus of fire, the scranus of fire.
The taste of love is sweet
When hearts like ours meet.
I fell for you like a child,
Oh, but the fire went wild.
I fell into a burning scranus of fire,
I went down, down, down as the flames went higher
And it burns, burns, burns,
The Scranus of fire, the scranus of fire.
I fell into a burning scranus of fire,
I went down, down, down as the flames went higher
And it burns, burns, burns,
The scranus of fire, the scranus of fire.
And it burns, burns, burns,
The scranus of fire, the scranus of fire,
The scranus of fire, the scranus of fire.
- September 22, 2015 at 12:01 PM
I own 5 bikes, ranging from a semi-high end Crabon fiber BMC, to a cyclocross bike, and most recently 2 BMX bikes. I am also a cop, so you can imagine the stupid conversations I have to have at work about cycling in NYC and the issuance of summonses and all that bullshit. For whatever reason, the majority of "cawps" I work with think cycling is for kids and hipsters, and that there is no way a "grown ass man" should ever consider exerting him/herself by riding a bicycle either as transportation or exercise. I hear how cyclists "take up the whole road," don't obey red lights, blah fucking blah. Whenever I counter these arguments and point out that their GMC DEnali Yukon Spaceship Megabus takes up the entire road as well as runs red lights, they usually just shut up.
Recently there was a "bicycle safety awareness" memo that spoke nothing of actual safety but mostly about "enforcement." I have yet to EVER see a "motor vehicle safety awareness" memo.
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Oral suspension of itraconazole effective against refractory candidiasis
A therapeutic alternative for patients who fail fluconazole therapy
Fluconazole has long been the standard first-line therapy against mucosal candidiasis, a ubiquitous infection in patients with advanced HIV disease and a source of particular discomfort, particularly when swallowing. Reinfection is so common as to be anticipated, and secondary prophylaxis with fluconazole, to prevent reinfection, has become the standard of care.
As the chronic use of fluconazole has become widespread -- and as longevity has improved in patients with late-stage disease -- there have been increasing numbers of anecdotal reports of patients with fungal infections that are refractory to fluconazole therapy at standard doses (see "The Problem of Azole-Resistant Candidiasis"). The available data suggest that clinicians should anticipate an annual incidence of azole-resistant candidiasis of roughly 4% in patients with CD4 counts below 50 cells/mm3.
Itraconazole -- which Janssen Pharmaceutica markets as Sporanox® -- has long been available in capsule form. A new formulation (in a hydroxypropyl-ß-cyclodextrin solution) is currently being tested in small clinical studies, and this formulation appears to be at least as effective as fluconazole for the treatment of oropharyngeal and esophageal candidiasis. The results of two of these studies were reported last month at the 4th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections in Washington, D.C. These findings suggest that itraconazole in oral solution may offer a safe and effective therapeutic option in patients who have developed candida infections that are no longer responsive to fluconazole therapy.
These paired studies examined the short- and long-term efficacy of itraconazole oral solution in 74 patients who had developed fluconazole-resistant oropharyngeal candidiasis. Treatment consisted of 100 mg of itraconazole solution twice daily for 14 days. Patients who demonstrated an incomplete response were treated for an additional 14 days, and all responders were offered the option of participating in a separate, six-month maintenance protocol (100 mg twice daily, three days a week). If infection recurred during the maintenance period, the dose could be raised to 100 mg twice daily.
These were patients with very advanced disease (median baseline CD4 count: 9 cells/mm3), yet 59% of the 68 evaluable subjects showed a clinical response to treatment -- defined as complete clearing of all lesions -- and another 15% exhibited some clinical improvement by Day 28 (Figure). In the short-term study, conducted by Fessel et al., the relapse rate was 100% after treatment ceased (mean time to relapse: 13 days), suggesting that some form of maintenance therapy is required in all patients who respond to itraconazole oral solution.
Moskovitz et al., who conducted the six-month maintenance phase of this trial, followed 26 of the original 78 patients for as long as 532 days. Half of those patients required daily dosing with itraconazole oral solution to prevent recurrent infection, and 9 of those 13 subjects responded to the higher dose. Significantly, only 6 of the 26 patients on long-term therapy stopped treatment due to adverse events, and only two of those AEs were thought to be drug-related. Gastrointestinal disorders were the most common cause for complaint. These preliminary data strongly suggest that itraconazole oral solution may be a safe and effective chronic therapy in patients who develop resistance to fluconazole.
Fessel WJ, Merrill KW, Ward DJ, Moskovitz BL, et al. An open-label evaluation of itraconazole oral solution in the treatment of HIV-positive or AIDS patients with fluconazole-refractory oropharyngeal candidiasis. 4th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections, Washington, D.C., January 22-26, 1997. Abstract 693.
Moskovitz BL, Wu J, Baruch A, Benken C, Richards H, Klausner M. Long-term safety and efficacy of itraconazole oral solution (IS) for treatment of fluconazole-refractory oropharyngeal candidiasis (OC) in HIV-positive patients (Pts). 4th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections, Washington, D.C., January, 1997. Abstract 669.
Dr. William G. Powderly, the author of "The Problem of Azole-Resistant Candidiasis" and a member of the editorial advisory board of HIV Newsline, comments:
Mycoses are the most difficult to treat of all microbial infections, and before the advent of safe and effective antifungal agents, candida infections of the mouth, pharynx, and esophagus caused considerable morbidity in severely immunocompromised patients. Fluconazole has been a mainstay in the treatment of candidiasis in AIDS patients, and its usefulness as suppressive therapy is limited only by the development of resistant isolates in 5% to 7% of patients on chronic therapy.
The finding that itraconazole in oral solution is effective against fluconazole-resistant mucosal candidiasis is therefore welcome news, offering clinicians a therapeutic option heretofore unavailable to them. Although mycologic cure was achieved in only 27% of the subjects studied by Fessel et al., fully 73% of these very sick patients responded wholly or partly to treatment with this oral solution. This new formulation has greater bioavailability than itraconazole in capsule form, it is easier to administer, and it appears to have improved topical and systemic effects.
One way to reduce the incidence of azole-resistant candidiasis is to delay the use of azoles, particularly as prophylaxis in patients at risk of recurrent infection. We now have data suggesting that candida infections are more likely to recur in patients who have a history of PCP and are less likely to recur in African-American patients. These recent findings will help clinicians decide when prophylaxis should be initiated and when it can be safely withheld.


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Django Schema evolution
Schema migration is one of those "hard" problems that I think will be impossible to get right for all the cases. What follows are my thoughts on how to get as close as possible in Django.
(please leave comments at the bottom and not inline to the proposal!)
Prior art
A few bits of prior arts I examined.
Use cases
Alice has a blog application written in Django. A blog entry looks like:class Entry(models.Model): title = models.CharField(maxlength=30) body = models.TextField()
After using this to write some blog entries, she realizes that she really should have had a publish date field on her model, and she wants to add one.
Alice doesn't particularly care about old entries; she just wants them to have an empty publish date. She knows just enough SQL to understand how relational databases work, but that's about it.
Ben has a simple ticket tracker with a ticket class that contains:class Ticket(models.Model): reporter = models.EmailField() owner = models.EmailField() status = models.IntegerField(choices=STATUS_CHOICES) description = models.TextField()
After two years of use, Ben wants to product information to his ticket tracker and has decided he doesn't care about who reported a ticket, so he writes these models:class Product(models.Model): ... class Ticket(models.Model): owner = models.EmailField() status = models.IntegerField(choices=STATUS_CHOICES) description = models.TextField() product = models.ForeignKey(Product)
Ben knows quite a bit of SQL; he's also the company DBA.
Carol supports a newsroom with a set of models that look like:class Reporter(models.Model): ... class Article(models.Model): reporter = models.ForeignKey(Reporter) ... class Section(models.Model): stories = models.ManyToManyField(Article) ...
As it turns out, her conception of Section was naive, and on top of that she wants to separate certain types of articles into multiple classes. She rewrites her models to look like:class Reporter(models.Model): ... class Category(models.Model): ... class Article(models.Model): reporter = models.ForeignKey(Reporter) categories = models.ManyToManyField(Category) ... class Obituary(models.Model): ... class WeddingAnnouncement(models.Model): ... class Section(models.Model): included_categories = models.ManyToManyField(Category) ...
Carol obviously needs to keep all the data in her system. Some articles will need to be moved into Obituary or WeddingAnnouncement, objects. Additionally, stories will be assigned categories from a mapping given to her by the web editor since the direct mapping has been removed.
To add to the fun, Carol has 7 different news sites with separate databases using this system. Three of those systems run MySQL, the other four run PostgreSQL.
Carol is a very experienced developer; she's been doing this web thing for almost ten years now.
Possible solutions
Write SQL
This is the current situation: you write a bunch of SQL and bung it into your interactive interpreter.
- Ramifications:
Alice is a simple enough case that she shouldn't have to know SQL to make this work.
This situation sounds good to Ben: it's just two lines of SQL.
Carol would have to apply this SQL against 7 different databases (which is a waste of time), and she'd still have to write a bunch of Python code to deal with the data migration.
Automatic db introspection
In this scenario, Django inspects your models and your database, and outputs the SQL for adding/removing fields. You're supposed to inspect the SQL and then stick it into your database using something like:
$ ./manage.py sqlupdate | psql mydb
- Ramifications:
This works for Alice; she does django-admin sqlupgrade | mysql and is happy. However, if the SQL that Django put out happened to have a mistake in it, she might not have noticed, and could have lost some data.
Ben loves this situation; it does his two lines of SQL automatically, and he can poke at what's put out to make sure it's right for him.
This doesn't really help Carol. Although the SQL that is put out is a start, it doesn't really get her very far. She still has to write a bunch of data migration by hand, and she also has no way of applying the SQL she writes quickly.
Automatically applied migration code
In this scenario, you give your models a version. When it comes time to upgrade, you write a "upgrade-to-version-3" script and increment your version number. When you run a django-admin command (probably the newly-added syncdb), Django notices that you've added an upgrade script and runs it automatically.
This type of system comes in two (not necessarily exclusive) flavors:
- SQL only, where your upgrade scripts are in SQL.
- ActiveRecord Migration style, where you write your migrations in Python (which gets converted to SQL for you).
Each situation also could support symmetric migration (where you provide both an upgrade and a downgrade script).
- Ramifications:
Alice doesn't like the SQL flavor at all (she wants to use Python!). The Pythonic one works very well for her since the syntax mirrors other parts of Django she's familiar with. However, she'd prefer something like the automatic solution since it would save her from having to type anything at all.
Ben really likes this one; the SQL is still easy to write, and it gets into SVN so he can track his upgrades.
Carol loves this one. She can write custom SQL/Python that takes care of all the situation she needs. The Python option is a better fit for her since she has lots of custom code she needs to run.
Introspection + migration
This approach is a combination of Automatic db introspection and Automatically applied migration code -- one command produces a migration script, you tickle your version number, and the syncdb runs the migrations.
- Ramifications:
This works very well for Alice, and she gets the added bonus of having nice migrations stored for future inspection.
This is Ben's favorite option.
Carol's indifferent about this as opposed to the previous one: it helps slightly, but not all that much, really.
- "Just write SQL" sucks and is obviously wrong and needs to be fixed.
- DB introspection only goes so far, and doesn't give any way to extend what comes out beyond "just write SQL".
- Migration code works pretty well -- which is obvious if you look at how successful Rails has been with the feature. The Python flavor is obviously more powerful, but for some uses SQL works well.
- Introspection + migration seems to be best-of-breed; it even has the added bonus of getting Alice to save her migrations in source control.
Given all the above, here's how I think schema evolution should work in Django:
An optional module, django.contrib.evolution provides a way to store versions in the database:class ModelVersion(models.Model): content_type = models.ForeignKey(ContentType) version = models.PositiveIntegerField()
This makes evolution optional and thus doesn't clutter up your tablespace if you don't need it.
Models grow a version attribute:class MyModel(models.Model): ... class Meta: version = 3
django-admin syncdb applies evolutions using the following steps:
Makes sure evolution is installed before proceeding.
For each content type, checks that the version in the database matches the version in defined in the model. For those that don't match...
Django looks for evolutions in <app_package>/upgrade/. Evolutions can either be SQL scripts named to_version_X.sql or Python scripts named to_version_X.py.
django.contrib.evolution will contain utilities to abstract evolution for different db backends. This exact API is TBD.
For SQL evolutions, if a file named to_version_X.out exists, syncdb will expect the output of the evolution to match the text file EXACTLY. If any differences happen, the transaction will be rolled back (for that reason SQL evolution scripts must not contain BEGIN/COMMIT).
For Python evolutions, there will be some way of doing similar tests.
django-admin find-migrations (or somesuch) will inspect the database and pump out SQL evolution scripts into the right place in the app package(s). Users will then upgrade the version number and run syncdb.
Asked by nwp in the chat room: "what are the rules for checking whether you are in a position to apply to_version_X?"
Given a model that defines version = 6 and a version of 3 stored in the database, to_version_4, to_version_5, and to_version_6 will be applied -- but only if they exist (missing files are OK).


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GORHAM, ME—Sophomore midfielder Dennis Healy (Hanover, MA/Hanover HS) and junior attackman Adam Niden (Walpole, MA/Walpole HS) scored consecutive goals in the third period to break a 6-6 tie and the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth's men's lacrosse team went on to defeat host Southern Maine, 9-8, n a Little East Conference match at Hannaford Field Saturday.
Healy scored with 7:45 left in the third quarter to break a 6-6 tie, and Niden's goal three minutes later gave UMD a two-goal advantage. Mark White scored for the Huskies with 1:33 left in the third quarter to cut the Corsairs' lead to 8-7. Junior midfielder Jordan McPherson (Westwood, MA/Westwood HS) scored early in the fourth quarter to restore UMD's two-goal lead. Kyle Baker scored for USM with 3:11 left to make it 9-8, but USM was unable to tie the score before time expired.
Southern Maine took a 5-3 lead after the first quarter, but junior midfielder Justin Lawless (Quincy, MA/Archbishop Williams HS) and freshman midfielder Alex Lucas (Brookfield, MA/Tantasqua HS) scored in the second quarter, and the teams were tied at halftime. White and McPherson exchanged goals in the third quarter before the Corsairs took the lead for good. McPherson and White led their teams with three goals each.
"We played well enough to win," said UMass Dartmouth Head Coach Kevin Mahoney. "We didn't have a good first quarter, but we adjusted and played well in the second and third quarters, and it was good to come out with a win. We're still a young team, and Southern Maine is much improved. It's good to be 7-1 and 2-0 in the conference."
Southern Maine out shot UMD, 37-36. Junior goalkeeper Nick Thayer (Chelmsford, MA/Chelmsford HS) made 15 saves for UMD, while Ryan Hatch made eight stops for USM.
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The UN atomic agency said on Friday that Japan's Onagawa nuclear power plant, despite having been closest to the epicenter of the earthquake and tsunami that struck the country last year, was in surprisingly good shape.
The structural elements of the plant were "remarkably undamaged given the magnitude of ground motion experienced and the duration and size of this great earthquake," the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said in an initial report.
The Onagawa plant recorded temblors — "among the strongest of any plant affected by the earthquake" — that exceeded its design capacity and the basement of one of its reactor buildings flooded, but the plant maintained its cooling capacity, its reactors shut down without damage to their cores and there were no signs of major damage to crucial safety systems, the Vienna-based IAEA said.
The Fukushima Dai-ichi plant, 120km to the south, was not so lucky, suffering multiple reactor meltdowns and releasing radioactivity into the environment in the world's worst nuclear accident in 25 years.
The IAEA report followed a two-week trip by 19 international experts that will be followed by further visits at Onagawa and reviews of other Japanese nuclear plants.
Findings will be added to an IAEA database being compiled by its International Seismic Safety Center (ISSC) that was part of the watchdog's "action plan" on nuclear safety drawn up in the wake of the Fukushima disaster.
"The data we are collecting will make an important contribution to improving safety," mission head Sujit Samaddar said. "Information in the database will allow IAEA member states to measure the performance of their nuclear power plants in the face of external hazards."
In contrast, the magnitude 9.0 earthquake on March 11 last year knocked out a power line at the Fukushima Dai-ichi plant and generated a large tsunami that flooded its emergency generators, destroying the plant's cooling systems. Catastrophic meltdowns occurred in three reactors, releasing radiation that has tainted the surrounding environment.
The plant has since stabilized, but more than 100,000 people still can't go home due to radiation fears, while work to decommission the plant will take about 40 years. It was the world's worst atomic accident since Chernobyl.
The Onagawa plant was about 70km from the quake's epicenter, while Fukushima Dai-ichi was nearly 180km from the epicenter.
The tsunami was more than 13m high at both nuclear plants. Fukushima Dai-ichi's seawall was built to withstand a tsunami of up 5.7m. Onagawa's seawall was nearly 14m high and survived the tsunami. It has since been extended to nearly 17m above sea level.
Investigations by the government, the parliament and private groups have found that Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCO) underestimated the earthquake and tsunami risks faced by its plant at Fukushima despite a history of quakes in the region. The investigations have also criticized TEPCO and government regulators, which have developed cozy relationships, for ignoring safety standards and recommendations, including those by IAEA and other groups.
The IAEA visit from July 30 to Wednesday this week was its first to the Onagawa plant since the disaster. The group inspected the plant and interviewed dozens of workers and officials to assess how its structure, systems and components responded to the quake and its violent shakings.


text: Hello, would be great an howto for install MailScanner + MailWatch in Debian Squeeze. I have read a lot, and: - mailscanner are installable via aptitude http://packages.debian.org/mailscanner - mailwatch are downloadable here http://mailwatch.sourceforge.net What I' dont know is the mechanism of processing email when it arrive to Postfix, for scan for virus and spam. My reality it's a multiserver setup, and my server email it's with Postfix, Courier, Roundcube, ClamAV, SpamAssassin and ISPconfig. I want understand what I have to dismantle between Postfix-ClamAV-SpamAssassin for make email flow through MailScanner correctly Obviously, after that I want that the site MailWatch work perfectly Thank you if anyone would write it


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10 Best, Must-Have iPhone Games & Honorable Mentions
So you've got your iPhone, iPhone 3GS, or iPod Touch. You've got it loaded with useless apps or boring games. Hell, maybe you just want some justification to get buy one. Well, if the plethora of awesome apps out there isn't enough, then maybe something that appeals to your less functional/productive side will entice you.
What follows is Gear Patrol's list of our 10 Best, Must Have, iPhone games with 10 honorable mentions. They may not be Apple's best or top rated, but they're iPhone games that promise to get your money's worth. As a matter of fact, if you purchase every game listed you'll have spent just $81. Check it.
Must Have: Doom Resurrection
First Person Shooter iPhone, iPod Touch Game:
id software brings it hard with the recreation of Doom for the iPhone. If you ever wondered how a first-person shooter could be pulled off without any triggers or buttons, this is it. The 8 levels plus 40 challenges are heavy-hitting and the graphics top notch. You'll never stop saying to yourself, "I'm playing Doom. I'm playing Doom on my phone. BFG9000!" This game is pretty intense and there's no shortage of gore. Just a heads up.
Cost: $3 (special)
Honorable Mention: Metal Gear Solid Touch
First Person Shooter iPhone, iPod Touch Game:
Based around the Metal Gear Solid 4, this 20 stage touch variation of the Metal Gear Solid franchise is unique in of itself. There's no difficult learning curve so you can hop right in and immerse yourself in the engrossing world of MGS. Intuitive, brilliant, and a blast.
Cost: $6
Must Have: Civilization Revolution
Simulation iPhone, iPod Touch Game:
Sid Meier's Civilization series has been top of its class for the last 20 or so years and Civilization Revolution for the iPhone is nothing short of outstanding. Yes, there's a learning curve for those that aren't familiar with the Civilization series but the game feels natural and fluid on the iPhone. It's hefty at 74mb, and pricey at $10 but well worth the download, if you're a strategy maven.
Cost: $10
Honorable Mention: SimCity
Simulation iPhone, iPod Touch Game:
Hell, it's SimCity on your phone. Does it really need any more explanation? In the past, strategy simulation players fell into one of two camps. Those that played Civilization and those that played SimCity. SimCity fans will not be disappointed with the iPhone port. It's not the fastest game and it crashes from time to time, but there are no alternatives for the true SimCity Mayor.
Cost: $5
Must Have: Scrabble
Puzzle iPhone, iPod Touch Game:
Ack. You've got three "T's", a "Q" and no vowels. Awesome. The only difference is you're not stuck at a table waiting on someone's sweet-ass time to make a play on your triple word score. Play online or against the computer in this great iPhone port of the classic word game.
Cost: $5
Honorable Mention: Bejeweled 2
Puzzle iPhone, iPod Touch Game:
The first Bejweled built up a rabid fan making it one of the top (paid) apps of all time. Bejewled 2 continues in the tradition of pick-it-up-and-go gaming; it's still easy to learn and a damn sight hard to master. The revamped graphics and sounds are top notch.
Cost: $3
Must Have: Worms
Must Have Strategy iPhone, iPod Touch Game
If you ever owned a Playstation or computer in the 1990's then you'll need no introduction to Worms. Worms is a tounge-in-cheek sheep-throwing strategy game that's both insanely easy and frustratingly hard. Best played with a beer in hand – or in this case, the other hand. The iPhone version is tack sharp and gameplay simple with touch controls.
Cost: $5
Honorable Mention: The Creeps
Must Have Strategy iPhone, iPod Touch Game
The Creeps is essentially a castle defense game wrapped up in rich illustrations and cartoons. Its theme is based on creatures that might be hiding in your closet. The premise? To defeat anything that moves using your weapons (e.g. toy blasters, glue bottles, flashlights, boomerangs, UFO). Highly addictive, in a Super Mario Brothers kind of way.
Cost: $1 (on sale)
Must Have: The Oregon Trail
Nostalgic iPhone, iPod Touch Game
Ford the river. Avoid dysentery. Hunt a bear. None of it's lost its appeal, even if the childhood stalwart is playing on your iPhone, not the green-screened Apple IIe. The Oregon Trail lacks too much challenge, but makes up for it 10 fold in nostalgia.
Editor's Tip: Ford the river, every time. It's worth it to see "You have drowned."
Cost: $5
Honorable Mention: Space Invaders Infinity
Nostalgic iPhone, iPod Touch Game
Personally, this author missed out on the Space Invaders obsession, but Space Invaders Infinity for the iPhone is an interesting twist on the single-digit bit game. Its ability to evolve the more you play makes it deceivingly difficult. It's more than 25¢ now, but at least you don't have to prop your quarter up on the game to call next.
Cost: $5
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Small Governmental Update put in today!
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Today we explore the city risen from seafoam, Glasscastle.
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From the first note of ZZ Top's 'Sharp Dressed Man' in the opening credits of A&E's hit show Duck Dynasty I'm strapped to my seat, eyes glued to the screen, funny bone ready.
The show follows the often times hilarious lives of the Robertson family of West Monroe, Louisiana, who became wealthy from their family-operated business, Duck Commander which makes products for duck hunters.
The show's main focus is on the making of duck calls and the bearded Robertson men, Phil, Uncle Si, Jase, Willie, and Jep with frequent cameos from the Robertson women as well: Miss Kay, Korrie, Jessica and Missy.
If you've not watched the show (and there are a few who haven't) you need to make an appointment. The one-hour, third season finale had an amazing 9.6 million viewers, making it the highest rated telecast in A&E history. The new season starts on Wednesday, August 14th!
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ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates, July 23 (UPI) -- The United Arab Emirates, a key U.S. ally in the Persian Gulf confrontation with Iran, has bought two military surveillance satellites from France that will give the region's Arab monarchies the capability of spying on the Islamic Republic.
Under the $913.2 million Falcon Eye contract, the Emirates, a federation of seven gulf sheikhdoms, will receive a brace of Helios high-resolution satellites to be built by Astrium, the space division of the European aerospace defense giant European Aeronautics Defense and Space Co. and Thales Alenia Space, a joint venture between Thales of France and Finmeccanica of Italy.
Under an annex agreement, French military personnel will aid Emirati technicians in interpreting images and share information delivered by the satellites, said officials who accompanied French Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian for the contract signing Monday.
The Emirates spearhead efforts by the Gulf Cooperation Council -- the other members are Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar, Oman and Bahrain -- to acquire a military surveillance satellite network to bolster an early warning system they've been talking about for a decade.
But, largely due to dynastic squabbles and mistrust within the GCC alliance established at the height of the 1980-88 war Iran-Iraq War, this and other GCC military aims remain unfulfilled.
However, growing tensions with Iran could spur them to set aside their differences.
In 2007, France and the Emirates signed a contract to develop communications satellites with Astrium and Thales Alenia Space. The Y1A, the first in the series, was launched in April 2011 from the European Space Center in French Guiana atop an Ariane 5 rocket.
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In 2012, U.S. satellite builders like Lockheed Martin and the Raytheon Co. were reported to have convinced the U.S. administration to ease export rules so they could compete with European firms to sell spy satellites to the Emirates.
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Tales from the Borderlands Video: Details Flow from SXSW
A panel called "Two Sides to Every Story" at SXSW featured panelists from Telltale Games and Gearbox Software. On Telltale's side was Lead Designer Harrison Pink and President and Co-Founder of Taletell Games, Kevin Bruner. Gearbox Software's panelists included Franchise Creator and Director Matthew Armstrong and Lead Write Anthony Burch.
Together, these two teams answered questions from the crowd and debuted some new details about the joint project, such as how the two studios came together as well as the very first screenshot from an action sequence from the game.
It was revealed that beloved characters from the Borderlands franchise will be appearing in the game, thought it wasn't specified which characters would appear. The panel jokingly said that all of the cameos would be characters that fans hated, like random non-player characters from Sanctuary whose names were unknown.
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1 By Chance Alone by Max Eisen
2 Homes by Abu Bakr al Rabeeah with Winnie Yeung
4 A Mind Spread Out on the Ground by Alicia Elliott
5 Lands of Lost Borders by Kate Harris
6 21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act by Bob Joseph
8 Seven Fallen Feathers by Tanya Talaga
9 Claws of the Panda by Jonathan Manthorpe
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1 French Exit by Patrick deWitt
2 Washington Black by Esi Edugyan
3 Women Talking by Miriam Toews
4 The Flame by Leonard Cohen
5 Starlight by Richard Wagamese
6 Split Tooth by Tanya Tagaq
7 Trickster Drift by Eden Robinson
8 Indian Horse by Richard Wagamese
9 Careless Love by Peter Robinson
10. Son of a Trickster by Eden Robinson
"Less," by Andrew Sean Greer(Lee Boudreaux Books/Little, Brown and Company)
From the New York Times April 17. "The protagonist of Mr. Greer's novel is Arthur Less, a novelist on the verge of 50 who, feeling the humiliations of life and career, reluctantly accepts invitations to a string of disastrous literary events. His travels, filled with comic and poignant incident, take him to New York, Paris, Berlin, Morocco, southern India and Kyoto, Japan. In The New York Times Book Review, Christopher Buckley called "Less" the "funniest, smartest and most humane" novel he had read in several years. Mr. Greer, 47, is the author of six works of fiction, including "The Confessions of Max Tivoli" and "The Story of a Marriage.""
Dear Joan, We just added another new title to the Book Club in a Bag collection:Euphoria by Lily King, generously donated by the Wordy Dozen Book Club.
In 1933 three young, gifted anthropologists are thrown together in the jungle of New Guinea. They are Nell Stone, fascinating, magnetic and famous for her controversial work studying South Pacific tribes, her intelligent and aggressive husband Fen, and Andrew Bankson, who stumbles into the lives of this strange couple and becomes totally enthralled. Within months the trio are producing their best ever work, but soon a firestorm of fierce love and jealousy begins to burn out of control, threatening their bonds, their careers, and, ultimately, their lives.You can reserve this Book Bag at KitKeeperThank YouHelenHelen CimoneCommunity Hub Assistant - CollectionsMary J.L. Black Library901 Edward Street South, Thunder Bay, On P7E 6R2TEL: (807)-345-8275FAX: (807)-475-7855EMAIL: firstname.lastname@example.com:
The contenders and their chosen books are:
Big Congrats to the NOWW members nominated for The City of Thunder Bay Arts & 8th Annual Arts and Heritage Awards presented by Copperfin Credit Union.
Jean E. Pendziwol, Donna White, and Twenty Years on Snowshoes (NOWW Anthology– Multiple Authors) have been nominated in the literature category.
Welcome to the new NOWW president, Elizabeth Pszczolko who takes over the chair position from interim co-chairs Charles Campbell and Susan Rogers. Liz has been an active NOWW member for 20 years, attending workshops and submitting to the annual writing contest. Having recently retired, she volunteered to step forward and take on the leadership of the organizations. We're thrilled to have her and look forward to working together.
1. The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood, Emblem Editions
2. Ami McKay, The Witches of New York, Vintage Canada
3. Milk and Honey, Rupi Kaur, Andrews McMeel
4. The Handmaid's Tale (2011 edition), Margaret Atwood, Emblem Editions
5. The Lightkeeper's Daughter, Jean E. Pendziwol, HarperAvenue
6. Dragon Springs Road, Janie Chang, HarperAvenue
7. Love Her Wild, Atticus, Atria
8. By Gaslight, Steven Price, McClelland & Stewart
9. Goodnight From London, Jennifer Robson, William Morrow
10. The Break, Katherena Vermette, House of Anansi
1. Fifteen Dogs by André Alexis
2. The Break by Katherena Vermette
3. milk and honey by Rupi Kaur
4. The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
5. Medicine Walk by Richard Wagamese
6. Do Not Say We Have Nothing by Madeleine Thien
7. Indian Horse by Richard Wagamese
8. The Wonder by Emma Donoghue
9. This Accident of Being Lost by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
10. Goodnight from London by Jennifer Robson
"When you write, you illuminate what's hidden, and that's a political act." Grace Paley
1. The Break by Katherena Vermette
2. Son of a Trickster by Eden Robinson
3. The Lonely Hearts Hotel by Heather O'Neill
4. milk and honey by Rupi Kaur
5. Do Not Say We Have Nothing by Madeleine Thien
6. Fifteen Dogs by André Alexis
7. Wenjack by Joseph Boyden
8. Vinyl Cafe Turns the Page by Stuart McLean
9. Dragon Springs Road by Janie Chang
10. The Couple Next Door by Shari Lapena
The Canada Reads 2017 longlist consists of:
Here is the book to buy a child for Xmas, Thunder Bay's Bonnie Ferrante's award winning Amida Tree
Bonnie Ferrante's children's picture book, The Amida Tree, has won the Silver Medal from the Mom's Choice Awards.
The Amida Tree is this generation's tree. It will appeal to parents interested in a sustainable environment, healthy emotional bonds, a balanced life, and ethical living. It empowers girls by encouraging interest in science and education. The story shows how it possible to live happily in harmony with nature. By breaking free of habit and thinking creatively, children can forge a healthier, brighter future for themselves and all living creatures.
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"This piece works so well… There's beauty in the simplicity of its telling, and the communication between the woman and the tree is hauntingly believable."
1. Wenjack by Joseph Boyden
2. Do Not Say We Have Nothing by Madeleine Thien
3. The Witches of New York by Ami McKay
4. The Best Kind of People by Zoe Whittall
5. The Wonder by Emma Donoghue
6. Yiddish for Pirates by Gary Barwin
7. Hag-Seed by Margaret Atwood
8. The Break by Katherena Vermette
9. 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl by Mona Awad
10. A Great Reckoning by Louise Penny
"Yiddish for Pirates" by Gary Barwin (Hamilton)
"The Parcel" by Anosh Irani (North Vancouver, B.C.)
"Willem de Kooning's Paintbrush" by Kerry Lee Powell (Moncton, N.B.)
"Do Not Say We Have Nothing" by Madeleine Thien (Montreal)
"The Break" by Katherena Vermette (Winnipeg)
"Brown: What Being Brown in the World Today Means (To Everyone)" by Kamal Al-Solaylee (Toronto)
"In-Between Days: A Memoir About Living with Cancer" by Teva Harrison (Toronto)
"Firewater: How Alcohol is Killing My People (and Yours)" by Harold R. Johnson (La Ronge, Sask.)
"Marconi: The Man Who Networked the World" by Marc Raboy (Montreal)
"A World We Have Lost: Saskatchewan Before 1905" by Bill Waiser (Saskatoon)
The longlist for the 2016 Scotiabank Giller Prize is:
1. The Nature of the Beast by Louise Penny
2. The Heart Goes Last by Margaret Atwood
3. milk and honey by Rupi Kaur
4. The Illegal by Lawrence Hill
5. Fifteen Dogs by André Alexis
6. Do Not Say We Have Nothing by Madeleine Thien
7. Birdie by Tracey Lindberg
8. Three Day Road by Joseph Boyden
9. Still Life by Louise Penny
10. The High Mountains of Portugal by Yann Martel
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1. The Illegal by Lawrence Hill
2. Fifteen Dogs by André Alexis
3. Birdie by Tracey Lindberg
4. The Hero's Walk by Anita Rau Badami
5. The High Mountains of Portugal by Yann Martel
6. Three Day Road by Joseph Boyden
7. Bone and Bread by Saleema Nawaz
8. The Pharos Gate by Nick Bantock
9. His Whole Life by Elizabeth Hay
10. The Three Sisters Bar and Hotel by Katherine Govier
The 2016 contenders are:
The books shortlisted for the 2015 Scotiabank Giller Prize are:
The finalists in the Fiction category are:
The finalists in the Non-fiction category are:
A Simple Query
Once more the sun comes up again
To grace with warmth cold scenery,
While universe light can't explain
Conducts sphere's vast machinery.
Our race continues flight frenetic
Inherent in first maverick gene;
Wild quark and atom spin kinetic
To spheroid stresses yet unseen.
All life pursues a fresh employment
While exercising on mixed green
Set patterns instinct with enjoyment,
Connecting needs sublime and mean.
White gulls and gnats here fly to task
Procuring scraps, partaking food.
Why does mind brood apart and ask
What I must do to mesh with mood.
-Martin. Hicks
• The Betrayers by David Bezmozgis (HarperCollins Canada)
• Tell by Frances Itani (HarperCollins Canada)
• Us Conductors by Sean Michaels (Random House Canada)
• The Girl Who Was Saturday Night by Heather O'Neill (HarperCollins Canada)
• All My Puny Sorrows by Miriam Toews (Knopf Canada)
• The Ever After of Ashwin Rao by Padma Viswanathan (Random House Canada)
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Mary J.L. Black Library
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Note to access a bag for your club, phone Helen, our wonderful book bag lady!
I write to fulfill my destiny. I write to confront everything that confused, vexed and pained me in life. I write to celebrate everything that enlarges me, lends me scope, allows me to fit within this body that contains me. I write so that I might see myself, others, the world and the universe through the only lens that truly transcends the mundane, the probable, the ordinary and restricting - the imagination. I write to extend my own boundaries. If I never published anything again, I would still write for the same reasons…
They are:
The book that "was ripped up, burned, bowdlerized, rejected, resurrected, lost, dismissed, forgotten, thrown away, flogged, flayed and eventually cerebrated" is 100 years old this month. Happy birthday to James Joyce's The Dubliners, the essential book of short stories and among them the greatest short story ever. The Dead.
Manitoba Young Readers' Choice Award! http://www.mcnallyrobinson.com/browse.php?txtCatID=1079&intSearchOffset=0 Karen
Hi Joan, I'm excited to let you know that Sabotage got shortlisted for the 2014 Arthur Ellis Award for Best Juvenile/YA Crime Book! The winner will be announced on June 5. Karen
Northwestern Ontario Writers' Workshop presents
Clam Chowder and Chocolate-Covered Peanuts:
A Reading with
Taina Chahal
Alex Kosoris
Dave Laderoute
and a poetry open mic!!!
This February 25, you could stay home and celebrate International Clam Chowder Day, or International Chocolate-Covered Peanut Day (although hopefully not at the same time!) Or, you could come out and enjoy a reading by some authors that are sure to satisfy all aspects of your palate. All are welcome!
Tuesday, February 25, 2014 7 pm - Brodie Library Fireside Room- 316 Brodie St. South, Thunder Bay
Information Session for Professional Writers and Spoken Word Artists
The Ontario Arts Council (OAC) would like to invite professional writers and spoken word artists to attend an information session to learn more about OAC grants and services.
Do you have questions about:
· Eligibility for grants;
· The grant application process, deadlines and support material;
· How to draft clear, concise grant applications;
· How grant decisions are made;
· How juries are selected.
Please join Jack Illingworth, OAC Literature Officer, and Marilyn McIntosh, OAC Northwestern Consultant, for an informative evening.Information SessionMary J. L. Black Library (Community Program Room) 901 South Edward Street, Thunder Bay Thursday, February 20, 2014 7 p.m. – 9 p.m.
No RSVP required.The information session will be conducted in English only.
For more information please contact Marilyn McIntosh in Thunder Bay at 807-622-4279 (toll-free at 1-866-391-2221 or email firstname.lastname@example.com.
We would like to thank the Thunder Bay Public Library for hosting this session.
Fri Feb 21, 7-10pm @ DefSup
Experience one, red-hot celebratory night of literary arts at Definitely Superior Art Gallery's Book Launch and Community Market! Presented by DefSup's small book and zine publishing house, burining.books,press, which serves Northwestern Ontario and hundreds of literary artists, with generous support from the Ontario Arts Council. Featuring: the official launch and sale of the gallery's new Fuel anthology of poetry and prose-[featuring 50 writers], new issues of Die Active Zine-[100+ young artists] and a Community Book Market!
Browse and shop the mega-concentration of unique and limited edition books and zines, published by local/regional writers and literary groups. All forms of books will be found at the market, from stapled zines to perfect bound books, inclusive of poetry, prose, fiction, non-fiction, graphic novels, and more.Enjoy a spectrum of guest speakers, readings, live music, and catered refreshments! The market will also feature Soap Box Readings; Writers and attendees are invited to give spontaneous readings on the soap box platform. All ages / by donation / licensed event. burning.books.press: igniting the flame for the literary arts! Contact firstname.lastname@example.com for more information on the Community Book Market.
Four categories, fiction, poetry, creative non-fiction.
Free for members, 10$ for non members.
Limit two subs per category.
Check it out at nowwwriters.org.
What book do you want to find in your stocking of Christmas morning? Send me your pick or picks and all go into a draw for a copy of Caught by Lisa Moore. Send to joanbaril@ gmail.com. Send more than one pick and all goes in the hat. Draw takes place on December 21.
Publish your work. All submissions welcome. Poetry, short fiction, memoir, non-fiction - sent to firstname.lastname@example.com. Can be previously published.


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Battlefield 3 couldn't do it and neither could Skyrim it seems, Call of Duty, two Call of Duty games actually, remain the most played games on Xbox Live for the week of November 21.
Yes, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim isn't even an online game, but Major Nelson's weekly list counts all games played on connected Xbox 360s. So the game itself doesn't have to be an online game, the player just needs to be logged in.
That in mind, it's pretty impressive that singleplayer only Skyrim is in the number three spot, bumping Battlefield 3 from its purchase, but not touching Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 or Call of Duty: Black Ops from their one and two spots, respectively.