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Like some other big cities, you can sometimes get lucky and find unmetered parking if you drive around the side-streets.
Like some other big cities, you can sometimes get lucky and find unmetered parking if you drive around the side-streets.
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Noisebridge is located on the 3rd floor of 2169 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94110-1219, between 17th and 18th street (37.76717 N, 122.418423 W), 1.5 blocks south of 16th Street Mission BART station. Use the intercom to ask to be buzzed into the space. An elevator with manually-operated doors is available, and here is some basic accessibility information.
Here is a Map of Noisebridge.
If this is your first time here, please review our visitor advice.
We have more information here on getting in using really space-age or really old-fashioned ways of opening doors.
You can also find directions to our old space.
Public transit
511.org is great to help plan your Bay Area travel.
San Francisco International Airport (SFO) is about 30 minutes away. Oakland International Airport (OAK) is about 50 minutes away.
Caltrain, Capitol Corridor Muni and BART transit systems can help get you around the Bay area on public transit.
Getting Here by BART
BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) train service runs 4:30am-midnight weekdays, less on weekends. The train schedules are generally accurate to within about 3 minutes.
- Take BART to 16th Street Mission Station
- Get to street level via either exit
- Walk 1.5 blocks south on Mission Street
- Noisebridge is on the left, 2169 Mission, just before Mi Ranchito produce market
Getting Here by Muni
San Francisco is served by the Muni bus and light rail network. Only some lines run from 1am-5am, so called "Owl" service. Bus schedules are generally accurate to within 15 minutes. Nextbus has real-time bus arrival information. (Check stops near noisebridge here). Muni lines that pass particularly close to Noisebridge are:
- 14 Mission (stops in front of Noisebridge) (24 hour service)
- 33 Stanyan (stops in front of Noisebridge)
- 49 Van Ness-Mission (stops in front of Noisebridge)
- 22 Fillmore (24 hour service; closest stop 16th and Mission)
- 12 Folsom (closest stop 18th and Folsom)
Noisebridge is about a 15 minute walk from the Church St Light Rail Muni Station, served by the Muni light rail K, L, M, and T lines underground, and the J, N and F aboveground. (When riding the J Church line, it is closer to exit at the bottom of Dolores Park at 18th and Church rather than at Church and Market. The other Muni light rail lines also connect with BART at Civic Center Station; transferring to BART there may be faster than walking from Church Street.)
See the San Francisco Bike Coalition bike map for bike directions to Noisebridge. Noisebridge can be found in the center-right portion of this map.
Valencia Street, 1 block west of Mission, is an official route of the San Francisco Bicycle Network, with roomy bike lanes in both directions and calm traffic. For security you should bring your bike upstairs either via the stairs or elevator. Our bike rack has room for at least 14 bikes :-)
Find us on Google Maps or OpenStreetMap.
Evening street parking in the area is difficult since the 16th and Valencia area is a popular entertainment district. Most street parking in the area is metered 9am-6pm.
There is a commercial parking garage at 42 Hoff Street, about two blocks from Noisebridge. Several BART stations outside of San Francisco city limits also have parking available. San Francisco is famous for car break-ins; you should place all your valuables in the trunk of your car.
From the East Bay
- From the East Bay, take I-80W (across the Bay Bridge)
- 1.5 miles after the Bay Bridge, exit right at "Golden Gate Bridge | North 101 | Exit 1B"
- in 0.5 miles exit right at a double sign that reads "Duboce Ave | Exit 434A" and "101 North | G G Br | Mission St"
- Bear left near the bottom of the exit
- At the bottom of the exit, turn left on Mission
- Continue south on Mission Street about 4 blocks to 2169 Mission
From the South Bay
- From the South Bay, take US-101N
- Exit at Vermont St and immediately turn left on Vermont
- Go 2 blocks and turn left on 16th
- Go 1.1 miles (approx 12 blocks) and turn left on Mission Street
- Continue south on Mission Street 1.5 blocks to 2169 Mission
- Take I-280N
- Exit at San Jose Avenue
- Go 1.1 miles, turn right onto Randall and make an immediate left onto Mission Street
- Go 1.6 miles (approx 16 blocks) and find yourself in front of Noisebridge!
From the North Bay
From the North Bay, take US-101S (across the Golden Gate Bridge). Continue on US-101S within San Francisco (local San Francisco streets signed as US-101S are Lombard Street and then Van Ness Avenue) until it crosses Market Street and becomes South Van Ness Avenue, then follow South Van Ness, then right on 18th, right on Mission. Just stay on mission. South van mess is too crowded
To Garage at 42 Hoff
- Starting at Noisebridge, go 1/2 block north to 17th St.
- Turn left on 17th
- Take your first right onto Hoff St.
- The garage is 1/2 block ahead on the left
More Parking
Garages (showing rates for 3 hours): [1]
More garages, rates per hour: [2]
Parking meters in database format: http://sfpark.org/resources/parking-meters-census-gis-data/
And this book of "parking secrets": http://www.findingthesweetspot.com/pages/tips.html
Like some other big cities, you can sometimes get lucky and find unmetered parking if you drive around the side-streets.
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On 9/11, noted reporter and author, and Foreign Policy in Focus contributor, Ian Williams lived near the World Trade Center and reported on the attacks for Canadian Broadcasting. Not long afterward, he wrote a heretofore unpublished account, which we present in two parts. (Part I here.) — Ed.
On the Hudson side of Manhattan, the debris, smashed vehicles and even deeper ashes made for an even more apocalyptic scene. We were closer and the wind blew from the west into the fire, giving a clearer view of the firefighters trying to control the blaze in the surrounding buildings. Next to us, lines of hoses led from the fireboats which normally only seemed to provide water displays for the visiting cruise liners. Now they were pumping thousands of tons of Hudson water into the ruins.
I lent my cell phone to several exhausted firemen, checking on children, wives and friends. Someone had forced open a local deli, and they were helping themselves to water and snacks. Even though it was technically looting, no one took more than they needed, except one young man, who looked like a local resident. He helped himself to a pack of cigarettes, paused, and then took two more. Tobacco does that to a person, I thought, even as I wondered at an ash-covered fireman who came out with a huge lit cheroot in his mouth. How much smoke can you take!
Another fireman came out of the store. Caked in dust and sweat, he was voraciously stuffing a banana into his mouth in between gulps of water. He looked around with a sort of pugnacious puzzlement at the ash, the debris, the mud, and the smoke. "Can you believe it?" he asked me, "I'm looking for a fucking garbage can!" He threw the peel at the ashes on the floor as if it were a demonstration against the lack of civilization in the neighbourhood.
One of the firemen who had used my phone was telling me bitterly "You know, three hundred of our guys got caught when they collapsed." He then said, "I don't want to offend anyone, but we just gotta go in and nuke the whole fucking Middle East now." It was timely reminder. It was early days, and no one had fingered the perpetrators, but somehow, I didn't want to remind him of Timothy McVeigh and the anti-Arab hysteria that the media had perpetrated before it had happened.
It was now eight hours from the first crash. I had enough local colour, and thought that I was in danger of degenerating from a reporter to a rubbernecker, so I decided to make my way back and file. I headed south only to meet a more than usually implacable police cordon on the Hudson River promenade. "Get on the boat," they said, pointing to a tug whose bow was nudging the sea wall. "No thanks, " I said politely, waving my press card. "You have to. It's dangerous."
"I'm press — it's my job to take risks. I've been in Beirut and the Balkans. No one's shooting at me here, I told him, brandishing my press card.
"Get on, or we put you on. We already put two of you guys on," he said with "make my day" relish. The tug took us to New Jersey, and dropped us at a pier with large signs saying "Condemned structure. No trespassing." I had no idea how to get back into Manhattan to file, or to wash or change for that matter.
The view from the boat was almost worth it. The sun setting behind us was lighting up the intact windows of lower Manhattan as if they too were on fire, and tingeing the column of smoke with an appropriately bloody hue. All weekend I had been sailing on the Hudson from the Manhattan Yacht Club out of the North Cove in the shadow of the WTC. We had used the two towers as our navigation aids as we practiced tacking up and down the harbour. Their absence was even more striking. And I remembered, so was that of my fellow crew member, a Brit I had met for the first time, who had just arrived and was working on the 25th floor of one of the towers. He only had an office number. Death moved from wholesale to personal.
In New Jersey, waiting on the pier were police. Paramedics — Red Cross — waited for casualties. They had spent hours watching the pyre burn across the Hudson: they wanted desperately to help, but we were disappointments for their eleemosynary instincts, deportees more than evacuees. Lines of ambulances and doctors waited on the other side. No casualties emerged, except as smoke.
Hours later, a train from New Jersey to midtown and a long hike down the East River side brought us home. The police manned checkpoints on all the roads, but as so often in New York, the bike paths and foot paths are invisible to drivers. The police overlooked the route along the esplanade, and it became my own personal route for several days. At home, the power was gone, so were the phone lines. And a week later they still were.
Downtown reminded me of divided Berlin or Beirut. To the north of the police perimeter, there were bright lights, shops, bars and restaurants open for teeming crowds. To the south the inhabitants stumbled about in the dark. If they trudged north to resupply, they were shaken down at innumerable checkpoints by a motley array of military and police uniforms. I suspect, despite rather than because of them, there was little of the looting or lawlessness that the stereotype of New York City would suggest. The only vehicles moving were official vehicles with flashing lights on top. Looking for light relief, I suggested, "Hey, if aliens were looking on, they'd think it was the lights made them move!"
At the end of the week, the police commissioner reported that crime was way down. Even the criminal classes rose to the occasion. Radio reports dwelt on the few crimes. A man appropriated a fireman's jacket, a retired warder stole some watches while someone else broke into Brooks Brothers. Brooks Brothers! Did he need a suit to start work on Monday? One thing was sure. He would pay some small part of the price for the absent perpetrators when the courts opened.
Our recently stocked refrigerator was thawing rapidly. On the first night, exhausted, dusty and thirsty I made an executive decision. There was a bottle of champagne in the fridge, still cool. We knocked it back before it could warm and sank into fitful sleep, punctuated by long vigils at the window watching as the first convoys of armoured cars and troops arrived along the FDR, and noting the absence of ambulances among the sporadic bursts of traffic.
We began an ironic tribute to the Paris Zoo menu from the siege of 1870. A born-again carnivore with a cholesterol problem, I had stocked up on venison, buffalo burgers and ostrich loin. No fricassee of elephant trunk at the back of the freezer, but we ate our way through the rest.
Just around the corner, our problem was writ large, much larger in fact. There was no power for the Fulton Street fish market, where millions of dollars worth of fish waited in freezers without power. Never particularly sweet smelling, I quailed at the thought of their eventual exhumation.
Two days later, the police allowed in generators for them, and trucks to ship some out. I went down to check. "Is this fish being dumped or sold?" "It's still in ice, it's fine," they told me, as I made a mental note to drop fish from my menu for a few weeks. In a way, it was a reassuring sign of the return of the commercial impulse. One bleak reminder of the shock of the tragedy was that no umbrella sellers appeared on the streets to sell their wares when the rain of dust fell. After two days, in Chinatown, a storekeeper was selling visitors photo postcards of the explosions at 2 for three dollars. And of course there were flags, a dollar each.
The flags began to appear two days later. CBC wanted a series of interviews for their local stations, so I got up at 6 and went down to the river side so my cell phone could get a strong signal from across the East River in Brooklyn. Half an inch of rain had fallen, and more was bucketing down. I shuddered at the thought of the murky slurry that the rescuers would be working in.
In the grey morning light, the low clouds obscured the smoke and the rain even quelled the ubiquitous smell and dust. Under the shelter of the elevated highway, life had returned to normal. Elderly Chinese from nearby Chinatown did their exercises, and one solitary man brandished a sword in an intricate series of balletic movements. He did not pause as a column of a steel workers formed up in bright yellow waterproofs and hard hats with their union local number written on the side. Led by a large stars and stripes they headed south into the inferno.
About a dozen homeless usually live in the vicinity and four of them who seemed to make a virtual family were inspired to mount their own surreal march. Pushing the one in a wheelchair, they paraded with a placard, "United We Stand, Divided We Fall. New York City/The World." Pausing in between radio interviews, I asked "Why?" "Gotta a ciggy?" one replied in an London accent. "No, sorry!" I apologized as the phone rang, from, of all places, Iquiluit in the Inuit new territories.
I've never understood flag fetishism, but I could see why people would want to respond. Over the next few days, the flags proliferated, but in almost reverse proportion to the distance from what the news reports were calling Ground Zero. "Positive patriotism" is all too often sullied with xenophobia, which is never an exact science. Maronite Churches were firebombed along with Sikh temples. Maronite and Sikh enthusiasm for Islam, let alone Islamic fundamentalism, has been historically someone tenuous, as anyone should know. But few voters in the world's only superpower ever take time to study the world, which was perhaps precisely why I was standing in a disaster zone.
Another friend called, with semi-light relief, but again with a dark side.
His friend Mohammed worked in a restaurant where 11 of the 14 waiters were also called Mohammed. They used their colleges as names. "Hi Princeton! Hi Columbia!" He was earnestly seeking advice on how to change his name. Quickly.
You could almost tell how foreign a storekeeper, or a yellow cab driver felt from how many flags they were flying or sticking like talismans on their doors and windows. And the more I spoke to people, I could see solid reasons for the fear. "Someone must be punished," is a universal cry. I did a radio interview for the left-wing station Pacifica in California. The anchorman on the other side of the continent, said "We have to punish them." Inhaling the smoke from what was after all a near-miss for me personally, I asked, "How do you punish eighteen people who have just killed themselves? And if they had accomplices, can you trust the ideologues round this administration, the Cheneys and Rumsfelds, to identify the real perpetrators rather than use the opportunity to hit at their own perverse enemies' list?"
I could trust Powell, who knows that even gestures have their price, but the others worried me. Each day, the news brought more suggestions of right-wing wish lists being tacked across the stable door after the Trojan horse had already exploded. More wire taps, tougher immigration, more defence spending, and calls for action all the more ominous for being so nebulously targeted.
I had seen the best side of New York and America in the long lines of volunteers, the heroism of the rescuers, the donations of food, clothes, and money, and the flood of resources available when the will was there. But the urge to do something could be as innocuous as standing on street corners with candles, or it could lead to applause for the incineration of other faraway cities of which they know or care little.
As Sunday drew on, Mayor Giuliani opened the way to Wall Street. Back to normalcy. Radio advertisements told Americans that the way to show their patriotism was to show their support for American companies. "Buy stock," the broker harangued. I did a double take: it was genuine, not some subversive parody. And within sniffing distance, an army of rescuers used muscle power to sift the still smouldering ruins, looking with almost certain futility for survivors among the five thousand lives snuffed out in less than an hour on bright sunny morning in Manhattan.

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If you make holiday shopping convenient, Americans will come in droves.
NEW YORK (AP) - If you make holiday shopping convenient, Americans will come in droves.
It's estimated that U.S. shoppers hit stores and websites at record numbers over the Thanksgiving weekend, according to a survey released by the National Retail Federation on Sunday. They were attracted by retailers' efforts to make shopping easier, including opening stores on Thanksgiving evening, updating mobile shopping applications for smartphones and tablets, and expanding shipping and layaway options.
All told, a record 247 million shoppers visited stores and websites over the four-day weekend starting on Thanksgiving, up 9.2 percent of last year, according to a survey of 4,000 shoppers that was conducted by research firm BIGinsight for the trade group. Americans spent more too: The average holiday shopper spent $423 over the entire weekend, up from $398. Total spending over the four-day weekend totaled $59.1 billion, up 12.8 percent from 2011.
Caitlyn Maguire, 21, was one of the shoppers that took advantage of all the new conveniences of shopping this year. Maguire, who lives in New York, began buying on Thanksgiving night at Target's East Harlem store. During the two-hour wait in line, she also bought items on her iPhone on Amazon.com. On Friday, she picked up a few toys at Toys R Us. And on Saturday she was out at the stores again.
"I'm basically done," said Maguire, who spent about $400 over the weekend.
The results for the weekend appear to show that retailers efforts to make shopping effortless for U.S. consumers during the holiday shopping season worked. Retailers upped the ante in order to give Americans more reasons to shop. Stores feared that consumers might not spend because of the weak job market and worries that tax increases and budget cuts will take effect if Congress fails to reach a budget deal by January.
Retailers, which can make up to 40 percent of their annual revenue in November and December, were hoping Thanksgiving openings and other incentives would help boost what's expected to be a difficult holiday shopping season. The National Retail Federation estimates that overall sales in November and December will rise 4.1 percent this year to $586.1 billion. That's more than a percentage point lower than the growth in each of the past two years, and the smallest increase since 2009, when sales were nearly flat.
Matthew Shay, president and CEO of the National Retail Federation, said retailers can be encouraged by the first weekend of the holiday shopping season.
"Retailers and consumers both won this weekend, especially on Thanksgiving," he said.
Here were the trends that emerged over the weekend:
- Online wave: According to comScore, which tracks online spending, online sales rose 26 percent to $1.04 billion on Black Friday compared with a year ago. On Thanksgiving, online sales rose 32 percent from last year to $633 million. And online sales on Black Friday were up 26 percent from the same day last year to $1.042 billion. It was the first time online sales on Black Friday surpassed $1 billion.
- Thanksgiving shopping: Many stores, including Toys R Us and Target, opened on Thanksgiving evening this year. No data is out yet about how much shoppers spent on that day, but it appears that consumers took advantage of the earlier start: According to the National Retail Federation's survey, the number of people who shopped on Thanksgiving rose 23.1 percent. That compares with a 3.1 percent increase for Black Friday.
Linda and James Michaels of Portland, Ore., were among those shopping on Thanksgiving. They hit up the big sales on the day and got everything they were hoping for that night.
They picked up remote control cars and some Mickey Mouse items on sale at Toys-R-Us. Then they went a few doors down to Target and scored the last Operation game on sale for $7. They were even able to pick up some pajamas and shoes along the way for the kids. In total they spent about $300.
"I fell lucky that I caught the deals and there was no craziness, no fighting," said Linda Michaels. "I was nervous."
ShopperTrak, which analyzes customer traffic at 40,000 U.S. stores, plans to release sales data for Thanksgiving later this week, but the firm is estimating that retailers generated $700 million in sales on the holiday.
- Black Friday flop: It appears that the Thanksgiving openings may have hurt sales on the day after.
Black Friday is still expected to be the biggest shopping day of the year, but sales on that day slipped to $11.2 billion, down 1.8 percent from last year, according to ShopperTrak. That's below ShopperTrak's estimate that Black Friday sales would rise 3.8 percent to $11.4 billion.
Karen MacDonald, a spokeswoman at Taubman Centers, which operates 28 malls across the country, said that Thanksgiving openings hurt business. Based on a sampling of 10 malls, sales growth was unchanged up to mid-single digits on Friday, and unchanged up to low single digit on Saturday.
"It was a different feeling," she said. "It was a good Black Friday, but I don't think it was great."
The disappointing sales on Black Friday may have been the result of shoppers like Miguel Garcia, a 40-year-old office coordinator.
"I can't deal with all that craziness," said Garcia, who was at a Target in the Bronx borough of New York City on Saturday. "Compared to what I saw on TV yesterday, this is so much more comfortable and relaxed. I can actually think straight and compare prices."
AP writers Rodrigue Ngowi in Watertown, Mass. and Juan Carolos Llorca in El Paso, Tex. contributed to this report.


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Celebrity talk shows are usually nothing more than a PR exercise/circle jerk – and not the fun kind. But it seems that The Conversation With Amanda de Cadenet — executive produced by Demi Moore — is sexing things up in a very real way, with Amanda asking guests like Gwyneth Paltrow, Zoe Saldana, Sarah Silverman and Jane Fonda to dish on their favorite sexual position. "What? I have children and my mother is going to see this show," said Paltrow, before caving. "I'm down with all of them." Saldana, however, had zero issue with providing a little more detail. "I like missionary. I like being on my knees, too, you know," she said. "I love being on top. Oh, I have more, honey." Ditto for Silverman, who "like[s] a variety." But Fonda put them all to shame by saying that even though she's not as limber as she once was she still gives it a crack. "While I am quite flexible and I can kneel, it's not quite as comfortable for me as it used to be before I had a fake knee," she said. I'm definitely tuning in. [Page Six]
The Kardashians came into contact with their SNL counterparts on Monday night and though you'd expect weaves and Herve Leger bandage dresses to be flying, apparently everyone was rather civil. "Kim, Kourt, my mom and I finally came face to face with our SNL impersonators," said Khloe. "It was too funny! We were introduced to them onstage in front of the entire event… It was so fun to finally meet these talented comediennes!" [NYDN]
Though many babies are born naturally evil and hell-bent on destruction, Jessica Simpson's grandma was overheard saying how much of a legend her granddaughter, Maxwell Drew, is at a Starbucks near the hospital. "Maxwell is so precious and peaceful," said Tina Simpson. And aunty Ashlee also agrees she's not terrible. "Bronx and I are in love with Maxwell already!" she said. "Jessica has wanted to be a mom since we were little girls and I couldn't be more excited for her and Eric!" [Us, People]
More on the birth: fellow celebrities have been Tweeting their congrats to Jessica Simpson, with everything from well-wishes to offensive observations. "Congrats to Jessica Simpson!" wrote Alyson Hannigan. "Does this mean I now have the biggest baby bump in Hollywood?" And while Snooki backtracked after saying she'd die if she got as big as Simpson with "I love the girl and her hot ass bump," Jason Biggs was a bit of a tool: "Are the rumors true? Did Jessica Simpson just give birth to a couch? Jessica Simpson named her baby Maxwell Drew Johnson. But apparently they are already calling her by a nickname, Weather Balloon Johnson." [Us]
If the movie is half as exciting as the casting and shooting woes to befall production – with Demi Moore being replaced by Sarah Jessica Parker due to a whip-it related frenzy, among other hijinks – then Lovelace will be worth coughing up cash for, or at least the time it takes to stream it. And we'll soon find out because the poster was released today, with Amanda Seyfried taking centre stage. [Daily Mail]
Also in the 'Can't wait!' basket is Hitchcock, which is well underway, as evidenced by these shots of Scarlett Johansson as Psycho star Janet Leigh. [Daily Mail]
Khloe Kardashian discusses halting her reality show so that she can focus on her marriage to Lamar Odom: "We just wanted a little pause. Part of being married is knowing when your husband needs your support." And: "I'm a modern girl, but you should put your husband first," she says. "I like to think divorce is not an option." [People]
- If you're going to crash a gig it's probably best not to slink your way into seats otherwise reserved for two of the biggest celebrities in the world. As two crashers foud out when they tried to nab the seats of Beyonce and Jay-Z at the Theophilus London and Santigold show on Monday night. [Page Six]
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- And people be Tweeting their bodies like crazy today, with Pauly D having a 'pictures or it didn't happen' moment and posting shots of his muscled torso after some people called him pudgy. [NYDN]
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- Angels wept and then pointed the finger of blame at each other when Camille Grammer left The Real Housewives, but they can look forward to resuming their drunken viewing parties soon now that she's signed on for some cameos. [E!]
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Now that the Baseball Writers' Association of America has announced the results of this year's Hall of Fame election—Greg Maddux, Tom Glavine, and Frank Thomas made it—it's time for us to reveal, as promised, the Deadspin ballot, as well as the voter who joined us in making a farce and mockery of the increasingly solemn election process by turning his vote over to you, the readers.
To begin with, you voted for Greg Maddux, Frank Thomas, Tom Glavine, Mike Piazza, Craig Biggio, Edgar Martínez, Jeff Bagwell, Roger Clemens, Barry Bonds, and Curt Schilling. Well done, readers! Tim Raines, Mark McGwire, and Don Mattingly all came close, but couldn't quite crack the ballot; you can check the full results below.
As to the identity of our voter, a bit of context is probably necessary. When we first came up with the idea of buying a ballot from a veteran baseball writer and turning it over to the public, we had two principal aims.
The first was to draw attention to how ridiculous the Hall of Fame elections have become. With an electorate comprising a subset of a subset of a subset of the baseball press and a 75 percent threshold for entry into the Hall, the process has been hijacked by cranks, attention-seeking trolls, and the merely perplexed—people who exercise power out of proportion to their numbers due to the perverse structure of the voting. Further, the bad process has led to the process itself becoming the focal point of the process, at the expense of baseball. (Over the last month, you probably read a lot more columns in which anguished writers laid out their feelings about other anguished writers' feelings about drugs and/or the outdated voting process than you did appreciations of Hideo Nomo's fine and important career.)
The second was to turn a small bit of power over to the public for the sake of doing so. Much of the reason why the Hall of Fame process has become so contentious is that it's plainly absurd that veteran baseball writers get a say denied to everyone else from Bill James to small children. This isn't about whether the writers make good or bad choices, but about whether it's legitimate for them to lord over an institution that's supposed to be a repository of cultural memory.
At any rate, having announced our intentions, we heard from several voters, and worked out a deal to purchase a ballot from one of them. This voter agreed with our criticism of the process, and he/she was further motivated by a desire to raise funds for a worthy cause. Meanwhile, we put some work into arranging a bloc of voters who would all cast their ballots on behalf of Deadspin readers. That didn't happen, but we were able to secure a failsafe vote. This voter also agreed with our aims, but didn't want to jeopardize his franchise for the sake of a protest if we'd already secured a ballot; he was concerned, too, about being seen as a self-promoter or profiteer. He agreed, however, to turn over his vote to us if our initial purchase fell through.
Unfortunately, it did, through no fault of ours or the voter. (We'd like to be more specific about the reason for this, but don't want to expose the identity of the voter, as we intend to buy his or her vote in exchange for a substantial contribution to charity next year.) And, happily, our failsafe voter did come through, and we can now reveal his identity: It's Dan Le Batard, the respected ESPNer and longtime Miami Herald columnist. Why did he agree to take part in this farce? Here's Dan to explain:
I feel like my vote has gotten pretty worthless in the avalanche of sanctimony that has swallowed it.
I have no earthly idea if Jeff Bagwell or Frank Thomas did or didn't use steroids.
I think I understand why the steroid guys were the steroid guys in this competition-aholic culture.
I hate all the moralizing we do in sports in general, but I especially hate the hypocrisy in this: Many of the gatekeeper voters denying Barry Bonds Hall Of Fame entry would have they themselves taken a magical, healing, not-tested-for-in-their-workplace elixir if it made them better at their jobs, especially if lesser talents were getting the glory and money. Lord knows I'd take the elixir for our ESPN2 TV show if I could.
I don't think I'm any more qualified to determine who is Hall of Fame-worthy than a fan who cares about and really knows baseball. In fact, many people analyzing baseball with advanced metrics outside of mainstream media are doing a better job than mainstream media, and have taught us some things in recent years when we were behind. In other words, just because we went to journalism school and covered a few games, just because accepted outlets gave us their platform and power, I don't think we should have the pulpit to ourselves in 2014 that way we did in 1936.
Baseball is always reticent to change, but our flawed voting process needs remodeling in a new media world. Besides, every year the power is abused the way I'm going to be alleged to abuse it here. There's never been a unanimous first-ballot guy? Seriously? If Ruth and Mays and Schmidt aren't that, then what is? This year, someone is going to leave one of the five best pitchers ever off the ballot. Suck it, Greg Maddux.
I've become a more and more lenient voter over the years, often allowing the max 10 guys in a year, and I wanted to put in more this year. I happen to agree with most of the reader selections. I was afraid you guys were going to have me voting for Jacque Jones and no one else. I was kind of surprised this particular snark-land respected the process. I found it impossible to limit it this year to 10, but 10 was all that was allowed, so thanks for the help. But why limit it to 10 in a year that has more than 10 worthy candidates, by the way? How dumb is that?
And my final reason: I always like a little anarchy inside the cathedral we've made of sports.
I'm not sure what kind of trouble this is going to bring me. I imagine I'll probably have my vote stripped. But I don't want to be a part of the present climate without reform anyway. Given that climate, doing THIS has more impact than my next 20 years of votes as sanctimony bars the HOF door on the steroid guys. Because, in a climate without reform, my next 20 years of votes will be counted but not actually heard. At least this gets it heard, for better or for worse.
Thanks to Dan for this perfect explanation of the problems with the Hall of Fame, and for turning his vote over to Deadspin readers. [Update: Dan wants to make clear that he insisted on not getting anything for his vote.]
With that said, a few items of business remain. First, the full results of our balloting. We'll be analyzing them in more granular detail in a future post, but here's how you guys voted, with the percentages, which make a good comparison to the BBWAA results. (Remember that we asked you to vote yes or no on the Hall-worthiness of these players, with the understanding that we would then use the ballot to vote for players who secured a majority, and the 10 with the highest percentages if—as turned out to be the case—more than 10 cracked 50 percent.)
Second, while we weren't able to fulfill our ambition of publishing an article on every player on the ballot before our vote was due, we'll be continuing our Price of Fame series through the winter. We've already run lots of great posts from friends of the site like Rob Neyer, Ken Tremendous, and David Roth; thanks to all of them and the contributors we have lined up for future editions for their wonderful appreciations of players both famous and less than famous.
Finally, as a souvenir, here is your ballot, Deadspin readers:
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Magic in Vermont: the Old Spokes Home
"Crypto Alpha Bantam."
Charles "Mile-a-Minute" Murphy did by drafting behind a Long Island Rail Road boxcar.
Welcome to my hometown! Too bad about the forecast. What a miserable weekend it was...
Old Spokes Home is one of my favorite bike shops. They've helped me with my Miyata 610. I also was perusing the attic lately, looking for an older women's mountain bike (not to be had it seems).
Cool to be inside this building and feel the vibe.
This Herse...is so mythologized and copied it's hard to appreciate it, particularly since no one rides one on brevets except for one guy.
Disappearing into itself -- it's monochromatic with, by modern standards, components that are underbuilt.
Which component is underbuilt?
Maybe the front rack, but that's not a RH rack.
Maybe the fenders, but they get replaced like tires do. If you ever get a chance to go over a French bike this old you will see how many approximately familiar parts, like Lyotard 36 pedals for example, were handmade, benchbuilt, one-at-a-time and very tough. Even 60s PX-10s will have more solid parts than you might imagine.
The front rack, the rear rack, the spider, the chainrings, the non-os tubes, the chain guard.
I didn't say it was feeble, but look at the VO.
The Herse is basically a race bike, one pared down to essential elements to go fast over distance and save energy. Jan had weighed one at 17lbs.
Lately people have conflated low-trail multipurpose machines such as the VO to be "similar" to the Herse. Perhaps cosmetically, but that's it.
I wouldn't carry a stack of LeMonde on that day-after-day, it's just not suited to it.
And a px-10 is not a Herse. The only similarity is they're French.
Funny, I'm just planning my final tour of the year for mid-October, with the first day being Montreal-Burlington. The Old Spokes Home was very high on my to-do list. And after reading this post I'm even more excited!ReplyDelete
During a recent ride, I was daydreaming about what type of bike I would be riding if a time warp suddenly transported me back to the 1950s. Initially I imagined it would be a Schwinn Paramount or maybe a Raleigh Lenton. This post nailed it. Rene Herse for sure.
What an amazing store. Reminds me that I have a good buddy living in Burlington. A visit is long overdue.
The three person tandem, more commonly known as a triplet, was used to pace riders around the track. As riders got stronger and faster there was a need for four, five, six and even ten rider bicycles. They were finally eclipsed by motor pacing machines as the weight of the riders and the machines produced diminishing returns for the riders they were pacing.
I have yet to visit The Old Spokes Home and hope to get there someday.
Gosh, I've wanted to go to that shop. I found it online long ago and was amazed at their vintage bikes!ReplyDelete
Well I'll be ! I lived in the Burlington area for 15 years 1989-2003 and I never heard of this "legendary" establishment. In defense of my pathetic ignorance, I was not so into bicycles as I am now, but wow! What a gem of a place. I was in Burlington this past May (we cycled entirely around Lake Champlain starting and ending in Colchester. My journal and photos can be found on crazyguyonabike.com) and never knew it. Next time, for sure. Thanks for the enlightenment!ReplyDelete
Oh my gosh, that looks like heaven!!! Lucky you!ReplyDelete
This post was a treat to read. I bought my 2010 Surly Crosscheck from Glenn a little over a year ago, and it was a great pleasure to do business with the folks at Old Spokes. Now I'm tempted to buy that Raleigh Tourist they have listed...shhh. ;)
Your photos are great - true, the website photos don't convey the full extent of the collection!
Great story, thank you. I sure hope that Rene Herse is for sale, whatever the asking price may be. To keep such a fantastically useable machine in captivity would be a shame.ReplyDelete
Wait a minute, Matt Damon stopped by with supplies? Sign me up for those rides!ReplyDelete
I'm not sure I understand the appeal of Matt Damon. Please inform. I liked the video he recently did with Sarah Silverman, but I liked it mostly because of her.Delete
What a great writeup! As a former mechanic for a few years at the OSH, I gotta say you really did an amazing job of portraying the vibe and energy of the space. I miss the days of rebuilding a Sturmey Archer hub only to be followed by a modern-day road bike tuneup and then maybe a wheel build. You never know what to expect at the place, though it's a safe bet that you'll be fascinated.
Approaching my 1-year anniversary of not working in the cycling industry, I couldn't be happier to have been part of the OSH and had made some great friends along the way. Friends that I still see every week whether it be for beers or bikes (or both). Be sure to come back and visit!
"I miss the days of rebuilding a Sturmey Archer hub"
These are rare words from a bicycle mechanic I have to say; music to my ears!
Oh, I remember that, too. Sturmey Archer's are a joy to rebuild, so much better than Shimano's! This shop sounds like the one I worked in durning college. Eight mechanics keeping busy maintaining so, so many bikes...Never a dull moment!Delete
@Velouria rare indeed, though I found pulling them apart to be quite therapeutic and very rewarding! Of course, having a nice stock of new & used Sturmey parts certainly helps. And I agree w/ Anonymous, the only Shimano hubs I liked rebuilding were of the Nexus variety.Delete
Definitely my kind of place. Hope I get to visit it one day! Don't suppose there were any old Fujis in the mix...?ReplyDelete
Glad you guys had such a good time. I actually did a dropout replacement on that tandem, and boy was it a challenge! Just moving the thing around. Sorry I wasn't around in the evening to show you the shop. You will have to come back up and see more of the riding and great bike culture Burlington has to offer.
Really rather good. Reminds me of the cycle jumbles we get in the UK, although on a bit more esoteric scale...
Have you seen my posts from Northern Ireland?Delete
I hadn't actually, no - will check them out. Do you get over to the UK very often?
By the way, the main pic I can't help noticing is a Penny Farthing. We did a piece on their revival in the UK recently, which includes some madman setting up a Penny Farthing delivery service in Cornwall... It takes all types!
You can see it here.
The Rene Herse is a lovely machine, but "all original" it isn't. The adjustable front rack is quite different from the elegant custom racks Herse made. Not that this detracts from the bike, and your description of it, being sparse and not over-the-top, is quite accurate.ReplyDelete
One of the few reasons to be indoors while visiting Vermont.ReplyDelete
Never been to Burlington and fear if I did visit I wouldn't want to leave! Seems a haven for us cycle loving, coffee drinking, bearded men. Are there also lovely women cycling about? :)ReplyDelete
Walking around on Saturday night, it seemed like the whole town was on 2 wheels - lovely women, and men, and those who do not wish to identify themselves with a gender. On our way home after dinner we saw a woman doing an awesome dismount from her tall bike that I wish I'd captured.Delete
Sounds like a great town! My son was considering UVA which would allow me to visit to my hearts content. Ah, instead he chose a school in Boston :)Delete
I think you mean UVM..
Shoot! I live in the Burlington area, it's so fun to see this write-up! I have to say, in years past, I really had terrible service, but lately it's been FANTASTIC! Glad to hear you had a good timeReplyDelete
Was a pleasure meeting you and your troupe on Saturday.
Despite the work that it takes to organize the brevet series seeing folks truly enjoying themselves on their bicycles in our fair state makes it all worthwhile. I do hope you'll come back to ride in VT again next year. I think I can convince Hubert to host us for the Saturday night meetup next year.
Or maybe you'll join us for a Pugsley ride this winter?
I really worry about the security of that place. There have been high-profile cases recently of unscrupulous people using the internet to find the location of even one valuable bicycle (such as people who post all their rides to Strava, including a list of all their bikes, and the site itself reveals your house location, if don't you set your privacy parameters accordingly), let alone a massive treasure trove of them.ReplyDelete
Nice subject and pics.
I just love all of these bikes and the interesting folks who stop by this place. What a fascinating post!ReplyDelete
UVA is The University of Virginia.
The University of Vermont is UVM. The initials UVM stand for the Latin words Universitas Viridis Montis, or University of the Green Mountains.
As a graduate, x3, I had to point that out. The explosion of bicycle culture there is amazing considering college hill and the weather, in general.
Yes, I think we are proud of our state as a whole and our cycling culture in particular up here in the sparsely populated wilds of Vermont and it feels really good to be seen. Reading your post makes me realize that I sort of take the Old Spokes Home for granted. It is a gem, and an unlikely one at that. Somewhat unlikely as well, the nearby Alpine Shop features Velo Orange frames and equipment and copies of Bicycle Quarterly on display in a glass case.
Perhaps the terrain and endless dirt road makes us naturally gravitate towards the highly versatile bikes typified in a kitted out randonneuring machine.
Hm. Interesting to note the Herse's rack precludes the carried weight to be behind the front axle, yet I've seen a few modern interpretations in the manner of the pictured VO avec porteur to cantilever far out over it, as if that is a good idea.
Ok done.
Been a while since i shopped there, but previous experience convinced me VO is about the look not the thinking of what builders such as Herse did.
A few modern builders in the U.S., Japan and U.K. are on the same page. A lot get it wrong.
what a herse! i looked at the pic again and again, it's quite hypnotic, hard to explain - one keeps on seeing different visual balance in it. the big snag is that in the unlikely event of ever owning something like it, i'd find it impossible to use it.ReplyDelete
That's fabulous.. more than fabulous, it's historical. I especially like all the 'steam-punk' details on the lights and hardware. A real museum of bicycles!
then after clicking on the herse link, i came across boulder bicycles, and a creation that seems even more just perfect than the herse..ReplyDelete
Wow. This is at least as impressive as the aerodrome at Rhinebeck or the back room of the late Jon Lundberg's guitar shop.
(SpinDizzy will know what I mean)
I would find myself completely lost for hours.
I guess I have a destination in Vermont....
I do know, I was also thinking it looked like my basement could look if could squeeze a broom between the "exhibits" and I wasn't such a badger. My crap isn't as nice though in any case.
And about Old Rhinebeck? I absolutely cannot go there unless I want to go through some serious de-tox after.
"And about Old Rhinebeck? I absolutely cannot go there unless I want to go through some serious de-tox after."
I'm still recovering from a weekend at Oshkosh in 2000.
A lovely place, located in a lovely place. I so want to get up there.
Your post, too, was elegant and well-illustrated. You do nice work, V.
Great to see Old Spokes Home written up here. I met and travelled with Glenn and partner Mary a few years ago (27?). Made it to Burlington last year and was able to bring my kids and get Glenn's 50 cent tour. He will appreciate the irony of my son riding for Jacks Bicycle shop team this year!ReplyDelete
We here in ABQ, NM had our own equivalent or superlative of the OSH -- in size of collection if not in viewer-friendliness -- in Dick "Call me Mr" Hallet's collection, adjunct to the now defunct World Champion Bicycles. Beside have a repro Ordinary on display in his lot, a '40s Urgo or Heylett or somesuch hanging near the entrance of his store, and a concourse-quality boneshaker on the shop floor with the Diamond Backs and Treks, he had a little warehouse down the street full -- packed -- with weird, neat old stuff dating back through the '50s (one of Reg Harris's track bikes) to the 1890s. Hell, he showed me a NOS Cyclo rd, 600 grams of pristine ironmongery. I don't know what became of his collection when he closed shop about 10 years ago, but he did claim that the Smithsonian was after some of his collection.ReplyDelete
Not sure if anyone has heard of the Pedaling History Museum in Orchard Park NY. It contains one of the largest and most remarkable bike collections in the U.S., include many of the earliest models. It closed in 2009 but for awhile remained accessible by appointment only. This past year the owner Mr. Burgwardt passed away. Its a bit of a mystery what will become of this collection. I hope it remains here in U.S. and becomes accessible to the public once again.
Found this. Shows some of the museum:
Hope this doesn't come across as being too prying and personal, but I can't resist asking:
Is there a chance that Bikeyface and Vorpalchortle may be shopping for a tandem?
It's just that they look so cute together.
What a cool place filled with beautiful creatures!ReplyDelete
Like the bike nerd hottie, to be honest.ReplyDelete
These guys are so helpful, great service, this is the absolute best bike shop around Burlington.ReplyDelete
I have a very old hand-made bicycle. Anybody interested?


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Atlantis lands at Edwards Air Force Base
by colleen on May.24, 2009, under SM4
Atlantis had a flawless landing at Edwards Air Force Base at 17:40 CEST (11:40 a.m. EDT). Welcome home!
NASA's latest update: A post-landing news conference with managers at Kennedy Space Center is expected in approx. 30 minutes. A crew news conference is tentative and will be announced later. The ceremony to welcome the astronauts back will be held at 23:00 CEST (5 p.m. EDT) Tuesday at Houston's Ellington Field.
Atlantis headed for Edwards Air Force Base in California
by colleen on May.24, 2009, under SM4
Atlantis has completd its deorbit burn and will land at Edwards Air Force Base at 17:39 CEST (11:39 a.m. EDT).
First opportunity waved today
by colleen on May.24, 2009, under SM4
Officials waved the first landing opportunity at Kennedy Space Center today due to poor weather conditions. Both Edwards Air Force Base (in California) and Kennedy will be considered for the next landing opportunities: 17:40 CEST (11:40 a.m. EDT) at Edwards, 17:48 CEST (11:48 a.m. EDT) at Kennedy and 19:17 CEST (1:17 p.m. EDT) at Edwards.
Landing delayed again
by colleen on May.23, 2009, under SM4
The weather in Florida will prevent landing again today. NASA is now targeting the first landing opportunity tomorrow (24/5) at Kennedy, which comes at 16:11 CEST (10:11 a.m. EDT). There is also one additional Kennedy landing opportunity tomorrow, as well as two at the alternative landing site at Edwards Air Force Base in California.
ESA HST team visits Space Telscope Science Institute
by colleen on May.22, 2009, under SM4
While astronauts were hard at work in space preparing Atlantis for landing, the ESA HST team got the opportunity to visit the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) - the American home for Hubble science. There is close collaboration between the European home for Hubble, the Space Telescope European Coordinating Facility (ST-ECF) and STScI. ESA HST Project Scientist & Mission Manager Antonella Nota hosted the meeting.
At STScI, there are 15 astronomers, 13 of who are embedded with the HST instrument teams. They have already started supporting SM4, by analysing and assessing the aliveness and functional tests (that were conducted from the STOCC at Goddard) for all instruments. Nota is part of the senior management ESA team here in the U.S. that represents the ESA perspective in the decision-making process for Hubble.
Astronauts will spend another day in space
by colleen on May.22, 2009, under SM4
Bad weather in Florida will prevent Atlantis from landing today. The first opportunity for landing tomorrow will be at 15:16 CEST (9:16 a.m.). NASA is also preparing Edwards Air Force Base in California, in case bad weather persists in Florida. Follow NASA's updates here: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/main/
Crew prepares for landing
by colleen on May.22, 2009, under SM4
Today, the STS-125 crew made landing preparations and spoke to U.S. Senator Barbara Mikulski of Maryland. Tomorrow's weather forecast for Florida is not especially promising but NASA weather officials are keeping a close eye on it. The first landing opportunity will be at 16:00 CEST (10 am EDT).
Interview with Jim Garvin, Chief Scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
by colleen on May.20, 2009, under SM4
This Servicing Mission was long awaited. What does it mean to you and to GSFC to get a final chance to improve and enhance Hubble so that it operates for another 5 - 7 years?
It means more than just to us here at GSFC, but to everyone who has an interest in our Universe. Hubble has been our portal to our own Universe. To me, what it really means is that we're extending an icon and has the same deep meaning of the writings of Da Vinci and the first Galileo observations.
It's a testament to the human/machine relationship and a forerunner to how to explore the Universe collectively, as a science community. It just doesn't get any better than this!
Can you go over, briefly, some of the technological advancements and new tools that GSFC has developed and provided?
There's something like 60 new ones of a tool kit of more than 120. Perhaps most interesting to me are the power tools that help us make very precise rotations of fasteners and screws. The new tools for ACS and for STIS - they were modification of things because these instruments were not intended to be serviced by humans in space. Those are special to me because the used them to make precise changes and change out instruments. These tools are totally new - a technological breakthrough; it bodes well for other even more challenging services beyond Hubble.
This question is certainly over-asked, but what has Hubble meant to the astronomical community and to the public at large?
What I always say, and I mean it, is that it's the inspiration that allows our young people to catch the astronomy bug. Their generation has lived in the era of Hubble. They've seen the legacy of HST. That will build the pipeline for engineers and scientists. What HST's done - even in our own solar system - has sometimes been overlooked; it's captured dust storms on Mars and looked at the moon for science and resources. Hubble touches everyone; its images are science, written beautifully. That's intangible - you can't put a metric in it except for the faces of people seeing these images for the first time. They're not seeing science fiction; they're seeing science fact.
What about the European engineering contribution - the solar arrays over the years and now Solar Array Drive Electronics (SADE) and Solar Array Drive Mechanisms (SADM ) support.
The European Space Agency (ESA) has been a huge contributor - not only for hardware but also in the science. HST is truly and international mission. And, the Hubble community is truly international as well, including NASA/ESA and Canadian contributions. And, David Southwood (ESA Director of Science and Robotic Exploration) would say this better than I but the Hubble mission is as broadly reaching as anything we've ever done in space science and it bodes well for future endeavours like NASA/ESA's James Webb Space Telescope. ESA has always been part of the equation and it's a true partnership that makes it all happen.
The work on HST is going well so far but will you be on pins and needles until the EROs (Early Release Observations - the first images from the new/repaired instruments) are down and processed?
Of course and I'm just one user. Astronaut John Grunsfeld is a close friend so it's been even more nerve-wracking and tense for me. He's putting his life on the line in the name of science and exploration. Until they're down and safe, we'll all be nervous - that's what working in space is all about.
But first light on the instruments - I think I'll be dazzled!
I heard that you've sent e-mails to John Grunsfeld in space.
Yes, I have had e-mail contact with John. I sent him a picture of the Tycho Crater on the Moon to remind him of the science he'll do with the new Wide Field Camera 3. I just think to myself, what better person to have up there?
Do you have a favourite Hubble image?
I have several and, I have to be frank, it was my dream in 1991 to observe the Moon in ultraviolet. I led the team that imaged Aristarchus in August of 2005 - just as NASA was preparing for Return to Flight. Aristarchus is a 14,000-foot fresh crater on the Moon that humans would love to go to. It's a rich place in the history of our natural satellite. I worked on this with Ed Weiler (NASA's Associate Administrator for the Science Mission Directorate) and astronaut John Grunsfeld who is, himself, and astrophysicist. It was a stupendous day in the summer of 2005.
Also, the images of the Shoemaker-Levy impact at Jupiter. What an example of science and agility in space. To understand that with Hubble vision -wow- there's the energy of the Universe, locally (in our Solar System). For me, I think the other one that's most telling - and just the sheer beauty of it is the Hubble Deep Field; it bespeaks what we don't yet know. We're starting to open our eyes to the Universe that we thought we knew but we don't. Astrophysics textbooks were meant to be changed and, as Ed Weiler said, HST is changing them! What an exciting time and what a magical Universe!
Watch a Hubblecast about what Hubble has taught us about our Solar System.
Shuttle crew gets some time off
by colleen on May.20, 2009, under SM4
As SM4 winds down, STS-125 crew members are getting some well-deserved time off today. Later, they will begin preparations for Friday's landing at Kennedy Space Center.
ESA HST team status report: a new and improved HST is released
by colleen on May.19, 2009, under SM4
"Today begins the second Hubble revolution." - David Leckrone, Senior Project Scientist for Hubble Space Telescope
Status Report 5 of the ESA HST support team at NASA GSFC: issued Tuesday 19.5.2009 shortly after successful in-orbit release of the HST from the Atlantis orbiter
HST SM 4: Servicing Mission accomplished - full mission success
After successful completion by the astronauts of five days of EVA (spacewalk) refurbishment/repair activities for HST, the telescope has just been released into orbit by the grapple fixture of the Atlantis Remote Manipulator System (robotic arm).
The planned replacement of COSTAR and WFPC2 with the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph (COS) and the Wide Field Camera (WFC3) has been accomplished and functional testing was successful.
The unprecedented in-orbit repair of Hubble's scientific instruments (not designed for in-orbit maintenance) proved to be extremely challenging, however, was successfully completed. It was the versatility of humans in space and the use of many new tools specifically developed for these repair tasks that allowed for such resounding success. However, space hardware always bears the potential for surprises. In one case, a bolt removal on a handrail on STIS showed no success, even using all tools available to the astronaut. Supported by real time on-ground validation of required forces, the astronaut had to apply "brut force" to remove the handrail by breaking off the bolt. Otherwise, the handrail would have obstructed the necessary placement of the STIS repair tool.
Functional testing has confirmed the successful repair of the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS), though with the exception of its high-resolution channel, and of the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS).
The successful replacement and in-orbit functional validation testing of the following HST subsystems/units provides operational capabilities for many years, potentially extending the HST in-orbit life towards 2014 and, perhaps, beyond:
- The old batteries have been replaced by new modules;
- Of the three rate sensor units (RSU), two new ones have been installed and one refurbished unit has been implemented since a new unit would not fit in place;
- The Science Data Handling & Control Unit, of which the primary channel had failed shortly before the initially scheduled SM4 launch, has been replaced by a new unit.
- One of the three Fine Guidance Sensor (FGS) units - the FGS2 has been replaced;
- Three large surface areas where the Multi-Layer Insulation (MLI) had severely degraded over the 19 years in orbit have been replaced by panel type of thermal insulation. Originally, only two replacements were scheduled, however, the astronauts proved to be quick in the tasks of the last EVA day and could accommodate a third area replacement. The removal by EVA of the crippled MLI proved to be tricky, with some pieces free floating into space.
In addition to these replacement tasks, the HST has been equipped at the berthing side with a new soft-capture and docking interface. This device will provide a fixture for a future robotic spacecraft to latch onto for de-commissioning Hubble.
At several points in time during the mission the EVA tasks seemed almost to be a "mission impossible", however, the ingenuity of the supporting teams on the ground in combination with the versatility of the astronauts led always to resolutions to the problems experienced. The ESA HST team at the GSFC STOCC supported the NASA colleagues efficiently in all tasks related to the ESA hardware, the SADM and SADE. As anticipated, substantial solar array slippages have occurred during the EVA tasks. Where necessary, corrective actions have been commanded in order to maximize the time for EVA activities.
The great cooperation in this ESA/NASA Hubble mission has been a rewarding experience for all team members. This joint team is a real A1-team and the many years of SM4 mission preparations, including contingency procedures development, paid off. SM4 has been fully successful and expectations have been exceeded.
Hubble has now been successfully released into orbit for a new life promising many scientific discoveries. Equipped with new eyes representing most advanced detector capabilities, a new "brain", stabilisation units and shiny new thermal panels, the telescope appears as a newborn star in orbit.
The ESA HST team says goodbye and good luck to Hubble and a safe return for Atlantis and the great astronauts!
The ESA HST team will follow the Hubble operations until the first solar array slews (turns) have been successfully completed on the in-orbit released telescope.


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Home Page Chess Life Online Archives High School Student Organizes All Girls Chess Camp
|High School Student Organizes All Girls Chess Camp
|By Anjana Murali
|January 2, 2013
My name is Anjana Murali and I am a junior at Shorewood High School, WI. For my girl scout gold award project, I conducted a free 2-day chess camp for girls in Milwaukee on Dec.14th and Dec.15th, 2012. I decided to conduct this unique project to encourage more girls to play chess, participate in chess tournaments, and to teach valuable life skills through 64 squares. The main issue I wanted to address through this camp was to remove the gender disparity in the chess game as chess has been viewed as a male dominated sport for many years.
The 75 girls who came to the camp learned how to play chess, competed in a five game tournament, and received free medals, chess sets, girl scout cinch bags, girl scout pencils, chess videos, chess books etc. First through third place in each category won trophies.
On the first day of camp, the girls were split into seven groups. Each group had a youth chess instructor in a room equipped with a SMART Board, chess sets, and an adult helper. Each youth chess instructor had a WSCF rating of 800 and above and many years of experience as a chess player. The instructors used the interactive SMART Boards to virtually teach the girls how to play chess and used worksheets to teach the basic skills and tactics involved in playing chess. In between learning sessions, the girls played in a 5-round chess tournament so that they could practice the chess skills they learned.
The inspiration for this project was two-fold. This past summer, I was part of an eighteen-member girl planning team for the Girls' World Forum that taught over 500 girls from around the world about three of the UN's Millennium Development Goals (MDGs): eradicate extreme poverty and hunger, promote gender equality and empower women, and ensure environmental sustainability. Since I was the one teaching all of these Girl Scouts the importance of taking action to better our world, I decided that I wanted to practice what I was preaching. As a result, I based my gold award project on a topic that would help achieve the MDG regarding promoting gender equality and empowering women.
My other source of inspiration for this project, Susan Polgar, is an example of this double standard when it comes to chess. Rebounding from her past experiences in which she experienced discrimination, Polgar initiated the Susan Polgar Foundation so that she could teach All Girls Chess Camps to develop female chess champions. I have been fortunate to attend her camp for the past two years, as I was the WI female chess champion in 2009 and in 2010. Attending Polgar's camps helped me improve my chess skills as I have gotten the opportunity to play with the top female chess players in the country. Seeing the positive impacts Polgar's chess camps have had on girls, I decided to model my chess camp after hers. However, I didn't want to make my chess camp exclusively for girls who have earned a championship title.
By teaching these girls how to play chess and the game's connections to life and gender disparity, I hope I instilled enough knowledge and ambition in them so that they can go out and participate in chess tournaments, take a stance against gender disparity whether its by taking action on their own or playing chess, and share their knowledge about chess with others. I hope I prompted a chain reaction of girls teaching other girls how chess pertains to life and how one girl can easily advocate for women and girls by playing chess while increasing her mental abilities.
At the end of my camp, I equipped each girl with a chess set so that she can go home, practice her chess skills, and play in chess tournaments that organizations like WSCF conduct in Milwaukee area throughout the year to encourage more youth participation. Also, with the chess skills and chess equipment that the girls received, they can share their passion and knowledge of chess with others to make the male dominated sport more popular among girls.
Lastly, with all of the donated chess sets I received, Mr. Bob Patterson, the Executive Director of WSCF assured me that he would conduct an All Girls Chess Camp and Tournament every year from now on because he saw how successful and inspirational my camp was. For as long as I can, I would like to continue advocating for women and girls through chess by conducting my chess camp multiple times each year. However, I know in addition to my chess camp both WSCF and USCF will continue the momentum I have built up for breaking the gender disparity in life through chess by their various initiatives.
Mr. Robert McLellan, the Director of Marketing for USCF, invited me to attend the Super Nationals in April 2013. He is now working with Ruth Haring, the USCF President, on a new initiative called the National Association for Girls and Women in Chess. I am so happy that my camp is going to be a small stepping stone of a huge project.
I was so impressed with the diversity of the girls. I had girls ages from 5 to 18, girls from different ethnicity, girls with no knowledge of chess, girls with little knowledge of chess, girls who played in one or two chess tournaments, girls with special needs, girls who wanted to learn chess, girls from girl scout, girls from suburbs, girls from inner city, and girls from all over Milwaukee. I wanted to reach all types of girls in Milwaukee and I was so glad to get a variety of girls in my camp. I think I have inspired all of them and made an impact in all of them to carry on the passion.
Read more about Anjana in JS Online and find more photos by Ben Wong here.