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Think you may have shared a fake picture of Hurricane Sandy? Here are five rules to check whether you have been duped and to ensure it doesn't happen again.
As Hurricane Sandy hit the Eastern Seaboard extraordinary scenes of the devastation were broadcast around the world. At the same time, social media went into overdrive with Facebook and Twitter suddenly deluged with harrowing stories and images of what was happening in New York and beyond. Pictures showed Ground Zero being flooded by sea water, a fairground carousel – seemingly still with its lights on – bobbing in the middle of the rising waters, the Statue of Liberty being pummeled by a gigantic wave and even sharks circling in the floods waters of New Jersey.
All were quickly emailed, shared and retweeted. But, as the hurricane passed, some people began to realise they had been duped. The picture of Ground Zero? Real. The picture of the fairground? Also real. But the shot of the Statue of Liberty and the sharks, along with others that showed everything from the storm building across Manhattan to soldiers bravely keeping guard at Arlington Cemetary's Tomb of the Unknowns in the driving rain were fake…or at least were not what they purported to be.
So, how do you know whether the image you're about to send to your friends, colleagues or followers is real or not? Chances are you're not a photo forensics expert or that you don't know how to tell the difference between a hurricane and a supercell thunderstorm. Tensions are high, conditions are dangerous, and many of the fake images aren't even as scary as the real ones.
So, BBC Future has done the leg work for you. Here are five quick rules to keep you high and dry when it comes to sharing fake hurricane photos... or any other fake photo for that matter.
1. Trust your gut
If it looks fake, it's probably fake, says Theresa Collington, the Digital Director for WTSP.com who trains journalists to spot what she calls "Fauxtography." Take a look at the image and think to yourself: Is this too good to be true? Is this too perfect a shot? Does this feel wrong?
If the photograph is truly amazing – like many of these breathtaking images – and it's not on the front page of major news sources, pause for a second, Collington says. Most websites will snap up the perfect shot immediately. If it's not there, perhaps it's not real.
Natural disaster photos tend to spread quickly, Collington says, because people are scared, and fear tends to silence our inner sceptic. And a lot of photographs really are incredible. Images emerging of cars mostly submerged in Avenue C in Manhattan are real. Photographs of the battery tunnel, and several subway stations flooding are real. "There is a lot going on anyway that is unbelievable, so it's a time when people's sense of what is believable and what is unbelievable is dilated immensely." Since your sense for what's real or not might be compromised, take an extra second, she says, to do a gut check.
2. Look at the light
The hardest things to fake in a photograph are light, shadow and reflections, says Hany Farid, an expert in doctored images from Dartmouth College, New Hampshire, and founder of Fourandsix Technologies, Inc, a company dedicated to helping people detect fakes. However, a storm complicates things, he says. "The weather images are tricky, because one of the things we use is things like lighting and reflections and vanishing points, and those don't really exist in those images." But sometimes the light can be a clue.
Take the photograph of the Statue of Liberty and a huge, apocalyptic storm that appears to be sucking up New York City. If you look closely at the light on the clouds, and then at the boat in the foreground of the picture, it becomes clear that the two are not from the same image. "Really look closely at the picture," says Collington. If you pick an object in the foreground and compare it to the light in the background, differences can become more obvious.
Steps one and two, however, could secretly lead us astray, admits Farid. "There are certain things that the gut is good at, and other things that it's really bad at." One of the things it's bad at is telling whether the lighting of an image is doctored or not, he says. "There's one thing of trusting your gut with the overall gestalt of the image, but when it comes to trusting your gut with the actual physical properties, we are remarkably bad at it."
If you're still not sure, try steps three to five.
3. Look at what people are doing and wearing, the skyline, and the quality of the image
During the 2004 tsunami, several photos emerged that were actually from 2002, taken on the Qian Tang Jiang river in China. Collington could tell because the skyline in the background wasn't of Phuket, where the tsunami hit. That and the quality of the images tipped her off.
If the image looks like it was shot on film, or scanned from a newspaper, be suspicious. Remember that most people are going to be taking photos with smartphone cameras, Collington says, unless they're professional photographers. If the images don't seem to have come from either, it might be fake. If the image is small, with low resolution, be wary, adds Farid. "Even the cheapest cellphones are now capturing [images] in the megapixels. The reason that people down sample them is that it really nicely hides tampering."
Also take a look at what the people in the photographs are doing or wearing. If you look closely at the images that were passed off as being from the tsunami in 2004, the people in many of these photographs seem to be laughing or smiling. That's because the water crashing over them comes from something called a tidal bore – a regular flooding of rivers that's a tourist attraction in China. If those images had been from the 2004 tsunami, people wouldn't look quite so cheery.
4. Have you seen that image before?
Remember the image of the Statue of Liberty being pummeled by a wave. Look familiar? That's because it's from the movie Day After Tomorrow. Storm photos tend to re-emerge each time there's a big weather event, says Farid. "Most of the purported Sandy photos have been making the rounds for several years – every time there is a major natural disaster." If it seems vaguely familiar, it might not be from Sandy at all.
Collington calls those Lazarus images – "pictures back from the dead". Take the green-tinted shot of a storm over Manhattan. That picture was first published in the Wall Street Journal in April last year during a tornado outbreak. Extreme weather? Yes. Hurricane Sandy. No.
5. If it has a shark in it, it's probably fake
Several shark images have appeared in the wake of Hurricane Sandy, and it's almost a given that they aren't real. There was no shark swimming along the highway in New Jersey, or off some poor waterlogged front porch – just like there were no sharks in Union Station in Toronto back in June.
Shark photographs also follow rule #4 – many of them emerge over and over again. The image of a shark on a highway in New Jersey also showed up during Hurricane Irene. And if you haven't seen the whole image before, you might have seen the shark before. There are a few shark silhouettes that get Photoshopped into pictures over and over again.
Of course, it's possible for sharks to make their way into flooded areas – just highly unlikely. And even more unlikely that anyone would be able to photograph them. So if you're about to share a "shark in the flood waters" image, check it out first. The same applies to cats.
Why we get fooled
Weather images are easy to fake, Collington says, for a couple of reasons. First, we want to believe them. In the midst of a huge storm, when tension and fear is high, everyone is at the mercy of truly powerful elements. "Weather is really easy to fake, because this sort of response, when you see a lightning bolt or a big storm, you want to believe it."
And, unlike other faked photographs that are Photoshopped, many of the Hurricane Sandy photos that have been circulating aren't technically fake. They're real photographs or real storms – they just don't happen to be of this particular hurricane. For most people, that's hard to know. And, Collington says, as a huge, deadly storm rolls in our fear can compromise our gut feelings. Things we would normally have been suspicious of suddenly seem plausible.
But if an image doesn't pass these five checks, it's worth investigating – which is easy to do. Several reverse-image search sites are available online where you can find either the originals or commentary on photographs. Since hurricane photos tend to pop up again and again, many of them appear on the myth-busting site Snopes. And if you get fooled, don't feel bad, Farid says. Even huge news outlets like the AP and Reuters have been duped by fake photos. "We have a remarkable familiarity with photographs. I think there is a sense that our gut is good at this," he says, but in reality we're quite easily fooled.
So before you share a photo with everyone you know and scare the living daylights out of friends and relatives, do this. Stop. Think for a second. And then check it out.
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It's probably too early to call Bluffton High a tennis dynasty, but the boys (and girls) have had winning seasons consecutively since 2008.
The boys program is 59-52 all time. In 2011 the boys went 16-3, garnering their first Region 7-3A championship before bowing out in the Lower State title match versus eventual state champ Chapin High.
Since the very day we hung our Champ sign on our home courts, I have asked my guys to contemplate what is required to take "one more step" deeper in the playoffs. Most have added matches, lessons and clinics. They play junior league and five of the top six have recent tournament experience. Some have even found our weight room, trying to beat our ball machines as well as puncture the backboard.
We had 20 young men out for an allowed three-week, pre-season practice series and most starters participated in a pre-season holiday camp.
Personnel wise, the Bobcats are led by No.1 player Chris Davis, a senior team captain in his sixth season. Davis is the strong, silent type that lets his racquet and grades represent.
Playing No. 2 doubles in February 2007, Chris "bageled" Wade Hampton and has gone 55-33 since. Davis is already tied with his former captain, Spencer Sasko, for most wins and if he can get in 22 matches will have played in the most matches by any Bobcat. He will play in his 100th match sometime mid-season.
Davis (14-11 in 2011) is joined by a balanced crew of singles specialists currently "laddered" (in order): Richard Snyder (18-7), Davis Rosenblum (17-3), Aaron Newland (20-2), Diego Garcia (7-5) and Nate Calhoun (7-3).
They are being pushed by seasoned letterman Brantley Groshon, D.J. Snyder, and team minister Andrew Cannell.
Many new faces want to jump on the winning train as numbers suggest BHS will feature 12 varsity and 12 JV players. Depth is a team strengths as is the talent balance of the top six.
In the "upstart" department, William Sease and Dakota Story have the potential to step up and make bottom varsity. Two guys advancing at a pleasantly alarming rate are Mathew Bornstein and Morgan Philoxene.
Philoxene, a big lefty, could be dangerous as his game grows.
BHS also features the career starts of seventh graders Mathew Ball and Nace Groshon.
The Bobcats tennis team won the school's Team GPA Award for the first time last year.
"One More Step" is the mantra for a season that begins the first weekend in March as the Bobcats travel to a very competitive Florence Tournament.

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A powerful action thriller, ARSENAL tells the intertwining stories of the Lindel brothers, Mikey (Johnathon Schaech) and JP (Adrian Grenier), who had only each other to rely on growing up. As adults, JP found success as the owner of a construction company, while Mikey became a small-time mobster, mired in a life of petty crime. When Mikey is kidnapped and held for a ransom by ruthless crime boss Eddie King (Nicolas Cage), JP turns to the brothers' old pal Sal (John Cusack), a plain clothes detective for help. In order to rescue his brother, JP must risk everything and unleash his vengeance against King's relentless army of gangsters.
Genres: Thriller
Actors: Nicolas Cage, John Cusack, Adrian Grenier, Johnathon Schaech, Lydia Hull, Heather Johansen, Carrie Jo Hubrich, William Mark McCullough, Abbie Gayle, Tyler Jon Olson, Christopher Coppola, Tamara Belous, Christopher Rob Bowen, Catherine Ashton, Vivian Benitez
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UPDATE: A call to the Equinox corporate office on Thursday revealed that Bianca Kosoy, the executive creative director at Equinox, is no longer with the company. The date of her departure is unknown, although we have confirmed it was a recent departure. When asked about Kosoy's departure, an Equinox spokesperson told us the company does not share information about its staff or members.
When Equinox announced last month that Sarah Robb O'Hagan would take over the new post of president of the company, I thought that Equinox's racy ad campaigns from photographer Terry Richardson would go away. However, recent tweets seem to indicate that I thought wrong.
Photos in the ad campaigns, which are displayed on Equinox's website and inside Equinox club walls, including one displayed outside the kids club, depict both men and women as sexual objects and have little in them related to fitness. I thought a female president of a company, who also is a wife and mother of three, would stop the use of these photos.
Then, I read a New York Times profile of Bianca Kosoy, the executive creative director of Equinox who hired Richardson for the ad campaigns. In the profile, Kosoy said, "I never work out. I think fitness is a fraud. That's why I try to make it look like fashion."
Well, after seeing that quote, I thought for sure that Robb O'Hagan, who came to Equinox from PepsiCo/Gatorade, would make a change. How can you have your executive creative director saying in the Times that fitness is a fraud when your business is built on helping people get fit?
A few days later, I saw that Robb O'Hagan, who is active on Twitter, re-tweeted the Times story on Twitter and gave it her endorsement. Not only that, but Kosoy thanked Robb O'Hagan on Twitter, and the two exchanged pleasantries, saying they were looking forward to working with each other.
The ad campaigns, keep in mind, have the approval from the man at the top, Equinox CEO Harvey Spevak, who told the Times, "Bianca's unique vision blurs the traditional lines between fashion and fitness."
That much is true. But what do you think? Should Equinox continue with the racy ads? Do they bother you? Would you be OK with your creative director saying in a major newspaper that fitness is a fraud?


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Color Combo: Pink and Green
We've always loved pink and green as a color combination. The green seems to balance out the sweetness of the pink and adds a playful element. And it makes for a soothing palette as well, as seen here in this bedroom. Why not try incorporating some pink and green into your teen or tween's bedroom?
We found this image on Country Living's Web site and think the look is just lovely. To achieve this look without having to paint your walls, start with subtle additions like a pink or fuchsia lamp, mint green sheets and pillows.
Toss in some pink picture frame and rug! If the a pink rug is too much, then opt for a muted sage rug as seen in the photo. It continues the color scheme without being too loud.
Some of our favorite pink and green picks include:
• Birdie Stamp Duvet Cover, $68.00
• Pink Flower Power Area Rug; $72.00
• Penelope Shade & Madison Touch Lamp Base, $9.99 – $149.00
• Chunky Baroque Frame, $19.99
• Dream Menagerie Lamp, $98
• Curvee Shelf, $371.00
• Metro Panel, $79.00
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Anyone remember back to February when Time magazine anointed Cuban-American Sen. Marco Rubio as the GOP's "savior" on its cover? Seven months later, it's Rubio's Cuban-American Texas doppelganger, Sen. Ted Cruz, who has grabbed the party's attention — or, more precisely, seized its throat.
Cruz's success in eclipsing the Florida Republican shows how the GOP current has shifted on both means and ends since President Obama's reelection. Rubio's moment came when he spearheaded GOP negotiations with Senate Democrats over immigration reform. That's an issue designed to reach Hispanic and other minority voters beyond the GOP's traditional coalition.
Cruz has ascended through unstinting confrontation with Democrats and even fellow Republicans, most ferociously over blocking Obama's health care law. Unlike immigration, that's a cause that most excites the GOP base — and will likely further alienate Hispanics (who would disproportionately benefit from expanding coverage).
Cruz's rise offers more evidence that a climate of polarization in Congress inexorably tends to empower each party's ideological vanguard against its center. Polarization undercuts congressional centrists, who exert influence by finding compromises and closing deals. But centrists can't deliver either outcome when the parties are committed to perpetual conflict. When legislation is constant war, parties tend to seek leadership from warriors. Enter Cruz.
In the near term, Cruz and his allies in the kamikaze caucus besieging Obama's health care law have little chance to succeed, no matter how long Cruz holds the Senate floor. Too many congressional Republicans recognize that the party lacks the leverage to force Obama to renounce his signature achievement and believe that the weapons that Cruz and like-minded House Republicans would wield against the president — defunding the government or defaulting on the federal debt — are the political equivalent of a suicide bomb.
And yet it's undeniable that since last fall, momentum in the party has flowed toward the vision shared by Cruz and House conservatives: The GOP road to revival demands unbending confrontation with Obama and an unalloyed conservative message focused on shrinking government in 2016. That's almost a complete reversal of the dominant impulse immediately after Obama's reelection, which marked the fifth time in the past six presidential elections that Democrats had won the popular vote. At that point, the GOP's loudest faction argued that Obama's victory showed the party needed to reach beyond its graying base of conservative, mostly older, whites.
No one would ever confuse Rubio with a moderate, but the conviction that the party needed a broader reach provided the tailwind for his rocketing postelection rise. Although Rubio would never phrase it this way, his embrace of legislation that included a path to citizenship for millions of immigrants here illegally came to symbolize the acknowledgment that the GOP could not rebuild a majority coalition without reconsidering some of its long-held beliefs.
The rise of Cruz and the kamikaze caucus reflects precisely the opposite. Their strategy assumes, against formidable evidence, that the traditional Republican base remains a national majority — if it can be inspired to turn out by way of undiluted conservative arguments expressed through unflinching confrontation against Democrats.
That vision has electrified conservative activists and interest groups and steamrolled over the hesitations of GOP congressional leaders dubious about the tactics (if not the goals) this movement is demanding. It's revealing that Rubio, ever since the immigration debate, has seemed in a breathless race to reconcile with the Right; he pointedly stood at Cruz's side this week.
The force of this wave virtually guarantees that congressional conservatives will impose on the party a procession of confrontations against Obama through his second term. And that will compel all Republicans, including the 2016 contenders, to repeatedly choose between a conservative base demanding they rush the battlements and polls showing most Americans resist scorched-earth tactics such as shuttering the government or defaulting on the debt. In this current round, while Rubio has aligned with Cruz, Govs. Chris Christie of New Jersey and Scott Walker of Wisconsin and (intriguingly) Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky have mostly distanced themselves from his charge.
The recent liberal uprising that sank Lawrence Summers's potential appointment as Federal Reserve Board chairman suggests Democrats are not immune to these centrifugal pressures. If Hillary Rodham Clinton runs in 2016, the most tempting opening against her would be for a populist offering sharper confrontation, not only against the GOP but also Wall Street, big business, and the rich. Clinton would remain favored against any rival, but if Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts thundered into that role, she would likely give the front-runner some sleepless nights.
Cruz, if he runs in 2016, promises the same for any GOP candidate resistant to his conception of total war. Veteran party strategists caution that Republican primary voters have historically flirted with warriors like Cruz but gone home with nominees (think Bob Dole or Mitt Romney) who promise to redirect government, not annihilate the opposition. The open question is whether that history still applies in a Republican Party increasingly whipsawed by the bottomless alienation of conservatives convinced that Obama and the urbanized, racially diverse coalition supporting him are sweeping away the America they have known.


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This Limited Edition Project Runway machine allows you to take your wardrobe into your own hands by creating hip, fashion-forward clothing like that seen on the runway. This computerized sewing machine is equipped with great tools for both beginners and experienced seamstresses alike inspired to create their own couture creations fit to pass the critical eye of the most discerning diva. The PC-210 PRW makes sewing fun and exciting. With the touch of a button, the LED screen displays the stitch pattern number. The needle position change function allows you to move the needle to the left or center making it easy to sew fabric at the precise point you need a stitch. The Quick-Set; Bobbin ensures fast and easy sewing without worry. All 50 stitches are available for reference whenever you need to make your next stitch. Other key features include the advanced needle threading system; no more searching for the eye of the needle; automatic reverse/reinforcement stitch and needle stop position control; presser foot pressure adjustment and presser foot leveling button; and stitch length and width control. You'll soon be on your way to redoing your entire wardrobe with the PC-210 PRW! UL/CSA: 110 volts. This machine does not conform to International electronic codes. Standard Limited Warranty, void outside the United States.
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52 Triangle Choke Set Ups In Just 8 Minutes – Jason Scully
Back again. This time with a video with a ton of triangle choke set-ups for you to experiment with. The "Short But Sweet" series has fortunately turned into one of the most popular BJJ and Grappling videos series on YouTube and I'm glad that they have helped so many people around the world.
In this video I show 52 different triangle choke set ups from all different types of situations. And the best part is it's only an 8 minute video so you can get a quick glance and get your mind working on ideas right away.
The triangle choke is and will always be one of the highest percentage submissions in grappling, so the more set ups you are aware of the better. Not just from an offensive stand point but also so you understand what different attacks your opponent's may try on you as well.
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Shovel out your garbage, recycling, and organics recycling carts
You want your garbage gone regardless of the season. Unfortunately, garbage, recycling and organics recycling carts get stuck in snow or ice and are hard to move increasing the potential for worker injuries. Sometimes carts can not be emptied at all.
Shoveling requirements
1. Clear a path 36" (3 feet) wide from your garbage, recycling and organics carts to the alley or street. Make sure they can be moved freely. Please do not shovel snow from around your carts into the alley as it can make collection difficult for our crews, it makes maneuvering alleys difficult for you and your neighbors, and it is not allowed per City ordinance 225.680.
2. Make sure your garbage, recycling and organics carts are shoveled out the night before your collection day.
3. A heavy snowfall within 48 hours of your garbage collection day may make it impossible to shovel out in time. We understand, but please make sure your cart is shoveled out by the following collection day.
4. If your garbage, recycling or organics carts are stuck in snow and ice on your collection day, and it has not snowed or stormed within 48 hours, we will shovel out your carts so your garbage, recycling and organics can be collected. Your account will be charged a $30 fee per cart shoveled for this service.
Frozen garbage
Please bag your garbage. Unbagged garbage can freeze in the cart making it difficult to empty. Bagging the garbage will keep your cart cleaner and help us do our jobs more efficiently.
If you have curb pickup
If your garbage and recycling is picked up at the curb, please do not block sidewalks with garbage and recycling carts. A clear path between the carts/bins and the street must be available on collection day.
Keep lids closed
Make sure lids are closed on your carts. Melting snow and rain can easily fill a cart and make them overweight. Overweight carts may cost an additional service fee to empty.
If you are unable to shovel the path around your carts, you will need to hire someone to shovel for you. Check the local yellow pages under "Snow Removal Services", or some community organizations can shovel out garbage carts for a fee. It will be cheaper than Solid Waste & Recycling shoveling then out.
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Brad Pitt greets members of the press at the Ritz-Carlton in Tokyo, Japan on Wednesday (November 4).
The 45-year-old actor, who's in town to premiere Inglourious Basterds, was still wearing braided beads in his beard from his Halloween costume!
Also on hand to introduce the movie were director Quentin Tarantino and Brad's costars Melanie Laurent and Julie Dreyfus.
As part of a promotion, Japanese viewers of Basterds will be offered their money back if they're bored of the movie after the first hour, HuffPo reported earlier today.


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1. Introduction
There are multiple layers that need to be monitored in a production Openstack deployment environment to achieve Service Assurance. At a high level, these layers have been captured in the figure below –
The current Cisco edition supports compute monitoring and the details are captured below.
2. Monitoring Tools Info
a) Collectd
Collectd is an agent based system metrics collection tool. An agent is deployed on every host that needs to be monitored. It provides a configurable plugin architecture that enables collection, storage and processing of metrics based on need. The list of plugins supported by collectd is listed here [1].
b) Graphite
Graphite is real-time graphing system. It is compromised of two components – a webapp frontend and a backend storage application. It allows external application to feed monitoring data into it and then uses it's "carbon" backend agent to process the data and store it in a specialized graphite database (eg: whisper). The graphite processes need to deployed on the monitoring management box only. Some of the advantages of using Graphite are captured here [2].
c) Nagios
Nagios is a service health check alerting system. It has plugin model that allows service checks to be carried on host groups and generate alerts/notifications in case of any issues detected. The Nagios-Core agent is running on the monitoring management box that provides a webapp frontend and a daemon that reads configurations from it's resource files and object-definition files. Nagios-NRPE is an addon that allows Nagios to execute plugins on remote hosts.
3. Monitoring Stack
Nagios can be used as a stand-alone monitoring tool for graphing and for system metric collection. Also, it can be integrated with an external metrics data collection tool such as collectd using plugins. For graphing purpose, collectd provides a plugin option to provide data to Graphite interface.
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RIO DE JANEIRO — Brazil's president has postponed a state visit to Washington in response to U.S. spying.
President Dilma Rousseff says Tuesday she's not making the trip next month, which was to include a state dinner.
Rousseff has been angered reports based on leaked National Security Agency documents. They've shown that her communications with top aides were intercepted.
The NSA espionage program also targeted state-run oil company Petrobras.
Brazil reportedly has been the top Latin American target for spying, with data on billions of emails and telephone calls swooped up in NSA programs.
President Barack Obama called Rousseff late Monday and tried to talk her into maintaining her trip, the Brazilian president's office said.
But Rousseff was demanding a full public apology from Obama for the spying, which she didn't get.


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Minnesota Senate to Take Up Healthcare Marketplace
ST. PAUL (AP) - The Minnesota Senate will debate its bill to get the state's health insurance exchange up and running.
The Senate is scheduled to take up the issue Thursday. The House passed its version of the bill Monday, but there are key differences between the two versions.
The health insurance exchange is an online marketplace for the uninsured, and others, to shop for coverage plans. It's instrumental to the implementation of the federal government's health care overhaul in the next few years.
A major difference between House and Senate bills is how they cover operating costs for the exchange. The House bill places a tax on insurance premiums sold through the exchange, while senators tap money from existing cigarettes taxes. Differences will ultimately be worked out in conference committee.


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March 11, 2007
HOUSTON, Texas - Junior Doria Holbrook became MIT's first national champion of the 2006-07 season on Saturday evening, bringing the three-meter diving title back to Cambridge after winning the event with a cumulative finals score of 480.90. Her efforts helped the Engineers vault into a 20th-place finish out of 52 scoring schools, equaling the team's highest national finish in 18 years.
The Cardinal and Gray also ended the competition in 20th-place last year.
Kenyon College won the event for the 21st time in convincing fashion - a return to form after Emory University took the crown the past two years. The Ladies secured the top spot with 538 points, well ahead of runner-up Amherst College, which finished with 320 points. Defending champion Emory rounded out the top three with a point-tally of 295, while Tech earned 46.
Holbrook entered the three-meter finals as the second seed, after her 475.20 in prelims was overshadowed by practice partner Kendall Swett's new NCAA record 493.20. Swett, a junior at Tufts, had set the previous mark of 489.00 just last season as a member of Lake Forest College.
MIT's diving sensation was at her best in the finals, however, as she nailed all of her dives en route to the first-place finish, edging out Calvin College sophomore Erica Deur, who totaled 476.10 points. Deur, who won the one-meter competition on Friday, was voted Diver of the Championships. Swett finished fourth with 456.05 points in the finals.
It was Holbrook's second national championship in three-meter diving, as she also won the event in her freshman year of 2004-05. Having competed in the three-meter and one-meter competitions at the National Championships each year that she's been at MIT, she has earned All-America honors every time.
Senior Kate Thornton also competed and earned points for the Cardinal and Gray, as she rounded out her career in style with a 14th-place finish in the 1650-yard freestyle. The El Cajon, Calif., native touched the wall at 17:33.76 to earn three points, marking the first time in her career that she earned points in two different events at the same NCAA Championships. She also earned six points with an 11th-place finish in the 500-yard freestyle on Friday.
Head coach Dawn Gerken couldn't have been happier with the performances of her competitors, as they came through on the final day of the competition to earn a top-20 finish - one of the team's main goals entering the Championships.
"A top-20 finish was something that we were really aiming for," she said. "To earn that for this team makes the rest of the coaching staff and I just so proud of these two girls."
Gerken also couldn't hide her delight at the way Thornton concluded her MIT swimming career.
"It was a great way for her to go out," she noted. "She has done so much for this program over the course of her four years here, and we just couldn't be more happy and proud of her accomplishments. The fact that it was the first time that she's scored twice at the competition makes it a sweet way to end it."


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I have been using Ubuntu since Hardy Heron (8.04). I used Natty, Oneiric with Unity. But When I recently (more than 1 month now) upgraded My Ubuntu to Precise (12.04), the performance of my laptop is not satisfactory. It is too unresponsive compared to older releases.
For example, the Unity in 12.04 is very unresponsive. Sometimes, it requires 2 seconds to show up the dash (which was not the case with Natty, though people always saying that Natty's version of Unity is buggiest). I am assuming that, May be my 1GB RAM now becomes too low to run Unity of Precise. But I also think, Since Unity is improved in Precise, It may not be the case. So, I am not sure.
Do you have any ideas? Will upgrading RAM fix it? How much I need if upgrade is required?
Laptop model: "Lenovo 3000 Y410"
Graphic : "Intel GMA X3100" on Intel 965GM Chipset.
RAM/Memory : "1 GB DDR2" (1 slot empty).
Swap space : 1.1GB
Resolution: 1280x800 widescreen
Shared RAM for Graphics: 256 MB as below output suggests
$ dmesg | grep AGP [ 0.825548] agpgart-intel 0000:00:00.0: AGP aperture is 256M @ 0xd0000000


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Real Estate Attorneys, Lawyers & Law Firms
The worker's compensation program in Utah is managed by the Labor Commission Division of Industrial Accidents in Salt Lake City. The program offers protection for employees injured while on the job as well as protection for employers from significant financial risk due to accidents in the workplace. Workers may be eligible for payments for lost wages while disabled and compensation for medical costs.
Most employers in Utah are required to purchase workers' comp insurance. Exceptions may include agricultural laborers, real estate brokers, domestic workers and insurance brokers. Federal employees are covered separately under Federal law. The cost of the insurance is paid for by your employer and must not be deducted from your paycheck.
If you have been injured on the job, you will need to who your employer has selected for their insurance carrier. This information must be posted by your employer so that you can see who his workers comp insurance company is, what their address is and what their phone number is. If you are having difficulty finding this information at work or from your employer, call the Labor Commission's Policy Section at 801-530-6842.
When you are injured at work you should notify your supervisor and employer immediately. Your employer must the complete an Employer's First Report of Injury or Illness" (Form 122) with 7 days of learning of your accident. You should get a copy of this report which will describe your rights and responsibilities.
Workers compensation payments in Utah cover many items. Workers are eligible for medical care payments. Hospital bills, prescription costs and other reasonable medical expenses are covered. Employees are eligible for temporary total compensation payments. This is wage replacement for time missed from work as approved by a doctor and as a result of a workplace injury. Workers are eligible for reimbursement for travel expenses to and from authorized medical treatment. This does not include travel to pharmacies. Dependents of employees that die from an accident in the workplace are eligible for $8,000 for funeral and burial costs.
Benefit payments are set to 2/3rds of the workers average gross weekly pay prior to the incident. The payments are capped at a maximum which cannot exceed Utah's maximum average weekly wage. These payments are not taxed but child support payments can be deducted from the amount.
If you move out of Utah you are still entitled to benefits under workers comp. There are some important considerations regarding medical treatment outside of Utah. If you want to continue to receive treatment you must complete an Employee's Notification of Intent to Leave State (Form 044). Your doctor must also submit an Attending Physician's Statement (Form 043). You can get these forms on the Labor Commission website.
If your claim is denied, you should talk with your employer to see what the reasons were for the denial. If you have difficulty communicating with your employer and need another resource for information, call the Labor Commission and staff at the Division of Industrial Accidents will be able to assist you.
While workers in Utah are not required to have an attorney during the claim process, the law can be complicated and it may be in the best interest of the worker to consult with an attorney.


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Hostel Rynek 7
Hostel Rynek 7 can be found in Krakow's old town on the main Market Square. It is housed in a 15th C building in the heart of the city.
The hostel offers individually decorated rooms with satellite TV and private bathroom (next to the room). The dormitories offer free bed linen, lockers and modern bathroom facilities. Most of the rooms have great views of the square.
Free breakfast is available every morning and you can prepare your own meals in the well-equipped kitchen throughout the day.
At HOSTEL RYNEK 7 you can meet other travellers, surf the Internet with free WI-FI and relax after a busy day of sightseeing - and before an even busier night out. Make sure you ask the friendly and helpful staff for advice - their tips will help you make the most of this beautiful city.
We will be happy to help you to organize your stay in Krakow! Sightseeing, clubbing, indoor/outdoor shooting range, paintball, Go Karting, white water rafting ...
Availability & RatesTo view availability and prices please select dates and click 'Update Dates'
Hostel Facilities & Policies
- 24 Hour Reception
- 24 Hour Security
- Airport Transfers
- Bar
- Bicycle parking
- Free Breakfast
- Cable TV
- Café
- Child Friendly
- Common Room
- Credit Cards Accepted
- Curfew
- Currency Exchange
- Free City Maps
- Free Internet Access
- Free WiFi
- Games Room
- Hair Dryers
- Hair Dryers For Hire
- Hot Showers
- House Keeping
- Internet Access
- Self-Catering Facilities
- Linen Included
- Security Lockers
- Luggage Storage
- Meals Available
- Meeting Rooms
- Mini Supermarket
- Pet Friendly
- Playstation
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- Restaurant
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- Taxes included
- Tea & Coffee Making Facilities
- Tours/Travel Desk
- Towels For Hire
- Towels Included
- Vending Machines
Cancellation PolicyThis property has a 1 day cancellation policy. Failure to cancel within this time will result in a cancellation charge equal to the first night of your stay.
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From the Airport Balice:
- Take bus no 208, 292 or 902 (it takes 30 minutes to get to the Main Station) or train (departure is every 30 minutes - it takes 15 minutes to get to Main Station).
From the Main Railway Station:
- It will take about 10 minutes, just go to the Main Square through Florianska street or Szpitalna street.
- The St. Mary's Church will be on your left, go straight ahead and enter the gate No 7 (on your left).
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by Larry Austin
Students at Kaegebein Elementary School were sheltered in place and visitors were denied access to the school on Thursday as school district personnel and police investigated an unidentified rumor.
Mary Haggerty, principal at Kaegebein Elementary School, in a message to parents sent via email Thursday, said that Thursday morning "a parent shared a concern received from her child regarding a potential threat to the safety of the students and school. The report was second hand and corroborating information was inconsistent, leading us to believe that the threat was not credible."
The school district office contacted the Erie County Sheriff's Office, while the school cancelled a planned Mini Relay For Life program.
Joseph Giarrizzo, assistant superintendent of school business services, described the information received as "sort of second, third and fourth hand, but it was deemed serious enough that we wanted to do an investigation, and while we were doing that investigation we had decided to go into shelter-in-place."
Whereas a lockdown would take place for a known credible threat in the building and would lock children in the classrooms, away from doors and windows, Giarrizzo said, the shelter-in-place brought all the children back to their classrooms, where teachers took attendance to make sure that all were accounted for, and sheltered them there. "They went through their day. They were escorted through the hallways, but they went to gym class, they went to lunch, they moved about the building as they normally would. But we prevented people from coming in and out of the building till we made sure that the situation didn't require any further action," Giarrizzo said. "So it wasn't anywhere near as severe as a lockdown, but it was still a precautionary measure taken just to be on the safe side."
Specialists from the sheriff's office were brought in who conducted interviews, after which "we all agreed that further action wasn't necessary, and we lifted the shelter-in-place," Giarrizzo said.
A sheriff's deputy stayed until dismissal at the end of the day "just to err on the side of caution," he added.
"It wasn't deemed that there was anything that required any further action, but, as I said before, you have to take every situation at face value as a serious situation, and they all should be investigated, and that's what we did," Giarrizzo said. "We didn't want to cause too great an alarm, but we wanted to make sure that we did what we felt was necessary to make sure that the children were safe and that we were doing everything possible to keep them safe."
According to Haggerty, teachers "were directed to keep the shades down to prevent students from being upset by the presence of law officers and their vehicles."
"I would like to commend the sheriff's department, the state troopers, the teachers and staff for their quick response, their focus on student safety and their commitment to maintain an orderly and calm environment for all," Haggerty added.


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Dense Fog Blankets New Jersey
A dense fog is blanketing New Jersey for the morning commute and into the midday.
A Dense Fog Advisory is in effect for the entire state until 12noon as visibility is less than a quarter mile. Drivers should leave extra distance ahead of them and use high beams on the roads.
As temperatures hover around the freezing mark, there could be icy patches on highways in rural areas and on overpasses.
There could also be a thin coating on cars to scrape.
New Jersey Fast Traffic reports speed on the New Jersey Turnpike has been reduced to 45 MPH between exit #1 (Delaware Memorial Bridge) and #7A (I-195) and to 35 MPH on both the Betsy Ross Bridge and Commodore Barry Bridges.


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Thursday, July 14th 2011, 2:40pm
Thursday, July 14th 2011, 4:18pm
That is definitely not banging. You just have a noisy water meter. You may find that your water purveyor doesn't care if the noise bugs you or not. But you might wheedle a meter replacement from them, but don't expect it to make a great difference.
If you had real pip
e banging you would run for cover - it is that far beyond what you have.
Thursday, July 14th 2011, 6:49pm
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Thursday, July 14th 2011, 11:32pm
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Thursday, July 14th 2011, 11:36pm
Friday, July 15th 2011, 9:26am
Try reproducing this by turning on all your hose bibs-- it may not be as apparent because the hose bibs usually create a lot of noise.
Friday, July 15th 2011, 11:09am
Friday, July 15th 2011, 1:44pm
Frankly, the drywall concerns fall into the "tough noogies" file, because water meter access is not yours to impede. If the water company wants to switch meters, they get to do so even at the cost (all yours) of a Texas Chainsaw Massacre on your finished basement. Consider modifications to allow easy swapping of meters.
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Since 1967, the Consumer Electronics Show has been the place to unveil new technology and products, from the VCR in 1970 to Microsoft's Avatar Kinect in 2011.
Although in recent years no single product has sparked a technology revolution, over the last few decades many innovative technologies have been displayed for the first time at the iconic show.
This year, CES experts are expecting Ultrabooks, the PC version of Apple's lightweight Macbook Air, to be hot products.
Here's a look at some of the major debuts at CES throughout its history.
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Subject: Counterfeit Cashier's Checks
Date: November 12, 2013
Description: First National Bank Albany/Breckenridge
Counterfeit Cashier's Checks: First National Bank Albany/Breckenridge, Albany, Texas
To: Chief Executive Officers of All National Banks and Federal Savings Associations; All State Banking Authorities; Chairman, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System; Chairman, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation; Conference of State Bank Supervisors; Deputy Comptrollers (Districts); Assistant Deputy Comptrollers; District Counsels; and All Examining Personnel
The above-named bank has reported that counterfeit cashier's checks using a correct routing number of 111909663 are being presented for payment nationwide in connection with a mystery shopping scam as well as online auctions.
The counterfeit checks closely resemble the bank's authentic items but may be identified by the following: Counterfeit items contain a dark top border with the following security statement: "THIS DOCUMENT HAS A COLORED BACKGROUND AND MICROPRINTING. THE REVERSE SIDE INCLUDES AN ARTIFICIAL WATERMARK." Items presented to date in reference to the mystery shopping scam have contained a remitter name of Thompson Cleaver and are made payable in the amount of $1,850.
Correspondence accompanying the mystery shopping scam checks are signed by a Dr. Robert Walton and contain contact e-mails of email@example.com and firstname.lastname@example.com. The letter explains that the recipient is to use the majority of the funds to send a wire transfer to a specific individual and to use a small amount of the funds to shop at a local Walmart store.
For additional information and guidance and to verify the authenticity of First National Bank Albany/Breckenridge's cashier's checks, please contact Compliance Officer Sharon Pendleton at 101 E. Walker St., Breckenridge, TX 76424; by telephone at (254) 559-2222, Ext. 14; by fax at (254) 5599805, or by e-mail at email@example.com.
Consumers who receive a counterfeit or fictitious item and associated material should file complaints with the following agencies, as appropriate:
Additional information concerning this matter that should be brought to the attention of the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) may be forwarded to
For additional information regarding other types of financial fraud, please visit the OCC's anti-fraud resource at www.occ.gov/fraudresources.htm.
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UNESCO Director-General condemns murder of womens rights champion and educationalist, Safia Ama Jan
Safia Ama Jan was assassinated because of her defence of womens rights and her fierce determination to provide education for the girls of Afghanistan, the Director-General said. This intolerable act must be condemned as a crime against the people of Afghanistan the parents, the children, and all those working to rebuild this great country and consolidate its future. Every effort must be made to bring the perpetrators of this cowardly attack to justice.
This week, on 5 October, World Teachers Day is celebrated in recognition of the millions of educationalists the world over who are working to equip our children for a better future. Safia Ama Jan was a former teacher who, during the reign of the Taleban, risked her life by running an underground school for girls from her home. As the Director of Womens Affairs in Kandahar Province, she worked tirelessly to get all Afghan girls back into school and to provide professional and vocational training for women.
Her courage was an inspiration to us all. And her violent death serves as a grim reminder that those working to defend human rights, including and especially womens rights, the right to education and education for girls, are often working on the front line, with their lives constantly under threat.
National authorities and the international community must stand united against the forces that would seek to destroy the efforts made by people such as Safia Ama Jan. Education is one of the pillars of development, prosperity and peace. It is a human right. We must do our utmost to defend and ensure the security of those who are working in this vital area.


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Embellishment is the process were I add touches of paint to the print. This enhances the look-and-feel of the print by adding some texture to it. In addition, I apply a layer of high-gloss varnish to protect it from possible dust and sun damage. The print is ready to hang.
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Wednesday, February 29, 2012
Officially Appointed To Expo Line Phase II Bicycle Advisory Committee
By a narrow margin in a field of highly qualified candidates, I was selected last night by the Santa Monica City Council for the 2nd of two available positions to represent the city in the Expo Line Bicycle Advisory Committee. Longtime resident and bicycle advocate Barbara Fillet was selected for the first Santa Monica position and we will together represent Santa Monica alongside other committee members representing other communities along the phase II route. We will be overseeing the bikeway connectivity and other other bike facilities being developed in conjunction with the pending rail line, providing feedback and recommendations.
This is my first time serving on a public committee body, and I'm sure there will be a little bit of a learning curve to how this whole process works, but I am excited and honored to be selected. It is my intention to represent existing and future bicyclists and transit users to the best of my ability. I'm a strong believer in rail transportation and bicycling, and that the two modes compliment each other in a way that builds a system greater than the sum of it's parts. Let's make it happen!
I also want to make myself available to anyone, to answer questions and solicit feedback and concerns as the design and build of this project develops.
I can be reached via "gary rides bikes [A] g m a i l DOT com" and for twitter users, I am fairly active on there as @garyridesbikes.
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Monday, February 27, 2012
My Summer Forecast
Predicting commodity markets, especially commodities dependent on a resource as volatile as oil in recent years, is difficult and prone to error. However it's looking clearer and clearer everyday from the data available that there is a potential for a run up in prices surpassing the 2008 spike.
Now separating the present facts from my own conjecture, it is my own opinion that in 2012 we will see new records set for gasoline prices. Well in fact we already have, since no prior January or February months have been as expensive before, but I think we will see new all time highs and will likely surpass the 2011 record for highest annual spending on gasoline.
This process will likely shake off some people on the edge of affording their commutes, and if we do not adapt to facilitating economic activity with less fuel dependency, this could stop the fledgling economic recovery in it's tracks. A slow down or halt of economic growth, or worse a full on dip back into recession could drive gasoline prices back down, but the new low would likely remain far above the crash in prices in 2009 following the 2008 recession.
If things get really hairy we could see the U.S. and it's allies tap their strategic reserves to buffer the oil market, which happened last year in response to the disruption to oil exports from Libya. However a release just to bring down prices, and not address real supply shortage emergencies, puts us in a more vulnerable position should real shortages occur later.
The U.S. strategic petroleum reserves, the largest stockpile of emergency crude oil controlled by any government, at 727-million-barrels, is when combined with our domestic oil production, only about 2 and half months worth of supply at our normal consumption levels. If we tap the reserves to any significant degree and prices remain fairly elevated from historical averages, refilling them to capacity later will cost a lot more than what we paid to fill them. In any case, we have reserves sufficient to bring down prices in the short term, but doing so can only delay the problem, but not address root causes.
There are fundamental forces at work tightening the oil market with growing demand in the developing world, especially rapid fuel consumption growth in China, growing domestic demand in exporting nations, and stagnating global oil production despite record oil drilling investment. So despite U.S. driving being in decline (see here & here), and production of oil here has getting a little bump from more offshore and shale oil development, growing consumption elsewhere means what America does is no longer driving the market.
I intend to dive a little deeper into the root causes for fuel costs and the global oil market in future posts and another up coming project. But for now I think a key take away here for the bike movement is to realize that auto-centrism is, I believe, going to be knocked up against the ropes more frequently, and with harder blows, as time goes on. We have to be ready to rise up and articulate a new path forward, because if we don't, the crowd that wants to keep the cars all running and gas cheap no matter what, even if their aims are not sustainable, will scream and shout for policy choices that will only make a necessary transition away from oil dependency more painful later.
Unashamed lairs like Newt Gingrich are already spreading disinformation, claiming we can just tap a few more holes in our country and we'll be well on our way to energy independence with cheap gas brought back like a phoenix. Before you believe any of the hype about America becoming energy independent, check out the chart I made from data provided by the US Energy Information Administration. We have a mountain of oil debt, that is simply not going to be brought down without massive conservation efforts, no matter how much new drilling was opened and natural ecologies ruined to fill our tanks.
When figures like Newt Gingrich claim we can chop fuel prices nearly in half while simultaneously championing suburban auto-centric sprawl and sneering at rail transportation and smart growth development that is pedestrian and bikeable in scale, they are full of BS. He is suggesting we can have our cake and eat it too. We simply cannot.
The summer of 2008, with skyrocketing gasoline prices, was a big shot in the arm for the move toward bikes in Los Angeles. It was also around that time that I was getting even more serious about bikes and riding frequently. In the aftermath of that summer in 08, I finally got rid of my car for good. Bicycling was attracting press in a very different light as motorists were agonizing for high prices (that are some of the lowest in the world by comparison to other nations).
I believe this coming summer can far surpass that growth for bicycling, and we should be ready to promote culture change at a time when much of our culture may be confused and frustrated. We have to counter the liars that would have us stay in denial and have us believing a car dependent mode of living can be sustained.
We must also not back down if a recession or other traumatic event does provide temporary relief in fuel prices. The long term trends that will transpire in the decades ahead demand that we must lesson our economy's dependance on oil now. The longer we put off meaningful action, the harder the future will be, and the greater the risk of suffering more at a later date. We cannot kick the can down the road anymore. If we were smart, we would be taxing fuel heavily like the Europeans do (gasoline is about $9/g in the Netherlands) , to ensure prices are consistently high and thus promoting reduced waste regardless of market swings. Higher fuel taxes would also provide revenue to keep transportation systems funded and maintained, something we now struggle to do in the United States.
Perhaps I am reading too much into the possibility for gas price hysteria and economic fallout this summer, but I think it is better to be prepared for the possibility than to ignore warning signs. 2008 was a dress rehearsal for major gas spikes, and perhaps enough Americans have now learned to make other arrangements in response to price rises. Maybe we can go through a record summer without our economy hitting a wall this time. However car culture is deeply embedded into modern America, and we may still have some ways to go before we're really ready for our new energy reality.
However events play out, I do think this will be an interesting summer to say the least, and one which I think will strengthen the case for bikes and see ridership hitting new highs. A new vision for transportation in Los Angeles is possible, let's make it happen.
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Tuesday, February 14, 2012
Colorado Esplanade Design, With New Bike Route Proposals, Moves To Council Tonight
Several weeks ago I attended a community meeting soliciting public input on design proposals for the Colorado Esplanade, although I had not yet blogged on this specific project until this post. For those unfamiliar this project proposal, it is a project to reconfigure and re-envision the approach into Santa Monica heading West from the future Colorado and 4th Expo line station, which will be the end of the line. The full staff report with more details can be found here on the agenda, item 4-A. The City Council will be giving it's direction on the project tonight, Tuesday February 14th.
Currently the proposal is to broaden the sidewalk on the south side of Colorado substantially, which will be much needed with hundreds of pedestrians coming off every train, and add bike lanes to this stretch as well. In order to do this and still have room for automobile access, it is proposed to make this 4 block stretch one way Westbound for drivers, which has a secondary benefit of reducing the crazy intersection movements at Main and Colorado, and making Main and 2nd flow into each other more nicely. The traffic study concluded this would improve traffic flow on the connecting streets and thus would have minimal impact for motorists despite the loss of Eastbound traffic flow for the westernmost blocks of Colorado.
2 different configurations were shown for the bike lanes [PDF version here]. In one proposal a bike lane exists going each direction on opposite sides of the street, but with a concrete separator in-between car traffic and contra flow bicyclists going Eastbound. In the second proposal, which seemed to be the most popular at the meeting, both bike lanes where on the South side of the street, with 2 bike lanes of opposing direction adjacent to each other, but separated from traffic by infrastructure.
Ordinary I am not a big fan of cycle track concepts which put opposing bike traffic directions adjacent on one side of the street. I prefer bike lanes to be on opposite sides of the street so opposing traffic flow is never in close proximity, and thus reduces the risk of bicyclists colliding with one another. Our beach bike path places opposing bike traffic flow together, and that generally works alright, but it does have it's own mishaps and close calls. However in this particular context, I can see a big advantage to keeping the bike lanes together and on one side of the street, because it avoids the mall parking garage entrance on Colorado near Main.
As I pointed previously in the problems with the 2nd street bike lane heading Northbound from Colorado, bike lanes and mega-capacity auto parking garages with high turn over don't mix very smoothly. In the first configuration, Option A, the Westbound bike lane would in practice be broken constantly on busy days by drivers turning across and queuing up into the garage. If we are trying to create facilities anyone can feel comfortable using, and not just the ride anywhere anytime folks like myself, I do not think such a bike lane will be sufficient.
The second configuration with the cycle track all on one side of the street also presents it's own challenges as well that will need careful consideration. Primarily the challenge of movements into and out of this facility and provisions for safe turning at intersections. Special consideration will be most critical at the intersection of Colorado and 2nd, not only because that will be the junction of 2 significant bike routes, but the placement of the Santa Monica Bike Center at the corner opposite the side of the street with the 2 way cycle track. Planners should anticipate that many people will be riding to and from that bike center, and if the resulting facility is not well suited for this and self explanatory, they should not be surprised when bike riders make up their own creative ways of bridging that connection.
In conclusion, of the 2 alternatives presented, I support the 2nd configuration, option B in the diagram, but with the reservation that it will require more thought out intersection treatments than are presently accounted for in the initial diagrams shown. I could write a lot more about possible proposals for dealing with the intersection issues, and other related way-finding issues on other routes that would connect to this new facility, but for the moment I am constrained for time. On the whole I am very excited to see this all happen, and every time I see images of what the Expo Line will look like in Santa Monica, I want it to be done yesterday.
Monday, February 13, 2012
Turtle Meets Bike
I'm currently helping take care of a turtle for a friend out of town, named Funky Pajamas. He mostly hangs out in the water in his aquarium, but we recently let him outside for a little adventure and exercise. He immediately took to wanting to climb all over our bicycles. So I pulled out the phone and snapped some silly video and a few pictures. Turtle and bicycle, together at last.
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Wednesday, February 8, 2012
What Does Bikenomics Mean To You? (Zine Giveaway)
Following up on the topic of bikenomics this week, I'd like to hear what it means to you. Everyone who contributes a brief comment of their own personal story, data point or other interesting thought on the role of bicycling in the economy, will be entered into a random drawing to win a copy of Elly Blue's zine Bikenomics: How Bicycling Will Save The Economy (If We Let It) and a copy of volume 3 and 4 of her collaborative quarterly zine Taking The Lane (which can also be purchased here). Elly was generous enough to give me a few extra copies of some of her work when I recently visited Portland, and I thought it would be a great opportunity to share them with my own readers.
The winner will be announced next week, and prizes will be given out in person for those in the immediate area, or who can get over to Santa Monica (preferably without a car or personal jet [so we don't disturb the SMO neighbors]). If you would like to contribute to the discussion but exclude your self from the drawing, let me know at the end of your comment.
The winner will be announced next week, and prizes will be given out in person for those in the immediate area, or who can get over to Santa Monica (preferably without a car or personal jet [so we don't disturb the SMO neighbors]). If you would like to contribute to the discussion but exclude your self from the drawing, let me know at the end of your comment.
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Monday, February 6, 2012
Elly Blue's Bikenomics
Within the world of bicycle writers, there are few figures that have been more influential to my own thinking and writing than Eleanor Blue, based in Portland, Oregon. Elly was a long time contributor to the Bike Portland website, has written a number of column pieces for the popular environmental website Grist, and contributed to a number of print magazines like Momentum, and non-bikey publications as well like the feminist magazine Bitch. She has also become a creator of her own zine publications and is now pursing book projects.
|(Elly Blue giving a keynote speech at LA Bike Summit)
Since that point I have gone through a breadth of reading, writing and research that has been radically expanding my horizons and world view on bikes, urban planning, transportation, and more recently global energy issues as they relate to all of the above. Along the way there were moments where ideas had loosely come together in my mind, but somehow Elly would often write what I was thinking more clearly than I had been able to yet.
The concept of bikenomics, a phrase Blue coined and used in a popular series of posts for Grist, put a laser focus onto the role of bicycling in economics, but in an accessible style unlike so many drab data reports put out by consulting agencies and advocacy groups. Preceding the bikenomics series, Elly's first column for Grist explained why placing an additional road tax on bicycling would be unfair, which is a must read rebuttal for a very common argument lobbed at bike riders.
Reading of the failings and slow going of bicycle advancement of years past, it occurred to me that bike advocates where not emphasizing the right things to break ground politically. As I came to understand the inherently cost inefficient nature of automobile oriented development versus communities better suited to biking and walking, it started to click. Discussing bicycling as a tool for local economic development might be the clearest way into the hearts of politicians and businesses that care more about the green of dollar bills, than going "green" for the planet or improving health.
Often times I feel people in various advocacy movements shy away from discussing money issues, although the Occupy Wall Street movement has started to bring finance back to the center stage. I think some of this reluctance comes from the guilty baggage of money being used as a corrupting or corrosive force in society when greed gets out of hand. But money is simply a tool representing value, and what we do with that value can be bad or good or somewhere in-between.
If we want our money to be spent wisely and humanely, we need to get in the trenches of discussing how and why we invest our society's money and resources in some ways and not others. We have to reveal the externalities, subsidies and trade imbalances that drain value out of our communities for the benefit of automobile and global oil company interests. We need to illustrate the power of bicycling to save government revenues, boost local scaled economies, and create new business and job opportunities.
|(My photo contribution to the bikenomics presentation)
Collaborating with Joe Biel, founder of Microcosm Publishing, Elly spun off the bikenomics concept into a print zine, a predecessor to bigger ambitions for a book. The zine, Bikenomics: How Bicycling Will Save The Economy (If We Let It), serves as a great primer to the subject of bicycling and the economy, and should be read by anyone passionate about bikes and strengthening the economic resilience of our communities in a time of great financial uncertainty.
By saving the economy, Elly is not necessarily talking about preserving the scale of our economy as measured in the flawed metric of Gross Domestic Product (GDP). She is talking about bicycling as a component in improving the qualities that really matter to our lives. Improved health, ecological sustainability, greater social interaction, and a scale of business and commerce which is local and enduring, not big box and throw away.
Further out on the horizon, Bikenomics is to become a full fledged book. I can't wait to read it when it comes out, and expect that it will flesh out a few gaps in the existing literature on bicycling. The vast majority of books on bikes seem to focus on the individual learning curve and motivations to ride, or the athletic and physical side of bicycling. We need more literature placing bicycling in larger sociological and economic contexts, and Elly Blue is just such an author with a fresh perspective to help do the job.
Having met Elly a few times in person now, I can attest that in addition to being a talented writer, she is also just an awesome person. I wish her all the best on her present and future endeavors. If you aren't following her work already, I highly recommend you start. Her blog is Taking The Lane, which is also the title of her collaborative quarterly zine, focused on the intersection of bikes and feminism.
You can help support Elly's next batch of zines on Kickstarter, nabbing some for yourself in the process, and generally keeping her employed contributing awesomeness to the bikey world. Her zines can be bought individually or through subscription on her web storefront as well. Support the makers and doers pushing the bike movement forward, and it benefits the bike economy for us all. Now that is bikenomics.
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The perfect storm - Milenyo
The day started out promising to be yet another uneventful day when my carpool would be reluctantly heading towards work. It was the kind of morning that promised to be completely boring – overcast skies, hint of rain every now and then.
So we set off, the first sign that something was amiss that there was ABSOLUTELY no traffic on the roads. That at 8:30 in the morning is IMPOSSIBLE in Makati !
Then we found out all schools and government offices had been called off because of an impending storm. So in anticipation, we excitedly called our bosses. No such luck, troop in to work, we were told.
We got to know that the eye of the storm would pass directly over Manila at 11 am. At 11:15 the power conked out. From 12-1:30 we saw the fury of Mother Nature.
Standing in our 16th floor office, we could feel the building sway as wind speeds hit 130 kmph. It was crazy. Huge hoardings across the street started to fall. Trees started dropping like nine pins crushing cars in the parking lot opposite our building. We actually saw asbestos sheets being tossed around – and the best part, the wind was SO strong that the sheet never fell on the ground – it just was swept away (I know I know , it eventually fell) I have never seen anything like this. Except when they cover Florida hurricanes on TV!
We were now panicking and then the next rumor started.
That Manila would begin flooding. Anyone who has lived any length of time in Manila will know that even a slight drizzle causes traffic to come to a standstill.
We weren't taking chances, we decided to go home at 2pm.
It took us 3 hours to get home that day. Driving on C-5, we felt like we were on the sets of 'The day after tomorrow'. Empty roads, flooded in many parts. Fallen trees and hoardings blocking our path
It was scary.
Got home to discover that we had left a few windows open and the place was flooded. Amit got home earlier so he had got to do the mopping :-)
Manila didnt have power for 3 days but luckily we had a generator in our condo. People who lived in villages (Alabang, Dasma, Forbes park) weren't so lucky – they had no water or electricity for a full 3 days…..
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DailyDirt: Will Refill Cartridges For Food Printers Be Insanely Expensive?
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The technology for 3D printing is getting better and cheaper all the time, but some folks think the "killer app" for these printing machines is in food preparation. Food printers aren't quite like Star Trek replicators just yet -- nor is there a way to eliminate the scarcity of food. Still, it'll be pretty cool when most households own an oven, stove, microwave oven... and a 3D food printer.
- Peter Thiel's philanthropic foundation has invested in Modern Meadow -- a company that will develop 3D bioprinting techniques for disrupting the current meat industry. Growing edible meat tissue without a farm could be more environmentally friendly, but one of the company's first goals is to just grow a 1-inch long piece of synthetic meat suitable for eating. [url]
- Cornell University has a food printing lab as part of its Fab@Home venture. This group has been working on printing food since 2007, and the researchers speculate that food printers could vastly reduce the time people spend preparing food. [url]
- Burritob0t is an open source project to create a Tex-Mex 3D printer, capable of generating tasty, custom burritos from extruding ingredients such as beans, rice, cheese and salsa onto a tortilla. Unfortunately, lettuce and chunky salsa aren't on this robot's menu -- but perhaps a meat paste could be added... [url]
- Chocolate lovers in the UK might want to thank researchers at the University of Exeter for creating a 3D printer that prints layers of chocolate. These developers want to create a website that anyone can print chocolate creations from -- but they'll probably need a really good Spam filter before they turn that feature on. [url]


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The oscillations seem most chaotic when viewed on the tick candle charts; mindlessly bouncing up & down, but even these tiniest of oscillations, though it may not be apparent while watching them, are still gravitating towards the oscillations of progressively larger oscillation/trends all the way up to the grand scheme of things as seen on the Monthly charts. Thus even the tiniest tick movement is contributing to the fulfillment of the big picture. A single tick movement might seem as insignificant as a tiny atom, but remember that your body is entirely comprised of a bunch of insignificant atoms, just as a single Monthly candle is comprised of countless insignificant ticks. On the molecular level things may appear purely chaotic, but there is an order to things as the cumulatively order themselves as they form a baby from a single cell into a full human being – just as tick movements build the full grown Monthly candles.
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ALPINE, N.J. — The mansion belonging to a Russian oligarch who plotted to aid U.S. President Donald Trump in incriminating Hillary Clinton is selling his Alpine home for $6.9 million, NJ.com reports.
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Miranda Kerr: Modeling Could All Stop Tomorrow
Miranda Kerr arrives at LAX Airport to catch a flight out of town on Thursday (March 1) in Los Angeles.
The 28-year-old Aussie model recently returned to the U.S. after spending time in Sydney, where she took part in a runway show for David Jones.
PHOTOS: Check out the latest pics of Miranda Kerr
Miranda also covers HauteMuse's latest issue and revealed that she knows that she won't be modeling forever but is excited to do other things, too.
"It could all stop tomorrow with modeling; it really wouldn't faze me," she said. ""It's not going to be around forever and that's okay because I have so many other things that I want to do in my life."
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When weather forecasts suggest that the winter of 2015/16 could be a particularly cold one for northern Europe, preparing your home becomes considerably more of a priority. There are several measures you can take to winterproof your property, minimise your energy expenditure and stay warm until spring.
Gardens and guttering
Check that any paving surrounding your property is draining well after rainy spells. If you see that water collects, in the cold weather this could freeze, leading to cracks in the foundations or ice underfoot. The solution will be dependent on several factors, so contact a draining specialist for an independent assessment.
Low-hanging branches within close proximity to fences, walls or windows could cause damage in a storm and should be removed. Look over your roof and walls for any signs of damage, contacting a professional to carry out repairs on problem areas. Even seemingly cosmetic issues such as cracked roof tiles could prevent your home from heating efficiently and let in damaging rainwater, so it's important that they're replaced as soon as possible.
Have your external gutters thoroughly cleaned to avoid fallen leaves and debris causing blockages. If it's particularly wet where you're living, then collected rain water can drench walls and even freeze, harming the exterior of your property.
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Insulation is one of the best ways to prevent heat loss from a home. However, insulation will sometimes need to be replaced or improved, so it's worth getting your house assessed by an expert. Insulating attics, external walls, the boiler and even the basement ceiling thoroughly and effectively will vastly improve the energy efficiency of your home.
Similarly, insulating, or lagging, pipes in the winter prevents them from freezing and reduces heat loss. External pipes and taps, pipes running under garages and those in attics are all at risk of weather damage if they aren't properly insulated. If you're going away for a short time leave your heating programmed on low, at least for a few hours a day, as extra insurance against freezing and cracking.
Open fires are a wonderful way to keep cosy in the cold weather and bring a dark house to life. However, after a summer of no usage, it's important to sweep out the chimney first. There should be an authoritative body of chimney sweeps in your country; confirm that your sweep is registered before hiring.
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Bankers Warn Congress Over Debt Ceiling, and More
What's News: Wall Street warns GOP and Obama administration officials over the dangers of hitting the debt ceiling. Americans fall behind in global literacy and numeracy. PayPal unveils a new service. Sara Murray reports.
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We're recommending folks only use 'softcore' characters.
The rules are very similar to Minesquish.
- No griefing. Don't touch it if it belongs to someone else.
- No harassing other players.
- No swearing.
- Don't create large holes or similarly death-inducing death traps.
(it IS an 'Expert World', but has NOT progressed to 'hard mode' yet)
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The wealthy city-state of Singapore, which boasts a high quality of life, is also home to Asia's unhappiest employees, according to a new survey, closely followed by rival financial hub Hong Kong.
Twenty-three percent of those polled in the island nation said they did not feel motivated in their current roles and their skills were not being used effectively, the 2013/14 Randstad World of Work Report revealed - a notch higher than Hong Kong where 22 percent of employees were unsatisfied in their jobs.
"Job satisfaction is lowest in the booming finance and business hubs Hong Kong and Singapore, where skilled talent is in short supply and the demands placed on employees are particularly high," recruitment and human resource services provider Randstad wrote in the report published Wednesday. The survey polled over 14,000 professionals across Asia Pacific aged 18-65.
(Read more: From brats to bosses - Gen Y to dominate by 2025)
Three key reasons are causing job dissatisfaction across the region: misalignment with the company culture; difficult bosses; and being asked to do more in a given role without receiving the upskilling required to achieve productivity gains.


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