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Bogus Stats Again: BSA Puts Out Its Yearly Propaganda About Software Piracy
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This year's report is no different. It's more of the same ridiculousness, with a clueless press reporting (totally inaccurately) that the study says that software piracy "costs" the economy $63.4 billion. That's simply not true. What the report did find was not actually surprising or even very interesting. It's that people in developing countries tend to infringe more often. You probably knew that already, but if you wanted evidence for that, you shouldn't look to the BSA and its bogus stats, but a thorough, comprehensive and independent review of the market, such as the one done by Joe Karaganis and SSRC last year. That report found the reason that there was increased piracy in developing markets was because clueless companies don't realize that people aren't going to pay a month's salary for a single digital good.
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Thankfully, at least some people are calling the BSA out on its bogus report, such as by noting that it's political propaganda designed to get legislation like SOPA and PIPA passed. The reality, of course, is that it shows how out of touch the BSA is with the innovation economy today, instead working to lock up and protect the interests of its major funders: Microsoft, Symantec and Intuit. Those companies are threatened by upstarts with better business models, and the best they can do is to support legislation that will lock down the internet, causing more harm than good for true innovation.
The "Bogus Stats Again" report from the BSA isn't about dealing with piracy. It's a way of white washing an agenda of protectionism for some large software companies who don't want to compete or to adapt.


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Mindy Weisel
The first baby born in the Displaced Persons Camp at Bergen-Belsen right after the war, Mindy Weisel grew up with the responsibility to "be everything" to her parents, who had survived Auschwitz.
Today, she is an acclaimed abstract artist, working in paint and glass. She has had international commissions and exhibitions; her pieces are in the permanent collections of the Israel Museum, Vad Yasem, the Baltimore Museum of Art, the Smithsonian Institution, among others.
Mindy's parents were hard-working immigrants in New York City until they moved their family to Los Angeles when she was eleven. She studied at California State University and received a BFA from George Washington University in 1977.
In her interview, she talks about how she felt when she realized that not every father had a number on his arm and that other children had grandparents and extended families. She describes the impact on her life and work of discovering the only drawing her father ever made—a sketch of a sunrise at Bergen Belsen in 1946 — and her fascination with her father's number.
Mindy speaks about trips to Germany, where she visited Dachau and met with grandchildren of Nazis, and to Cairo, where she told her story to a group of Egyptian women. Mindy believes deeply that person-to-person connections are what make it possible to move forward with hope.
While her life story informs her work, her art is not about the tragedy and horror of the Holocaust. She has said that she hasn't done Holocaust paintings since 1979. Instead she conveys the tension between darkness and light and above all, seeks beauty.
At the age of 18, she married a modern Orthodox man, Sheldon Weisel, now a Washington, D.C. attorney; they have three daughters and five grandchildren.
Full Transcript and Video
October 19, 2010
Deborah Ross [DR]: Mindy, why don't we start a little bit with your family background. Tell us about the circumstances of your birth.
Mindy Weisel [MW]: Well, my mother and my father were both Eastern European Jews. My mother from Hungary; my father from Romania, Sighet. They both were taken to Auschwitz. My father was 19, my mother was 21. They survived the camps, and when they were liberated at Bergen-Belsen, they found each other and they got married. I was the first child born at Bergen-Belsen, January 7, 1947.
DR: You were an only child?
MW: I was an only child for six years, and then my brother was born. My mother gave birth to a stillborn after surviving Auschwitz, before. I think the bodies were so ravaged. David Grossman says that it's heroic that the survivors ever have children. I find it just physically miraculous that they could have children.
DR: How old were you when you became aware of your parents' background?
MW: That's a very interesting question because I'm currently reading journals. It turns out I started keeping journals when I was 13 years old, so I have 50 years of journals that I'm reading now for this memoir that I'm working on. It's not so much that I was aware of the Holocaust [but that] as I was slowly getting older I realized, Wait a minute. Some people have grandparents. Everybody I knew did not have grandparents and some people didn't have numbers on their arms, and things like that, so it was kind of an awareness [I had] as I was getting older. By 13 I know I knew because I record a conversation that I overheard, and I said, They were talking about the Holocaust.
DR: Did you feel comfortable asking your parents about it?
MW: I didn't even have a chance to because my father was so open about it. He would talk about it, and my mother—this is my emphasis in life—my mother did not want to talk about the tragedies of Auschwitz. She wanted to talk about the beauty that existed before the war, and her home, and her mother. She worked really hard in painting a real picture of my grandmother, and her sisters, and her family in Europe and how they lived. And she worked very hard to recreate that in America.
DR: Do you have photos of your parents' families?
MW: I have one picture of my grandmother. My father has a family picture. My father's family—the story is actually quite remarkable. There were eleven children and 9 survived the war. So the two youngest were killed, as were my grandparents. My mother's family, she was the only one of her sisters who survived, and a couple of brothers survived with her. Her parents were also killed.
DR: You said you started keeping journals when you were 13. Did you ever ask yourself, Why?
MW: Now I do. I was very very fortunate in my life. When I was 10 years old I moved to California, which was not an easy thing because I loved life in New York. I had aunts and uncles. There was public transportation. I was urban, raised as an urban kid. I could go to the library. When I was six already I was on the subways by myself. I was pretty independent. You go to LA in 1959-60 there's no public transportation. Your parents disappear, and it was a very lonely time. But I met a cousin who was 30 years old at the time, she's now 83, I'm 63. We have been friends for 50 years. And she was American. Her aunts and uncles had come over from the camps also. She always felt for me. She introduced me to Shelly, my husband, when I was 13. And she kept a journal, and for my 13th birthday, she gave me a journal. I felt like it became a place where I could write without worrying about how what I was thinking and feeling was affecting anybody else around.
4:30 When you're a holocaust survivor's child, there really isn't much room for your own emotional life, you're very busy trying to make life very perfect for these people who've been through so much.
DR: You've written and spoken about how you felt the need to be everything for them. Do you feel that that in some way has been transferred to your own children?
MW: I think, I worked very hard with my own three daughters to have them feel that their mother was working on her own happiness. I spent my entire life trying to make my mother happy and take away some of the sadness. And of course, that was a small impossibility. It was a big impossibility. I worked very hard at always trying to be... She wanted me to get married at 18 because they were Orthodox, and people didn't live together. I was already dating my husband for two years; we got married. Whatever [she wanted]; anything that fit into her vision. Except that she wanted me to be a dental hygienist because I had nice teeth. (laughter) I wanted to be an artist.
DR: You've spoken about your mother as being such an elegant and beautiful woman who appreciated the finer things in life, and the life that they had before the war was so beautiful. Did you grow up with an aesthetic sensibility?
MW: Yes, although my mother didn't really have it I don't think. I think I grew up somewhat delusional. You would think listening to my mother that I grew up like Diane von Furstenburg or something. The truth is they owned a home, and they had servants, and they owned a bakery in Budapest. They were somewhat educated, but my mother longed for her only daughter to feel as if she was royalty. You would really think so. I grew up in this home, where only now looking back I realize that so much of it was in her imagination and the life she wanted me to have. But she had an aesthetic—she always loved fresh flowers. You know my mother worked very very hard. My mother and father bought a bakery and my mother worked in the front for 12 hours a day; my father worked in the back for 14 hours a day. I had no idea what leisure was until I met this American cousin who had a chaise! A chaise lounge! I'd never seen one in my life!
DR: You first picked up a paintbrush or a drawing book as a young teenager?
MW: I brought something I'd like to show you that I think truly changed my life. When I was 12 I found a very old battered suitcase that my parents had brought with them on the boat from Europe. In it were these weathered pages from a notebook. There were Yiddish songs that my father had written. I found one drawing. [holds up drawing] I'll describe this drawing, because it probably had the greatest influence of anything in my whole life and I say this without any drama. I just think it did.
8:14 I was 12 years old, and I find this drawing in pencil that my father did in Bergen-Belsen in 1946 a year before I was born of the barn in the distance and the animals, and a sun coming up. And I ran to my father and I said, I didn't know you knew how to draw, and my father said, I didn't, and I said, Here's this drawing and my father said, Mindele, I don't know what came over me, I had to get the sun coming up.
Well here my father, 1946, he was 21, and the sun was coming up. And here's my father with the number, and I know already at that age that he's a Holocaust survivor. I think that's when I realized it's something viable, that you can make a mark that can say something. Seeing this drawing, my father never had made a drawing before and has never made a drawing since. And this lives with me ever since I'm twelve.
DR: Did you take lessons?
MW: Yes, I was in high school. You always see or hear stories—there's one teacher—and there was one teacher. My art teacher in Fairfax High School, Mrs. Rose, who said, You know, you should be doing this. And I started drawing, and then started taking classes. I ended up majoring in art in college, and [did] graduate work in painting.
DR: Did you ever wonder if you had not become an artist, how you would have expressed everything that was inside you?
MW: I might have killed myself, and I don't say it lightly at all. I think there is a trauma. There's no other word. An inherited trauma at being a Holocaust survivor's child, knowing that your parents had endured this, knowing the loss that they're living with; feeling like, oh my God, your birth is nothing short of a miracle. How could you make every minute meaningful and important, and so there's always a little bit of a sense of, Have I done enough today?
DR: How do you feel when you're working in your studio?
MW: That's a very good question, because it has changed over the years. I've been painting since 1978, so that's 32 years. I mean really seriously painting, where I finished my graduate work, and my professor said to me in 1978, Helaine Hertzberg said,
12: "If you make work from yourself you'll be fine." And I became obsessed with my father's number from Auschwitz and did 30 paintings. I did a hundred out of which 30 [were for the series]. For one year I had a studio without any heat on 8th and F Streets. I felt it was so appropriate for this series I that was working on. And I would call my father in California every day and say, Tell me a story. I start each painting by writing what I'm thinking and feeling. So if you ask me about the experience of painting, in 1978-79, it was wanting to tell their story.
Then when I finished that series, I did a series called, Lily in Blue, about my mother being given a cobalt blue dress when she came to America. At that stage [it was] her favorite color. That was an explosion of color. And then, it shifted back. I did a series called Black Gifts. I felt like I was born into such darkness, but my life was such a gift. When you look at the work of the Black Gift series, there really is such a sense of color trying to come out of the darkness. It was as if two bodies of work had clashed, and I thought I was rid of the darkness, and I thought I could move on with the color, but it didn't let me. I did a very strong painting which I have in my own private collection, called Who's the Driver? I felt driven. And then every year it just became a reflection of what I was experiencing.
DR: When your parents saw your work, how did they respond?
MW: That's a great question, because my parents had not a clue what it meant to be an artist. They thought I was crazy going down to 8th and F to this building with bums in the building. But my mother really had a sense that I was serious about it, and I think they understood that I could do something creatively. It took a long time.
14:22 I don't think it was by accident that the first serious work I did had my father's number. Because my father at one point said, Monkeys could paint. Somebody in L.A. at the frame shop--I was 15--I had done a drawing--and the framer called and said, Somebody wants to buy your drawing. I'll never forget this. The framer said, Would you be willing to sell it for 35 dollars? And I said to my father, Tate, somebody wants to buy a painting of mine for 35 dollars, and my father said, What? Are they foolish? So I didn't grow up exactly with anybody understanding about art.
But then when my father stood next to a 6 foot by 8 foot canvas at the Jewish Museum in New York with his number in it, it was pretty potent. I took myself very seriously from the beginning, and so it forced everyone around me [to], and I was very fortunate that I had a husband who really believed in my being a painter.
DR: How did your children and your husband respond to your work?
MW: They're the most supportive team that any artist in the world could have. It wasn't easy because there were years that I really felt like maybe I needed to leave my family. Maybe I needed to be alone, in New York and painting. It was hard. I would literally drop my three girls, five years apart, I would drop them at three different schools. I would run to the studio and paint my heart out and very often—this is real—I would lie down on the cold wood floor just to close my eyes before I would have to carpool again. There was nothing romantic about my life as a painter. What was romantic was that I got to go exhibits, and I could say it was work. I got to go to New York and look at everything. I got to read everything. I got to see everything. Things that were my passion, for me they were my life as a painter. That was the romantic part. The actual living a life of a painter was not easy because I was mothering as seriously as I was painting.
DR: Your father is still living. Did your mother live to see your success?
MW: Yes, my mother did. My first successful show, I mean really the first show that was critically reviewed, to acclaim and sales and collectors and all of that, whatever you call success, it's a funny word for me, and I don't think I'll ever feel successful enough, but it was something that she saw, that I was being respected.
DR: You say it's a funny word.
MW: Success is very strange. You know, what's success? The Museum of Modern Art still doesn't have a painting of mine, so am I successful? It depends. You know, I mean, there's never enough. [laughter]
DR: Let me rephrase the question: Have you met your goals as an artist?
MW: No, never. I don't think until you die do you meet your goals. My mother came to my first show at the Jewish Museum in New York, and she came to every exhibition after. And a lot of them were named after her. The exhibition she missed which was probably the greatest exhibition I ever did was after she died. My mother was dying, and her doctor who had an aunt who was a survivor was very kind to my mother and said, Lily, let's dance. And I told my mother I would do an exhibition called Lily, Let's Dance, and I really didn't know how. How would I honor my mother? I'd already done all these paintings with her color. I'm the only daughter, and I'd gone home to deal with her clothing. I found a factory where I could take her dresses, and have them ground down, and made into handmade paper. I used that handmade paper, made out of my mother's dresses, and did a series called, Lily, Let's Dance. What's wonderful about the "let's dance" is my mother's initials are L D so every border had L D L D Lily Deutsch Let's Dance, Lily Deutsch Let's Dance and the series was called, Lily, Let's Dance. One piece ended up in the Israel Museum. So that was nice.
DR: If you had to categorize yourself would you say that you are a Jewish artist, an American artist, Holocaust artist, post-Holocaust artist?
MW: I've been asked that a lot.
19:00 I think being an artist is being an artist. Being an artist means that you bring to your work what is important to you. Because if your work is not about what's deep inside you it really doesn't have any potency. It doesn't have any meaning. What's very important to me is my Jewishness. I've never seen it though as a separate thing. It's not like I was raised any other way, [that] it was a choice, and I accepted my Jewishness, that I embraced it. There was none of that. I was raised in an Orthodox home. As I've become older, I've become less and less observant. (My children would say I've become less superstitious.) I never saw my Jewishness as a separateness.
As far as the Holocaust is concerned, I'm not interested as an artist in expressing the horrors. I am very interested in the survival of beauty. And I try to express that with the color and the light coming through. After thirty years of working, I started working with glass, which is the ultimate light coming through.
DR: Could you talk about your transition from working in paint and graphics to working in glass?
MW: It was purely fortuitous. For seven months I'd been walking around feeling like I needed something different from painting. I walked into a glass studio in downtown Silver Spring and I saw this woman teaching somebody how to do fused glass. I was there the next day. I didn't have a clue what I was getting into. I'll never forget this: There was a woman who was learning there and she said, Listen, I think you should really make a chart, that this is opaque, and this is transparent, and this is darker and deeper, and I looked at her like, Are you kidding? I'm an abstract painter, I can no sooner follow a chart than follow a recipe any more! I still don't know what I'm doing, but the work is glorious because I'm totally free and very open to it.
DR: It's very beautiful.
MW: Thank you. My husband says, How can you say your work is beautiful? And I'll say because once I've done it, it's somebody else's. I'm not talking about my work anymore. I'll be the first to say, Oh, I don't like it. Or God, it's wonderful. In the same wonder that somebody else might say, How did that get done? I'm a vehicle, I'm just a vehicle. I don't feel very conscious when I'm working.
DR: On the spectrum of darkness and light and beauty, and things that are not beautiful, where do you put yourself in terms of your outlook toward life?
MW: I'm very optimistic. I'm a great believer in you pick yourself up, you figure it out, you move forward. I have worked very very hard at finding a self, and living a life. I had a nervous breakdown when I was 27. It took moving 3000 miles away from my parents to have space where I could even have a nervous breakdown because when I was around them I had to be perfect and make them happy. I'd watched their face all the time and I had very little feeling of how I felt.
When I was six years old, I was already taking the subways by myself from my school in Borough Park to my parents' bakery in Bensonhurst. I'd get to the bakery. I was an anxious wreck on that train. Would the doors close too quickly? Would I miss my stop? Would I leave my homework? Once I left my eyeglasses. I'd get to my parents' business and nobody said, the way I would say to my children now, So how was your day, darling? How are you? They'd say, Say hi to Rose, the salesgirl, and Be nice, You can wait, Mindele understands. There was always being treated like an adult. So there was no childhood, which Helen Epstein has written about at great length in Children of the Holocaust.
DR: Yet, it sounds like they loved you very much.
MW: I think that was the saving factor. I had damaged parents. There is no one who survived the camps who isn't damaged. Did they love me? Probably fiercely. Beyond. If I got hurt, my mother would hit me. She wouldn't embrace me; she would really hit me. Because how could I let myself be hurt? I remember being 11 years old, I was being sent from Los Angeles back to New York to visit my cousins and aunts and uncles, and it was a very very bumpy flight. I kept praying, Oh please God, don't let the plane go down because my parents won't survive. Not that I'm going to die. There was not an ounce of fear for myself, it was just like Please, don't make them go through anything more. So there was that early awareness of what they had gone through.
DR: Can we talk about your Jewish identity? I know growing up in an Orthodox home, it was something "everyday". What level of observance did you bring to your home when you were raising your children?
MW: It changed also over the course of 45 years. When I got married, I married somebody who was Modern Orthodox and we created our own home together. I became more and more liberal. My husband is still pretty much the same dedicated, Modern Orthodox [person] and we always kept Shabbat. We always kept holidays, we always kept Kosher. We would only eat fish out, things like that. When I was a child, we would tear the toilet paper before Shabbat so as not to tear, not to do any activity at all on Shabbat.
DR: Your kids don't do that?
MW: My kids don't do it.
DR: As the child of survivors, did you ever have the sense that being Jewish was something you'd rather not have to deal with?
MW: Never. Not only that, I'm so proud. It was very shocking to me to learn that most Israelis who are my age who are Holocaust survivors' children don't acknowledge it because when their parents came to Israel after the camps, they didn't want their children to feel that they were like lambs taken to the slaughter. They were going to be Israelis, and Zionist, and tough. We went to New York, and everybody I knew was a Holocaust survivor's child and I was very proud, and I'm still very proud. My father's my hero. He never complains.
DR: So it was a legacy you accepted.
MW: I was proud of it. I never knew differently. The only thing I'm sorry about is I have to be so anxious. I grew up with such a sense of the knock on the door, or of impending doom. It's taken years, literally 30 years of therapy, of really devoted work and believing in living in this moment, that that's all we have.
DR: What's the secret?
27:00 I've learned how to live in the moment. You can't change anything that you can't control. There's a great quote in the Talmud—I love this quote—"At the end of one's life, one is held responsible for the permissible pleasures that one has not allowed oneself." My mother and father with everything they went through all they wanted was I should be happy. Now that can be a real burden because there's no room for feeling low or feeling angry or feeling upset. I mean who can be happy all the time? You don't want to recognize your emotional life.
28:10 You have to want to be happy. Ever since I was a child, I really wanted to be happy. By nature I'm very optimistic. I have friends who call me a force for the good. To me that's the highest compliment, just the highest.
DR: Do you remember your first visit to Israel?
MW: Yes, I got married very young, I was 18 and my husband was 19 and I knew that I had a lot of uncles who had gone to Israel after the war, so Israel was something I grew up with hearing about in my home. But I had never gone with my parents. It wasn't like I sent my kids on youth groups, but when my husband and I got married we actually thought we were going to go live in Israel for a year. The Vietnam War broke out and he had to go to law school, and we never did have our year in Israel. But we started going every year in 1968. His whole family is very Zionistic and they actually moved to Israel about 28 years ago. Everyone. We're the only ones here. We used to schlep all three kids, every year, put them in summer programs. It's not by accident that one of our daughters ended up in Israel.
DR: It sounds like you're not upset about it?
MW: It took one year. For one whole year after she made aliya, I would wake up at three o'clock in the morning and I could not wrap my brain around the fact that my University of Chicago kid was in Israel. How did that happen so fast? She'd gone to Israel her junior year, but we never really thought she'd end up in Israel. It took a year, and now I'm thrilled, because hopefully my husband and I will be spending more and more time [there], which has always been a dream of ours. At least we'll have one daughter there. And that feels good.
DR: So you feel connected to Israel?
MW: Yes, and I'm proud of her, she has more courage.
DR: I know you've travelled a lot with your art. Talk a little bit about your visit to Germany.
MW: I have travelled a lot. In Cairo I spoke to a whole group of Egyptian women who cried when I talked about the Holocaust. I've talked to a lot of cultures. The most unusual trip was this trip in 2009 to Germany. I had an exhibition in Berlin, and the United States State Department sent me almost like a cultural ambassador. They put together an itinerary of me speaking to Germans in Hamburg, Berlin, a burnt-out bunker in Kiel, at Dachau, to groups of students and [they] ended up taking me to Bergen-Belsen where I was born.
What's unusual about this trip is that a lot of the people I spoke with were Nazis' descendents—children, grandchildren—and I spoke very strongly about how we can't move forward in hate. I've developed some really genuinely close friendships, where we email, and visit each other, and it's just part of my life.
DR: What's the lesson you take away from this?
MW: I always, even as a kid, I remember,
32:00 I really want to know who somebody is. When I was a visiting artist at Haifa University in 1986, I had a class full that felt like truly what Israel was. I had an Arab student, I had a British soldier, in his 70's, who was in the British Army, I had an Israeli crippled soldier who painted with his mouth, I had a Shalom Achshav Peace Now woman. I think that experience, teaching a world in a class, [you learn that] people are people. I try to connect on a very human level to people.
It's not an accident that my daughter is such a humanitarian. At her wedding in Israel under her chuppah there was a Palestinian, a Jordanian, an American, an Israeli.
DR: Do you see yourself as a player in the story of the Jews?
MW: In a way our world is bigger than ever and in a way our world is smaller than ever. I could be at Bergen-Belsen talking to my father in California, and I can be in Israel, talking to my husband in Washington and I can be connected in a dialogue with artists and writers and people all over the country with the world of technology that we live in. To see myself as a player assumes a certain significance.
34:04 All I can hope is that my very strong belief in the survival of beauty and the necessity for beauty [will endure]. What does beauty mean? It means when my children growing up asked me if I believed in God, I said I don't know. It's very hard to believe in a God, after your whole family was killed in Auschwitz. But, look at the flowers. So flowers could make me believe in God.
My message has always been that I don't know--I'm not a philosopher, I'm not a scientist, I'm not a historian. I have in me the gift of being able to make art. The word, talent, by the way, is Greek, and it means responsibility. So when I teach and students ask me, Am I talented? I really will say, Do you accept the responsibility of being alone in a room, and feeling what you have to feel, and being honest with your materials? I would hope [that] as much as I can speak about the importance of moving on, proud to be Jewish, believing in staying open to other cultures and other dialogues, with people who were your enemies, I think that's the only way we can move forward.
Thank you, Mendy.
I found you via your statement on how TM changed your creativity.
I feel very close to your work. You, as a being and as an artist are inspiring me.
I am a half jewish woman born in Hamburg, raised in Lugano, immigrated to QuÌÄå©bec, Canada in 2005. I am a painter as you are - expressing my inner feelings. Now for almost 40 years.
I lost my youngest son in 2006 and I overcame my grief by being drawn into painting again. But completely changed: an explosion of colors! I see it as gift from my beloved son.
I wish you a wonderful, creative time. AmitiÌÄå©,
How to cite this page
Jewish Women's Archive. "Mindy Weisel." (Viewed on January 19, 2019) <https://jwa.org/exhibits/dc/weisel-mindy>.


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Inspired by the many, many, many, many beautiful string quilts out in the world, I've decided to try my hand at making one.
Truth be told, I decided to try this out six months ago but then proceeded to lose the muslin that I had bought for the backing. Of course, right after I bought some new muslin I found the old stuff. You know how that goes (or am I the only one?) Oh well. I'm sure I'll end up using all of the muslin anyway since I'm planning on making this one to fit our queen size bed.
|And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.
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WALTHAM, Mass. - Junior captain Doria Holbrook secured an NCAA qualifying score of 276.08 in the one-meter diving competition and freshman Ashley Pinchinat swam a lifetime best 2:05.73 in the 200-yard freestyle to help MIT overcome Brandeis University, 164-128, in non-conference action on Saturday afternoon. With the victory, the Engineers improve to 5-1 on the season, while the Judges fall to 1-7.
Holbrook, who earned ESPN The Magazine Academic All-America Accolades last season, also notched a score of 241.80 in three-meter diving, good for second place.
Senior Katherine Thornton was once again Tech's most consistent contributor, picking up three of the Cardinal and Gray's 10 victories. The El Cajon, Calif., native took individual top honors in the 200-yard freestyle (2:02.23) and the 200-yard backstroke (2:20.29) and was also part of the victorious 400-yard medley relay squad along with junior Sasha Brophy, sophomore Jen Chao and freshman Priya Parayanthal (4:17.08).
The Engineers were most impressive in the 50-yard freestyle, in which the trio of senior captain Stephanie Sidelko (25.43), Brophy (26.71) and Chao (27.01) finished 1-2-3, respectively.
MIT also took the top two spots in a number of other events. Pinchinat (57.73) and senior captain Jessica Harpole (59.22) finished 1-2, respectively, in the 100-yard freestyle, while freshman Rachel Price (5:37.73) and junior Katy Sorenson (5:44.53) took top honors in the 500-yard freestyle. Meanwhile, sophomore Nicole O'Keeffe (2:22.76) finished second behind Thornton in the 200-yard backstroke.
Tech also received individual victories from O'Keeffe in the 1000-yard freestyle (11:01.78), Parayanthal in the 100-yard backstroke (1:04.85) and freshman Ellie Souganidis (1:14.35) in the 100-yard breaststroke.
The diving portion of the meet was hosted by MIT on Saturday morning, while the swimming competition was hosted by Brandeis later in the afternoon.
MIT will not have much time to celebrate its victory, as the Engineers will return to Cambridge to host New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference foes U.S. Coast Guard Academy and Springfield College on Sunday, Jan. 14 at 1:00 p.m. Brandeis will host another NEWMAC school, Clark University, on Wednesday, Jan. 17 at 6:30 p.m.


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HARRISBURG, Pa. – Separate preliminary hearings are slated next week for the Pennsylvania newlyweds police say fatally stabbed a stranger they lured through Craigslist because they wanted to kill somebody together.
Twenty-two-year-old Elytte Barbour and 18-year-old Miranda Barbour, of Selinsgrove in central Pennsylvania, are scheduled to appear Friday at the Northumberland County Courthouse. They are charged with criminal homicide and other offenses in the apparently random killing of 42-year-old Troy LaFerrara, of Port Trevorton, in Sunbury on Nov. 11.
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A big cup of "zip it" or the definative final P67 vs X58 answer threadJCschild May 19, 2011 3:14 PM
none of this will matter in 6 months however until then... this should be a sticky
2600K, Motherboard, 16gig ram $711
990x, motherboard, 12 gig ram $1408 24Gig ram $1552
why the 990x? its the only processor that can match or beat the 2600k either stock for stock or 4.7 vs 4.0GHz over clocks
this is fact not fiction you can not go by PPBM user submitted, due to far too many varibles both in user set up and hardware differences.
however when we use PPBM with identical systems other than swapping the 990 to the 2600 it shows the same as our in house tests.
(and not a negative comment with concern to the wonderful makers of PPBM Bill and Harm so please dont tkae it that way.. for an end user submitted test its fabulous!)
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16GB Blackline 1600 CL 9
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you need a big raid array for AVCHD!
Complete nonsense.. same applies for needing a dual Xeon..
same test with a big 8 drive raid array
I7 2600K 4.7 GHz 16GB Blackline 1600 CL 9 570GTX 8 WD 1Tb Sata 64 Meg Cache 600 Drives in Raid 5 array with RS2BL080 controller 3 Layer - 29:33 4 Layer - 33:26 WOW that finished so much faster.. NOT. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
I7 2600K 4.7 GHz
16GB Blackline 1600 CL 9
8 WD 1Tb Sata 64 Meg Cache 600 Drives in Raid 5 array with RS2BL080 controller
3 Layer - 29:33
4 Layer - 33:26 WOW that finished so much faster.. NOT.
but you can't add a Capture/preview card to P67!
really? where did you hear this absurd fallacy? do you believe everything you read on the internet?
we have shipped a huge amount of systems with Decklink, in them, a few Aja and a few matrox <-- driver issue not P67 issue.. same issue occurs on X58
We are not talking about using all the slots only adding a 1X card
16x is off the processor and isolated (assuming you only have a vid card) however there are generally 2 16x when adding something into the 2nd 16x is when that get reduced to 2x 8 electrical
(Will have a definitive answer as to if adding a raid card into the other 16x will reduce video or drive ability in a day or so) tired of hearing about that as well..
There is an additional 8 PCIe X1 off the south bridge if you will or PCH. An average board looks like this.
1) firewire
2) GB Ethernet
3) eSata
4) PCIe to PCI bridge
5) PCIe to USB3
6,7,8) actual 1x slots
Each 1x is capable of 5GB/s
The DMI is 20GB/s
That means 4 of the 1X can be active at full bandwidth at once, (where it seems people arrived at the 20 lanes) or all 8 at 1/2 bandwidth.
Let me also remind you that I know of nothing that saturates the PCIe bus 100% not even raid cards (assuming an 8x or 4x slot) and certainly not a capture card.
In various benchmark tests of PCI vs PCIe there were little to no difference in ability. (raid cards, capture cards, pro audio interfaces)
All that to say again nothing uses the full bandwidth.
Looking at all 8 PCIe 1x slots/connections I don't see 4 being used simultaneously under any circumstance. Even adding a pro audio interface into the mix.
So again adding a capture/preview card to the sandy bridge platform works 100% right and with 100% performance ability. (not counting the driver issues with matrox)
But you can't add a raid card to P67!
i am here to tell you yes you can and without using N200 chipset motherboard.
we (well Slacker Eric, in his defense he has been swamped) finally tested this. i only asked since Jan/Feb.
Adding an Intel RSBL080 8 drive raid controller see above test. not only did performance NOT decrease it increased, albeit a whopping 10 seconds.
yes the video card was reduced to a paltry 8x and according to the bios only running @ 2.5 GB/s where the raid card showed a full 5GB/s
yet there was no drop in cuda perfomance at all and all effects we use on our tests are cuda effects.
Now in all fairless of disclosure the drive benchmarks dropped from our previous tests on X58 which is odd, we are guessing the video card as its ramping up would take bandwidth from the controller even though its supposed to be running 8x.
previous X58
Intel SAS RS2PI080 8 Port controller with 512 DDR2 Ram
8x WD 1TB SATA 6 Gb/s, 64 MB Cache, 7200 RPM
8 Drive Raid 5 - 703.8MB/s read 670MB/s Write
with Sandy Bridge 550MB/s read 522 MB/s write
so here we do see a decent drop in performance.
1) this is still plenty of speed for even RED footage.
2) if you need more speed than that you should be on dual 3.33GHz Xeons anyway
3) the only point to having a large raid on a sandy or X58 in the first place is for redundacy. and even that does not replace back up..
So i can not see nor justify any reason to continue buying an X58 platform unless you just like to spend $841 more for nothing!
and remember these are the "budget" Sandy Bridge
i can't wait until they release the big dogs.


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I don't know about anyone else but I'm getting sick of "Motorman's" snide comments bashing Jerry. You were doing it over at "TC" and they told you stop, now you do it over here? If you don't have anything constructive to say don't say anything at all. JMO
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Quote from: Hot302 on September 28, 2013, 04:57:44 PMhttp://www.camaros.net/forums/showthread.php?t=207776 Go over to "TC" and read the story on the 69 Z/28 Barn Find. Very interesting story and good reading if you can put up with "Motorman's" attitude.FYI.. 'Motorman' (Clem) is a great guy, and knows more about cars and engines (especially performance) than probably any 10 of us on this site.. He 'developed' that 'attitude' due to his belief that he was being called a 'liar' some some parties, or not knowing what he purchased, when he knew damn well what he purchased. He told me about that car (along with John Z and others) several years ago, well before this issue came up on TC and here. I'd advise Clem to 'let it go' and people will come around, because his story is correct and anyone who isn't 'color blind' can tell that even from the photos that were posted on TC. and I'd adise others to give Clem some credit, and not get on his case. HOW would you react if someone called you a liar or a 'no nothing' in a public forum?


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Then there's the question of what is meant by "how much". You could count up the distance, but for steep roads, distance isn't the real story. 100 meters of 20% road isn't half "as much" as 200 meters of 10%: they climb about the same vertical. The more relevant question is how much altitude is gained at a given grade or steeper.
Then how do you assess grade? If I measure the route profile to the resolution of a pebble, then the grade may tend to be extremely high. So you need to apply numerical smoothing. So I did exactly what I did in rating climbs:
- Interpolate the profile to a 10 meter mesh
- Smooth the profile with a characteristic length of 50 meters
- Estimate how much time it takes "a typical rider" to ride each section of the course
- Apply a smoothing function with time constant 15 seconds, since steep sections which can be ridden in 15 seconds or less are easier than something of the same grade which is part of a more extended steep segment due to momentum and stored muscular energy.
Here I plot some results for climbs from the last two years of the Low-Key Hillclimbs. These are the most highly-rated (using the Low-Key rating formula) climbs the series has done so far: Alba Road, Bohlman-Norton-Quickert-On Orbit-Bohlman, and Welch Creek Road. Each of these climbs is nasty, that nobody would deny. I also add in this Saturday's Sierra Road, and week 2's Old La Honda Road, which is the 100-point reference for the rating system, being the world's canonical cycling climb.
First, Old La Honda is small potatoes compared to these other guys. On the logarithmic scale, the content starts dropping off a serious cliff at around 9%: of the 393 vertical meters gained, only 50 meters exceeds 10%
Sierra Road is a lot tougher than Old La Honda. It gains around 170 meters at 10% or more. still, it's not quite in the league of the remaining three.
Alba Road appears next, a lot tougher than Sierra, but not quite delivering the super-steepness in the same quantity as Welch or Bohlman-Norton. But hey -- how's that? It ranks higher using the Low-Key Hillclimb rating scheme. To tell why this is requires a closer look.
Consider Welch Creek first. Alba gains more vertical (grade at least 0%) and holds that advantage out to grades of at least 8%. Only beyond this point does Welch Creek win. Since total climbing matters, even if there is a bonus given to steeper portions, Alba's increased net climbing wins the day even if Welch Creek has the edge in steep. And Alba certainly is no slouch on steep.
But what about Bohlman-Norton? That an interesting one: Bohlman-Norton gains more altitude starting with almost every grade. How can it therefore rank lower?
The answer is On Orbit Lane, which has the nastiest grades of that climb, contains a descent before returning back to Bohlman, which continues the climb. The rating system deducts points for descents along the way, partally offsetting some of the climbing. The histogram doesn't show the descending portion, nor for that matter does it show perfectly flat sections. it just shoes portions which contribute positively to total climbing. Were that descent not there the Bohlman-On Orbit climbs would win over Alba, hands down.
So Alba wins on the points because it is relatively relentless. And that's how it should be. That little descent at the end of On Orbit Lane helps a lot. But despite it, Bohlman-Norton is still a formidable foe. Many would say it is considerably harder than Alba, and this plot shows why: around 130 vertical meters at at least 15% grade. My legs hurt just looking at the plot. It all comes down to individual preference.
Now I'll compare with two plots from my recent trip to Italy.
In black, I have Alba, the highest rated of the Low-Key climbs. From Italy, first the legendary Ghisallo in orange. You can see we in the San Francisco Bay area can be proud of our climbs here: the Alba, while not a world-class climb of the standards of the Dolomites or the Alps, perhaps, still shows its clear superiority to the climb to the Madonna, at least in terms of raw numbers (sorry: the Italian climb wins by an order of magnitude or more on style, and Alba has its share of style).
Then I plot in red the climb I rode, until I walked, from Dongo to the Rifuge Giovo. Wow! That's some serious grade action there. Add in the rough-hewn gravel surface on the steep portion, and you have a climb which would have been challenging on a mountain bike, let alone a skinny-tired road bike.
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Elias was born in a small town in the hill country of northeastern Slovakia. His family was Jewish, and he grew up in a religious home in which both Yiddish and Hungarian were spoken. His father was a peddler and his mother ran a small general store. Besides attending public schools, Elias received a formal Jewish education and attended Medzilaborce's rabbinical academy.
1933-39: The townspeople were mostly Jewish and worried about Nazi Germany. The German annexation of Austria in March 1938 alarmed us. Some left for Palestine, but our town's Jewish leadership opposed creating a Jewish state in Palestine. I was one of the few Zionists in town. When an independent Slovakia was created in March 1939, it became an ally of Nazi Germany and adopted anti-Jewish laws. We prayed to God to save us.
1940-44: The Slovakian government "Aryanized" our family business and we lost our livelihood. After my twentieth birthday, I was drafted into a Slovak labor battalion; ours was known as the "kosher battalion." I got the same pay as any other soldier, but instead of a gun, I had a shovel. My job was road construction. It was hard work but I was safe until October 1944 when the SS surrounded and captured us. Four days later I arrived at Auschwitz, where I was selected for slave labor rather than for the gas chamber.
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CARLISLE, PA - Senior Jonathan Rigaud rushed for 130 yards and tied a Johns Hopkins record with four rushing touchdowns as the 18th-ranked Blue Jays rolled past host Dickinson, 49-0, Saturday afternoon at Biddle Field. This is the sixth time in school history that a player has rushed for four touchdowns in a game.
Johns Hopkins (6-0, 5-0 Centennial) ran its regular season winning streak to 20 games, its Centennial Conference winning streak to 18 games and its road winning streak to 10 games. All three of those marks are school records.
It took Rigaud and the Blue Jays little time to take control as he scored on runs of six and 10 yards before the game was four minutes old. The touchdowns were set up by the Blue Jay defense and special teams, which blocked a punt and recovered a fumble on Dickinson's first two possessions.
After the Devils failed to generate a first down on the opening possession of the game, senior Adam Schweyer got free on the outside and blocked an Adam Kaminski punt that bounced out of bounds at the Red Devil six yard line. It took Rigaud and the Blue Jays just one play to cover those six yards as he raced untouched up the middle to open the scoring less than 90 seconds into the game.
Things went from bad to worse for DC on its next possession as quarterback Cole Ahnell was sacked by Michael Longo on second down and fumbled the ball away at the Red Devil 21. Four plays later Rigaud powered in from 10 yards out to give the Blue Jays a 14-0 lead with 11:40 remaining in the first quarter.
The 14-0 lead held until midway through the second quarter, when the Blue Jays scored on back-to-back possessions to double the lead before halftime.
Rigaud capped an 11-play, 70-yard drive with a one-yard scoring run to make it 21-0. Only once were the Blue Jays forced into a third-down situation on the drive and Rigaud accounted for 37 of the 70 yards on the drive.
Any hopes for a Dickinson rally were dashed late in the second quarter when the Blue Jays moved 80 yards in seven plays to push the lead to 28-0. The Devils went three-and-out after Rigaud's one-yard scoring run had made it 21-0 and gave the ball back to Hopkins with just over five minutes remaining. A 52-yard pass from junior Robbie Matey to classmate Dan Wodicka jump-started the drive and moved the ball from the JHU 10 to the Dickinson 38. Six plays later Matey found senior A.J. Safialone in the middle of the field from 10 yards out to make it 28-0.
The Blue Jays tacked on a five-yard scoring run by junior JD Abbott and a six-yard touchdown run from Rigaud in the third quarter and a 65-yard touchdown pass from Braden Anderson to Jared Beekmanin the fourth to close out the scoring.
While the offense generated 533 yards on the day, the Blue Jay defense came up with another strong outing as it generated three sacks, two interceptions and two fumble recoveries and held the Devils to 272 yards of total offense, including just 91 in the second half. Schweyer, who opened the game with the blocked punt, totaled eight tackles, as did freshman Keith Corliss.
Rigaud's 130 yards led a ground game that accounted for 207 yards and five touchdowns, while Matey was 19-of-26 for 261 yards with one touchdown and one interception. Wodicka had six receptions for 111 yards, while Bob D'Orazioadded six catches of his own for 78 yards.
Ahnell and Mike Carmella combined to go 18-of-34 for 135 yards with the two interceptions for Dickinson (2-4, 2-3 CC). Shawn Wilson did an effective job running the ball for Dickinson as he rushed eight times for 61 yards, but the four turnovers and blocked punt were more than the Devils could overcome in falling to the Blue Jays for the sixth straight time.
Johns Hopkins will return to action on Friday, October 19 when the Blue Jays host Gettysburg (5-1, 4-1 CC) in a key Centennial Conference showdown. The Bullets fell at Muhlenberg, 35-31, on Saturday.
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Wisdom Wednesday: A Quotable QuotePosted: August 25, 2010 Filed under: Genealogy | Tags: Quotes We Like, Wisdom Wednesday 1 Comment
For Wisdom Wednesday, I offer this pithy advice about the golden years from my great-great aunt Maggie Haigney Roche (1870-1964):
"Age doesn't floor you, unless you let it!"
Maggie lived to be 94 and was a live wire right up to the end, if newspaper accounts of her doings in Colonie and Watervliet, N.Y. are any indication. Mind you, she wasn't doing anything scandalous. She just was the sort of person who had a lot of friends and threw a lot of parties. Not a bad way to live — at any age.


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Reading Bike Girl's blog, I stumbled upon a calculator that does some magical mathematics. It spits out an approximate estimate of a cyclists miles per gallon equivalent from calories burned based on weight and average speed. Although cyclists are often fond of saying we get infinite MPG, that neglects the extra calories we consume for energy. The calculator over simplifies things a bit, but coming up with something exact would require so many variable as to become rather convoluted. So based on my weight and a average cruising speed of 16 mph when I'm not racing about, I get approximately 696 MPG. Pretty sweet.
I think it's useful to look at these sorts of comparisons in transportation to emphasize the advantages to converting trips to alternative means, especially shorter ones to being made by cycling and walking. Vehicles like the Toyota Prius are baby step in terms of efficiency, but marketing has many believing it's the de facto symbol of living green. It's not. The person commuting by bus every day may not even be thinking of it as an eco thing to do, but they are getting more MPG per passenger mile than a Prius driver will ever get in even the most ideal of conditions. As hybrid technology makes it's way into more and more bus fleets, that gap will only widen in favor of transit. If two commuters car pool in a car getting only 28 MPG, they are already beating a single occupant Prius driver in efficiency. Make it a party of 3 and the lone green driver is not looking so green anymore. In consumer research it was revealed 57% of Prius owners cited "Makes a statement about me", as their top reason for buying the car. Fuel Economy ranked 36% for comparison. It's not about being green, it's about looking green. We cannot let automobile companies get away with repainting them selves stewards of the planet while walking, cycling, and transit struggle for mind share and funding. The abysmal participation of car pooling today should not be considered acceptable.
And don't even get me started about the land use efficiency differences between cycling, transit and driving, which has nothing to do with fuel source. If today we magically converted all cars to full electric, and magically expanded our energy grid with all renewable power to handle the capacity (an unlikely scenario any time remotely soon), we would still be left with a laundry list of problems. The freeways and boulevards jammed with all electric cars, are still traffic jams. Much of the valuable land in our cities would still be parking lots. Tens of thousands of Americans would still die in automobile crashes every year. We cannot save the planet and improve quality of life in our cities with new engines alone. Sometimes it's the low tech solutions that make the biggest difference. If every able bodied American converted all trips 2 miles or less to cycling and walking, the impact would be many times more profound than the latest hybrid inching up a few MPG.
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
I Get 696 MPG (take that Prius), How About you?
at 8:25 AM Posted by Gary 3 comments
Labels: Activism, car culture, commuting, efficiency
Friday, March 27, 2009
Gone Racing
This Sunday is the LA Circuit Race, my second official race of the season (Feel My Legs was not USAC sanctioned, but totally sanctioned with awesome). A circuit race is basically a road race on a closed loop. For the purposes of race classification a circuit race (CT) is typically shorter in length and duration than a full road race (RR), but longer than a criterium (Crit). Crits are often on courses around a mile long around a city block with many laps, while the two circuit races I've done before were a couple miles along a single road with u-turns at both ends and fewer laps. To think of an analogy, a crit is like a dog chasing it's tail hopped up on sugar and caffeine, a circuit race is a dog excitedly running for a Frisbee and returning it for a few throws, and a road race is the dog ran away so far you can't see where he went too anymore, but later find him panting and starved for food in the hills somewhere.
This particular circuit race is special to me for a couple reasons. It's right next to where I went to college, and it happens to be on one of my favorite stretches of road in Los Angeles. It's on Westchester Parkway, just North of LAX, but with no traffic into or out of the airport. It's wide, impeccably paved, low automobile traffic, with a wide bike lane and a wide shoulder to the right of that. It's built to handle a level of traffic it never sees, except for perhaps this race every year.
The LACBC, continuing it's effort to reach out to more cyclists will be offering bike valet at the event. Car parking will be limited so if any curious readers want to check out some local racing, I highly recommend cycling, transit (BBB #3) or car-pooling to the race. I'm fond of this one because it's just the right distance from my house for the ride over to be a good warm up. If anyone is interested in watching this noob ride around really fast, I'm in the mens category 5 group A race at 4:30pm.
at 11:30 PM Posted by Gary 3 comments
Labels: circuit race, LAX, Race, road racing
Monday, March 23, 2009
Feel My Legs, I'm a Racer. A Ride Of Suffering, Glory, And Vegan Corndogs.
(Me climbing Fargo, 32% grade. Photography in this post by Ingrid Peterson)
On the 14th I participated in Swarm!'s annual Feel My Legs, I'm a Racer. This is basically an insane stage race, but instead of each stage being a variety of terrains, every stage is a short distance ridiculously steep hill. All are done in a day riding casually between each of the 10 hill stages, which actually felt great as recovery to be riding normal grades for a bit between each race. When I say ridiculous, I really mean it, who the hell thought it was a good idea to pave these things. Two of these streets, Eldred St. and Fargo St., are on the list of steepest streets in the world, taking spots 3 and 4 respectively. Looking at Fargo from the bottom, it appears almost to be some kind of launch ramp into outerspace. People tend to think of San Fransisco when they think of hills, but L.A., where it is hilly, has some monsters that put anything in S.F. to shame.
You might think with the intimidation factor of over 30% grade climbing, that's 30 ft up for 100 ft forward, and this being an underground sort of event, that you wouldn't see much of a turn out, but there were plenty of eager souls curious of the pain that lay in wait. Some came to race up the hills, some came just to see if they could do them at all, and some came just to watch other people hurt them selves. In all I think there were probably at least 40 at the start, and maybe 25 by the finish.
At the top of Baxter, one of the steeper of the 10 hills that day, a school bus beached it self at the top like a whale, unable to handle the sudden change in grade. We also watched a motorcyclist get just short of cresting Baxter when his rear wheel started spinning out. He had to get off and push the bike while accelerating to get it that last couple feet. It made the accomplishment of doing it on a bicycle feel a little more special.
After a brutal 10 rounds of quad exploding excitement, it came down to a tie for points between Swarm! riders Jack Lindquist and Brian Davidson. Some 1 on 1 tie breaker scenarios were envisioned by some, but it was decided best to leave it as two victors.
Needless to say we were all starving for food to put in face after such a ride, and what better than a giant vegan potluck to subdue the pain. The food was all delicious, and what a sight to be so hungry and see home dipped vegan corn dogs being handed out like candy. I give huge props to all the kind folks who prepared food and treats for us very hungry cyclists. As much energy as we burned climbing those hills I'm pretty sure I broke even for calories on all the yummy, yummy foods. Mmm vegan cupcakes. Eat to ride, ride to eat or something other, how ever that saying goes.
Watching the talented individuals who made up the front of the pack on every race, I learned a valuable lesson in the need for more hill training. I consider my self a pretty fast sprinter on flat ground, and I thought I was a pretty strong climber too, but not strong enough. It was quite a different sort of racing to be all up hill the whole time. Maybe next year I can be in the running for some bragging rights, because that is all you get, no entry fees, no prizes, it's only for the glory.
at 8:30 AM Posted by Gary 3 comments
Labels: Feel My Legs I'm A Racer, road race, Swarm
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
-Never realized 1996-2002 LA citywide bicycle master plan, $60 Million
-Repaving 3 Miles of the 710 Freeway, $75 Million
-Average annual costs of Los Angeles auto accidents, $10.5 billion
-Construction of a single car parking space in a multilevel garage, $7,000+
-Per bicycle parking space on a typical U-wave rack, $50+
Creating infrastructure for bicycles isn't about the money, our costs are cheap comparatively, it's about political will.
-Repaving 3 Miles of the 710 Freeway, $75 Million
-Average annual costs of Los Angeles auto accidents, $10.5 billion
-Construction of a single car parking space in a multilevel garage, $7,000+
-Per bicycle parking space on a typical U-wave rack, $50+
Creating infrastructure for bicycles isn't about the money, our costs are cheap comparatively, it's about political will.
at 8:30 AM Posted by Gary 1 comments
Labels: Activism, car culture, Local Politics
Monday, March 16, 2009
The Car Free Vacation, Adventure On Two Wheels
The latest form of cycling that I've become passionate about is touring. This is where you pack your bags, load em on to the bike and go ride, find a suitable place to camp, and keep doing this until obligations reel you back into reality. I mentioned briefly my first adventure of this sort with Meghan from San Luis Obispo to Santa Barbara over 3 days, with Amtrak to get to the start and the last leg home. Well recently Meghan and I set out again, this time from L.A. to San Diego in 2 days, and again Amtrak for the ride home. So far both trips have involved stopping off to a Mission, which was exciting for me because as a California native we learn about them in school, but I never actually saw any of them before.
Mixing train and bike travel is a great and economical way to get out and explore California, especially when your free time is limited and a round trip by bike is impractical. The pace of bike riding gives you a completely different perspective on travel than everything blurring by in an automobile. It's not something for the beginner cyclist, but with a little base training it's pretty easy to go far even with all the gear on the bike. With the right training and maintaining a comfortable pace you can just about ride forever..
When I get some more time I'll write some specific tips about touring and some of my experiences and perspective on it. In the mean time I'll leave you with a link to Russ Roca's touring focused blog, The Epicurean Cyclist, which inspired Meghan to start planning our first trip, and a few photos of our journeys so far below.
San Luis Obispo To Santa Barbara:
Long Beach To San Diego:
[Flick Collection Of Bicycle Touring]
at 9:35 AM Posted by Gary 5 comments
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Cutting Through Party Lines, Why Cycling Shouldn't Be A Democrat Versus Republican Issue
Cycling as a political issue has little support by any political party save for the mostly invisible U.S. Green party, but the support we do get tends to come from Democrats, and some of the most vocal critics of cycling are hard-line Republicans (looking at you Patrick McHenry). Personally I'm more liberal, as are many of my cycling friends, except for my libertarian leaning cycling girlfriend, which makes for some fun intellectual debates and then we kiss and make up. But where ever you are coming from, there are a number of good reasons cycling should be embraced regardless of political party or ideology.
Cyclists have often been type cast in the role of granola eating tree huggers (I'm somewhat guilty of this), but the reality is people riding bikes come from all sorts of backgrounds, income levels, and have various personalities and political ideologies. Since most people view cycling as a liberal thing, I'm going to focus on why cycling should be embraced as a conservative thing too.
One of the hall marks of conservative ideology, is the concept of being fiscally conservative. Now the Republican party has drifted from that concept for quite a long time, and all of the biggest deficits of the past several decades have been under Republican presidents. But lets pretend for a moment that Republicans stand for fiscal conservatism.
Well nothing is as fiscally conservative and self reliant as riding a bike. There is little operating subsidy involved in riding a bike, unlike the billions and billions and even more billions we spend in tax payer dollars maintaining leviathan freeways with left overs going to public transit networks. Compared to motorists, we take up less space on roads, do less damage to them, and the dedicated paths we do have are comparatively cheap to maintain compared to auto sized roads. When it comes to parking, the space of a single car space is enough to fill an entire rack of bicycles. Cyclists are fueled by food and not barrels of imported oil, and our vehicle maintenance is generally a few little tweaks and some drops of lubricant. Since we spend less on transportation we have more money to spend on other sectors of the economy.
So encouraging more cycling through safer infrastructure (safety is often the most common cited reason keeping people off the bike) and better accommodations would in fact save money and reduce foreign oil dependence. Many republicans were quick to point to drilling for more oil as a solution, despite the limited supplies we have left to tap. However using less of the supply we already have is the most immediate and effective way to reach greater national self sufficiency. NYC Mayor Bloomberg, often described as an anomaly on the conventional political spectrum, but widely cited as a fiscal conservative despite liberal social policy, describes fiscal conservatism as doing more with less. The bicycle is a perfect example of doing more with less, as it burns even less energy (in calories) than even walking to get around. New York city is now embarking on long term strategies to promote cycling through infrastructure improvements, and other cities should be taking note of this.
Looking beyond just the energy use, there are other savings as well. Despite however much people are afraid of being killed by a car, statistically the life and health enhancing qualities of cycling are more likely to result in you living longer than shorter, and with less medical complications later in life. This is especially true if you remove the most hazardous road cycling behaviors like riding at night without lights, and riding against traffic, which result in most cycling fatalities. Cyclists typically also take less sick days from work. So compared to a typical automobile commuter we use less energy, less material resources, less land space, are more productive and have less medical costs.
Despite all these reasons that cycling should be equated with fiscal conservatism, sadly there are divisive Republican politicians and political personalities that seek to keep cycling a partisan issue. They sometimes even use political support for cycling among opposing candidates as an excuse to smear them, and will openly ridicule riding a bike as a product of the 19th century and claim it is no longer relevant. This in spite of the fact in America 40% of trips made are within 2 miles, a very easy cycling distance, and even 25% of trips are under a mile.
Rush Limbaugh, a talk show host with a massive conservative listener base and GOP leaders groveling to apologize when ever they cross him, what does he have to say on cycling? "Frankly, if the door opens into a bicycle rider I won't care. I think they ought to be off the streets and on the sidewalk." [Rush Limbaugh, Story #8] This comment is hardly surprising to me after reading Bicycling And The Law, which includes numerous references to radio hosts in some cases outright advocating for listeners to injure cyclists intentionally.
What ever the politicians and radio hosts say, there are a number of valid reasons cycling should not be a partisan issue. If the Republican party wants to remain relevant, or have any semblance of true fiscal conservatism, they should not be making cyclists into their enemy. And for cyclists seeking to advance our transportation mode, we need to be reaching out to everyone, liberals and conservatives alike. We have to convince everyone, even those who may strongly disagree with us, why cycling for transportation is a worthy investment.
at 8:00 AM Posted by Gary 3 comments
Labels: Activism, Local Politics, National Politics
Monday, March 9, 2009
ACTION ALERT! Expo Line Bike Path In Danger!
As you may be aware, the MTA is building a new rail line along the old Exposition rail right of way, to connect first Downtown L.A. to Culver City, and then finally to Santa Monica in phase II. One of the promised features of this light rail line would be that it would have an adjacent bike path much like the bus rapid transit (BRT) Orange Line in the Valley. This would create a dedicated bikeway stretching all the way from the Coast to Downtown, and will make the "last mile" problem a little easier for those mixing bike and public transit. There is a problem though. The environmental review for Phase II is missing the bikeway portion. The Expo Construction Authority wants the cities to pay for the rest of the study, which may not happen, or may delay the bikeway. If construction were allowed to start without the bikeway included it may at worst never happen, and if it does, it will cost significantly more than if it were done simultaneously with rail construction.
This is unacceptable, and time is unfortunately running out to do something about it. The LACBC has sent out the action alert below with details about who you should contact about this issue and examples of points to bring up. I know we all get crazy busy sometimes, my self doubly included, but when you get a chance I urge you to follow up on this. Especially coming out of the LA Bike Summit, it is clear that if we are going to get things done in this city we need to become the squeaky wheel. So lets get squeaking!
A new light rail line, called the Expo Line, will eventually extend from downtown to Santa Monica. The project is divided into two phases. Phase I is under construction and will end at Robertson & Venice in Culver City. Phase II will extend the line from there to Santa Monica. Phase II is still in planning phase and a draft environmental impact report was released last week.
One of items that have been promised for the Expo Line is a bikeway adjacent to the train line. This would create a continuous bikeway from Santa Monica to downtown if it were built!
Recently, the Expo Construction Authority (Expo) decided NOT to include the bikeway in the environmental review for Expo Phase 2, to avoid the burden of doing a federal environmental impact statement. Thus, there is no central authority coordinating engineering and construction of the bikeway.
Now, there are serious uncertainties about how, when or if an Expo Bikeway will ever be built!
As cyclists, we need to demand that the bike path be built simultaneously with the rail line!
1) Comment on DEIR! Comments are due March 13th!
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1) Comment on DEIR! Comments are due March 13th!
Comment online: http://www.buildexpo.
E-mail: email@example.com
2) E-mail key decisionmakers! See contact info below
· The bikeway must be built simultaneously with the Expo Line. If it is not included in the environmental review, we need a commitment and a plan from Expo on engineering and construction will happen.
· If the Expo Bikeway is not built at the same time as the rail line, costs will increase dramatically and construction difficulties will arise if Expo does not provide space for the bike path.
· The goal of the Expo Line is to reduce auto use. The bikeway is a critical component for achieving this. It can deliver transit users to stations without car trips and provides a much-needed crosstown commuter bikeway.
· Expo will be starting preliminary engineering soon. The bikeway must be included in this.
· The Expo Bikeway is a wonderful opportunity to expand our network of safe bike routes for a growing community of cyclists.
Send comments via e-mail to ALL people below:
Jan Perry
Expo Board Chair and LA City Council Member, 9th District
Herb Wesson,Jr.
Expo Board Chair and LA City Council Member, 9th District
Herb Wesson,Jr.
Expo Board Vice-Chair and LA City Council Member, 10th District
Expo Board Vice-Chair and LA City Council Member, 10th District
Pam O'Connor
Expo and Metro Board Member, Santa Monica City Council Member
Expo and Metro Board Member, Santa Monica City Council Member
Zev Yaroslavsky
Expo and Metro Board Member, LA County Supervisor, Third District
Scott Malsin
Expo and Metro Board Member, LA County Supervisor, Third District
Scott Malsin
Expo Board Member, Mayor, Culver City
Bernard Parks
Bernard Parks
Expo Board Member, LA City Council Member, 8th district
Mark Ridley-Thomas
Expo Board Member, LA City Council Member, 8th district
Mark Ridley-Thomas
Expo Board Member, L.A. County Supervisor, Second District
Expo Board Member, L.A. County Supervisor, Second District
at 5:25 PM Posted by Gary 1 comments
Labels: Activism, bike path, LACBC, mixed transit, Trains
Reporting Back From The LA Bike Summit
The LA Bike Summit was highly informative thanks to great speakers and workshop hosts, but I think one of the most important things was connecting all the dots between LA bike activists. The turn out was big and I got to meet face to face a lot of the people who's blogs I read, and who read my blog as well. I think this was just the sort of jolt L.A. bike activism needed to really start brainstorming and making connections. It was also great to hear first hand some of the hurdles and accomplishments of other cities like New York, Portland (so jealous), and sprawling Mexico city, which faces even greater transportation problems than Los Angeles.
(Eleanor Blue Of BikePortland.org with other Keynote speakers during Q&A)
The Bike Summit was a lot to take in. It felt like a temporary bike school with everyone rushing around to different classes, all of them about developing bike culture and infrastructure. Choosing between the different topics and workshops was often difficult with so many relevant subjects and great speakers. I attended work shops on Women and Bikes (hosted by CICLE), Advocacy in Action (LACBC), and In Pursuit Of The North American Carfree Family (BikePortland).
I took a lot of notes, and in the weeks ahead I'll be referencing some of the things discussed in future blog posts. We can no longer accept the status quo, it should not take 3 1/2 years to put some paint on the ground. We have to work toward a collective push for real city planning and development. Planning that takes into account pedestrians, cyclists and transit users at every step of the way, and not as an after thought. Viva La Velorution!
(Photo by Alex Thompson)
at 8:00 AM Posted by Gary 4 comments
Labels: Activism, bike culture, education, LA Bike Summit
Thursday, March 5, 2009
Today's Observations From The Street, Electric Assist Bikes & Joggers
In the past I have encountered the occasional gas powered mo-ped with what I refer to as transportation identity crisis. This is when a mo-ped rides the line between open vehicle lane and bike lane, not quite sure where they belong and haphazardly weaving into the bike lane when ever a car spooks them. Well today was my first time seeing a true blue electric assist bicycle, riding proper and straight as an arrow in the bike lane. I was riding down Broadway when a gentlemen passed me, this was odd to me because first of all rarely does someone pass me, even when I am not trying to go fast, and second of all this man did not look like he was in cycling shape.
Then I heard the barely audible hum of the electric motor that gave his pedaling a boost. Naturally being the competitive sort that I am I did the immature thing of on the following block kicking my cadence up a notch and passing him, not wanting to be beat by the hybrid man machine interface. Though obviously this was not a race, I still like to win. So anyways.. these bikes are still kind of pricey, but if they can help the average person ride at the pace of a more competitive cyclist, then this might be one key to getting more people out of their cars. I hear the little electric motors suffer on extremely steep climbs, but most people commute along routes of rolling hills and flats. Anyone have any personal experience with these electric motor assist bikes?
Then on my evening commute I came inches from slamming into joggers running two abreast against traffic in the bike lane. I try to be accommodating to the idea of all sorts of street users, but I seriously worry about slamming into a jogger by accident one of these days. In the day time on a wide bike lane like San Vicente, this doesn't bother me too much, I see them from far back and have room to go around. However at night on a dark portion of Santa Monica's narrow Broadway this is just asking for trouble.
I was riding fast, and the joggers were wearing non reflective clothing. I saw them at the last second and swerved left being careful to not go too far over as I was flanked by car traffic. On the sidewalk, foot traffic has the right away always, and if a cyclist chooses to ride there, they are obligated to go around the pedestrians and alert them when passing. However on the street, and especially in the bike lane, it's my right of way, and I don't think I should be obligated to swerve into automobile traffic to dodge people running at me. If you have any close call stories like this, feel free to leave them in comments. Perhaps this is an offshoot of the exercise folks being kicked out of traffic medians in Santa Monica, so now they are flocking to bike lanes.
at 9:39 PM Posted by Gary 3 comments
Labels: bike lanes, sharing the road
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
The Los Angeles Bike Summit
This weekend is the Los Angeles Bike Summit, to gather together activists and cyclists of all stripes to discuss the future of improving conditions for our growing movement of cyclists and continuing to grow our numbers.
"In Southern California, the growth and interest in bike riding and bike advocacy has increased to the point that the movement could significantly benefit from the formation of a common agenda. Bike organizations, including policy and grass roots groups, need to present a stronger, more unified front and a shared vision by combining communication, outreach, research and educational resources. This partnership will help to not only strengthen the presence of biking as an alternative to driving and a source of physical activity, but will help to create a more livable and sustainable region.So if you're looking to get more involved, or nerd out at the prospect of listening to lectures on things such as bicycle boulevards and sharrows, this Saturday is your chance. I hear some of our enlightened neighbors from the North in Portland are coming down to talk bike. Considering Portland has drastically improved conditions for cyclists and increased bike traffic to some of the highest in the Nation, I'm sure there is a lot we can learn from them.
The Los Angeles Bike Summit is the next step to facilitate this discussion and collaboration of bike organizations, support groups, and advocates. "
We're picking up some momentum in L.A. and catching the attention of city council members, lets keep it up and push harder then ever for a cycling friendly city. I think it's rather twisted that Los Angeles. with probably some of the most ideal weather for cycling on the planet, lags behind cold damp places like Portland, Chicago, and New York. We need to demand better.
For complete details and schedule for the workshops check out the site.
Saturday March 7, 2009 from 9am to 4pm
Los Angeles Trade Tech College map/directions
at 11:12 AM Posted by Gary 2 comments
Labels: Activism, bike culture, Local Politics, urban planning
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