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Capital Budgeting for 2030
December 18, 2007A forum discussion on the efficacy of New York City's infrastructure plan and what steps it should take to ensure that current infrastructure is kept in a state of good repair. Mayor Michael Bloomberg delivers the keynote speech and CBC President Carol Kellermann gives the presentation on the Capital Budgeting for 2030 report.
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Local Taxes in New York State
December 06, 2007A background paper for the third session of a 2007 stakeholder conference to "fix Albany." The process by which the next budget is prepared and debated, as well as the substantive decisions it embodies, are critical to the movement for political and fiscal reform in New York State. This paper focuses on a more equitable and affordable local tax burden.
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Local Taxes in New York State
December 06, 2007Presentation from a stakeholder conference on setting budget reform priorities in 2007.
Report Capital Spending
Capital Budgeting for 2030
December 01, 2007This report analyzes Mayor Michael Bloomberg's PLANYC, a new long-range planning initiative for New York City's capital assets and infrastructure. The report identifies the four greatest challenges confronting this initiative and makes recommendations for overcoming them.
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Options for Budgetary Savings in New York State
October 17, 2007This background paper focuses on the issue of more effective use of state fiscal resources. It was prepared to inform discussion among the participants at the second of the three agenda-setting conferences organized by CBC in the months of September, October and November 2007 to promote fiscal reform.
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Options for Budget Reform in New York State
September 20, 2007This background paper focuses on the issue of greater accountability and transparency in fiscal decision making. Prepared to inform discussion among the participants at the first of the three agenda-setting conferences organized by CBC in the months of September, October and November 2007 to promote fiscal reform, the paper first defines in some detail the limited accountability and transparency that have characterized the New York State budget process in past years. It also describes the progress made in addressing these problems during recent legislative sessions and identifies options that can be pursed in future budget deliberations to make even more substantial progress.
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A Simulation of Business Taxes in New York City and Other Locations
June 02, 2007This report focuses on state and local business taxes in New York City, showing that those taxes are dramatically higher than comparable taxes for key competitors. Combined federal, state, and local taxes reduce the rate of return on new business investment in New York City significantly – about 36-50 percent, depending on location and industry. Most of this is due to federal tax – typically 34-36 percentage points. Taxes in New York City were the highest in all industries in 2006, and were highest or second-highest under virtually all scenarios examined. By contrast, taxes in other New York locations often were lowest or nearly lowest among the locations compared.
Report City Budget
Making the Most of Our Parks
June 01, 2007In this report, CBC addresses six challenges that prevent New York City from making the most of its parks.
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The Citizens' Stakes in Collective Bargaining
December 12, 2000Report presenting recommendations for contracts to be negotiated with municipal employees that would help reduce the cost of public services, improve the quality of those services, and enhance the income and working conditions of New York's civil servants.
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An Affordable Debt Policy for New York State and New York City
October 17, 2000Presents a new approach for determining how much the State and City should borrow, including criteria for deciding how much state and local debt is affordable.
Using Collective Bargaining to Improve Public Education: Recommendations for the 2000 Negotiations With the United Federation of Teachers
August 30, 2000This report on the contract between the Board of Education and the United Federation of Teachers (UFT) provides suggestions for how to improve public schools through collective bargaining.


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This article appears in the November 29, 2019 issue of Executive Intelligence Review.
December 25, 2000
Earth Is Being Invaded by
Hordes of Heavily Armed Veracities
[Print version of this article]
The following is a never-before-published briefing, by Lyndon LaRouche to his associates on December 25, 2000, as a strategic lead for his association's daily briefing. A footnote has been added to aid the reader.
Santa Claus did not come this year, but keep your eyes peeled for action, none the less. The place you are standing is about to be bombarded by heavily armed hordes of veracities.
As the world's most successful economic forecaster of nearly a half-century, I can now reveal to you, that one way or the other, we can be certain about two things. First, the Year 2001 will see the most radical changes in more than a century, and, second, those changes will not be gradual. What those changes will be, is not yet decided. If my enemies succeed, everyone, including those enemies, will be made terribly unhappy. If you are fortunate, only a certain some people, will be terribly unhappy; all my friends and allies will be happy. Meanwhile, watch out for veracities; they are coming on fast.
I shall be a bit more specific.
About the time the top leadership of the Republican Party began to be taken by Richard Nixon's Southern Strategy, a new breed of teacher and social worker moved in with the purpose of taking over, not only our universities, but also our public schools. They came like body-snatchers out of some 1950s Hollywood science-fiction fantasy, grabbing the minds of more and more of our young. If you wish to know whether or not the child or university student staring at you is one of the victims of those real-life body-snatchers, watch for the sure-fire warning-signs. The demon reveals his presence from the mouth of the victim, by the words, "There is no such thing as truth. There is only opinion." Sometimes "opinion" is called "information," such as the information which led the sucker to buy into the Nasdaq's collapse.
Unless there is a very radical change, that demon, speaking from the mouth of that young person, or the victim's adult controller, is your future. In that case, everyone will soon be made most extremely unhappy.
That is why the veracities are moving to invade our Earth right now. Unless they are beaten off, most people will begin to become happy.
Take the case of the so-called "new economy," as an example of what I mean.
The Disease Called 'Information'
For more than half a century, more and more dupes had been brainwashed into believing in a non-existent particle called the "information." In the early 1960s, the victims of that brainwashing took over a significant chunk of the university-student population. The victims of that brainwashing believed that physical science and technology were about to be replaced by a strange creeping horror which they named either "cybernation" or "information society."
During the late 1970s, creeps such as Newt Gingrich, Al Gore, and Alvin Toffler got together in an "information society" cult circle which called itself "The Third Wave." During the past ten years, the spread of that "Third Wave" cult played a leading role in destroying much of the real economy which had still existed at the close of the 1980s. Vice-President Al Gore had made that a leading feature of his political propaganda platform, for all that did for him. This past Spring, the "Third Wave" lunatics went whole hog, and renamed "information society" the "new economy."
Then, since the "new economy" jumped off the heights of the Wall Street skyline, it has been falling, and falling, seeming to soar, briefly, as sky-divers sometimes do, but falling, falling, and falling. It's still on the way down, and accelerating as it goes. Finally, some people have recognized the gravity of this plunge.
There never was any truth to that "information society" bubble. There was no truth in it; it was all just opinion.
There was never any truth in the contention that either Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, or Abby Cohen[fn_1] are geniuses; it was just a matter of opinion, opinion as spelled "B-i-g—B-r-o-t-h-e-r." There were two pieces of popularized lunacy behind the ugly rumor that Greenspan "is a genius." First, people overlooked the vast financial-pumping project called "feed the Y2K monster," which was the source of the impetus on which the Nasdaq index and similar pyramid-club-type schemes depended.
Second, the first fix of a certain drug may give a sick man a boost of energy; sooner or later, the repetition of that kind of "fix" will send the man to the morgue.
The problem was, that the body-snatchers taking over our educational systems, threatened to drug the kiddies with Ritalin or other terrible drugs, if the kiddies ever tried to bring up the word "truth" within two blocks of any school or university campus. The poor brainwashed victim of that sort of social-work counseling was drugged into accepting opinion, instead of truth.
Even today, there are many people who are brainwashed into the opinion that "free trade," "global warming," and "globalization" are inevitable, unstoppable. Not true, all are about as inevitable as the situation of a man falling within an empty elevator-shaft; the bottom is what is inevitable. Like the doom of the "new economy," those kinds of mere opinion are the world's biggest problem; the bottom for all of these trajectories is now coming up fast, very fast. Unless the veracities are able to take over soon, no one on this planet is going to be happy, for a long time to come.
And, Back Among the Bushes?
Naturally, there are now people playing the same old game with a new toy. The toy is called President-elect Bush. In just the same way people were betting the works on the "inevitability" of the "new economy," people who are supposed to be grown-up and sane, are playing with a faddish new doll, the so-called "President-elect Bush" doll. You might suspect, that those freakish faddists are reacting to that doll, as if it were a new Nintendo line in game-toys.
Look at the eyes of many so-called seasoned politicos around Washington, D.C. these days. Al Gore's political corpse was hardly certified by the Supreme Court morticians as cold, before these folks forget all about the month-long election crisis they just lived through. There are fixed-state eyes, and wild-eyed eyes all around the U.S. national political scene.
Just to clear your head, ask yourself one question which ought to be obvious to you all. "What if there is no policy which an incoming Bush administration would be capable of tolerating, under which the United States would not more or less disintegrate, early and often?" What happens to all the "President-elect Bush doll" fetishists, then?
As of now, it is likely that no Bush administration would be capable of adopting any of the radical policy-changes on which even the short-term financial, economic, and political stability of the U.S.A. depends. If that is the case, must we not say, that virtually none of the leading Washington wiseacres are actually playing with a full deck?
Looks like just one more incoming assault from heavily-armed veracities.
Settle in for a Happy New Year; at least, that's what it is called, according to widely accepted opinion.
[fn_1]. Editor's footnote for EIR publication: Abby Joseph Cohen has worked for Goldman Sachs and other major financial firms. She began her career as an economist at the Federal Reserve Board in Washington, D.C. and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, according to her biography provided by the All American Speakers Bureau. [back to text for fn_1]

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Sidewalk Cafe is charming hole-in-the-wall restaurant in the middle of busy Binondo. Walking distance from Lucky Chine Town Mall, and a pedicab ride from Binondo Church. Binondo is fast becoming a food hub, and although chaotic and downtown, most good restaurants here have fair prices. Sidewalk Cafe is one of the few which offers affordable breakfast combos.
Outside the cafe, a guard will assist your entry. Pastry cakes and themes can be seen from the window display.
Inside, a mirrored wall doubles the place. Plump, green couches take up one side of the dining area.
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Friends and Family
The following email was sent to friends and family. If we missed you we are sorry, and we hope you will sign up on our email newsletter list!
Dear Family and Friends,
Apologies for the mass email, but I have been thinking about the best way to keep our friends and family up to date with the latest happenings, and this seemed like a good way to get the word out.
As many of you are probably aware, we have decided to sell our home in San Gabriel, CA and we are packing up and heading for the untamed wilderness of the South of France.
If this is news to you, I'll give you a second to re-read that sentence...
Yes, we are soon-to-be expats. The reasons are many, somewhat thought out, and it's too late to change our minds anyway because our house just closed escrow. Right now we are surrounded by piles of boxes as we prepare for the shipping company to arrive on Monday with a 20 foot container that will be ocean-bound for France. Everyone is suffering from packing fatigue syndrome. Paige said she dreamt she was bubble-wrapping endless amounts of glasses.
For a brief history of how this all came to be you can catch up on the details on our blog (which we tongue-in-cheek call American Croissants).
The next few weeks before we depart on August 27th will be spend selling or giving away the remainder of the stuff that didn't make the cut. A few things will go to storage, to remain entombed until such day as we return or die. If it's the latter there will be no need for a family feud to determine who gets the contents. It's mostly photo albums and kids' clothing.
These last few weeks will be a race to the finish, and we know that it won't be able to say goodbye to each of you in person before we leave. We will miss you all, and hope that you will consider a trip to Provence to pay us a visit. We will be waiting with a chilled glass of rosé, a fresh baguette and some delicious stinky cheese.
Our plan is to send regular email updates with photos and little stories from France. We also have big plans for our blog. We hope you will read along. Of course if you would rather forget us entirely you can unsubscribe, but I won't lie--that would make us very sad.
Until we see you again...
Amour et Bonne Journée!
Ken, Felicia, Paige and Ryan Wallace
Mary Jane Coleman
8/3/2014 03:11:59 am
Wishes you and the family a safe trip and much happiness in your new adventure. Love you all. Keep safe.
Martha Shanks
8/4/2014 01:17:45 am
We look forward to hearing about your next steps! Good luck!
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Sensex hits record high of 40,345; Nifty tops 11,900
After opening on a strong note, the 30-share index was trading 263.69 points, or 0.66 per cent, higher at 40,315.56 in morning session. The broader NSE Nifty too advanced 71.85 points, or 0.61 per cent, to 11,915.95.
Top gainers in the Sensex pack included SBI, Infosys, Tata Motors, Yes Bank and Sun Pharma, rising up to 4.35 per cent.
On the other hand, M&M, Tata Steel, TechM, PowerGrid and Axis Bank fell up to 1.09 per cent.
According to experts, hopes that the government will cut long term capital gain tax, dividend distribution tax and the securities transaction tax enthused domestic investors.
Massive foreign fund inflow too boosted investor sentiments, traders said.
Foreign institutional investors purchased a whopping Rs 7,192.42 crore in the
Further, the US Federal Reserve's decision to cut its benchmark interest rate for the third straight time also strengthened market mood, they added.
Improved auto sales growth during the festival sessions, good quarterly results too added fuel on Dalal Street, traders said.
Bourses in Hong Kong, Seoul and Tokyo were trading on a positive note, while those in Shanghai were in the red.
The rupee, meanwhile, appreciated 10 paise against the US dollar to trade at 70.80 in early session.
Brent futures, the global oil benchmark, rose 0.30 per cent to USD 60.42 per barrel.


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From the It's Our Economy blog:
Another day, another mind-blowing fact about the staggering difference between the haves and the have-nots.
Incomes for the bottom 90 percent of Americans only grew by $59 on average between 1966 and 2011 (when you adjust those incomes for inflation), according to an analysis by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Cay Johnston for Tax Analysts. During the same period, the average income for the top 10 percent of Americans rose by $116,071, Johnston found.
To put that into perspective: if you say the $59 boost is equivalent to one inch, then the incomes of the top 10 percent of Americans rose by 168 feet, Johnston explained to Alternet last week.


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I had the chance to catch up with Clyde on our way to work
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Money Can't Buy Legs
I had the chance to catch up with Clyde on our way to work
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Yoooo it's Gabe_Electronica, what's goodington? Don't answer that I can't hear you. So let's get to why I'm actually sitting here writing some shit. SEASON FUCKING 3 MY G!!!!! I'm hype as fuck I hope ya hype as fuck lol. Nah really it was nice to have that month off, but I'm really glad to be back. I missed the bowling and the immense shit talking that goes on at every podcast lol. And of course I missed working with my two brothers Cisco and Jason. So to start off we brought on Cordell (STAY ALIVE) to be our first guest for the third season. I'm not gonna get into detail about that cause you gotta listen to that shit on the podcast. Let's just say there was a lot to talk about and it was a good one. Definitely go fuck with it when you get a chance. All in all I'm glad we made it to another season and I hope ya ready. We gonna have some dope guests and a lot of shit to talk about this year. Season 3 or the Trifecta as I like to call it has begun and is in motion. Stay tuned and stay true. And if you fucks with the vision, we fucks with you.
photo taken by @FREEAGENTFRANK
Our second Superbowl Sunday Doughnuts and Dumplings ride was held last Sunday. Thanks to all that came and braved the rain and cold temps to get good food and great miles.
With the start of February came the start of Not So Friendly Laps hosted by Corey the Courier. If you dont know what NSFL is then you are clearly missing out. Its a unsanctioned race that takes place in Prospect and Central parks. Unfortunately we have yet to race in central park 🤔. Brooklynites not willing to travel I guess. Every Tuesday and Thursday for the month of February you can catch some of New Yorks best and realist cyclists racing it out in the frigid cold.
This Past Thursday we had the third installment of the series. I was on a mission. It was below freezing outside the park which only means its way colder in the park. 920pm rolled around and racers take the line. I was especially hyped when I saw two of my rivals pull up.
Corey said GO and they were off. First lap had Dazie Holt Jacksonville native pulling the entire field. Once the blood and legs started flowing constant lead changes were happening. I threw an early attack and was able to break away from the field. A minute into the break, I was caught by the hard working trio of Doug, a cop, and Vincent. I was displeased with this, started to work with them in attempts to catch them sleeping again.
On the third lap I time a perfect attack on the climb in Prospect Park. Not looking back once, I was able to build another gap but this time only Vince was able to catch a wheel. Vince and I started taking turns pulling and increased the gap with every lap. Lap 4 15sec gap, lap 5 30 second, lap 6 50sec, it didnt seem like that gap was big enough. Coming into the downhill I asked Tijon and Kenji how big the gap was? They yell back ya already won! This was not enough for me as I started sprinting. The race was now only between Vince and me.
Coming into the final lap Vince went for the Prime which left a slight opening. Knowing Vince would have to recover after the Prime, this was the opportunity to seize the race. I launched another attack and was gone!
Congrats to Vince and Doug for podium as well as happy birthday to Doug.
Womens podium
Dazie Carla and Dana
Thanks for reading!
Jason aka Buckets
What's really good peeps of the culture! Yesterday we at Cat 6 Chismes hosted the 2nd annual DeadEnd Alleycat. What a perfect day Mother Nature gave us here in NYC. The start took place once again by the bike entrance of the 59 bridge (Manhattan side). This year the crew did not play any games as it was a 2pm hard start. Gotta change the game if you know what we mean.
We had a great turn out as we had almost 30 people in attendance including those who raced, helped out with checkpoints and those there just to spectate and have fun with the chismosos. 2pm hit and Gabe sent them off. Racers in confusion went to Spokesman Cycles to get the manifest only no one was there. In what would have been a great April Fools prank, Jason was waiting with manifest at the Roosevelt Ferry. Racers finally saw and made contact with Jason and the race was officially underway.
Jason and Gabe planned the manifest together and made the checkpoints form a 6 in Manhattan. Racers dash and sprinted from Circles Lines down to lower Manhattan, back up to Harlem, and finally ended in El Barrios 113th and 2nd ave.
Photo from @hi8media
We had no idea when doing the manifest that the 2nd Women March would coincide with the date of the alleycat (shouts to all identifying women). This was mayhem for the racers as they had to cross the march twice.
We decided to hit the midway checkpoint to hangout and get a feel as to who were in contention. We get a call from Frank and Pedro who held down the LES checkpoint that Alex and James were 1 and 2 moving. As we get excited to see them arriving Jason checks the gram and see James upload a vid of him getting a flat. We are crushed to see young Macay get his second flat in back to back Deadend Alleycats. Come out next year, third time is the charm.
We see Alex pull up all a lone and with the ill lead on the rest of the pack. Routing and being lucky was the key to the victory. Alex is off for the second time to deal with the march.
The rest of the squad started heading to the finish to see when Alex will arrive. When Alex does show up he comes in with an incomplete manifest since his phone died before he could take the selfie at Riverbank State Park. Jason gave him the dreadful news of having to go back and take the selfie. Shouts to Tyler who lent his battery pack to an exhausted Alex and Alex was off again.
We start receiving news that more people are showing up to the check point before Riverbank. We start to wonder if Alex still has this in the bag. Minutes later we see Alex pulling up again this time with phone and photo in hand.
Alex is your Deadend Alleycat 2 champ. What an amazing day for the community and for those who participated. Super shouts to Chrome and Sun&Air/King Kog for hooking up the race with swag.
Photos by Freeagent Frank, Kyle Thompson, Jason, The Dropouts
Yerrrrrr, yesterday was race day here in Queens, New York thanks to Keith Garrison as well as King Kog/Sun&Air. I've only raced a handful of CX races over the past couple of years, but from what I understand there hasn't been cross racing in the city since Hurricane Sandy. Yo, that sucks b. When I think of sports and their accessibility it always makes me shed a single thug tear. In order for folks to develop their skills they need to be provided with facilities that accommodate their goals. Cyclocross is easily my favorite kind of cycling at this stage in my life, but I've always been a BMX'er. Part of riding bmx when I was growing up was recognizing the limits of your locale. Not having a car meant you couldn't develop outside of your immediate city or town. To be a cylocross rider in NYC means virtually the same thing. Not having a car severely reduces your odds of racing should you live in NYC. Now of course I know about the one or two races a year you can take the bus to, but the only problem is when you're a beginner like myself, your race is often the first of the day. Talk about a rough start! So to get back on track, no cx in the city since Sandy, along comes local bad ass, Keith Garrison, who I'm pretty sure worked with Austin Horse on the inaugural Rainey Park race last year on New Years Eve. I'll never forget it, I was on the island of Coron out in the Philippines when it all went down. Enough about last year, I know why you're here.
Yo I love the race predictor! If this is how we determine call ups, I'm with the shits. After yesterday I only need one more CX race and I can voluntarily move to the 4's. I actually applied for an upgrade prior to this race because I wanted to race both single speed and a standard category. Since I've only done 2 races there's no way they would upgrade me. This meant I'd be racing a 40 minute race at 9:30 with the single speed group and a 30 minute race with the category 5 group at 10:15. I wanted to race the ss because I knew I'd be in there with guys who race on the pro level, but I wanted to race wit the 5's so I could have a chance of getting on the podium. Well, I got everything I asked for. And the muthafuckin' race predictor got both races right. I'm starting to think there's some brujeria going on over there.
As I mentioned the single speed race was set to begin at 9:30AM. I linked up with Young Pedro around 8AM and we rode over to Sal, Chris & Charlie's in Astoria for that good jelly & cream cheese roll n a coffee. When we got to the park the course was already taped off and a couple of brave souls were having at the frozen snow covered path. Totally manageable but surprisingly difficult. Regardless, by the time 9:30 rolled around there was a clear line. The defined line was 18″ wide max, meaning any sort off passing was going to be done out in the unforgiving snow. What a game of tactics, I always forget about the casual contact in cross racing, especially during the beginning of the race. When you don't expect it you might feel like you got the puck in a game of hockey. All things aside, I knew I was in a race with some savages. I stayed in the top three for the first two laps then slowly fell off. I was kind of over dressed but I refused to wear less clothes in that kind of cold. The barriers were right after a quick u-turn and insanely difficult to ride. I don't know if anyone else tried or succeeded in riding them but it wasn't happening for me. I rolled the dice on maybe the second lap and tried to ride them. I made it over the first successfully but had to stop and dismount before the second. The section on the backside was a true test; after the barriers there were two off camber climbs, followed by a stair climb, then a gnarly curb at the bottom of a decent which led you into a long climb with Belgian barriers. Sheeeeeesh, that shit was tiring bruh! Long story long, race predictor was correct, I took 6th place.
I had big hopes for this race to say the least. Everyone likes to put on for they squad. I know that my team went super hard at Kissena this season and did they thing so I just wanted to do right by them and their efforts. Before the decision to split the 4/5 field into two separate races, I was on the waitlist for that race and registered for the single speed. Knowing I was going to be racing this race, I think I held back in the SS a little. Not like that would have changed the result, but it made the SS a warm up for the 5 race, n boy was I warm. Came out of the prologue in the 2 position and never looked back. By the time we got to the back end of the course I was already in a fluid rhythm with the course. I knew how fast to take certain turns and where to conserve energy. As soon as we made that first left and started the climb towards the Belgain barriers, I knew that was my feasting ground and I was going to eat up all the seconds right there. I finessed those barriers so clean spectators started calling me a sandbagger.
Dude, thanks for the compliment! Honestly, I think that's beautiful, someone thinks so highly of you they believe you should be in a higher category than you are. As I mentioned, I applied for an upgrade before the race and was declined because I've only raced twice prior to Sunday. So there I was, way off the front and relentlessly pushing myself to see what I was made of. I got some great advice from my teammate Gio, "Give a hundred two times… Show Cisco what Cisco's made of."
It's amazing what the human body is capable of. In the single speed race all the homies and my teammates were cheering me on but in the 5 race, the sideline was pretty silent, I guess they didn't think I needed any help with that one, haha. I ended up finishing with a 55 second gap.
By the last two laps I was the guy lapping people getting the wave by from other competitors. That shit felt amazing, you know, hard work and focus paying off. Shouts to the race predictor for holding me down yet again.
Much love to the lil homie Young Pedro for racing the SS race as well as winning the junior race! Mans never raced cross and did two races back to back on a Brooklyn Machine Works, running long reach road calipers. Keep your eyes on the next generation people.
Which brings me to my final note, do it for the kids y'all. I hope more kids like Pedro become involved in racing and more racing is organized in metropolitan areas like New York City. The more we get these kids outside and connected the better communities we'll build. If you don't take the time to teach them something good, someone will take the time to teach them something bad. Each one teach one, let's build!
As many of you know I (jason) am a hypebeast for cycling videos. Ive gone down a pretty deep rabbit hole when it comes to it. Enough to say I think I have seen everything cycling video related since 2013. Anything you can think of I seen it from alleycats to documentaries.
Thanks to Cisco we got to have Terry Barentsen on the podcast and talk a little about cycling and what Terry is doing to keep our sub culture alive. Well after the interview Terry and I got together to shoot! This is what came out as I got to spend the day riding around with Terry from El Barrio to BK. Thanks so much and deff go subscribe to Terrys Youtube channel to stay up to date with the hottest street cycling!
The third Black Friday Crit took place nov 24th. For the third straight year the race took place in Central Park! Meet up was at Naumburg Bandshell and race fee was $10 bucks! It was a chilly night which meant it would be even colder in the park. Registration started at 8:30pm with race start time set at 9:10pm. With everyone registered and the people in attendance picking spots to view the race it was time to line up.
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As tradition goes gabe leads out everyone for a rolling start. As we come in from the warm up lap Gabe pulls off and the race begins! Andre is hot off the gun everyone is playing catch up now! This year the race was 12 laps so Dre deff tried to put a hurt on the field from the jump. Quickly during that first lap the race was determined for podium and honorable mention!
Playing cat and mouse for the first few laps Andre, Gio, Lalo, and I (Jason) were putting in a good effort. As the pace started to steady I felt this was my chance into the 5 lap to break from the group as Andre signals with his elbow that its my turn to take the lead of our peloton, I went. Head down legs burning I lit my match not taking one look back. If anyone was on my wheel they deserve it with the effort I just put. I take a peek under my left elbow no one.
7 laps later I come in crossing the finish line still a lone.
Jason 1st Lalo 2nd Gio 3rd
I want to thank everyone that came out. Especially Carla who didnt race but still donated. Big ups!!! Also to Francisco Borrero @terkpla
Who came out and covered the race. Here is his recap to BFC3
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Yesterday was the NYC Jungle Cross race in Forest Park, right on the border of Queens and Brooklyn. The park is pretty big and has a bunch of main arteries running through it, as well as a bunch of hiking trails.
Now that I think about it, I didn't even check if bicycles were allowed on the trails we were racing. There were a handful of dog walkers and bird watchers out that added an additional element. I mean, it's called bandit cross for a reason. Anyway, when I showed up around one o'clock we were still taping off the course. With how short the days have become we all knew this would quickly become a race against the sunset. Huge shouts to Shawn from King Kog man, Andrew was leading a group of us out on a viewing lap and I ended up getting dropped by circumstance. (Shouts to young James Macay for doing that branch grooming one time.) When Shawn completed the viewing lap he asked a couple of us to help him mark the course since Andrew was helping people find the starting line/spectating/chillin area.
This was a great chance to take it super slow and try to identify as many of those little variables called rocks! I'm telling you, with all the leafs on the ground it was beautifully deceiving. I'm out here racing on clinchers so I have to be extra cautious to avoid pinch flats.
The course is marked and we're about to hit our lil 20′ le mans. By this time, the sun is seemingly on it's decent and I remember thinking, wish I had a dope head light right now. Pero it's whatever, we're about to get it poppin.
Oh snap, I forgot to mention everyone went on a practice lap together except for John Shack & "Mario" aka Mtb dude. So we're out, I grab my bike and dip wide to get a clean line on the immediate climb coming up. Everything goes great, I pretty much got the hole shot, with John, again who's never rode the course, and I let him have it since the first turn of the race becomes a single track decent and it was on his side of our path. But I knew that was a bad idea, after my experience in the viewing lap all I could think was, "we're going to make a wrong turn."
Well that shit didn't take long! Almost as soon as we start getting to business I just hear a ton of yelling behind me, "Wrong way!!!"
I look back and everyone is taking a left where I just followed John right. No matter how competitive you are, you can't help but laugh at yourself when something like this happens. If you look at my strava you can see how ridiculous the route I took to get back on course was. I basically rode through a bunch of bushes. Shit was clean though, and no flats, so we good money.
I just went from second place to like tenth or something. Such a gnarly mistake! It's chill though, I just knew I'd have to put in that work. One of the folks I passed was Young James, I hit him with the, "On your left!" Not realizing he had headphones in, he definitely went left. I lucked out and simply rode through some more bushes, haha. Yo shouts to fellow C6 racer Gio Ramirez and James for racing fixed! Ya beasted fosho.
Maybe halfway through the first lap I was back up in the third position behind Mario the Mtb dude and Shawn was leading us through the course. The starting and finish lines were both on road and that's obviously were all the spectators were. So as we finished our first lap I pulled a sick hand off and got rid of my wind breaker. CLUTCH. So we made our way up that starting hill again and end up back in the same configuration, Shawn, Mario, and then myself. I knew I was going to pick someone off. I wasn't sure when or how, but I def knew it would happen. There was a tight section where the course went out on to a road for about 15′ and then hit a pretty steep climb. That climb was the end of Mr Mtb dude. He started to slow and let Shawn create space, that's going to be a hard, "No" from me fam. I didn't do all this work to watch somebody skate with the dub unchallenged. So I chase and catch Shawn thinking this is it. Just us two, and he knows the course way better. So I tried to stay as close as possible in hopes that he might be the one to make a mistake. Yeah, right, that shit didn't happen. My last chance to sneak a win was to jump a log, coming out of the ugly climb, right before the final sprint.
So I went for it, I almost went down as a result of Shawn and I aiming for the same slim exit. There it was, we were both now on the street and had maybe 100m left to put it on the line. A full on sprint ensued. I pushed that 40×18 to it's fucking limit fam. All I could hear were his gears shifting and kept thinking fuck, Fuck, FUCK!
Like that it was over, so I look up from the sprint with Shawn on my left only to realize there's a couple walking their dogs on the street right in front of us. I moved to my right as fast as I could but when I turned around all I seen was Shawn's front wheel wash out and him sliding on his side. No dogs or dog walkers were harmed in the entire process. Turns out he caught a pinch flat somewhere, and as soon as he started braking the front tire lost traction on the asphalt. Sheesh, he was a soldier though. Shawn and I ended up calling it a tie, while the Mtb dude pulled 3rd. Big ups to Young James for first fixed, shredding the gnar.
After the race, the C6 crew headed over to Bowlero to record the newest episode of @cat6Chismes. If you haven't already peeped Young Pablo's podcast, got get that here. We recorded this episode last night with him after he just raced his first CX race, NYC Jungle Cross, good times.
ps. Part 2 of my PNW trip is up on my personal website if you haven't read enough about my life after that recap.
As much as I love Nyc, sometimes it's nice to get out of the city. That's exactly what I did this last week while out in the PNW for the Chrome Industries managers meeting.
Every year the Chrome store managers from all over the country come together for the annual managers meeting. We had a rad schedule set up starting with a night in Seattle. I seen this as a great chance to reconnect with some of my homies who have relocated to the PNW. I flew into Seattle a couple of days early and scoped the race schedule. Upon realizing the MFG CX Series would be holding their Magnuson Park race while I was in town, I had to do it. So I packed up my single speed and signed myself up for some of the most competitive cyclocross racing in the country. Seriously, the northwest SSCX races are the "main event," bruh.
Off to the races!
I got called up in the last row and lined up against 64 other races all rocking single speeds. During my one practice run, I rode the barriers perfect! Going into the race, I decided I wasn't getting off my bike for the barriers on any lap. On the first lap, I cleared both but came landed the second one a little sketchy and unclipped during my landing. Regardless, super confident in riding the barriers. Made lots of moves in the first lap and got myself into a decent position. I'd say I was somewhere between 10th-15th which is great going into the second lap.
I figured if I could at least stay with the lead pack, I'd be able to pick a couple of racers off every time we got to the barriers. This would have been completely true had I not stacked the second barrier on my second lap!
Sheesh, went over the bars, lost my water bottle and to top it off my stem became crooked in the crash. So there I am trying to straighten my stem only to realize everyone is about to stomp on my water bottle which is laying in the dirt right after the second barrier. Fuck it, get your shit together and get back on the horse!
That's exactly what I did, but only after losing a ton of spots and about 30-40 seconds. My strategy with cx races is to remain steady while racing. Keep the legs moving at a consistent pace. if you can achieve this, by the time you get to the 30 minute mark, you'll usually start picking people off pretty quick. Combine that mentality with the ability to ride barriers and I'm getting a bunch of those spots back.
I did my best and rode the barriers flawlessly for the remainder of the race. Every time we got to the barrier section I would end up passing no less that two people. I remember one lap in particular, I passed 6 or 7 people on the stretch right after the barriers.
MFG @ Magnuson park was hella fun! Sheesh, so happy I brought my bike on this trip. I ended up finishing 22nd out of 65. Good enough for me, of course I could have done better but I'm not going to beat myself up over a little crash. Huge shout out to the homie Deemer for blessing my ride and hooking me up with the dope Seattle experience.
Riding across Seattle with a stuffed Warsaw and a bike box aka wind sail on my back.
I'll leave you with this, the cycling community in Seattle is thriving and extremely fun, don't sleep fam. -Cisco
PS stay tuned for my recap of my time in Portland, shao!


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In 2016 we invited members of the public to dream up Alternative Ipswich Walking Tours for that years SPILL Festival. We asked people what they feel passionate about locally. From loads of great entries we selected five that fit the bill brilliantly and which became guided walks during SPILL. As places were limited on all the tours we've made a selection of sonic maps for you to explore below. These were made both before and during the live festival tours, giving you a glimpse behind the intentions of the guides, as well as hearing them in public action. Click the pink logos on each map to listen. Enjoy.
Borin Van Loon – THE SECRET SIGNS OF IPSWICH
Photo by Christa Holka
Giovanna Maria Casetta – SWEET CHARITY
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Jane Riley – A BEAST'S TOUR OF IPSWICH
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Cad Taylor – SUFICIENT SPATIU PENTRU NOI TOTI
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Worship is the first step in our strategy. We believe that corporate worship should be a central part of a believer's life, but also that worship is a way of life, striving to put Christ first in everything that we say and do.
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Martin J8 Fletching Jig
Reviewed by Steve
Jan 18, 2019
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Polycarbonate fletching jig by Martin Archery, more popular in the States than in the UK, quite possibly because traditional style field shooting is bigger out there than over here. I don't suppose I would be thanked for saying it but this is a plastic, budget Bitzenburger.
That is to say that it is cheaper and will do all the things a Bitzenburger will do up to and including accepting the Bitzs' clamps, the clamps it comes with are polycarbonate too and available in the usual Straight and Left or right helical. The reason I mention that is because I am not a fan of polycarbonate clamps - I try to be as neat and tidy as I can when fletching arrows and in order to get the finish I want this is a necessity. Having said that it is almost inevitable that some glue will find it's way on the clamp at some point and when it does it will set hard. You can buy all sorts of tape to prevent glue getting on the jig but I never have, to clean glue off a clamp you need a knife and that is where problems can occur, a plastic clamp will be more susceptible to damage than a steel or alloy one. Being able to accept Bitzenburger clamps is a shrewd move by Martin as the Bitz clamp is a sturdy rugged thing.
As far as ease of use it is much the same as any jig, it operates on the magnet principle and there are adjusters on the top of the jig to fine tune the offset or helical angle, these are large screw nuts and make life a little easier than the allen key ones on the Bitz.
It will fletch 3 and 4 fletches, there are also mounting holes in the base so you can screw it to a board if you want, a good idea as it is much lighter than the Bitzenburger.
Despite the price in my opinion the Bitz is a better jig although a Martin jig with Bitz clamps will save a few dollars.
Features & Design
It does all the stuff a fletcher demands from a jig but, polycarbonate just doesn't do it for me..
I prefer it when using Bitz clamps to the poly ones it comes with, I cannot however argue with the fact that it does work well.
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Offers value given that it is some $30 cheaper than a Bitz
It's a plastic Bitzenburger at half the price. there will always be archers on a budget or looking to save a few bucks and if you really want a Bitz but just can't afford one then this is the alternative. If you can afford one Bitz or 2 of these then you will have to make that choice... I know what I would do.
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SAN FRANCISCO – Square Enix didn't get to be Japan's powerhouse RPG developer by taking many risks. After the massive success of the big-budget cinematic RPG Final Fantasy VII, says producer Toshiro Tsuchida, the production model for Square Enix games has remained mostly unchanged: Big budgets, huge teams, 2-4 year development cycles, and an emphasis on visual arts.
But Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: My Life As A King has flipped all of that on its head. In a Game Developers Conference session on Thursday, Tsuchida and programmer Fumiaki Shiraishi talked about the lessons they learned creating the small game for WiiWare, Nintendo's upcoming downloadable game service.
My Life As A King, which will launch with the WiiWare service on May 12, might look like a traditional Final Fantasy RPG, but it's anything but. It's actually a sim game, in which you play the king of a city, building up the town, ordering your subjects to go out and get resources, and generally managing the place like any adorable childlike monarch would.
The game's producer, Toshiro Tsuchida, kicked off the presentation by saying that My Life As A King was developed in a different manner than Square Enix's usual games. "You can't use high-quality CG as a weapon" on WiiWare, he said, referring to Square Enix's main strength as a game maker. But, he said, "we wanted to maintain our original strengths. That was a huge challenge for us," he said – maintaining the qualities that players expect from "Square Enix games."
Turning the session over to the English-fluent programmer Fumiaki Shiraishi, Tsuchida left the podium and asked Shirashi to explain his methodology. "I wanted to try to make a game that did not rely on volume," he said, noting that he was interested in making a game with a small data size.
The project kicked off in September 2006, with no concrete information. "We had to assume a lot of stuff," he said. They were targeting a $10 price point and a Summer 2007 launch. Well, he was right about one of those.
They first created a prototype with old assets, for about three months. Then they came up with the story and scenario, then create new assets for the game (another three months).
This was radical for Square Enix, since it usually begins projects by creating art assets – as anyone who's ever seen the Final Fantasy XIII trailers could tell you. "With Wii Ware, we actually had the excuse" to start with the game concept, rather than with visual assets, he said.
Another thing they did differently was to use a script language called Squirrel, and a middleware library from Nintendo called NintendoWare. "At Square Enix, we don't... use other people's code, but since we were aiming for a Summer 2007 launch, I had to streamline the development process," said Shiraishi.
NintendoWare, he said, was "awesome" – they had the basic game elements on screen in three months with only one programmer –
Shiraishi himself.
Shiraishi showed a video of gameplay to the GDC crowd. The character is running around an empty city – this is from very early in the game, he said, before any buildings are built. The characters are constantly going about their daily lives, leaving the city, fighting monsters, finding items, and bringing them back to you, their king. From this, said Shiraishi, you can determine what you need to invest in for your populace.
By the very end of the game, the city is full of buildings and people who walk around town, buying Level 15 Broadswords and such. Little balloon icons appear above their heads to show what they're hoping to do, like a shopping bag that represents a character going to the store.
The game originally had a battle system that the team spent months making, Shiraishi said, but they decided to scrap it because it didn't fit with the simulation aspects of the game – they'd made it too much like a standard RPG battle system "because we had so much experiencing creating RPG-type games." The team had to revise the battle system four times, he said.
"The Wii has gained a wider audience than we anticipated," said Shiraishi, and so they reworked the game to attract a broader variety of players. To that end, they redesigned the game's tutorial quite a bit. And they also had to make sure the game looks decent compared to other Wii games. And finally, they decided that they had to "pull out all the stops" and make it a full-on Final Fantasy game. That, he said, affected every aspect of the game from graphics to AI.
But Square Enix is still one of the few companies who made the launch of WiiWare, and Shiraishi attributed that to the delay of the WiiWare launch, but also to the fact that they started making the game before things were "official" – before they had the official specs for WiiWare. They didn't aim to make a Square Enix game, he said, but they ended up making something "unmistakably" Square Enix anyway.
Taking the mic back, Tsuchida said that at first he told Shiraishi that they wouldn't make graphics for his game until they had a working prototype, as they weren't sure his idea would work. So they went to Akitoshi Kawazu, who produced the GameCube version of Crystal Chronicles, and asked if they could use those assets.
Tsuchida named a few ways that they reduced the cost of making the game. First, he said, they decided to "use and augment" an existing franchise to create this game rather than a wholly new idea. Second, they decided to let younger staff members create the game with supervision from the veteran staff.
But conversely, they used veteran graphic artists: Because they were used to working on older game systems within stricter memory limitations. (Clever.)
Moving on, Tsuchida noted that another way the team saved cost was to "control the creation of resources." They made sure to just use their resources to create the city, the characers, and the cinema scenes.
What did they cut out? They didn't have battle scenes. They didn't have a world outside the city. The villagers don't have model variations – they never hold weapons, for example. There is a world, there are battles, but they're represented with maps, still images, and text. They used words and text, not graphics, to distinguish the characters.
Tsuchida wrapped by pointing out how Square Enix had settled into one single way of game making. After Final Fantasy VII, he said, Square Enix just made all of its games following that pattern and didn't try anything new. This required lots of high-level experts in individualized fields, and 2-4 years of development time.
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b. Boston, MA
Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA
1987 University of Vienna, Austria
1988 Bachelor of Arts, Sarah Lawrence College
Selected Exhibitions
Fondazione Prada, Milano Osservatorio, Milano, Italia, "Surrogati. Un amore ideale"
Modernism, Still Lovers and Transmutations
21c Museum, Nashville, Tennessee, "The SuperNatural"
Academy of the Arts, Zurich, Switzerland, "Wandering In The Uncanny Valley"
Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Miami, FL, "Still Crazy: 40 Years"(group)
Robischon Gallery, Denver, CO, "Transmutations"
Art in Embassies, Dakar, Senegal, "Empire Falling" (group)
Natural History Museum, Los Angeles, CA, "Becoming Los Angeles" (group)
Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO, "New Territory" (group)
Prada Foundation Osservatorio, Milan, Italy, "Still Lovers"
Modernism Gallery, San Francisco, CA, "The Origin of the New World"
The Berrie Center Art Gallery, Ramapo College, NJ, "Forms & Effects: Ukiyo-e to Anime" (group exhibition)
Mills College Art Museum, Oakland, CA, "Syria's Lost Generation"
Pier 24, San Francisco, CA, "Collected" (group exhibition)
Modernism Gallery, San Francisco, CA, "Sublime: The L.A. River"
Newcomb Art Museum of Tulane, New Orleans, LA, "Syria's Lost Generation"
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, DC, "The Lost Generation: Portraits from the Middle East"
Robischon Gallery, Denver, CO, "Sublime: The L.A. River"
Weston Art Gallery, Cincinnati, OH, "Sublime: The L.A. River"
Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH, "Unknown Elements" (group exhibition)
LACMA, Los Angeles, CA, Artist Response, web-based response to Nature and the American Vision: The Hudson River School
Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, CA, "Personalities: Fantasy and Identity in Photography and New Media (group exhibition)
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, DC, "The Lost Generation: Portraits from the Middle East"
Robischon Gallery, Denver, CO, "Empire Falling"
Modernism Gallery, San Francisco, CA, "Desire" (group exhibition)
Steven Kasher Gallery, New York, NY, "Alchemical" (group exhibition)
21c Museum, Bentonville, AK, "Hybridity: The New Frontier" (group exhibition)
Modernism Gallery, San Francisco, CA, "Empire Falling"
Phyllis Weston Gallery, Cincinnati, OH, "Empire Fallilng"
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, "Exposed: Voyeurism, Surveillance, and the Camera Since 1870 (Group Exhibition)
Triennale di Milano, Milan, Italy (Group Exhibition)
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, "The 1%", two-panel video installation for "Small Scale/Big Change"
Ann Tower Gallery, Lexington, KY, "The Pleasure Park"
Modernism Gallery, San Francisco, CA, "The Pleasure Park"
U.S. Embassy, Stockholm, Sweden, "Transparency and Transformations in Contemporary American Art"
21c Museum, Louisville, KY, "The Pleasure Park" 3-channel video installation
21c Museum, Louisville, KY, "Pleasure Park: The Horses"
Centro di Cultura Contemporanea Strozzina, Florence, Italy, "Manipulating Reality"
Camera Obscura Galeria de Arte, Madrid, Spain, "Fandomania"
Gallery JRB at the Elms, Oklahoma City, OK, "Fandomania"
Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York, NY, "Fandomania"
21C Museum, Louisville, KY, "Inaugural Exhibition"
Robert Klein Gallery, Boston, MA, "Still Lovers"
Martha Schneider Gallery, Chicago, IL, "Still Lovers"
Andrea Meislin Gallery, New York, NY, "O, You Beautiful Doll"
Trierenberg AG, Austria, "New Art, New York: Reflections on the Human Condition" (Group Exhibition)
Belfast Exposed, Belfast, Ireland, "Still Lovers"
The Royal Pavilion, Libraries and Museums, Brighton & Hove, Brighton, England, "Guys and Dolls"
Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York, NY, "Still Lovers"
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, "Recent Acquisitions"
New York Arts Magazine Gallery, New York, NY, "AC"
Modernism Gallery, San Francisco, CA, "Valley of the Dolls: Works by Hans Bellmer, Elena Dorfman & David Leventhal:
Camerawork, San Francisco, CA, "Exploring Intimacy"
Empire Falling, text by Kevin Moore, Diamani, Bolonia, Italy
Fandomania: Characters & Cosplay, text by Carlo McCormick, Aperture, New York, NY
Still Lovers, text by Elisabeth Alexandre, Channel Photographics, New York, NY
Des Poupees et des hommes, text by Elisabeth Alexandre, La Musardine, Paris, France
Here & Now: Stories of Survival, photographs and interviews by Elena Dorfman, Avalon, New York, NY
The C-Word: Teenagers & their Families Living with Cancer, NewSage Press, Portland, OR
The 1%, 3-minute, 2-panel video for "Small Scale/Big Change," The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
The Pleasure Park, 5-minute panoramic film with original score
The Pleasure Park: The Jockeys, 1-hour video loop
Costume Play, 5-minute video animation with original score
Jordan Anderson, "Surrogati: Un Amore Ideale", Twin, February 12, 2019
"Surrogati: Un Amore Ideale", Artelab, February 14, 2019
"Surrogati: Un Amore Ideale Ausstellung", Weltkunst, February 16, 2019
Stefano Bucci, "Uomini che vivono con una bambola" Corriere della Sera – La Lettura 3 February, 2019
Alessia Glaviano, "Amore E Silicone" Vogue Italia, February 2019
Cristina D'Antonio,"Benvenuti nel Paese delle bambole", GQ, 5 February, 2019
Elisabetta Muritti, "Questa Specia D'Amore" La Repubblica, February 16, 2019
Nicoletta Travi, Plastica che ci riempe il cuore, Il maschile del Sole 24 ORE, February 19, 2019
Antonella Fiori, "Un Amore Ideale", F, February 20, 2019
Giovanna Calvenzi, "Sara un amore di Plastica", Corriere Della Sera Milano, February 20, 2019
"Hyperrealistic Dolls as Substitutes for Love", Sleek magazine, February 28, 2019
Miss Rosen, "Documenting Unconventional Love in the 21st Century", Huck magazine, February, 2019
Travel & Leisure, "The Prada Foundation's New Exhibit Is One of their Most Provocative Yet", February 20, 2019
Ask a news Italy, "Elena Dorfman: fotografia e surrogate amorosi", TV news, February 20, 2019
Il Sole 24 ore news, "Elena Dorfman: fotografia e surrogate amorosi", TV news, February 20, 2019
Nicoletta Orlandi, "Figli, fidanzate ed amici: quando le bambole sostituiscono l'amore" Posti Libero, February, 20, 2019
Affaritaliani Libero, "Elena Dorfman: fotografia e surrogate amorosi" February 21, 2019
Sophie Bew, "Another Kind of Love: The Secret World of Silicone Dolls", AnOther magazine, February 21, 2019
Artdaily, "Surrogate. A Love Ideal" February 21, 2019
Paola Corazza, "Cos'e l'amore?", L'Officiel, February 2019
Cluverius, "Ausserdem (eine kleine Auswahl), February 21, 2019
Annnah Ongley, "The Surreal Domestic Lives of Humans and their Hyper-Real dolls", Document: Above the Fold, February 22, 2019
Arianna Di Genova , "Geografie Sentimentali", il Manifesto, February 23, 2019
Metal magazine, "The Exploration of a Synthetic Love",
Manuel Peruzzo, "La mostra che racconta l'amore tra uomo e bambole ", Esquire, February 23, 2019
Caterina Taurelli Salimbeni, "Surrogati. Un Amore Ideale", Inside Art, February 24, 2019
Fashionpress Italy, "Surrogati. Un Amore Ideale: in mostra de Prada Osservatorio a Milano", February 24, 2019
Marzia Apice, "Surrogati. Un Amore Ideale", il Centro, February 25, 2019
Caterina Angelucci, "Surrogati. Un Amore Ideale", ArtsLife, Italy, February 25, 2019
Benedetta Pini, "Surrogati", , i-D, March 1, 2019
Barbara Corradi, " Surrogati. Un Amore Ideale", Elle, March 1, 2019
Melissa Harris, "A Surrogate for Love", Aperture magazine, March 1, 2019
Milia Jacobacci, "L'amore ideale di Diamond e Dorfman a Milano", Artribune, 3 March, 2019
!!444!!! Hungary, " A semminel egy szilikocsecsemo vagy egy elettelen babu is jobb" March 3, 2019
"Mostra Surrogati", 24 ore News.it, March, 2019
"Surrogati. Un Amore Ideale", Ilfotografo.it. March 3, 2019
"Surrogati. Un Amore Ideale at the Fondazione Prada", Purple Diary, Purple Art, March 11, 2019
Manuela Gandini, "Diamone e Dorfman l'amore ideale e una bambola in silicone", Tuttolibri, March 9, 2019
"Elena Dorfman", Culture. Rai. It, March 20, 2019
Irene Sofia Comi, "I sorrogati. Un Amore Ideale Osservatorio Fondazione Prada" ATPDiary.com, March 22, 2019
"Surrogati. Un Amore Ideale", Wall Street International, March 23, 2019
Fedrica Pesce Fedrica, "L'amore Ideal", March 23, 2019
Stephanie Eckardt, "What it Looks Like When a Sex Doll Joins the Family", W magazine, March 31, 2019
Arianna Fantuzzi, "Surrogati. Un Amore Ideale", Doppiozero.com, April 2, 2019
Valentina Corasanti, "Surrogati. Un amore ideale": la mostra che svela I'intimata tra carne e silicone, Modapp, April 28, 2019
Simon Blackburn, "Because You're Worth It" Attenzione Magazine, Spring 2019
Michael Heitz, "Origin of the New World" DIAPHANES MAGAZINE No. 5, Fall/Winter 2018/2019
Grace Banks, "Play With Me" featuring Still Lovers, Fall 2018
Michael Paglia, "Humanitie's Assault on Nature" Westword, April 4, 2018
Sarah Burke, "At Mills, Portraits of Teen Syrian Refugees Humanize Conflict", KQED Arts, February 16, 2017
Charles Desmarais, "Photography Show a Snapshot of Collectors' Selves", San Francisco Chronicle, June 3, 2016
Sura Wood, "Embarcadero Photography Pilgrimage", June 16, 2016
Leora Lutz, "Sublime: The LA River", Art Ltd., March 2016
Liesl Bradner, "Sublime", The Los Angeles Times, January 30, 2016
Judith Turner-Yamamoto, "Wandering in the Uncanny Valley", Photographer's Forum, spring, 2016
Germano Celant, Fotografia maledetta e non, "Still Lovers", Feltrinelli, 2015
Dzana Tsomondo, "Stolen Youth", PDN, September 2015
Tema Stauffer, "Syria's Lost Generation", American Photo, August 4, 2015
Shepherd, Dan, "Elena Dorfman: Empire Falling and River", LenScratch, July 10, 2014
Marquad Smith, The Erotic Doll: A Modern Fetish, Yale University Press, 2014
Dana Jennings, "Dreamscapes, Abysses And Radiation", The New York Times, Paper Gallery, August 23, 2013
Jonathon Keats, "When Photographers are Neuroscientists", Nautilus, Fall 2013
Vince Aletti, "Alchemical", The New Yorker, August 5, 2013
Conor Risch, "Built Landscapes: Empire Falling", PDN, April 22 2013
Exposed: Voyeruism, Survelliance, and the Camera Since 1870; SFMOMA publication, 2010
Cherie Louis Turner, Art Ltd. "The Pleasure Park," July/Aug 2010
Conor Riess, Photo District News: Exposures, "The Pleasure Park," June 2010
Clayton Maxwell, "The Pleasure Park," Eyemazing Issue 01-2010
Christopher Bolton, "A Cosplay Photography Sampler," Mechademia 5: Fanthropologies, Fall 2010
"Elena Dorfman," Realta Manipolate, Palazzio Strozzi, 2009
Reed Albergotti, "For Exhibit", The Wall Street Journal, April 30, 2000Le Journal de La Photograhie, "Empire Falling," March 1, 2013Kenneth Baker, "Elena Dorfman at Modernism". San Francisco Chronicle, February 3, 2103"New Work," Art Daily, April 30, 2009
"Fandomania," Exit Magazine
"The Anime Within," Mother Jones Magazine, Nov/Dec 2007
Elisabetta Piatti, "Fandomania," Zoom, Sept/Oct. 2007
Karen Leigh, "Character Studies," Entertainment Weekly, June 1, 2007
Jonathon Keats, "The Talk," San Francisco Magazine, June 2007
"Fandomania," Jane magazine, June/July 2007
"State of the Art," Pop Photo, May 29, 2007
"Fandomania," Jane magazine, June/July 2007
David Lipke, "The Underground World of Cosplay," DNR, April 23, 2007
Maura Egan, "Imaginary Friends," New York Times Style Magazine, Spring
Anna Holtzman, "Elena Dorfman: Fandomania," Eyemazing, 2007
Bo Sondergaard, "Scener fra et dukkehjem," Magasinet, Denmark
Michael Workman, "Eye Exam Valley of the Dolls," Newcity Chicago, May 26, 2006
Cassie Riger, "Still Lovers Book Review," Camerawork, volume 33, Spring/Summer 2006
Meaghan Laslockey, "Just Like A Woman," Courrier (Japon), June 1, 2006
Sacha Ettinger Epstein, "Guys and Dolls," Black + White, (Australia), May 2006
Slywia Czubkowska, "LALA Mida," Przekroj (Poland), No 6/3164, March 2006
Cate McQuaid, "It's Not What It Looks Like," Boston Globe, March 9, 2006
Anu Partanen, "Taydelliset naiset," Image (Norway), March 2006
Felicity Robinson, "Amori di Plastica," Marie Claire, (Italy), March, 2006
Ian Sattler, "The Fiction We Live," Swindle, Issue No. 5, January 2006.
Susan Morgan, "Road Less Traveled: Elena Dorfman, Still Lovers," Aperture, November/December 2005
Ilaria Bernardini, "Baciami Stupido," Rolling Stone (Italy), December 2005
William Hannigan, "Hot Books," Hotshoe, October/November 2005
Meghan Lasloky, "Just Like A Woman," Salon.com, October 11, 2005
"Agenda," Vogue (France) Atûo 2005
Gaël Le Bellego & Julien Blanc-Gras, "Génération Real Dolls," Max (France), Septembre 2005
"In Play," Radar Magazine, September/October 2005.
Catherine Castro, "Poupees X," Marie Claire Homme (France) October 2005
Amanda Doenitz, "Are Skin Pics the Latest Aphrodisiac?" Art on Paper, September/October 2005
Katherine Nguyen, "Risqué Reading," Picture Magazine, July/August 2005
Werner Bartens, "Lust Aus Dem Labor," SZ Wissen (Switzerland) May 2005
Gabriela Weiner, "Peinando La Muneca," Paula, Chili, March 2005
James Gardner, "Art Attack," New York Post, February 26, 2005
Marta Rebón, "Amor de Plástico,"Lateral Revista de Cultura, Febrero 2005
Julia Morton, "Elena Dorfman," New York Press, February 16, 2005
Vince Aletti, "Elena Dorfman," Village Voice, February 2, 2005
"New York," Photography (France), Jan/Feb. 2005
Kenneth Baker, "Reviews:National," Art News, January, 2005
"Paris Photo 2004," Photo (France), November 2004
Suzy Menkes, "At Paris Photo, a Focus on the Power of Women," International Herald Tribune, 9 November 2004
Simon Hewitt, "At the Fair," Art & Auction, November 2004
Beatrice de Rochebouet, "Le Pari Contempoain de Paris Photo," Figaro, 11 November 2004
Anna Holtzman, "Elena Dorfman: Still Lovers," Eyemazing Gallery 31, Fall 2004
"Best Photography Project," San Francisco Magazine, October 2004
Kenneth Baker, "Getting Intimate with Guys and 'Dolls.'" San Francisco Chronicle, July 19, 2003
Marisa S. Olson," 'Valley of the Dolls' At Modernism," Artweek, September 2003, Volume 34, Issue 7
"Locating Intimacy: The Space Between," Camerawork, Fall 2003
"What a Doll!" Sex TV, Canadian television program
Wandering In The Uncanny Valley, Institute for Critical Theory, Academy of the Arts, Zurich, Switzerland
SBCAST, Santa Barbara, CA, 2017
The George Eastman Museum, Rochester, NY, 2016
Newcomb Art Museum of Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, 2016
Loyola Marymount College, Los Angeles, CA 2016
Annenberg Center for Photography, Los Angeles, CA, 2016
Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA, 2016
Art Center, Pasadena, CA, 2016
US Holocaust Memorial Museum (DC), Lecture in New York, NY, 2016
University of Cincinnati College of Design, Architecture, Art & Planning, 2015
School of Visual Arts, New York, NY 2015


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No, not Tesco's latest tasty offering, but a re-post of something I originally offered at the start of the year of the rabbit, reheated for the year of the horse. Though having watched Ken Hom eat a traditional dish of fried rabbit's head in Chengdu on TV this morning, perhaps horse wouldn't be such a bad idea after all. Whatever your choice of meat, veg or tofu – a happy, prosperous and healthy year of the horse to one and all!
Learning a language as an adult is far more difficult than doing so as a child when the relevant bits of our brains are more plastic, malleable and hungry for linguistic stimuli. And as it is with language, so with tableware. I could read English by the time I went to nursery school, but I didn't meet my first pair of chopsticks until I was in my twenties. By then I could speak knife and fork with ease, and could happily conjugate the correct cutlery course combinations for soup, fish, cheese etc. But my adult mind has never mastered more than a rudimentary grasp of chopsticks. My fingers lack fluency, and even when I do successfully manage to convey a morsel of food to my mouth I'm sure it's done with a thick English accent, clearly audible to anyone within spitting distance whose mother tongue is chopsticks.
I learnt years ago that to leave one's chopsticks in a bowl of food shows disrespect for one's ancestors [that's what the rests are for people, do not dis the dead], but I'm usually more worried about the disrespect for my dining companions shown by showering them with flicks of my food.
However having recently received some smart new pairs emblazoned with the animals of our birth years I decided we needed to inaugurate them at the dawn of the year of the rabbit. And that's where a sticky sauce like this comes in very handy for a chopsticks dunce like me. It's effectively food glue, and I'll be less likely to starve if I can use it to entrap some errant grains of egg fried rice. There'll be forks involved before we've finished for sure, but like learning just a few words of a new language, at least I'll feel like I've made an effort.
"Gung Hay Fat Choy!"
Very many recipes suggest this same basic technique and combination of ingredients though the proportions vary slightly. I'm not sure how traditional an ingredient tomato ketchup is but it's certainly popular! Take 100ml of Chinese rice vinegar, 3.5 tbsps brown or cane sugar, 2 tbsps tomato ketchup and 1 tsp of soy sauce. Boil all together in a small pan for a couple of minutes and then thicken with a rounded tsp of cornflour mixed with water. This gives you quite a thick, dark sauce which is probably best for dipping.
I wanted something looser and less intense, so added 200ml of passata, 100ml of water and another good glug of rice vinegar. If you're doing the same taste the sauce and adjust with more vinegar or sugar to balance the sweet and sour. Quickly stir fry an onion and a pepper [roughly chopped], add cooked chicken [unsurprisingly leftovers in my case], then the sauce and chunks of tinned pineapple. After a quick bubble and stir it's time to check and adjust again.
I had another wok on the go to fry cooked rice, spring onion, small strips of chilli, some finely shredded smoked duck, peas, a beaten egg and a generous splash of soy sauce. Fried rice is another good place to use up scraps of this and that – the duck was leftover from our recent fondue. If only I'd had a bit of rabbit.
The sauce itself is suitable for vegetarians and vegans. If you prefer not to have it with meat then some fried tofu would eat very well.


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Covington hosted a training event in advance of the Citizenship Day on March 12, 2016. The training was led by the Asian Pacific American Legal Resource Center (APALRC), in partnership with the Asian-Pacific American Bar Association and Asian Americans Advancing Justice. Citizenship Day is a national movement to provide free legal assistance to help permanent residents apply for naturalization. Over twenty attorneys and law students from around D.C. attended the event and received training on how to assist the pro bono clinic attendees. Associate Nooree Lee and Pro Bono Manager Sharmaine Heng attended and welcomed the trainers and volunteers on behalf of Covington.


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I wasn't really sure what to make of the Handyteck Flower Pot filters when they first came through my mail box. And if I'm honest I kinda thought to myself, y'know…. really ? Initially.
To the filters; they remind me of a large round tea bag made with wire gauze, of a guage that you might find in a science lab for burning things with a bunsen burner – except these are made from plastic. One is supposed to place them inside at the bottom of a plant pot, before putting the compost in.
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On the noting of stones and gravel in the bottom of your pots, aparently not doing that is up for question by some and the research of noted recently on the BBC website. Even more the reason to try this new Irish product you say ?
But it was their second noting that caught my attention:
In Ireland without the mesh netting, the compost spilt out, the roots came through the apertures and the insects attacked the plants. These insects were identified as maggots, worms, woodlice and general garden bugs etc….
In Spain the experiment worked with very much the same results, but the biggest factor were ants, which in warmer climates is a major problem.
Wanna find out more ? The lads will be launching the product at Bloom 2014, stand G43 of the grand pavilion and in September at Glee Birmingham. I'll give Cathal Corr top marks for sending these on at the start of May. As versus the day before Bloom kicks off.
Of note the product is available in packs of 15 in 6 different sizes and to the trade in boxes of 1000. I can see the fancy the fancy dan garden centres picking up on this one. In the meantime, fair play and only the very best of luck with it.
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|Mick Freed's Resting Spot
|Mick's View at Cushman
I decided to take a long walk up to Cushman view, which is about 4 miles from the house with the dogs this morning. It was cool when we started about 47 degrees, perfect for a walk. The hardest part of the walk is the 2 mile climb up Cedar Mountain you go up about 1000 feet in elevation. About a mile from the house are the Triplets three oaks growing together that mark my half-way to the top of Cedar Mountain point.
When I reached the top of Cedar Mountain, I decided to walk the pipeline, which comes out just about a half a mile from Cushman view. I let the dogs romp a little farther from me in that area, since I didn't have to worry about cars. The distance proved too much of a temptation for Scooter and he found some bear crap to take a roll in just out of my control. So the rest of our walk the air carried a bit stronger scent of bear.
Cushman view is on a turn in the road that opens up a view of hundreds of square miles of forest. Above the road is the resting spot of Mick Freed long time resident of Leetonia, who passed on a little more than a half year ago. Mick has a nice rock below him and his view of the valley is unsurpassed. I talked to Mick a bit and seemed to sense he is happy not to be working so hard now. I have often felt him sitting there on that rock overlooking Leetonia and making sure all is well with the place he loved so much. Leetonia gets in your soul as much as any relationship, but it is a hard place to crack out a living. For people who love the company of a lot of people it can be desperately lonely. Still sitting there looking out over the forest it is hard to deny anywhere is more beautiful to live. The early color in the trees is disappointing this year as most of the maples are just dropping leaves. Hopefully, the oak will come through with a bit a red sometime in the next couple weeks. Mountain girl, Paula, logging out.