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Chicago's first two-way protected bike lanes have been in place for six months through the center of downtown on Dearborn Street, and the experience so far has led city officials to conclude that all cyclists really need to obey traffic laws are signals of their own, telling them that stop means stop.
Monitoring by the Chicago Department of Transportation shows that cyclists stopping for red lights has improved by 161 percent since cyclist-specific traffic signals, which glow with the image of a bike on the lens, were installed on Dearborn in December.
It marks apparent progress as the city on Monday launches the annual Bike to Work Week.
"Cyclists will really abide by a signal if they have one," Chicago Transportation Commissioner Gabe Klein believes.
Added Lee Crandell of the Active Transportation Alliance: "It's important to have infrastructure that speaks to people who are biking. Otherwise, they feel the roadway was not designed for them."
Yet the whopping 161 percent increase in compliance on Dearborn also seems to highlight the blatant disregard many cyclists regularly show elsewhere toward the most basic rule of the road — stop on red — just as too many motorists are at fault for violations that include rolling through right turns on red lights or texting while driving, officials said.
The bicycle-specific traffic signals on Dearborn are part of a federally funded experiment involving the two-way bike lanes, which are protected from moving vehicle traffic by plastic posts and a parking lane over much of the 1.15-mile route between Kinzie and Polk streets.
The new layout has reduced speeding by vehicles too, officials said. The project cost about $450,000 and removed a lane for the 13,100 vehicles that on average use the northbound-only section of Dearborn each weekday.
Updated counts of average daily bicycle and vehicle traffic are being done, but officials say bike traffic has clearly increased, particularly during rush hours.
"Enforcement hasn't been necessary because people for the most part are obeying the laws," said Cmdr. Al Nagode of the Chicago Police Department's district that includes the Loop. "We've had a handful of citations that we've written both to drivers of vehicles and to some bikes when we see something egregious."
The Police Department has no reports of crashes between cyclists and vehicles or cyclists and pedestrians since the two-way bike lanes were installed, Nagode said.
"I'm sure there have been some close shaves here and there," Klein said. "Cyclists need to pay attention. You cannot drift into the other lane. I think it will take time for people to get used to the new traffic pattern, but so far it has gone pretty well."
Eighty-one percent of bike riders are departing signal-controlled intersections on a green light now, according to spot checks on Dearborn by CDOT.
The rate, though still not as high as officials would like to see, is up significantly, from only 31 percent of cyclists stopping for red lights before the bicycle signals were added, officials said.
Are the statistics plausible?
The preliminary data showing eight of 10 bicyclists obeying red lights on Dearborn is roughly about what your Getting Around reporter has observed during informal monitoring since the weather has warmed up and more people are commuting to work by bike. But with so many cyclists on the street, there are sightings of cyclists running red lights every few minutes.
To reiterate, drivers as a group aren't perfect either. But MASH tents would be needed at intersections to triage the wounded if 20 percent of drivers routinely blew through solid red lights downtown. Or worse, dealing with scofflaw drivers representing 69 percent of all traffic on Dearborn, which was the level of cyclists ignoring red lights before the customized bike traffic signals were introduced.
From 2006 to 2011, there were 1,140 reported crashes on this part of Dearborn, city records show. Pedestrians and bicyclists were involved in more than half of the accidents that included injuries.
Authorities and bicycling advocates expect accidents will decline on Dearborn and other streets that get protected bike lanes.
"People are no longer fearing for their safety riding bikes into downtown," Crandell said.


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Inter's Massimo Moratti the last of Europe's 'fan' owners
Just over 10 years ago, I bumped into Massimo Moratti at a restaurant in London's South Kensington. A few hours earlier, his Inter team had defeated Arsenal at Highbury 3-0 in a Champions League group stage match. Blitzed Arsenal might be a more apt description; the visitors were 3-0 up at halftime with goals from Andy van der Meyde, Julio Cruz and Obafemi Martins. (And note that this wasn't just any Arsenal team. This was an Arsenal team that had won the FA Cup the year before and that season would go on to dominate the Premier League without losing a single game, making history as "The Invincibles.")
Moratti's demeanor and expression reminded me of a trip I had taken to Disneyland with a friend and his 5-year-old kid. The little boy had spent the drive over talking about how Mickey Mouse and Snow White weren't real, they were just characters made up by grown-ups. When he bumped into Snow White, he slipped into a kind of joyful stupor.
Mouth open, eyes wide, half-knowing smile, he seemed to have entered another plane. What he thought wasn't real -- but deep down wished was real -- proved to be real.
I saw that same mix of joy and wonder on Moratti's face that night. One of the people with him told me: "He lives for this. This makes it all worthwhile to him."
It would probably be churlish to point out that the little boy at Disneyland is now in his late teens and figured out a long time ago that what he saw wasn't real. Just as reality would ultimately hit Moratti like a cinder block to the head. The manager who delivered that historic win -- Hector Cuper -- would be fired 31 days later. Inter would fail to make it out of the group, with the added insult of Arsenal beating them 5-1 at the San Siro in the return leg. They would end the season trophy-less for the sixth year running and find themselves 23 points off the pace in Serie A.
But you know what?
That night probably did make it worthwhile for Moratti. And anyone -- other than Arsenal fans -- who was near him that night and witnessed his childlike joy could not help but be happy for him.
On Tuesday, Moratti sold 70 percent of Inter Milan to an investment group led by Indonesian businessman Erick Thohir for $338 million, valuing the club at nearly half a billion dollars. He'll still hold a stake, he may or may not be given some kind of role, but it will be "his" club only in the way that a fan feels a team is "his."
Moratti was one of the last great fan-owners in the European game. His 18-plus years of ownership were marked by his personality. And that was defined in two ways. Wealthy and patrician, he almost always acted like a gentleman, setting him apart from most of his rivals. It also meant that he was less hated by supporters of other clubs than his peers, which, in the hyper-polarized world of Serie A, is no mean feat. His other hallmark, of course, was that -- for better or worse -- he thought and ran the club like a fan, with all that entails.
If you're into your pop psychology, Moratti is a slam dunk. His father, Angelo, the son of a pharmacist, was orphaned by the time he was 14. He left school at 16 and went on to make a fortune in oil refineries. He bought Inter when Massimo was 10 and as the kid grew into a man he witnessed the birth of "La Grande Inter," winners of two European Cups and two world club titles under the legendary Helenio Herrera.
Angelo sold the club in 1968 and for the next 27 years, Massimo was just a fan. He worked in the family business, which his older brother ran. And in February 1995, he bought Inter, bringing it back into the family fold and hoping to follow in his dad's footsteps.
Thus began the second Moratti era. And for most of it, it was marked by ridicule. The problem is that good people with lots of money who are emotionally invested don't always make good owners. Not if you define "good ownership" as running the club to something near its maximum potential.
Inter made 20 managerial changes during his time in charge. Take away the relative stability of the Roberto Mancini-Jose Mourinho regimes and it was actually 18 changes in just over 12 years. If you wanted to be cruel, you could have an absolute field day examining them. Like firing Gigi Simoni shortly after he was named Serie A manager of the year for winning the UEFA Cup and finishing second in the league. Or booting Marcello Lippi after one game of the 2000-01 campaign. Or Rafa Benitez, who effectively sacked himself with a rousing polemic hours after winning the 2010 Club World Cup.
Even when managers did well, it seemed to end badly. Roberto Mancini's four-year stint finished with the club's third straight Serie A crown, but the epilogue was marked by acrimony, accusations of spying and spurious stories leaked to the media. Indeed, Mourinho is one of the few guys who left on a good note, and he had to win the freaking treble to do it.
And when it came to players, well ...
Inter managed to send Clarence Seedorf, Dario Simic and Andrea Pirlo to -- of all clubs -- Milan in exchange for Francesco Coco, Umit Davala and someone named Andres Guglielminpietro (Guly, to his friends). Seedorf, Simic and Pirlo went on to make a combined 961 appearances for Milan and won two Champions League titles. The trio Inter got in return played a grand total of 56 games.
There are far too many others to count. Far too many situations when Inter made player personnel decisions that simply blew up in their face, all the while far outspending almost everyone in the history of the game.
The Italian newspaper La Repubblica reported in summer 2011 that under Moratti's ownership the club had lost $1.62 billion (with a "b") and that Moratti had pumped a billion dollars of his own money into the club as equity. Cash he knew he would never see again.
That was likely the part of the problem. Moratti was simply too generous, too forgiving, too much of a pushover. Agents treated him like a cash machine (Nwankwo Kanu twice getting a raise while making just 12 appearances springs to mind). Directors of football and transfer market consultants never being held to account for their incompetence and sheer stupidity. Coaches coming in demanding players and Moratti caving in, even when they didn't fit the club's plan or, in some cases, when he knew he was likely to make another managerial change.
"If you're rich, you have to have a complex of guilt towards those who are less fortunate; you have to think of all those who are so far worse off than you are," he once said when asked about his legendary generosity.
Meanwhile, off the pitch, the game was changing and Inter remained in a time warp. Spend as much as you like, don't worry about match-day or commercial income, because Moratti will just cut a big fat check at the end of the year. Most of the Italian game (with some exceptions) was guilty of this: outdated stadiums; cheap, tatty merchandising; sponsorship deals that appeared to have been struck by 8-year olds. But Inter were among the worst offenders. Between 2006 and 2010, five years in which the club won everything in sight, commercial income rose from $63.5 million to $65.4 million. Across town, AC Milan, with a comparable fan base but with considerably worse results on the pitch, saw their commercial income go up from $91.9 million to $122.7 million.
A businessman owner would identify those responsible and kick them to the kerb. And he would have done the same with all those employees and advisers who exploited his generosity and cash while offering bad, incompetent advice, year after year. Instead, it seemed like, at Inter, the only ones who paid the price of incompetence were the managers.
(And even then, since most had fat multiyear deals that Moratti duly paid up until they got new jobs, they too didn't really suffer.)
Thohir, as far as we know, did not grow up an Inter fan. He bought Inter; he might have bought Valencia or Arsenal or Boca Juniors. A club is a club to him. It's a business. A fun business in which you don't mind breaking even, but a business nonetheless. The kind where you actually make business decisions. Like firing those who are incompetent, lazy or stupid.
In fact, it's not really a choice. Financial fair play is here and if Inter want to ever be a European power again, they'll need to be smart about it. The cost-cutting actually officially began 18 months ago, but -- as with all things Inter -- it has been half-baked and subject to the owner's whims (or the ability of those around him to extract more cash from him).
There is a lot of potential, but also so much to do. From the stadium to the sponsorships to actually exploiting Inter's huge but underutilized youth system. (Seven of the players who reached the final of the European under-21 championship last summer are products of Inter's academy. And of course, two years ago, Inter's youth side won the NextGen Series.)
The Moratti way meant that Inter had a steward who cared deeply about the club, who put his own money into it and kept it far from bankruptcy and financial turmoil. It also delivered the unforgettable treble under Mourinho, and that is something that will forever remain in history and in the hearts of supporters.
There's a lot to be said about an owner who is a good man. But, simply put, that way of doing business is now untenable. And, when you look back, it never yielded the results it should have, certainly not on the pitch.
Thohir may or may not turn out to be a good owner. But right now he's a necessary owner. And every indication is that he will run the club according to business principles, not as a fan who hit the jackpot or a kindly dad willing to forgive every one of his selfish kids' misdeeds.
In that sense, Thohir is what Inter need.


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60th birthday gifts should be a fun way to commemorate the passing of years and the youth of the heart and the spirit of adventure. You will want to be sure you touch the heart of any person celebrating 60 wonderful years.
No one turning 60 wants to feel old, but they also don't want to be treated like a kid either. When you are thinking of the best gift item for someone turning 60, try to think of something that would be extremely special to them. People turning 60 are not usually quite ready for retirement, but they are sure to be planning for it. You can take that into account when finding the right 60th birthday gift.
When you are creating the perfect birthday gift for a 60 year old consider giving them a pre-retirement gift. This will help them plan things they would like to do once they are ready to fully retire. Sometimes preparing for retirement activities will require a bit of financial planning beyond what someone has already taken care of. You could give the birthday person a special financial planning book made for extracurricular spending post-retirement. It would be a much appreciated gift and is very thoughtful.
Travel books would also be wonderful 60th birthday gifts. Many people nearing retirement age are looking to travel. If they haven't had much experience with travel in the past, they will be looking for ideas. Travel books can be just the launch pad they need. If you have it in your budget, you could also include a piece or two of quality luggage as well.
If you know that the birthday person has recently purchased a recreational vehicle, they may appreciate accessories to accompany them in their travels. For pre-retirees who plan to use an RV for discovering the roads of America you could consider giving maps to plan travels or organizers for their RV. People who will be living out of an RV would greatly appreciate any items which are smaller versions of common items like toasters or coffee makers or even television sets.
People nearing the retirement age are planning for their future much as any young person would do. They have worked for most of their lives and are getting ready to embark upon many an adventure. Whatever gifts you decide upon, make sure you consider the transitions in life people will be going through and it will help you in selecting 60th birthday gifts.
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The social network for professionals promotes its slideshow presentation feature as an alternative to interactive ads.
Satisfaction rankings for search engines, social networks, and news sites drop almost 4 percent from last year, says the American Customer Satisfaction Index.
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Okay, so the smell is a little on the hotel end of those little bottles they give you. BUT my hair felt clean and soft after the shower. I have naturally big poofy, frizzy hair so it didn't weigh it down as it seems nothing does.. 5 stars if lower price.
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This this garbage is what our politics have become.
We are deeply saddened and disappointed that the Ashwaubenon Village Board is considering killing off many of the approximately 125 deer currently residing within village limits.
There's little question that 'money talks' as long as you can pay a bit more for a better service at a top restaurant or to get a first-class seat while traveling but there's an ongoing First Amendment battle over how loudly it should speak in politics.
Congratulations, fellow Christians of Astor Park. We have successfully repelled the invasion of the downtrodden. Jesus himself would have manned the barricades against the threat of lower property values, if he lived here.
After the Green Bay City Council voted to delay the permit for a daytime resource center for homeless on Mason Street, we now learn that it will no longer be opened at all.
The Legislature of this great state of Wisconsin has gain failed to put teeth into the drunken-driving laws, thanks to money from the liquor lobby.
It is disturbing/distressing that the Press-Gazette now contains commentary in op-ed section from people employed by Fox News (Kirsten Powers, Jan 16; Charles Krauthammer).
According to Anne Ranft's letter on April 1, the minimum wage should be $15.50. Why not $20, or $30?
I love the Packers. Ticket prices are too high, including other teams. We feel that goes for all members of the Packers making $2 million or more. Anyone making over $2 million should take a 20 percent drop in pay.
Recently there was a letter to the editor ridiculing a belief in global warming and climate change.
April is Autism Awareness Month. I hesitated in writing this because I do not define my children by this fact, though others have. Just as the expression states, 'I am not fat, I have fat,' my children are not autistic, but people living with autism.
I don't know what all the fuss is about getting a grocery store downtown. There's a nice store on Dousman Street called Save-A-Lot.
Advocates for action on climate change should seriously consider a carbon tax and dividend.
Walmart's Broadway proposal is concise and offers long-term city benefits. A view of the proposal highlights the scope of its contributions to Green Bay.
Wisconsin politics will be even more partisan and contentious with the departure of three moderate state senators who will likely be replaced by more ideological lawmakers. Those retirements do not bode well for harmony at our State Capitol.
Why, oh why, would you choose to glorify teen pregnancy on the front page of the paper? The headline blared out that more funds have been granted to support teen pregnancy.
Several Republicans in the Wisconsin Legislature are members of ALEC, which is a cabal of several large corporations and legislators who secretly draft model bills that profit corporations. Gov.
Duane W. Maatz's March 30 Guest Commentary warning of food shortages and threats to food safety unless we grant what would be the eighth amnesty to illegal aliens since 1986 is more of the '
Regarding Tom Groenfeldt's letter
In response to Donald Vineburg's March 18 letter, the Koch brothers didn't balance our state's budget, create the $900 million surplus, or put over $200 million into the rainy day fund. Gov. Walker's policies did and he will be re-elected.
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John McCain is walking a tightrope. In his previous life, he served as the lead Republican voice in favor of campaign finance "reform" and was one of the key sponsors of the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002. In fact, his role in that legislation was so vital that the law is frequently referred to as "McCain-Feingold."
Among other things, one provision of McCain-Feingold banned corporations and unions from running "electioneering communications"—advertisements that mentioned federal candidates by name within a certain number of days before an election. During oral arguments in Citizens United v. FEC last year, Justice Scalia said, "I doubt that one can expect a body of incumbents to draw election restrictions that do not favor incumbents." Senator McCain took umbrage at that and decried Scalia's comment as "an affront" to the "decent, honorable men and women who have served this nation in these halls for well over 200 years."
The Senator McCain of 2009 therefore saw "McCain-Feingold" as the product of a publicly spirited Congress that is only looking out for Americans' best interests. So he must view other politicians' campaign finance efforts with equal magnanimity, right? Not quite. After the House passed the DISCLOSE Act last Friday, McCain jabbed, "It's no surprise that Democrats craft a bill that favors their supporters."
So I guess the rose-colored glasses are off now. Here's to hoping that Senator McCain has had an epiphany and comes to realize that when Members of Congress legislate on campaign finance matters, they typically design the laws to give themselves a leg up on their political opponents. The Founders knew of this constant temptation, which is why they said in the First Amendment that "Congress shall make no law . . . abridging the freedom of speech."


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Over the last three decades, a growing number of public "percent for art" programs have transformed commercial design projects into city cultural stewardship projects. How?
The concept is simple: for major commercial design projects (capital improvement projects and new developments), an increasing number of major cities require funders to earmark a set percentage of the overall budget for the purchase and installation of public art. Effectively, property developers become the arts benefactors and beautifiers of the cities within which they build.
While not all public art pieces are universally a hit, most would argue they certainly intrigue. Pictured above is Cradle, a 2010 installation by Ball-Nogues Studio for the Santa Monica Place shopping mall in Santa Monica, California.
One of the earliest adopters of the percent for art concept, Chicago began asking developers to earmark 1.33% of project costs back in 1978. Weighing in at 100 tons, Anish Kapoor's Cloud Gate (nicknamed "The Bean") is a favorite in Millennium Park.
The "Percent for Art" idea traces back domestically to the early 1960s and then chairman of the Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority Michael von Moschziskerhe. As von Moschziskerhe explained to TIME magazine in 1962, "I said to the other four members that maybe we could let it be known that we would look with favor on bidders who offered to spend 1% of construction costs on frescoes, murals, bas-reliefs, mosaics, stained-glass windows, and fountains with statuary in or around them...Psychologists and efficiency experts now find that beauty increases productivity. It necessarily follows that true functionalism in man-made edifices must include artistic expression."
Visitors to Los Angeles will recognize the "pylons" at LAX. This kinetic installation of multi-color lights by Paul Tzanetopoulos is the result of the city's 1% for art program.
The distinctive pylon look can be adapted to the home with torchiere floor lamps.
Possini Euro Design Hybrid Torchiere Accent Light Floor Lamp
Public art can be seen as a talking point, an eyesore, or a design centerpiece, as with Eclipse, a 40 foot high, 12-sided dodecahedron by artist Charles O. Perry located in the atrium Hyatt Regency in San Francisco's Embarcadero. I love the string lights hanging from the ceiling in the background. They remind me of the droplets on some of my favorite crystal chandeliers.
In the case of some public art, it can be so formally driven that it verges on looking functional. Can you tell which of the below is sculpture and which is a chandelier?
(Hint: One is the Bowling Ball Curtain sculpture by Eung Ho Park; the other is the Possini Euro Floating Bubble 6-Light Round Ceiling Fixture)
Public art infuses public spaces with color and interesting forms which inevitably become the common social and cultural bonds of a city.
Images: Ball-Nogues Studio, Art Observed, Daily News, Hyatt Regency, DM Contemporary
Interior Designer Rachel Horn and her husband Justin Kreizel combined their skills to renovate this 1969 Airstream. They are now ready for the great outdoors, but more importantly, they can spend their time camping in luxury.
The interior is just as functional as it is beautiful. The built-in daybed is wrapped in glamorous fabrics and Moroccan accents, making it almost too beautiful to sleep in. The geometric mirrored coffee tables add a touch of glamour to the space.
This table (below) will help you bring modern lines and a little glam into your own home.
Zuo Tyrell Stainless Steel and Black Glass Coffee Table
Although this wasn't the typical 10,000 square foot project Horn was used to designing, she didn't treat it any differently and carefully considered all the details.
Mixing modern home decor with Moorish, Turkish or Persian details creates something Horn decribes as "Luxe Nomadic".
This modern kitchen is equipped with stainless steel appliances, a cappuccino maker, water filter, and all the amenities typically found in a luxurious home kitchen. Horn and her husband have everything they need to be comfortable while camping.
Modern wall light fixtures are great for casting a nice glow onto counters and surfaces below, perfect for cooking those late night meals. Directional wall lights are great for kitchens without upper cabinets. This light (below) would also work perfectly in this type of setting.
Satin Nickel 8" High LED Spotlight Wall Sconce
The bedroom is separated from the rest of the space with Moorish arches and curtains, tied back for easy access. The headboards mimic the arches of the overall structure and are covered in elegant fabrics. After a long day hiking in the rough outdoors, who wouldn't want to jump into these comfortable beds?
For those of you who shy away from the rough outdoors and don't typically like the idea of camping.... Maybe it's time you give "glamping" a try!
Images: Rachel Horn
High style on the high seas is not just a fiction one finds in Bond movies. The following rundown of the best in modern yacht interiors suggests that good design sense need not be shore bound.
When looking for a custom boat interiors pro, Art collector Dakis Joannou commissioned famed artist Jeff Koons and interior designer Ivana Porfiri to outfit Guilty (pictured above and below), a colorful 35 meter yacht that is a floating homage to contemporary art and design.
Clear chairs maintain an uncluttered aesthetic - perfect for the limited space of a yacht. Get a similar look with clear outdoor dining chairs. This set by Zuo Modern (below) are perfect for the job.
Set of 4 Zuo Allsorts Transparent Outdoor Dining Chairs
The Antigone 80 meter yacht (below) is a sleek concept yacht by Pama Design. In looking for a style that would integrate well with the surroundings, the designers turned to an aesthetic perhaps most suited to the flat expanse of the sea: the classic Modernist look.
Use floor lamps and modern seating to replicate the signature style.
Possini Euro White Marble Base Arc Floor Lamp
There are those, of course, who prefer to never leave shore at all. This boathouse in Ontario, Canada (below) is a stunning reason to forgo time on the water entirely.
Designed by GH3 Architects, this is an efficient model. The house is sited on a granite slab, an ideal thermal mass for the solar radiation that passively heats the space. Louvers, ventilation and the lake-front location keep things cool in Summer. With a space like this, keeping your land legs beneath you just might be the best idea of all.
Images: Hok Life, Tuvie, Home Designing, Contemporist
When we study eco-friendly architecture and landscape, it's not often that we come across a landscaped structure. Architect Andrew Maynard designed "Hill House" in Melbourne, Australia to be the exception. This once single structure residence has been turned into, not only a much larger home, but a study on combining architecture and building.
Melbourne is predominantly flat. This could be why Melbourne's architecture is ambitious. There's no landscape to confine structure design, therefore buildings are free to become landscape.
The design goal was for a family of five to have a long-term residence, which could meet the requirements of three small children and their transformation into young adulthood. Above is the evolution of design toward that goal, starting with the just original building (white).
Fundamental issues offered Maynard a starting point and he noticed that the original structure faced North which relegated the backyard, where the family spent much of their time, to shadow throughout the year. This was not ideal.
The proposal was to build a new structure on the rear boundary, which was once the back yard.
The new structure now faces the sun and the pure cantilevered box above acts as the passive solar eave, cutting out summer sun, while letting winter sun flood in.
Upon entry, you can see (below) how the structure effects the interior, creating a lowered dining area. The change in floor level creates a bench seat for the Maynard designed "Zero Waste Table".
Despite structural efforts outside, there are ways for any interior to circulate aire and keep cool in the summer. There are some great modern ceiling fans the accomplish this without detracting from the decor. This fan below is our suggestion for achieving Maynard's design aesthetic.
Turbina Oil-Rubbed Bronze Ceiling Fan
Much of the color in Maynard's design comes from the landscape outside, but he had a little fun with the dining room. Multi-colored modern dining chairs is a great way to add personality to a minimally designed space. We suggest this red Eames-style dining chair.
Zuo Spire Red Dining Chair
Wouldn't it be fun to have a well designed attractive home that is also your playground? Apparently, Maynard is the go-to architect for innovative, fun and smart design. "Environmental issues and responsible, intelligent solutions are trademarks of his work, utilising clever concepts for a dynamic output. Clients come to Maynard when they're seeking a unique and challenging solution..." Alaana Fitzpatrick, DQ magazine.
Images: Maynard Architects
People often complain that Los Angeles is so spread out and impersonal. Arguably, it might be and there is no denying it. However, there are certain events that occur throughout the city in an effort to distance itself from such an apathetic reputation. Rather than condemning the vastness of our overpopulated city, we should embrace its variety.
The Downtown Art Walk is a free, self-guided public community event bringing together art lovers and community friends. It takes place on the second Thursday of every month. Activities occur mostly in and around the galleries located on Spring and Main streets between 2nd and 9th streets. However, there are several art related events and openings, activities, and special programming that take place all over downtown.
The small groups that form and the conversation that occurs outside each gallery, restaurant or bar, discussing a range of art and artists, is enough to make a large city seem small.
Road Trip / Watercolor, ink, gouache on paper
The art depicted above and below are from Ching Ching Cheng, a Taiwanese born, Los Angeles based artist who works mostly in sculptural mixed media and paintings. If you like what you see, you can find her work in the DAC Gallery, located on Main Street.
Tenement / Gouache, pen on paper
Invisible / Watercolor, ink, pencil on paper
Cell / Watercolor, ink, acrylic on paper
As Brent discussed recently in his post Commercial Design - Earmarking Public Art, art makes an impact not only on city urban planning and development, but it also makes a positive impact on the inhabitants of that city. Whether they're arriving at the airport and taking in the beauty of structural art or conversing with friends outside a gallery just before entering a local pub for more conversation over a drink....
Images: LAist, Ching Ching Cheng
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Dr. George W. Grayson, the Class of 1938 Professor of Government at the College of William & Mary, has made more than 200 research trips to Latin America. He is a senior associate at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, an associate scholar at the Foreign Policy Research Institute, and a board member of the Center for Immigration Studies. He served as a Democratic member of the Virginia state legislature for 27 years and belongs to Phi Beta Kappa. Dr. Grayson lectures regularly at the U.S. Department of State, at the National Defense University, and at universities throughout the United States and Mexico. In addition to preparing a dozen books, as well as monographs for the Center for Strategic and International Studies, he has written Mexico: Narco-Violence and a Failed State? (Transaction Publishers, 2009), Mexico's Struggle with Drugs and Thugs (Foreign Policy Association, 2009), Mexican Messiah (Penn State University Press, 2007), Mesías Mexicano (Random House-Mondadori, 2006), Mexico: the Changing of the Guard (Foreign Policy Association, 2001), Strange Bedfellows: NATO Marches East (University Press of America, 1999), and Mexico: From Corporatism to Pluralism? (Harcourt Brace, 1998). Dr. Grayson has written articles for the Commonweal Magazine, the Harvard International Review, ForeignPolicy.com, Foreign Policy, Orbis, World Affairs, the Baltimore Sun, the Christian Science Monitor, the Houston Chronicle, the Globe and Mail, the Los Angeles Times, Newsday, Reforma (Mexico City), the San Diego Union-Tribune, the Washington Post, the Washington Times, and the Wall Street Journal. He wrote a weekly column for Milenio Semanal (Mexico City) and is a frequent commentator on CNN and NPR and affiliate stations. Dr. Grayson holds a J.D. from the College of William & Mary and a Ph.D. from the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies of the Johns Hopkins University.
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The ever wider involvement of the armed forces in Mexican life is examined by addressing the question: "Is Mexican society being 'militarized'?" If the answer is "yes," what will be the probable impact on relations between the United States and its southern neighbor?
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In recent years, the Mexican media has highlighted brutal acts of vigilantism, known as linchamientos or citizen violence, against suspected wrongdoers in their communities. Mobs have torched presumed pedophiles; average citizens have beaten suspected home invaders; and passengers on buses have hit, kicked, and tortured men who have tried to rob them. Is this behavior related to the nation's bloody drug war? Does it spring from the indifference of police to poor areas? Or is a means for members of an anonymous crowd to release frustrations over persistent unemployment, acute poverty, and ubiquitous corruption?
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While claiming to do the "Lord's work," the ruthless leaders of La Familia Michoacana have emerged as the dominant exporter of methamphetamines to the United States, even as they control scores of municipalities in Michoacán and neighboring states.


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We used multiple XPS bags to protect all the gear necessary to sustain three guys on a four-day wilderness canoe trip.
You can usually spot a float camping novice by the way he stows his gear, and a canoe overloaded with bulging trash bags is a tell-tale sign of a canoe camping greenhorn.
I recall my first canoe camping experience and how I had to suffer a drenched sleeping bag and clothing for the duration of the trip because my trash-bag suitcase had marinated in the muddy water in the bottom of my canoe the entire first day. A small, unnoticed tear in the bottom of the trash bag allowed my sleeping bag to act as a sponge, sucking up all the water that entered the canoe. I had no idea until I went to lift the heavy bag out of the canoe — a hard lesson on keeping gear dry.
Even the heftiest trash bag can't stand up to more than a few hours of abuse from snagging limbs, sharp gravel bars and standing water in the bottom of a canoe. And if you happen to capsize, expect to pick up clothing and gear for the next mile or so -- whatever isn't lost, anyway.
Dry bags are the best way to protect your gear and keep it dry when kayaking and canoeing, and the XPS Heavy Duty Dry Bags are particularly well suited for multi-night canoe camping excursions. I recently returned from such a trip -- a 25 mile float fish stretched out over the course of four days — on which I put three different XPS dry bags to the test.
In used a 55 liter bag to stow a warm-weather sleeping bag, camp pillow, small tent and collapsible poles. I used a 30 liter for my clothing and shoes for base camp. I kept a 10 liter bag containing most everything else that I might want at a moment's notice (lighter, small flashlight, GPS, fishing license, wallet, phone, etc.) buckled onto the canoe's thwart.
The bag's roll-top closure with heavy duty quick-snap buckle creates a watertight seal.
First off, the dry bags kept my gear dry. An unexpected storm the first night on the river gave a good soaking to everything left outside a dry bag. Everything inside an XPS bag stayed perfectly dry.
Bags partially submerged in the water in the bottom of the canoe also remained dry. Also, I never capsized, but I did completely submerge my clothing bag on the last day of the trip to see if water would seep through the bag's roll-top seal, and I was pleased to find no water had infiltrated the XPS bag.
Transparent panels found on some dry bags make locating items quick and easy, but typically aren't as sturdy as reinforced vinyl bags. I opted to sacrifice the see-through advantage for the more rugged material used to construct the XPS Heavy Duty Dry Bags. As the name implies, these bags are very sturdily constructed. They're made of heavy duty waterproof fabric with heat-welded seams. I chucked the gear-laden dry bags out onto the rough gravel bar at the end of each day and never even gave the action a second thought. Aside from a few superficial scrapes, the bags held up fantastic.
As for color, I'm not a huge fan of the canary yellow, and I typically opt for natural tones when choosing outdoor gear. That being said, these bags are meant to protect gear in a capsizing event, and the bright yellow will help me spot my gear from a distance if it's swept down river. Knowing it serves this function, I can live with the yellow.
The two D-rings -- one on the roll-top and one on the bag's side — are really a bonus. These D-rings make tethering bags to watercraft a quick, easy chore. On my previous dry bags I've had to purchase a vinyl d-ring patch and use an adhesive to adhere it to the side of the bag for attachment to watercraft. (Another lesson learned the hard way — ALWAYS secure your gear like you're gonna swim!)
The quick-release buckles used to finish off the roll-top seal feel very sturdy and lock firmly in place. If this buckle were to break, the top would unravel and your gear would get soaked, so this is definitely not a design feature you want to overlook.
The XPS Heavy Duty Dry Bags performed flawlessly on my four-day river trip. If you've got a canoe camping trip in your future, I'd highly recommend these dry bags to ensure your gear stays dry and protected.


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SEOUL, South Korea (CNN) - Families torn apart for more than 60 years - separated by the Korean War - began to reunite at a mountain resort in North Korea Thursday.
Without any regular forms of communications between the two Koreas, the family members have gone decades without phone calls, letters or emails - unable to know whether their loved ones are alive or dead.
The majority of the participants in South Korea are now in their 80s and 90s. The meetings are likely to be the last time the separated families will have contact with one another.
Thursday's reunion will be the first since 2010. The negotiations leading to the expected reunions have also been painstaking, reflecting the tensions between North and South Korean governments.
Past reunions have been emotional affairs, with sobbing relatives clinging to each other and showing each other family photos.
On Thursday, the first of a five-day event, an initial 200 North and South Koreans will meet.
Among them is Jang Chun, whose brother was 8 years old when he last saw him.
Jang, a North Korean conscript during the Korean War, was taken prisoner by UN forces in South Korea. He has since lived in the South and has been unable to see his family.
But four years ago, he received a letter and several photos of his family in North Korea through the Red Cross. The black-and-white photos showed his brother and a picture of his brother's wedding - major life milestones Jang had been unable to attend.
"It was shocking," he said. "I didn't even know they were alive, although I had hoped they were. After reading the letter, I started crying. I was filled with both joy and sorrow."
Jang clutched the only memorabilia he has of his long-lost family.
"Whenever I miss my family, I read this letter," Jang said.
Jang, silver-haired and aging, thought he finally got his chance when he learned he'd be part of a reunion group last September.
The reunion waitlist in Seoul has thousands of names, and the lucky ones are selected through a computer-generated lottery.
But Pyongyang canceled the September event with only a few days notice, accusing Seoul of souring ties between the two countries.
"It was like being hit on the back of the head," Jang said about the shock of coming so close, only to have his hopes dashed. "I had to take medication and sedatives."
It may have felt like deja-vu for Jang in February. After the Korean governments reached an agreement to hold reunions, less than a day later North Korea said it may back out if South Korea holds its annual military drills with the United States.
South Korea has refused to cancel the annual drills. Pyongyang's attempts to link the reunions to politics were rejected by both Seoul and Washington, who see it as a purely humanitarian issue.
Trust remains tenuous in the peninsula, separated by the world's most fortified border - the Demilitarized Zone - and rocked by North Korea's nuclear test last year.
Although delayed by snow, 82 South Korean participants accompanied by 58 other members arrived Wednesday afternoon and were scheduled to have lunch before finally meeting their families.
The rarity of inter-Korea reunions meant that many participants in ill health insisted on going to Mount Kumgang for the event, desperate for a chance to see their relatives. Nineteen of the South Korean participants were in wheelchairs.
Two South Korean participants departed for the reunion venue by ambulance; one of them was receiving an IV drip, refusing to miss the date.
South Korean participants of the reunion were seen bringing gifts for their family members. The most popular gifts for families in North Korea were Choco Pies, a chocolate-covered treat, along with medicine and medical supplies like pain killers, according to YTN, a CNN affiliate in South Korea.
They were greeted with a newly made stone near their North Korean facilities that read: "Long Live General Kim Jong Un, The Sun of Military First Korea."
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THE UNITED STATES is only three days away from going over the "fiscal cliff" — with all the damage that could do to confidence in the country's capacity to manage its basic affairs — and Washington's leaders still have not agreed on even a stopgap measure to avoid the worst consequences of not reaching agreement. But there is a clear way to avert them.
Congressional leaders and President Obama conferred at the White House on Friday afternoon, the first such meeting in six weeks. Instead of offering something new, however, Mr. Obama reportedly reiterated his position that the Bush tax cuts on household income above $250,000 should lapse on Jan. 1. Republicans wanted more from the president. But after the meeting, Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.) and his GOP counterpart, Sen. Mitch McConnell (Ky.), said that they had agreed to attempt to hash out a deal over the weekend that enough Republicans can accept.


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Celtics 96, Magic 89: Jared Sullinger recorded 21 points and 12 rebounds as Boston held off visiting Orlando to snap a four-game losing streak.Rajon Rondo also contributed his best performance in seven games since returning from knee surgery with 19 points and 10 assists for the Celtics. Brandon Bass collected 19 points and nine boards while Avery Bradley scored 17 for Boston after missing the last five games with an ankle injury.Arron Afflalo led a balanced attack with 18 points and Glen Davis had 15 as Orlando lost for the third time in four games this season against the Celtics. Nikola Vucevic registered 14 points and 11 rebounds while Tobias Harris scored 13 and Victor Oladipo added 12 for the Magic.Orlando trimmed a nine-point deficit to one midway through the fourth quarter and trailed 86-84 after a rebound basket by Davis with 2:30 left. Rondo followed with a 17-footer, Jeff Green drained a shot just inside the 3-point line and Bass hit a jumper to push the advantage to eight and Celtics had the cushion they needed.Rondo was 6-of-7 from the field for 13 points and Sullinger scored 12 on 6-of-8 shooting as Boston led by as much as a dozen before settling for a 54-45 edge at halftime. The Magic pulled within three after Oladipo's 3-pointer in the third quarter before the Celtics responded with the next six and took a 71-64 lead into the fourth quarter.GAME NOTEBOOK: Orlando G Jameer Nelson, averaging 13.4 points and a team-high 6.6 assists, did not make the trip due to a sore left knee. … Green, Boston's leading scorer, was held to eight points on 2-of-13 shooting. … The Celtics won for the first time in seven games with Rondo in the lineup this season. He was rested in two contests since he returned.
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Z-Paks are popular and widely prescribed because patients take fewer doses over a shorter period of time, compared to some other antibiotics. And when you're feeling lousy, those are the little pills that can make you feel a whole lot better in just a matter of days. "It's used all the time on a daily basis by many, many health care professionals," Fox 29's Dr. Mike Cirigliano said.
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Can a show survive, let alone flourish, without the presence of key exhibitors? How do trade show organizers detect exhibitor unrest in advance? How can they avoid key exhibitor attrition?
Michelle Bruno, a Salt Lake City-based trade show consultant, outlines the answers in a new research paper she wrote for the Center For Exhibition Industry Research called Managing the Special Needs of Key Exhibitors and Market Leaders.
Know Your Key Exhibitors
Key exhibitors are essentially the market leaders in their industries — the Cokes and Pepsis, Microsofts and IBMs, says Bruno. And if Microsoft and IBM are exhibiting at a show, smaller companies will likely follow. Key exhibitors attract media coverage, attention, and attendees — and they have a lot of money to spend with your show. And when they leave, it can be devastating.
Organizers have to be so in tune with the exhibitor and the industry that they can identify potential shifts in the business climate that cause exhibitors to modify their exhibition plans, says Bruno. And they should be able to provide sponsorship opportunities throughout the year, new media opportunities, or other ways to gain visibility, in addition to exhibiting.
"We need to change the way we talk to these key exhibitors and change the levels at which we engage them," she says. If organizers don't communicate the benefits, companies will look elsewhere for return on investment.
Bruno recommends involving your executive directors, vice presidents of marketing, business development officials, and chief strategists in the discussions with key exhibitors so they can help exhibitors better understand where trade shows fit in their overall marketing mix.
Also, she says, associations should consider employing a key account management strategist to establish guidelines on how to work with key exhibitors; to quantify the value of key exhibitors to the organization; and to identify key exhibitors across a variety of industries to broaden the field and reduce the risks involved in depending on just a few key companies.
The Language of ROI
The most concrete way to show value is through return on investment, but that has proven to be difficult. A study by Tradeshow Week found that 77 percent of exhibiting companies are feeling pressure to measure ROI, but only 35 percent actually track it. "The trade show industry hasn't done a very good job, up until this point, of providing exhibitors with a tool for measuring ROI," says Bruno.
While products recently have emerged to help exhibitors measure ROI, the problem is figuring out what to measure and how to measure it. According to a new survey of exhibitors by Catalyst Exhibits and the Business Marketing Association, 81 percent of companies that track ROI do so by measuring sales leads. The next most popular measurements were anecdotal feedback (48 percent), number of visitors to the booth (47 percent), sales (44 percent), and decision makers at the booth (43 percent). These areas are measured, Catalyst posits, because they are the easiest to measure.
That's a good place to start, says Tim Roberts, president of Catalyst Exhibits, but exhibitors should also look to measure "soft ROI," such as brand awareness and knowledge of products. He has one client that, in a pre-show survey, found that just 26 percent of attendees considered the company a market leader. But after the CEO was in the booth at the exhibition talking about the industry, and the research and development staffers were talking about new products during the show, 96 percent of those surveyed post-event perceived the company as a market leader.
Organizers who work with exhibitors on how and what to measure, as well as what tools to use will be better positioned to retain key exhibitors.
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