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By CIRO ASPERTI, American Institute of Architects, Staten Island Chapter
Studies are an effort to gain knowledge. To plan for a city or a community, studies help identify issues that require attention.
The city Department of Planning prepares many studies about Staten Island. As residents, homeowners and stakeholders, we have a direct interest in being informed to participate in the planning process.
One of these studies is "Staten Island 2020." The study recognizes the Island as a bedroom community with many attractive qualities.
The report also identifies the problems that plague this borough and what solutions we ought to be considering.
The slower pace Islanders are used to, the many parks and beaches and lower crime rates are some of the attractive points we often hear about Staten Island.
This report also mentions the challenges that contrast the good points: Housing prices, long commutes and an exodus of young people. The solutions offered cover many areas as one would expect.
Resounding among the many suggestions is the call to maintain a vibrant economic independence.
The report calls the maritime service industry on Staten Island unique and in an advantageous moment when other maritime service companies have closed on the New York Harbor.
The marine traffic is generally increasing, giving Staten Island companies a much needed opportunity.
The support of this industry has to be demonstrated in improving transportation and supplying a trained workforce.
Tourism receives very little attention. With the exception of recent projects — the New York Wheel and Empire Outlets — tourism remains an untapped resource.
Some blanket type downzoning in areas that could have used an increase in density, contributed to the growth reduction of entire neighborhoods.
A more recent study focuses on the North Shore of Staten Island, "North Shore 2030." A study of this scale tends to be more precise, giving a closer look to the communities it covers.
The report identifies the historical components of this area and acknowledges the working waterfront as a valuable economic engine.
Studies also list the negatives and challenges of an area. The North Shore has several sites that are environmentally contaminated. Remediation of these parcels is necessary to implement any plans.
While studies are viewed by skeptics as ink on paper with little strength, they should be recognized instead by the stakeholders as road maps, and starting points reflecting planning ideas that may have been tested elsewhere in the world.
Only when a majority of stakeholders — residents and businesses — enthusiastically embrace a vision will its outcome become real.
Only then can a study become a master plan.
Ciro Asperti is a member of the Staten Island chapter of the American Institute of Architects. Contact the organization at aiasiny.org. Architect's Corner appears twice a month in Home


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We all know that it would be difficult if we were Left Behind. The Rapture, when God's chosen are spirited away in the blink of an eye, would be pretty jarring for anyone with feet still planted on terra firma. Jarring, devastating and probably really confusing, too.
"I get the Pope," says a bartender in The Leftovers. "But Gary f‑‑‑ing Busey? How does he make the cut?"
HBO's maybe-maybe-not-supernatural mystery drama gives viewers a world wrapped in grief and uncertainty. It tells us that on Oct. 14, three years ago, 2% of the world simply went poof. No one knows where they went or why or if they're ever coming back. And while losing that small fraction of the global population is statistically small—140 million out of 7 billion wouldn't even make a dent in restroom lines—everyone left is deeply impacted by the sudden disappearances. Some grieve for lost loved ones. But even those who aren't staring at an empty spot at the dinner table are still scarred.
Take Kevin Garvey, chief of police for the small hamlet of Mapleton. He took over the position from his father, who snapped when it happened, running through the streets naked. Kevin's wife, Laurie, dealt with the disappearance in a different way: She joined a cult whose members never speak, dress all in white and smoke constantly. ("We don't smoke for enjoyment," a sign reads in one of the commune's houses. "We smoke to proclaim our faith.") Her departure left Kevin overwhelmed and in charge of their two teenage kids. And there are problems for Kevin there, too. Son Tom has now joined his own mysterious cult, and daughter Jill spends her time lashing out at this unfair world like a confused, wounded animal.
Maybe we can understand that. Scientist are telling these "Leftovers" that the mass exodus is devoid of both explanation and meaning. Traditional religion argues there is meaning here—namely that, as the bartender says, those left behind didn't quite make the cut. That makes these remainders either helpless victims to a cosmic glitch or damned bystanders to a heavenly miracle. But they must all live on, somehow, dealing with the pain and guilt, the perplexity and loneliness. They get up every day and pantomime life ... all the while wondering whether they should.
"Hey, we're still here," Kevin tells a woman, raising a beer bottle in toast.
"We sure are," the woman answers, clearly wishing she wasn't.
The world, burdened by what appears to be the biggest mystery of all time, seems at the brink of ripping apart—and is collectively acting out as a result. The Leftovers, in an effort to avoid the big questions or merely salve the pain, turn to whatever earthly comforts are available to them: sex, drugs and violence, primarily, all of which are on graphic display; obscene language is as bad as I've heard on television. Mapleton, and maybe the rest of the world too, seems like a bomb on a timer—and with each new day we see little explosions that could be leading to a great big boom.
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*From the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine (Drs. Ayo and Ryu), Department of Radiology (Dr. Aughenbaugh), Division of Anatomic Pathology (Dr. Yi), and Department of Dermatology (Dr. Hand), Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN.
Correspondence to: Jay H. Ryu, MD, FCCP, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Desk East 18, Mayo Clinic, 200 First St SW, Rochester, MN 55905; e-mail: email@example.com
Background: To describe the clinical, radiologic, and histopathologic aspects of cystic lung disease occurring in patients with Birt-Hogg-Dubé (BHD) syndrome, a rare, inheritable, multisystem disorder.
Methods: We retrospectively reviewed five patients with BHD syndrome evaluated at the Mayo Clinic Rochester from 1998 through 2005.
Results: Mean age (± SD) at the time of pulmonary evaluation was 56.4 ± 4.8 years; four patients were men. Three patients had not received a diagnosis of BHD syndrome at the time of initial CT of the chest. Three patients had a smoking history, and two were nonsmokers. Two patients had a history of recurrent pneumothoraces. Pulmonary function tests available in four patients revealed normal results in one patient and mild airflow obstruction or nonspecific pattern of abnormalities in three patients. CT of the chest revealed cystic lung disease in all five patients; cysts were round to oval in shape, ranged widely in size, and were randomly distributed throughout the lungs, except for a predilection to involve the lung bases more extensively. Three patients with a smoking history had more severe cystic changes compared to nonsmokers and included both patients with recurrent pneumothoraces. Surgical lung biopsy available in one patient revealed emphysema-like changes. Follow-up CT scans available in four patients revealed relative stability over a median interval of 20 months (range, 3 to 66 months).
Conclusion: We conclude that cystic lung disease in BHD syndrome varies widely in severity, mimics pulmonary lymphangioleiomyomatosis, and may be worsened by smoking.
Birt-Hogg-Dubé (BHD) syndrome is a rare, inheritable disorder (autosomal dominant) that was first described in 1977.1It is caused by germline mutations in the BHD (FLCN) gene that lies within the chromosomal band 17p11.2 and encodes for a tumor-suppressor protein, folliculin.2 Folliculin is highly expressed in a variety of tissues, including the skin, kidney, and lung (stromal cells and type I pneumocytes).3 BHD syndrome is characterized by the cutaneous triad of fibrofolliculomas (hamartoma of the hair follicle), trichodiscomas, and skin tags, along with a propensity for renal tumors.1–2 Characteristic skin lesions typically appear as firm, dome-shaped papules in adults during the third or fourth decades of life and occur predominantly on the face, scalp, neck, and upper chest (Fig 1
).,1,4–5 Renal tumors associated with BHD syndrome have included oncocytic hybrid tumor, chromophobe renal cell carcinoma, clear cell carcinoma, and papillary renal cell carcinoma.6
In recent years, a relationship between BHD syndrome with pulmonary cysts and spontaneous pneumothorax has become recognized, but description of this lung disease has been limited.5,7–13 In this study, we sought additional details of cystic lung disease in BHD syndrome, including the clinical presentation, radiologic features, pulmonary function correlates, histopathology, and clinical course.
A computer-aided search was conducted to identify all patients seen at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN, during an 8-year period from January 1, 1998, to December 31, 2005, with a diagnosis of BHD syndrome or fibrofolliculoma. We identified seven patients with BHD syndrome, five of whom had CT of chest available for review and were included in this study. In all five patients, the diagnosis was confirmed clinically. Three patients chose to have genetic testing, and each patient was heterozygous for a FLCN mutation (Table 1
). One of the excluded patients did not have any chest imaging, and the other patient had normal findings on chest radiography. The Mayo Foundation Institutional Review Board approved this study.
Data extracted from the medical records included demographics, clinical presentation, laboratory results, radiologic findings, and pulmonary function results. Presenting features were recorded from the first encounter at the Mayo Clinic that led to a diagnosis of cystic lung disease associated with BHD syndrome. Follow-up data were collected regarding subsequent clinical course, pulmonary function results, and imaging studies. Chest radiographs and CT scans of the chest were reviewed by a chest radiologist (G.L.A.). Four of five patients had both high-resolution and standard CT scans of the chest available; one patient had a standard CT only. Pulmonary function measurements included plethysmographically determined total lung capacity and residual volume, along with FVC, FEV1, ratio of FEV1 to FVC, and diffusing capacity for carbon monoxide. Spirometry and measurements of lung volumes and diffusing capacity were performed in our pulmonary function laboratory and were expressed as percentage of predicted normal values, using previously described techniques.14 Surgical lung biopsy slides were available in one patient and were reviewed by a pulmonary pathologist (J.E.Y.).
None of the patients had a diagnosis of BHD syndrome at the time of the initial evaluation at our institution for skin lesions (three patients), renal mass (one patient), and recurrent pneumothorax (one patient). Mean age (± SD) at the time of pulmonary evaluation was 56.4 ± 4.8 years; four of five patients were men (Table 1). Three patients did not have BHD syndrome diagnosed at the time of the initial CT scan of the chest. Further examination after initial presentation revealed characteristic skin lesions in all five patients. Three patients had confirmed fibrofolliculomas, and two had trichodiscomas. One patient had the complete triad of trichodiscomas, trichofolliculomas, and skin tags. Mean age at the time of BHD syndrome diagnosis was 57.2 ± 5.4 years.
None of the patients were current smokers, but three had a smoking history. Two patients had respiratory symptoms, including exertional dyspnea (two patients) and chronic productive cough (one patient); three patients were asymptomatic. One of the symptomatic patients had a right pneumothorax on presentation; this patient had a previous personal history (12 episodes over 24 years) and a strong family history (father, uncle, sister, daughter, and nephew) of spontaneous pneumothoraces. One additional patient had a history of recurrent pneumothoraces (two episodes) for which surgical stapling and pleurodesis had been performed. Two patients with previous pneumothoraces were both ex-smokers.
Chest radiographs were available in all patients and revealed a right-sided, loculated hydropneumothorax in one patient; another patient had detectable cysts. No cysts were appreciable by chest radiography in the three remaining patients. CT scan of the chest revealed cystic lung disease in all five patients (Table 1); one patient had a right-sided pneumothorax (Fig 2
). These cysts were round to oval in shape and ranged widely in size (a few millimeters to several centimeters). The cysts were randomly distributed in the cross-sectional dimension as well as in the cephalocaudal axis, with the exception of more extensive involvement in the lung bases for two patients (Fig 3
, top, A, and bottom, B). Two of three patients with a smoking history had evidence of emphysema by CT. Two nonsmokers had relatively mild lung involvement with small scattered cysts (3 to 16 mm in diameter), while those with a smoking history had more severe extensive disease with larger cysts (Table 1). The main indication for the initial CT of the chest included evaluation of BHD syndrome (two patients), assessment for possible metastatic disease from prior renal cancer (two patients), and recurrent pneumothorax (one patient). Follow-up CT scans available in four patients revealed minimal progression in only one patient over a median interval of 20 months (range, 3 to 66 months).
Pulmonary function results available in four patients revealed normal results in one patient (nonsmoker), mild airway obstruction in two patients, and nonspecific pattern of abnormalities (mildly reduced FEV1 with a normal FEV1/FVC ratio) in one patient. Three patients with abnormal pulmonary function results were previous smokers. Follow-up pulmonary function results were available in two patients and revealed no evidence of significant worsening over intervals of 42 months and 49 months, respectively.
A surgical lung biopsy specimen was available in one patient; wedge biopsies were performed from the right lower lobe of the lung at the time of surgical stapling and pleurodesis (Table 1). Histologic sections showed benign lung parenchyma with widespread emphysematous changes (Fig 4
, top, A). The visceral pleura and interlobular septa demonstrated patchy areas of fibrosis, mesothelial hyperplasia, and eosinophilic pleuritis, findings consistent with the patient's clinical history of recurrent episodes of spontaneous pneumothorax. There was no apparent intraparenchymal air cyst or air-filled intrapleural bleb in the pleural surface. However, a focus of air accumulation was noted in the interlobular septa that displaced a vein to the opposite side (Fig 4, bottom, B). Incidentally, a 1-mm focus of low-grade atypical adenomatous hyperplasia was found in a random section.
Clinical follow-up was available in all five patients over a median duration of 36 months (range, 13 to 76 months) following the initial CT of the chest. No pneumothorax or other respiratory events occurred during this period. Two patients required partial nephrectomy for chromophobe carcinoma (58-year-old man) and clear renal cell cancer (50-year-old man), respectively. One of these patients had already undergone renal resections for chromophobe cell carcinoma and oncocytoma (58-year-old man).
In this study, cystic lung disease was seen by CT in all five middle-aged patients with BHD syndrome; two of these patients had recurrent pneumothoraces. All five patients had skin lesions characteristic of BHD syndrome; two patients had previously undergone resection of renal tumors (clear cell and chromophobe renal cancers, respectively) associated with BHD syndrome. Pulmonary function was only mildly impaired and may have been affected by smoking and pleural complications as well as the cystic lung disease. Cystic lung disease associated with BHD syndrome varied in severity and appeared to be more extensive in patients with a smoking history but remained relatively stable on follow-up CT scans over an interval ranging up to nearly 6 years.
In a case report, Chung and colleagues15 described a 60-year-old man who presented with numerous papules on the face, neck, and upper trunk that began to appear in his early 20s along with a history of recurrent pneumothoraces. No additional information was provided regarding this patient's pulmonary disease. In 1999, Toro and colleagues7reported an association between cystic lung disease and BHD syndrome. Four of 28 patients (14%) with BHD syndrome and at-risk relatives had pulmonary cysts detected by chest radiography; one of these patients had a history of pneumothorax. In a study of 223 members of BHD syndrome families, Zbar and colleagues8 noted 26 subjects (11.7%) to have had spontaneous pneumothorax. CT scanning detected pulmonary cysts in 83% of affected member of BHD syndrome families. In this study, the odds ratio of pneumothorax in BHD syndrome-affected subjects, adjusted for age, was 50.3.
Mutations in the FLCN gene are responsible for BHD syndrome as well as the syndrome of dominantly inherited spontaneous pneumothorax.10,16 In the latter condition, nonsense mutations and a 4–base-pair deletion in exon 4 of FLCN gene have been identified.,10 Affected family members have cystic lung lesions that are scattered randomly throughout the lungs.10 The function of folliculin and how mutations of FLCN gene gives rise to pulmonary cysts and pneumothorax remain unknown, but association with cutaneous hamartomas and renal neoplasia suggests tumor suppressor function.,10
Pulmonary pathology in BHD syndrome was described in two patients by Butnor and Guinee.12 Histopathologic features were nonspecific and included intraparenchymal air-filled spaces surrounded by normal parenchyma or a thin fibrous wall. Lung tissue adjacent to the cysts appeared normal. Both of these patients were nonsmokers. Similar nonspecific findings were noted in our patient.
Cystic lung disease seen in BHD syndrome needs to be distinguished from other lung diseases characterized by multifocal or diffuse cystic changes, including lymphangioleiomyomatosis, pulmonary Langerhans cell histiocytosis, lymphocytic interstitial pneumonitis, and Pneumocystis pneumonia.17–18 Lymphocytic interstitial pneumonia and Pneumocystis pneumonia both cause parenchymal changes aside from cysts such as ground-glass opacities, consolidation, nodules, and reticular opacities.17–18 In addition, both of these disorders are usually symptomatic and are associated with specific clinical contexts. Pulmonary Langerhans cell histiocytosis encountered in adults is usually a smoking-related interstitial lung disease and is characterized by irregular cystic lesions and nodules predominantly affecting the upper and mid lung zones with relative sparing of the bases.17–19 This pattern of distribution, irregular shape of the cysts, and architectural distortion seen in the intervening lung parenchyma are characteristics of pulmonary Langerhans cell histiocytosis, and distinguishable from cystic lung disease seen in BHD syndrome. Rarely, metastatic neoplasms, including adenocarcinomas and low-grade sarcomas, can present with cystic lung lesions.18,20
Pulmonary lymphangioleiomyomatosis may be more difficult to separate radiologically from cystic lesions of BHD syndrome since both disorders are characterized by scattered cystic lesions that are randomly distributed throughout the lungs with no appreciable changes in the intervening lung parenchyma.17–18,21 Furthermore, both disorders can present with lung cysts and renal masses, although the fatty component of renal angiomyolipomas associated with pulmonary lymphangioleiomyomatosis can usually be distinguished radiologically from solid renal tumors of BHD syndrome. Pulmonary lymphangioleiomyomatosis almost exclusively affects women and typically presents in the third and fourth decades of life,21 earlier than patients with BHD syndrome described in this report. However, both of these disorders can be associated with recurrent spontaneous pneumothoraces, although a known family history of BHD syndrome would obviously be helpful in the differential diagnosis. Additional evaluation including biopsy of lung, skin lesions or renal tumor may help distinguish these two disorders. In some patients, BHD syndrome may be mistaken for tuberous sclerosis because the latter disorder is also associated with lung cysts (almost exclusively in women) and facial skin lesions.21–22
BHD syndrome is associated with renal tumors of various histologic types, including clear cell, chromophobe, and papillary types of renal cell cancers, as well as oncocytomas.6,23 Thus, patients with BHD syndrome should be screened for renal tumors and carefully followed up at periodic intervals. Similarly, family members of patients with BHD syndrome should be screened for renal tumors and offered genetic counseling.
In conclusion, we find cystic lung disease in BHD syndrome to vary in severity in patients affected with this rare disorder. Although our data are limited by small number of patients, smoking appears to be associated with more severe lung disease compared to nonsmokers, a relationship not previously explored in BHD syndrome. Limited follow-up of our patients suggests a relatively slow rate of progression for this lung disease.
Abbreviation: BHD = Birt-Hogg-Dubé syndrome
The authors have no conflicts of interest to disclose.
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When: 7 and 9 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 12, and 7 and 9 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 13.
Where: Nighttown, 12387 Cedar Road, Cleveland Heights.
Tickets: $30, available at the box office, online at nighttowncleveland.com, and by phone at 216-795-0550.
CLEVELAND, Ohio – Dr. Phil would love Jane Monheit.
If ever there existed a "diva'' who understands the concept of the TV shrink's "Get real!'' exhortation, it would be the 36-year-old mother of one (sometimes two if you catch her at the right time and she counts her hubby, drummer and best friend, Rick Montalbano Jr.) who plays Nightttown on Wednesday and Thursday, Feb. 12 and 13.
Two days before I reached her by phone, Monheit, her husband and 5-year-old son, Jack, moved from their five-bedroom country house in upstate New York to a, um, "cozy'' two-bedroom abode in Manhattan.
"Sorry,'' said Monheit, "I'm busy unpacking a new apartment in Manhattan. I lived on the Upper West Side [of New York City] since I was 17. But when my son was born, we decided we needed a country house.''
That turned out to be the house in which Montalbano grew up and, she said with a rueful but totally not-bitter laugh, "That didn't really work out.''
Truth be told, the jazz vocalist some rate second only to Diana Krall and her husband are so busy recording, touring and whatnot, that they had to be in New York more and more often.
So in an effort to get real with reality, they unloaded the house, gave away a lot of gear – five or six drum sets and a baby grand piano! – and headed back to The City.
Monheit is touring to support a new album, "The Heart of the Matter,'' which she says finally is Jane Monheit being Jane Monheit. It's not that the song selection or her delivery or the arrangements are different. It's something better, more organic than that.
"What's different is my ability to work in the studio to the point where I can get a vocal that's as honest as one I would get live,'' she said.
"In the studio, it's hard to escape perfectionism,'' she said. "You become robotic almost. There's take after take after take in the chase of weird dragon of perfection.''
Monheit said this album – from start to finish – was made in three days.
"We had two days for tracking, with no rehearsal and everyone sight-reading the charts, including me, then one 'extra' day to fix any vocals I needed to fix,'' she said.
The result is an organic album that feels live even if it's not.
But Monheit didn't stop there, not by a long shot. For the accompanying art work for the cover and publicity stills, she forbade the label from photoshopping her to "make my forearms thinner.'' She told the label she'd do her own makeup, have a friend do her hair, wear her own clothes, all of it.
"Lots of things about this record are exactly who I am,'' she said. "Not 'Jane Monheit, Jazz Princess!'''
The album highlight is a tune called "Sing'' that I first heard on Karen Carpenter do on their 1973 album "Now and Then.'' But Monheit got it from the source: It was written by Joe Raposo for "Sesame Street,'' and her version is based on Lena Horne singing it with the Muppets.
"I loved that version as a kid,'' said Monheit, who picked the tune as the song on the album that most shows where she is in her life and career right now.
"The song is just about the simple, happy joy of being yourself and believing in yourself,'' she said. "You get into your 30s and you learn to appreciate yourself.''
See? Real.
"I'm a completely different person,'' said Monheit, talking about the difference in herself today and when she recorded her first album, "Never Never Land,'' 14 years ago.
"I was 22 when I made that record,'' she said. "And I wasn't just 22. I was a young, green, innocent 22. I had all these heavy people around telling me what to do, who to be, what to wear, what to say.
"Now, I'm a total DIY girl,'' she said. "Now I'm a regular broad and I happen to have the greatest job in the world.''
That, Dr. Phil would acknowledge, is the perfect example of someone who has GOTTEN real.


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It seems Tinie Tempah may have found a new lady friend in the US, after the Written In the Star's rapper tweeted about rapper Kreayshawn yesterday.
If you haven't heard about Kreayshawn yet, she's tipped to be the next big thing. Apart from gaining 2 million views on YouTube in two weeks she has already received an onslaught of comments for her use of the 'N' word. She stated
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Tinie Tempah performed on the Jay Leno show last night, and was tweeting about Kreayshawn just before he went on. We know how Tinie Tempah likes his girls, would they be a match made in heaven, or should Tinie stay away from the outspoken rapper?


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Last month Kinder Morgan Energy Partners (NYSE: KMP ) /Kinder Morgan Management (NYSE: KMR ) shut down its Trans Mountain oil pipeline after a leak was discovered. The company said that a "small amount of product seep was found in a farmer's field west of Edmonton." The company excavated the pipe and a sleeve has been applied to fix the leak.
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Then earlier this month a Plains All American Pipeline (NYSE: PAA ) spilled 28,000 barrels of oil in Alberta because repairs made in 2010 didn't hold up. Customer Penn West Petroleum (NYSE: PWE ) has been forced to find alternative means of transportation for its oil.
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The first lyric on Jimmy Eat World's album Chase This Light is a very self-assured—if not presumptuous—one-word imperative: "Stay." But an enormous wall of distorted guitars then sucker punches the listener, just before a raucous burst of power drill-buzzing guitars bolts one to the chair. (In other words, vocalist/songwriter Jim Adkins is basically saying, "Um, yeah, you're not going anywhere for the next 40 minutes.") "Big Casino" is perfectly crafted to be an album-opener in the same way that the song "Bleed American"—which was renamed "Salt Sweat Sugar" after September 11—demanded one's full attention from the get-go on the band's self-titled 2001 album.
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PHOENIX — Valley traffic reporter Detour Dan Beach spoke his mind Wednesday after a horrific crash in the north Valley.
It happened on Wednesday morning on News/Talk 92.3 KTAR's Arizona's Morning News with Ned Foster and Connie Weber.
Beach was circling over a major car-motorcycle accident at Cave Creek Road and the Carefree Highway. The scene was so horrific that the veteran traffic reporter couldn't hold back his thoughts.
"I've candy-coated this for 20-some years now," he told KTAR listeners. "If you could see what I get to see up here with these wrecks on a regular basis…what I just saw up there at that intersection will change the lives of several people forever."
Beach told listeners that he would never ride a motorcycle anywhere in the Phoenix metropolitan area and advised against anyone buying one.
"If you're just dangling, (thinking) 'Maybe I should get a bike…maybe I shouldn't,' don't do it," he said. "My mother would never allow me to ride a bike, and I'm glad she didn't. I'm still here today to at least talk about the others."
Over at Bridgette's Last Laugh, a biker-friendly bar at Cave Creek and Bell roads in north Phoenix, patrons understood Beach's passionate entreaties.
"On average, when I ride every day, I probably avoid three situations, minimum, a day," Phoenix biker Dave Lamberti said.
He said that Cave Creek Road and the Carefree Highway is a bad spot for bikers, but there are others.
"Going into the (Loop 101 freeway) off of Cave Creek Road, I've almost been hit 20 to 30 times just going to the on ramp, because people won't yield," said Lamberti. "They have the yield sign to yield the right of way. I have my left turn signal on, and they'll come right into me. It happens every day."
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Erica Bell, of Phoenix, is aware of the danger. She has been a passenger on the back of a motorcycle for several years and has traveled through 14 states. She wears a helmet only when it's raining or when she's in a place where it's required by law. Otherwise, she wants to feel the wind going through her hair.
"I know what happens. I've had friends pass away," Bell said. "I know that when you're on two wheels and someone rear-ends you, it's not the same as when you're on four wheels. I understand that, but you don't think about that when you're riding. You ride as safe as you can, you're as aware as you can be, but it's about the ride and enjoying it."
Bell is about to get her own motorcycle license so that she can ride by herself.
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"I don't want to upset a bunch of motorcycle riders," he said. "It's not you most of the time, guys. Most of the people just don't see you."
Lamberti agrees that people driving cars aren't always thinking about motorcyclists.
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"Don't be in the blind spot (of the driver near you)," said Lamberti. "Know where you're at at all times. Know what's around you and just be aware of your surroundings. That's the key."
Lamberti offered this thought.
"When we ride, we ride for the safety of ourselves," he said. "There was a great post on Facebook that said, 'We're not riding to show off, we're riding to get out of your way.'"
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Attenuators versus Splitters
Posted 22 August 2014 - 03:33 PM
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Posted 22 August 2014 - 03:46 PM
Posted 22 August 2014 - 03:52 PM
Why do you want to attenuate your signal path?
One word of caution. Sometimes, when you put a terminating resistor on a splitter port, it inadvertently shorts the DC power in that coax.
Posted 22 August 2014 - 04:41 PM
Why do you want to attenuate your signal path?
Same reason attenuators exist.
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Posted 22 August 2014 - 08:35 PM
Typically in a large install if you have problems with signal "too hot" it is because you should be using taps, not splitters.
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Posted 22 August 2014 - 09:17 PM
I used to service three highrise buildings that had single, stacked "Sat A" trunklines. They used 4-port taps, but misused them. On the top floor, there was a -16dBx4 in series with two -12dBx4s, then there were two -12x4s on each of the next five floors. In other words, there was a structural signal differential of nearly 30dB between the top floor and the bottom of that branch.
The other funny things about that installation were 1) they used RG-11 with $3.00 connectors for the 6" jumpers between the two 4-port taps on each floor and 2) some of those nice compression connectors had been mis-installed, such that, they hadn't shoved the coax deep enough into them to penetrate the center conductor pin seizure sleeve, so if anyone breathed on them too hard, they would disrupt the signal.
With one MATV highrise, I had once customer whose building had -9dB taps in each cable closet. That only got them about a 20dB structural differential.
I have one eight story hotel with riser wallplate wiring where they put 3-port balanced splitters on every floor with back-to-back wallplates, such that, the eighth floor gives 1/3 to each plate and passes 1/3; the seventh floor gets 1/9, and 1/9th and passes 1/9, minus coax loss, the sixth floor 1/27, the fourth floor 1/81, etc etc. They also still have some VHF only splitters in their ceiling that tilt about 20dB between channel 13 and cable channel 54, but they won't let me cut into their plaster ceiling to find and replace them.
I used to have one hotel in Baltimore that had 7 wallplate horizontal loops that I had perfectly balanced with taps, but they wanted to change from off-white plates to white, and the only white ones they found had center holes instead of offset holes, and with some wallboxes, you can't squeeze "DCW" style taps into a center hole wallplate, so they bought mini two way splitters and installed them improperly, with the single port going through the wallplate and the two supposed output ports being used as one-in, one-out. The loss that way is 20 to 25 dB each, and worse yet, that loss is not flat across the channel and it mangles analog signals.
Marriott used to prewire their MATV distribution such that they had home run apartment wiring, but used -12dB taps in each apartment, so they needed an amplifier on each floor. Some company from New Jersey that knew nothing about MATV set up their trunk system using old fashioned Blonder Tongue ACA amplifiers that had separate preamps and power amps in them for about 50dB combined gain. They fed about 20 to 30dBmV into each preamp stage, which overloaded it, and then jumped that defective preamplified signal into the power amp stage, which further overloaded it. They then observed that it was somewhat less ugly if they left out the power amplifier and so they just "preamplified" the powerful trunkline signal and distributed that.
In my opinion, a lot of people doing MATV work should be shot.
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Both U.S. banks had a messy fourth quarter full of litigation expenses and other charges. Stripping those out still left each with measly single-digit returns. With rivals more solid, BofA chief Brian Moynihan and new Citi boss Mike Corbat are under even more pressure to perform.
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