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Nine people are suing NiSource and its subsidiary Columbia Gas over damages sustained from last year's gas pipeline explosion in Sissonville.
Filed July 29 by Warner Law Offices, the seven suits all listed the defendants as Columbia Gas Transmission LLC, NiSource Gas Transmission and Storage Company, NiSource Midstream Services LLC, NiSource Energy Ventures LLC, NiSource Corporate Services Company, William Christian, Jack Whitmire Jr., Mitchell Thomas, Daniel Herpin and John Does 1-10.
John Doe defendants generally are used as placeholders if the person filing the lawsuit knows there are more defendants involved but does not yet know the names.
All suits alleged negligence to all defendants, willful, wanton, reckless conduct as to all defendants and negligent training, management and/or supervision.
Tina White filed a lawsuit against these defendants on behalf of the estate of Virginia Bailes, whom she says died in March 2013 as a result of health conditions sustained from stress over the pipeline explosion.
White's lawsuit states Bailes was driving home when the pipeline next to her home ruptured, causing her to leave her home for two months because of the damage sustained to her home.
The following February, the suit continues, Bailes was "forced" to move back into her house, even though the suit states her home had not been repaired.
White says the explosion, leaving her home and being forced to move back in prematurely caused her anxiety and severe emotional distress that lead to her March death, resulting from intracerebral hemorrhage, hypertension and atrial fibrillation.
Three lawsuits were filed by Sissonville landlord Dorma Harrison and the apartment's two residents, Darell Sigmon and his girlfriend Lorie Estep.
Harrison's lawsuit alleged her rental property sustained "serious physical damage" because of the explosion. Harrison also noted that Sigmon and Estep were forced to leave the home afterward because it was uninhabitable.
In Sigmon's lawsuit, he says he and Estep were in the Derricks Creek Road residence when the pipeline ruptured. After hearing the blast and feeling the house shake, the suit continues, Sigmon found his girlfriend and escaped through the bedroom window.
Their suits alleged it took defendants more than an hour to isolate the area of the pipeline where the explosion occurred and to shut off gas flow to that area.
The suits also cited a preliminary investigation report of the National Transportation Safety Board, stating the outside surface of the pipe was heavily corroded and lost 70 percent of its original thickness since its installation in 1967.
Sissonville resident Margaret Johnson said she was sitting in her Sissonville Drive home when the pipeline ruptured.
In her suit, she said as soon as she saw flames around her home, she ran barefoot across her front deck to her car, sustaining burns and blisters in the process.
When she got to her car, the suit continues, she reached out for the hot door handle but jerked her hand away from the heat causing the tendons in her thumb to be injured, later requiring surgery.
Another two lawsuits were filed by four residents of a Sissonville Drive home. In Shelby McMillion's suit, she said her home, clothing, school supplies and photos were destroyed in the blast.
Amy McMillion and her two children who are minors also filed a suit, including NiSource Inc, ESIS Inc., Ace American Insurance Company and Gerard Sciabbarrasi as defendants.
Following the blast, the McMillions lived in a single hotel room into the New Year, the suit states.
Amy McMillion alleged fraudulent inducement/duress against NiSource Inc, ESIS Inc, Ace American Insurance Company and Gerard Sciabbarrasi.
Her suit asserts a week after the explosion, Sciabbarrasi fraudulently induced her to sign a property release, which would release claims against Columbia Gas Trasmission, NiSource, ESIS, Ace American Insurance Company and other parties in exchange for $49,000.
McMillion said this figure was arbitrary and the full value of her claim was not taken into account when the settlement offer was made.
McMillion said Sciabbarrasi told her if she did not sign the release, she and her family could no longer live in the hotel room in which defendants were paying.
McMillion said she had no other choice but to sign the release and is asking the court to void this release to allow her to pursue claims against defendants.
After the filing of these suits, Columbia Gas released the following statement in response:
"Since the incident in Sissonville, WV took place, Columbia Pipeline Group has settled with and provided compensation to over 40 families impacted. Our legal and insurance teams continue to work with families — and in some cases, their personal attorneys — to settle any remaining claims. As we have since the moment this incident occurred, we are committed to working with those families in a fair and reasonable manner. Columbia took immediate action following the incident in Sissonville to ensure that basic essentials, including temporary housing, food, and transportation were provided to the affected community. In addition to attending to local families, in the hours, days and weeks after the incident, we partnered with the regional office of the Red Cross — to tap into their special expertise, provide additional support for those in need. Again, our legal and insurance teams will continue to work with families to settle the remaining claims in a fair and reasonable manner."


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3.5/5 rDev -2%
05-11-2013 22:06:22 | More by MACO
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3.28/5 rDev -8.1%
Had this on tap at BBC in Franklin, MA as an opening day promo for the Red Sox. Beers pours a bronze amber with about a finger of fluffy off-white head. Moderate retention and lacing.
Smell is hoppy, but muted. Mostly centennial hops. It's not a hop bomb and it doesn't smell like one. An inviting aroma.
Taste was slightly underwhelming. It's hoppy, but not overly citrusy, piney or bitter. A touch of malty sweetness was present. All in all, the flavor was nice, but just not pronounced enough for my taste and somewhat of a lingering bitter after taste.
The mouthfeel was medium bodied, a touch oily but otherwise, it was a nice, middle of the road drinakble IPA. Pretty good if you're in the mood for a decent beer watching a ballgame, but not much more.
04-14-2012 01:18:57 | More by ExtraStout
3.5/5 rDev -2%
Review from BeerAdvocate Magazine Issue #51 (April 2011):
New season of baseball, so a new version of Green Monsta is only fitting. Hops help out big time with the spectacular- looking head, and the brassy color underneath shows only a faint haze. Spicy, herbal and citric hop trio in the aroma; hint of ripe fruit and bread crust as well. Dry, more refined smoothness is quickly met by the semi-brash bitterness and sharp citric and oily herbal hop flavor. Suggestion of pears and mangoes in the middle from the alcohol. Maltiness is a little slim and certainly dry, with a light biscuity tone in the bitter dry finish. The American IPA style is a tough crowd—drinkable and hoppy are two things going for this beer.
06-29-2011 01:29:37 | More by BeerAdvocate
2/5 rDev -44%
06-27-2013 23:21:32 | More by SuomiHobbit
3.75/5 rDev +5%
02-18-2012 16:31:50 | More by TimoP
Rhode Island
3/5 rDev -16%
07-28-2014 23:28:47 | More by Doomcifer
New Hampshire
3.71/5 rDev +3.9%
A = Distinctly amber, with a respectable head that leaves ample lacing.
S = Hoppy without hitting you in the face, and a sweet fruitiness to the malt.
T = A slightly maltier IPA, nothing too dry or too bitter. I like it!
M = Medium bodied, just the right amount of lingering on the tongue.
O = I'm not an IPA fan, but this one is nice. The hop/malt balance is just right, and the fruitiness is a nice surprise. The hops don't assault, rather they add admirably to the complexity of this brew. I think this would pair nicely with just about any food that is traditionally served at Fenway Park -- GO, Boston Redsox!!
03-22-2014 16:39:48 | More by ThisLadyLovesBeer
3.25/5 rDev -9%
05-28-2012 14:05:48 | More by GreenMountainBoy
4/5 rDev +12%
05-26-2013 22:11:00 | More by chudson1992
3.75/5 rDev +5%
04-12-2014 04:13:19 | More by ccurrid
New York
3/5 rDev -16%
04-29-2014 01:33:01 | More by virinow
3.75/5 rDev +5%
04-19-2013 00:23:54 | More by skivtjerry
3.25/5 rDev -9%
06-13-2013 21:35:20 | More by doremite
New Jersey
4/5 rDev +12%
12-26-2013 17:56:26 | More by Ptzy13
4.58/5 rDev +28.3%
This is one of my all-time favorite beers! A light golden brown color and often pours with quite a bit of head, which tends to stick around for awhile as I drink it (which I do find a tad bit annoying!). The smell isn't particularly distinguishing or intense, but there is a light citrus-like smell to it combined with hoppiness that predominates.
It's incredibly refreshing and practically bursting with hops when you drink it, yet balanced enough so that it isn't overpowering. You can taste a slight citrus flavor as well to match the smell. It is quite carbonated, which in some cases can adversely affect the flavor of beers - however, in this particular case, the amount of carbonation seems to only compliment the flavor. There is pretty much no aftertaste other than a slight "crispness" from the carbonation and hops, which I love (I very much dislike flavors that linger for too long in the mouth).
The taste is consistent despite the temperature of the beer, which I find refreshingly wonderful. I could drink this during any season, but I'd say it's more of a summer/early fall-type beer due to its refreshing and light, yet very flavorful, quality.
Even better that it's called "Green Monsta." Go Sox! :)
11-21-2012 02:16:36 | More by lizzlethenurse
3/5 rDev -16%
05-08-2014 20:02:55 | More by WyethBednar
3.5/5 rDev -2%
06-01-2014 21:59:07 | More by KyleCabral31888
3.73/5 rDev +4.5%
A - Poured from a 12oz. can. A nice a cold brew with a golden haze. Unfiltered goodness.
S - An excellent hop aroma right off the bat. Citrus notes as well.
T - A light and crisp session-able IPA with a high percentage. Perfect for sox games!
M - Light, not very complex, but certainly drinkable.
O - I'd recommend this to anyone looking for that Boston feel who can't get to Fenway!
06-13-2013 23:06:11 | More by poop_brew
New Jersey
3.15/5 rDev -11.8%
08-19-2014 21:53:53 | More by acurtis
Manitoba (Canada)
3.75/5 rDev +5%
07-23-2013 23:06:50 | More by Tarks
New York
4.5/5 rDev +26.1%
11-15-2012 14:18:43 | More by dmbhaggis
4/5 rDev +12%
07-21-2013 20:42:31 | More by heather625
3.75/5 rDev +5%
08-14-2013 04:23:55 | More by talahrama
New York
3.2/5 rDev -10.4%
Poured into a 12oz Pint glass.
A- Pours a nice amber with a half finger of head. Decent retention.
S- Slightly grassy, somewhat herbal...there's a little bit of depth here but not crazy. Definitely some grassy scents coming through.
T- Decent carbonation, slight bittering from the hops, but not near what I expected. Definitely some light grassy, herbal, and citrus flavors, but the herbal and grassy notes take the front seat. Not much on the malt end. It's drinkable, I'll give it that, but there is not too much capturing my taste buds here. Slightly oily flavoring.
M- actually Mouthfeel might have been this beer's best point for me. It has a good mix of carbonation and body. It's drinkable for sure. Leaves a slightly dry finish.
O- It's pretty mild for a Green "Monsta". It's not bad but there are so many American IPA's to choose from that I won't reach for it. It was decent.
07-14-2012 02:43:27 | More by JacobJustus1
3/5 rDev -16%
08-23-2014 00:59:47 | More by ryanjtravis
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I got hooked on local foods when I moved to Argentina in 2005 to volunteer for two seasons on a couple of organic farms. Without a lot of money to spare, the families that I lived with ate what they had in abundance â and that meant they ate seasonally and locally.
When I arrived in late winter, our salads were mainly comprised of escarole, leeks and chicory and the watercress that we foraged from the banks of a stream. But as spring came, we enjoyed tender asparagus, robust artichokes, fresh fava beans and succulent English peas. Summer brought us mountains of fruit â strawberries, apricots and cherries, followed by peaches and plums, and in the fall we picked apples directly off the tree for our breakfast or mid-morning snack.
Not only did my Argentine sojourn change my diet, but it also changed my style of cooking. Previously, I had always cooked from recipes, planning our menu and writing detailed grocery lists, then shopping for those specific ingredients. In Argentina, we cooked with what we had. That meant we had a repertoire of basic meals for which we kept some staples around (grains, beans, pasta, and so on) and then we added to the dish whatever vegetables happened to be in season.
Though it may at first seem like a sacrifice to cook only with what is in season, it turned out to be far more delicious, because fresh food, no matter how it is prepared, has so much more flavor than anything else. Our salads also rotated throughout the year. In spring we ate tender greens, peas and scallions. A summer salad consisted of tomatoes, cucumbers, corn, raw green beans, grated zucchini and bell peppers, and in late fall and winter salad our salad bowl was filled with lettuce, cabbage and grated beets, carrots and apples.
After harvesting vegetables for salad twice a day as I walked back from the fields to the kitchen before lunch and dinner, there was no way that I could go back to buying mushy, tasteless supermarket produce. So upon my return from Argentina, my fiancé and I became committed to eating local, organic products throughout the year (including winter).
Although we live in the city, we managed to start a small garden when we moved to Bloomington this fall. In November and December, we enjoyed beets and carrots from our garden. In late fall, we planted arugula and spinach to overwinter under cold frames and row cover so that we could enjoy bountiful salads in early spring. We are now watching our peas and fava beans grow, our garlic bulbs sprouting and our rhubarb and asparagus plants awakening from their long winterâs rest.
As for everything else, we are able to get most of what we need from the Farmersâ Market. Along with produce, we shop for whole wheat flour, corn meal, honey, maple syrup, cheese, eggs and mushrooms there. Most of these items are also available at Bloomingfoods, along with some great wildcrafted items such as ramps and morels. Lastly, we have a cow share in which we pay a local farmer a fee for boarding, caring for and milking a cow and in exchange we obtain 1 1/2 gallons of raw milk per week, part of which we make into yogurt.
I would like to leave you now with an easy recipe from my fiancé, Eric Schedler, that you can make 100% local year-round:
All-Season Pizza
Pizza Dough:
1 c. water
1 t. yeast
1/2 t. salt
3 1/2 c. organic whole wheat flour from Icelandic Sheep Farm*
Local cheese**
Toppings (see below) â all available at the Farmersâ Market
1. Put yeast, water and salt in bowl. Incorporate flour by kneading. Let the dough rise for at least 1 hour until nearly doubled in volume.
2. Roll out crust and let it rise in pan until it noticeably increases in size.
3. Prebake crust for 5-10 min in 350º oven.
4. Add toppings and local cheese and bake at 500º until browned.
Most toppings should be sautéed before adding.
Spring Topping: asparagus, scallions and chard or spinach, or spring onions and shelled peas.
Summer Topping: fresh tomato sauce with onions and zucchini, eggplants or peppers, or sliced tomatoes and garlic and basil.
Fall Topping: apples and onions (need to cook on low heat for a long time so that the onions caramelize) or tomato sauce with carrots, or broccoli with pesto.
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Roscoe Moonieyan joined the Union tennis coaching staff as the associate head coach in July of 2013 before becoming the head coach in the fall of 2013.
Moonieyan is no stranger to Union as he played tennis and soccer for the Bulldogs and served as an assistant tennis coach for two seasons.
A 2009 graduate of Union, Moonieyan played four seasons for the Bulldogs and helped them to six total Appalachian Athletic Conference championships (regular-season and tournament) and three berth to the NAIA National Championship Tournament. He was twice named to the Academic All-Conference Team and was an All-AAC Team member in 2009.
Moonieyan then served as an assistant for the Union men's and women's tennis programs for two years with the men sweeping both the regular-season and tournament conference titles each year and advancing to the national tournament. In 2011, he was named the ITA NAIA East Region Assistant Coach of the Year.
After Union suspended the tennis programs following the 2011 season, Moonieyan founded "Tenacity Academy," a tennis academy in his hometown of East London, South Africa. The academy is East London's first-ever tennis academy to be international linked and networked to other coaches and countries.
Moonieyan returned to the United States in 2012 when he was hired as the assistant men's and women's tennis coach at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. The UAH men's program made school history as it advanced to the NCAA Division II National Championships and won its first-ever national tournament match. The program also received its highest ranking ever at No. 41 and set the school record for most wins.
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New Orleans, La. (AP) - A 42-year-old New Orleans man has been convicted of battery for pouring boiling grits on his wife, then hitting her in the head with the pot.
The Times-Picayune reports Arthur Porter was found guilty of aggravated second-degree battery, for the grits, and simple battery, for the beating with the pot.
The wife suffered severe burns.
The couple got into a fight in October 2011. He took the pot of boiling, scalding-hot grits and poured it on his wife, then used the pot to hit her on the head.
The wife declined to cooperate with the District Attorney and refused to testify against her husband at his trial this week.
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A Dubuque man now faces a first degree murder charge after the death of a toddler.
Dubuque County prosecutors are charging Nicholas Reed, 34, of Dubuque, with first-degree murder as well as the initial charges of neglect or abandonment of a dependent person, manufacturing methamphetamine and manufacturing marijuana.
According to police, the mother of two-year-old Bentley Randall, Kylee Vandermuelen, 20, of Dubuque, dropped her son off with Reed, her boyfriend, before work on Friday, Nov. 23.
When she returned to Reed's home at 2926 Timberline Street in Dubuque, she found her son injured and took him to the Finely Hospital, where medical professionals said he had severe burns and head trauma. Officials say Bentley was in Reed's care at the time he acquired these injuries.
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Commodifying urban real estate hurts the culture of big cities
When urban real estate is turned into merely a commodity — or just another safe place for the wealthy to park their cash in uncertain economic times, while also providing pied-a-terres in which to crash a few times a year — it tears at the social fabric of big cities such as San Francisco, New York City, and London.
That's been the message in some excellent, widely circulated articles in the last week or so — including David Byrne's Guardian article about New York City and "London's Great Exodus" in Sunday's NY Times — and it's one that San Franciscans should be thinking about as we work through current eviction and gentrification battles and vote on the 8 Washington project through Props. B&C in a few weeks.
It's also something that we'll be discussing at Housing for Whom?, a free community forum that the Guardian is sponsoring on Oct. 23 from 6-8pm at the LGBT Center, 1800 Market Street, featuring opponents and proponents of those measures along with other activists and experts.
While both London and New York City may be ahead of the curve in letting capitalists and the real estate market drive away creative types and destroy what once made those cities great, San Francisco isn't far behind, particularly given its current housing and economic development policies.
Another striking article on the issue comes from San Francisco Urban Research Association Executive Director Gabriel Metcalf, who wrote an article published in The Atlantic on Monday. It repeats his previous calls for San Francisco to build 5,000 new housing units per year and opens with a line many of us have uttered: "My friends keep moving to Oakland."
But Metcalf (who hasn't yet returned my calls for comment) also takes this familiar observation and his promotion of market rate housing a step further, basically calling for San Francisco and Oakland to start acting as one city: Rich people in SF, cool people and workers in Oakland, ala Brooklyn and Manhattan.
"If we were one city, San Francisco could spend some of its incredible wealth on the things Oakland needs, like hiring more cops and teachers, not to mention more transit connections between the two cities," Metcalf writes. "This is not an argument for annexation but a call to think about the answers to our problems from a regional perspective. We can't solve affordable housing or transit access within the limits of any one city."
Actually, I'd argue that we can and should solve these problems within our borders rather than just ceding San Francisco to the wealthy. Yes, regional planning is good, and yes, there are things that San Francisco can do for Oakland (perhaps starting with not poaching it professional basketball team).
But regionalism isn't the same thing as plutocracy — and San Francisco is still worth fighting for rather than just letting it go to the highest bidders.
one of perception. If we view the entire Bay Area as one large city, in the same way that people look at similarly sized cities as London, NYC, LA, Houston and Chicago, then many of these very local issues and preoccupations go away.
So for instance SF just becomes an expensive neighborhood or borough within the Bay Area, just like Hampstead in London, Bel Air in LA, the upper East-Side in Manhattan, and so on,
People would not get nearly so worked up if they saw Oakland as being more like Brooklyn or Hoboken NJ. Are the burbs of the north, east and south bay that much different from the commuter areas of eastern NJ or western CT? Or Surrey in England?
The cities and counties of the Bay Area should be working together as part of the one urban area that they are, rather than playing beggar-thy-neighbor because of political fiefdoms and balkanization.
(NB: Rich people can be cool too, just so you know Steven. In fact the most interesting people I know are all successful. Being smart and interesting tends to have that effect.)
you are playing at geographic homogenization
not surprising considering that the "most interesting people" you know are rich
you see everything through one lens
That's mostly because we balkanized into nine different counties, and then there were various incorporations within them.
What matters more than a historical accident is whether it makes any sense now. And for some purposes the BA acts as one city. BART, for instance, is easily the most efficient form of transit and that has a lot to do with the fact that it is a BA-wide system.
The point Metcalf is making is that it is ineffective for each little fiefdom to have it's own housing issues when, if we merge strategies, everyone can find a place where they best fit.
the fact that san francisco and oakland are each separately chartered happens to matter a great deal we can't just mush them together for analysis because they have radically different governance structures
and wait... BART?
you mean BART where the workers who make $60k a year are overpaid?
they compliment each other quite well, and so could profitably co-operate on a wider range of issues. They already co-operate on transport (ferries, bridges, BART etc.) and could similarly co-operate on housing issues.
Lots of urban areas span bodies of water with benefit to both sides of the water. SF has money but not enough space. Oakland has lots of space but no money. They could help each other out.
All it needs is for the pols to cede a little sovereignty for the common good.
Yes, I think the cities should cooperate more, but I don't think it's good policy for San Francisco to just become a city of the rich. We should share our wealth and not be so greedy here in The City. In addition to my example of not poaching the Warriors, San Francisco should end its tax breaks for tech companies and encourage some of them to set up shop in Oakland. It makes not sense to subsidize an industry that is thriving, particularly when we need to diversify our economy and be good neighbors.
encourage tech businesses in general but rather to encourage them to be in SF and, in particular, to invest in a very under-invested and grim part of the city.
I'd agree with you that there is am element of beggar-thy-neighbor involved. If SF and Brisbane were part of the same city, that would be less likely to happen, although we still might want to induce investment in some deprived part of the city over another more affluent part. Such enterprise zones are common around the world.
And yes, we could "encourage" firms like Twitter to move to Oakland. But don't be surprised if even a tax break wouldn't achieve that. High-paid tech workers are picky and want to be in a good area. Gritty and eclectic, like mid-Market, might be fine. The crappier parts of Oakland? Probably not at any price.
But the real issue here is housing not jobs. Drive (but don't walk, please) around West Oakland and you see very low densities, some nice old (but rundown Victorian houses, and easy access to freeways, BART, the Bay Bridge, buses and trains. You could add 50,000 people to the 94607 and 94608 zip codes and not even notice.
Thing is - people are doing that anyway without government intervention. It's that price thing again. Oakland as Brooklyn to our Manhattan is happening whether the City encourages it or ignores it.
So why did the MTA hup to Twitter's demands and provide special bus service, dubbed the "Twitter Express" between CalTrain and 10th and Market if the Twitterati all wanted to live here?
But they are all taxed here if they work here regardless.
You have inadvertently exposed a big problem with SF's payroll structure. It taxes non-residents but totally lets off the hook all those SF residents who take the google bus down to MV.
And why are Google not in SF? Taxes, maybe?
Mother Nature now requires all cities build housing that generates 5X as much energy as it uses.
PG&E should pay $0.49 kwh for feeding surplus solar onto the grid.
That is how Germany shut down 9 nukes.
Germany will shut down all nukes by 2041.
Yes, SF should build 5,000 new solar powered homes each year.
Lancaster, Ca., just passed a law requiring each new home to be
100% solar powered.
If SF had a solar energy sharing policy, requiring each new home
to generate 5X as much energy from solar as it uses, and requiring
PG&E to pay $0.49 kwh for the energy fed onto the grid,
SF could be 100% solar powered by 2041.
Cloudy, rainy, foggy Germany just generated 50% of its power
from solar & wind, for one day in May.
Germany shut down 9 nukes using solar, by paying homeowners
$0.54 kwh for feeding solar onto the grid.
Solar has made the Germany economy the strongest in Europe.
Germany will shut down all its nukes by 2022.
Japan now pays homeowners $0.53 kwh for feeding solar onto the grid.
Naoto Kan, the former Prime Minister who passed this solar law,
announced in Boston last week, that Japan now generates enough solar
from roof top solar, to replace 3 of the
54 shutdown atomic reactors.
By building solar homes, Japan will achieve 100% solar by 2050.
By building solar homes that generate 5X the amount they use
California can shut down all nukes, all coal, all gas & oil.
You try and twist every topic into an energy topic.
And it's tedious.
UK article about NYC, if only because the latter was clearly penned by some dewey-eyed guy who lived in NYC decades ago as a young man and now, returning there, finds it a pale shadow of its former state. Well yeah, places that were fun when you were 25 are often not so much when you are 65.
But NYC and London have always been expensive. With SF, perhaps that is a more recent thing. It was really Silicon Valley that saved SF which, otherwise, might have gone downhill quite badly.
In the end, nobody is forced to live in SF. If you like the changes, stay here and prosper. If you don't then leave, for Oakland or perhaps further afield. The important thing is to have a choice and, in America, we do have that freedom.
The flip side of all this affluence is, in a Chronicle piece from a week or so ago that you omitted to cite, is that thousands of SF'ers are becoming millionaires just from owing a fairly ordinary home, like say Tim Redmond and his bijou little home in Bernal Heights.
Hey, if you can't beat them, join them.
that little tidbit of yours at the end of your screed (the one about rising home values)
plus 2 bucks
will buy the homeowner a cup of diner coffee
what would really improve the value of homes is to deck them out with solar panels, etc, to help reverse the climate crisis
I've lived in at least 30 different houses in my life, and have generally moved every 3-5 years. This keeps me interested, sharp and involved. Squatting in one place for a lifetime would feel like a prison sentence to me.
A modern economy requires a mobile populace.
So you'd force your choices onto everyone else via public policy?
nobody ever moves.
who wants to stay in the same home should be able to do so
That's soooo un-American. Everyone knows that in America, the free market gives you the freedom to be evicted and displaced. Not to mention the freedom to lose your job at your boss's will, the freedom to die without healthcare, the freedom to let 20% of our children go without proper nutrition, and the freedom to eat catfood if you don't have a million bucks to retire on. We need to cherish these freedoms, for America is an exceptional place. What other nation offers people such freedom?
Also, I can't afford Aspen, so why would I live there? ...or something like that.
Every other industrialized nation takes care of its seniors, disabled and ill.
America is exceptional because we're the only ones don't.
That's the kind of exceptional people Americans are, it is in the water, it is in our DNA.
I thought that was kinda the point.
Other nations have a nanny state that looks after you cradle to grave, along with the taxes and alck of opportunity that goes with that. In America, the rewards and probability of becoming wealthy are far greater, but so is the risk of falling by the wayside.
That's the inherent trade-off of capitalism - more reward along with more risk.
You can argue that is better or worse. But I do not see how you can argue that having a choice between the two systems is worse than having no choice.
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Not everyone who wants to be in SF either can afford to be here. Nor perhaps is it in the greater good of the majority that they remain here if, for instance, they consume disproportionate resources and/or prevent others from being here whom the city needs.
Every home that is occupied is a home denied to someone else who wants to be in SF. Given that you probably moved here from somewhere else yourself, what you are really saying is that "You've got yours, but others cannot have theirs".
this is simply a barricade against trolls
it is a signpost to indicate to the reader that other anonymous posters on this thread are beginning to purposely diminish the conversation into repetitive reactionary hyperbole, and/or petty, mean spirited personal attacks and irrelevant bickering
the barrier is put in place to signal that there is probably little point in reading more replies in the thread past this point
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The only reason there's a housing crisis in SF and the Bay Area is because there is a complete mismatch of high-paying jobs and the housing units to go with those jobs. The SF BOS and Mayor Lee understand this fact, which is why the "jobs, jobs, jobs" mantra is so effective since it will cause evictions of lower income SF residents by higher income new company employees. More higher income residents leads to higher tax revenues, which means more money for local government to spend. Who doesn't like more money to spend, especially if you're a politician and it's other people's money you're spending? What's a few hundred forcible tenant displacements every year if it leads to more government tax revenue in the process?
Any solution to the housing crisis has to involve the companies that are hiring these new employees. Local companies must be held accountable for the evictions their new hires are causing. Companies with more than 100 employees must adopt housing plans to build new housing units for at least 65% of their employees to live within 5 miles of their jobs so the employees can walk, bike or take a jitney to work. And if there is less than a 5% vacancy rate in the city where they want to add jobs, the new hires should be postponed until new housing units are built for them.
Complex problems require getting to the root of the issue. In the case of the SF and Bay Area housing crisis, the root leads to the large companies that are hiring people without housing units to accomodate them. This is what is causing the displacement, high rents and high housing prices.
It's the cities of Palo Alto, Cupertino, Foster City, Mountain View, Sunnyvale and San Jose where many of these jobs are located. These are the places that each need to add tens of thousands of housing units, along with SF.
Political boundaries are irrelevant when it comes to economic issues such as jobs and housing. All cities in the Bay Area that have substantial numbers of employees working within their borders need to supply at least 80% of the housing units for the employees rather than force displacement and high housing costs into adjacent communities.
It's naive to think they would build worker camps (sounds so Soviet somehow). it's even more naive to think that people making 150K a year would want to live in a worker colony like that.
I do agree with you, however, that political boundaries here are not helping, and some more co-operation between different cities and counties could help ensure that people have more housing choices.
Regionalism works so well at the MTC and BART.
Muni or any of the other transit systems that are restricted to just one city.
And this is how you bait the trolls.
its workers are overpaid. Muni's workers are overpaid and the service is crap so clearlu overpaying workers does not guarantee success.
BART works better because is was better designed with better engineering and infrastructure. Mostly because it was planned regionally rather than each city doing its own thing. It was designed to serve all of the Bay Area, does that well, which is why it is continually being expanded.
can you explain that to me?
If you mean it's not a lot to live off in the Bay Area, then I'd agree.
If you mean it is more than others would do that job for with the same skill level, then not.
Anyway, the main beef with the BART workers, as I understand it, isn't so much the base pay but rather their insane benefit package.
Citing New York and London as examples of what will happen to us if let the "real estate market drive away creative types and destroy what once made those cities great" probably wasn't the best way to make your point. Those two cities are as strong and as culturally powerful as ever.
I had never even heard anyone else say that they were no longer great cities.
You should try something else next time.
New York and London are no longer the grass roots cultural crucibles that they'd been for decades. They've both gone sterile due to spatial decentralization.
If you had, that it is right now probably the most innovative and inventive city on the planet.
NYC probably isn't quite so good, but then there are competing cities in the US, like DC, Washington, LA and SF, which dilute it.
I've been to London many times, the first time 31 years ago to see the Clash in Brixton perform at the legendary shows at the Fairdeal. I stayed in a nice cozy squat in South London. The gay scene these days makes NYC and SF look provincial. But outside of drinking and fucking, there's not much there day to day. This was not always the case.
you've got to be kidding
London was just voted worst UK city (in Crap Town poll)
And more jaded.
Decades ago, I went to Dead Kennedys shows at the Fab Mab.
I don't do that sort of thing anymore.
This shows that San Francisco has gotten less interesting.
I hear Paris, Berlin, Barcelona, and Sydney have similar problems!
Again, given the geography of the Bay Area (of which SF is only a small part), it is like saying that it is a crisis that artists can't afford to live in mid-town Manhattan, the City of London, or the 16th arrondissement.
'Taint so.
because the area is too balkanized.
A single BayArea-wide administration would be much more moderate, with none of the extremes of left and right that we currently see.
why don't we get back to a discussion about reality
and London as shangri-lah doesn't count as reality
joint committees in some areas of common concern. In fact, that happens already, for example in transit with the MTC, and so could also apply for housing and cross-financing.
Or perhaps minister of foreign affairs since she spends so much time outside Oakland gallivanting around the globe.
No thanks.
and only scraped in because of the eccentricities of ranked choice ballots.
With so many cities in the Bay Area, politics becomes polarized and extreme.
First you want to throw poor elderly Chinese people on the streets, and now you throw in a gratuitous swipe at an Asian mayor who wasn't even mentioned in the article. Do you now have something against Asians as well as Blacks, Hispanics, and gays?
(I had read the other two).
Metcalf makes some compelling points:
1) BMR new build will only ever be a marginal contributor
2) Demand will always overwhelm demand and it is the fact that we all want to move here, live here and stay here that keeps SF housing prices sky high
3) For all the criticism, market-rate new build helps keep housing more affordable
4) The ultimate solutions have to be based on the Bay Area as a more integrated megalopolis.
I hope you can get Metcalf to come to your meeting as he has some innovative ideas.
would be to dramatically raise taxes on the rich locally
which would make san francisco less attractive to many of them and preserve lower priced housing
a major tax disincentive to rich people moving in would both solve the popularity problem and also discourage market rate and high end condo construction
and before you get into this "it is illegal to raise taxes" crap
there are lots of ways to tax and fee rich people
and you all know it
(now by all means proceed to freak out about how stupid taxes are for the next two or three days)
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The family-friendly commemoration, anticipated to become an annual event, is to include film screenings, parties, contests, childrens activities, appearances by special guests, educational opportunities and more.
Friday nights highlight is to be a showing of the 1955 film Underwater! at 7 p.m. in the museums Bauer Diving History Research Library. Seating is limited, so attendees are encouraged to arrive early.
The following day, an island-wide treasure hunt is set for 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. with clues placed around Islamorada.
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We did not have to participate in the bus adventure from San Diego to Ensenada to embark. We came into Ensenada on a Princess ship and then just walked across the pier to board the Solstice. Everyone that came from San Diego on the buses had their Sea Pass Cards already, but it only took about 10 min. for someone to take our information that the ramp and go make up our cards. We were onboard in about 15 min. from disembarking the Princess ship.
With the lovely ship we were expecting great service, but that was not to be. The staff were efficient and did greet everyone, but it was robotic. We did see the Glass Blowing show, but there are not enough seats for everyone. The show was well done and explained in laymans terms. The Theater Shows were better than Princess with the Cirque style show above and beyond anything we expected to see at sea. Having the two level theater seating is a big plus. Having grown up on the West Coast and done other coatal cruises we did not take any of the tours offered. The Tender operation into Santa Barbara went very smoothly, good job.
Our Veranda stateroom with the extra bed was a little tight at times, but the larger bath than on Princess with the glass shower and shower foot rest were pluses. The closet is much smaller with less storage space and I could not understand the cages under the beds just taking up space.
The food was better than on Princess, but with a 10 person table being so long and thing one might as well sit at a 4 person table. The round 8 person tables were perfect for conversing. Service was good at all our meals. The buffet was very large and nice, but I do prefer the servers coming around with all the beverages and then serving them at the table. Then also having cups and silverware already on the table. Just get your plate of food and everything else is taken care of on Princess. We did not try any of the Speciality Restaurants as we deemed them too expensive.
Some of the venues for events were too small or just not designed to be multi-purpose. Bingo was way overpriced and in too small of a space with no where to put down your cards. Ping Pong in a main thourough fare area, come on. I just missed hitting a lady in the face as I was going for a ball. Good for spectator viewing, but not for playing a tournament.
The Martini bar was a great place if they would only turn down the Techno music.


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Volleyball dominates Piedmont International for 6th straight win
October 23, 2012
Winston-Salem, NC-The Salem College volleyball team dominated cross-town rival Piedmont International for the 2nd time this season. The Spirits have now won 6 matches in a row. Salem celebrated 2 seniors, Katie O'Leary (Seldova, AK) and Brittany Miller (Hays, NC), in their last home matches. The Spirits improve to 10-11 with the non-conference win.
O'Leary had 4 kills, 12 digs, and 4 solo blocks on the night. Miller had 2 service aces and 15 digs. Roslyn Nixon (Wilson, NC) led the Spirits with 17 kills. Chelsea Jones (Glade Valley, NC) led the team with 42 set assists. Zy Henderson (Spartanburg, SC) had a strong night with 18 digs.
The Spirits return to action this weekend as they head to Tennessee to take on Covenant and Judson.


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i've waited a long time for Zach to release new music and this is great!
One Day As A Lion Biography - One Day As A Lion Discography - All Heavy Metal Bands
One Day As A Lion is the creation of musical comrades Zack De La Rocha & Jon Theodore. This is music about space – the space between friends and collaborators where ideas form; the space in a song where the tension builds waiting for the next wave of sound; the space in the corners of the recording studio (Sinatra's old room at Ocean Way) where the sound gathers to fade and die. One Day As A Lion worked hard to capture that space on tape, unadulterated, unmolested, from heart to hand to skins to mics to tape to speaker to ear. The result, someone said, sounds like Led Zep meets Dr. Dre.After almost a decade of speculative anticipation on the part of his fans, Rage Against the Machine's Zach de la Rocha finally returns to the studio, with former Mars Volta drummer Jon Theodore. It's been a long wait, but if anything, the machine's sway has only grown more insidious, and de la Rocha rises to meet it as if he hadn't missed a beat. RATM fans will find all the familiar sonic and lyrical calling cards here, but One Day as a Lion is a mimeograph of neither contributor's flagship band. "If You Fear Dying" and opener "Wild International" highlight this five-song, 20-minute set. Sharing nearly synchronized leading riffs, the two songs also take similar liberties with religious taboo: "I target more heads than a priest on Ash Wednesday" ("If You Fear Dying"); "I'm like a nail stuck in the wrist of their Christmas" ("Wild International"). In "Ocean View"–a heart-breaking, impressionist portrayal of the PATRIOT Act's capacity for enabling new twists on the old story of racial profiling–de la Rocha's wailing chorus glides atop a merciless cascade of thunderous drums. For those who follow either of these guys, everything here merits sustained attention. More generally, for those who like their protest music hard, loud, and in small doses, One Day as a Lion is king for a day, at least. –Jason Kirk
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One Day As a Lion (2008, Anti) One Day As a Lion's first studio EP. ****
For a long time there was talk of Zack de la Rocha releasing solo material (apparently material he had been working on even before Rage Against the Machine split), and even more talk when he worked with Trent Reznor. But now we get some sort of taste of what de la Rocha is like on his own, but he equally shares the stage with Jon Theodore, former Mars Volta drummer. As expected, One Day As a Lion is explosive, with de la Rocha spitting hateful messages at the powers-that-be while taking a minimalist effect. The idea is fantastic; Theodore's drumming is superb, playing a central role in not only developing an effective beat, but also being fairly responsible for filling the sound, as de la Rocha's vocals and keyboards are either sparse or start-and-stop. Sure, it sounds like lost Rage material, but it's fairly intimate for what it is, and what it is is righteous. A full-length LP would be outstanding. On it, boys! (Wild International)
Unbelievable album that only begins upon first listen. These five songs carry enough power and substance that some socio-political bands would hope for in a career. Rocha delivers lyrics up to par with that of 'ratm' and 'battle', while giving a fresh experimental/industrial sound. This has given my mind a wake up call that has been dormant for several months as Im sure it was intentioned.
Do yourself a favor – grab this beast and… WAKE UP!
If i HAD to compare this EP to a Rage album, it's most like Evil Empire… and that's a good thing. However, it's not exactly typical RATM… i'd say it's less commercial for sure, and has a very different tone to it. Imagine Evil Empire without all the pretentiousness of Tom Morello's "National Anthem" riffs. Wild International (the most Rage-sounding song on the disc), If You Fear Dying, and One Day as a Lion are the stand out songs. I don't know anything about John or the Mars Volta, but his drumming is EXCELLENT on the entire recording. If you were ever a fan of Zack, you gotta buy this… it's cheap, if you need further incentive.
I have to agree with one of the other reviewers that the tracks on this album all sound pretty similar but the more I listened I was able to pick up on the differences. It gets better with repeated listens. Anyone that was a RATM fan will probably like this. Wild International and One Day As A Lion are definitely worth the price of the album. My only complaints are that I want to hear more and Zach's lyrics are more difficult to make out than on RATM albums.


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Spring climbing
After yesterday's long climbs in Huntsville, today was a different style of climbing – numerous short, steep climbs. Check out the iBike gradient graph:
Numerous climbs – click to enlarge and count the changes in gradient from up to down and then post in the comments how many "hills" there are. I don't have time to count but I would guess 100-200 hills instead of maybe 20-30 hills yesterday?
Also, I was inspired while riding through Mountain Brook to post some pictures of the beautiful spring flowers. I didn't have my camera with me – so I'll have to post a few of the pics from my parent's house this past Sunday. Imagine riding past house after house with all different kinds of blooming flowers – particularly azaleas, dogwoods, and bradford pears. It was an interesting contrast to yesterday's ride in Huntsville, which went through some really rural countryside where instead of the tended flowers, you get wildflowers in the fields and beautiful dogwood trees blooming underneath all the really tall pine and hardwood trees in the woods. Two contrasting climbing rides, two contrasting spring flower explosions, two fun adventures.
redbuds, azaleas, and a couple dogwoods
Shades Mountain and Red Mountain climbing
Annotated view of the Big Momma (West Oxmoor Rd) climb
Fun, hard ride today. I didn't have any particular goal in mind other than steady tempo climbing for most of the ride and a KOM attempt on the West Oxmoor Rd climb (Big Momma). Big Momma is a moderately steep climb that starts out really steep and then gradually gets shallower and shallower as you get closer to the top. I've tried at least once to take back this KOM and fell far short. Today, I wanted to give it another go. Along the way I did a lot of steady climbing over in Mountain Brook and Irondale.
Then, as I headed over to Red Mountain I started to get antsy (sp?) to go hard. I hit Woodcrest kinda hard and then as I got closer to the top I felt really good so I drilled it. Crossing over the Red Mountain ridge at the top, I took the Warwick Dr neighborhood cut-through to descend back down towards Five Points South, but I missed a light and turned early onto 12th (I think) and climbed back up the ridge again before heading all the way back down the ridge again into UAB campus. This felt a bit like what I would imagine most of the Tour of Flanders would feel like – climbing up cobbled steep roads and turning around at the top to descend down before turning around at the bottom to climb back up the same ridge line on a different cobbled road. Check out the topocreator map and elevation profile below.
Annotated profile with gradients for larger hills and climbs (click to enlarge)
Annotated map of red mountain shades mountain climbing (click to enlarge)
The main difference being that instead of cobblestones in downtown Birmingham, you just get sections of really crappy pavement with potholes, bumps, and rough pavement mixed in with whatever random section of road has been repaved recently and is perfectly smooth. I went hard from UAB all the way up the Red Mountain Water Tower climb – around one of the closed gates (hello cyclocross) and ended up setting the KOM on that climb as well. I've updated the annotations on the panoramic picture of Red Mountain that I have posted on a previous ride.
Annotated view of Red Mountain taken from high point on Shades Mountain (Vestavia Dr) – click to enlarge
Finally, it was time to head down Valley Avenue over to West Oxmoor and do the climb. By the bottom of the climb I had already climbed almost 8500 ft and set two KOMs, but I was still feeling good when I hit the climb. I started out way too hard and struggled at the top but it was enough to take the KOM. Afterwards I stopped by a Starbucks to get some water after it turns out that the Hoover Burger King has replaced its nice soda fountain with easy access cold water with one of those silly fancy "Mix your own drink" coke machine. I had run out of water just before the Big Momma KOM so I had been out for a little while. The iced cold water from Starbucks though was perfect. I headed back up Shades Mountain through Bluff Park at a much easier pace and ended up running out of water 20 miles later close to home. Hot, hard, fun ride!
Here's a link to all the interactive data on Strava: http://app.strava.com/rides/5334767
Southern Cross Weekend Wrap-up
Panoramic view from a grassy knoll just below the summit of Brasstown Bald – the highest point in Georgia at just under 4800′
Wrapping up a wonderful weekend of riding, racing, and climbing in the beautiful North Georgia mountains outside of Dahlonega that included the Southern Cross Ultracross race, I headed out for one last ride right after the nice breakfast provided by the awesome folks at the Hiker Hostel. My daughter's church choir program was at 5PM back in Birmingham, and I really wanted to be back in time for it – so my original plan of 85 miles and 11-12,000 feet of climbing got scaled back to 65 miles and 9,000 feet of climbing.
Having thrown out my original route plan, I decided on a modified route that included 4 major climbs (Cat 2 or higher) and a few smaller climbs (Cat 3 or lower). I climbed Woody Gap from the R&R ranch and then proceeded backwards on the Six Gap century course climbing over Wolf Pen, then heading out to Jack's Gap and taking the 180 spur all the way to the top of Brasstown, turning around at the top and reversing my course but this time heading up Neel's Gap on US129. The final climb of the day back to the Hiker Hostel had the steepest gradients with a crazy steep driveway access road that climbs up and over a couple mini-ridges before turning into a dirt power-line trail with gradients well over the 30% that ended up getting recorded on my iBike.
3D map of the route annotated with gaps and mountains (click to enlarge)
2D annotated map with roads and mountains labeled (click to enlarge)
Cheaha weekend wrap-up
While Kristine finished up her work yesterday at Fort McClellan, I biked home to Birmingham from our hotel in Oxford by way of Mount Cheaha. I climbed Cheaha three different ways — including a new Cat 2 climb starting at the low point on the Adam's Gap side and climbing all the way to the lookout tower inside the state park. This brings Alabama's Cat 2 climb total to 8 — including the two new climbs I discovered in my ride on Saturday. The eight climbs are labeled on the map below.
Annotated map of Alabama cat 2s from strava.com including the new Cat 2s from Saturday's ride ("G" and "F") and the new Cat 2 climb from yesterday's ride ("H").
I am sure there are more out there to be found … I know that climbing Moorman Mountain from the west would also be a Cat 2 (I climbed it from Bain's Gap on the east) — so if there is anybody adventurous out there who wants to get to it before me – have at it!
I left Oxford shortly after 7AM in a fog, very light rain mist all the way through Friendship Rd, up to AL-281 and the first ascent of Cheaha from AL-49. Everything went smoothly until my first descent from the lookout tower. I had been climbing for 7 miles in heavy fog – and since it is all uphill, I hadn't touched my brakes AT ALL and forgotten about how much water would have accumulated on the rims. As I headed into the first switchback and applied the brakes, absolutely nothing happened except for an instant realization that there was no hope of making the turn so I simply straightened up and looked for an escape route that didn't involve running into a cabin or cliff. Fortunately, the brakes dried off fast enough that even before I left the road, they had started to grab and I only ended up a few feet off the road next to a cabin.
This first bit of excitement on the ride led to the next bit of excitement less than a mile later. I continued down out of the park and turned right onto AL-281 to descend down the Adam's Gap side of the mountain. I had only made it half a mile or so and had just reached max speed when I heard the sudden "psssssssss" of a tire puncture. I didn't panic, but I knew I would be in big trouble if the air leaked out before I could slow down. The roads were wet so I couldn't exactly slam on the brakes either. I just pressed as hard as I felt comfortable pressing on the brakes and slowed down to a stop. Fortunately, the puncture wasn't a complete blow-out so I still had air left in the tire to keep the tire from rolling off. At this point, I'm only 29 miles or so with well over 100 miles left to ride so I took my time and made darn sure that whatever had caused the puncture wasn't still in the tire. In fact, I think I spent more time running my finger around the tire and digging out a couple tiny pieces of glass than I actually spent changing and reinflating the tube. It was well worth the effort, though, as I was able to use my pump and CO2 cartridge to fill the tire up to maybe 80 psi and complete the rest of the ride with no more flats. It might have just been coincidence, but I'm thinking that I may have picked up the glass when I went off the road in the switchback previously.
After changing the tire, I finished the rest of the descent and after reaching 45 mph with no thumping or any other signs of a bad tire change, I felt pretty confident that all was good. I attacked the Adam's Gap climb hard so I could get the KOM on it … my legs were definitely feeling the 400 miles that were already in them for the week up to that point — including the hard climbing ride from Saturday, but I was able to get the KOM. Adam's Gap ends at the transition to a gravel "scenic road" that if you followed long enough would take you all the way over to Bull Gap and Brent's new skyway epic course. Turning around, I snapped a few pics and then headed back up Cheaha also pushing it hard to try to get the KOM on this side. By this time, the fog had lifted significantly so that only the very top of the climb was still foggy/wet. At the top, I turned around and headed back down the Adam's Gap side, but this time I turned at the road to Camp Mac and headed down to Lake Chinnabee to do the climb one last time stopping to take pictures of the mountain from Cheaha Lake (over 1000 ft below the summit).
At the top this time, all was sunny and beautiful so I snapped this panorama of the view from the Cheaha restaurant (which is about 250 ft below the true summit)
From there all the way back home was an awesome ride, which I could spend hours describing — but instead I'm going to just let the pictures tell the rest of the adventure.
Exploring, climbing, riding the Oxford-Jacksonville ridge line
Riding today was easily the most fun I've had on the bike in four or five years. Considering how much I love to ride all the time, that really is saying a lot about my ride today. I guess the thing that strikes me the most is how many times I was just flat out surprised on the ride – not just "oh I didn't see that coming", but more like "are you kidding me? are you for real?" in a really good way. I summarized the ride in terms of 10 surprises, listed below. I also took a bunch of pictures and Garmin screenshots I will post later.
A few things to set the background for this ride: Kristine and I are in Oxford for her work this weekend, and the kids had separate sleepovers last night at friends' houses and again tonight at my parents house. Kristine had the idea last week that maybe I could come up here with her and enjoy some riding while she worked and a weekend getaway when she wasn't working. Some of Alabama's tallest mountains are right out the door of our hotel, so I thought – "sure!"
Surprise #1 – no rain!
The original plan was for me to leave work on Friday and ride part of the way over here where Kristine would pick me up along I-20. I documented yesterday's ride, which also included a surprise climb up to a radio tower that I hadn't planned on doing. Then today I was going to bike back home via a long 150 mile climbing route over Mt Cheaha (the highest pt in Alabama). But the weather forecast all week long indicated that most of today would be spent with heavy rain showers and even thunderstorms. So I changed my plan to do a shorter ride (60-70 miles) today and then do the longer ride tomorrow when the rain was supposed to have cleared out. I woke up expecting to find rain and was instead greeted with partly cloudy skies and no rain.
Surprise #2 – an empty interstate-like climb
The route I had created ahead of time had me climbing up Henry Rd and then into some neighborhoods that looked ultra-steep on the map (and a little bit later in the ride when I did get to the neighborhoods, they were even steeper than I had imagined). So I'm following the route and then I realize that I've ended up on a divided highway not on the map that for all intents and purposes is a full-blown interstate that looks like it may climb up higher than the neighborhood route. There was practically no traffic, so even though I could see where I needed to turn, I wanted to just keep on going and see how far the climb went. You could tell where they had dynamited through the mountain and there were some killer concrete drainage ditches with 40-60% gradient that I really, really wanted to try but there were concrete blocks at alternating angles to slow the flow of water. I'm 20% sure you could ride it on a mountain bike with a 1-1 gear ratio while dodging the blocks, but I wasn't going to try it on my road bike with a 39×28. I crested the mountain and of course there is still this tall divider for the interstate so i've got to figure out where/how to turn around.
So I'm on the descent on the other side when I suddenly I realized that the whole thing is still under construction and the road ends at a spot in a valley before another mountain climb where the road hasn't been finished yet. For whatever reason, I just found this all to be hilarious … I guess I was giddy with excitement for the ride to begin with, and then to be only a few miles into my ride on a four-lane divided interstate-like road that is still under construction with no cars in the middle of a beautiful mountain valley was just so awesome that I couldn't stop laughing until I had to focus on the 180 deg turnaround at the bottom. I went back up and over the mountain and halfway down to take the original route I had planned which fairly quickly led to surprise #3.
Surprise #3 – GPS "fail" bigtime
My Garmin worked great as I picked back up my original route, which had all kinds of turns in it as I was looking for contour lines closest together when planning the route — which often means making a bunch of turns from street to street through a neighborhood. I was surprise by how steep the Lynn Rd climb was — the first of maybe thirty or more 20+% gradients for the day (I tried to take a screenshot of all of them so I could count them later – and I know of at least three or four that I missed because I couldn't take my hands off the handlebars to hit the button to take the screenshot).
So anyway I make it back across Henry Rd after the Lynn Rd climb, and I'm diving down hills (53×11), climbing back up 20% gradients (39×28), and then I get to a spot where I'm supposed to make a turn and I see a sign that says "Dead End" … interesting. I pulled up the map screen on Garmin and saw another way to get around, but when I got to the next "road", it was a steep grassy descent behind a curb and a gate. It looked rideable so I hopped the curb and rode around the gate, but after a tenth of a mile or so, the access road ended at a water tank that was gated off. I couldn't see any path beyond it through the woods, so rather than risking poison oak so early in the ride, I turned around and headed back up the grassy climb. I looked at my map again and found another way around, headed down a steep descent and came to another dead end. This was getting to be laughable at this point. This turnaround involved a steep Cat 4 climb back up to the top of the mountain. I revisited the original dead end sign that my route was trying to take me on, and sure enough it really was a dead end – complete with a basketball goal in the road. Another steep climb back up to the top of the mountain, and I tried a third way off the mountain leading to surprise #4.
Surprise #4 – Awesome descent/climb with three different kinds of pavement
This was a mini-surprise, so I won't spend much time describing it – but the descent that finally worked to take me off the mountain transitioned through three different kinds of pavement (chip/seal, tarmac, cement) with some cool switchbacks through a neighborhood into a city golf course. The descent was so cool, that I had to turn around do the climb. Hitting the top of this mountain on a road called "Hillyer Rd" (probably pronounced "hilly-er" road) for a fourth time (maybe fifth? i lost count), I turned around and came back down and hit my original route plan to head through a VERY hilly part of anniston.
Surprise #5 – upper 20% gradient in Anniston
I went through this really hilly neighborhood on the outskirts of Anniston and hit one section that was cemented b/c of the gradient which was probably approaching 30% … I wouldn't know though b/c my speed dropped too low and the Garmin switched over to –% gradient. Easily steeper than Woodcrest in Birmingham which is in the upper 20s. Probably even steeper than Valley Hill, but much shorter (maybe only 1/10th of a mile).
Surprise #6 – Steep Cat 3 climb to radio tower in Anniston
Immediately after leaving the neighborhood with surprise #5, I started a climb that I had seen on the satellite to some radio towers just on the edge of the Fort McClellan boundary. I wasn't sure the status of the road, whether it was gated, or what. It turned out to be a very steep gravel road with even more 20% gradients. Gates were open all the way to the top, and I was able to summit at just over 1500′, which I had not been expecting.
Surprise #7 – Woodland Park
On my way up towards Jacksonville, I road right past the starting spot of the very first century I ever did back in high school (the Woodland-Calhoun century). This was not planned at all, and was therefore quite a surprise that brought back tons of memories.
Surprise #8 – Cat 2 climb in Jacksonville
I had scouted this climb out, and knew that the current segment on Strava was on the upper end of the Cat 3 range but stopped well short of the actual crest of the climb. I knew that if you started the segment a little bit lower and went all the way up to the towers at the top, then it would probably be a Cat 2. So I scouted out the starting point and started on the climb. It starts out very gradually, but then gets steeper as you start to leave town. At the bottom were three college-aged girls (maybe from JSU) all decked out for running – and they were walking up the very steep hill. One of them shouted "good luck", which kinda tells you how steep and long this climb is. It started out steep, flattened out a bit in the middle, then got really steep at what I thought was the end, but as you come around the corner, you see the road skyrocket up for the last 200 feet of climbing and a rather large fence with razor wire across the top blocking access to the towers. But, I was very lucky today in that the gate was wide open. So I was able to ride the climb all the way to the top – where there is an observatory, fire tower, lots of radio towers, and a beautiful view of the valley.
Surprise #9 – Mt Laurel neighborhood
On the Cottaquilla climb, which is on the Foothills Road Race course, there is a neighborhood off to the left called Mt Laurel that was surprisingly steep (I saw 26% at one point), plus a bunch of roller coaster like climbs/descents I wasn't expecting inside the neighborhood.
Surprise #10 – stumbling upon a Cat 2 climb!
The last surprise was the best of all. I had seen a climb called Bain's Gap, which was on the Fort McClellan property, that I assumed would be inaccessible because of the military. So when I passed the turn-off for the road and didn't see a gate, I decided to just turn and see how far I could make it up the climb before encountering a gate, or road block. Instead of a gate, I found a national wildlife refuge, amazing waterfall, more 20% gradients, a nearly unrideable gravel road that I was able to ride (barely) and a friendly local at the top who was able to tell me a shortcut to get back home – oh and it worked out to be a climb with over 1200′ of gain putting it well into the Strava cat 2 category.


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DEDICATION features music composed in celebration of the PRISM Quartet's 20th anniversary by a slew of today's top composers with a
knack for the sax. PRISM has expanded the world of the sax quartet through their commissions and performances since 1984. Their dedication has paid off with this virtuosic showcase of instrumental acrobatics.
PRISM musicians have wielded their instruments in a variety of styles and contexts, and they've done it with a gleeful disregard for the various "-isms" of the day. The saxophone is a versatile family of instruments, capable of great subtlety and emotion, but also perfectly good at producing a wailing wall of noise. And while PRISM has done yeoman work in reminding people that old Adolphe Sax intended his inventions to be classical instruments first, the quartet also has the good taste and the tasty chops needed to reflect the sax's great tradition in jazz and popular music.
This collection brings together almost two-dozen works written or arranged to mark PRISM's anniversary, back in 2004. The composers come from near (Philly-based Matthew Levy, founding member of PRISM) and far (Donnacha Dennehy, a central figure on the Irish new music scene). They range from some of our most highly visible, award-winning figures (William Bolcom, Chen Yi, Jennifer Higdon, Libby Larsen) to emerging voices (Roshanne Etezady and Dennis DeSantis were both beginning their careers in 2004). And of course, there are friends of the ensemble like sax player Greg Osby, who adds his alto to the mix, and one-time PRISM member Tim Ries, who left the quartet some years ago to go on tour with a rock band. (Only time will tell if that band, apparently called "The Rolling Stones," will have the staying power of the PRISM Quartet.)
From the frantic, florid playing required by Gregory Wanamaker's "speed metal organum blues" to the melancholy of Renée Favand-See's
"isolation," this set of birthday dedications offers a kaleidoscopic portrait of one of the essential contemporary music groups of our
"[T]he PRISM Quartet plays with remarkable tightness … They not only handle the demands of the modern works with ease, but also exhibit a keen flexibility, making more traditional compositions … sound equally as convincing." [FULL ARTICLE]
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