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Southwest is hiring hundreds of flight attendants and thousands have applied for the jobs.
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A bankruptcy judge clears American Airlines to merge, which leaves the U.S. airline industry with three giant airline plus a few others.
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The best laid travel plans can fall through when the system comes under the kind of pressure common at Thanksgiving.
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The Federal Communications Commission is moving toward lifting a long-standing ban on cell phone calls in-flight. It would permit calls once a plane reaches 10,000 feet.
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The Department of Justice is talking with American Airlines and US Airways about possibly lifting its anti-trust action.
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I am a gastroenterologist with an interest in hereditary colon cancer syndromes — specifically Lynch Syndrome (LS) or Hereditary Nonpolyposis Colorectal Cancer (HNPCC) — as well as in specialized nutrition support for cancer patients. After graduating from Georgetown University School of Medicine, I completed an internship and residency in internal medicine at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center, followed by a year of chief residency at New York Downtown Hospital and specialty training in gastroenterology and nutrition at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.
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Book your room at The BodyHoliday All Inclusive
All-Inclusive spa resort on St. Lucia, facing Caribbean
On northwest coast
Set between green hills and a 250-m (273-yd) calm-water beach, The BodyHoliday for adults (and older children in summer) faces the Caribbean Sea less than 1 km (a half-mile) from St. Lucia's northern tip.
All-Inclusive resort
Meals and drinks, watersports (including scuba diving lessons), fitness classes, and live evening entertainment are among the amenities included in the room rate.
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Guestrooms at The BodyHoliday All Inclusive include air conditioning, direct-dial telephone, voice mail, clock radios, in-room safes, iron and ironing boards, private bath, and hair dryers.
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All-Inclusive Details
This resort is all-inclusive. Onsite food and beverages are included in the room price (some restrictions may apply).
Gratuities and taxes
Gratuities and taxes are included. Additional gratuities at guests' discretion are not accepted.
Food and beverages
- All buffet and à la carte meals, snacks, and beverages included
- Dining and beverage availability limited at one or more venues
- Limited gourmet or à la carte dining
- Surcharges for premium or imported alcoholic beverages
Activities and facilities/equipment
All non-motorized water sports, land activities, and use of recreational facilities and equipment are included.
Water activities
- Kayaking
- Motorized water sports
- Sailing
- Scuba-diving lessons
- Snorkeling
- Water skiing
- Windsurfing
Land activities
- Bicycling
- Fitness facilities
- Tennis
- Volleyball
- Dancing
- Yoga
- Onsite entertainment and activities
- Onsite live performances
Not included
- Airport transfers
- Use of golf cart
- Use of golf equipment
- Golf green fees
- Laundry/dry cleaning services
- Premium and/or non-domestic beverages
- Premium food items
- Scuba-diving certification
- Scuba-diving excursions
- Spa/beauty facilities and services
- Wireless Internet access
- Activities and services offered by independent operators
Hotel Amenities
The majority of amenities, activities, and gratuities at this resort are included in the room rate; guests are not charged extra for the majority of amenities and activities (scroll up to the All-Inclusive Details section for more information).
A health spa styled like a 2-story Moorish villa lies atop a gardened ridge up a long stairway from the resort's private white sand beach, for which this hotel also provides complimentary beach cabanas and towels. A fitness center, a work-out studio, and 37 treatment rooms flank 2 courtyards, 1 with lily pond and water/tea bar and the other with pool and lounge chairs shaded by arched walkways. Nude sunbathing is permitted on the spa's roof. Sun loungers and umbrellas are provided on the beach.
Except for arrival and departure days, guests staying 2 nights or more are provided 1 spa treatment per day (Thalassotherapy, massage, body scrub, body wrap, or facial) as part of the All-Inclusive plan. Available for surcharges are additional treatments, including ayurvedic, Indonesian, and Chinese techniques, hydrotherapies, a variety of holistic therapies, waxing, and nail care. Guests must be at least 16 years of age to receive spa treatments at The BodyHoliday All Inclusive.
Wireless Internet access is complimentary. The resort's only television, a big-screen set located in the Club House lounge, is usually on only for major afternoon sports events. A business center, event catering, and a meeting/conference room are available on site. An airport shuttle service is available on request (surcharge).
Self parking is complimentary.
- Beach umbrellas
- Free beach cabanas
- Beach sun loungers
- Beach towels
- Business center
- On private beach
- Airport transportation
- Free WiFi
- One meeting room
- Number of buildings/towers - 4
- Spa tub
- Full-service spa
- Fitness facilities
- Arcade/game room
- Multilingual staff
- Safe-deposit box at front desk
- Total number of rooms - 155
- Porter/bellhop
- 24-hour front desk
- Number of floors - 7
- Gift shops or newsstand
- Shopping on site
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Tennis on site
- Wedding services
- Elevator/lift
- Designated smoking areas
- Beach/pool umbrellas
- Billiards or pool table
- Computer station
- Laundry facilities
- Spa treatment room(s)
- Luggage storage
- Free self parking
- Outdoor tennis courts 2
- Snack bar/deli
- Spa services on site
- Outdoor pool
Available in all rooms: Free wired high-speed Internet
Available in some public areas: Free WiFi
Free self parking
Room Amenities
- Room service (limited hours)
- Climate control
- Blackout drapes/curtains
- Refrigerator
- Turndown service
- Private bathroom
- Bathrobes
- Free toiletries
- Hair dryer
- Shower/tub combination
- Daily housekeeping
- Iron/ironing board
- In-room safe
- Desk
- Rollaway/extra beds available
- Free wired high-speed Internet
- iPod docking station
- Individually decorated
Where to Eat
The majority of meals and beverages, plus all gratuities, at the following restaurants, snack spots, and bars are included in the room rate for this resort (scroll up to the All-Inclusive Details section for more information).
Cariblue - Open-air restaurant overlooking the beach and the Caribbean Sea. Serves daily breakfast and lunch buffets. An a la carte dinner with items from the Cuisine LeSport menu is served six nights a week. Wednesday night Caribbean buffets feature steel band entertainment.
Sample dinner menu for Cariblue (Note: Because the menu changes nightly, the following menu is for illustrative purposes only. Specific items listed may or may not be available.)
Main courses:
TAO - Featured on the Condé Nast Traveler list of the 60 Hottest Tables, this award-winning restaurant offers a fusion of Eastern and Western cuisine. Open for dinner. Reservations are required.
The Pavilion - Casual dining restaurant with buffet options, a grill and a pizza oven. Mediterranean cuisine includes pizzas, calzones, flatbreads, grilled foods and fish. Open for lunch and dinner.
The Deli - Offers light fare including gourmet sandwiches, salads, fresh fruit, vegetable juices, and smoothies. Open late morning to late afternoon.
Piano Bar - A relaxing nightspot decorated with cane furniture, antiques and a white baby grand piano. A pianist entertains nightly except Wednesday evenings. Open evenings until late night.
The Clubhouse Bar - Serves alcoholic and non-alcoholic cocktails. Features a custom built 360-degree bar with a sunset view. Live entertainment.
Nearby Things to Do
The majority of recreational activities and facilities described below are included in the room rate for this resort (scroll up to the All-Inclusive details section for more information).
Forested hills falling to rocky points frame 250-m (273-yd) Cariblue Bay Beach, on which this is the only resort. Along one rocky point is a designated snorkeling zone. Cedar-shingle huts provide beach shade, and lounge chairs offer sunbathing ease.
A 19.75-m (65-ft) kidney-shaped pool, a four-person spa tub, and a sundeck furnished with padded lounge chairs and umbrellas lie on a hillside above the beach. For volleyball, aerobics, and scuba diving lessons there's a 16.75-by-7.25-m (55-by-24-ft) pool. A third pool, measuring 15 by 4.5 m (49 by 15 ft), is located in one of the health spa's two courtyards.
The BodyHoliday All Inclusive provides snorkeling gear as well as beginners' and resort-level scuba diving lessons. Also provided are kayaks, sailboats, windsurfers, water skiing, tubing, wakeboarding, and kneeboarding, as well as beginners' instruction for all. Swimming lessons, scuba diving certification classes, and advanced windsurfing and sailing lessons are offered for surcharges. Independent operators often turn up off the beach to rent personal watercraft and offer parasailing.
Beginners' and intermediate lessons are provided for tennis (two lighted courts), fencing, and archery, with private golf and tennis lessons available for surcharges. Also included are bicycle tours.
Transportation is provided to a nearby golf course where guests receive discounted green fees.
Fitness classes offered as part of the All-Inclusive plan include hatha, ashtanga, and transcendental yoga; meditation; pool aerobics; introductory personal fitness training; stretching, abdominal work-outs, aerobics, step aerobics, tai chi, Pilates, stability-ball, boxing, circuit training, and other exercise classes. Occasional master classes in fitness, yoga, and health are also part of the All-Inclusive plan. Private yoga lessons, advanced personal fitness training, and stress-management counseling are available for surcharges.
The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or near this St. Lucia resort; fees may apply.
- Golfing nearby
- Free bicycles on site
- Scooter/moped rentals nearby
- Hiking/biking trails nearby
- Mountain biking nearby
- Parasailing nearby
- Aerobics on site
- Segway rental/tour nearby
- Golf lessons on site
- Kayaking on site
- Pilates classes on site
- Sailing on site
- Scuba diving on site
- Snorkeling on site
- Tennis lessons on site
- Volleyball on site
- Water skiing on site
- Windsurfing on site
- Yoga classes/instruction on site
Spa Services
The Wellness Center at BodyHoliday All Inclusive resort received the Condé Nast Traveler award for the Best Destination Spa in the World in 2011. This full-service spa has 39 treatment rooms offering guests customized spa treatments. Holistic therapies include Thalgo and Ayurveda. Guests can also visit a specialized skincare clinic. A daily 50-minute spa treatment (excluding arrival and departure day; 2-night minimum stay required) is included in the room rate.
- Number of treatment rooms 39
- Manicures and pedicures
- Body wraps
- Body scrubs
- Aromatherapy treatments
- Hydrotherapy treatments
- Ayurvedic treatments
- Body treatments
- Facial treatments
Hotel Policies
Minimum check-in age is 18
Check-in time starts at 3 PM
Check-out time is 11 AM
Payment types
You need to know
Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on hotel policy.
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card or cash deposit are required at check-in for incidental charges.
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges. Special requests cannot be guaranteed.
Minimum guest age is 16
Caters to adults only
- Airport shuttle fee: USD 45 (one way)
We should mention
Guests under 16 years old are not permitted at this adults-only property.
Awards & Affiliations
- The BodyHoliday All Inclusive is listed in the 2012 Condé Nast Traveler Gold List of the world's best places to stay.
Daily Spa Service Included
Book a 2-night minimum stay in any room category and receive a daily 50-minute spa treatment.
Full details at check-in. Taxes and gratuity may not be included. Offer valid anytime, subject to availability. Other restrictions may apply.


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What caused Detroit's demise? How is it that everybody here seems to understand exactly what policies caused the demise of Detroit and no one in a position of policy making power anywhere in the economy seems to understand it at all?
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This article is written with the Twin Cities MN metro of Minneapolis, St. Paul and suburbs in mind. The same issues are likely in play in your metro as well. Met Council of which she refers is the unelected governing body of the seven county metro area. Minnesota currently has a Dem Governor, House and Senate, so these liberal causes are currently able to move quite rapidly.
Twin Cities suburbs should beware of the Met Council
Article by: KATHERINE KERSTEN
August 3, 2013
Crusaders for regionalism want a more concentrated, centrally planned Twin Cities. Those who dont may never know what hit them.
The Twin Cities of 2040 will likely be starkly different from the place you live now. People will increasingly live in dense, urban concentrations, even if theyd prefer a house with a yard outside the 494 beltway.
Government planners will have power to steer new jobs into central cities and first-ring suburbs, and to set what amounts to quotas for people of different incomes and races in neighborhoods and schools throughout the metro area. Outside the urban core, highway conditions will deteriorate and congestion encouraged by government will get worse.
As these changes unfold, youll never be sure how the freedom and quality of life you once took for granted slipped away. Plenty of elected officials will be as frustrated as you are. But mysteriously, they too will stand powerless as choices constrict.
What will be the engine of this transformation? An out-of-the-limelight agency we generally think of as running the buses and occasionally approving a new runway at the airport: the Metropolitan Council.
In coming months, the council will release a draft of Thrive MSP 2040 its comprehensive plan to shape development in the seven-county region over the next 30 years. Powerful forces are coalescing to use the document as a tool for social planners to use to design their vision of the perfect society and to impose it on the rest of us.
A huge, unchecked power grab is about to take place beneath our noses. But mayors and city councils will find it hard to push back. Thats because the Met Council will increasingly wield the power to decide which municipalities thrive and which decline. It will both write the rules for development and hold the purse strings.
The Met Council was established in the mid-1960s at the behest of Republican-leaning policymakers, who believed regional planning of infrastructure could enhance efficiency. Its reach has grown dramatically, and today it allocates funds (state, federal and regional) among the regions 187 municipalities for projects ranging from highway improvement to bridges to sewer lines. In the process, the councils role has expanded well beyond its original mandate, as government so often does.
We can expect MSP 2040 to put this process on steroids, giving the agency a license, over time, to dramatically remake the entire region.
The forces shaping MSP 2040 whose final vision the council will approve in 2014 are part of a growing nationwide movement called regionalism.
Regional planning of service delivery and infrastructure is important, of course. But regionalism, as an ideology, is not, as its name suggests, about promoting the good of a region as a whole. Its about metro centers the urban core and inner-ring suburbs usurping control over outer-ring communities to advance their own interests and, in the process, effectively replacing local elected officials with a handful of regional governments.
In the case of the Twin Cities, the ramifications for democratic self-rule are profound. The Met Councils 17 members are not elected. Though they come from different parts of the seven-county area, they dont represent the needs and interests of voters there. They are all appointed by Gov. Mark Dayton, and they owe their allegiance to him.
The press for regionalism is coming from the highest power in the land: the Obama White House. The Obama administrations campaign to build the regulatory framework to implement the movements agenda is documented in political analyst Stanley Kurtzs 2012 book, Spreading the Wealth: How Obama is Robbing the Suburbs to Pay for the Cities.
The Twin Cities may be a showcase for how far the regionalist crusade can go. Our Met Council is unique, and we already have regional tax-base sharing one of the movements most sought-after tools.
An army of academics, environmental organizations, foundations, and transit advocacy and left-wing religious groups is working to ensure that MSP 2040 greatly expands the Met Councils regulatory control. And theres a movement underway to organize politicians from inner-ring suburbs and Minneapolis and St. Paul, with the goal of taking on the outer-ring suburbs and forging a permanent legislative majority for the regionalist agenda.
Regionalism is driven by a core ideological conviction: The cause of the poverty and social dysfunction that bedevil Americas cities is the greed and racial bigotry of suburbanites especially those in prosperous, outer-ring suburbs, which are viewed as unjustly excluding the poor. Regionalists believe that financial aid for the inner ring wont remedy this injustice. A profound change in governance is required.
What sort of change? The title of a book by regionalist guru David Rusk puts it bluntly: Cities without Suburbs. In regionalists view, suburbs with their own tax bases are, by definition, a menace to cities, and the distinctions between the two must be wiped out as completely as possible.
Regionalists strategy to effectively merge cities and suburbs turns on two ideologically freighted buzzwords: equity and sustainability. Equity is code for using public policy to redistribute wealth and to engineer economic equality among demographic groups.
Regionalists view metrowide economic integration as one of governments primary responsibilities. Their plan to accomplish it is twofold: Disperse urban poverty throughout a metro area via low-income housing and make suburban life so inconvenient and expensive that suburbanites are pushed back into the city.
Sustainability means policies that would override market forces to ensure that in the future, the great majority of new jobs, economic development and public works projects are funneled into the metro areas urban core and inner ring where, not coincidentally, regionalists own political base is concentrated. Sustainable policies promote high-density, Manhattan-style living, and attempt to wean us away from our cars and push us to walk, bike or use public transit to get to work.
As one critic speculating on MSP 2040s likely outcome lamented: Do we all have to live in a 1,500-square-foot condo above a coffee shop on a transit line?
Suburbanites will disproportionately shoulder the costs of this socially engineered transformation, paying more in taxes and getting less back in infrastructure and public services.
Purse strings
Regionalists strategy for imposing their agenda hinges on giving regional bodies like the Met Council the ultimate trump: the power of the checkbook. The Obama administrations Sustainable Communities Initiative (SCI) provides a model. SCI channels federal funds for land use, transportation and housing projects through regional bodies. The catch is that, to participate, municipalities must embrace redistributive equity goals.
The Met Council already has announced that equity and mitigating economic and social disparities through regional investments will be top priorities of MSP 2040. This explicit embrace of social engineering goals appears to signal an intent to initiate what could be a virtually limitless remake of our metro area.
Special-interest groups are lining up to lobby for proposals to embed equity and sustainability criteria in Met Council plans and/or funding criteria. These proposals include creating one giant seven-county metro school district to facilitate apportionment of students by race and income, and ensuring that at least 70 percent of projected growth in population and households in the next 30 years takes place through infill and redevelopment of already urbanized land.
In the future, if Prior Lake or Anoka want to get a grant to expand a major regional highway, officials there may need to demonstrate that their city meets the councils equity criteria on low-income housing and doesnt allow exclusionary zoning, instead of just showing that the project would improve safety or reduce congestion.
Over time, demands could escalate. Eventually, for example, a municipality may have to meet onerous carbon footprint or clean energy requirements to get approval for a new sewer line. Pressure will mount to make state and federal aid of all kinds contingent on meeting Met Council social planning dictates.
Most likely, the council will continue to operate under the fiction that cities have a choice. Yet a city council or a county board that declines to comply with regionalist criteria citing its citizens needs and preferences would ensure that funds and approval for improvement would stop, and so would remain frozen in time.
Advocates insist that the Twin Cities must embrace regionalist policies to remain economically competitive. In fact, top-down planning by unaccountable bureaucrats that distorts market forces is likely to constrict overall prosperity and stymie development. Ironically, its also likely to increase sprawl, as people flee to cities like Delano or Elk River to get beyond the Met Councils iron grip.
Most importantly, the direction the Met Council is heading is inconsistent with our deepest beliefs as a people. The American dream is about striving for a better life through economic growth, not redistribution of wealth. Regionalists Orwellian appeals to equity and sustainability are hostile to our cherished traditions of individual liberty, personal responsibility and local self-government.
Katherine Kersten is a senior fellow at the Center of the American Experiment.
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Segregation, diversity, and clustering
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August 16, 2013, 11:44:15 AM »
From the piece:
How diverse is your neighborhood really? This map by Dustin Cable at the University of Virginias Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service displays the population distribution of every person in America (as of the 2010 census) along racial and ethnic lines. The map features 308,745,538 dots, each smaller than a single pixel and each representing one person: Caucasians are blue, blacks are green, Hispanics are orange, Asians are red, and other races are brown.
The vast swaths of purple appear to show the racial diversity of some of Americas biggest cities. But if you zoom into the map and break these cities down at the neighborhood level, patterns of segregation become much clearer.
Cable uses the example of MinneapolisSt. Paul to illustrate a city where racial integration in the city as a whole appears far greater than it does in individual blocks of streets.
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Re: Segregation, diversity, and clustering
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Quote from: bigdog on August 16, 2013, 11:44:15 AM
How diverse is your neighborhood really? This map by Dustin Cable at the University of Virginias Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service displays the population distribution of every person in America (as of the 2010 census) along racial and ethnic lines. The map features 308,745,538 dots, each smaller than a single pixel and each representing one person: Caucasians are blue, blacks are green, Hispanics are orange, Asians are red, and other races are brown.
The vast swaths of purple appear to show the racial diversity of some of Americas biggest cities. But if you zoom into the map and break these cities down at the neighborhood level, patterns of segregation become much clearer.
Cable uses the example of MinneapolisSt. Paul to illustrate a city where racial integration in the city as a whole appears far greater than it does in individual blocks of streets.
VERY interesting post and map. Interesting that people choose segregation to such a large extent, nearly 60 years after Brown v. Board of Education overturned Plessy v. Ferguson and segregation laws were ruled illegal.
If you look at the inner cities of Minneapolis-St. Paul (the example chosen) from a distance you see apparent diversity. Then they show a map down to the neighborhoods and you see apparent segregation. What they don't show is that if you zoom in even closer to the household or even the bedroom you again see diversity. Millions and millions of Americans are either mixed race individuals or live in mixed-race households.
One in seven new marriages in the U.S. involve spouses from different racial groups. Pew 2011. That proportion, I will guess, is even higher for unmarried couples.
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Re: America's Inner City: Paul Ryan reaches in
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Where poitics meets culture, and vice versa. A long story with good coverage of Paul Ryan going into the inner city, which he has learned to not call the inner city because that has racial overtones.
Ryan is doing something rather unprecedented for a Republican: He is spending unchoreographed time with actual poor people. He is exposing himself to the complexities of low-income life that dont fit in the 30-second spot, the outlay spreadsheet, or the stump speech applause line. He is traveling well outside his comfort zone and it has been uncomfortable.
At one point, as he tells me about his efforts during the presidential race to get the Romney campaign to spend more time in urban areas, he says, I wanted to do these inner-city tours then he stops abruptly and corrects himself. I guess were not supposed to use that.
His eyes dart back and forth for a moment as he searches for words that wont rain down more charges of racism. These these
I suggest that the term is appropriate in this context, since it is obviously intended as an innocuous description of place. Hes unconvinced, and eventually settles on a retreat to imprecision: I mean, I wanted to take our ideas and principles everywhere, and try for everybodys vote. I just thought, morally speaking, it was important to ask everyone for their support.
There is a familiar, approved narrative of the WoodsonRyan union: The two men met in the early 90s through their mutual friend Jack Kemp, the Republican Partys big-tent visionary, and reconnected near the end of the 2012 campaign, when Ryan asked him to assemble a panel of grassroots-level advocates for the poor to participate in an off-the-record roundtable.
Ryans broad vision for curing American poverty is one that conservatives have been championing for the last half-century, more or less. He imagines a diverse network of local churches, charities, and service organizations doing much of the work the federal government took on in the 20th century. Rather than supplying jobless Americans with a never-ending stream of unemployment checks, for example, Ryan thinks the federal government should funnell resources toward community-based work programs like Pastor Websters.
If his rhetoric lacks poetry, his arguments against the current state-centric approach to aiding the poor is compelling. Since Lyndon B. Johnson declared a war on poverty, the U.S. government has spent an estimated $13 trillion on federal programs that have resulted, 50 years later, in the highest deep poverty rate on record. The failure, Ryan contends, is in the notion that anti-poverty programs are best managed from the top, with Washington bureaucrats crunching numbers and then issuing lowest-common-denominator directives. Its this premise that youve got to sit in D.C. and you can just have a really enlightened, benevolent bureaucracy that can figure all this stuff out, he says, adding, Its well-intended. But its so, to me, paternalistic and arrogant and really kind of condescending. It doesnt work, and its sort of debilitating. It takes the creativity out of communities, out of people.
After more than a year of trying to lead a national conversation about the causes and consequences of poverty, what hes gotten is a dogfight.
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Re: America's Inner City; Getting Past Name-Calling to Talk About Poverty
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I am no fan and disagree on a couple of details, but kudos to Juan Williams for taking this on. This is not about race; it is about a culture of not trying to join the productive economy. Our public policies including the safety hammock and marginal effective tax rates sometimes greater than 100% on people trying to get out of poverty are perpetuating the problem.
Getting Past Name-Calling to Talk About Poverty
Rep. Paul Ryan is meeting with the Congressional Black Caucus. Let's hope they give his ideas a fair hearing.
By JUAN WILLIAMS
April 29, 2014 7:26 p.m. ET
Rep. Paul Ryan (R., Wis.) is scheduled to meet with the Congressional Black Caucus on Wednesday to discuss his plans to address poverty and his March 12 comments in a radio interview about a "tailspin of culture" in our inner cities where "generations of men [are] not even thinking about working or learning the value and the culture of work." Mr. Ryan's statement sparked liberal accusations of racism. Rep. Barbara Lee (D., Calif.) called it "a thinly veiled racial attack" that "cannot be tolerated" for ignoring that the majority of the poor are white and often live in the suburbs and rural areas.
All this provides what President Obama might call "a teaching moment." For more than a year, Mr. Ryan has been working closely with Robert Woodson, the head of the Washington, D.C.-based Center for Neighborhood Enterprise, to find solutions to generational poverty among inner-city familiesmany of them black and Hispanic. But because Mr. Ryan is whiteand worse, a Republican, he is a "racist" for pointing out how many approaches to poverty alleviation aren't working.
"No wonder people who want to be thoughtful . . . and deal with the issue" are often afraid to speak up, said New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu at a panel I hosted earlier this month at the Aspen Institute's Fourth Annual Symposium on the State of Race in America. Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter said that even though he is black, he is criticized by many black leaders for talking about an obvious problem in his city and others: black-on-black crime. Murders among black men ages 18-34, he noted, make up the majority of homicides in New Orleans and Philadelphia.
Mayor Landrieu pointed to Mr. Ryan's discussion of inner-city poverty as a vivid illustration of the need for white political leaders of goodwill to be given more leeway in discussing problems in black Americawithout risking knee-jerk charges of racismif the nation is serious about solving those problems. Improving the schools that regularly fail black and Hispanic children is another example of a situation where anyone committed to reform faces racial name-calling.
Mr. Ryan and two Republican senators, Rand Paul of Kentucky and Marco Rubio of Florida, have recently been traveling the country to look for ways to reduce poverty, including the disproportionate poverty among minorities.
Mr. Paul has focused on lowering taxes in black neighborhoods to promote investments that lead to jobs. Mr. Rubio has discussed replacing traditional poverty programs such as the earned-income tax credit with direct grants to low-income, low-skill workers that allow them to decide how to best help themselves, with job training or education programs. Mr. Ryan's focus so far has been on ending high rates of unemployment among poor black men by providing incentives to pursue work.
All of the Republican strategies are in early stages of formation. But the immediate response by liberals has been to charge them with simply wanting to cut today's antipoverty programs. Rep. Gwen Moore (D., Wis.) a member of the Black Caucus who is also on the budget committee chaired by Rep. Ryan, recently told reporters that "his take on talking about poverty is to say we spend billions or trillions of dollars on poverty programs . . . and poverty won." She accused him of "playing with statistics or numbers, because in fact these poverty programs have helped raise people into the middle class . . . it has literally been a lifeline to millions of people and not just people of color."
The fact is that federal and local government programs have helped to lift people out of poverty. But it is also a fact that despite those efforts there is a persistent high level of poverty among black and Hispanic Americans, before, during and after the Great Recession. Obviously new strategies, not just spending more money on existing antipoverty programs, is needed to help people in poverty and especially minorities.
In his closed-door meeting with the Congressional Black Caucus, Mr. Ryan is expected to explain his support for new public-policy options for lowering the poverty rate among blacks, a rate only slightly higher than poverty among Hispanics but three times as high as poverty among non-Hispanic whites. Any new ideas have to chase away old perceptions that contribute to people living in poverty. Racism is a reality and so is a tough economy doing a slow climb out of recession.
But that is not the whole story. As we've long known, education is key. Studies confirm that black people who graduate from high school, who never leave the workforce but take any job they can find as young people, no matter how meager, are rewarded with better jobs. It is also true that people who marry before having children have a much lower likelihood of living in poverty.
Mayor Landrieu, among others, sees an opening for honest debate about the true issues behind race and povertyas well as high rates of black-on-black crimewith the 50th anniversary of the 1965 report titled: "The Negro Family: The Case for National Action." The report, written by a white Labor Department sociologist who later became a U.S. senator, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, made the case that it was more than a shortage of jobs that led to high black unemployment. Moynihan, a Democrat, also pointed to the breakdown of the black family, specifically the lack of positive male role models, which led to increased dependence on welfare.
That report was sharply criticized as "blaming the victim" by liberals and black leaders at the time but was later embraced by many rigorous thinkers in both parties. Sadly, the ills that Moynihan pointed to have grown along with minority poverty. It is way past time for new ideas from all quarters about solving a serious problem.
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Re: America's Inner City, Chicago: 82 shootings in 84 hours
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My point looking into America's inner cities is not gun violence but the culture in the neighborhoods where that is happening. This is IMO largely the result of our failed policies in the war on poverty. George Gilder wrote about this in 1981 in "Wealth and Poverty" and the consequences he described then couldn't be more true today. Government provides the necessities, lives without purpose, men without responsibilities, neighborhoods without home ownership, children without two loving parents in the home, businesses leave the area, schools fail, the cycle gets worse.
Instead of fighting poverty and a poverty mentality, pursue wealth and a wealth mentality.
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Re: America's Inner City, Chicago: 82 shootings in 84 hours
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Quote from: DougMacG on July 08, 2014, 08:13:26 AM
My point looking into America's inner cities is not gun violence but the culture in the neighborhoods where that is happening. This is IMO largely the result of our failed policies in the war on poverty. George Gilder wrote about this in 1981 in "Wealth and Poverty" and the consequences he described then couldn't be more true today. Government provides the necessities, lives without purpose, men without responsibilities, neighborhoods without home ownership, children without two loving parents in the home, businesses leave the area, schools fail, the cycle gets worse.
Instead of fighting poverty and a poverty mentality, pursue wealth and a wealth mentality.
Personal responsibility and economic growth would run contrary to the needs of the dems/racial industrial complex.
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Re: America's Inner City, Chicago: 82 shootings in 84 hours
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"Personal responsibility and economic growth would run contrary to the needs of the dems/racial industrial complex."
That's right. But it shouild be clear by now to some very key constituencies that these policies are failing those people.
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Re: America's Inner City; Urban Issues
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That's why school choice is opposed with such fervor. Can't have any kids escaping the public school indoctrination machines.
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Nightmare at 20,000 Feet remains one of my favorite TZ episodes
The late Richard Matheson isn't a household word like many of the writers and filmmakers he inspired. Science fiction fans always perk up at his name, but run-of-the-mill folks don't recognize him like they do, say, Stephen King, Steven Spielberg, Rod Serling or George A. Romero. And yet all four of those gentlemen owe a considerable debt to him. His legacy extends beyond the dozens of novels, short stories and screenplays he penned to reach into the very fundaments of genre storytelling. This was the man without whom Serling might not have unlocked that door with the key of imagination. The man who inspired Romero to take a stab at the whole zombie thing. The man whose battle between hapless driver and crazy trucker launched the career of Spielberg. The man who King once cited as the biggest influence of his career. The man who showed us what life was like if the vampires won, how scary a house cat can be when you're six inches tall, what dying of a broken heart truly looks like and – beyond the shadow of all possible doubt – that there was some thing on the wing of that goddamn plane.
Born in New Jersey and raised in New York City, Matheson's writing first appeared in local newspapers at the tender age of 8. He came into his own in the 1950s, starting with the very disturbing short story "Born of Man and Woman." The New York Times described him as "an established producer of the violently disturbing," and they didn't intend it as a criticism. Matheson mastered the art of the literary rabbit punch, packing profound terror into as small a space as possible. His tales reveled in O Henry twists, but unlike less skilled practitioners, they weren't the sole purpose of the exercise. His shocks drew attention to the rest of the story, instead of just existing to take a curtain call, and they usually had deeper implications than a simple twist. The tactic appeared regularly in his copious short stories and on into his novels, starting with I Am Legend in 1954.
As great as his written work was, it proved particularly suitable for adaptation. The Incredible Shrinking Man, based on his novel, became a classic of 1950s science fiction, followed by the likes of The Young Warriors, What Dreams May Come, Duel and I Am Legend (which has to date received three movie versions all on its own). Matheson himself wasn't a passive participant in this process. He teamed up with Roger Corman to pen a series of Edgar Allen Poe adaptations, while regularly contributing television scripts to the likes of The Alfred Hitchcock Hour, Have Gun Will Travel and Star Trek. (The episode where Kirk splits into good and evil halves? That was his.)
It was The Twilight Zone that gave him his most prominent forum, however. His brief, powerful short stories served as the perfect fodder for 22-minute exercises in the macabre, and Serling shared both his love of irony and his sense of social justice. He wrote 16 episodes all told, five of which were directly based on stories of his. At their worst, they became a little drippy, but when they hit the way they could, they ranked among the series' best (and by extension some of the best television ever). His Steel still packs an incredible punch, utilizing Lee Marvin's tough-guy desperation to both lionize and despair at the human condition. Nightmare at 20,000 Feet is more direct – scary as hell and never demanding anything else – but it also paints a convincing picture of a man losing his mind. If you're right and everyone else thinks you're crazy, does the reality truly matter? That unsettling implication hovers beneath the ape-liked gremlin on the wing, feeding Shatner's fear in ways that have nothing to do with the plane crashing. It never would have happened without Matheson conjuring it from cloth.
And as we said, his work served as a springboard for numerous brilliant directors. Spielberg has improved a lot in the 40 years since his feature debut Duel, but he's rarely been as lean and efficient as he was with Matheson's terrifying novella. Romero actively admits coming up with Night of the Living Dead as a way of emulating I Am Legend, and Matheson's updated scripts for the 1983 Twilight Zone movie proved a boon for both Joe Dante and George Miller.
In his own way, his work seemed to anticipate the multi-media era, moving fluidly between one medium and the next until it hardly mattered where his ideas began. His essence remained in all of them: full of moral admonitions, heart-pounding terror and equal parts hope and despair. He pulled the concepts straight from his imagination, but he always included the human element… the part that suggests what we might do if we found ourselves in such circumstances. Few writers could be as terrifying (I once spent a week alone in an isolated cabin reading a collection of his stories; BIG mistake), and his fears always sprang from more than the pitch-perfect set up for his twist endings.
And now, his voice is gone. He kept writing to the end, with his novel Generations published just last year. The man was never stingy with his imagination, one that enthralled us, moved us and reminded us why genre writing can transcend our wildest expectations. You will be missed Mr. Matheson. Thanks for all the nightmares… at 20,000 feet or anywhere else.
Nightmare at 20,000 Feet remains one of my favorite TZ episodes
Bought a book of his twilight zone scripts years ago. He was a damn good writer. RIP
You also did not mention Somewhere in Time, the 1980 film based on his novel, Bid Time Return.
A friend just let me borrow Hunted Past Reason, I'll be reading it tonight in your honor sir.
Richard Mathesen was a great screenwriter and condolences to his family and friends. As a fellow screenwriter, I certainly respect the process, trials, but at the same time joy of the craft of screenwriting has brought me. He was a very talented writer who has left his mark on the industry and will have my eternal respect. God be with him.
i had no idea who he was until i read this article, also never watched TZ. Sounds like ive been deprived.
I Am Legend has been done four times as a movie, and only Vincent Price's version comes close to doing it justice. Likewise, his short story The Box has been two TZ episodes and a movie. Loved the adaptation of Steel in the movie Real Steel, even though they didn't really touch on the AI portion of the story. Third From the Sun is an under rated little TZ gem.
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The driver pipeline is in place for a reason, however, and unlike nvidia, AMD don't like releasing beta drivers. QA will have to go over any changes before things are officially supported.
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27.07.2013 /
KTM Factory rider Marc Coma picked up victory in Stage Three of the Rally dos Sertões on Saturday, taking a slim winning margin ahead of old rival Cyril Despres on Day Three of this long event. Coma, who is chasing more points in his quest to retain his World Cross Country Rally Championship also assumes the overall lead, but with many kilometers of hard riding to go.
Marc Coma was second out in the stage after Paolo Goncalves of Portugal, the winner of the opening stage. He slipped past Goncalves at the 80 km mark when he took advantage of a navigation error by the Portuguese rider and then went on to take the win. Coma said he was happy with the outcome, given that the rally was proving technically challenging.
Marc Coma: "Winning today's stage is a good sign because it was long and complicated. It was very similar to yesterday's stage. It was dusty and there was very little grip. Tomorrow will be much the same but most of all it will be important not to make any mistakes. We must be consistent and follow the same policy as this race is very long."
It was a good day all round for KTM factory riders with Coma's teammates Ruben Faria of Portugal and Jakub 'Kuba' Przygonski finishing 4-5 in the stage, positions they also hold in the overall standings. All three riders are on the Dakar-winning KTM 450 Rally bike.
The stage took riders from Pirenopolis to Uruacu over a total distance of 414 km, 287 km of which was timed special. Coma now has a 1:56.7 minute advantage overall over second placed Paolo Goncalves of Portugal with Despres hovering at just 2:04.6 minutes behind.
On Sunday riders tackle 289 km, of which 233 km is the timed section. The total rally distance is over 4100 km taking in a massive loop and eight cities in the states of Goias and Tocantins.
Results Stage Three Rally dos Sertões 2013 (unofficial)
From total 414 km, timed special 287 km
1. Marc Coma (E), KTM, 3:50:24 hours
2. Cyril Despres (F), Yamaha, 3:51:29
3. Paolo Goncalves (P), Speed Brain, 3:53:14
4. Ruben Faria (P), KTM, 3:58:38
5. Kuba Przygonski (PL), KTM, 3:35:45
Other KTM
9. Deni Nascimento (BR), KTM, 4:05:56
Standings Rally dos Sertões after 3 of 10 stages (unofficial)
1. Coma, 5:01:13 hours
2. Goncalves, +1:56.7 min
3. Despres, +2:04.6
4. Faria, +9:57.4
5. Przygonski, +13:03.8


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Unfortunately, once the crime has occurred, there is nothing that can be done to prevent the pain and loss already experienced by each victim. It is our goal, however, to prevent additional harm to the victim which can occur in the complicated and sometimes confusing criminal justice system. To accomplish these tasks, we are indebted to community volunteers who provide time and efforts to assist crime victims.
Crime is a community problem which requires community involvement for any adequate solution. We are always interested in comments and feedback concerning our services and actions. If you are a crime victim who has a question about the criminal case, I encourage you to call for assistance.
Several times throughout the year we recruit and train additional community volunteers. If you have a desire to help crime victims and are willing to commit some of your time, please call for information. The volunteer application is also available online. Crime can be an overwhelming and devastating problem. With the help of our community we can make a positive difference - one case at a time.
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Although the Victim Assistance Division is specifically charged with providing services to victims, every District Attorney staff member is committed to treating victims with dignity and respect. As an office, we believe that victims have a right to fair treatment. We have implemented procedures to advise victims of their rights and to keep victims apprised of the status of the case in which they were victimized.
We are committed to interagency collaboration that will directly benefit crime victims. Members of the VAD staff participate in such groups as the Domestic Violence Council, the Homicide/Assault Response Team (HART), the Multidisciplinary Child Abuse and Fatality Review Team, the Attorney General's Sexual Assault Task Force and the Attorney General's Victims' Rights Task Force.
We are committed to promoting a broader understanding of the victimization experience. Staff members conduct numerous public presentations and training sessions for diverse audiences throughout the state. We believe that through a concerted effort to publicly address the victimization experience, we can make a positive impact on the way victims are treated by the justice and social service systems, as well as by the community at large.
Although much has been accomplished on behalf of victims, we recognize that there is still a lot of work to do. In everything we do, we renew our pledge to keep victim's concerns at the top of the agenda for the justice system.
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Tuesday - 2/19/2013, 2:00am EST
Next time it is back in town for an extended period, maybe Congress can investigate how much taxpayers have laid out, in dollars and people-hours, to prep for the sequestration that is going to save all that money.
The House and Senate, which has already had a fair number of time-outs (a.k.a. district work periods) did put in some long hours last week. While it often works a 3-day TWT (Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday) schedule, folks on Capitol Hill buckled down last week. They didn't adjourn until 3 p.m. If you doubt the existence of the TWT Club, check out the free parking area (for members of Congress) at Reagan National Airport. From early Thursday to late Monday evenings, it is usually filled with cars with easily distinguishable license plates.
For a number of months, most federal agencies have been drawing up blueprints, contingency proposals, furlough plans, cost estimates, etc., of what sequestration will do. How will it work? How can the government save money, without wasting more in some other area? All for an event that may, at the last minute, be canceled or delayed.
During the run-up to the November election, most federal agencies were quiet about sequestration or any downsides to it. The administration downplayed the need for government contractors to issue 30- and 60-day furlough warning letters to government contractors. Not to worry, was the order of the day!
Since then, factions in both parties and various special-interest groups have done little but point out the folly of across-the-board cuts. How wasteful and maybe even dangerous they might be. And the attendant problems, political and psychological, of furloughing many federal workers one day per week. They wonder why more people aren't worrying a lot more.
Some politicians genuinely believe the cuts are necessary, including the furloughs. They scoff at the idea that it would financially hurt many communities outside Washington who depend on the federal dollar even more than we do.
Critics of sequestration say the furloughs could close parts of national parks, and curtail vital government services — the kind that almost everybody agrees we need.
Last Friday, we asked feds what furloughs would mean to them and to the public. Lots of comments. Starting with these two:
- "...Airplanes depend on Air Traffic Control to get timely changes to regulated routes to allow more planes to fly. If more fly without those changes, planes will suffer midair collisions. Trucks depend on DOT licensing to ensure drivers know how to ride them. With more truck accidents possible, commutes will snarl more, and chain reactions could lead to more car accidents. Boats depend on up-to-date charting to know when channel dredging is done so they can use deeper water, and where previous shipwrecks happened, and if buoys go out of commission. Without those coming in a timely fashion, more Exxon Valdezes could happen even without a drunk ship captain. Food and drug testing to make sure that food is safe to eat, and new drugs can be introduced to react to newly drug resistant diseases [would be affected]. Without timely testing, the next plague could happen sooner. Without timely testing, more foods will carry bacteria we can't digest. Furloughing will mean employees involved in each of these won't have enough [of a] workforce to ensure events that need to be timely are, and we all suffer."
- "Less air traffic controllers will mean a backup in flights, not crashes. Planes simply will not be allowed to fly. DOT licensing slow-down will mean longer waiting lines to be certified, not crashes. Uncertified drivers won't drive — freight companies wouldn't risk the liability costs. Sea food inspection by NOAA and Commerce, if not performed, means products can't be listed as inspected. Slowdown in seafood to market. Guess I'll stock up on frozen."
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Work time spent on union activities at a 7-year high for feds
The amount of time federal employees spend working on union activities while on the job is at its highest rate in seven years. Federal employees, on average, spent 2.82 hours on union-related work in fiscal 2011 as compared to 2.61 hours in 2010, according to a new report from the Office of Personnel Management.


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There might be worse places to crash a paraglider, but it's hard to imagine.
A 37-year-old Santa Cruz man on Monday evening went down two miles west of the White Mountain Research Station's Barcroft Laboratory near Barcroft Peak, breaking his back and lying in the darkness – helpless in steep, rocky, unforgiving terrain.
"Fortunately he didn't land in a rock ditch or in a cliff band or truly challenging terrain," said Jeff Holmquist, a member of the rescue team.
"We caught a huge break because of that, and obviously, so did he."
Barcroft Peak is five miles south of White Mountain Peak and is at an elevation of 13,040 feet.
Frederic Bourgault, an experienced pilot, internationally known paraglider and a mechanical and aerospace engineer at Santa Cruz's Joby Energy, survived the crash, and was airlifted out early Tuesday morning, but only after an elaborate, all-night operation by the Mono County Search and Rescue team.
In addition, night-vision aircraft from the Fallon (Nev.) Naval Air Station assisted in the dramatic rescue, as well as a private citizen flying a small plane.
The search-and-rescue team was notified of the accident at about 7 o'clock, and didn't really get oriented until after nightfall.
Before full darkness descended the private pilot spotted Bourgault lying among the loose, chunky rocks. According to a SAR member, the pilot reported the man could not move, save for his arms.
The pilot tried to get exact coordinates, but given the speed of the plane and the difficulty of the terrain, SAR members could not get an exact fix on Bourgault's location.
Meanwhile, a Careflight helicopter was dispatched to the area, but its crew reported it could not land due to "darkness, altitude and steep terrain."
The SAR team then requested the night-vision helicopter to help locate the victim. Still, the SAR team had to get there, and it took them most of the night, hiking and sliding down a steep downslope that was covered in scree-like, loose rock.
In the early hours of Tuesday morning, the rescuers reached Bourgault and, along with the helicopter medics, loaded him onto the chopper, which transported to Bishop Airport, where he was transferred to an ambulance, which in turn transferred him to Northern Inyo Hospital.
Because of the extent of his injuries Bourgault was transported to Stanford Medical Center.
"We're all terribly worried about him," said Sher Quaday of Joby Energy's business development team.


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Do you keep old inner tubes?
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Do you keep old inner tubes?Hi guys,
I was wondering if you throw away your inner tubes when you get punctures or do you fix the punctures and re-use your tubes? Cheers, Robbie
Re: Do you keep old inner tubes?I am not a big fan of running patches. Don't get that many flats either luckily so it is not a big issue. Currently have two old tubes hanging over the vice in the garage. Never know when you might need a bit of rubber for something. I usually need it rigth after I have thrown the old tubes out
Re: Do you keep old inner tubes?I more than happily patch old tubes.
Some pinch flats can be too big to patch. But punctures are easily fixable 99% of the time. Last edited by boss on Wed Nov 14, 2012 10:41 am, edited 1 time in total.
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Fix and reuse. If unrepairable, keep tube anyway (hoard?) and use rubber for a multitude of odd uses where a scratch proof surface is needed. The only time I've chucked the tubes is when I've done a particularly annoying repair that never seemed to work properly and when I pumped it up it leaked. Got annoyed at that point and into the bin it went... I tend to retire tubes after about 5 or so patches just 'cos I figure they're getting old at that point. Cheers, Dave
Re: Do you keep old inner tubes?Keep and patch. Up to three patches is fine, even on the 'quick' bike. I bought two of the 50-pack patch kits from ebay, should keep me going for a few years.
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Re: Do you keep old inner tubes?Throw away and buy new ones.
I usually have a stock of half a dozen new tubes in my 'bike bookshelf' in the garage that holds all my cycling gear. Every now and then I'm buying stuff from Cellbikes or wiggle, and just add a couple of tubes to the order - more if they are on decent sale. I get maybe 3 or 4 punctures a year - for for $5 per tube, its a pretty cheap investment ... If I saved tubes for re-patching it would be another job around the house that would never get done....
Re: Do you keep old inner tubes?I chuck them and use a new tube, basaically because I have no luck with patches and new tubes, as mentioned elsewhere, are not that expensive.
Too heavy to climb, too old to sprint.
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Re: Do you keep old inner tubes?
Patch them up to 3 times, I've never had a patch fail. When the tube gets too old the valve will eventually seperate from the tube and the seams can let go which is why I say 3 patches - past that point you might get a failure for another reason other than something puncturing the tyre. Our Website is: http://www.pro-liteoz.com Find us on Facebook by searching for "Pro-Lite Australia"
Re: Do you keep old inner tubes?makes good bar tape for your pub bike
Re: Do you keep old inner tubes?I heard some members use the old tyres as 'patches'... good idea!
What glue would be best? Someone mentioned quick grip glue.
Re: Do you keep old inner tubes?patch and repair. i have very rarely had a patch fail - a tube is far more likely to fail of its own accord (i.e. puncture). being over-cautious, i only use patched tubes on the rear, but there's no science behind that.
it takes me 5 mins to patch a tube and most of the task is necessary anyway to locate the puncture site and check the tyre.
Re: Do you keep old inner tubes?I always carry two new tubes with me on every ride and when I puncture I put the new tube in and take the punctured tube home.
Once home I will patch and re-install onto the bike and put the "almost new" spare tube back in the saddle bag for next time. I've only thrown one tube away and that was during this years Around The Bay when I ran over a tack going downhill at 50+ km/h. I was so pi$$ed off I threw the tube after pulling it out and got going again....but in hindsight I should have packed it and repaired it at home. Dave 2012 Felt F75 | 105 | ProLite Braccianos | GP4000S
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Why is that?
Re: Do you keep old inner tubes?
if the patch fails, the result is less likely to cause me to crash if it's on the rear. but i don't believe it's likely to fail, so it's almost a superstition.
Re: Do you keep old inner tubes?Don't throw tubes away but also don't feel the need to patch.
Tube from saddle bag generally goes on the rim and the puncture will be fixed when I get home IF I have time. Otherwise a new tube will go in the saddle bag and the punctured tube will be added to a heap at the end of my work bench. If I find a flat tire when at home will normally repair and put the tube back in. The collection of tubes at the end of the bench are used when I need a new tube I will repair and use, or they are cut up an used for a variety of tasks, one being making guards for on the rear chain stay or bungee on the pannier. - David.
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OK, I have to comment on this 'pub bike' option. I know cyclists are always looking to for excuses to get a new bike, but 'pub bike'....?! I mean, I know people will have a track bike, a commuter, a weekend bike, a race bike, a touring bike, an audax bike, a wet weather bike.... But how many people have gone to the extent of having a dedicated 'pub bike'...???
Re: Do you keep old inner tubes?Aha. That tube bar grip is rad. I wanna get a pub bike just to try that.
Re: Do you keep old inner tubes?I use latex tubes for racing. When i pinch a latex tube i keep it and cut them up to patch my other latex tubes when i get a flat.
Re: Do you keep old inner tubes?I have about 30+ tubes hanging on a old coat hanger near the front door. "Art installation" style.
Re: Do you keep old inner tubes?
i take it you're not married
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How bad would your hands smell by the time you get to the pub? Giant TCR 0
Nobody looks back on their life....and remembers the nights they got plenty of sleep !!
Re: Do you keep old inner tubes?
Pub bike sometimes referred to as 'beater', 'shopping bike', 'spare bike', 'dunger', 'clunker', or any one of a dozen other names. Of course, if you look closely at Jase's 'pub bike', you'll see its a fantastic machine made of angel's happiness and stardust. Jim MY RIDES: My Velospace Profile
Re: Do you keep old inner tubes?Slingshots. Shoelaces. Upcycle some things, I've even had a few people comment on my inner tube laces.
There's many uses for old tubes.
Re: Do you keep old inner tubes?I always patch my tubes, and have never had one fail.
I only throw away a tube when a patch would overlap another patch or the tube fails at the join with the valve. Many of the people I work with that cycle don't patch their tubes so I scab them and I haven't purchased a tube except for the first spare tube for my saddle bag. I normally dont patch on the road unless I get two punctures on the one ride - I wait till I get home where I can do it in the comfort of my shed with a nice cold brew.
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Thelma Rada, age 97, of White River, South Dakota, died Monday, August 5, 2013, at the Coteau des Prairies Hospital in Sisseton. Thelma Marguerite Crume was born March 29, 1916 in Mylo, (Rolette County) North Dakota to John and Hazel (Pickett) Crume. On August 5, 2013 she rode home, on horseback no doubt. In October 1919 Thelma, with her parents and her sister, Viola, left Mylo, North Dakota for White River, South Dakota in a wagon. She could even recall a few incidents that happened during that almost year long trip.
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