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Can Rahm Emanuel Fix Chicago's Problems?
THE NEW MAN ON FIVE: In his first few months as mayor of Chicago, Rahm Emanuel has moved at breakneck speed to tackle long-neglected problems and drag a torpid bureaucracy into the 21st century. But the biggest battles lie ahead. Does he have what it takes to save the city?
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Rahm Emanuel removes his blue suit jacket, puts on dark sunglasses, and hops into the back of his black SUV. He squirts a blob of Purell sanitizer onto his palms—virtually a job requirement for glad-handing politicians—and then takes a big swig of bottled water.
Emanuel is slight of build, but his cocksure swagger makes him seem bigger. He has a tanned complexion, with salt-and-pepper hair—mostly salt—cropped fairly short and perfectly coifed, as if he just left the barbershop. Deep, dark bags encircle his eyes, the result of little sleep and the breakneck schedule he keeps. But right now he is feeling loose and relaxed—like a school kid who knows he aced a test. Which he has just done, more or less. The new mayor, 46 days in office at this point, has spent the past hour fielding questions submitted via Facebook during a live televised town hall meeting filmed at Kennedy-King College in Englewood. He pretty much nailed every question without breaking a sweat and artfully dodged two or three trickier ones.
Rock music plays on the radio in the background, just the way the mayor likes it, as we start the nine-mile drive back downtown to City Hall. Emanuel reclines a bit in his seat, one of the few opportunities he has in his long workday to relax. He betrays a slight annoyance at my presence in the back of the SUV—as if he were unhappy at being dragged into this car ride. Famously prickly, Emanuel at first spits out staccato answers to my questions. But the more he talks, the more revved up he gets, and pretty soon he is waxing expansive on the joys of the job and on all of the things he wants to accomplish in his first 100 days, first year, and first term—most of it boilerplate stuff he repeated ad nauseum during the campaign.
Suddenly he practically leaps out of his seat. From his window, he notices that we are approaching a private road that runs through a tunnel at McCormick Place—a route that the mayor's security detail sometimes uses as a shortcut to the Loop.
"All right!" Emanuel calls out excitedly as we enter the tunnel. "I'm like Batman! I'm going down the Bat Cave! The Bat Road!"
He turns to Chris Mather, his communications director, seated next to him, and cracks, "We're going to rename it. I want a sign made—'Bat Road.'"
"We got rid of those," Mather replies, in the obliging straight-woman role. (A couple of weeks earlier, Emanuel had put an end to displaying the mayor's name on city signs, a practice, he explained, that wasn't worth the cost, given the city's financial woes.)
"Are you kidding? I can donate a sign," says Emanuel, who likes to have the last word.
We pull up to a gate at the tunnel's entrance. "Music louder!" Emanuel calls out to his driver. "This is the Bat Road!"
Chicago is a damsel in distress, in serious need of a superhero. The city is losing residents—more than 200,000 over the past decade, according to the latest census—and, just as significantly, many thousands of businesses and jobs with them—more than 30,000 between 2009 and 2010 alone. Not only is Chicago at risk of becoming the fourth-largest U.S. city, slipping behind Houston, it is careening toward bankruptcy. Next year, the city will be $635 million in the hole, not including unfunded pension obligations. Double that if you count the more than $700 million of red ink from Chicago Public Schools, which Emanuel also oversees but whose budget is separate from the city's. And let's not even get started on the Chicago Transit Authority, which is in similarly poor fiscal health.
Beyond the dire finances, there is also the stagnant housing market, an economy that is still in the tank, and a murder rate that is three times as high as that of New York City, which has nearly triple Chicago's population. For some time now, the city's spirits have seemed lower than the 76-foot hole dug for the never-built Chicago Spire. That gaping void has become a sad monument for a city that is not on the move but on pause—or worse, spiraling downward.
Rahm Emanuel wants to be Chicago's savior, its Batman. "I feel the sense of responsibility," he tells me. "I think the public has expectations. I don't want to let 'em down."
Since taking over as Chicago's 46th mayor in May, the 51-year-old Emanuel has projected energy, urgency, and confidence. He has brought a more professional, West Wing–like management style to City Hall, which had felt increasingly anachronistic in the waning years of Richard M. Daley's reign. (Emanuel's office wasn't even wired for Internet service when he moved in.) With brass-tacks candor, he has sent a clear and unmistakable message that the old order—presided over by Daley, with whom Emanuel will inevitably be compared—is gone. As the deputy mayor, Mark Angelson, said to union officials who were locked in a battle this summer with Emanuel's administration over work-rule changes and layoffs: "There's a new sheriff in town."
These days, City Hall has the feel of a hot start-up. The suite of offices on the fifth floor where the mayor and his top staff work crackles with high-voltage—if somewhat chaotic—energy. Spend time around the mayor's office and you can't miss the small army of 20- and 30-somethings (some of them returning Obama administration veterans) in power suits, clutching their Starbucks cups or BlackBerrys, bouncing around the hallways or busily at work in a hive of cubicles. It is a marked contrast to the perceptible malaise and inertia of Daley's last years, in which new ideas seemed few and far between and there was a palpable sense of an administration merely treading water.
Emanuel's changes are more than just stylistic; they are generational. He is astute enough to realize that the old bedrock principle of "good government is good politics"—especially the practice of promising city jobs in exchange for campaign work—is outmoded and unsustainable. The patronage and cronyism that were permissible in the past, he knows, are not only bad government but also very bad politics at a time when Chicago's unemployment rate tops 9 percent and many residents are exasperated by the corruption, waste, and selfishness that flourish here. Through his rhetoric and actions, Emanuel has positioned himself as a change agent for the future—despite his obvious debts to Chicago's political past. "We aren't our parents' Chicago anymore," he tells me during one of our interviews. "That's a good thing. We appreciate what our parents did, but this is different."
To underscore the point, Emanuel has led a full-on assault against the "status quo"—two words, he has said, he is "banning" from the vernacular of city government. What is the status quo? It is years' worth of unbalanced budgets, patronage-padded payrolls, and insider deals; a chronically failing public school system; a dysfunctional and, literally, crumbling mass transit system; an undermanned and outgunned police force; and an entrenched and corrupt political culture. At the everyday level, it is waste (three city workers needed to change one streetlight bulb), Rube Goldberg–like inefficiency (40 different firms to process and collect checks), and insider privilege (four taxpayer-funded bodyguards for one alderman, Edward Burke). It is 1,400-plus shootings a year, a high-school graduation rate of 50 percent, and a Red Line train that has difficulty getting from Howard Street to 95th Street trouble-free.
"Some people were telling me, 'Rahm, don't run for mayor, why would you want this job?'" says Emanuel. "Well, I love this city. I think it can achieve great things, and I'm ready to put my resources to that."
One could be forgiven for wondering if Emanuel is some kind of masochist. He spent five years—an eternity when measured in doglike West Wing time—as Bill Clinton's chief political adviser, remaining through the Monica Lewinsky scandal and the subsequent impeachment saga; he returned to the White House with Barack Obama, smack-dab in the midst of the Great Recession and with two taxing and unpopular wars overseas; and he wanted to be Chicago's mayor, despite the "shit sandwich," as Emanuel has privately described the mess, bequeathed to him by his predecessor.
With a self-assuredness that borders on cockiness, Emanuel is confident that he has the right plan and an able leadership team in place to turn things around. A fiery competitor, he seems to want to constantly one-up his predecessor—not necessarily to rub Daley's nose in it, but because he is never satisfied. (He has a to-do list that he says his staff "lives in fear of.")
The political-operative-turned-commentator Paul Begala, one of Emanuel's close friends, gave an apropos description of then congressman Emanuel to Rolling Stone: "He's got this big old pair of brass balls, and you can just hear 'em clanging when he's walking down the halls of Congress."
That same clanging sound now reverberates throughout City Hall, as well as across all 228 square miles that lie within Chicago's city limits—and can even be heard 200 miles farther south, down I-55, in Springfield.
Emanuel is clearly relishing the role. "This is the best job I've had, and I've had great jobs," he tells me. "I jokingly say—and it's a joke—I always thought it was a great job, but if I knew it was as great as it is, I'd have challenged Rich [Daley] four years ago."
So far, everything for Emanuel has gone almost like clockwork, perhaps too smoothly. But this is still the prelude, the honeymoon, and the big battles are about to really begin. For starters, his first budget, for 2012, is due in the coming weeks, and he'll have to somehow erase the city's $635 million deficit with a lot less money coming in from the state and federal governments. Complicating this task, too, he has promised to do so without raising taxes, cutting police officers, or relying on one-time revenues: tactics that Daley used to balance his recent budgets but that Emanuel calls "cheating." The painful choices he will have to make are no doubt going to be unpopular with many, especially the unions representing city workers and teachers. Next May, Emanuel will face another huge test when the NATO and G-8 summit meetings, which he helped bring here, come to town, creating a host of security challenges.
Meanwhile, he has his 71-page list of promises he says he intends to keep, come hell or high water. Some are smaller tasks, some are seemingly intractable large-scale problems. But just months into office, one could wonder: Did Emanuel set expectations too high? Can he keep up the frenzied pace? And will his sharp-elbowed manner wear well over time?
On the last day of June, the day of the Facebook town hall, I was invited to ride along with Emanuel. I was instructed to meet the mayor and his entourage beforehand at the Sheraton, where Emanuel was spending the morning schmoozing with CEOs and government officials who were in town for a Clinton Global Initiative conference. As I waited for Emanuel in the lobby in front of Shula's Steak House, where the mayor had dropped by to speak to a group of UBS bankers, Mather, the communications director, approached me.
"Stay close," she cautioned. "When he moves, we move. Fast!"
Sure enough, Emanuel soon charged out of the restaurant's glass doors, like a racehorse bolting free of the paddock, blowing past me with a curt "Hello."
To say Emanuel's first few months in office have been similarly fast paced would be an understatement. Less than an hour after being sworn in, he had already signed six executive orders to reform some of the city's ethics rules and cut $75 million from the 2011 budget. Hardly a day has passed since his inauguration—since Election Day, really—without Emanuel announcing some new policy or program. "At any given moment there seems to be six Mayor Emanuels announcing six different initiatives," the New York Times columnist David Brooks observed in late June.
Notoriously impatient, Emanuel says he wants to go even faster. "If you think this is fast, wait—we're going to pick up the pace," he boasts. He is so focused on the job at hand and in such a hurry to get things done that once, when Sean Parker, the billionaire founding president of Facebook, was in town and was taken to meet him, Emanuel, according to a witness, hurried by him without stopping, barely even looking back to tell Parker, "I can't talk to you now—I've got work to do." Parker, incidentally, had cut Emanuel a $100,000 check for his mayoral candidacy.
Emanuel has already racked up significant legislative successes in both the City Council and in the Statehouse (not unlike how, as chief of staff for President Barack Obama, he led the charge on Capitol Hill to win approval for funding for the Troubled Asset Relief Program [TARP] and the health care overhaul legislation). He also cleaned house at the Chicago Board of Education, replacing all seven members, and eliminated and consolidated city departments. He took away credit cards from city workers and cut the lucrative stipends for two city boards and commissions, and he ordered a review of the pay for all appointees. He has used his connections to court companies—from United Airlines and Walgreens to Motorola Solutions and Chase—and to lure jobs, 4,200 of them and counting, into the city. He redeployed 650 police officers from desk jobs to heavy-crime areas and partially privatized and expanded the city's recycling program. The list goes on.
Emanuel's frenetic pace is reminiscent of the small-ball brand of politics he championed in the Obama administration and, years earlier, in the Clinton White House, when he spearheaded efforts to pass NAFTA, the crime bill, and welfare reform: a guiding philosophy of doing a lot of accomplishable things, one step at a time, that add up to a much bigger record of accomplishment. The little victories create a sense of momentum—or, as Emanuel likes to say, a feeling that "confidence breeds capability."
It appears to be working. Emanuel's job performance has won widespread plaudits—so much so that he is already generating 2016 presidential speculation. (Emanuel dismisses such talk in typical fashion. When, for instance, one reporter asked him a day before his inauguration if he had presidential ambitions, Emanuel brandished his middle finger at the reporter and said, "That's the dumbest thing in the world.") Practically wherever he goes, passersby want to shake his hand or give him a high-five, or they hold up their phones to snap pictures. Part of this reaction certainly has to do with his celebrity. Since his stint as White House chief of staff, he has been one of the most visible figures in American politics—even satirized on Saturday Night Live.
Emanuel is not a natural retail politician. He does not have Bill Clinton's gift of feel-your-pain empathy or Barack Obama's rhetorical flourishes. But he is a workhorse, and during the campaign and as mayor, he has spent untold hours at el stops, grocery stores, firehouses, and churches across the city, pressing the flesh and, more important, just listening to what's on residents' minds. He has also reached out to Chicagoans through Facebook and Twitter and through websites that his office has set up to solicit feedback and ideas. He has reportedly even personally called some residents who offered ideas that intrigued him.
So far, Emanuel has been rewarded for his efforts, earning glowing press and, more significantly, support from the public. An internal poll conducted by his political shop in late August showed a job approval rating of 79 percent, huge numbers by political standards. (Another poll, taken in June, showed similar results.)
His popularity was on full display one sunshine-filled Saturday morning in mid-August, at the Bud Billiken Parade in Bronzeville. Upon his arrival, Emanuel was mobbed by paradegoers. Before the festivities began, an alderman, Walter Burnett, followed Emanuel around like a pestering little brother. "Can I walk with you?" Burnett kept asking. "I don't run this show," Emanuel told him. Emanuel took a hero's stroll—actually a jog—down the two-mile route along King Drive, zigzagging from one side to the other to shake hands, kiss babies, and soak up the adulation from spectators shouting, "Rahm!" and "We love you!"
At one point along the route, when Emanuel ran over to hug and high-five a group in the crowd, I overheard one police officer tell another, "He ain't like Daley, huh?"
Emanuel has a joke about how he can tell if he's popular or not: "My test of this—my joke—is when [people] wave, all five fingers are still up in the air. You always know how you're doing whether they drop any of those fingers."
Not that there haven't been stumbles or embarrassments. For one, Emanuel's otherwise flawless unveiling of his cabinet faltered when it mattered, in his two most important appointments: his choices for school superintendent and police superintendent. Emanuel scrambled into damage-control mode after Jean-Claude Brizard, his pick to head up Chicago Public Schools, came under heavy fire for exaggerated graduation rates at the school district in Rochester, New York, that he had just left and for two federal discrimination lawsuits filed against Brizard during his three-year tenure. Was there a flaw in the mayor-elect's vetting process? the local press wondered. Similarly, a week after Emanuel chose Garry McCarthy, the police chief of Newark, New Jersey, as Chicago's new police superintendent, the U.S. Justice Department announced that it was launching an investigation into hundreds of complaints that the Newark police force had violated civil rights—including false arrest, discrimination, and excessive force—and simply swept the allegations under the rug.
Emanuel also took criticism when, on Memorial Day, city and police officials abruptly shut down North Avenue Beach, citing excessive heat. (It was 88 degrees that day.) News reports soon surfaced casting doubt on the official story. It turned out that the police had gotten a slew of 911 calls about gang fights at the beach, and many people suspect that Emanuel and McCarthy cleared the area not on account of the weather but because they didn't want to suffer the negative publicity that would ensue if the violence got out of hand.
Then there's the story Emanuel likes to repeat (he did so with me at least twice, and I heard him tell it again at other public outings) about how, during a classroom visit to South Loop Elementary, an inquisitive first grader asked him about his proposal to lengthen the school day and school year. The mayor was so impressed by the little boy's question that he invited the child to join him at the bill-signing ceremony a couple of weeks later. The part he doesn't mention: His office invited the wrong student, a girl, who stood with Emanuel at the event. "Oops!" read the Sun-Times headline the next day.
Emanuel's rush to make his mark is in part self-serving: He wants to escape Daley's long shadow as quickly as possible. He has a tough, if not impossible, act to follow. Love him or hate him, Daley was a transformative mayor. For nearly a quarter of a century, he changed Chicago in ways large (Millennium Park) and small (wrought-iron fences), and he helped keep the city from becoming another Rust Belt casualty.
Daley and Emanuel go way back. They are political allies and personal friends. A fresh-faced Emanuel rose to political prominence as the chief fundraiser for Daley's successful mayoral campaign in 1989, and many years later, in 2002, Daley's political muscle helped Emanuel win his congressional seat.
Early on during Emanuel's transition as mayor, when a reporter wondered if he was "walking a tightrope" in his comments about Daley, Emanuel just grinned—or maybe he was gritting his teeth—and cracked, "Thank God I had some ballet training." He quickly changed the subject.
In private settings, though, Emanuel has been more candid, says one close supporter who asked not to be named. According to the supporter, Emanuel once kvetched to him about how the city was in worse shape than he had originally thought. "Rahm feels there was a lot broken that no one was calling Rich on," the supporter tells me. "But he thinks it doesn't do any good to say, 'Look at the mess [Daley] got us in.'"
Some among the political cognoscenti have tried to read between the lines of Emanuel's rhetoric about the city's problems and have concluded that he is attempting to pin the blame on Daley, subtly, of course. In late July, for instance, when Emanuel released his administration's report on the financial health of Chicago—a highly damning analysis of the city's fiscal stewardship over the previous ten years—James Warren, a columnist for the Chicago News Cooperative, described the report as "the equivalent of a superficially alluring velvet shiv" stuck into Daley's back.
Others allege that people in the new administration—possibly even Emanuel himself—have been going out of their way to feed the press stories to protect the new mayor from being battered over anything remotely scandalous that might have occurred on his predecessor's watch.
A prominent Chicago political insider, for one, points to a Sun-Times article published in early June that revealed that Daley's son, Patrick, had collected $708,999 from a Chicago-based wireless Internet company less than a year after the company signed a 2006 contract with the city to provide Wi-Fi at Midway and O'Hare. The article was based on newly obtained company documents.
"After all these years trying to catch the mayor's kid's fingers in the cookie jar, some information suddenly becomes available?" the insider asks rhetorically. "It was just too convenient. It was a direct message being sent [to Daley]—'Make sure your people behave themselves. I hold the keys to the kingdom. The king is dead. Long live the king.'"
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The Knog Blinders pack into a very small and bright package. Over 7 years of research, design and plain hard work make a deceptively simple light that packs a heavy technical punch.read more
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Love these little Knog lights - the USB charging is really convenient - very bright (too bright for group rides) but very hard wearing. Word of warning - the rubber fixing band fits great on round seat posts but if you have an aero seat post it can be a real stretch and the can snap off. 16 May 2015
Brilliant light, poor strap I bought this light because the reviews were really favourable and it looked like it fitted the space on the frame on my Trek Domane 6.9 perfectly. The septets is quite fat so it was a bit of a stretch to get on, but ok to use. Last night it broke and fell off for no apparent reason and when I looked at it, the elastic had split. I also have the in line blinder and that's going the same way on my other bike so something needs to be done about the longevity of the rubber. 09 April 2015
Very easy to fit & swap between bikes.I like the USB charge feature which is handy for commuting as it can easily be charged in the office without having to carry a charger. 26 December 2014
Great Light Great little light. I know others have said it's a pain having to take the light off the bike to charge it but this is a really simple operation. The plus side of removing the light for charging is that you get a chance to get the winter grime off. The light has a good range of settings, is lightweight and fits neatly on the seatpost. Would I recommend - yes and I will be buying another for my other bike. 06 December 2014
Brilliant lights! I use these lights for commuting early mornings and late nights around London. They're very bright, and have multiple flashing patterns. The battery life lasts for weeks and they're really simple to recharge. The best lights I've owned so far! 23 November 2014
Rechargeable big plus point Really hope this doesn't break as quickly as the last one but t was replaced very quickly by Wiggle. Once the rubber that holds it in pace breaks its useless which is a downside. 22 November 2014
Great product Knog's higher end of the product range is very good I already had a Knogg Blinder 4V rear light which was OK with the small saddle bag mounted on my road bike. I recently bought a medium sized saddle bag and found I could no longer mount the 4V on the seat post underneath. The Blinder 4 Standard is really compact, provides excellent visibility and in flash mode just keeps going. 01 October 2014
Strap is poor quality The rubber strap on my first light failed immediately, was quickly replaced by Wiggle. Six months on the second light strap has torn through, so not too impressed. There is also no warning the battery has run out, no dimming or flashing, it just goes from full to nothing. Will look for a light with a fixed bracket next time 08 September 2014
Blindingly good Amazing how much light something so small throws out. Charge lasts for ages. The USB charging is good for me. My only niggle is the rubber fixing system. Easy to tear over time, and once you do, you're stuffed. Having torn the last it didn't stop me from buying a 2nd though (being ultra careful when mounting it now), but would be better if it was a simple rubber O ring that could be replaced if damaged. would be 5 stars otherwise. 08 September 2014
Great Light. Shame about the mounting The lights are fantastic and the fact that it's rechargeable is great but as you have to remove the light to recharge it a more substantial mounting would be advisable. The mounting on mine has now failed leaving the light next to useless. 15 July 2014
Really, Really good light! Very bright Excellent Battery life on Organic flash Mode, I cycle 5 hours a week and i charge it every 1.5 weeks. Small and compact 29 May 2014
Issue with the strap As other people mentioned rubber strap is not great ; the first one I received arrived with a tear in the strap.. Replacement seems ok but concerned that strap opens easily... 01 May 2014
very bright very bright LED's and good selection of flashing modes 10 February 2014
sweet back light Buy this if you want a clever good looking simple flexible back light !! Got it on sale so even better, use if for commute and as day running light on winter bike while out trying to get miles in. It's well made and water proof so perfect, chages on computer port so no charger lead which is fine as you end up having so many¡¡¡¡ 07 February 2014
Dont bother with any other rear light Charge lasts for ages. Easy to turn on/off. Remembers last mode when turned off/on. Easy to operate with gloves on. Quick and easy to fit/remove. NO problem at all with brightness. What more do you want? 04 February 2014
Bright and simple Very pleased with this. Bought to replace my Lezyne Femto as I didn't feel it was bright enough (now moved to my helmet). Very bright, easy to charge and long lasting. Choice of flashing modes are plentiful and suit all my needs. Easy to remove and replace and haven't had any of the reported problems with the strap. Can't go wrong with one of these. 14 January 2014
Snap Alert Bought this on impulse without reviewing first. After 10 days of use, taking it off the seat post when getting to work and then attaching for commute home, the rubber band snapped. I took the light back to seller not intending to get a replacement but because the LEDs are so bright I ended up having a replacement after considering alternatives and because the seller agreed to replace/refund if the strap snapped again. Observing how the clasp on the band works when attaching I could see how the band was failing; the band is stretched and whilst under tension is twisted resulting in fatigue. My solution is to take the band out of the slot in the clasp, rotate the clasp 180 deg and push the band back into the slot in the clasp. Attaching the light to the seat post now does not result in so much tension and eliminates the twisting of the rubber band. My light is attached and removed daily without any problems with this new arrangement. 08 January 2014
Watch your eyes! This little light is perfect as a significant upgrade from emergency lights! Very simple to recharge, easily enough battery life for 2 long rides and will prevent you from dying by passing car 03 January 2014
Great compact rear light Loved the look of these Knog lights and I\'m happy with my decision to buy. Fitted with some of the brightest LED's I have seen this thing earns it's title as a Blinder. Super easy to put on and off rechargeable and best of all blends into the bike for a nice inconspicuous look. 19 October 2013
GOOD PRODUCT FOR ROUND SEAT POST This light will not clip onto a seat post that is not round. If your seat post is slightly oval in shape, do not buy this light. otherwise a great product 14 October 2013
Manufacturing issues? I was aware of the limited battery life when I bought this, and was happy to accept that. Similarly, the price for quality LED lights of all kinds tends to be a bit on the high side. Unpacking the light, I was completely won over by the styling and the relatively lightweight nature of this little light, yet the performance is excellent - I couldn't have asked for more. It clips very tightly around the seat post, and given the relatively short battery life there'll be a need to remove more or less nightly over the winter to ensure that it's properly recharged. So I was disappointed that after a single charge, and one tweak to the positioning that the rubber strap snapped mid-ride for no apparent reason, after only 3 weeks. I've put this down to a potential batch quality issue and had it replaced, but I see that I'm not alone. For this price, and for a light which will need to be removed & refitted daily, a robust rubber strap is the minimum requirement. The light may look great, it's really stylish and very bright, but if it pings off your bike and flies across the carriageway, is it really worth it? I'm reserving judgement now Ive had it replaced, but am worried that this may be style over substance... One point to note - the service Wiggle gave to address this issue and replace the unit was exemplary - thanks guys :) 06 October 2013
stylish lights , nice and bright leds but it is flood lighting rather than spot lighting . Love charging by usb , but that does mean if they run out during a ride you can't swop out batteries . They will last the night ( tested on Dunwich Dynamo ) but don't get caught short by failing to charge them the next day 25 July 2013
Great little light This light is very bright and its perfect for most tail lights. I use this on my commuter with a standard 27mm seat post but it wont stretch far enough to fit on the wider integrated aero post on my road bike, so if you do have an aero style post probably not going to work for you. 18 June 2013
great light, when it works worked great for the first few weeks (10km commute) but with short battery life, after a month i had to charge it every night whether it used it or not. ended up replacing it reasonably quickly. 11 June 2013
Excellent Very bright light and charging is fast............! 06 May 2013
It's an ok light, very bright. Probably too many flashy combinations for what I need. Depending on where your USB ports in your computer are, can be dicky trying to fit it. An iPhone charger works ok though. Yet to test it in the rain. 01 May 2013
great design Love the light,my only issue is that it only fits on a seat tube. This shouldn;t be a problem but I find that one of my legs touches the clasp side when pedalling. Perhaps a more flexible clasp would allow fixture to a seat stay. 12 February 2013
Bright light, poor fitting Have now bought two of these because great design and excellent light, but in both instances the rubber band securing the light to the seat post perished and tore (where the clasp hooks into a hole in the strap) in 6-8 months. 06 February 2013
Great product, but battery life?? This is a superb little light - really, really bright with lots of different flashing options. It also has very flexible, secure fixings and looks very discreet when on. For me the only downside is the battery life. It's claimed at 3 hours on constant and up to 50 hours on flash (Eco-Flash mode). I've been lucky to get around 4 hours out of it, although that wasn't on 'Eco-Flash' but on the normal flashing mode. Still, given the claims for the constant mode v the Eco-Flash mode, you'd expect somewhere in the middle of those figures, even something like 10 hours. But not a chance! A great light, but with questionable claims on battery life. 18 December 2012
Excellent visibility Really bright for such a little light. Fits nicely on my saddle bag or rear stem. Is extremely visible especially on the flashing modes. 05 November 2012
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Will this light fit a helmet?
I have a Giro helmet, wondering if the fitting is flexible enough to fit back of helmet.
2 years, 1 month ago
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Answer:I have mounted it on my helmet on the rear webbing where you adjust the tightness. The strap is designed to fit around a seat post if that helps.
Country : Australia
1 year, 2 months ago
Cooma NSW 2630, Australia
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Answer:I can confirm that the band can be stretched to fit some points on a helmet but it is not designed for use on a helmet. I hope this helps.
2 years, 1 month ago
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Country : Australia
2 years, 2 months ago
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Answer:I have recently purchased this rear light and can confirm in my opinion that it does not fit my aero seat post on my Giant defy . the clip keeps undoing due to the stretch . will have to try and make it fit some other way.
Country : United Kingdom
3 months, 1 week ago
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Answer:I bought this light for use on my Scott Foil with an aero seat post. The light does NOT fit. The rubber mount has undone itself twice as I'm riding now and the light has hit the deck.
Country : United Kingdom
8 months ago
London, UK
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Answer:I don't think so .
These lights attach with a metal hook around a stretchy rubber loop.
As long as the rubber gets stretched enough around a thick enough post it will hold securely. However the Aero Seatpost narrows to the rear end and I suspect this light will not remain facing directly rear but move to point left or right without some extra padding
Country : United Kingdom
1 year, 10 months ago
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Answer:I can confirm that due to the rubber mounting bands these will fit an aero seat post. I hope this helps.
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Will this lamp fix to a saddlebag loop?
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In a speech during an investment forum Wednesday, the BSP chief said the Philippines was set to follow the lead of neighbors like Malaysia and Thailand in experiencing the economic benefits of a significant proportion of working individuals who fuel consumption to the advantage of businesses.
Consumption is a key driver of economic growth for the Philippines, but Tetangco said the contributions of consumption would be even more pronounced in the next few years as more young and educated Filipinos enter the workforce.
"The 'demographic window' is that period in an economy's history where a prominent portion of the population is of working age. These people have the purchasing power that can drive consumption, encourage investments, and thus accelerate growth of the economy," Tetangco said before members of the business community, including representatives from foreign firms.
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Crimson Pride (Eldrant)
Cheagle Woods
Meaning of Birth
Hidden Village (Namco Banda Isle)
New World (1st Overworld)
Zao Ruins
My favorite theme in the game is Hidden Village.
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Meaning of Birth (Luke VS Asch)
Karma (Opening)
Promise (Asch's Death BGM)
Mirror (Luke/Asch Theme Song)
Arrow was Shot (1st? Battle Theme)
Watersomething City.... (Grand Chokumah)
Finish the Promise...? (Final Form of Final Boss BGM)
Overflowing Emotions, Reunion and A Wish to the Starry Sky (Both used in the epilogue)
Generally, any rendition of Karma used in the game, I love it so much. Really awesome song and really good instrumentals used throughout.
A woman always has the last word in an argument. Say something against it, you just started a new argument.
The arrow was shot
Edge of Decision
Never Surrender
Time to Raise the Cross
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The floating imperial city
Overflowing Emotions, Reunion and A Wish to the Starry Sky
Victory Fanfare
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Edge of Decision
Nature's Dungeon
Wings of Hope
Crimson Pride
Choral Castle
A Wish and Sadness
Meaning of Birth
Finish the Promise
Miserable Spectacle
This one, Serious :)
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Karma (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTB3YA9rjlg)
An Arrow was Shot (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxrLjWJYfv8)
Edge of Decision (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlfCIBZy4Yw&feature=relmfu)
Bloodthirsty Fang(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBXxwYYuniA)
Awkward Justice (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sm0_dHJZmNc)
Order of Lorelei's Base - Daath (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIsyO3qFojE)
Finish the Promise (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSdY8rrwafU)
Everlasting Fight (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DasKfnqF3qM)
Eternal Mind (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTY3pBXFr1A)
Yeah I like a lot of the music in this game. :3
Sleep? F*** sleep, Toonami is on!!- GenesisSaga
Meaning of Birth. My favorite track in the entire game.
We can only be who we are, no more, no less.
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It does rankle some that the rules had to be bent before animated features as well as documentaries and foreign-language films, which all have separate best-picture categories, could be given a fairer chance at the biggest honor.
Says Peter Schneider, the former head of Disney feature animation who was in charge when Beauty was in the running: "It won't mean as much. Getting in is not as special as when it was just five. It's like cheating."
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At least the added contenders have given those pundits who cover the Oscars something to chew over in a year when no clear front-runner has stepped forward. A favorite topic: the pitfalls of the new procedure.
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•Redefining first place. In the past, voters simply picked one of the five nominees as best picture. Now, with 10 choices, sticking with that method could result in a winner with only 11% of the votes.
Instead, the academy has reverted to a preferential system where voters rank the nominees from 1 to 10. If the title on top does not have at least 51% of the vote, then second and even third choices on ballots could be included in the selection.
Sounds fair, except suddenly the night's winner may not have the most No. 1 votes.
"The new procedure is bad," says Damien Bona, academy expert and co-author of Inside Oscar. "It means the least-offensive movie will make it, the one that everyone sort of likes but no one is passionate about."
For instance, he says, "In 1969, Z and Midnight Cowboy (the winner) represented the cutting edge, while Anne of the Thousand Days and Hello, Dolly! were the traditional choices. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid would have been No. 3 for everyone and would probably have won."
•Box office trumps quality. When the best-picture changes were announced, the Oscar year of 1939 – often considered Hollywood's best – was invoked as an example of what could happen with 10 nominees. Gone With the Wind, the box-office champ of all time when adjusted for inflation, was the victor. But also in the race was an abundance of enduring classics such as The Wizard of Oz, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington and Stagecoach.
However, that was when the most popular films of the year often were among the best.
Already, a shortage of worthy selections is being cited as a problem this year by voters who prefer not to be quoted. Even with five slots, they might only fill in two or three titles on the ballot, leaving the rest blank.
"A lot more best-picture movies were made back then than now," says longtime Oscar watcher Steve Pond, who writes the online column The Odds for The Wrap. "The academy did what it could to expand the slate of films, but it is at the mercy of what is being released this year."
•The unseen honorees. More nominees mean a greater chunk of the telecast will be devoted to the best-picture category. Something has to give. That something will be the honorary Oscars, which, as Bona notes, "often provide the emotional highlights of the evening."


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Nathaniel Rich (born March 5, 1980) is an American novelist and essayist. He is a senior editor at The Paris Review and the author of a novel, The Mayor's Tongue (ISBN 978-1594489907), which was published by Riverhead in 2008. A work of nonfiction, San Francisco Noir: The City in Film Noir from 1940 to the Present (ISBN 978-1892145307), was published by The Little Bookroom in 2005. Rich has written essays and criticism for The New York Review of Books, Vanity Fair, The New York Times, The Nation and Slate.
Rich is an alumnus of Yale University, where he studied literature. After graduation he worked on the editorial staff of The New York Review of Books. He moved to San Francisco to write San Francisco Noir, which The San Francisco Chronicle named one of the best books of 2005. That year he was hired as an editor by The Paris Review.[1]
The Mayor's Tongue was described by Carolyn See in The Washington Post as a "playful, highly intellectual novel about serious subjects -- the failure of language, for one, and how we cope with that failure in order to keep ourselves sane."[2] A number of prominent artists and book designers—including Rodrigo Corral, David Rees, and Zach Dodson of Featherproof Books—as well as readers have contributed to an ongoing project to design cover art for books by the fictional Constance Eakins, a central character in The Mayor's Tongue.[3]
- ↑ Kreisler, Harry. Conversations with History, Institute of International Studies, UC Berkeley.
- ↑ See, Carolyn: "Speaking in Tongues", The Washington Post, April 25, 2008: p. C02.
- ↑ "Jackets Required: The Mayor's Tongue," "Publisher's Weekly," May 8, 2008.
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th HIPZ donation page is for him and his brother Mike. I don't follow them on twitter but does anyone know if Mike has put tweets asking for donations etc. Going on what the Andre brothers raised between them it shows how well Carl did with the money raised, and he appears to have a far lower profile than PA and his DJ brother.
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(Sunday, April 27th)
Final Score: Philadelphia 2, Arizona 0
Phoenix, AZ (SportsNetwork.com) - A.J. Burnett hurled eight scoreless innings to lead the Philadelphia Phillies to a 2-0 win over the Arizona Diamondbacks on Sunday in the rubber match of a three-game set.
Burnett (1-1) scattered five hits and fanned eight without walking a batter to earn his first win with the Phillies.
"He threw the ball well on the outside of the plate," said Arizona manager Kirk Gibson. "We just couldn't get at him."
Chase Utley was 2-for-4 with an RBI for the Phillies, winners in three of their last four games.
Jonathan Papelbon stranded a runner in the ninth to earn his eighth save.
Brandon McCarthy (0-5) was the hard-luck loser. He allowed two runs on seven hits while striking out a career-high 12.
"He was good," said Utley. "His velocity was up from what I think we all remember. We were able to get some timely hits, but the real story is how A.J. pitched. He was outstanding."
The Phillies took a 1-0 lead in the first inning. Ben Revere singled and stole second before scoring on Utley's bloop single to shallow center.
Utley opened the sixth with a double and scored on Chris Owings' throwing error. Marlon Byrd laced a grounder to the hole on the left side. Owings made a diving stab for the ball and fired it to third, but the ball bounced off Utley and out of play, allowing him to score.
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Philadelphia was 2-for-11 with runners in scoring position ... Revere has nine stolen bases this season ... Burnett lowered his ERA to a slender 2.15 ... Arizona was 0-for-6 with runners in scoring position ... Owings has four errors this season.
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I can't believe February has already been and gone!
R and I have just come back from a lovely weekend away in Brighton as part of my birthday celebrations and we had such a wonderful time catching up with family and friends and shopping!
Now March is in full swing, this month I hope to:
Attend the gym at least 3 times a week (excluding the VibeRhythm class) and improve my core strength and tone up. Host my 2nd Stitch and Bitch of the year. Celebrate a couple of friend's birthday's.
- Invite my Mum and my Sister round for Sunday lunch.
Eat out with my Dad, Step-Mum and my Sister.
- Read more pages from the book I started back in January (I'm so terrible!).
Buy the Degus a new wheel (Their 'Silent Spinner' is silent no more after 6 months!) Dye my hairand get it trimmed.
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This year my birthday wish list consists of only one item - a tablet. You see, I'm a bit late to the tablet party, and to be honest I don't mind because I've had my trusty laptop to use. But my laptop is four years old now, is starting to misbehave and I worry that it's going to go bye bye's pretty soon. So, I decided to start looking into buying a tablet.
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March 17, 2014Richmond High School
It has been several days since Richmond saw its basketball season come to an end at the hands of Indianapolis Tech. I chose to wait a few days before reflecting on this past season because I wanted to absorb what I thought was more than a great season.
I had the pleasure to get to know all of these young men during the numerous interviews we did throughout the year and I can't remember a better group of people, not just basketball players.
Each player had something very distinct about them that made them standout. It may have their big smile, their laugh, work ethic or humbleness. Not one time did a player turn us down for an interview even after a tough loss. In fact, all of them went out of their way to make sure they granted our request, even if it meant staying after practice. Not one time did a player have an unwelcoming attitude, even after a tough loss or a game that didn't go as they expected.
Several players will return next season including Joel Okafor, Davious Webster, Isaiah Rader and Auntonio Brown. All four possess great qualities in which Joe Luce will be able to build upon. Those graduating will be hard to replace including Kendal Baker, Nick Thomas, Abdul Shabazz, Mike Tillman, Devin Thomas and Zach Lett.
To give you a better understanding of what I saw in each player, here is a quick description:
Davious Webster: Great attitude, always willing to talk about the team and how he could help win games. Never put the spotlight on himself. He was willing to sacrifice his offensive game to guard the best player on the opposing team. I am sure there were many talking in Davious' ear about scoring more but he was all about the teamand winning.
Joel Okafor: Hard worker…all the time! Another player who put all the focus on the team not himself. Loved to keep things loose but also knew when it was time to get down to business. Great smile and excellent attitude even when things went a little rocky. A lot was expected of Joel this season but like Davious, he was willing to sacrifice his numbers for the betterment of the team.
Isaiah Rader: A quiet leader and a "sparkplug" full of energy. He is much stronger than he looks and has a great attitude because he accepted his role. No player was more important than Isaiah coming off the bench.
Auntonio Brown: Another excellent player off the bench with a high motor. Brown was undersized but never let that stop him from mixing it up with the big fellas. He is the kind of teammate you love to have around because he will make you better. Great attitude and a bigger smile! We need to get him to 6-6 next season!
Kendal Baker: Became known as the "X-Factor" because of his ability to hit the clutch shot, especially late in the game. When Kendal came into the game, opposing teams knew they better find him or they would pay. Kendal never took credit for his performances because it was all about the team! Kendal is a rare player because he didn't let coming off the bench hurt the team…he accepted his role!
Nick Thomas: This Senior was in a tough spot with a guard-heavy team. Despite the obstacles, Nick played his role extremely well. Like Rader, Nick provided a spark off the bench and played great defense. Too bad he wasn't a junior.
Abdul Shabazz: One of my favorite players of all time. Abdul did whatever the coaching staff asked him to do. He was perhaps the glue that kept this team together. He was a quiet leader, led by example and played hard all the time. Undersized as a post player and not a true power forward, Abdul found a way into the starting line-up with his work ethic and attitude. This is one player Joe will really miss.
Michael Tillman: From where Mike came as a freshman to where he ended his high school career is a true example of what hard work will do. Mike could have easily quit playing basketball when things weren't looking good, but stayed with it and now will play college basketball. Mike has a great attitude, a great smile and I will personally miss seeing him in a Richmond uniform.
Devin Thomas: Devin provided the Devils with much needed size and at times looked like he could dominate a game inside. Devin is a very quiet player who will help someone at the next level if he chooses to go that direction. One of the more improved players from the beginning of the season.
Zack Lett: Zach, by far, was the most improved player on this team. Coming from Seton, Zach has a lot of pressure on him, both on and off the court. I am sure early on not many gave him a chance to be a solid post player but he proved all the doubters wrong. Zach improved his offensive game to the point he was able to use both hands around the basket. He became a solid rebounder and defender and most importantly, he was able to keep his game under control. His size and attitude will be missed next season.
This was my 24th season covering Richmond basketball and despite the ending, it was one of the best. I will miss those seniors who gave so much this season to put Richmond basketball back on the map and make my job fun again!
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