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At cleantech event, startup companies know BEST (Photos)
The hundreds of attendees who hit last week's BEST Fest's series of cleantech symposia and other events also encountered a handful of pre-revenue companies that'll provide tomorrow's sustainable jobs.
Typical of the companies is the so-far nameless outfit that'll be launched by founder Mohammad Ghazvini. Ghazvini discussed his intentions with attendees who flowed through the BEST Fest's exhibit space.
Keeping it cleantech: Scenes from this year's BEST Fest
Ghazvini co-developed a device that reduces waste energy, by 25 percent to 40 percent, and increases efficiency when used for different applications. The device, currently in the prototype phase, is being developed as Ghazvini works with Oregon State University's Advantage Accelerator program.
Without a company name, Ghazvini is calling his venture MicroCHX.
"This can be used for residential-distributed heating compared to central furnace space heating," said the engaging Ghazvini in between greeting visitors to his exhibit. "Therefore our technology is a technology for clean environment and reducing energy waste."
The device is small and lightweight but still maintains up to 98 percent combustion efficiency and more than 92 percent thermal efficiency.
"It's small: It could actually fit in a backpack if you wanted," Ghazvini said.
Along with its exhibitors and a dynamic keynote speech by author Jay Harmon, the BEST Fest featured an array of seminars designed to help early-stage cleantech companies develop their operations. Click through for a closer look at some of the people, companies and other sights at the 2013 BEST Fest.


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Lake Worth commissioners vote down building-height ordinance for November ballot
Special election could be held in March
LAKE WORTH, Fla. -- Controversy is brewing in the City of Lake Worth and it could cost taxpayers in the city thousand of dollars.
It all surrounds building heights and an ordinance that could restrict how high structures can be built.
At a special session on Saturday, city commissioners voted 3-to-2 against placing the building-height ordinance on the November ballot. This was the third time the initiative was voted down by commissioners.
The only other option is to put the ordinance on a special election that requires needed signatures for it to happen.
A group in favor of limiting the height of buildings in and around downtown has already collected the necessary signatures. And because the signatures have been collected, some commissioners estimate the special election will cost taxpayers thousands of dollars.
"As a resident who has to spend my money on my taxes here and as a commissioner, as an elected official our tax dollars are now going to be spent on something that doesn't need to be spent, said Suzanne Mulvehill, a Lake Worth commissioner. "It's a waste of taxpayers dollars and it should be voted on in November."
One commissioner who voted against putting the ordinance on the November ballot said he wants to allow his residents enough time to understand what is at stake. He said many Lake Worth residents are seasonal and are not here to get in on the conversation.


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January 31, 2006 5:14 PM PST
Newspapers want search engines to pay
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The new name of the media gameNovember 16, 2005
Study: Online newspapers flourishNovember 15, 2005
Web search engines, such as Google and Yahoo, collect headlines and photos for their users without compensating the publishers a cent, according to the World Association of Newspapers (WAN), which announced Tuesday that it intends to "challenge the exploitation of content" by the Googles and MSNs of the Web.
The Paris-based group, which represents 18,000 newspapers, isn't discussing what action it may take. WAN executives said in a statement that they want to explore their options and added that they understand search engines help them in one way: aggregating content and packaging it for consumers. But WAN noted that Web companies also "built their business models in large part on taking content for free."
Agence France Presse has already filed suit against Google, alleging that Google News offers its photos and stories without permission.
The move by WAN comes against a backdrop of layoffs, falling profits and shrinking readership at the world's newspapers. Huge numbers of companies have shifted their advertising dollars over to the Net and polls show a growing number of consumers obtain their news from the Web.
On Tuesday, Knight Ridder reported a 22 percent drop in fourth-quarter profit from the same period a year ago. Deep-pocketed newspapers, such as The New York Times and Los Angeles Times have reduced staffing.
At the same time, the search engines have flourished.
"The irony is that these search engines exist, largely, because of the traditional news and content aggregators and profit at their expense," WAN President Gavin O'Reilly said in a statement.
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- I don't know about you, but...
- I pay for internet access. I don't want to have to pay to access each site to obtain the information I am looking for. Go ahead... Start charging for the latest news... Soon the internet will be totally commercial and I will no longer need it! Hopefully I am not the only one. How about you?
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- I'm not sure you are on the right track...
- See, you say you want to pay for your internet access and
nothing else. You want all content to be free. You want no part
of paying for any kind of service/publication/etc on the internet.
I think this thinking is flawed, actually.
The problem is that, in general, you NEED some fee-based
services. This is the basis of competition. Yes, I know there are
some sites out there that are successful AND free (Wikipedia
comes to mind). However, these types of sites do not make up
the bulk of the internet. I think you are fooling yourself if you
think that everything on the internet can be totally free and that
everyone will live happily ever after.
Like it or not, people like to get paid. This goes for people
providing a service (garbagemen, store checkers, etc, etc) AND
people providing their opinion (newspapers, magazines, books,
etc). You see, when you pay for a magazine in a bookstore, you
are not just paying for the physical material that goes into
producing that work (paper, ink, delivery); you are paying for the
intellectual material in that publication, as well.
That's just my two cents, anyway. So to answer your question --
I have no problem paying for access to news sites (IBD, WSJ
come to mind here).
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- Exist because profit made from google news?
- PLEASE tell me how google news is the reason that google exists? There are no, thats right zero ads on google news, and get this google was making millions before they even came up with google news.
This "WAN" sounds a like the RIAA, to afraid, slow, or ignorant to change their existing buisness model with the times. Than they complain when they stop making money.
Just look at NY Times online demanding a fee to view their articles when 1000's of other website offer the same information for free. If when the internet boom began NYT's offered all their content online, and free they could have established themselves as the online place to go. Than they could ohh.. I dont know... SELL ADS! but instead we will see the fall of the NYT's of the 20th century and the rise of the google's and yahoo's of the 21st...
RIP stuburn, old buisness model's...
RIP buisness that refuse to adapt...
We dont need you anymore
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- Exist because profit made from google news? Oh yes!
- Isn't ignmorance Blissful! Get a hold of the financial disclosures of Google and similar companies, their 10k's, published books and and texts on how to interpretet this information and learn how to read them (the best information is at your public library, not online .... except for a substantial fee or license {ask any professional about these cost >>> clue: they are huge, which helps drive up the cost of the professions - you know law, medicine, CPA's etc.<<< )... they are free TO USE at your public library. You'd be shurprised at the shock about how wrong you are.
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- Add ROBOTS.TXT, and presto...
- ...no web crawlers.
There, was that so hard?
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- Good point...
- People use this method all the time for their personal sites -- I
think these companies can possibly do the same.
The problem is they WANT the exposure. It's like they want it both
ways -- exposure and money.
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- Absolutely
- If you don't want to drive customers to your site by having a brief story on news.google or news.yahoo.com or search.msn.com/news similar sites then robot.txt your site and we will see you later...or not.
Stop trying to suck the teat of search engines when you see your model of doing business going under.
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- Stop bitching!
- I cannot believe these idiots that go around screaming "PAY ME!" SBC/AT&T is thinking about something similar. They want Google and MSN to PAY THEM to use "their" pipes. I'm sorry, we already pay you blood-sucking pimps a monthly fee for access. A monthly fee, by the way, that is up to 10 times as much as other telcos in other countries charge for far faster connections.
This all stems from the idiots at the top. The CEOs, the CIOs, the CFOs, and the army of useless VPs. They are far too out of touch with reality and do not understand technology. They are too old to do so. Even though these people at the top "say" that they are all about the Internet and support it, they are so quick to revert back to their antiquated past.
We, the Internet generation, will just have to ride this kind of lame BS out until we put these relics in rest homes. Only then, will the full potential of the Internet be realized.
Take heed you old farts, your day is fast coming to an end.
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- Telco fees
- This is off topic, but keep in mind that US internet access fees are not the highest, not even close, and they are actually below average. In most countries in the world we envy US ISP fees. For instance, I'm paying about $200 for 512Kbps that's effectively slightly less than 128Kbps.
Americans are always complaining about ISP fees, but it's just a handful of countries that have better rates than the US has. Most of the world has much worse rates. And some have rates that would make you want to sell your computer and go live in a farm.
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- Stop insulting elderly
- and ******** about the US internet access prices. Kindly tell us where on earth can you get internet access (unless gov't / city / school - sponsored) for 10 times less money than the US! It's dirt cheap, mobile access in particular, compared to Western Europe - my God, I pay 40 euros a month for 500 MB over HDSPA, check Verizon EV-DO (ok, a bit slower technology, but still good) pricing for all you can eat. At home, cable (ok, fast cable at 16384d/1024u theoretically) another 60 euros for just 30 GB/month. And I am about 50 yrs old, and do understand the 'technology', although I have a degree in the most antique field, namely philosophy. I know this is off topic, but couldn't resist.
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- Biting the Hand That Feeds Them
- In my opinion, Google News is performing a great service to many of these newspapers. By providing them with exposure, Google News is improving their readership---especially when it comes to the smaller and more obscure(local) newspapers.
How many people could recite the names of the 18,000 or so newspapers that are resisting this? This is where Google News is necessary---to bring them general exposure.
I use Google news on a daily basis, but I wouldn't be willing to pay for any of the content. If a newspaper wants to charge money to view their article online, I'll just go somewhere else and obtain the same information.
Just as there are certain newspapers on Google News that require registration in order to view their content, newspapers that desire having their content paid for will not be successful online---people will avoid them, and go elsewhere for their content.
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- What Planet are you on?
- Google doesn't pay ... they appropriate other people's work. And they do not increase circulation for any newspaper. Newspaper (and printed material in general) is declining in readership. Several conclusions could be drawn from this: People are getting blips of information in far less accurate form from the internet (because the bottom line, and not the details are important to them) and much of it is garbage (in >>>out); or, they are becoming more illiterate, or both. It remains to be seen, probably very soon, whether or which conclusion is true; or, alternatively, why this is so. But ... what if they are true?
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- Say bye bye to viewers
- Unfortunetly for these newspaper sites, there is nothing legally for them to do. Most information is not legally copyrighted in the first place, and secondly they are be cited as the source. Besides this has been tried before. People tried to sue google, for displaying their text on their site. (after they search.)
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- We haven't yet, so that's a good sign
- This reminds me how the post office wanted people to pay for email because the office was losing money over it.
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- Exactly...
- ..when you click on a story on Google News, you are taken to the website where the story is posted. These people are making it sound like Google is harvesting all the news off their sites and re-publishing it on Google News. Google is DIRECTING TRAFFIC TO THE NEWSPAPERS' SITES! And they're doing it FOR FREE! How DARE Google attepmt to help sites by giving them more traffic.
Maybe the problem is that in the Google News results, you have 1,500 newspaper sites duplicating the exact same AP and Reuters stories instead of doing any real journalism, so people aren't picky about where they get that story.
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- Protecting Outdated Models
- Exactly!
To me, this is not all that different from stupid WRAL wanting to prevent people in its media footprint from being able to purchase an episode of CSI from Google or iTunes or whatever. Or Home Depot trying to demand that Ryobi not sell its products on its website because they wanted to sell them on the HD website and couldn't sell them as inexpensively as Ryobi could.
This is a bunch of scared chickens with their heads cut off trying to protect outdated models.
Maybe the opt-in process should be more manual. There are plenty of sites that would get more coverage than they do now -- and maybe even pay Google for the honor of carrying them.
Or, Google's system can each week randomly select 20% of its sources and omit them from the aggregation. In no time at all people will be returning, hat in hand begging to be reinstated.
This is no different than my next door neighbor looking in my window, seeing my big screen TV and then conspiring to steal it.
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- Newspapers are in trouble if they don't change their thinking
- Newspapers are not getting it. A whole new generation is growing up using the web for news and information and the old guard newspapers are wasting time trying to figure out how to keep that market away from their content????
They are spending a lot of time trying to push a big snowball uphill. Let them keep wasting their time so we can take advantage of their stupidity.
Sorry guys, I still like to read the newspaper but I'm turning 50 soon and I don't see the next generation cozying up to the newspaper at all.
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- Newspapers are in trouble ...
- You could be right. We may all have to get use to not having any to read pretty soon, or the price becomes to restritive for it to be available as a mass media, and thus it becomes a specialty. As a source, the downside of single source information (e.g. the internet) is the concentration resulting from the single source which actually translates into concentration of power, less competition and less innovation, at least until something else comes along, if at all. In the meantime the "competition" on the single source becomes more and more illusory, like the emperor's new clothes. We are stuck with Windows superimposed over as the OS, with some Unix competition; but, the source remains licensed, .... and patented. Newspapers are getting it.... it's just that we are more vilneranle to the loss in the US because competition has, historically, made the mass media cost effective by competition. The competition was not licensed, i.e. unique multiple sources. On the internet that is no longer true and it is evolving inevitably into centralized control. Mas media will be eventually destroyed by the masses, and mass mentality. Could prove to be a tragedy.
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- Aggregators are good for newspaper revenue, not bad!!!
- I don't think newspapers are really getting it. Search engines/aggregators don't "steal" content or revenue from the newspapers. In fact, it's the opposite. They simply display the headlines AND LINK TO THE NEWSPAPERS' WEBSITES for visitors to read the stories. This is key. Visitors who want to read the stories are driven to the newspapers' websites, thereby increasing traffic and advertising revenues on the newspapers' websites.
Instead of discouraging this, newspapers should be providing RSS feeds etc. and using this as a selling point to their advertisers.
This reminds me of the inability of the record companies to embrace downloadable tunes back in the mid 90s. They spent so much time fighting the future that they missed the boat; if they had simply spend their time and money creating an iTunes model they'd be making billions by now online.
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- iTunes comparison doesn't work...
- ...because record companies get paid for songs.
Part of the problem is that news gathering is an expensive
proposition. Media companies spend large sums of money (a
basic investigative piece cost tens of thousands of dollars). That
was OK for a long time because media outlets controlled the
delivery vehicle and could make money.
Another part that releying on the advertising model to underwite
news didn't instill value in readers/viewers.
So now they have lost controll of the distribution and the general
public doesn't want to pay for site subscriptions beacuse they
can get a newspaper for 25 cents.
One of two things have to happen for newspapers to survive on
the internet. 1) The advertisning model has to catch up the
internet as a medium and prove itself successful (most Web
advertising currently follows old models applied to the Web) or
2) A distributor has to pay (like iTunes)
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- Aggregators are good for news
- The only place that is really true is the BBC (or, to some extent NPR). But they are supported by government funding and oversight, and not the market place. You couldn't be more WRONG about the circulation and profitability of newsmedia. Your statement is not only absent of fact it is contrary to the facts. If you were correct, it would be logical that the newspaper publishers would be big supporters, and financial contributors. They are neither.
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- And if google &c. DIDN'T index them?
- Dear god, what a loss for the newspapers! I mean, they can easily make their sites invisible to search engines. But of course, that would be stupid of them. How do they have any basis for a suit?
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- And if google &c. DIDN'T index them?
- News stories are also subject to copywrite protections (under the First Amen.). Google et al. doesn't provide any news ... they essentially appropriate it. They have no investment or employees in the field gathering information. They have half-wits who sit in the silcon valleys of the US primarily figuring out how to get other people's efforts. And they don't just index. However if the printed media is gathering it for free for Google et al., then what the hell are you going to know about current events when the printed media has to fold up shop and doesn't exist anymore? Worse, who will have a monopoly on information (and the internet creates more garbage than fact)? Open Source exists, for example, to break a monopoly on who controls and licenses information (you think YOU OWN the document YOU created in Microsoft Word or Office? Ehh...wrong. Read your LICENSE agreement!) generated in Windows and on the web. It is difficult enough to research the truth with differeing sources of information, and countless agendas, and conflicting frames of reference. Internet information is rarely profound and typically superficial and visceral. If used as a TOOL for information access, such as to hard copy and printed media, conferences etc., it can be valuable; but as a primary source without a base providing the information, and the intellectual effort and hard work of individual behind it, it can just be another vapid television set supplying another flavor of "bubble gum for the mind".
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- Cue Mr. Neilsen
- Oddly in theme with <http://www.useit.com/alertbox/
Yes, search engines are in the same business as newspapers in
many ways these days, and they are being designed more and
more around being the hub of the browsing instead of passing
them off to the newspaper and letting them be the focus. Think
how Google handles a search for Madonna when you're looking
for music, you get a huge tout for Google Music, you're offered
album info and prominent links for purchases, and Google
makes a good share in partnerships for those promoted links.
Which online stores did you not browse? Did you ever make it to
the artist's site? Search engines are no longer in the business of
pushing you to the most accurate match as quickly as possible,
they want a share of your interest in the subject.
Looking at this hypothetically...
People who want a New York Times article will always know to
go to NY Times to search for it. For people *like* the NY Times,
they have the rep and the desire to make the Times a news
*destination* as much as Google News might be.
So the truth is if all 18,000 papers pulled out of Google, they'd
lose traffic, but they may just get more revenue per user
because users would commit to the site more PLUS the
newspapers would also get to screw with Google News'
relevance on news stories by pulling most of the "quality"
articles out of the system.
Of course, that means that Google would be left with only small
and medium-market papers and citizen media to pull from --
people who need the attention and don't mind the search
engines taking some of the share.
Which is why (and here's the prediction part):
* All search engines will ultimately create original content
* Big, well known media entities will wall themselves off
- Google :: L.A. Times :: AOL
* Syndication will devolve into promotion-only content for
commercial entities.
* RSS and feeds will be left only fully embraced by free media.
* Technorati's got a better shot at being the next Yahoo/Google
than we thought :)
Nothing like big money to make people throw up borders on
previously open spaces!
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- Hah.
- Umm, the assumption that age is what makes people unable to "understand the Internet" is rather ridiculous.
It has nothing to do with age and everything to do with mental flexibility and ability to adapt.
I know some 50-something techs who could run circles around any average 20-something you'd care to name. As a 35 year-old software developer, I know that some of my coworkers consider me too old (I even heard one "joke" that anyone over 30 should be "put out to pasture"), and yet I find myself -- with alarming regularity -- having to slow down and explain to them in small, careful words, why my software "just works" and works *RIGHT* the *FIRST TIME*, unlike theirs (which may incorporate many exciting "edgy" new techs, and yet still be a bloated, bug-ridden piece of doots).
Just because you spend most of your monthly income to support your "texting" habit doesn't mean you actually know jack about technology. Using it and creating/supporting it are two completely separate things. Those of us over 30 who are still doing tech are usually too busy actually doing the work that keeps the rest of you functioning to spend as much time bragging about our prowess as you young'ns do. We're usually too busy fixing your bugs.
Rather ironically, most of the heads the conceived of most of the Internet had quite a bit of gray on them.
On your other parts, about how most of this being about bloated, overpaid execs looking for an excuse for their salaries, I wholly concur.
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- Amen
- Funny, ain't it, how the young assume they'll never grow old? And how it seems like the younger you are, the more you (think you) know?
Heh. You're right -- to quote Stewie... when they least expect it, their uppance will come.
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- They just want money
- It's that simple. With the dawning of the blog era, mainstream news is finding it much harder to compete. I suspect that if they learned to move with the technology instead of fighting it, they could really capitalize on the phenomenon since they're the only ones with any real access to some news sources, but that doesn't seem to be the way big business... er, does business.
It seems that today the motto is "sue first, adapt later."
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Sen. Soto has a Bachelor's degree in Economics, and attended Law School at George Washington University. Rep. Soto is a commercial and civil rights attorney proudly practicing law in Central Florida. He is ardent defender of civil rights and is committed to rendering legal services pro bono to the community. In 2006, he was named class counsel in the federal class action brought on behalf of Hispanic voters against the City of Kissimmee in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida. Rep. Soto would like to continue to defend the rights and interests of our citizens in Tallahassee.
Sen. Soto is also a former member of the Civil Service Board for the City of Orlando, and he is currently the Treasurer of the Orange County Democrats and the Vice President of Communications for the Orange County Young Democrats (YD's). He is also the YD Co-Host for their Speak Easy events that provide a monthly forum for local and state leaders to speak to young voters.
Darren was elected to the Florida House of Representatives to serve as State Representative to District 49 in a special election in 2007 and was subsequently re-elected in 2008 with 65% of the vote and again in 2010 with 75% of the vote. He has passed several important pieces of legislation including the Luis Rivera-Ortega Street Racing Act, the Firefighter Death Benefit Bill (inspired by the death of Volusia County firefighter John C. Curry), and the Bus Driver Notification Bill. He has also been a critical voice in defeating attempts to convert Florida to non-judicial foreclosures, stopping the split of the Florida Supreme Court and blocking a proposed anti-Hispanic Arizona-Styled immigration law in Florida.


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A lot of what you see here in BR&K is the result of reader's leads.They spot something and send me an E-mail about it. Quite often, of course, I've already heard about it, but all leads are appreciated. Last issue, reader leads were mostly oriented toward the new Schwinn Stingray Chopper. This time, they were heavily to do with Kyle Watson's amazing chopper, which has been marketed as a functional "sculpture", and sold through eBay, among other venues. I'm rather interested in this sort of angle, as I've had shows of "functional sculpture" in art galleries before, and our Wizard Bros 2Much!!! kustom recumbent trike was accepted as a "floor piece" into a mixed-media art show at a gallery in Baton Rouge. Since our readers are obviously also interested, and BR&K operates under the assumption that it's an art publication which happens to specialize in bicycles, this creation seemed the perfect subject for us to cover in depth. I therefore resolved to see about interviewing Mr. Watson. As fate would have it, no sooner had I made that decision than I got a press release with photos from Dave Goeppner of Vision Artist Group, which represents his work. I immediately wrote back, requesting the interview. And here it is:
Kyle Watson
Photographed by Justin Munter
Q: Many artists have worked within the form of the bicycle to create art which happens to also function as a form of transportation, at least in theory. Since the'60s, when I started paying close attention to cycle/art intersections, the most "artistic" of them, in my opinion, have been formed mostly from laminated woods, combined with other materials. Your Atom Bomb Chopper, in the masterful way you have worked with metal media, and the added monumentality of the chopper form, have resulted in what is probably the most impressive "bike-art" piece I've seen to date.
We'll have lots of questions about the bike itself, naturally. But first, I'd like to find out what led up to you, a design school grad with a degree in furniture design, taking on the creation of a multiple high-tech sculpture edition in the form of chopper bicycles. So Kyle, how did your work arrive at this place?
A: The answer to your question is pretty simple. I simply didn't own a bike. So I thought I'd give building one a try. It worked out so well that I made bicycles my focus for my senior year in college. The bike you've seen is the fifth. I had so much fun with the first one that I just couldn't stop building them.
The challenges involved with designing and building a bicycle interested me more than those involved in furniture design. When you design and build a piece of furniture the thing you're left with simply sits in a room in your house. It may look cool but its life from that point on is pretty static. A bicycle on the other hand will always be a dynamic piece. Furniture is defined by the space it occupies but a bicycle defines space as it moves through it. Besides bicycles are more fun. Try riding around the block on a coffee table and you'll understand why I started building them.
Q: Your approach to object design shows a very consistent style. It was easy to recognize that, for example, the table and your bikes were created by the same person. And it's a different approach from most people's. What is it that you most like about that way of inter-relating components, in that sort of individualistic "TinkerToy"-like system?
A: I loved tinker toys, Legos, and Erector sets when I was a kid. Still do, actually. With a pile of simple components a child can build anything his or her imagination can cook up. These toys not only promote creativity they teach the basics of geometry , spatial
relations, and mechanical engineering. I think playing with these toys as a boy gave me a foundation for building and design.
In college I used this foundation to comfort my brain in a way. Instead of designing the complicated using complicated components I designed the complicated using simple components. These simple tinker toy-ish components allowed me to create super-complicated structures that looked cool, didn't fall over, and didn't make my brain hurt (it did but not that bad). I also think it's a look that people can relate to, they've seen it before, it doesn't intimidate, and if they played with these toys it reminds them of what it was to be a kid.
Art is an escape, it takes the viewer to another place. It also carries with it a message. For me the place is childhood and the message is fun. The world is complicated enough, and in my opinion the last thing
someone needs is complicated art.
Q: Some people never get past their Erector Set affinity when it comes to design, which may be seen in many recumbent bikes- one of my running jokes. But, you've gone way past that approach in the structures you end up with; but it's neat that you still incorporate some concepts and themes you first learned from the toys. At first, I thought that your use of truss-work in your chopper was an example of how sophisticated your work has become. Then it dawned on me that Erector Set structural members have a truss-work pattern punched out of them, for lightness and materials efficiency. That it took me that long to recognize the influence is a tribute to the sophistication of your vision, though.
Jeff Koons
is someone who's dabbled in that sort of childhood-toy evocation psychology, with much less success than you, other than financial, of course. I'm sure you've seen that piece of his, in which he had an Italian foundry cast a big replica of one of those trashy inflatable bunny rabbit things in stainless steel. I'm glad that was the medium, and not platinum or titanium. That would have been really distasteful. You use high-tech materials and technology in a natural way, which makes sense; not on some stupid joke about wasting money on expensively-produced schlock. I'll bet you're not snickering at the people who're buying your Chopper pieces, but I really can't say the same about Koons.
This might be a good time to suggest that you're not pricing those chopper objects high enough, considering them as multiple-edition sculptures made of expensive materials. As bikes, I might also add that it's easily possible to walk into a bike shop and spend a lot more for something which only works for that function. Something to consider, hmmmm?
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Let's talk about your creative process for a bit, if we may. With a multiple, the design and production processes have to be worked out pretty much exactly before production starts; but when you created the prototype, did you work out how you wanted it to look and work totally in advance of execution, or was the design process more organic, in which you start with a kernel, and everything else develops off of that?
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Table "Insect Study #1" 1998
Baltic birch plywood and TIG-welded mild steel.
A: I try to work out as much as I can on paper first. Both college and the military taught me that planning is 90% of a project the other 10% is there for you to screw up in. Once I start building it things always change. I'm still refining the process, every bike is different. No matter how well I plan a bike out, it always presents its own unique set of problems. No two bikes are 100% exactly the same, each one has its own personality
Q: In the case of this bike, intended to be a multiple, what was the process by which you got from the final visualization of the piece to the first of the edition which was shipped to a buyer? I presume you didn't go straight to the welding fixture, or did you plan it that thoroughly?
A: The bikes go from a simple sketch, to a full-scale drawing, where most of the bugs are worked out. When I say "most of the bugs" I mean about 51%. I've found that no matter how hard I try to work things out on paper problems always arise in the building phase. From there I pretty much go straight to welding. Once I've got the thing built,
every little thing that isn't quite right is noted .The plans, jigs, and fixture are then altered to produce a more "perfect" version. This more "perfect" version is the final. All bikes after that point are modeled after that one.
Q: Scott Brandt's looked really worked-out to me, and beautifully finished. Scott told me you got his measurements before you started it. How do you handle variations like that?
A: It's really pretty simple. The bike is made up of simple planar
geometric shapes. An inch here, an inch there does a lot to change the bike's geometry. It really doesn't take much to get it to fit someone who's basically average in height and weight. If a 7' 350 # person wanted a bike it would probably be a different story.
Q: Does that "Tinker-Toy" system of yours facilitate that proportional flexibility, or is that more of a styling thing? It works very well, visually. I couldn't quite tell how the system looked in detail from the photos; but seeing it in person, I was impressed by how stylin' all those acorn nuts in wells look. Very hot-rod!
A: Thanks! Both. It allows me to change the proportions of the bike without making it obvious. In a traditionally- constructed bike, any change in its proportions are easily seen. With everything that's going on in these bikes, changes in proportion are almost invisible. Unless, of course, you put two of them next to each other. I also did it to be a little different. I wanted to see if I could build a bike in a way that's completely unlike anything out there.
Q: You succeeded pretty well, I'd say. I think I've only seen one other bike with a truss-work-themed frame (a Bugatti road bike from the '70s), and it was pretty conventional in every other aspect. Throw in that fascinating fastening system and that radical chopper architecture, and you have a pretty unique machine.
You've also got a pretty non-traditional materials list for a bicycle. Can you tell us about the more interesting materials and processes you've used in it?
A: The main parts of the frame are TIG-welded T-304 stainless steel. It's much stronger then mild steel with about the same weight. The parts with color are water jet cut, powder-coated mild steel. Powder-coating coats and seals the steel and prevents any corrosion from occurring, also it's nearly bullet proof. It's not enough for a bike to look tough, it's got to be tough.
Q: Aside from all the interesting frame geometry and detailing, one of my favorite parts is that seat. It looks incredible, like something from a sci-fi movie, because of that mirror polish on the bare formed metal. Scott was a little unsure of that, and was toying with the idea of maybe padding it. But after actually riding it for 10 or so miles on his ride home, he seems to have changed his mind, because it was actually comfortable for the whole trip. How many experimental contours did you go through before you arrived at the final form? And how is the metal formed?
A: Actually, I make them in the lowest-tech way possible. I beat on it with a hammer over a bag of lead shot. After hitting it for a while I have a seat, so to speak. I repeat this process until it feels right. The hammer forms it, my butt tests it. The final step is polishing, then onto the bike.
Q: I'm impressed! I was sort of expecting you to say that you carved a stamping die from tool steel- yadda yadda. This is considerably funkier, and more "artistic". Looks just like you carved the stamping die, though, it's so perfect. As I understand it, you're planning to do an edition limited to a hundred of these bikes. How many of them have you finished at this point?
A: I'm sorry to say, only five. We've got a long way to go before we meet our goal.
Q: But you've only been offering them for a few months, right? We started getting in leads from our readers about it maybe two months ago. Sometimes it's better to have a slow buildup, rather than being swamped with orders right off the bat. It gives you a chance to really work out the production efficiencies before the bullets start flying. It's tough to think about that sort of thing while you're racing deadlines and people are rushing you. Of course, now that you're being featured in BR&K, that situation may change in a hurry. It's certainly happened before. Do you find, after having built five, that you're better prepared to deal with a steady stream of them, now that you've had some practice?
A: You bet, actually I designed them to be built
in only a couple of days. This allows me to build
at least 2 a week.
Q: Is the design essentially locked-in; or are you still tweaking the details? I notice that Scott's Chopper has a really nice 3D head badge on it, which I didn't notice in the original photos.
Portfolio: Earlier Examples of Bike Art by Kyle Watson:
All are made from TIG welded T304 stainless steel
and building custom furniture or doing metal repair work in the Detroit area. I've also gone back to teaching at The
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in Detroit. But you're very right; I'm beginning to get a little bored after only five. Don't get me wrong, I love building them, and if I had the chance to, I'd build a thousand. To combat this boredom, I try to keep designing bikes, furniture, sculpture, whatever strikes me as fun at the time. The more I do the happier I am.
Q: Nothing like having orders stacked up to the ceiling and not enough time to do them to relieve boredom. So, I hope things get exciting for you really soon. They should, because your Choppers are unique, exquisite and, in my opinion, a lot of bang for the buck. Somebody who has one will instantly have something totally different to ride, with the sculpture aspect thrown in as a
Scott plans to hang his on his living-room wall when he's not riding it, surrounded by a big free-floating picture frame, as New Yorkers tend to not have much floor space to spare.
Thanks very much for your conversation, and we wish you well.
A: First off, let me say thank you for this wonderful opportunity, and thank you for all the compliments and support. Thank you for fighting the good fight against the everyday, the run of the mill, and the armies of conformity. The world needs more people like you. It's one thing to recognize and appreciate the unusual but it's quite another to help bring it to the masses.
Those interested in acquiring one of Mr. Watson's Atom Bomb Choppers may go directly to the Vision Artist Group
from here. My advice is to do so soon, as in my humble opinion, they are extremely under-valued at the moment, and should become considerably more expensive in the very near future.
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A: The original photos were of the prototype. The prototype had an incorrect rake and trail, thus a much shorter head tube. I've since corrected the problem, which in turn, created a longer head tube. This allowed me to incorporate a head badge. At this point, the bike is pretty much worked out in its final form. Now I 'm faced with figuring out better ways of building them. Tighter craftsmanship and faster production has become my main focus.
Q: I don't know about you, but to me, doing a hundred of anything would tend to get a little boring after a while. Will you wait until you've done the full hundred of this edition before getting into another project, or will you be working something else into your work- stream? If so, will it be another bicycle?
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Fargo North standout Kira Larson named ND's volleyball Gatorade Player of the YearFARGO – Fargo North senior Kira Larson was named the North Dakota high school volleyball Gatorade Player of the Year on Tuesday.
Larson – who has signed to play volleyball at NCAA Division I Nebraska next fall – finished the season with 558 kills. She averaged 5.4 kills per set and helped the Spartans to a 30-7 record.
The 6-foot-3 middle hitter was named the Class A Senior Athlete of the Year and was selected to the Class A all-state volleyball first team.
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MILWAUKEE — Republican Senate candidate Tommy Thompson's campaign says his son has apologized for suggesting that voters should send President Barack Obama back to Kenya.
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Jason Thompson, the son of the former Wisconsin governor, was caught on camera during a Sunday brunch hosted by the Kenosha County Republican Party.
"We have the opportunity to send President Obama back to Chicago — or Kenya," said Jason Thompson, an attorney at a large Milwaukee law firm. The comment drew laughs from the crowd, with one woman joking, "We are taking donations for that Kenya trip."
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Obama's father was Kenyan, but the president was born in Hawaii.
Jason Thompson, 38, has been involved in his father's efforts to win a Senate seat and has represented the candidate at some events.
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"The governor has addressed this with his son, just like any father would do," the campaign said in a statement. "Jason Thompson said something he should not have, and he apologizes."
Michael Best & Friedrich, the firm where Jason Thompson works, issued a statement Monday distancing it from the comments, calling them "regrettable."
"Jason has apologized for the comment through the campaign (and to his colleagues at the law firm) and the matter is being dealt with between father and son," the statement said.
Democratic Rep. Tammy Baldwin is running against Thompson. Her campaign's spokesman, John Kraus, said Monday that the Thompson campaign is becoming increasingly desperate and dishonest.
The candidate himself "has not apologized for these comments, nor has he disavowed them," Kraus wrote. "Thompson needs to start taking responsibility for what his campaign says and does."
Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus and Wisconsin Republican Party Chairman Brad Courtney also spoke at the Kenosha event.
Priebus issued a statement Monday, saying he agreed with the elder Thompson. "The comment was out of line and his son rightfully apologized," he said.


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Written by Christine Pitawanich, Posted: Wed, November 14 2012 at 8:45 PM, Updated: Thu, November 15 2012 at 2:52 PM
We've all heard of bullying. Some people look at it as kids...just, being kids.
But did you know, one in four bullies will have a criminal record by the time they reach 30?
Bullying...causing some kids to reach out for help. Certain kids, bullied so bad, they turned to suicide.
But what can be done? Experts agree, to beat something like bullying people must have a collective definition.
According to the dictionary, a bully is a blustering, quarrelsome, overbearing person who habitually badgers and intimidates smaller or weaker people.
For kids on the playground, a definition isn't so cut and dry.
"Bullies are people who punch," said six-year-old Sophia Bietz.
"Does mean stuff sometimes a lot and sometimes just once," concluded nine-year-old Noah Cornett.
"They have to be mean to you...over and over," said Cali Lees, who is five-years-old.
"I think they're people who have like mean siblings or something?" seven-year-old Grace Mahoney postulated.
When you ask parents what they consider bullying...
"Kids trying to push each other around and make them feel uncomfortable, I don't know," said mother, Kellie Lees.
"It could also be someone who does it to different people over and over," father Brett Lutz said.
But Justin Huelshoff, a father of two, said "I don't know, everybody's going to look at it differently."
Whichever way you look at it, today kids are speaking up. According to Kaiser Family Foundation, 68% of 12-15-year-olds said bullying is a big problem.
Principal Kristi Anderson at Lonepine Elementary, part of the Medford School District, said the school's definition is all-encompassing.
"Bullying can encompass all sorts of things," began Anderson.
"It can be intimidation, it can be someone that's calling out names, it can be pushing, shoving. Bullying could be something as simple as a child teasing a child repeatedly, over and over," she said.
At Southern Oregon University, Associate Psychology Professor Doug Smith agrees. He said repetition is one of three key points that are part of a working definition experts have used since the 1990s.
"It's an intentional effort to inflict harm or intimidate someone...Second, it happens repeatedly. It's not just a one time thing. The third aspect...there's an imbalance of power between the bully and victim," said Smith.
According to Smith, bullying has traditionally been physical in nature. However now, it has evolved; it has moved online and to mobile devices and forming a new phenomena known as cyber bullying.
"I think our definitions have had to evolve some," he said.
While, to some extent, definitions are fluid, there seemed to be a general consensus among people we spoke with.
"I would define it as someone who intimidates someone else and basically makes them feel inferior," said Lutz.
"I think bullying is usually a continuous thing," added Huelshoff.
"Being mean to people and calling them names they don't like," said little Sophia Bietz.
6-year-old Sophia and many others agreed, at least, that whether it be physical or verbal intimidation, bullying is intentional, repetitive, and above all, kids told us, just plain mean.
On Thursday, KOBI-TV NBC 5 will have a Night of Guidance where a panel of experts will take viewers' questions and concerns about bullying. Phone lines will be open from 6-7pm and calls will remain confidential. For more information call 541-779-5555 or watch NBC 5 News at 5 and 6.
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Christine also has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Communications from the University of Washington.
Before joining the NBC5 News team, she had the opportunity to file reports from Washington D.C. for WFFT FOX Ft. Wayne News in Indiana. Christine has also interned at KOMO-TV in Seattle.
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Gay military personnel ready for 1st convention
OutServe leaders announced plans for the convention in May, two months before Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Adm. Mike Mullen and President Barack Obama certified that the armed forces were ready to welcome openly gay and lesbian troops. Under the law abolishing "don't ask, don't tell" that Congress passed in December, the policy would not officially end until 60 days after such certification.
The timing ended up working out, but if the ban had remained in effect, this weekend's summit would have most likely been postponed "out of respect for the military and for the policy," Fulton said.
Organizers are acutely aware that some opposition to the integration of gay and lesbian troops still exists in Washington and within the U.S. military. They reminded conference participants this week that they should not make comments that could be perceived as political. They were also urged to not wear their uniforms since the conference is not an official military event, or engage in the debauchery for which Las Vegas is known.
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Tom Brady on New Daughter With Gisele Bundchen: "She's Going to Be an Athlete"
Tom Brady already has two sons, but he was waiting for his little princess to arrive.
Not that he knew he was specifically waiting for Vivian Lake, who arrived on December 5, when his wife, model Gisele Bundchen, gave birth.
"It feels good," the Patriots quarterback told the Boston Herald about being a father again. "Whatever we would have had, I would have been happy. We've got two beautiful boys, now a girl. It's great."
He was asked if Vivian might turn out to be a superstar athlete like Dad, or a supermodel like Mom. "She's going to be an athlete," Tom said, smiling. Yeah! Maybe by then she can even play professional football. Who knows. Considering both of her parents are great-looking, she'll probably be a gorgeous athlete, too.
Gisele announced little Vivian's arrival on December 7, via Facebook: "We feel so lucky to have been able to experience the miracle of birth once again and are forever grateful for the opportunity to be the parents of another little angel. Vivian Lake was born at home on December 5. She is healthy and full of life. Thank you all for your support and well wishes. We wish you and your families many blessings."
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Say what? Mark Cuban threatens to popularize 'the motorboat' on 'Dancing with the Stars'
Billionaire tech entrepreneur makes his first appearance on the corny ABC reality show on Tuesday night. On his blog, he gives some hints.
Have you set your DVR yet? I sure have. On Tuesday night we'll see the ballroom dancing debut of Dallas Mavericks owner and tech entrepreneur extraordinaire Mark Cuban as he leaps onto the stage of the corny ABC reality show Dancing with the Stars, which pairs celebrities of various calibers with professional dance partners and then pits the couples against one another.
Cuban, always the subtle one, is encouraging his blog readers to dial in and vote for him and his curvy blond dance partner, Kym. "I'm up against all the pretty boys, athletes and entertainers tonight," he acknowledged in his blog entry, "so jump on board and vote for us."
He then gave some hints of what we might see in the eagerly anticipated episode, naming a handful of what he called "traditional guy dances," the sort of comedic frat-boy moves that you're more likely to see at college reunions than ballroom dance competitions. "As far as a hint for tonight, all I can tell you is that I couldn't get the lawnmower or sprinkler in tonight's routine, but I did get 'churn the butter' in," he wrote.
"Hopefully, tonight will lead the way so that future generations of guys can walk into any wedding reception or nightclub knowing that Churn the Butter and in the future, the Sprinkler, Lawnmower and the Motorboat can bring joy and happiness to your wives and girlfriends."
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History: Overview 1900 - 2010
In 1900, a Judge was reported to have operated a small water powered sawmill 12 miles up the Chetco River. In 1907, this operation was transferred to the Brookings Lumber & Box Company (BLBC) where John E. Brookings served as President. The town was named after him in 1908.
1912: BLBC constructed the first railroad in Curry County, a lumber manufacturing plant, a deep-water harbor, and the town of Brookings.
1915-1917: California & Oregon Lumber Co. was formed and the railroad was completed. To serve the newly formed company, construction of a piling & timber wharf extending 1,200 feet into Chetco Cove was commissioned. The wharf, carrying 2 tracks of the company-owned railroad, was completed in 1917.
1920-1925: The railway & wharf were improved and extended before shutdown in 1925. Only the land, the mill pond and the townsite of Brookings, the plat of which was filed in 1920, would remain for many years to follow.
1940's: Area gained nationwide publicity because of flower bulb industry.
1945-1957: Rivers and Harbors Act of 1945 authorized improvement which consisted of constructing jetties and dredging, at the mouth of the Chetco River. The project was completed in 1957.
1957-1959: Governor Elmo Smith appointed the first Five Port Commissioners'.
1958: First boat basin constructed.
2004-2010: Port Retail Center was built and 13,000 square feet of commercial space was added. The Port of Brookings-Harbor leases Commercial and Retail space to 34 businesses.
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[1] Chetco River Railroad Bridge - Brookings, Oregon [Photograph] Provided courtesy of Babin Law, P.C., November 4, 2011.
[2] View of Brookings ORE DEC 1914 - Brookings, Oregon [Photograph] Provided courtesy of Babin Law, P.C., November 4, 2011.


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It will be held at the Nkrumah Hall in the Main Campus on Saturday, starting at 2pm. To be held under the theme "Climate change impacts on agricultural sector in Africa and strategies to address them," the dialogue will explore possible options for climate change adaptation, such as biotechnology and GMOs, conventional agriculture, conservation agriculture and ecological agriculture.
Eminent scientists, lawyers and regulators will facilitate the dialogue. Invitations have been extended to the university community and other interested stakeholders, including farmers, business community, NGOs and the general public.


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Published by Paper Monument, co-edited by Prem Krishnamurthy, and designed by Project Projects, Draw it with your eyes closed considers art education as an object of inquiry by examining its most basic form of pedagogy: the art assignment. At once questioning, criticizing, and informing the role and purpose of the assignment, the book collects a range of essays, drawings, and creative briefs from over 100 artists, writers, and educators, including: Julie Ault, John Baldessari, Martin Beck, James Benning, Liam Gillick, Christine Hill, Bob Nickas, Amie Siegel, Amy Sillman, and many more.
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