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Police received information from the *555 public traffic line regarding a green Honda Civic saloon driving in a dangerous manner southbound on State Highway One near Te Kauwhata.
Checks determined that the vehicle had been stolen yesterday in Onehunga. Police intercepted the vehicle just south of Huntly at about 11.30am.
The car was pulled over in heavy traffic on SH1 and as one of the officers approached, the driver reversed at speed and rammed the front of the patrol car causing damage to the bumper.
But his vehicle stalled. After a brief struggle the man was arrested.
Police said both officers were fortunate not to sustain injuries during the incident.
A 25-year-old Auckland man will be appearing in the Hamilton District Court tomorrow on a range of charges.
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The folks at every Wagamama location strive to give you a superb dining experience. Your order is taken on a handheld device and electronically sent through to the kitchen to get it started immediately. There's a wonderful range of side dishes, mains and desserts. I could rave about it for about the length of time you'll want to eat there, but just have a look at the menu yourself here and see what I'm talking about.
The website also has a list of different meals that fit different dietary requirements, such as sugar, nut, shellfish or MSG intolerance plus many more. This shows the level of commitment to making sure every person knows their options and has a great experience.
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Time to give Jerry Manuel an extension. He has fostered a positive vibe around the Mets.
— Jon Heyman, hopefully being ironic.
Note: I do this quite a bit and no one ever notices, but I do feel the need to disclose the fact that when it comes to tweet-quotes, I often do some slight editing for the sake of readability. I did that here too, as you can see if you click through to Heyman's tweet. I know this is potentially controversial, but you can be sure that any changes I make in this regard are non-substantive.
For example, if I were to make any substantive changes to this particular quote, it would read "Time to give Jerry Manuel an extension. Because the Mets haven't done anything psychotically self-destructive like that for several months now and wouldn't it be great fun if there were to do so now?"
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Good, it would b a lot saver if i could easily control the ipod while i'm driving without taking my eyes off the road.
Posted by Dennis Lloyd in Irvine, CA on April 28, 2004 at 10:59 AM (CDT)
hey another accessory to be invented.
wouldn't it be nice if i could mount the remote to vehicle's steer wheel?
Posted by Dennis Lloyd in Irvine, CA on April 28, 2004 at 11:02 AM (CDT)
Yeah, you know what? After the fiasco of the RemoteRemote1 launch, I won't be holding my breath. First, it was released way late (I had prepaid when it was initially announced), and then after it was, there was an immediate recall. Whee. Then, when I finally get it…it pretty much sucks. You have to mash the buttons on the little fob multiple times to get it to react, even when you are 1 foot away. Then there is the dongle…what is that all about? I still don't get the purpose of that design.
This device has been sitting in my desk drawer since the first week I bought it last year. I REALLY hope they improve the reception/functionality of the thing in the second release. I was horribly let down with the first.
Posted by Dennis Lloyd in Irvine, CA on April 28, 2004 at 11:25 AM (CDT)
I concur. I got the first one and it's pretty disappointing. The range is poor and variable so it's a big crapshoot whether pressing a button will do anything or not and the design of both the keyfob and the receiver aren't very good. (By the way, I opened up the receiver, and was surprised to find it's largly empty space. The electronics take up maybe 2/3 of the width of the receiver part with the sides containing mounting holes and unneccessary space. The whole thing could have been a much narrower, round design glued together.)
Looks like they're using the same transmitter, which is unfortunate. I'll wait to see if they've significantly improved the reception sensitivity or not. If they have, I'll try and talk them into selling me the receiver only at a reduced price and use the transmitter from the first one (unless they've actually changed the electronics to make it a more powerful transmitter).
Posted by Dennis Lloyd in Irvine, CA on April 28, 2004 at 1:27 PM (CDT)
When the first one came out, I asked them about a steering wheel mount… they said they'd received lots of requests and were looking into it… guess they don't want my money.
You could probably take the guts out of the keyfob and make something that mounts on the steering wheel, I suppose.
Posted by Dennis Lloyd in Irvine, CA on April 29, 2004 at 9:20 AM (CDT)
I ordered one right after they said they were shipping and then they said they were backordered. I finally got one and the range was terrible and it didn't work at all. They sent me a replacement transmitter and I've been happy ever since. It's gotten to be where I won't go anywhere with my iPod without it!
I've got my iPod in my shirt pocket, the dongle curves around and under so that it's pointing up right beside the iPod and I plug my white Sony Minidisc headphones (extra short cable) in and control my music without touching my iPod.
Two things get to me, the button mashing and the battery life. Sometimes it works with one press, sometimes with two. It does work with at most two presses, but still makes no sense. It also seems like I can burn through a battery in something like 1-2 months. Don't know if this is normal…especially since it's a little radio transmitter, but it's annoying to have to find a place that sells CR2032's.
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Was the very first ipod market tested in Japan or else were, before it was put on the U.S. market in 2001?
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Vico II Dante n. 6/8, Lavello, PZ, 85024, Italy, 1-844-302-2242
Hotel Dante - Basilicata
Hotel Dante is a 3-star city center Lavello hotel within 32 mi (52 km) of Abbey of St Hippolytus, Regina Margherita Plaza and Abbey of St Michael. Natural History Museum of Vulture and Castle Lagopesole are also within 32 mi (52 km).
You will be spoilt for choice in terms of dining at this hotel as there are 2 restaurants serving breakfast, lunch and dinner where you will find great menu choices and a nice spot to eat during the day. Guests wishing to enjoy a drink will surely want to visit the bar/lounge. Free WiFi is available.
You will be spoilt for choice in terms of dining at this hotel as there are 2 restaurants serving breakfast, lunch and dinner where you will find great menu choices and a nice spot to eat during the day. Guests wishing to enjoy a drink will surely want to visit the bar/lounge. Free WiFi is available.
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DiningOnsite venue - This restaurant serves breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Guests can enjoy drinks at the bar. A children's menu is available.
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Tiger sophomores Lubica Nadasska (left) and Charlotte Bellis lost their match at No. 3 doubles, 8-3
April 27, 2006
Waco, Texas - The University of Missouri women's tennis team fell to No. 51 Oklahoma State, 4-0, in the first round of the Big 12 Women's Tennis Championship at the Baylor Tennis Center in Waco.
The Tigers finish the season at 10-12 overall with a 1-11 mark in the Big 12 Conference.
After the loss, Tiger Head Coach Blake Starkey gave credit to the 51st-ranked Cowgirls on their victory.
"OSU just outplayed us. They played well. We played hard. We wish good luck to our seniors, and we are looking forward to next year."
Oklahoma State took control early, winning two doubles matches to earn the doubles point. At No. 1, the Tiger duo of Yelena Olshanskaya and Chrissy Svetlic fell to OSU's Zana Masnic and Yawna Allen, 8-5. At No. 3, the Missouri duo of Charlotte Bellis and Lubica Nadasska lost to the Cowgirl duo of Lauren Simmons and Zuzanna Osinska, 8-3. The No. 2 doubles match between OSU's Iryna Tkachenko and Marta Tsivka and Erika Josbena and Amanda Pratzel was not finished after the Cowgirls won the No. 1 and No. 3 matches.
At No. 1 singles, Olshanskaya retired after the fifth game of her first set because of a knee injury. She was leading Oklahoma State's Iryna Tkachenko, 3-2.
Oklahoma State Head Coach Julius Lubicz-Majewski expressed concern about Olshanskaya.
"We are real sorry about their No. 1 player (Olshanskaya) getting hurt. It was unfortunate and you hate to see that."
At No. 5 singles, Tiger sophomore Chrissy Svetlic fell to OSU's Allen, 6-0, 6-3. At No. 6, MU's Charlotte Bellis fell to fellow New Zealand native Jennifer Poskitt, 6-1, 6-1.
The No. 2, No. 3 and No. 4 singles matches were not finished after Oklahoma State clinched the match with a win at No. 5 singles.
No. 51 Oklahoma State 4 Missouri 0
Big 12 Women's Tennis Championship-First Round
Baylor Tennis Center, Waco, Texas
Weather: 73*, overcast
Time of Match: 2:37
1. Allen/Masnic (OSU) def. Olshanskaya/Svetlic 8-5
2. Tkachenko/Tsivka (OSU) vs Josbena/Pratzel NOT FINISHED
3. Simmons/Osinska (OSU) def. Bellis/Nadasska 8-3
1. Tkachenko (OSU) def. Olshanskaya 2-3 (Retired, Injury)
2. Masnic (OSU) vs Nadasska NOT FINISHED
3. Simmons (OSU) vs Josbena NOT FINISHED
4. Tsivka (OSU) vs Pratzel NOT FINISHED
5. Allen (OSU) def. Svetlic 6-0, 6-3
6. Poskitt (OSU) def. Bellis 6-1, 6-1
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SubscriberWise® the nation's first issuing consumer reporting agency for the communications industry and the leading provider of analytics-driven subscriber risk management and rules technology, announced today that the company president David Howe has obtained a perfect Vantage score of 990. The event follows a perfect 850 FICO score obtained by Howe one week earlier.
David Howe reviews a report in his office at MCTV (Photo: Business Wire)
The two perfect scores – mathematically demonstrated and astonishingly rare - offer strong evidence that FICO and Vantage models are correlated among high-percentile scores and granular predictive factors are consistent between the competing algorithms. FICO scores remain the dominant scoring technology in the market today.
"David Howe's obsession for the highest achievement is not limited to perfect credit scores," said David Hoffer, chief operating officer for MCTV and vice president for SubscriberWise. "In addition to this remarkable mastery of personal credit, Howe has consistently achieved what may be the lowest bad debt losses on record of any communications operator in North America: .02 as a percentage of revenue at MCTV on sales in excess of $60,000,000.00 annually. And to Howe's real acclaim, included in this percentage are losses from unreturned equipment," emphasized Hoffer.
"The success has not gone unnoticed," continued Hoffer. "Over the past decade, Howe has been consulted by nearly every leading communications operator in the country including Sprint, Time Warner, Mediacom, Metrocast, Atlantic Broadband, Armstrong, Antietam, Comporium, Grande, Cincinnati Bell, BendBroadband, NPG, NewWave, GTA Teleguam, Cable ONE, Shentel, and many others. Howe's unbridled passion and demonstrated expertise with credit and risk management can be found everywhere in the industry today. Industry-wide the net positive cash flow for operators using SubscriberWise is measured in tens of millions of dollars annually. Perhaps obsession has its rewards," concluded Hoffer.
Howe is the founder and president of SubscriberWise, the first U.S. issuing consumer reporting agency for the communications industry. Howe is also a consultant and credit manager for MCTV, a multiple system operator founded in 1965 by Richard Gessner. MCTV serves 47,000 subscribers in northeast Ohio. Howe has been employed by MCTV for 18 years.
Howe recently went on the record to share with the public specific details that he hopes will empower consumers and boost credit scores for individuals everywhere. Howe is the first U.S. citizen to describe and report detailed circumstances that generated perfect FICO and Vantage credit scores. The information was provided during an 80-minute interview with Polyana da Costa, senior mortgage reporter for Bankrate.com. Howe also provided additional details to journalist Seth Arenstein that will be reported in a future publication.
"I want to thank Bankrate.com and Polyana da Costa in particular for providing the interview opportunity and helping to disseminate information that she and I agree is valuable for consumers everywhere," stated David Howe. "I also want to acknowledge that I do not know all things FICO or Vantage. Despite my position with MCTV and SubscriberWise, I'm not expert on everything concerning consumer credit and scoring. But I do understand – profoundly - what events impact my individual consumer reports as well as my personal credit scores. That's very important. And over the years, I've learned how to maximize my personal scores despite the inevitable financial events and setbacks. I want others to know they can achieve the same. I'm hopeful the information I've provided Polyana and Seth will help to accomplish this objective."
"From my professional perspective it's time to raise the bar on the subject of consumer credit and scores," Howe emphasized. "Consumers must understand their own credit at a granular level. They should understand at a basic level how business rules and decision management technology impact their lives in ways they may never have imagined. They must understand specific factors that impact their scores, even if the impacts are minimal (fact: a credit report that contains revolving credit card accounts but has no reported revolving balance when the score is calculated can lower a score by 20 points or more). Consumers must know that FICO, Equifax, TransUnion, and Experian do not own the predictive factors; they simply tease-out and refine those factors to add precision to their scoring algorithms. Consumers must understand that no organization and no human being will ever own what is ultimately predictive. Young adults obtaining credit for the first time should also be empowered with this knowledge and information and I plan to continue sharing what I've learned with them."
"David Howe has shared with me such good advice and information on how the credit scoring system works and how to make good decisions to help me keep my credit score optimal," said Christopher Dewald, customer support representative for MCTV and 6-year colleague with Howe. "I feel that education on personal finances and credit is lacking with many younger people and I am glad I've had my conversations with David."
"Credit scores are critically important," continued Howe. "They impact and control our financial lives. Credit can determine if you can rent a car at the airport, get and maintain a job, obtain the most favorable insurance rates, how much deposit you may pay for phone and cable, or whether you're able to rent an apartment.
"Credit is not a game but people who don't play lose," stated Howe.
"As an experienced credit manager, I argue that every consumer should seek the highest possible credit score and pursue the maximum point-buffer to ensure the most favorable terms and opportunities while navigating life's financial events. Consumers struggling with difficult financial situations should also focus careful attention on their credit. Everyone should understand that credit can be redeemed no matter the situation or life event. No one should agonize over their credit. There are always options."
"Finally, it's time for the certified financial planners and the other 'experts' to stop selling America short with the same advice they mimic constantly. Credit is too crucial a subject and we should reject distractions like the recent blog from Credit.com's Christine DiGangi (http://blog.credit.com/2014/04/this-guy-put-out-a-press-release-about-getting-a-perfect-credit-score-80430/). Although I'll concede that obsession over maintaining a perfect score is not a healthy or prudent pursuit, I'll never deny that a deep understanding of the details of one's personal credit should occupy much more than an occasional concern."
"FICO, with its trademark displayed conspicuously on its corporate website, announces 'Make Every Decision Count.' I couldn't agree more," concluded Howe. "Therefore, let's make every single decision count while also making every single point count."
About SubscriberWise (www.subscriberwise.com)
SubscriberWise® launched as the first U.S. issuing consumer reporting agency exclusively for the cable industry in 2006. In 2009, SubscriberWise and TransUnion announced a joint marketing agreement for the benefit of America's independent cable operators (http://www.subscriberwise.com/TransUnionJointMarketing.pdf). Today SubscriberWise is a risk management preferred-solutions provider for the National Cable Television Cooperative.
SubscriberWise is a U.S.A. federally registered trademark of the SubscriberWise Limited Liability Co. The SubscriberWise mark was declared incontestable by the USPTO in 2013.
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We went there assuming it would be nice but easy given the website says the ziplines are accessible to 6 years old, there is an easy 30 minute hike and they highlight the fact that their ziplines are safe, rather than long, fast, etc. Boy, what a (mostly good) surprise! The ziplines are in a vertical cliff, the hike is...
This was so awesome. All the employees are super friendly and speak English. The climb up was not that hard and I do not consider myself a very athletic person. If you have the time and extra 80 bucks then it is money well spent!
Ziplining with Daniel and Eric was the highlight of my trip (next to climbing Machu Picchu)! I never zip lined before so I didnm't know what to expect, but it was amazing! Even the steep hike at the beginning was exciting. The view during the hike and zipline was picturesque. The best part is that you feel safe the entire...
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This was seriously a once in a lifetime experience and well worth the price and distance! We chose the via Ferrara climb, sky lodge stay, and zip line down the next day. The climb is no joke (for a non-rock climber) as it is 1200 ft straight up the mountain. There are metal step like climbing a ladder, as well...
I had never zip lined before and went on this excursion along with a group I was with. With 0 experience, I was able to do all 7 zip lines. The guides are so friendly and helpful!! They offered to carry my sweatshirt since it ended up being much warmer than i expected and I did not have a day...
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Beer Snobbery
I've been lucky this month to have enjoyed some great new beers – perhaps too many, but what's "too" mean? I enjoyed the first set of tasty brews while on a conference trip to Middletown, Connecticut, two weeks ago. I had an Allagash White with my lunchtime pizza. It's a common-enough beer, but one I hadn't had. It complemented the two massive slices of New York-style pizza perfectly.
Later that evening, out for dinner with friends and colleagues, I had two light, delicious, well-balanced Connecticut ales – Thomas Hooker's blonde and Thimble Island's American – which had one of the best labels I've ever seen:
Then, after dinner, we headed over to an interesting taproom just up the street, Eli Cannon's, which I'd read about before the trip. The ambiance and decor was almost overwhelming, frankly, and the tap list was ridiculously long – something like 70 beers. I was excited to try some unknown dark beers from East Coast brewers, but I was surprised and a little disappointed to find that the list was dominated by pale ales and india pale ales. I tried to get a flight of dark beers, but could only get two that I hadn't already drunk! Still, the two non-dark beers were both fine – Secret Agent X9, a Belgian by Middletown's tiny Stubborn Beauty brewery, and Eli Cannon's own 21st Anniversary ale – and the two new-to-me darks were great: Wolaver's oatmeal stout out of Vermont and the Green Flash Silva Stout from San Diego (so much for the East Coast thing). I hadn't heard of the first, but had long looked for the second, and enjoyed both of them very much. The Green Flash was especially good, a very deep vanilla-toned stout with just a hint of its bourbon-barrel aging.
After the conference goings-on each day, a revolving group of us went back to Eli Cannon's for nightcaps. I had the Wolaver's and the Green Flash again and on our last visit, the Mission Gose by Evil Twin. I'd had and enjoyed a couple Gose beers, but this was a crazy, insanely tart beer that was not at all the right thing at 10 p.m. in a dim taphouse. After dinner on a hot, sunny patio, yes. Having a super-low alcohol content, though, I felt okay about cleansing the palate with another glass of the Silva.
In addition to the beers at Eli Cannon's, I was lucky to have some good stuff at the conference dinners, which are usually centered on wine – not my cup of tea. This year we could find good local stuff, including the outstanding coffee stout from Thimble Island and the Trappist ale from Spencer Brewery in Massachusetts. The Trappist was unusual and amazingly good – for me, an ideal dessert beer.
My sampling of regional beers didn't end when I came home. My friend and colleague Ryan at Franklin & Marshall has a side business, A Case for Beer, in which he assembles twelve-pack "Flight Kits" of interesting local beers. I'd have loved to get his Connecticut kit, but flying home prevented this. I lucked out, though, when two other colleagues, Anne and Ann gave me the two darkest beers from their kit: the Smoke & Dagger Schwarzbier from Jack's Abby in Massachusetts and the Raincloud porter from Foolproof in Rhode Island. Maybe partly because I had to smuggle them home, I found that both were exceptionally good beers. The Cloak & Dagger was maybe the blackest lager I've ever had, a heavy mouthful of smoke. The Raincloud also had a delicious smokiness, but it ended in a little hop kick, which was surprising and pleasant – and came in a pretty can:
All those great beers made July a great beer month, but then last night I went up to St. Paul to meet a friend at the Urban Growler, a new microbrewery in an industrial zone off the new light rail line.
All of their beers looked great, so I had a flight, which included their "flagship" cream ale, their IPA, and their "City Dale" session ale (all perfectly fine but not my thing) as well as three insanely great and creative beers. One was their smooth "De-Lovely" porter, which we enjoyed with a shot of coffee in it. The second was a Witbier made with rhubarb, which lent the beer a slightly sweet but understatedly tart flavor. The last, called the Sticky Rice, was something new to me: a Wit made with rice, mango, coconut, and ginger. I thought it was outstanding. The snap of the ginger made it ideal to sip on the darkening patio with lots of other happy beer-drinkers around. I'm eager to go up there again in a few months to try the new stuff on the menu.
The State of Superior
I was probably in elementary school when I first heard people talking about how the area where we lived, Michigan's Upper Peninsula – a.k.a. Upper Michigan, the U.P., or now, "da Yoop," – could or even should be a separate state.
This state – North Michigan or perhaps Superior – ought to be separate, the thinking went, due to the stark geographical and demographic differences between the U.P. and the Lower Peninsula – a.k.a. the L.P., "the Mitten," or just "Michigan." Anyhow, the only reason "we" were part of Michigan was the stupid compromise with Ohio over Toledo.
I didn't know then, but was fascinated to learn later, that (as Wikipedia says in its article on Superior) Yoopers had agitated for the area's statehood in the years just before I was born in the U.P.'s southermost city. This agitation in fact reached a high point just after I was born, with an unsuccessful effort to pull the U.P. and the northerly parts of Wisconsin out of their respective states and combine them into a new state, something like this, which I saw recently on the amazing Lost States blog:
I loved the idea then and I love the idea now, even as I recognize that a state of Superior would probably be unfeasible, if not terrible, as a political or economic entity. (Recent-ish news coverage of the idea says as much here in the Detroit Free Press and here in the New Republic.)
One of the reasons that Superior would not be a great state is it's big and empty – Wyoming, but all forests; Alaska, but no tundra. Wikipedia says in its entry on the U.P. (the actual place, not the imaginary state) that "the Upper Peninsula remains a predominantly rural region. As of the 2010 census, the region had a population of 311,361," of whom only a third live in one of the twelve towns that have populations greater than 4,000 people.
Even if Superior included both all of the current U.P. and the Wisconsin counties that (or almost) border da Yoop*, you'd only get a total population (if you believe those lying liars at the U.S. Census) of 410,340. This scattering of humans over almost 22,000 square miles would make Superior – as of the 2010 census – the state with the smallest population, well behind Wyoming's throng of 563,626. (The numbers would rise a little, but not much, if you included the several other Wisconsin counties that the Lost States map above include within Superior.)
For comparison's sake, Wyoming's capital, Cheyenne, had a population of 92,000 in 2010 – a third bigger than Marquette County, the most populous county in Superior, and 425% bigger than Marquette city, which, with a population of 21,355 in 2010, is the most populous city in the U.P. Superior. Marquette – as the putative capital of Superior – would be the fourth-smallest state capital, bigger only than teeny-tiny Montpelier (just 7,855 people lived there in 2010!), Pierre, and Augusta.
And like many a rural, underpopulated state full of white people and public lands and almost wholly dependent on tourism and natural resources (in the U.P., lumbering and mining), Superior would probably be a blood-red state. In 2012, all but two U.P.'s counties went for Romney in 2012, and all but one supported the (horrifyingly bad) Republican governor. The U.P.'s fifteen counties – grouped in Michigan's first congressional district – have elected Republican and Tea Partier Dan Benishek to the House of Representatives in 2010, 2012, and 2014.
So yes, Superior is a terrible idea.
But still, we can have some fun with the idea, right? A few facts, ideas, and guesses about what Superior would be like:
- Capital: Marquette (see above)
- Electoral votes: 3
- Industries: lumber, mining (maybe), tourism (including lots of outdoor sports in all four seasons)
- Coastline: about 2,000 miles on three Great Lakes (more than any other state – even post-Superior Michigan, which would only have about 1,500 miles)
- Flag: a white pine tree, green against a blue background
- Metal: Iron! Copper! Iron! Copper! How about cunife, the little-known alloy of iron and copper (and that non-U.P. metal, nickel)? Nah, let's go with iron, since there are dozens of places whose names include "iron" (e.g., Ironwood) but only a few named for copper. (Copper Harbor is pretty awesome, though.)
- Animal: moose or wolf
- Bird: Canada goose or maybe the chickadee
- Good: the pasty!
- Drink: coffee, eh, and maybe som'dat beer (the U.P. has fifteen breweries and brewpubs!)
- Mystery: the Paulding Light (which isn't much of a mystery anymore)
- Interstate highways: one, the stretch of I-75 running from St. Ignace to the Soo
- National parks: one, Isle Royale, though the U.P. also contains other amazing spots such as
- Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore and eight federal wilderness areas,
- the Keweenaw National Historical Park that's partly in my hometown,
- about twenty state parks, and
- two national forests, the Hiawatha in the center and east and the Ottawa in the west, in which my family's "hunting camp" was located and which is thus obviously the better one.
- State university: Northern Michigan University, or rather, Superior State U. (hell yes to that name, amirite?)
- Rivals: Trolls – those who live "below the bridge" in the Lower Peninsula (the bridge being the mighty Mackinac – five miles long, the fifth longest suspension bridge in the world.
- Holidays: St. Urho's Day and the first day of deer season
- Sports teams:
- baseball: Milwaukee Brewers or Detroit Tigers, though leaning toward Detroit
- hockey: Detroit Red Wings
- basketball: Detroit Pistons
- football: Green Bay Packers
- Titletown is only about 175 miles from Marquette, versus about 400 miles to Minneapolis and 450 to Detroit, so it's definitely not even a question don't get me started. GO PACK GO!
* Running west to east, Ashland, Iron, Vilas, Forest, Florence, and Marinette. The latter is the most populous in the group, and would be the second-most populous county in the state, after Marquette County in Michigan Superior.
Tinkering with the Buffalo
I've just set up the Buffalo for our next races.
My first change was up front. I love my Jones bars, but I learned at the Chequamegon that they weren't great for trail riding. I swapped them out for the pair of flat bars that Ben Doom put on the bike when he originally built it up. After about ten hours of riding, I can tell that the flat bars are much better for twisty-turny trail riding. I'll put the Jones bars back on for next winter's training and racing, when I want an upright cruising position.
The bigger adjustment was changing from a 2x gearing setup to a 1x setup – the SRAM X1 system. I'd had all kinds of trouble with the bike's original 2x components (loose crank arms, rattling bottom bracket, crummy shifting) and I'd started to worry about a major mechanical failure. Tom at Downtown Bikes swapped out the old stuff for the new system while I was traveling last week, and After three hours on the new setup, the 1x seems to be a lot better in all these areas. My connection to the bike through the cranks and BB feels rock solid, and the shifting across the cassette is smooth and quick. I'm eager to see how the system performs at the Maah Daah Hey 100 on August 1 – and in my other races during the rest of this "off-season" and over next winter. I've gotta say, too, that the 1x feels pretty pro.
Business Travel: A Joy of the Knowledge Worker's Life
Attending conferences is one of the best parts of my job, up there near learning about faculty members' projects and booking grants. Many summers, I attend the annual gathering of colleagues from some (we like to think, "almost all") of the best liberal arts colleges in the country.
It's always a great meeting, a place to gather valuable information about grantmaking to "LACs" around the country, to talk with fifty or so peers about life at and beyond work, and not least to see other campuses and college towns. Ten years into this job, I realize that a huge fraction of all the traveling I've done in my life has been for this conference or another, similar one that's held in the fall. Going to one or the other meeting, I've been able to see Connecticut College in New London, the University of Richmond in Virginia, Siena College and Skidmore College in upstate New York; St. Michael's College in Burlington, Vermont; Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington; Grinnell College in Iowa; Ursinius College outside Philadelphia; Denison University in Granville, Ohio; and Mills College in Oakland.
This year's meeting was at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut – a campus I visited a couple years ago. The Wesleyan campus is gorgeous, Middletown is picturesque, and the customary "excursion" on the last night of the conference took us to a yacht club in Essex, a quaint village on the Connecticut River. It was hard not to find something gorgeous to look at:
This year I felt especially tuned in to the meeting because the Northfield colleges – Carleton and St. Olaf – are hosting this conference next year. Only 51 weeks till our friends arrive!
Independence from Bedtime Day
July Fourth has been one of those holidays that's been hard for the Tassava family to truly embrace. Ours isn't a diet that easily incorporates grilled meat, for instance, and the girls' former troubles with traveling, staying up late, or staying up late while traveling meant that we only finally "went somewhere for the Fourth" last year, when we both journeyed to the U.P. to spend the holiday with my mom and to see fireworks – which, in da Yoop, happen very late.
This year, my mom came down to see us, which made the holiday a lot simpler, and the girls were able both to stay up late enough to enjoy sparklers and fireworks and to sleep in a little bit the next day. So surprised were we by the latter development that I didn't even plan to take them to the fireworks in Northfield. But after we burned off a million sparklers,
I got a text from a friend saying that the fireworks were imminent. I piled the girls into the car, zipped over to the spot where they were watching, and soaked in the experience. The girls loved it. What's not to love?
And the next day, they even kinda slept in!
Easy Riding
Since the Crashquamegon a couple weeks ago, I've taken it pretty easy – daily sessions at the gym, but no long rides till today, when the stars aligned such that I could spend the whole day out in the Buffalo. I picked out a route over some of my favorite roads, aiming to hit some new MTB trails for a an hour of trail riding before an easy ride home.
As luck would have it, the ride took place in amazingly great conditions – cool early but rising to about 80° F, a cooling westerly breeze, bright sunshine, a crisp blue sky. Through I hammered the hills as hard as I could, I took it easy at other times. I wound up with 63 miles in my legs over 5:30 of ride time and soaked up some great views.
Pedal Power
I probably actually wrecked this pedal when I smacked it off a curb or something, but I imaginarily crushed it with an extraordinarily powerful downstroke.Crushed Pedal
Area Man Leaves Committee
Today – July 1, 2015 – was my first day since starting at Carleton (in October 2005) that I was not a member of the College's Institutional Review Board, the federally-mandated committee that oversees all of the research on "human subjects" (i.e., any living person) conducted by Carleton faculty, staff, and students or at Carleton by others.
I've enjoyed serving on Carleton's IRB. As a member of the board and then, over the past nine months, the chair of the board, I've found the work thoroughly educational, pleasingly challenging, and, I hope, institutionally valuable. If nothing else, I got to see virtually all of the human-subjects research happening on campus, which has been an amazing boon to my work raising money for research by Carleton faculty.
My service on the IRB actually predates being a grantwriter at the College. Even before my first day on the job, I came down to campus to meet the professor who was then chair of the IRB and participate in a seminar led by a visiting expert on human-subjects research.
When I formally started my job a few weeks later, I joined the IRB, learned the review process, and started reviewing cases. Over the nearly ten years I was on the Board, I saw its caseload increase from about 70 a year (an average of 1.3 cases a week) to – just this last year – more than 130 (2.5 cases a week). As a member of the committee, I helped to reconfigure the IRB's membership, to update our application and review systems, to do "outreach" with students, and to stay current on the sloooowly changing federal regulations concerning human subjects. I also reviewed a crapload of cases – about 200 of them over those ten years, just under 20% of all the cases that came through.
It'll be nice to have a break!
My Ten Hardest Races (so far)
One thing I do remember about the horrible, wonderful, no-good, so-great Cheq 100 last weekend was a lot of thinking about where the race fell in my personal top-ten list of hard races.
This is narcissistic, I know, but dammit, I love them all.
While very eager to do races in the future that will get onto this list, here is the current top ten, in descending order:
10. The Lutsen 99er in June 2014. Not especially demanding physically, this race was my first mountain bike race. If nothing else, the sheer quantity of mud made this one memorable. I'd do it again, for sure! 8h 44m, 282nd of 421 finishers.Lutsen 99er
9. The Royal 162 in May 2014: At 165 miles (the 162 miles of the course, plus 3 bonus miles after a wrong turn), this was my longest-ever ride – so far! Though conditions were pretty good, this was just a long freaking way to ride bikes. Thank god Derek was there for company. 14h 23m, 39th of 51.Deek at the Royal
8. The Almanzo 100 in May 2011: (part I | part II | part III) My first gravel-century race, run in cold, wet conditions that made the riding slow and dirty and tough. I loved it as an event in its own right and as my introduction to ultradistance racing. 9h 8m, 80/150.Almanzo 100 (2011)
7. The Heck of the North in September 2014: The distance – 108 miles – wasn't that bad, and the course was great, but my rear derailleur blew up at about mile 80, so I had to do some jury-rigging to convert my Salsa Vaya to a singlespeed and then limp in to the finish. 9h 55m, 139/174.
6. The Inspiration 100 in September 2013: Another gravel century, but run in temps above 90 and a heat index near or above 100. Heat exhaustion was a major factor, but I still managed a fast (for me) time: 7h 7m, 22/78.Inspiration 2013
5. The Cheq 100 in June 2015. This was a very hard race of attrition in which I didn't get the result I wanted (a finish in the full 100-mile race). Pending my race in North Dakota in August, the Cheq now my #1 "off-season" goal for 2016. 10h 45m, something like 20/30.
4. The Arrowhead 135 in January 2015: Coming in well trained, decently rested (two weeks after #3, below), and very, very eager, I rode what I think is my best race here in pretty much perfect conditions. 19h 30m, 26/77.Finish Line Grin
3. JayP's Backyard Fat Pursuit in January 2015: I worked so freaking hard at getting this race right. I tested my clothing, gear, and bike, I thought incessantly about my race strategy, and I trained like mad. It paid off with a solid effort and a finish of the full 126 miles. 26h 25m, 30/39.Finished!
2. JayP's Backyard Fat Pursuit in March 2014 (part I | part II | part III): Run along the Continental Divide where Idaho, Wyoming, and Montana meet, this was my first race at any kind of altitude. What the elevation didn't take out of me, the brutally slow snow did. I couldn't finish this one, getting pulled off the course at 100 miles by the race director after 32 hours of racing. I'd say this was the low point in my personal history of bike racing, but I drew a lot of motivation from my "honorary finish." Not only did I return the next year to ride smarter and faster and to finish (see #X above), but I've treasured the connections I made to this race's people and land.Fat Pursuit 2014
1. The Arrowhead 135 in January 2014: my first and still the hardest fatbike race I've done. I'd never done race of longer than about 12 hours, but this one took me more than 24 hours, thanks in large part to temperatures that infamously ranged from -20° to -40° made the riding difficult, to say the least, but I stuck it out, teaching myself that I could do a lot more than I thought I could. 29h 9m, and a top-ten finish – 7/30.Wakemup Hill
Montage of Heck
Last night, I finally watched Montage of Heck, the recent documentary about Kurt Cobain by Brett Mogren. The film was moving, as I expected (or worried), and pleasingly focused on Cobain's and Nirvana's music. (The dude could shred on the guitar.) The music was in fact the centerpiece of the film: album and live tracks of classic Nirvana tunes, rarities and covers by others (a plinking, nursery-rhyme version of "All Apologies" early in the film gave me chills), and – surprisingly to me – actual pages of lyrics from Cobain's own voluminous notebooks. Seeing the original lyrics to "Frances Farmer" magnified the impact of that amazing song, which is maybe my favorite. The animations of the notebook pages, and of key scenes in Cobain's life, were a nice touch, highlighting the fact that Cobain was a talented visual artist – something I didn't know about him.
Of course the film is also and maybe mostly about Cobain's life, and incidentally about his death, which is treated far too abruptly. I wished that the Mogren had dealt even more with Cobain's biography. After an excruciating look at his childhood, the film switches over almost entirely to the band just before Bleach. I can understand that choice, but given the detailed examination of Cobain's youth, I wanted even more about being Courtney Love's husband and Frances' father. (Courtney does not come off well from the film.)
Maybe I was just falling prey to the tendency of a fan to also be a voyeur, which Cobain himself loathed in his ugliest moments and which he tried to redirect to his art in his best. Midway through the film, some journalist asks Cobain why he can't or won't explain his songs to his fans. "There's nothing to be said, man," Kurt replies, visibly exhausted by the question. "It's all in the music, man, it's all in the music. It's all in the meat… I'd like to hear what they have, have in mind, you know, like, how they interpret it."
It's a simple notion, but a profound one. Even if he were still alive, I could never explain to Cobain just what his music – Bleach, Nevermind, In Utero, Unplugged, From the Muddy Banks, and all the rest – meant and means to me. It's literally too much. Too much noise, too much rage, too much humor, too much beauty, too much feeling. Maybe, finally, Cobain is a kind of sacrificial lamb for me. The feelings that poured out of him created a kind of hole where I could and can stuff my own feelings. For that, I have to thank him – even if I also wish he were still around to make more music for me, and for us, and for himself.
Summer's Evening
What a day, man. The big event was that the Supreme Court handed down its ruling that legalized gay marriage thought the U.S. Somehow this made family seem even more important to me, so I was happy to get home in time for a great dinner – made by the girls! – and a long evening of warmth and sun.
The girls and I did a little bit of everything. In the full light, we played basketball and catch out front,
then went for a bike ride to watch the swallows catch mosquitoes over the ponds and admire a colossal cumulonimbus cloud far to the southeast.
As the sun set, we went to the backyard to watch for and try to catch fireflies. We also saw a couple bats, which was great.
Then after dark we set up Vivi's telescope to look at the moon (which our neighbor Meg told us is called tsuki in Japanese), and Julia got put her guitar to play a few notes.
Summer is only four days old! I'm spent. Time to finish this beer and go to bed.
Summer Practice
Today was one of those humid, hot days in which summer practices for July and August. What the day lacked in truly unpleasant heat and humidity, it promises to deliver in thunder and lightning…


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DEERFIELD, Ill. -- Vinny Del Negro's future with the Chicago Bulls has been a hot topic in NBA circles for months, but his players don't want to think about the likelihood that their coach will be fired as soon as the season is over.
Del Negro's deteriorating relationship with Bulls management has been well-documented, including a physical altercation with vice president John Paxson.
The Bulls trail the Cleveland Cavaliers 3-1 with Game 5 on Tuesday in Cleveland.
"Those are things as players that we can't really control," Bulls center Joakim Noah said after Bulls practice on Monday afternoon. "I think our mindset is just to be ready for [Tuesday's] game.
"I think that we're in this all together. During the year, a lot of things happened. There's a lot of rumors, a lot of speculation. Some things are better kept internal, kind of like a family, or a frat. Kind of like that."
When pushed by a reporter that many fans may be wondering about Del Negro's future, Noah didn't open up.
"I agree with that," he said. "But that doesn't mean you guys have to know everything.
"As long as we fight every day on the court for you guys, what else do you need to know?"
Noah clearly didn't want to talk about his coach's future before his team's biggest game of the season.
"How about we just focus on the game tomorrow and see what happens," he said. "When the season's over, you'll figure it out.
"I think that's it's just important to live in the moment. I'm enjoying this. We got smacked by 30 [on Sunday]. I still think we're in a good situation right now; getting to play on the biggest stage in the world. Hopefully try to battle it out [Wednesday] against the best players in the world. I think that's pretty cool."
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