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Airbus has filed a seat patent that appears to pack people in without all the clunky cushions and awkward folding tables, in an apparent bid to save valuable space on its aircraft.
Its cushions are shaped liked bicycle saddles, and when the seats aren't being used, they fold vertically to save space. Cutting down all that "bulk," as the patent application puts it, lets you do a lot more with the limited real estate on board.
This could potentially make air travel even more economical than it already is. If you're willing to put up with it — and most people would be, Airbus predicts, so long as the flights are short — it'd be far more efficient than the way we currently fly, loading huge metal-and-plastic contraptions onto planes just so they can cradle our fleshy rear ends.
But if you squint, the thing looks more like a medieval torture device than lounging equipment. Not to mention all the features you'd lose: Do people eat from their laps? Plug headphones into that pipe-shaped thing? Do the cushions float? And even with all the leg room it looks like you'd open up, reclining looks practically impossible.
Airbus openly acknowledges that packing more passengers on board is going to result in reduced comfort, and that the goal is basically to figure out how far they can go without inciting an airborne revolt.
"Reduced comfort remains tolerable for the passengers in as much as the flight lasts only one or a few hours," Airbus sagely calculates, before going on to explain why reducing leg room provides diminishing returns:
"This second solution has also been pursued hitherto," the patent application reads, "and it is difficult to continue to further reduce this distance between the seats because of the increase in the average size of the passengers."
Yes, defending your God-given right to leg room has come down to using your waistline as a weapon.
Zooming out for a wider view only enhances the likeness to an ancient Greek galley. Windows might soon be replaced by oars, or a handlebar-bike pedal combination. On the bright side, perhaps manual labor might lead to modest airfare refunds.
Who am I kidding? Your complimentary in-flight beatings will continue until morale improves.
Hat tip: L.A. Times.
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Johannesburg - The petrol price is set to increase by 39 cents a litre next week Wednesday, the department of energy announced.
The wholesale price of all grades of diesel is set to increase by 24.20 cents a litre.
The wholesale price of illuminating paraffin is set to increase by 12 cents a litre and the single maximum national retail price of paraffin is set to increase by 16 cents a litre.
The maximum retail price of liquefied petroleum gas is set to increase by 54 cents a litre on Wednesday, 5 February 2014.
"The average international product prices of petrol slightly increased whilst diesel and illuminating paraffin decreased during the period under review," the department of energy said in a statement.
"The average rand/US dollar exchange rate weakened when compared to the previous period. The average rand/US dollar exchange rat for the period December 27, 2013 to January 30, 2014 was 10.8105 compared to 10.3581 during the previous period," the department added.
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August 1, 2015
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Kristin Kelly, Smart Growth Director 425-923-8625
Mission Statement: Working with Snohomish County local governments, the Smart Growth Program strives to achieve more livable, sustainable urban communities and protection of resource and rural lands, air and water quality and wildlife habitat through education, outreach, activism and advocacy regarding land use comprehensive planning and development regulations.
Everett, Washington
Published: Thursday, October 9, 2014, 12:01 a.m.
Guest Commentary / County land-use planning
Steer growth to cities' urban areas where services are
By Kristin Kelly
We all deserve the opportunity to live and work in a great neighborhood where we have a chance to succeed.
But for too long, thoughtless sprawl consumed our region's farms, forests and rural areas. Middle class families were pushed to rural subdivisions, creating longer commutes with increasingly congested roads, more expensive household costs, disconnected communities and loss of open space.
Now is a pivotal moment for Snohomish County's fight against sprawl.
By 2035, Snohomish County will have a population of about 955,000. That means we'll have 200,000 new neighbors looking for jobs, homes and services. Planning wisely now about how our land will be used in 20 years is critical to successfully protect what we love about this county.
County leaders are evaluating where and how our communities will provide the homes and jobs we need to accommodate our growing population. This decision will lock us into a growth pattern that if done wrong, will have significant costs to taxpayers and households, not to mention on our land, air and water.
It's our choice whether we go the route of high-cost sprawl or low-cost compact growth. It is a choice between focusing growth in Everett, Lynnwood and other cities, or putting more subdivisions in rural areas around outlying small cities such as Sultan, next to our prime agricultural land west of I-5, outside of Arlington, and where water availability to serve rural development is questionable.
Unfortunately, special interests are pressuring the county to choose the high-cost route. They are pushing to open up more land to development, supposedly to help meet the county's increased demand for affordable housing.
Let's be honest. Placing more of our future neighbors on the outer fringes of the county will not magically create affordable housing. More houses far away from services and with higher transportation costs aren't a solution; they're part of the problem. According to analysis from the Center For Neighborhood Technology, the most affordable places to live in our region are within city limits, when transportation costs are taken into account.
Expanding community services into the non-urbanized areas of the county are a burden on existing taxpayers. Developing neighborhoods from scratch means that we, and our tax dollars, subsidize the new roads, new utility lines, new school construction, along with other public facilities and services. And the costs to our health and to future generations also increase when we don't do more to ensure clean air and water.
To lessen the impact on our wallets and environment, most new jobs and housing — including affordable housing for all income groups — should be focused in our largest cities rather than overwhelm our smallest towns and rural areas.
The county's analysis — its Buildable Lands Report — shows we don't need to pave over more land. Instead, we need to better utilize our existing urban footprint by focusing more growth in key areas of Everett and Lynnwood, our two largest cities.
With Sound Transit and Community Transit's SWIFT rapid bus line serving both communities, these cities can help meet the demand from seniors and millennials who want to use transit to get to work and live closer to basic services. Evergreen Way/Highway 99 is ripe for redevelopment to create well-designed, walkable and affordable mixed-use centers.
We need to work together to find solutions that will create more equitable communities, more local jobs and more affordable housing — and stop subsidizing poorly planned development on the urban fringe.
Sprawl is not the answer, it's the problem. Let's get this right, Snohomish County.
Kristin Kelly is Snohomish/Skagit program director for the statewide organization Futurewise, and Smart Growth director for Pilchuck Audubon Society. To find out more about both organizations, visit their websites at www.futurewise.org and www.pilchuckaudubon.org.
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Snohomish County is home to some of the most productive forest and farmland, and diverse fish and wildlife habitat of anywhere in the United States. Snohomish County's shorelines are among the most valuable and fragile of Washington's natural resources. Native fish, birds, wildlife and the lake, estuarine, and riparian ecosystems that support them, depend on strong critical area and shoreline protections.
Snohomish County is now home to over 700,000 residents and the prediction is that by the year 2025, this county will grow to 950,000 people. In fact, over the past decade, Snohomish County has grown by 30 percent, outstripping Washington's overall population growth by almost 50 percent. Salmon habitat, farmland, and open space in our densely populated urban areas are being converted to housing developments and shopping malls at alarming rates. The effects of this growth is impacting our urban neighborhoods; the increase of large rural cluster developments are forever changing the rural landscape; and the pressure to build a new city of 15,000 people out in the pristine rural areas that lack adequate infrastructure is real. The increase in impervious surfaces from roads and rooftops has led to more run-off and pollution of our streams and rivers and lakes, and the loss of wildlife habitat still continues despite some good efforts.
Rapid growth is a threat to the sustainability of our natural resources and rural lands, and will continue to greatly impact our wildlife and their habitats if Snohomish County's planning process and regulations do not address protections of these areas adequately. As pressures from the development community grows to expand urban growth areas, to allow for more development in our sensitive areas, to rezone open space, forest and farm land into homes, we must be there to educate citizens and help them be involved in the public process to ensure their quality of life.
Pilchuck Audubon Society is part of a larger coalition of organizations, groups and individuals who will be working toward positive change in Snohomish County in order to have more livable communities and protect our environment. The coalition is currently named the Livable Snohomish County Coalition. If you would like to be more involved, please join our coalition to work on a proactive agenda for our future. For more details, contact Kristin Kelly at 425.923.8625 or e-mail firstname.lastname@example.com.
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Nature didn't give Chicago its glorious shoreline. Good planning did. But today, the city faces the future without a clear vision for the lakefront. In a six-part series, Tribune architecture critic Blair Kamin offers a view of the problems and promise of our greatest public space.
The lakefront is Chicago's undisputed crown jewel, a timeless treasure that brings dazzling images to mind: of fireworks and bandshells, sailboats dotting blue waters, museums rising like wedding cake from a sweeping expanse of green, skyscraper cliffs winking in the night sky. Our front yard, the lakeshore is, the face Chicago presents to the world.
A Flawed Jewel
But zoom in on the 30-mile stretch of beaches, harbors and parkland between Indiana and Evanston and troubling blemishes appear. What you see is a resource that is in serious imbalance, alternately overwhelmed and underachieving, a carelessly treated beauty that has lost much of its sheen.
The lakefront and its parks represent a legacy of incalculable value, a testament to visionaries such as Daniel Burnham, who, more than 100 years ago, recognized that public spaces made better democracies, better citizens and better lives. It is remarkable that what Burnham and others conceived so long ago still serves us in so many ways.
Yet, inexplicably, we have done little to build upon that legacy. The lakefront is at once a victim of our poverty of imagination and the crippling consequences of its own success.
As good as it is, the lakefront could be so much more. It could realize its vast potential if we just had a vision -- and the will -- to act on it.
Here is what new or revamped public space along Lake Michigan could do:
It could help bridge the racial chasm that has long split Chicago.
It could begin to lift entire neighborhoods out of oblivion.
It could heal us physically, especially as the population ages, and could be an ever-renewable source of peace and fulfillment.
It could be a democratizing influence, allowing people from diverse backgrounds to mix and come to appreciate one another.
It could celebrate not only dead presidents and generals, but also the so-called ordinary men and women who endured extraordinary hardships to build this nation.
All this, which would enrich our lives immeasurably, is within our grasp.
Yet we are missing our chance.
The lakefront, whose 3,000 acres of parkland, 29 beaches and 8 harbors attract an estimated 65 million visits a year, is off the public policy radar screen. The city has been lulled by a booming economy and the illusion that Mayor Richard M. Daley, well-known for beautifying the city, has everything in hand when, in reality, he doesn't.
"The people and the powers that be in Chicago came to take the lakefront for granted," says Lee Botts, former director of the Lake Michigan Federation, a not-for-profit group devoted to the lake. "They have continued to brag about it, tout its virtues and its values to the city while they continue to let it fall apart."
The lakefront needs more than the mayor's Martha Stewart-izing.
It deserves city planning as well as civic decorating.
It requires a forceful hand to bring together the Balkanized multitude of federal, state and local agencies that have split the people's shoreline into fiefdoms -- someone who can either coax or bully their leaders into pursuing a common vision.
Consider the state of the lakefront now, 25 years after the Oct. 24, 1973, passage of the city's Lakefront Protection Ordinance, a historic piece of legislation that stopped huge commercial projects such as McCormick Place from desecrating any more public land along Lake Michigan:
- If someone from a foreign land were to traverse the lakefront for the first time, that visitor would see two Chicagos. One north, the other south. One mostly affluent and white, the other largely poor and black.
The very park named for Burnham, which sits on the stretch of the south lakefront lined with high-rise public housing, is a monument to neglect and inequality, a rubble-strewn landscape that lacks the basic facilities, from restaurants to restrooms, that most parkgoers take for granted.
A few miles north, where luxury high-rises overlook Lake Shore Drive, Lincoln Park has everything one could ask for: a zoo, harbors, cafes and lagoons. Yet it is so overused and crowded that one sometimes risks life and limb by going there.
Next year's opening of the $30 million Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum at the already jammed intersection of Fullerton Parkway and Cannon Drive can only make things worse.
- Go to Grant Park and you find a lonely place with a world-famous fountain trapped behind a fence. When the city needs room for a million festival revelers, Grant Park fills the bill. But during the rest of the year, it is almost desolate because its spaces are not designed to a human scale.
- Go to the shoreline, where the revetments -- the blocks of stone that are supposed to guard the parks from the lake's pounding -- are partially in ruins. The great rocks also are intended to allow parkgoers to stroll or sit on their stairlike tiers. But in many spots they lie upended or splintered, recalling a landscape that has been bombed.
More than a third of Chicago's 30-mile shoreline -- 11 miles of beaches, breakwaters and revetments -- has been devastated by the lake and must be rebuilt by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers at a cost of $269 million.
Yet the job's planned timetable is so leisurely as to be absurd. It is not scheduled to be completed until 2010. As a result, temporary concrete barriers, already being put in place along South Lake Shore Drive, are needed to stop winter storms from flooding the vital traffic artery.
Meanwhile, two beaches listed on the supposedly definitive Rand-McNally map of Chicago, beaches that the mapmaker says are available for sunbathing at 49th and 67th Streets, simply do not exist. They were allowed to vanish beneath the waters long ago. At 49th Street, there is even the bizarre sight of a beach house but no beach. To go swimming, adventurous teenagers must climb down a series of slippery, jagged rocks.
- Go down to 87th Street and peer behind a chain-link fence where an enormous chunk of land, bigger than the Loop, lies fallow. Once it was home to a huge U.S. Steel mill, the celebrated South Works, which forged the metal that undergirds Sears Tower and other Loop skyscrapers. Here, the potential to make a public space that preserves the history of working people and their contributions to the nation is as yet unrealized.
- Go to any part of the lakefront and you will run into a concrete curtain -- consisting of highways, ramps, the largest convention center in the U.S., and mall-sized parking lots -- that makes getting to the shoreline on foot either difficult or next to impossible. An egregious example: the sea of nearly 5,000 parking spaces, operated by the Chicago Park District, that surrounds Soldier Field.
"Is the Park District in the parking business or the parks business?" asks Erma Tranter, executive director of Friends of the Parks, a not-for-profit civic group.
Lincoln Park's crammed bicycle path, where cyclists, joggers, strollers, Rollerbladers and even mothers with baby strollers jostle for space on a strip of asphalt just eight feet wide, is a classic example of how changing trends in recreation have caught the Chicago Park District flat-footed.
As recently as the 1930s, bicycles weren't even allowed in Chicago's parks. When the lakefront bike path opened in 1963, no one foresaw the explosion of biking, running and in-line skating that has rendered the path more crowded -- and dangerous -- than many city streets.
New trends threaten to make the lakefront equally out of sync with the people using it.
Some examples:
- With the first of the Baby Boomers due to hit 60 in 2006, the lakefront will soon undergo a huge influx of elderly people. What sort of activities, tailored to their needs, will be available for them at shoreline parks?
- By 2010, Chicago is expected to have fewer whites and more Hispanics, Asians and blacks. That trend matters because, surveys show, different ethnic groups use park land differently. Whites typically come alone or in small groups while those from other cultures tend to arrive in larger contingents and prefer communal activities such as picnicking. How do we accommodate everyone?
- When Chicago was a city of tightly knit neighborhoods, and the pendulum of people's activities often swung between the local church and saloon, a trip to a major park was a special event. People dressed up and took stately promenades. Grant Park, which was modeled on the formal gardens of Versailles, was designed for such a society. But it is ill-suited to the casual, fitness-oriented, Frisbee-throwing lifestyle.
Treated creatively, such challenges represent a chance to make a better lakefront. Yet the city lacks the vision and tools to respond to them.
While the city, the Park District and the Cook County Forest Preserve District this year unveiled a citywide open space plan covering everything from the Chicago River to neighborhood parks, its chapter on the lakefront is a laundry list of vaguely worded policy goals.
One of them calls for "coordinating all lakefront planning and development," but doesn't say who will do the coordinating. Nor have any meaningful steps been taken in the 10 months since the plan was published.
In fact, control over the lakefront is fragmented among a Byzantine collection of agencies that jealously guard their turf. Worse, they often work at cross purposes:
- Lake Shore Drive comes under the purview of the Illinois Department of Transportation, whose top priorities are moving vehicles safely and speedily. But the expresswaylike character of the drive frustrates Park District planners, who want to make it easier for people to walk from the city to the lake.
- The giant McCormick Place convention center and popular Navy Pier are the province of the Metropolitan Pier and Exposition Authority, a quasi-public, city-state agency that seeks to maximize attendance at both facilities. Yet the convention center and pier, which are poorly served by public transit, cause huge traffic jams on the Drive.
- The revetments are the province of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the primary construction agency of the federal government, which is charged with controlling flooding at the least possible cost to American taxpayers. Yet that mission sometimes puts the Corps at odds with the Park District, as when the Corps proposed replacing the shattered revetments with mounds of stone -- a configuration that would prevent parkgoers from walking or sitting on them.
The plan eventually was dropped, but endless delays in the rebuilding have frustrated Daley, who sent senior aides to lobby Vice President Al Gore to speed things up. City officials are now negotiating with the Corps to shift the target date from its original 2010 to 2005.
The list of agencies that control a piece of the lakefront goes on and on. There is the Chicago Transit Authority, which transports people to and from the shoreline. The Chicago Police Department, which patrols the lakefront. The Chicago Department of Transportation, which controls key lakefront roads. The Chicago Plan Commission, which monitors the Lakefront Protection Ordinance. The Chicago Department of Planning and Development, which is supposed to sketch out the future of big lakefront sites such as the former U.S. Steel mill. The Mayor's Office of Special Events, which choreographs city festivals. Commuter railroads, such as Metra, whose trains slice through the lakefront. Even the Federal Aviation Administration, which regulates the airspace around Meigs Field.
Granted, cooperation among some of these entities is possible, as shown by the $90 million rerouting of Lake Shore Drive's northbound lanes and the creation of the Museum Campus, the new cultural complex south of Grant Park. The project was chiefly funded by the Metropolitan Pier and Exposition Authority and carried out by both the city and the state.
But such efforts are the exception rather than the rule. And that has major implications for the shoreline.
During the next 12 years, more than $500 million in public and private funds will be spent on the lakefront, mostly to repair what is already there. Without a coordinated vision that pulls together the disparate efforts of the various players, the lakefront will continue to fall far short of its enormous potential.
Some changes could be made that would cost virtually nothing, such as moving the Chicago Air and Water Show from North Avenue Beach to 31st Street Beach. It would ease congestion in overcrowded Lincoln Park and add vitality to moribund Burnham Park. Granted, the boon would last just one weekend, but the germ of the idea could, to cite a noted planner, let a thousand flowers bloom if other attractions now in Lincoln Park are shifted to the south lakefront.
Other changes can be made by looking holistically at now-isolated projects, such as the $150 million Lakefront Millennium Park at the northwest corner of Grant Park. While the new park will cover an ugly railyard, it will do little to address one of the main reasons Grant Park is underused: giant roads, such as Columbus Drive, with eight lanes that slice through the park, frightening anyone on foot.
The fate of the lakefront transcends Chicago; this is a time when public space is under attack in America as never before.
You see it at sporting events, where the wealthy and powerful sit apart from everyone else in their skyboxes, or in the new gated subdivisions. Terrorist attacks at home and abroad, meanwhile, have turned federal buildings into fortresses rather than symbols of government's openness to the people.
But the lakefront is common ground, a ribbon of green that beckons to a rainbow of humanity -- black, white, red, yellow and brown.
It is what architects call an "edge," a dramatic meeting of two very different things, in this case the fluidity of the water and the solidity of the city.
We are lured to this "edge" for the same reasons that human beings have always beaten a path to oceans, rivers and lakes: At the shoreline, we drink in some of the best of life.
The lakefront is where we enact our secular rituals -- the social rites of summer festivals, tailgating at Bears games, smelt fishing and toasting Bulls championships. Yet for all that it brings us together, it is also a place where we go in search of solitude. As Herman Melville, the author of "Moby Dick," wrote: "Meditation and water are wedded forever."
The Chicago lakefront's importance to the region will only grow because there will be few chances in coming years to add large chunks of waterfront open to all -- even though by 2020 the population of the six-county area is expected to rise to 9.1 million from the current 7.6 million.
For example, at the former U.S. Army base of Ft. Sheridan, surrounded by the North Shore towns of Highland Park, Highwood and Lake Forest, just one mile of publicly accessible beachfront will be created as the base is transformed into housing.
In contrast to the North Shore suburbs, which have privatized their lakefronts, or other American cities, which have industrialized their waterfronts, Chicago has set aside 24 of 30 miles along Lake Michigan as public land.
In other words, Chicago has taken to heart Burnham's ringing declaration: "The lakefront by right belongs to the people."
While the lakefront looks utterly natural, as if a divine hand had reached down and drawn the softly undulating curves that provide a respite from the city's ramrod-straight street grid, the vast majority of the shoreline is, in fact, manmade.
Nearly all the parks along Lake Michigan were hewn from landfill dumped into the lake, beginning with debris from the Great Fire of 1871 and continuing through the creation of the northernmost extension of Lincoln Park in 1957 at Hollywood Avenue.
In a grand illusion, the fill was planted with trees, grass and shrubs, then armored with rocks against the fury of the lake.
Yet precisely because the lakefront is not a work of nature, we should not hesitate to reshape it to serve our needs, physical, emotional and social. The question is how.
Granted, the Lakefront Protection Ordinance has delivered the shoreline from further incursions of the kind represented by Outer Drive East, the T-shaped apartment complex built east of the old Lake Shore Drive S-curve in 1962 and Lake Point Tower, the undulating glass high rise constructed east of the Drive in 1968. But the ordinance's companion document, the 1972 Lakefront Plan, is as outdated as granny glasses and love beads.
Though not without merit, especially in the way it sought to curb pollution of the lake, the plan mostly remains trapped in the assumptions of its time, when Americans still believed traffic engineers held the keys to progress.
"It was a status quo plan, not a visionary plan," says Ald. Mary Ann Smith (48th), chairman of the City Council's committee on parks and recreation.
Without a map of the future, we're lost, as shown by the potential mishandling of two huge projects that offer a chance to dramatically remake the southern half of our front yard.
No master plan has been drafted to coordinate, in a larger context, the $122 million rebuilding of the revetments from 25th Street to 56th Street and the renovation of South Lake Shore Drive between 25th Street and 67th Street -- a job expected to cost about $50 million.
Such projects offer an extraordinary opportunity. The city could use the occasion of the revetment work to bulk up, with landfill, what is now a pencil-thin Burnham Park, making room for a host of new attractions.
The roadwork, meanwhile, could be combined with construction of a series of underpasses and overpasses that would allow safer, easier pedestrian access to the newly enlarged park.
A practical side benefit: a bigger Burnham Park would enhance flood control, sopping up the waters of the lake before they reach Lake Shore Drive.
But this chance to correct the historic imbalance between the north and south lakefronts will pass, perhaps forever, unless the powers that be come up with a detailed plan to coordinate the two projects.
The prospect of such planning gaffes and the overwhelming success of the Museum Campus -- which happened because public agencies worked together -- argue for the creation of a permanent lakefront commission, much like the now-dissolved entity that brought the campus into being.
Appointed by the mayor, the commission could be headed by a powerful civic figure, capable of pulling the levers of power in Chicago, Springfield and Washington -- someone on the order of former Gov. James Thompson, who has a keen interest in architecture and urban planning. Its leader would be charged with getting all the key players in the same room and on the same page.
Such a commission could supervise as well the rewriting of the outdated 1972 Lakefront Plan, drafting a new version for the entire lakefront while overseeing the creation of subplans for key areas such as the south lakefront.
The commission might even raise funds from the business community to underwrite those plans, a role the Commercial Club of Chicago played in the Burnham Plan. At the same time, it could lobby state and national legislators to provide financial support for what is no longer merely a regional attraction, but an international one.
Clearly, the costs of reinventing the lakefront will be huge.
The tab for projects in the works alone exceeds $500 million -- in addition to the $260 million rebuilding of the revetments, the $150 million Lakefront Millennium Park and the $50 million reconstruction of South Lake Shore Drive -- when projects such as a $30 million dedicated bus lane in Grant Park, the $30 million Nature Museum, a $7.5 million parking garage in Lincoln Park, $6 million in federal funds to improve roads leading to the U.S. Steel plant and Daley's $27 million proposal to turn Meigs Field into a park are toted up.
Dollars and cents aside, though, the coin of the realm is vision.
We need a new way of looking at the water's edge, one that represents a maturing of the emerging ecological consciousness that colored the 1972 lakefront plan. Just as in an ecosystem, the fate of one part of the lakefront cannot be separated from that of another.
Both the parts and the whole of Chicago's manmade shoreline must be designed to serve different users at different times of day and in different seasons. Based on that idea, the lakefront can grow out of the needs of our time, adapting to new expressions of our most enduring impulses.
"Our bodies and spirits need the fresh breezes that flow from the water," the architecture critic Wolf Von Eckhardt once said. "We need both its calm and its stimulus. We need the sense of community, the opportunities for festivity, for artistic expression, recreation and commercial bustle that urban waterfront offers. . . . In these often desperate times of anxiety and confusion, we need all this desperately."


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Sony's official E3 teaser video shows a blurry, black box. Is this the future of gaming, also known as Cube?
Sony's E3 conference takes place in Los Angeles on June 10 at 6 p.m. PT. Perhaps we'll get a clearer idea of what the PS4 looks like at that time, along with a price and release date. Right now we have "Holiday 2013," a timeframe that Sony settled on when it announced the PS4 in February.
Microsoft is prepping to reveal its own next-gen console – the new Xbox – tomorrow, May 21, at 10 a.m. PT. We'll have live coverage of that event.
Update: Joystiq reader rcoutant points us to an imgur album of the PS4 hardware in focus and really close-up, pulled right from the video.
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The first 16 seconds of "Sixteen" are everything you need to know about the Stitches. Mike Lohrman counts off, sounding oddly alone, the room echoing behind him. The song lurches: raw, ragged, as low and slow as a B-17 bomber. But before you can finish the thought, they've jumped a beat ahead. "Sixteen" revs up and then doubles over itself. It's all those months of speed and strangling boredom; it's a band fucked up on meth and booze—as they were every session, Lohrman says—just pushing everything out as fast and hard as they can because for all they know, it's going to disappear again into a black hole of white noise, just like the last time they tried to record. There isn't a shred of calculation or restraint in the entire song. It's nothing but instinct—soon to be a Stitches trademark. And when Lohrman counts off again—double time—he's got the entire band behind him, punching every syllable through the back wall. Johnny Sleeper's crash cymbals bleed into every other instrument. It's not like hearing the Sex Pistols for the first time. It's like hearing the Germs' "No God" for the first time. The same initial fake-out, the same lunge for the jugular, the same chaotic potential energy and the same subconscious implications—it makes everything else sound sluggish and obsolete.
That was 1994.
Now, it's 2003 and the Stitches will be playing somewhere this weekend, just as they have for too many weekends to count, and still no one knows what to expect, except—and they transcended the clich� by about 1997—the unexpected. Their first show was 10 years ago this month and all that's changed—besides a few waistlines, and not always in the direction you'd think—is the drummer. That, and the drugs, which had a lot of people worried—and not always for the reasons you think. But the core of the Stitches—singer Mike Lohrman, guitarist Johnny Witmer and bassist Pete Archer—remains immutable, one of the painfully few constants in Orange County music. Between them, they've seen clubs sprout and burn, bands implode or explode onto MTV, kids grow from punky larvae to fronting their own bands, bands that Mike Lohrman might have released records for on his own Vinyl Dog imprint. Beyond the Offspring, beyond even U.S. Bombs or the Hunns, the Stitches are Orange County punk rock, the last band since the Adolescents to so perfectly seize the spirit of a time and place.
But the Stitches' problem has always been that they do it too well. They're too real and that means they're too messy, too dangerous and too unpredictable. Everyone you talk to about them talks in terms of car wrecks to describe the band. And then with their next breath they say, "Best band I ever saw." The Stitches have taken 10 years to release about as many records as most bands make in three and they've done it all—except for a single here and there and their decade-in-the-making full-length—by themselves. Songs just seem to fall off them, raw and lean classics-to-be like "Nowhere" and "Sixteen" and "Automatic" in line to be "Bodies" and "Autonomy" and "Creatures" for kids who aren't even born yet. Still, you wonder what it's all for.
The Stitches should have been big but aren't, should have died but didn't, could have given up but haven't. So why are the Stitches still here? And why are they better than ever?
Ten years ago this summer, Laguna was ready to burn.
In a town some people call Mayberry by the Sea, the crime rate suddenly spiked, running counter to the countywide trend. The dry, dun-colored San Joaquin hills that ring the city had only a few months before burst into flames—what police called the "greatest single property crime" in city history. And methamphetamine was everywhere. Through 1994, law enforcement made bust after record-breaking multimillion-dollar bust. "TEENS IN OC ARE SAYING YES TO METH," screamed the Register in 1993. Ask anybody—I did—from cheerleaders to punk rockers, the whole county was on speed. Add to that the frustrated antsy energy, an influx of Nazis and thugs (who had their own cable access show, Race and Reason). It was the same recipe that made Altamont a disaster, except at Altamont there was at least some great music.
"It sucked so fucking bad," says Lohrman. "Bands were really bad. Like ridiculous. No style. No flair. No fucking excitement. No danger. Everything was super-super-safe."
He and future punk icon Duane Peters were buddies then, both still just sort-of anonymous front-toothless skate-punks. Every weekend, they'd get tossed out of any club they'd paid to enter. Orange County punk was either a self-conscious, nonthreatening juvenile joke—seeds of the ska explosion to come a few summers down the line—or dead-serious straightedge hardcore, like Irvine-bred Zach de La Rocha's band Inside Out.
"You'd think a couple people in the audience being drunk was the sign of a good time," Lohrman says. "[But] we got thrown out and arrested all the time."
These were frustrating times for Lohrman, then 25 years old and bored. He was fresh, resolutely bitter, newly off an aborted substitute-art-teaching gig at Silverado High, a continuation school in Mission Viejo. He'd lived in OC since he was six, growing up in a barren Aliso Viejo housing tract and feeding off the rock & roll records his friends' sisters used to give him. He saw the Circle Jerks and the Bags when he was 12 and cut his hair the next morning. His backup plan, inspired by Huntington's then-new punk rock record store Vinyl Solution, was Underdog Records, the store he opened on PCH in Laguna in 1992 with his own personal collection up for sale.
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You've written a fantastic book, at least in your eyes. You even uploaded it to Amazon. But now no one's buying it. How can you, a self-published author, drive traffic to that Amazon page and sell more books?
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- Get Reviews. Reviews are one of the best ways to increase your book's rank and make it more visible on Amazon. If a reader downloads the Kindle book, there's an option to review it at the end. But don't sit around and wait for readers to review it. There are groups on Facebook, Google+, and LinkedIn for authors who will review one another's books. Join these, participate, and ask for reviews. You'll need to give away copies of your book to get them.
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The College of Continuing Education at Sacramento State has developed a unique outcome- and performance-based training program to develop civil service leaders. The Portfolio is an integrated, competency-based training program designed as three separate but complimentary certificate programs. The Portfolio ensures that public servants in leadership, management and advanced supervision demonstrate proficiency in recognized managerial and supervisory competencies and execute them at levels appropriate to their positions.
The Portfolio's general competencies were identified by 5,000 managers and supervisors in 985 classifications as those required to perform effectively as government leaders, managers and supervisors. The Portfolio incorporates direct learning application on the job through pre- and post-training assessments. Attendees set measurable goals and objectives before training that will affect positive, strategic change in their organizations thus facilitating the calculation of measurable return on investment.
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Student Shows 2012: University of Westminster, School of Architecture
Sahiba Chadha finds a diverse exhibition complimented by intellectual rigour at the University of Westminster
A well-oiled machine, the Westminster School of Architecture could well be a factory for adeptly creative graduates. A factory maybe, but by no means a cookie-cutter approach – the School's size maintains a diversity of units, displayed as usual in an interconnected maze filling both studio floors. While Westminster remains free of a definitive 'house style', experiments in form and structure are evident throughout, supported by specific design agendas, usually complimented with intellectual rigour.
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Clare Carter's Degree unit showed a greater conceptual maturity than its peers, dealing with manufacturing and nuclear power at Dungeness. Concurrently, Andrew Peckham's new Diploma studio launched with the reconciliation of industry and historical city in Krakow, Poland. Following the Opening Night throng, led to a bottleneck at Gordon Shrigley's unit: 'An Architecture of Lineature and its Discontents'. Visually refreshing and seductive, the sparse language of black and white line-drawings emphasised each student's own hand – which is inextricable from their individual architectural languages.
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A 20-year dream — to chronicle an epic UCLA-USC matchup as this paper's national college football columnist — is not going to happen.
The clock ran out on the two programs as they relate to my career.
The 13-9 game of 2006 certainly moved earth, but only because it cratered USC's national title hopes. UCLA ended 7-6 after an Emerald Bowl loss.
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Friday, June 27, 2014 · 10:30 am
Summer has officially started. For households without air conditioning, high temperatures are uncomfortable and possibly dangerous. This is especially true for residents most at risk of heat-related illnesses, such as those with heart conditions, asthma or chronic obstructiv...
Monday, June 09, 2014 · 09:00 am
The public meeting on the proposed design for the Housing Resource Center scheduled for June 18 at the Renaissance Academy has been canceled. Another public meeting will be scheduled at a later date.
Interested citizens can still comment on the proposed design on the ci...
Wednesday, June 04, 2014 · 09:30 am
As a result of public input and city review, the Department of Housing and Neighborhood Preservation will present an updated design concept for the Housing Resource Center at a public meeting on Wednesday, June 18, from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. at the Renaissance Academy, 5100 Clev...
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In February, the city contracted with local firm Waller, Todd & Sadler Architects for the formal design of the Housing Resource Center to be located at 104 N. Witchduck Road. The Department of Housing and Neighborhood Preservation worked with city agencies, service prov...
Wednesday, May 14, 2014 · 01:00 pm
Housing and Neighborhood Preservation will host a public briefing on the Housing Resource Center on Wednesday, May 21, from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. at the Renaissance Academy, 5100 Cleveland St. During the meeting, the department will provide a brief history and update on the proj...
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Nonprofit developer Virginia Supportive Housing broke ground for Crescent Square, the newest permanent supportive housing development in Hampton Roads. Today, Monday, May 12, community leaders officially began construction for the facility at 1333 Diamond Springs Road in Vi...View the Attachments
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Housing and Neighborhood Preservation will host a public briefing on the Housing Resource Center on Wednesday, May 7, from 6 to 7 p.m. at the Virginia Beach Convention Center, 1000 19th St. During the meeting, the department will provide a brief history and update on the pro...
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The Point-in-Time Count of people who are experiencing homelessness has been rescheduled for the evening of Thursday, Feb. 20 through Friday, Feb. 21.
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Service providers and interested citizens are invited to attend the 2014 South Hampton Roads Regional Conference on Ending Homelessness on Tuesday, March 11, from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at Old Dominion University's Webb Center.
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