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My ex and I have been together for 2 years on/off. He lives down the block and we were friends prior. I am 22 and he is 33. He has dumped me 14 times and came back each time. EACH break up is longer. Its been 3 months now. I think he is bipolar and narcissistic. He was diagnosed with bipolar when he was young but has gotten no treatment. i still do not see this as an excuse to keep dumping. He blocks me, unblocks me constantly. He calls me up to have sex with me and when I ignore him he gets mad and blocks me again. A few times after the breakup I slept with him and he wouldn't call After. I felt used so I stopped. In the past we'd break up, sleep together, and then get back together: a vicious cycle. He dumps me for no valid reason but gets upset when he sees me in photos with men or when I start dating... but he is the one dumps me. I feel anxiety and extreme stress from him. One week he loves me and is attracted to me and the next I am garbage. I don't understand. He seems to always move on quick. the only way he comes back around is if i ignore him or start dating. I love him and I don't know why. The pain feels worse each time he dumps me. instead of communicating issues and resolving them like adults, he flees like a bat out of hell. Now he only calls when drunk or lonely. He'll say things like he misses me, his moms upset, and just anything to invoke a reaction. He's taking me for grantedand he may never change. i'm exhausted from this emotional abuse. He says he is "done" and comes back around and cherishes me for a little until I am discarded again. i have given this man my all. He even said he'd marry me and talked about children. But when we disagree and fight, it's over. He has no emotions. I fight with him and curse him out all the time because I am in pain and he calls me "crazy" but doesn't realize the damage he has done. Sometimes I feel worthless because of him and scared for the future. I have cried enough tears to create an ocean over him.
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I was the same with my ex I kept ending the relationship i really loved him and gave him chance after chance to work with me and through our issues but he just kept on lying and in the end, enough was enough!11|00|0
So you understand how hard it is.. i'm glad you moved past it. I am trying but it is hard for me. he makes it seem like it is him giving me another chance each time but I did nothing wrong.
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yup just googled narcissistic traits and he fits each and every one of them. I feel bad for the next girl. I never knew why he had such a problem finding someone before me and then all this happened and now I know why it's hard for him. I was just vulnerable at the time and fell into his trap I guess. :/
Hey hun don't feel bad or foolish, I'm 36 and have a lot of life experience bit still got reeled in by 1 I'm now just so thankful of how strong minded I am as I knew all along something was not right he even gas lighted me saying I was crazy until i visited a cbt counsellor who told me I had a rational and common sense approach to dealing with hte issues! After a year of him stalking begging and harrassing me and my family i am free and you will be too!
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"Rural communities often lack access to specialized medical care or advanced educational opportunities necessary for stronger rural economies," Vilsack said, noting that today is National Rural Health Day. "These grants will help increase access to health care and many other essential services."
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In Wisconsin, six educational and health organizations received a total of $1,719,686 as a part of the announcement.
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MADISON - As Pope Francis makes historic speeches to Congress and the United Nations on September 24 and 25, Madison-area faith leaders and concerned community members will gather to amplify the Pope's call to reverse course on climate change. The first "Light the Way: Faiths for Climate Justice," event begins at 6:00 p.m. in James Madison Park on Thursday, September 24. The second event convenes at 6:30 am Friday, September 25 at Monona Terrace Convention Center and is followed at 8 am with a gathering at First United Methodist Church downtown to view the Pope's United Nations address.
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The morning events will start with a silent gathering for contemplation during sunrise, starting at 6:30 a.m. at the entrance to Monona Terrace at Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. Next people will convene at 8:00 a.m. at First United Methodist Church, 203 Wisconsin Ave., for a video presentation, followed by a livestreaming of the Pope's address to the U.N. at 9:00 a.m.
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NOWSHERA: The police on Thursday arrested Major (R) Muhammad Tahir Khan after the judge of the District and Sessions Court cancelled his bail before arrest in a case of allegedly threatening and teasing lawmaker Sobia Shahid.
Sobia Shahid, Member Provincial Assembly (MPA) belonging to the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) had lodged the first information report (FIR) against Major (R) Muhammad Tahir at the Risalpur Police Station on February 1.
She accused him of making threatening phone calls and teasing her for the past several years.She alleged that the retired army officer has launched a campaign to malign her and was sending her offensive messages. She claimed that he was running a fake Facebook account under her name as well.
Major (R) Tahir had approached the District and Sessions Court, Nowshera and secured bail before arrest order.Later, he also got registered an FIR against Sobia Shahid for fraud and giving him invalid bank cheques.
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March 31, 2017 § 20 Comments
Wanky Race Predictor for CBR Crit #4
Last 20 laps of the MP12 race will be fast.
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Hired Guns: Part 3
March 27, 2017 § 28 Comments
Part 3: Under Their Thumb
As I slowly got sucked into the Biker Gang Imbroglio, a contest between people protesting the death of three cyclists on the PV Peninsula and a small coterie of outraged residents who hated cyclists, the bad people began coming out of the woodwork. In addition to the "everyone knows who he is" anonymous troll, a handful of PV Estates residents, rather than hiding behind anonymity, publicly decried the presence of cyclists in their city and strongly opposed any steps to erect signs or to enforce laws protecting them.
One of the city's most committed opponents to signage was the husband-wife team of Garrett and Cynthia Unno. At first I concluded that they simply disliked cyclists, didn't want outsiders (black people) in their city, and had zero concern for the recent victims, one of whom, John Bacon, may have been murdered.
But the more I listened to their implacable opposition to the basic safety steps recommended by the city's traffic safety committee and approved by the city council – decisions later rescinded thanks to anti-cycling anger – the stranger it seemed. Of all people, Garrett Unno should have been advocating for cyclist safety. Of all people, Garrett Unno should have been on the side of the weak and the harassed. Of all people, Garrett Unno should have been fighting for justice.
Why? Because he is apparently of Japanese descent.
To answer that resounding "So?" I had to dig a little bit more into Supreme Court history, because the segregation of communities like PV Estates didn't stop with Buchanan v. Warley, and it wasn't limited to blacks. In fact, after Justice Day struck down city ordinances banning the sale of property to blacks, communities like PV Estates, far from throwing in the towel, approached the goal of segregation even more aggressively than before.
And in California, where the object of white hate was every bit as intensely directed at Chinese and Japanese as it was at blacks, newly forming communities had a brutally racist and segregationist tool at the ready: A device called the racially restrictive covenant.
Thanks to the single most destructive decision by the Supreme Court ever directed at civil rights, aptly named The Civil Rights Cases, the Fourteenth Amendment was held in 1883 to apply only to state action. Private discrimination and segregation were and are still legal. PV Estates and almost every new community in California used this carte blanche to write restrictions into their founding documents that forbade ownership by certain people.
"Certain" had a specific meaning: "Negro," "Of African Descent," and "Asiatic." Racially restrictive covenants eventually ran aground in 1948, when the Supreme Court ruled that although racist restrictions were legal, the Fourteenth Amendment forbade their enforcement by the state. The case was Shelley v. Kraemer, but it had little effect on desegregation because by 1948 communities like PV Estates were already lily white and the Federal Housing Administration had already been redlining California communities for ten years, a practice that made it impossible for blacks to buy property in "white only" areas as designated by the federal government's housing agency.
As I read the Supreme Court decisions and sifted through the copious online information about FHA redlining, I started wondering about PV Estates. What did its original covenants, conditions, and restrictions – its CCRs – actually say? Were they really racist? And if they were, had they ever been amended? In other words, were people like Garrett Unno the specific target of racist exclusion from PV Estates? Were people like Garrett Unno, non-whites, still living under CCRs in PV Estates that technically forbade them from living there, even though such bans were unenforceable?
I began to doubt whether such restrictions had ever even existed. The more I searched the less I found. So I hired a title company to do a search on a property in PV Estates, hoping that the search would come up with the original CCRs, as well as pull all of the amendments that would show me that even if PV Estates had originally been a racist-zoned community, at some point in the enlightened future the residents would have amended them to strike out the offensive language, enforceable or not.
Since CCRs were given to all new homeowners in the city by the PV Homes Association, it was inconceivable that along with your purchase you would receive a shiny copy of regulations banning all blacks.
Then I heard back from the title guy, who said "It's gonna take a while. And in the meantime you might check with the city clerk to see if they have a copy."
I did, and they didn't. But they referred me to the Homes Association, which happened to office next door to city hall. I called. "Can I get a copy of the city's CCRs?" I asked.
"Sure!" the cheery woman said. "Just come down and pick up a copy."
The next day I was sitting on my couch with copies of the original CCRs. Almost a hundred years old, printed on the highest quality paper, yellowed from age but still sturdier than any new book you'll find at Barnes and Noble, this was the founding document that governed your residency in the city when you joined the community as a property owner in 2017. And what I found in it was incredible.
Hired Guns: Part 2
March 23, 2017 § 32 Comments
Part 2: Red Cross Store Blues
When I was a kid there was a lot of empty time. My Dad had a set of Leadbelly's Last Sessions and I'd put them on the record player when no one was home because if you were a little kid using the adult record player you would get an ass beating. Huddie Ledbetter was himself part of the great black exodus from the South, leaving Texas after serving a prison sentence in Louisiana.
Towns across America were viciously racist in the early 20th Century, and few protests capture the times better than Leadbelly's Red Cross Store Blues, a song in which the protagonist refuses to be snookered by the Red Cross welfare stores to enlist in a war he has no intention of joining. The other giant of the early blues era and a World War I veteran, Bill Broonzy, was even more to the point with Black, Brown and White.
The work of great blues musicians may seem irrelevant to cyclists pedaling through a rich white town a century later, but the tools put in place to oppress blacks in PV Estates almost a hundred years ago have proven equally effective at harassing another group of undesirables: Bicyclists.
There is disagreement about why so many PV Estates residents so virulently oppose bicycling. My opinion is a minority one, but it has the advantage of being backed by over four hundred years of history: The city's behavior is rooted in racism.
We don't have to go back to the slave ships to understand how important racism was to the founding of PV Estates, as well as the founding and maintenance of its police force. The city's founders spelled it out, quite literally, in black and in white. Their founding document? Racially restrictive deed covenants that forbade the sale of property to non-whites.
In this regard PV Estates was no different from hundreds of other communities across America, and its origins are indistinguishable from California's other richest and whitest coastal communities. Of the 13,438 people who lived in PV Estates as of the last census, 161 were black. That's 1.2 percent. This segregation of the races was inherent in the development of the community and countless others like it. Leadbelly and Broonzy would recognize PV Estates today at a glance for the "sundown town" that it is.
Even though we take vague comfort (as long as we're white) that in some ways race relationships in America have changed since PV Estates was created as a subdivision in 1923, in some fundamental ways those relationships haven't. I always assumed that PV Estates, like the urban Texas cities I grew up in, was racist. But it wasn't until I got embroiled in the Great Bicycle Gang Imbroglio that I began to understand that PV Estates wasn't casually, or accidentally, or coincidentally racist. It was methodically laid out, planned, and executed as a racist community. But as with so much else in our national fabric, to understand how important racial purity was for the founders of the city, you have to turn to law, and you have to understand that PV Estates' desire to remain racially pure was not unique, special, or unusual. A look into PV Estate's founding mythology of racial purity is a click away on the Supreme Court's 1917 decision of Buchanan v. Warley.
Gazing back a century to 1917 it's almost impossible to use the right lens. Rather than focusing on the future they didn't yet know – computers, phones, air travel for the masses, television, video cameras, full carbon bikes that are 100% pure carbon, or even bicycles with gears – it's a lot easier to focus on what their recent past was. The year 1917 was only fifty-two years after the Civil War. 1865 was to them as 1965 is to us: Recent history to most, living history to many, and still redolent with personal recollection and experience.
Americans were still struggling with the awesome weight of understanding the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution: Blacks were people, citizens, the equal of whites, and entitled to the same rights. Much of that "understanding" though involved a low-grade, unending war against implementing those guarantees, and no place was a more bitter battleground than the U.S. Supreme Court.
Joseph McKenna, Oliver Wendell Holmes, William Day, Edward Douglass White, Willis Van Devanter, Mahlon Pitney, James Clark McReynolds, and John Hessin Clark were on the U.S. Supreme Court when lawyers argued Buchanan v. Warley. All were northerners except for McReynolds (Kentucky), and White (Louisiana). Louis Brandeis had not yet been confirmed at the time of oral argument and was nominally from Kentucky, but raised in a Jewish family from Prague that valued German culture and that prized Schumann and Schiller as dinner time conversation topics, it's safe to say that his childhood had little in common with the redneck state in which he was raised.
This constellation of justices, that included two of the greatest jurists to ever sit on the court, rendered the opinion in Buchanan v. Warley, which confronted a simple issue: Can a white man sell property to a black man even though the city of Louisville had an ordinance prohibiting it? It was a test case set up by the NAACP to fight the new wave of segregation that was crashing like a giant close-out over the cities that were absorbing the great black migration from south to north.
Justice William Day, writing for the majority, was no slouch. In his nineteen-year tenure on the court he penned over four hundred opinions, of which only eighteen were dissents. He was an enemy of large corporations and voted with antitrust majorities throughout his time as a justice. But it was nonetheless surprising when he ruled that ordinances prohibiting blacks from owning property in white neighborhoods were unconstitutional.
The decision sent shock waves through the nation. It was the first time in the prior thirty-eight cases that had come before the court regarding civil rights that the court had ruled in favor of blacks. And although the racist south was most deeply entrenched fighting the Fourteenth Amendment, few if any northern or western communities in America wanted to integrate either, and a quick review of PV Estates' 2010 census data shows that for this enclave at least, little has changed. "If you're black, oh brother, get back, get back, get back."
But in those days when questions of race were still so close to the carnage of the Civil War, and the status of blacks had only been elevated in principle rather than in fact, racists felt no qualms about putting their bestial arguments into Supreme Court briefs. Justice Day noted "That there exists a serious and difficult problem arising from a feeling of race hostility which the law is powerless to control, and to which it must give a measure of consideration, may be freely admitted." This is of course the mantra of the anti-politically correct, or the Trumpers of 2017, a hundred years later: We hate blacks and the law can't stop us from hating them.
Yet Justice Day was not hobbled by this reality as he considered and then struck down the racist arguments supporting discrimination in housing sales: "It is the purpose of such enactments, and, it is frankly avowed, it will be their ultimate effect, to require by law, at least in residential districts, the compulsory separation of the races on account of color. Such action is said to be essential to the maintenance of the purity of the races, although it is to be noted in the ordinance under consideration that the employment of colored servants in white families is permitted, and nearby residences of colored persons not coming within the blocks, as defined in the ordinance, are not prohibited." The racists wanted separation of the races but, apparently, not when it came to their servants. This parallel in PV Estates is evident any weekday on countless city streets, where Hispanic workers tend the yards on condition that they leave the city at day's end. Justice Day made clear that the case was not one of maintaining racial purity, but a white man's right to sell his property to a black man if he saw fit, and vice versa.
The appellants argued that the proposed segregation would promote the public peace by preventing race conflicts. "Desirable as this is, and important as is the preservation of the public peace, this aim cannot be accomplished by laws or ordinances which deny rights created or protected by the Federal Constitution," was Day's curt response.
Finally, Day rebutted the racists' strongest suit, one that PV Estates residents still bandy about today — property values: "It is said that such acquisitions by colored persons depreciate property owned in the neighborhood by white persons. But property may be acquired by undesirable white neighbors or put to disagreeable though lawful uses with like results."
And just like that, the constitutionality of these ordinances was tossed on the rubbish heap.
If only racism could have been tossed on the rubbish heap with it.
*Note: I'm cobbling this together in fits and starts and am only up to Part 2. The next three installments will be published next week. In the meantime, back to our regular bike racing programming nonesuch and whatnot and etcetera.
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Hired Guns: Part 1
March 22, 2017 § 29 Comments
Part 1: The Tax Man Goeth
The mayor of Palos Verdes Estates, the city council, and over sixty percent of the voters in the last municipal election on March 7, 2017 voted for something so important and crucial to the community that it could only have been given the most anodyne name imaginable: Measure D.
This ballot item, if it had been forced to comply with the same rules of truthful disclosure that we require of foodstuffs, would have been called "City Fire Department and EMS Tax." Because that's what it was: A tax to continue paying for that least objectionable and most necessary of all city services – a fire department and its attendant emergency medical services.
Who could possibly vote against that?
The answer turned out to be "about forty percent of the people who voted in an election that had less than thirteen percent of all eligible voters show up to vote." Normally that would be a crushing victory for the tax man, sixty to forty. But in PV Estates, tax proposals like this one had to be approved by two-thirds of the people who voted, and the end tally left the tax supporters about three hundred votes short. In other words, the people of PV Estates voted, incredibly, not to pay for their own fire and emergency medical services.
It might seem strange to think that a mostly older community with a large proportion of retirees would vote against a fire department. This is no henhouse filled with spring chickens; the city's median age is a sun-wrinkled, HGH-assisted 50. PV Estates sits on a hilly slope that is highly susceptible to the wildfires that make California such a staple of national night-time summer weather news reports. Setting aside the conflagrations, the fire department is also the first responder when people wake up in the middle of the night with chest pains, when they fall and break a hip, or much more importantly, when their cat gets stuck in a tree.
But voting against the fire department and EMS wasn't really a vote against either, and it certainly wasn't a vote against cats. It was a vote against the PV Estates Police Department, an agency that of late had become the endless target of bad news, litigation, and virulent anonymous hate speech attacks.
To understand how a minority of voters could torpedo an entire police department, though, you have to go back to 1978, to Howard Jarvis, and to Proposition 13, the mother of all regressive tax laws. And to understand why the white voters in PV Estates were so staunchly behind regressive taxation, even to the detriment of their own community, you have to go all the way back to the city's inception and the deed restrictions that marketed PV Estates as an ideal community that would bring together "the cream of the manhood and womanhood of the greatest nation that has ever lived, the Caucasian race and the American nation." Those were the words of its founder, and his adherents are alive, well, and kicking like hell.
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Hired Guns: Introduction
March 21, 2017 § 16 Comments
The city of Palos Verdes Estates, or part of it, is battling for the survival of its municipal police force. Opponents want to demolish it and replace it by contracting for law enforcement services with the monolithic Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department. It sounds like pedestrian city politics, unless you happen to be a bicyclist. In that case, it isn't pedestrian at all.
This issue affects a lot more than the pedal pushers who often run stop signs as they breeze through one of the most scenic and challenging bike routes in the United States. Class war, surfing localism, contempt of outsiders, hate speech, enraged small town racists, the California Vehicle Code, murder, Wall Street predators, regressive taxation, and the complex act of understanding and enforcing the law all turn up when this topic is spaded over, like wriggling earthworms in a cool mound of leafy compost.
I got involved in this whole thing backwards, simply by riding my steel Eddy Merckx with down-tube shifters on the way to work one day. I had been in California for a couple of months and was renting a house in Palos Verdes Estates, a place I ended up in entirely by accident. The law office I was working at was in San Pedro, and when I arrived in California I told the realtor, an avid cyclist nicknamed "the Badger," that I wanted to rent in San Pedro because it was close to my office.
"Dude," he said. "You don't want to live in Pedro unless you like lung cancer or want to hang out at Godmother's. Let me show you some places in PV Estates."
To my unsophisticated eye it looked like a lot of other suburbs I'd seen throughout my life. Nice homes, affluent people in nice cars, white people everywhere, and, oh yeah, the most stunning scenery imaginable stuck right in the heart of Los Angeles. I traced the road on a map and saw that my commute to San Pedro would be along PV Drive South, a twenty-minute drive with three stoplights, no traffic, and postcard views of the Pacific Ocean and Catalina Island from start to finish.
Did I mention that this was in the heart of Los Angeles? Because when I told my family back in Texas that I had a twenty-minute, no traffic, sprawling ocean view commute in the middle of LA, they thought I was lying through my teeth and everywhere else.
One morning as I rode to work, because it didn't take long to figure out that the most beautiful, car-free road in California was also the most beautiful car-free bike commute in California, I blew through a red light at the intersection of Hawthorne and Via Vicente. There was no traffic in any direction, but I hadn't gotten through the intersection before I heard the siren of the guy I would later get to know as the dreaded Deputy Knox.
By 2007 I had been riding competitively and racing for thirty-five years. I had run tens of thousands of red lights and hundreds of thousands of stop signs, and I had done it in Texas, Japan Germany, Pennsylvania, and Colorado. I'd never been ticketed, not once, and had never been hit by a car. Deputy Knox of the LA Sheriff's Department pulled me over and wrote me a ticket. I knew enough not to argue with a 6'4" dude carrying a gun, handcuffs, and a radio, but even so I was surprised at his glowering anger. He was prodding and pushing me to react, but I'd experienced that in plenty of other venues with cops, so the more he pushed the meeker I got. I wanted to get to work, not star in a new chapter on civil rights.
Knox wrote the citation, gave me a nasty lecture, and sped away. That encounter, between a meek, bony guy on a bike endangering no one in a victimless crime, and an angry cop trying to prod him into a confrontation, made a huge impression on me. "What if I'd been black?" I wondered, scared. Knox was lean but he was muscular, he was big, and he was ready to arrest me and haul me off to jail if I had given him any guff. My instinct, by the way, proved dead-on the following year when my friend and fellow riding partner Jeff Konsmo was pulled over and cited by Knox. However, unlike my red light violation, Jeff was pulled over because Knox didn't understand – or chose not to understand – vehicle code section 21202a and its exceptions. When Jeff objected to the grounds of the citation, Knox slapped on the stainless steel jewelry and shoved him in the back of the patrol car.
This was my first and lasting impression of bikes and law enforcement on the peninsula. They hated your guts. You didn't belong. Get the hell out.
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Mostly free bike racing
March 17, 2017 § 2 Comments
With Daylight Saving Time comes a reset of your body clock, free weekday bike racing, and apparently for some, death. Whether in traffic collisions, workplace injuries, heart attacks, or the receipt of illegal doping shipments for your drug-free bike racing team, the time change can be hazardous to your health and job security.
And rather than being a victim of circumstance, helplessly awaiting the call from USADA, the tightening of the chest, the rear-ender on the 405, or someone dropping a forklift on your foot, I recommend that you proactively select your hazard, which in this case is free bike racing.
Two best free bike races after the Daylight Hazard Time change:
Telo Street Fake Crit: Pay no money, pound your legs and brains into mush for 60 minutes, watch Grandpa Joe show up late, watch the enthusiastic group of 40 get whittled down to a sad-faced group of 20, then 10, then 3, dodge oncoming cars, idling 18-wheelers, antsy moms in SUVs offloading kids at gymnastic class, celebrate Evens Stievenart's devastating win accompanied by Colin Croston and Shon Holderbaum, watch Grandpa Joe forget to have ordered the awesome winner's jerseys, go over to Boozy P.'s place for the party that Grandpa Joe arranged, watch the party disintegrate because Grandpa Joe forgot to arrange it, watch 40 thirsty bikers fight to the death over the four beers in Boozy P.'s fridge, and best of all check the winner's corner on the Telo World Championship's TWC page on Facebag where Grandpa Joe still slings the best artwork and graphic design on the Internet.
Eldorado Park Free Fake Crit With Surcharge: Pay a little money, zoom around in circles without having to dodge cars a-la-Telo, and best of all watch Gil Dodson, Dave Wehrley, and a host of other kind people donate free entry fees to junior racers, watch kids who come from rough circumstances race their bikes and experience the joy of flying on two wheels in a pack of nutjobs defying death and calamitous injury as they vie for glory, in other words, nirvana.
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Some things can be taught
March 6, 2017 § 22 Comments
How many times have you seen a group of cyclists spread all over the road like a warm breakfast? Judging from the rarity of organized, disciplined, 2 x 2 pacelines, you might think they are formations that only come into existence after years of practice. And you might think that the only people capable of riding mile after mile a few inches from their neighbors' bars and a few inches from the wheel in front of them is the mark of a truly expert cyclist.
That's what I always thought, mostly because the only time I ever saw functioning large groups ride like that they were composed of (accomplished) bike racers.
My club, Big Orange, had a Paceline 101 seminar yesterday. We all gathered on Westchester Parkway, and several of the club's leaders put on the seminar. There were over forty riders. At least half had never ridden in a 2 x 2 paceline before. Most of the others had been riding for two years or less.
The Big O paceline, when I describe it, sounds goofy because of the silly names. Here they are:
"Horsemen": These are the 6-12 riders at the front. These are the only rotating riders. Their job is to:
- Maintain steady power. Steady on flats, slower on hills, faster on descents.
- Give plenty of room around road hazards. Give wide berth to cones, potholes, sticks, big rocks, etc.
- Call out road hazards.
- Pay attention to upcoming stop lights. Anticipate when the light will change by watching crosswalk countdowns. Avoid panic stops and avoid running the entire peloton through red lights.
- Accelerate slowly from stops, remembering that everyone behind is still standing
- Rotate in pairs. Get off the front if the partner wants off. Left side swings off to the left, right side swings off to the right. Keep steady speed when rotating off the front, flick elbow and take 2-3 strong pedal strokes as you move over.
- Control the lane. The right hand rider controls positioning and stays just to the left of the fog line.
- Control descents. This is the hardest part to master, requiring a hard effort to keep speed on downhills until the rear of the peloton has completed the descent. Riders at the front cannot slow down until everyone has completed the descent.
- Steady ascents: Slowing too rapidly at the bottom of the hill means those at the end of the peloton will accordion. Slow gradually while climbing and regroup after crossing the top. Gradually lift the pace again after the regroup.
"Gatekeepers": The two riders directly behind the horsemen. Their job is to:
- Maintain steady power. If the horsemen surge, the gatekeepers allow the gap to open, then slowly close it.
- Provide space for horsemen who have rotated off the front and are coming back in order to slot back in.
- Prohibit the peloton from mixing with horsemen. The idea is that one group, horsemen, do the work, and the other group, the peloton drafts for the duration of the ride.
"Buffers": 1-3 pairs of riders, riding immediately behind the gatekeepers. Their job is to maintain steady power. If the group ahead surges, the buffers let them go, then gradually close the gap.
"Peloton": This is everyone else. Their job is to:
- Stay on the wheel in front. Do not pass other riders. Do not fill in gaps ahead of buffers. Do not get out of formation to bomb descents.
- Keep handlebars even with your partner. Formations stagger when riders are not even with each other.
- Change lanes from the rear. When changing lanes, the rear of the peloton should move over first, after checking for traffic, and call out "Clear!" so the riders ahead know it is safe.
- Anticipate slowing riders in front. When approaching rollers, give extra room ahead. Know the route!
- Identify final rider position. Last place riders in the peloton should tell other riders "I'm last" if for some reason a rider is rotating all the way to the back of the group. Final riders should also take responsibility for being the riders who check first for rear traffic when getting ready to change lanes.
Before going to the Peloton 101 seminar, participants were supposed to have read this explanation of paceline riding. Once we assembled, a couple of leaders explained it all again in person, took questions, we did a practice lap around the Parkway. There was a lot of talking and some correcting, but no shouting or abusing or screaming. Everyone was told beforehand that we were there to learn, and told not to take anything personally.
Incredibly, no one did.
After the first lap we debriefed, people switched up positions, and we did a second lap, this time at about 22-24 mph. We debriefed again, questions were taken, and we rode a final lap "at speed." After a final debrief, those who wanted to rolled with the group out onto PCH and practiced pacelining in the lane at speed all the way to Malibu and back.
Here is a link to a video that was taken by Cycling Savvy instructor Gary Cziko from the position of gatekeeper, with the horsemen teaching a first-timer how to rotate.
What amazed me about the practice was how quickly people got it when it was explained and they had a chance to practice. After the second lap the 42-person rotation was so disciplined that, sitting at the very back, I could see all the way to the front through the gap between the side-by-side riders. It was almost perfectly straight.
I wondered why it was so effective, and several things occurred to me.
First, it's not complicated, but there are organizational elements that need to be explained. I learned to ride a paceline while doing it, making a mess of it, and getting yelled at. Being calmly instructed, gently corrected, and given a chance to practice takes most of the terror out of it.
Second, having roles with names is a huge help to beginning riders. Sure, "horsemen" sounds silly, but it is a defined word with a defined function, and when you're doing your first paceline with a bunch of experienced riders and you're so nervous you're about to crap your shorts, it makes all the difference in the world to have words tied to actual functions and roles.
This nomenclature also makes new riders concentrate on what they're doing, as opposed to riding in terror that they're about to crash out fifty people. Even better, once people feel comfortable in one role, they can try a more challenging one, so they not only have a place, but they have the feeling of "moving up." Roles also have the invaluable function of predictability, which is what safe group riding is all about. There's never any question about where a horseman is supposed to be, and if there is, you can ask. Compare that to the amorphous glob of riders in which random people do random things for no apparent reason … or at least that's how it seems to beginners.
Third, holding a more-or-less permanent position throughout the ride means you get to know the person next to you, and the relationships are what makes the experience fun.
Removing the mystery, sharing the knowledge, and teaching skills raises everyone's ability, including the teacher's. It also creates a vibe in which people want to excel. Best of all, this method includes riders of vastly differing abilities and solves one of the biggest issues of group riding for clubs, i.e., "How do you integrate slower riders with faster ones without either shredding the slow ones or making the fast ones go so slow that they no longer want to do the ride?"
Every club should look at its mission and if part of the mission is education, improvement, and making road riding more accessible to more people, then a program like this is a winner. Photos courtesy of Joann Zwagerman, Big Orange phenom who was responsible for organizing yesterday's seminar!
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Personal Author(s) : Onstott,Edward D. ; Salmon,Ernest P.
Report Date : FEB 1971
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In the second of his dispatches, being serialised on the Syria News Wire, Kevin Sites visits Riad Seif. Seif was recently released from prison, along with a number of other Damascene Spring captives. Seif was a member of parliament at the time of his capture in 2001.
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Regime Change?
Kevin Sites
An ex-prisoner hopes to change Syria's political landscape. Will the government let him try?
DAMASCUS — Riad Seif doesn't look like a man who has spent the last four and a half years in a Syrian prison.
"I entered prison with a nice smile. It was like going to a party," he says from his home in a Damascus suburb, one day after he and four other political prisoners were released.
Why would he consider being jailed like going to a party?
"Because I knew it was a difficult decision for [Syrian president] Assad to put me in jail. To take such a decision we must have been really harming them — they thought we were very dangerous for this regime," he says. "I don't like this regime and I can't say anything but the truth. We are asking for freedom and democracy. When we say something people believe it."
In September 2001, Seif, then a member of parliament, and nine other political activists were arrested and jailed in a conservative backlash against an emerging democratic movement that became known as the "Damascus Spring."
"Damascus Spring was the hope in our movement for democracy," says Seif. Government officials "thought they killed that hope. They delayed, but they made the movement stronger. Democracy is coming anyway. All that we ask is that it's better to cooperate. To make it less costly."
Seif says his prison time toughened him up physically — he walked or ran ten kilometers every day, losing four pounds — as well as politically.
"Before prison we were very tolerant of the regime, maybe too tolerant, maybe even a little naïve," he confesses. "We thought, 'Mr. Assad is this civilized man, this doctor — we have to help him move Syria from an authoritarian regime to a democracy as he will seek equal rights for everyone.'"
He says he no longer believes that.
Seif entered prison a bankrupt businessman; he has emerged as a political force. He's the de facto leader of a nascent opposition, which, if allowed to organize, could present a serious challenge to the embattled government of President Bashar Assad.
Seif had been a highly successful businessman in Syria, running an Adidas plant and retail business which, he says, had 1,800 employees and exports totaling over $13 million at its peak in 1994.
"In my factory I was very well known for being kind and honest with the workers," he says. "I was the example. I am by heart a socialist."
Around the same time, Seif ran for parliament, and won. He began using his position to speak out against the government. That's when, he says, his business starting turning south. He says the government prevented him from importing materials and he eventually went bankrupt.
Some time after, Seif says, he was approrached by then-Syrian Vice President Abdul-Halim Khaddam, who is now living in France and has accused Assad of threatening former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri prior to his assassination.
Seif says Khaddam offered him a deal. The deal was that his business would be restored and become even bigger than before. He could also continue to be an opposition figure — but that the opposition would be, for all intents and purposes, a fraud. He would need to keep the government informed of what he was doing as well as with whom he was working.
The Syrian government has already denied early allegations by Khaddam, calling him a traitor and a liar, in response to his statements about President Assad.
Seif says he never responded to the offer and continued organizing what he calls "civil society" forums to discuss democratic reform. After a large forum with a noted speaker, Seif says he was invited for coffee by the Minister of the Interior. Seif says he half-jokingly asked if he was going to be gone for a while and whether he should pack his shaving kit and pajamas.
When he arrived for the "coffee," Seif says the Minister was not around, but had ordered Seif's arrest. He was convicted and sentenced to five years for violating the constitution and inciting sectarian strife.
Seif and opposition leaders Walid al-Bunni, Habib Issa, Fawaz Tello, and another member of parliament, Mamoun Homsi, were all released last week, seven months before the completion of their sentences.
The Syrian government says the early releases are part of a larger plan of democratic reform, although it was done quietly and without fanfare. Western observers say it's a sign that the Assad government knows it is in trouble.
But the Bush Administration contends Assad isn't doing enough.
"The United States calls upon the Syrian authorities to release immediately all remaining Syrian prisoners of conscience," the White House said in a statement shortly after the release of Seif and his four counterparts.
Today Seif looks and sounds like a politician. Wearing a suit and a tie, he is clearly energized by the nonstop phone calls from media wanting interviews and the steady stream of well-wishers: businessmen, intellectuals, and opposition figures who have stopped by his apartment to hear him speak.
He says he wants to form a secular "liberal political party" which will avoid corruption through transparency.
"I will build a party with some very reliable people — people with good names," he says. "Our party will be very strict and have only well-respected, moral people as leaders. We will stand on two legs: we will be liberal and free market, but also [moral]."
He says their politics won't be influenced by religion, and is confident the party will be hugely successful — if the government lets him organize.
"Our people are waiting for our message," he says, "but we can't even meet."
For 42 years, the Syrian government has been run by the Baath Party — which heads a coalition of nine other legal parties called the National Progressive Front.
The Syrian government says a new law is in the works which would allow the creation of new political parties, like Seif's, but so far has not provided a clear timetable of when that will happen.
And even though Riad Seif and five others are free, many more political prisoners remain in prison. And there are signs that the "new openness" is a slow work in progress.
While Seif talks about the future, human rights lawyer and opposition figure Haitham Maleh must argue for his — in front of a Syrian military tribunal. Maleh is accused of insulting the president in a letter in which he asked for a presidential pardon on behalf of another defendant.
The feisty 75-year-old is used to butting heads with the regime. He's already spent seven years behind bars for his activism — but he says he can't help it.
"I'm 75 years old. I can't turn back now — it's like heroin in my blood," he says. "I have to continue the defense of my people in Syria."
Maleh says the first argument he will make today is that the military tribunal is illegal.
"I'm not in the military," he says.
Later, during the hearing, the government will argue the tribunal is legal because the insult was against President Assad, who is the commander of Syria's military.
"I have to say the truth," Maleh says, "whether they're angry or not."
Seif echoes that sentiment as he finishes up with another group of visitors. But he thinks the government will allow his work to move forward.< br />
"They are forced to," he says. "Otherwise what is the cost of putting Riad Seif in prison? If they take me to prison again then I'll be a real hero."


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// Cory and I had an event to go to last week, and although it was nothing spectacular, I had been looking forward to getting dressed up and out of the house for days. Even the depressing task of finding something to wear made me excited. I put on make up. Wore my contacts. Shaved my legs. FELT LIKE A LADY. Only to notice halfway through the event that I had poop on my knee. (I just wanted to clarify it was Jack's poop.)
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Commentary/Human InterestSCR/South Central -Nov 03 2016 (07:02) Corruption coming down in Railways, says DRM
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Divisional Railway Manager Ashok Kumar on Wednesday said that corruption was coming down in Indian Railways owing to computerisation in sensitive areas such as e-tendering, e-ticketing and e-auction.
Speaking at the Vigilance Awareness Week observed in the first week of November in memory of late Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, the first Home Minister of independent India, he said the aim of the Vigilance Department was to eradicate corruption completely. "The need of the hour is updating ourselves through different circulars in our day-to-day working. A bulletin which is released every year during the Vigilance Awareness Week gives valuable information and guidelines in educating the officers and staff in eradication of corruption."
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Absolutely right!! Lesser the manual intervention, lesser the chances of corruption.
But a word of caution, the automation should be fair, fool-proof and transparent else the full benefits can be not be derived.
Nov 05 2016 (14:45)
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I think he is joking.
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