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Taylor Phinney of the BMC Racing Team valiantly chased the leaders all the way to the line Sunday at Milan-San Remo to finish seventh in a most unusual – and snow-shortened – edition of the season's first classic.
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Phinney, who made headlines last week for his long solo ride in cold and rain to unsuccessfully avoid elimination on the penultimate stage of Tirreno-Adriatico, said he never gave up after cresting the final climb with the chase pack. "I saw I had a chance to bridge across to the front group," he said. "It was a split-second decision I made at the bottom of the Poggio and I almost caught them at about 400 meters. But then they started their sprints." Gerald Ciolek (MTN-Qhubeka) took the win in a six-up dash ahead of Peter Sagan (Cannondale) and Fabian Cancellara (RadioShack-Leopard) while Phinney rolled across the line for a top 10 result in his second appearance in the race. "I went through some different fields of emotions, being in the snow and then being on the bus and then starting again," an exhausted Phinney said. "I just kind of hung on and couldn't really tell what was happening most of the time because it was just chaos and cold and wet."
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The 245-kilometer race began in unprecedented fashion: rain turned to snow and, with conditions on the Turchino climb impassable by bike, commissaires stopped the race at Ovada, 117 km from the start. Riders scurried into team buses, which drove about 50 kilometers to Cogoleto, where the race was re-started two-and-a-half hours later. BMC Racing Team's Klaas Lodewyck was among more than a dozen riders who did not continue the remaining 126 km, while Michael Schär and Daniel Oss both withdrew after being involved in a crash before the race was stopped. "I hit my back pretty hard," Schär said. "I tried to go on but couldn't really pedal with my right leg. It should be OK in two or three days." BMC Racing Team Assistant Director Fabio Baldato called it "a race of survival" rarely seen in its 103 previous editions. "You saw everyone was at the limit," he said. "It was a nice surprise what Taylor did. It's too bad we lost Thor Hushovd (to technical issues) and Daniel because normally they would be there in the final."
Gilbert Attacks On The Descent
BMC Racing Team world road champion Philippe Gilbert made his move to split the race on the rain-soaked descent of the Cipressa, about 20 kilometers from the finish. "But the organization of the group was not great," he said. "Then three guys went (Sylvain Chavanel, Eduard Vorganov and Ian Stannard) and then Jurgen Roelandts and I decided to wait because the bunch was pretty big behind with teammates there." But the three ultimately ended up being part of the group of six that reached the finish line before Phinney. "They were riding maybe 65 kph and hour and we were doing 55 kph with no help," Gilbert said.
Click here to listen to complete comments from Baldato, Gilbert (Dutch, English and French), Phinney and Schär on the BMC Racing Team Audio Line.


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Lateral partner movement continues in the world of intellectual property law. As we noted in Morning Docket, four partners and one of counsel are departing from Finnegan Henderson, one of the leading IP-only firms in the country.
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Mission Control to Mars: Launching the Next Mars Rover
In the wee morning hours of Nov. 26, 2011, scientists and engineers gathered in the mission control room at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to help launch the next Mars rover, Curiosity. The mission's chief engineer, Rob Manning, shares the developing story from the control room as tensions and excitement for a mission eight years in the making reached all new heights.
5:45 a.m. PST (L-01:17:00)
I drove in this morning at 4:30 a.m. As usual, I was greeted by the cheery guards at the gate along with a small family of local deer, who keep sentry over a small patch of greenery at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
I quickly march into JPL's mission control area to find the first shift quietly following the prelaunch procedure in sync with the Assembly, Test and Launch Operations (ATLO) procedure. They had been on station since 1:30 a.m. I tried that procedure at last week's launch rehearsal and found the hour a bit unpleasant. Today, I am working on the Anomaly Response Team (ART) for post-launch anomalies. This means that if all goes well, I will have little to do but cheer when NASA's Mars Science Laboratory rover launches. I have my own console where I can monitor both the spacecraft and listen to the voice nets (there are 10 of them!).
There are about 30 people here. Usually there are not as many, but today we have two people for every subsystem: power, thermal, propulsion, systems, fault protection, attitude control and management. I can hear the JPL ATLO test conductor, Art Thompson, at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida double check that the right sequence files have been sent. One in particular has commands that tell the rover when to automatically transition into "eclipse" mode. This software mode puts the entire vehicle into the configuration needed for the period prior to separation from the Centaur. In particular this mode turns on the descent stage and cruise stage tank heaters. This timer should be set about 15 minutes after launch, which is planned for 7:02 am PST today. It is an absolute time so they have to send a new time every time we have a new launch attempt. The voice net that is the most interesting is the launch vehicle's fueling operations. I have not heard that one before. They are more than 50 percent of the way through fueling!
It is fun to see the crowd here. No dress code, but some have come in ties, others with pink mohawks. Nice combo. Professionals all. The peanuts have already made the rounds.
6:15 a.m. (L-00:47:00)
Brian Portock, today's flight director at JPL, just finished the launch poll of the room to see if everyone is go for transition to launch mode. This is a command to the rover that will put everything on the rover into a mode that is used for the first 15 minutes of flight. In particular, the heaters are all put into a launch and cruise configuration. We expect that the cruise stage heaters will be on more than off due to the air conditioning needed to keep the spacecraft cool (hot generators, you know).
6:29 a.m. (L-00:33:00)
Arm pyros! Once these relays are closed, they will be that way for the next 8.5 months.
6:32 a.m. (L-00:30:00)
The data rate is lowered to launch nominal to 200 bits per second. This will allow the rover's data to flow to both the ground (via wires to the power van at the foot of the launch pad that provides power to the rover before launch) and to the launch vehicle where it will be available throughout launch (very cool). The JPL management showed up. Charles Elachi is behind me. My old friend and JPL Chief Engineer Brian Muirhead is here with his family.
6:40 a.m. (L-00:22:00)
The flight director is doing the launch poll for the team here at JPL: "All stations at JPL report go." ATLO is going through its poll at lightening speed. All stations go. This is going fast! The weather guys report of scattered skies at 5,000 feet looks good. I am getting excited.
6:47 a.m. (L-00:15:00)
We lost the flow of data from MSL via the Atlas Space Flight Operations Center (ASOC) land lines, but they switch it to the radio path from the launch vehicle, and it starts flowing again.
7:00 a.m. (L-00:02:00)
All Quiet. Peanuts going around the room again … everyone is excited!
7:01 a.m. (L-00:01:20)
Everything is armed …
7:01 a.m. (L-00:00:30)
7:03 a.m. (L+00:01:00)
7:06 a.m. (L+00:04:00)
Fairing falls off! Wind on MSL
7:07 a.m. (L+00:05:00)
Rob Zimmerman, our power systems engineer, reports power on solar arrays! 3.3 x 2 = 6. 7 amps! The spacecraft is still power-negative for a while which means that the battery is still discharging. We need more sunlight - very soon.
7:11 a.m. (L+00:09:00)
Getting intermittent data from the rover via the Centaur. So far, no computer reboots!
7:12 a.m. (L+00:10:00)
The ATLO test conductor reports that they are done building and launching MSL (hey, it took 'em long enough! ). We all cheer and smile. They are supporting the cruise team now.
7:14 a.m. (L+00:12:00)
We've reached the end of the first burn (MECO1). All is well. Eighteen minutes to second burn. Battery is charging at 4.3 amps for each battery — very good.
7:17 a.m. (L+00:15:00)
The eclipse-mode transition should be done; don't know yet. Got it. The tank heaters should be on now; They are. Batteries are still charging at 95 percent state of charge (SOC).
7:35 a.m. (L+00:33:00)
Waiting for telemetry from over Africa …
7:36 a.m. (L+00:34:00)
It's five minutes to MECO2, pushing out of Earth orbit. Heavy rover! KEEP PUSHING! Mars awaits.
7:39 a.m. (L+00:37:00)
The spacecraft is nearly out of Earth orbit, six minutes until separation from Centaur upper stage. Everyone is relaxed, but there's not a lot of data from the rover. It still says it is in launch mode — missed the data that said eclipse.
7:42 a.m. (L+00:40:00)
MECO2. next is turn to separation attitude and spin up. Separation! We get a beautiful view of MSL spinning away from us — in the right attitude and the right direction! (› See Video)
7:53 a.m. (L+00:51:00)
We have lock from NASA's Deed Space Network in Canberra, Australia!
8:07 a.m. (L+01:05:00)
Data-slowing coming … All looks good, batteries at 98 percent. The rover is now in cruise mode. The heaters are on and cycling as designed. The spacecraft is spinning at 2.5 rotations per minute with only 1 degree of nutation (or swaying) — that is not a lot. The Atlas and Centaur did a fantastic job! The generator is working.
8:26 a.m. (L+01:24:00)
Now let's try the uplink (sweep). Sweep is working! We have strong signals both ways. We are getting two-way Doppler - navigation says that the frequency is just a few hertz off so we had a very nominal injection to solar orbit. We can command!
Everyone is relaxed and trying to see if there is anything that looks wrong, but so far, nothing. Everything is fine. This is weird. Our bird is on its way - it's where it belongs. We are happy to be in a completely new mode. No more last-minute fixes (to anything but the software). We have a lot to do, but at least our bird is on its way.
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The BMC Racing Team made use of the day off and invited everyone to join them for a press conference.
"I am impressed and touched by the interest shown in our team", said Andy Rihs, BMC Team owner and patron, as he greeted the international journalists who had accepted BMC's invitation. The room was filled to capacity. Everyone had come to see the World Champion Cadel Evans, US National Road Champion George Hincapie, Tour de France stage winner Karsten Kroon and the "young guns" Danilo Wyss, Thomas Frei, Martin Kohler and Mauro Santambrogio. Given this line up, the interest from all journalists was particularly great.
The press conference had initially been scheduled for 30 minutes but ran into overtime and ended up lasting over an hour. BMC CEO Mike Hürlimann made use of the opportunity to introduce the Swiss bicycle manufacturer to a captive audience on the other side of the world. The press conference had been yet another successful public appearance by the BMC Racing Team. With this much tailwind, everyone is ready for a successful start to the Tour Down Under on Tuesday.


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Unique stuff from computer-hater Lorenzo Petrantoni. Each image is competely hand-rendered with true craftsmanship and respect for old book graphics.
Unique stuff from computer-hater Lorenzo Petrantoni. Each image is competely hand-rendered with true craftsmanship and respect for old book graphics.
Hotel branding can so often be a dowdy affair, as if the design nods to the temporary nature of the building's inhabitants – something to move on from, rather than to dwell on. So it's wonderful to see a brave, opulent new identity for the Connaught in London's Mayfair, designed by The Partners around a stunning new artwork by Kristjana S Williams which now hangs in the hotel.
June 2013: We introduce you to illustrator and recent Berlin resident Jay Wright. We love his work, you enjoy it massively too, and thereafter he takes on a whole heap of freelance work. Fast forward 16 months and Jay's new portfolio website shows he's been one heck of a busy guy, not only commercially but personally too. Alongside magazine covers for The Loop and Das Magazine there's a glut of witty spot illustrations, brand new zines and some lovely personal work that explores the theme of superstition. It's definitely worth having a proper rummage around on his site, and when you do be sure to have a look at the ladder. You won't regret it.
Michael Parkin's portfolio is a wonderful mix of commissioned work interspersed with personal projects, which is exactly what you want when looking through a creative's website. His style is simple but well observed and whether he's creating a poster for Little White Lies or a series of prints relating to a trip to Denmark, Michael's work is wonderful at telling a story.
I love that moment when big brands start to recognise the immense talents of illustrators who had previously been making work primarily for themselves, and duly commission them to do exactly what they do best. Linda Linko is a prime example; since being signed to Agent Pekka the Finnish illustrator has been gathering speed as well as commissions, creating her characteristically bold artwork for a number of huge posters and magazine covers.
Lawrence Zeegen has never been one to mince his words. The illustrator, writer and dean of design at London College of Communication has recently launched his new book Fifty Years Of Illustration which he co-wrote with Grafik editor Caroline Roberts. It's an impressively ambitious undertaking with the duo condensing five decades into 1,000 images by 240 illustrators from 30 countries. Lawrence admits it's a "pretty personal selection" but one that aims to "represent the movers and shakers across each decade according to the work I believe was instrumental in shaping the discipline."
Growing up in a family of doctors, Swedish illustrator and paper-cut artist Petra Börner secured her first commission (illustrating medical journals) through her surgeon mother, which might go some way to explaining why her work is so reminiscent of botanical diagrams in biology textbooks. Petra's principle subject is the flora and fauna of the natural world, which she creates using paper cut techniques so intricate and painstakingly-detailed that they scarcely look like they could be real.
Alright, we admit it – Peter Judson has made a lot of work we've been really into this year, and he's had the props on the site to prove it. But why should we be made to contain ourselves when he keeps producing illustration of this calibre? Why, we ask you?
If, like me, you spent many an hour in your teenage years gazing absentmindedly at Larry Carlson's experimental website Medijate, you'll no doubt be similarly transfixed by The Landfill from the very talented Santtu Mustonen. Stitching together a "collection of unused sketches, leftover drawings and rejected ideas from forgotten projects" to a mesmerising soundtrack by Tuomas Alatalo, Santtu created a hypnotic animation that's a work of art in its own right.
As the man who gave form to the twisted genius of Hunter S. Thompson, British illustrator's Ralph Steadman's latest project seems like a perfect fit. Ralph has worked with Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan to illustrate some limited-edition Blu-Ray covers for a special boxset of the series due out early next year.
Having just re-read Sammy Harkham's 2012 anthology of short stories Everything Together I was stupidly excited to find out he's just got himself on Tumblr and uploaded a small but growing archive of work both old and new. Included in among old covers of Kramers Ergot, book jackets for Kafka anthologies, Bonnie Prince Billy album covers and bits and pieces of rejected work are original drawings from his ongoing graphic novel (and surely future masterpiece) Blood of the Virgin, which he's also selling to fund further work on the project. I for one cannot wait to see this project massive volume finally realised. Keep at it Sammy!
This top image by New York-based illustrator Karan Singh caught my eye on purely aesthetic grounds; it was only when I delved a little deeper that I discovered the interesting story behind the work. Karan was one of several artists commissioned by Ogilvy New York to work on the IBM US Open Sessions, whereby LCD Soundsystem's James Murphy created a series of tracks based on data gathered at the tennis tournament.
I came across the work of Matthias Geisler over on Booooooom the other day and was reminded that we hadn't posted something like this in a while. Matthias' work is a swirling blend of spirits and creatures that are created with meticulous use of pencil crayons and water-colours. Is it me or are watercolours real in at the moment? All the cool kids seem to be using them.
If you're feeling a bit bleary eyed this morning, grab a cup of coffee and take a look at Goncalo Viana's beautiful illustrations to wake yourself up. Rich with colour and charming detail his work has a wonderful texture to it, as though you could reach out and actually feel the deep pigments he's used.


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Addressing a crowd at Nokia Theater that included George Clooney, Jennifer Hudson, Jon Bon Jovi, Katy Perry and Stevie Wonder, the Democratic president delivered his stump speech, noting his accomplishments during his first term and that unemployment was down to 7.8 percent from a high of 10 percent.
"Manufacturing is coming back to America. Home values are on the rise," he said.
"Now, we're not there yet. We've still got too many Americans looking for work, too many families who can't pay the bills, too many homes underwater, too many young people graduating with too much debt
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Who's your favorite sports team, and why?
Clippers!!! I love the city they play out of, the colors they wear and the fact that Blake Griffin is on the team! :D
What's your favorite movie quote?
"Fetch is totally going to happen!"
What's your favorite video game, and could you kick our butts at it?
[ENTER ANY VIDEO GAME NAME]...hands down, I'll KICK YOUR BUTT IN IT!! hehehe!
Piercings/Tattoos (How many? Where?)
Just one set of piercings on my ears and one tat on my back. :D
What's the most embarrassing song on your iPod?
"Kiss the Girl" from The Little Mermaid.
What's your best party trick?
Swallowing two pieces of string, and an hour later it comes out tied...I shit you knot!
What's the most memorable pick-up line you've ever heard?
Is your name Google? MY RESPONSE: No, why? Because you got everything I'm searching for!
What's the worst job you've ever had?
The worst job I ever had was to help decide which models should place title for a pageant. I was one of the judges and it was so difficult choosing...I wanted everyone to win. :/
What's the most dangerous thing you've ever done?
Hmmmm...well I was named on the countdown for "The Most Dangerous Women in Hollywood"! They claim I'm dangerous because I'm sexy, fearless...I'm part of a new breed of models!
It's 4AM after a crazy night out – what are we eating?
Carne Asada Nachos...oh yeaaa!
What's the strangest thing in your fridge right now?
Aloe Gel for burns...have to protect myself from scars. :D
What's the naughtiest thing you've ever done in public?
Sometimes I'll go commando for a shoot or runway if the outfit needs that.
What do you feel sexiest wearing?
I feel sexiest wearing a smile...it goes a long way. :D
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U.S. health care costs currently exceed 17% of GDP and continue to rise. Other countries spend less of their GDP on health care but have the same increasing trend. Explanations are not hard to find. The aging of populations and the development of new treatments are behind some of the increase. Perverse incentives also contribute: Third-party payors (insurance companies and governments) reimburse for procedures performed rather than outcomes achieved, and patients bear little responsibility for the cost of the health care services they demand.
But few acknowledge a more fundamental source of escalating costs: the system by which those costs are measured. To put it bluntly, there is an almost complete lack of understanding of how much it costs to deliver patient care, much less how those costs compare with the outcomes achieved. Instead of focusing on the costs of treating individual patients with specific medical conditions over their full cycle of care, providers aggregate and analyze costs at the specialty or service department level.
Making matters worse, participants in the health care system do not even agree on what they mean by costs. When politicians and policy makers talk about cost reduction and "bending the cost curve," they are typically referring to how much the government or insurers pay to providers—not to the costs incurred by providers to deliver health care services. Cutting payor reimbursement does reduce the bill paid by insurers and lowers providers' revenues, but it does nothing to reduce the actual costs of delivering care. Providers share in this confusion. They often allocate their costs to procedures, departments, and services based not on the actual resources used to deliver care but on how much they are reimbursed. But reimbursement itself is based on arbitrary and inaccurate assumptions about the intensity of care.
Poor costing systems have disastrous consequences. It is a well-known management axiom that what is not measured cannot be managed or improved. Since providers misunderstand their costs, they are unable to link cost to process improvements or outcomes, preventing them from making systemic and sustainable cost reductions. Instead, providers (and payors) turn to simplistic actions such as across-the-board cuts in expensive services, staff compensation, and head count. But imposing arbitrary spending limits on discrete components of care, or on specific line-item expense categories, achieves only marginal savings that often lead to higher total systems costs and poorer outcomes. For example, as payors introduce high copayments to limit the use of expensive drugs, costs may balloon elsewhere in the system should patients' overall health deteriorate and they subsequently require more services.
Poor cost measurement has also led to huge cross-subsidies across services. Providers are generously reimbursed for some services and incur losses on others. These cross-subsidies introduce major distortions in the supply and efficiency of care. The inability to properly measure cost and compare cost with outcomes is at the root of the incentive problem in health care and has severely retarded the shift to more effective reimbursement approaches.
Finally, poor measurement of cost and outcomes also means that effective and efficient providers go unrewarded, while inefficient ones have little incentive to improve. Indeed, institutions may be penalized when the improvements they make in treatments and processes reduce the need for highly reimbursed services. Without proper measurement, the healthy dynamic of competition—in which the highest-value providers expand and prosper—breaks down. Instead we have zero-sum competition in which health care providers destroy value by focusing on highly reimbursed services, shifting costs to other entities, or pursuing piecemeal and ineffective line-item cost reductions. Current health care reform initiatives will exacerbate the situation by increasing access to an inefficient system without addressing the fundamental value problem: how to deliver improved outcomes at a lower total cost.
The remedy to the cost crisis does not require medical science breakthroughs or new govern?mental regula?tion. It simply requires a new way to accurately measure costs and compare them with outcomes.
Fortunately, we can change this state of affairs. And the remedy does not require medical science breakthroughs or top-down governmental regulation. It simply requires a new way to accurately measure costs and compare them with outcomes. Our approach makes patients and their conditions—not departmental units, procedures, or services—the fundamental unit of analysis for measuring costs and outcomes. The experiences of several major institutions currently implementing the new approach—the Head and Neck Center at MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, the Cleft Lip and Palate Program at Children's Hospital in Boston, and units performing knee replacements at Schön Klinik in Germany and Brigham & Women's Hospital in Boston—confirm our belief that bringing accurate cost and value measurement practices into health care delivery can have a transformative impact.
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The proper goal for any health care delivery system is to improve the value delivered to patients. Value in health care is measured in terms of the patient outcomes achieved per dollar expended. It is not the number of different services provided or the volume of services delivered that matters but the value. More care and more expensive care is not necessarily better care.


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Miles: A Coach Who'll Never Forget His Roots
Tim Miles was a happy TV interview after Nebraska beat Miami, 60-49.
By Randy York
As I drove home last night from Pinnacle Bank Arena, I do what I always do after a Nebraska men's or women's basketball game – tune into the postgame radio show on the Huskers Sports Network. It took me awhile to get to my car, so I was a bit surprised that Tim Miles had yet to sit down with Kent Pavelka and Matt Davison to discuss the Huskers' 60-49 defensive lock down of the Miami Hurricanes and their 2013 National Coach of the Year – Jim Larrañaga.
No more than half a minute into the post-mortem, Miles started talking about how his Husker team set the defensive tone. "It was 22-13 at halftime, right?" he asked Nebraska's play-by-play man and color analyst. Miles then shared what he said to Craig Smith, his longtime assistant coach, when he walked into the Huskers' locker room at halftime: "Smitty, what does this remind you of?" Miles asked.
"Valley City-Mayville 1997," replied Smith, digging deep into his four-school joint journey with Miles. Mayville State University in Mayville, N.D., was the pair's first collegiate coaching stop, followed by North Dakota State, Colorado State and Nebraska. Since both coaches were on the same track, Miles asked Smith if he remembers the halftime score of that game, and sure enough, both minds were razor sharp … "22 to 9," Smith recalled. "Yeh," Miles said, laughing during his post game show. "I can't believe we didn't let 'em get to 13!"
Yes, I laughed, too, and enjoyed listening to a Division I head coach who had just saved the day with a Big Ten win over an ACC team that allowed the nation's oldest conference to tie in their annual league challenge series with six wins and six losses each. Miles' teams at Nebraska are now 2-0 in the challenge series because the Huskers upset Wake Forest in Winston-Salem, N.C., to force a similar 6-6 deadlock last year.
Miles jokingly wondered why the Big Ten wouldn't reward Nebraska in some creative way, like send a box of Girl Scout Cookies through the mail. Actually, I learned something Thursday afternoon that meant a lot more to Miles than cookies. The reason he was 10 minutes late for his radio show was taking the time to say goodbye to a former player on that 1997 Mayville team.
Jeff Walen had made the drive from North Dakota to Lincoln to see his coaches live and in living color. The 36-year-old has MS and is in a wheel chair but showed his loyalty to coaches who still inspire him to this day. Miles and Smith gave him a tour of the Huskers' world-class practice facility earlier, and here's betting that he also could have guessed the Valley City-Mayville halftime score. What a neat way to honor the good old days of a school that still only has 449 full-time students.
I like Tim Miles, and one of his best traits is the respect he has for his coaching roots. It's a quality that will serve him well with every step he takes to achieve his vision for Nebraska – 1) Qualify for the NCAA Tournament; and 2) Be the first Nebraska men's basketball team to win an NCAA Tournament game … ever! He wants that madness to end.
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Lauren's Q & A
What's your favorite movie quote?
Anything from Step Brothers!! -- "Hey Man, Did you touch my drum set?"
What's your favorite video game, and could you kick our butts at it?
I am a "Gamer Girl" as Maxim would call it, I have a lot of favorites. Rock Band is probably one of my all times and yes, I could probably kick your butt at it!
Piercings/Tattoos (How many? Where?)
I've had quite a few piercings in the past, but have taken almost all of them out. I have a good amount of ink. Two on back, one on left ribs, and my right half sleeve made up of several pieces by itself.
What's the most embarrassing song on your iPod?
Embarrassing to some perhaps! After going through my music it's between Run Away (Real McCoy), Jellyhead (Crush), and the Harlem Shake, haha.
It's 4AM after a crazy night out – what are we eating?
Mcdonald's Breakfast or anywhere I can get hashbrowns.
What do you feel sexiest wearing?
a pair of unique and show stopping high heels; it's even better if it's my first time wearing them.


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Wednesday, May 11, 2011
WIP Wednesday #26
Ongoing projects:
Supernova Quilt-Along
Quilting, quilting, more quilting. Oh, and also? Quilting. I chose to do the converging lines, a decision that has me questioning whether I was of sound mind at the time. Also wondering how much quilting I can do before I actually burn out the motor on my poor sewing machine?
Modern Meadow baby quiltStill hand-stitching that binding. This quilt has been painfully slow into the finish line. I am so ready to get this one off the list, but I've been too busy with Supernova!
Completed tops awaiting quilting:
Hope Valley (the original Supernova)
On hold ... yeah, yeah.
Central Park jelly roll quilt
Figgy Pudding quilt
Wonky Log Cabin
This week's stats:
New projects - 0
Completed projects - 1 (Mod Times)
Currently in progress - 9 (down one from last week)
Again, my apologies for not commenting on all the links last week. It's always such a bummer when I don't have time to get around to them all. Blame Supernova for being so demanding about how it wanted to be quilted. : )
Anyway, I can't wait to see what you've got this week! Just a few quick reminders: 1) Please link to a post from the past week containing a work in progress. Yep, I'm the weirdo who doesn't want a linky full of finishes. : ) It's okay if your post contains finishes, but it must also contain at least one unfinished item. 2) Please link back to my blog in your post. 3) Comment on some of the other links. 4) Enjoy!
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Your Supernova will be so nice when it is all quilted. That is a lot of quilting on there and it does take a lot of time but well worth the time. I saw your Modern Meadow baby quilt and it was so nice.ReplyDelete
I'm excited to see your supernova with the converging lines. I don't think I've seen one quilted that way.ReplyDelete
Good morning Lee...the qulting looks perfect on your Super Nova quilt...you do wonderful work...ReplyDelete
I have wondered about the motor thing as well... hopefully not! From what I can see, Supernova is looking fabulous!!ReplyDelete
Can't wait to see your finished supernova - it is looking amazing!ReplyDelete
Your supernova is looking great! This has been such a great quilt along - thank you!!ReplyDelete
The supernova quilting is great. I imagine it will be SO worth all the effort. Again, thanks for hosting. I'll be back to surf the links!ReplyDelete
Dense straight-line quilting always seems like a good idea at the time, right? I think I have straight-line quilting amnesia - I always forget how time-consuming it is. Luckily, the finished effect is so dramatic. Super Nova is going to be one rockin' quilt when you're done!ReplyDelete
I have absolutely wondered about my motor, too!!! I'm sure your machine will survive :) I love your Supernova sneak peek, it looks fantastic so far. Can't wait for the full reveal!ReplyDelete
Supernova may be taking a long time, but it's just stunning! It will be well worth the effort!ReplyDelete
Your Modern Meadow baby quilt is amazing. I'm awed and jealous of your quilting skills. :)ReplyDelete
Lee your straight line quilting looks perfect! I've realized my straight line quilting stinks and I'd much rather do a meandering design because if I mess up it doesn't glare at me every time I look at it :D You'll have to give me some tips sometime.ReplyDelete
I'm quilting my Urban Lattice (slowly)... oh my word it's a big quilt!ReplyDelete
Yours looks beautiful friend!
I have a quilt that I did straight line quilting on and I swear my machine was going to start smoking!!! But it kept trucking along and the quilt was done and it was happilly ever after ending!ReplyDelete
That quilting is amazing! Looks like one of those 'ton of work, but worth it' things! :DReplyDelete
I'm glad I'm not the only one with a practically-finished quilt that's been languishing in that stage. ;DReplyDelete
This week I did have to work on baby shower gifts for my daughter, but there is one gift unfinished pictured that I need help with.ReplyDelete
I feel for you on the binding. I hate hand stitching binding. But you've made great progress on your Supernova and it's almost done!ReplyDelete
Bummed I didn't have a chance to do a wip post this week. Can't wait to see the quilting on the super nova!!ReplyDelete
Happy WIP Wednesday! Looking forward to seeing how the Supernova turns out!ReplyDelete
Oh your Supernova looks like its shaping up beautifully! Can't wait to see it.ReplyDelete
All that quilting will be so worth it when its finished! I find straight line quilting to be so tedious sometimes, but it is just stunning in the end! Can't wait to see it completedReplyDelete
The quilting looks fabulous Lee! : )ReplyDelete
As always thank you!ReplyDelete


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No announcement came out of the meeting. However, Supervisor Jim DeMartini, a project critic, said he was "pretty happy" about the closed session and said it was likely that the board of supervisors would vote during their Aug. 21 meeting on whether to continue working Kamilos.
County CEO Monica Nino had previously warned Kamilos in a letter July 11 that the county may terminate its agreement with Kamilos if it did not receive the $2.75 million in its treasury by the end of that day. As of Wednesday, July 18, that money still had not been deposited.
Under the contract agreement with Kamilos, either the county or the developer must wait 30 days before either party can terminate the contract "for cause."
Kamilos said Wednesday that he expects to have all the money to the county by the end of that 30-day window. He and investors were working "seriously and diligently" to make that happen, he said.
Regardless of whether the money is in by that time, supervisors will have the option to vote once again whether they want to continue with Kamilos at that time, because the contract has been breached, county counsel has said.
JULY 16 UPDATE: County officials still had yet to receive a $2.75 million deposit for the West Park project as of Monday afternoon, July 16, though West Park developer Gerry Kamilos notified the county that he was meeting with investors and attorneys Monday after hashing out an agreement over the weekend, said Keith Boggs, assistant executive officer for Stanislaus County.
The board of supervisors will attend a special closed session meeting at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, July 16, to discuss their legal options after Kamilos missed a contractual deadline July 10 for making the deposit.
In the meantime, county officials are taking a wait-and-see approach to the matter.
""We're in a tread water position today, waiting to see how this all ferrets itself out," Boggs said.
The developer of Crows Landing's proposed PCCP West Park industrial center failed to make a required $2.75 million deposit with the county that was due Tuesday, July 10, leading Stanislaus County CEO Monica Nino to send him a breach of contract notice.
Developer Gerry Kamilos had pledged to deposit the money to complete project-related environmental studies and to help develop the former Crows Landing naval air facility as part of an agreement with the county that supervisors approved along with a seven-month project extension June 19.
Kamilos said this week he hoped the deposit would be ready soon after his company, West Park Holdings LLC, negotiated an agreement with Lehman Brothers' legacy company at about 2 p.m. Tuesday, July 10, to obtain full ownership of the project.
"I think it's just a matter of a few days," he said. "The major step here is the Lehman agreement, and we're now able to move ahead with full control."
The developer has been working for months with the bankrupt company, which was West Park's former financier, and he said he faced further delays last week because some key signatories were on vacation. He said his investors are looking over paperwork now that the deal with Lehman Brothers has been approved, and he expects them to come forward within a few days, though it has yet to be seen what that means for the county.
"He's breached the agreement, and whether or not depositing it makes it right or not, I don't know," Stanislaus County Counsel Jack Doering said Tuesday.
Doering described the matter as a technical breach, and he said supervisors could vote to end their relationship with Kamilos if they chose, though he was aware Kamilos is trying to remedy the matter. Doering was not sure whether the board would discuss the matter or how that may come about if they do, indicating he had more questions than answers.
"Let's wait and see how things shake out," he said.
Keith Boggs, an assistant executive officer for Stanislaus County who has worked on the West Park project, could not be reached for comment Wednesday.
Kamilos' proposed West Park project would entail building a 2,930-acre industrial park on and around the 1,528-acre former Crows Landing naval airfield between Fink and Marshall roads south of Patterson.
The project would include a 250-acre solar facility and a 157-acre "inland port," where two trains each day would carry goods to and from the Port of Oakland.
Most recent figures from Kamilos indicate that the project would provide 13,000 permanent jobs and 3,000 temporary construction jobs, a vast reduction from his initial plans to create 37,000 jobs on 4,800 acres.
Kamilos received board approval in 2007 to negotiate exclusively with the county to develop the Crows Landing Air Facility. Since that time, the board of supervisors has given him two project extensions — once in March 2011 and then again last month.
Kamilos blamed initial delays on the downturn in the economy and an unsuccessful lawsuit filed by the City of Patterson regarding the county's selection of a master developer and project description before an environmental impact report was completed. He said more recent delays stemmed from the fact that Lehman Brothers' post-bankruptcy legacy company had retained the project, preventing him from seeking funding alternatives but also preventing the project from being funded by the bankrupt firm.
At the same time, Kamilos faced lawsuits from contractors demanding payment on various projects, including West Park, though he said last month he was working out those issues.
Despite such financial difficulties, the county received a letter from a Roseville attorney representing one of Kamilos' investors pledging $1 million on June 18 to ensure that the environmental review process would be completed by Jan. 31. While that money was placed in a trust account on June 18, Kamilos said Wednesday that the county has yet to receive any of it, though he soon hoped to have all $2.75 million in the county's hands.
For project critics, including Supervisor Jim DeMartini, Tuesday's missed deadline was the last straw.
"It's time to just pull the plug on him and start over again," DeMartini said Wednesday afternoon.
DeMartini has repeatedly chastised Kamilos for missing deadlines and has criticized him for having no successful major industrial projects that are up and running. The supervisor's district includes the West Side, where many people have expressed concerns about the project's size, the impact of increased trains on the region and various environmental issues.
DeMartini said he would encourage the Stanislaus County Civil Grand Jury to look into the matter if the county allows him to move forward with the project.
"I think a full investigation is really in order," he said.
Supervisor Dick Monteith, a stalwart advocate for the project up until this point, said Thursday that he hoped Kamilos would provide the money and that the project would move forward. However, he said the board needed to find out what their legal options were and the county needed the $2.75 million deposit.
"I will say this, without the money, there aren't many options," he said.
Despite this week's setback, Kamilos remained optimistic, saying he already had a team of consultants ready to complete environmental studies for the project by the Jan. 31 deadline.
"There's been a long partnership with the county, and we've achieved quite a bit, and I fully intend for this project to reach its full development," he said.
• Contact Jonathan Partridge at 892-6187, ext. 26, or email@example.com.


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