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White House publishes BP chronicle -- How AZ could help GOP -- WashPost moves left online -- Introducing Liam and Nicholas Dorning -- Brian Williams b'day
THE WHITE HOUSE POSTS a 6,300-word chronology of "The Ongoing Administration-Wide Response to the Deepwater BP Oil Spill," under the byline of Heidi Avery, White House Deputy Homeland Security Advisor: "We have compiled this chronology in the spirit of transparency so the American people can have a clear understanding of what their government has been and is doing to respond to the massive and potentially unprecedented environmental disaster."
N.Y. POST: The "Times Square bomber" was motivated by "Revenge for US drone attacks on Taliban terrorists."
CLAIM THE BIN LADEN LIVES IN D.C.: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, during an contentious interview with ABC's George Stephanopoulos, taped yesterday at the Millennium UN Plaza Hotel. Transcript
FIRST LOOK -- GEORGE WILL visits CentComm HQ in Florida: "Today, ... only about half of the surge of 30,000 troops for Afghanistan, announced by the president in his speech at West Point five months ago, have arrived. The rest will be there by the end of August. Eleven months after that, the withdrawal the president promised -- in the sentence following the one that announced the increase -- is supposed to begin. But Petraeus cautions that the president's words, properly parsed, allow ample time to achieve U.S. objectives. ... Petraeus, who likes fine distinctions, speaks of 'thinning out' rather than 'handing off' U.S. involvement, which is 'what we're still doing in Iraq.' This will take time because counterinsurgency in an underdeveloped society is, inescapably, nation-building."
TOP TALKER Demi Moore was on Capitol Hill for a briefing on "Domestic Sex Trafficking of Children" presented by The Rebecca Project on Human Rights and the Demi & Ashton Foundation, and moderated by CNN's Suzanne Malveaux -- POLITICO's Amie Parnes: "Moore had her first big lobbying experience in Washington. She met with lawmakers in both chambers, spoke at a forum, and huddled with White House senior adviser Valerie Jarrett and other top White House aides to talk about the issue. (White House senior adviser David Axelrod also stopped in to say hello.)"
Good Wednesday morning. Tonight is the sold-out world premiere of "ADVISE & DISSENT," a documentary filmed behind the scenes of the Roberts, Miers, and Alito confirmation battles: "Juxtaposing left and right, the film tracks two lions of the Senate -- Sen. Arlen Specter and Sen. Patrick Leahy -- under pressure from outside advocates led by conservative Manuel Miranda and progressive Ralph Neas. … Director David Van Taylor is best known as a producer-director of A Perfect Candidate, the award-winning documentary about Oliver North's Senate campaign." It's the Opening Night Selection of the 2nd Annual Politics on Film Festival. A post-show discussion, moderated by CBS News Chief Legal Correspondent Jan Crawford, features David Van Taylor and participants from the film. Watch the trailer here. RSVP for press [email protected].
ABOUT LAST NIGHT -- "Primaries bruise establishment picks," by POLITICO's James Hohmann: "Tuesday's primaries didn't offer any cause for panic. But the elections in Indiana, North Carolina and Ohio confirmed what both parties suspected going in: it's going to be a very rough year for incumbents and for the Washington establishment. … In the marquee Senate primaries, establishment-backed candidates delivered wobbly performances that are sure to worry their national parties. … In Ohio … Lt. Gov Lee Fisher entered Tuesday as the undisputed frontrunner over Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner … Despite his status as the preferred candidate of Gov. Ted Strickland and the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, Fisher won a closer-than-expected 55 percent to 45 percent victory against his underfinanced opponent. …
" Former Sen. Dan Coats, an NRSC favorite … also turned in an uninspired performance. He won just 39 percent in a crowded field that included former Rep. John Hostettler and state Sen. Marlin Stutzman. … North Carolina was another example where primary voters resisted Washington's lead. There, former state Sen. Cal Cunningham, the DSCC's preferred candidate, trailed Secretary of State Elaine Marshall by nine points. Both will now face off in a June 22 run off since they failed to reach the 40 percent threshold necessary to win the nomination."
WHAT THE WEST WING IS READING -- Taegan Goddard's Political Wire: "Health Care Bump at Last? Tucked away in the latest CBS News/New York Times poll is some possible evidence for the elusive 'health care bump' … Among independents, President Obama's approval rating is 48% approve to 39% disapprove, up from 44% each in February, before health care was passed. On the specific subject of health care, independents continue to disapprove of Obama 40% to 45%, but that is a marked improvement over February when 31% approved and 60% disapproved."
DRIVING THE DAY -- AP/New Orleans: "A specially built giant box designed to capture the oil gushing out of an undersea well and into the Gulf of Mexico should be at the site by Wednesday. It's the next idea to try to at least control the spill that is threatening life in the Gulf. The containment box has never been tried at such depths, but officials hope to have it working by early next week."
EXCLUSIVE -- BP steps up its outreach to Gulf Coast media: While in Washington yesterday, BP CEO Tony Hayward hosted reporters from the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Biloxi Sun Herald, the Mobile Press-Register and the Baton Rouge Advocate for a Q&A session at the BP offices on New York Avenue. (The Jackson Clarion-Ledger and Pensacola Journal called in.)
-- New Orleans Times-Picayune: "BP Chief Executive Officer Tony Hayward said Tuesday that a $75 million cap on damages payable for economic losses from the Gulf of Mexico oil spill likely isn't relevant because of provisions that allow federal officials to waive the limits."
SPOTTED at Founding Farmers last night: Democratic senators Maria Cantwell and Frank Lautenberg enjoying a late dinner with three dining partners at a long communal table.
VICE PRESIDENT BIDEN departs for Europe this morning and will travel to Brussels, Belgium, and Madrid, Spain, through Saturday. The V.P. will consult with the leaders of NATO, the European Union, Belgium and Spain on critical strategic and economic issues, and he will deliver a major address to the European Parliament on U.S.-EU cooperation -- tomorrow at noon local, 6 a.m. EDT.
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DORNING TWINS: In the first of many surprises surely in store for their parents and big sister, the Dorning boys arrived well ahead of schedule yesterday, at 10:03 a.m. and 10:07 a.m. Liam Michael is 3 pounds, 3 ounces, 16 inches long, and Nicholas Patrick is 3 pounds, 6 ounces, 15 inches long, The NICU team describes them as "feisty." Both are doing well but getting a little extra help breathing and have work to do before they can come home. Mom is resting and doing fine. Big sister Caroline has no idea what is about to hit her.
BIRTHDAYS: Liam Prince, son of Jonathan … Michael Dennehy ... Brian Williams is 5-1 ... Katie Quinn … John Sweeney ... Christine Pelosi ... Bloomberg's triple daddy Mike Dorning.
POLITICO print edition p.1 ... USA Today p. 1
ENGAGED -- Don McGahn and Shannon Flaherty, who writes: "Sorry for the informal email, but I wanted you to be some of the first to know that Don proved his brilliance once again by asking me to marry him, and I, of course, said absolutely! It was the perfect proposal that involved a beautiful backdrop, very loud geese, Jax starting a dog fight, Metal Mania, and my dream house."
VIDEO: Teddy Downey talks Wall Street reform on Canadian TV.
WE'RE FLATTERED. The New York Observer has the scoop that National Journal is revamping everything to compete directly with -- wait for it -- POLITICO. "Of all the media properties [David Bradley] had ever owned, the studiously earnest, weekly political magazine was one of his favorites. But recently, much to Mr. Bradley's dismay, it had been taking a serious drubbing from an upstart rival. 'It was much happier to do what we were doing until Politico arrived in the world,' Mr. Bradley recently told The Observer. … 'As much market share as Politico has taken,' said Mr. [Justin] Smith, 'I would argue that we're in the very early days of the digital transformation.' … Succeeding at toppling Politico might be an even taller task than making a British newsweekly [The Week] profitable in a hostile American market in the wake of 9/11, at a time when established newsweeklies were crumbling." Bob Merry, the former head of CQ, punctuates the story by saying POLITICO was "able to steal a march on the National Journal."
--ASSIGNMENT EDITORS -- " Wash Post shifts leftward online," by Ben Smith: "The once-cautious Washington Post has begun to invest heavily in the liberal blogosphere, transforming its online presence – a combination of accident and design – into a competitor of the Huffington Post and TalkingPointsMemo as much as the New York Times. The Post's foray into the new media world received some unfavorable attention last weekend when its latest hire, Dave Weigel, who covers conservatives, referred to gay marriage foes as 'bigots.' But the resulting controversy brought into relief a larger shift: The Post now hosts three of the strongest liberal blogs on the Internet, and draws a disproportionate share of its traffic and buzz from them, a significant change for a traditional newspaper that has struggled to remake itself. Besides Weigel, who came from the liberal Washington Independent, the Post also has Ezra Klein, hired last May from the American Prospect to bring his brand of deliberately wonky policy writing to its website; and Greg Sargent."
--The Washington Post Co. moves Greg Sargent's " The Plum Line" blog from WhoRunsGov to the mother sites's "Opinion" section: "This is a blog of reported opinion. It's mostly about the Democratic Party, the media old and new, the netroots, and the state of liberalism in the Age of Obama."
--New York Magazine, " CBS News and CNN Are Back in Partnership Negotiations," by Gabriel Sherman: "CBS News and CNN are in advanced negotiations about signing a news-gathering partnership, according to executives familiar with the discussions. The talks revolve around how the two news divisions can combine operations in a bid to cut costs and expand audiences on both sides. … The talks are still fluid, which means that executives would speak only on condition of anonymity, but CNN and CBS began negotiations some time ago."
BROOKINGS – Live Chat: Tanzania is hosting the 20th World Economic Forum on Africa, marking the first time the conference has been held in East Africa. Brookings expert Mwangi Kimenyi will preview the conference and discuss Africa's issues of economic growth, development and progress in a live web chat with POLITICO assistant editor Seung Min Kim. Join live on Arena, register here, or submit advance questions to [email protected].
MAYOR BLOOMBERG and Police Commissioner Ray Kelly are on the Hill today to testify about closing the gun show loophole, and to make the case for federal funding for the Midtown Security Initiative, which will expand NYPD cameras and link to private cameras. Dirksen 342, 10 a.m.
BREAKING, from DAVID ROGERS -- "Baucus moves on biz tax package: Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus signaled Tuesday that he will move ahead soon with a small business tax package including bonus depreciation and a 100% exclusion of capital gains on the stock of qualified companies. 'On substance we're getting very close,' the Montana Democrat said, and he conceded that progress on one front could be action-forcing on a second contentious issue for Republicans—the future shape of the estate tax."
BREAKING, from HHS: "U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius wrote Governors and State Insurance Commissioners last night urging states to re-examine any WellPoint health insurance rate increases in their states after Anthem Blue Cross, a WellPoint affiliate, withdrew its plan to raise premiums in California by as much as 39 percent when auditors found the rate hikes were based on unreasonable assumptions."
POOL REPORT FROM LAST NIGHT'S TIME 100 GALA AT TIME WARNER CENTER: Bill Clinton, who appears on the cover of this year's TIME salute to the "100 Most Influential People in the World," was the first speaker after an intro by TIME Managing Editor Rick Stengel. Clinton: "I was waking by a newsstand and these young people were staring at the cover and one says to the other, 'Who is that old gray-haired guy with Lady Gaga?'" During her toast to the troops, Sarah Palin jokingly looked at her hand (nothing was on it). Comedian Andy Samberg stage-whispered, "Sarah, everyone in this room is an elite. If you want me to create a diversion so you can leave, just wink." Samberg said Massachusetts Senator Scott Brown "got his invitation to attend the gala and read that it was a black-tie event. But he canceled when he heard he had to wear the rest of the tuxedo." SPOTTED: Joe Klein rocking out to Prince with Judd Apatow, Leslie Mann, Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore (with tambourine in hand) while Piper Palin held her ears … Nancy Gibbs introducing Ben Stiller, who toasted his mom for being the most influential person in his life.
EPA ADMINISTRATOR LISA JACKSON was one of the few admin folks named in this year's TIME 100 but skipped the dinner to join a briefing for members of Congress. She also cancelled a trip to Africa, scheduled to start today, to Ghana and Kenya, in order to oversee EPA's response to the spill.
THE BIG IDEA -- ARIZONA IMMIGRATION FRACAS MAY BE GOOD FOR THE GOP IN THE SHORT RUN -- Jonathan Martin: "The new hard-line Arizona immigration law that has sparked talk of boycotts and caused leading Republicans to fret about the party's frayed relationship with Hispanic voters may indeed pose a long-term threat to the GOP's prospects. But in the here and now — and in many of the most competitive races that will determine control of Congress — the law appears to be a poison-tipped arrow in the Republican quiver. New polling indicates broad public support for the measure and illustrates the peril embattled Democrats could face this November over the issue."
--NYT A1, " Terrorism Suspect, Charged, Admits to Role in Bomb Plot," by Mark Mazzetti, Sabrina Tavernise and Jack Healy: "A Pakistani-American man arrested in the failed Times Square car bombing has admitted his role in the attempted attack and said he received explosives training in Pakistan, the authorities said Tuesday. … Faisal Shahzad, 30, … was charged with attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction and other federal charges, several related to explosives. He was interrogated without initially being read his Miranda rights under a public safety exception, and he provided what the Federal Bureau of Investigation called 'valuable intelligence and evidence.' He continued talking after being read his rights, the F.B.I. said. The authorities charged him as a civilian, but he did not appear in court and no hearing has been scheduled."
--Newsweek, " FBI Surveillance of Times Square Suspect 'Broke Down'," by Mark Hosenball: "Accused Times Square bombing suspect Faisal Shahzad spent more than three hours at New York's JFK airport unwatched by authorities while he waited to board a plane out of the country because FBI surveillance of him "broke down," says an administration official familiar with the matter. The FBI is not denying that the surveillance encountered problems."
--WaPo, " U.S. exempted BP's Gulf of Mexico drilling from environmental impact study," by Juliet Eilperin: "The Interior Department exempted BP's calamitous Gulf of Mexico drilling operation from a detailed environmental impact analysis last year, according to government documents, after three reviews of the area concluded that a massive oil spill was unlikely. The decision by the department's Minerals Management Service to give BP's lease at Deepwater Horizon a 'categorical exclusion' from the National Environmental Policy Act on April 6, 2009 -- and BP's lobbying efforts just 11 days before the explosion to expand those exemptions -- show that neither federal regulators nor the company anticipated an accident of the scale of the one unfolding in the gulf."
A REPUBLICAN AIDE E-MAILS: "Be honest, do you have any doubt that if this happened on Bush's watch that the lede would be 'The Bush administration exempted …'? The word 'Obama' does not appear in this story."
--WSJ A4, " BP, Under Pressure, Woos Congress," by Neil King Jr. and Guy Chazan: "BP PLC Chief Executive Tony Hayward met with lawmakers on Capitol Hill Tuesday, advancing the oil giant's campaign to avoid the sort of political backlash that has engulfed companies such as Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and Toyota Motor Corp. The push on Capitol Hill, arising after a rig leased by BP burned and sank in the Gulf of Mexico last month and the well it was drilling began leaking oil, comes as the company said it hopes as soon as Thursday to lower the first of three containment domes over the principle underwater leak. The dome would then pump the escaping oil to ships on the surface. … Success would go a long way toward easing the pressure Mr. Hayward is encountering from the White House and Congress."
--NYT col., " Amount of Spill Could Escalate, Company Admits," by John M. Broder, Campbell Robertson and Clifford Krauss: "In a closed-door briefing for members of Congress, a senior BP executive conceded Tuesday that the ruptured oil well in the Gulf of Mexico could conceivably spill as much as 60,000 barrels a day of oil, more than 10 times the estimate of the current flow. The scope of the problem has grown drastically … Now, the discussion with BP on Capitol Hill is certain to intensify pressure on the company … Amid growing uncertainty about the extent of the leak, and when it might be stanched, pressure on BP intensified on multiple fronts Tuesday, from increasingly frustrated residents of the Gulf Coast to federal, state and local officials demanding more from the company."
--WaPo col. 1, " Scientists envision devastation for Gulf," by Joel Achenbach: "The urgent question along the polluted Gulf of Mexico: How bad will this get? No one knows, but with each day that the leaking oil well a mile below the surface remains uncapped, scientists and energy industry observers are imagining outcomes that range from bad to worse to worst, with some forecasting a calamity of historic proportions."
ALSO DRIVING THE CONVO, with Tim Alberta:
--The Guardian, " Labour split on poll strategy as Blair says don't vote tactically," by Patrick Wintour: "Tony Blair has flatly rejected calls for Labour supporters to vote tactically to prevent the Tories getting into power, insisting that people should make up their own minds and back the party they believe in."
--NEERA TANDEN -- TNR, " Outsourced Racism: Why does the GOP think it's okay to mock Indians?" by Neera Tanden: "Americans for Job Security is a corporate front group. … This week it unrolled a spot that can't help but be described as racist. The ad targets Bill Halter, who is running in the Arkansas Democratic primary against Senator Blanche Lincoln. It features Indian actors—in Indian outfits, with Indian accents, with images of India behind them. They thank Halter for his support of outsourcing to Bangalore while he served as the director of an unnamed company.
--NYT A14, " Black Hopefuls Pick This Year in G.O.P. Races," by Jennifer Steinhauer: "Among the many reverberations of President Obama's election, here is one he probably never anticipated: at least 32 African-Americans are running for Congress this year as Republicans, the biggest surge since Reconstruction, according to party officials. The House has not had a black Republican since 2003, when J. C. Watts of Oklahoma left after eight years. But now black Republicans are running across the country … Party officials and the candidates themselves acknowledge that they still have uphill fights in both the primaries and the general elections, but they say that black Republicans are running with a confidence they have never had before. They credit the marriage of two factors: dissatisfaction with the Obama administration, and the proof, as provided by Mr. Obama, that blacks can get elected."
BUSINESS BURST – WSJ C1, " What-Ifs for Goldman Sachs," by Susanne Craig and Joann S. Lublin: "Some executives and powerful alumni of Goldman Sachs Group Inc. are talking about whether Chief Executive Lloyd C. Blankfein can survive the legal and public-relations storm swirling around the company … The various hypothetical scenarios include whether Mr. Blankfein should resign, whether there should be a broader house-cleaning of top Goldman management or whether to separate the chairman and CEO posts now held by Mr. Blankfein. In one possibility being discussed, Henry Paulson, who stepped down as Goldman's chief executive in 2006 to become Treasury secretary, would take the chairman job … But one person familiar with Mr. Paulson's thinking said he would never return to Goldman."
--FT A1, "Goldman set to beef up legal team," by Henny Sender and Francesco Guerrera: "Goldman Sachs is aiming to beef up its team of high-powered legal advisers as it steps up talks with the US Securities and Exchange Commission over accusations of fraud. … People close to the situation said discussions between Goldman and the SEC were preliminary and it was premature to talk about a settlement of the civil fraud charges against the Wall Street bank over a mortgage-related security."
SPORTS BLINK – Playbook Playoff Tracker – NBA: Orlando destroyed Atlanta, 114-71, taking a 1-0 series lead … Los Angeles beat Utah, taking a 2-0 series lead
--NHL: Pittsburgh topped Montreal, 2-0, taking a 2-1 series lead … San Jose stunned Detroit, 4-3 in overtime, taking a 3-0 series lead.
--Detroit News A1, " Ernie Harwell, voice of the Tigers, dies at 92," by Tom Gage and Lynn Henning: "Ernie has died. After a battle against bile duct cancer, one he knew he would lose, Ernie Harwell died about 7:30 p.m. Tuesday … With his death, Michigan loses one of its most beloved figures, and baseball does as well. For 55 years, Harwell was a major league broadcaster, 42 with the Tigers."
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A Partnership with Geneva
by Mary LeClair
For more than 15 years, Professor of Sociology Jack Harris P'02, P'06, along with many of his faculty colleagues, has been building synergies between the needs of the Geneva community and the campus' dedication to community-engaged learning. In stride with the Colleges' long history of community engagement, Harris has been placing senior sociology students in consultancies in the surrounding region to help solve real-life challenges, offering them the opportunity to learn while making meaningful contributions to Geneva.
"The partnerships are truly exercises in citizenship aimed at improving the Geneva community and engaging students in authentic and solvable problems," Harris says.
His efforts have cultivated productive relationships with community leaders who seek fresh perspectives and want to collaboratively develop solutions. Representatives from a myriad of agencies such as Geneva Housing Authority and the Geneva Business Improvement District join Harris' classroom and provide the fledgling senior sociologists with ideas and issues that need research and recommendations. The students and community partners then work one-on-one to develop and implement strategies to assist.
"It is a partnership in that it is a give and take," Harris explains. "The community agency has an idea and students work with them to identify the project, formalize the agreement and then complete it. Over the life of the project, the students need to go back and forth with the client to refine the study."
This approach to service learning opens communication and creates a platform for dialog between students and community members. Students are afforded the opportunity to present their work in a number of settings such as city council meetings, non-profit agency board sessions, and on campus at Senior Symposium and Community Based Research forums. "It opens issues to a wider audience," says Harris. "The students learn that they have practical sociological skills, that ideas have consequences, and that there is a community out there with enormous knowledge."
Harris' work is just one piece of the Hobart and William Smith culture of service that educates students to become civic leaders. Known as the Geneva Partnership, the initiative was established in the fall of 2007 by President Mark D. Gearan to serve as a model to identify, expand and focus the good work that has been done between the Geneva community and Hobart and William Smith, honoring the dedicated history of partnership that has existed since Hobart was founded in 1822.
"The Geneva Partnership is about leveraging the Colleges' resources to continue to make the City of Geneva and the surrounding area an even more vibrant place to live," says Gearan. The partnership focuses on developing seven key areas: education, economic development, vitality of cultural life, civic engagement, well-being of families and children, the environment, and public safety and community-building. "Part of attending Hobart and William Smith is living in the community of Geneva. This is a way to not only be helpful to the community but to teach students good citizenship."
Under the direction of Katie Flowers, the Center for Community Engagement and Service Learning (CCESL) is the Colleges' administrative center for service work. Flowers connects students who have an interest in civic engagement with community partners. As local boards identify needs—whether for demographic studies, impact of services analysis, or tutors, for example—they come to Flowers so that students can be offered the chance to provide the needed support.
The volume of assistance provided through these collaborative opportunities is impressive. Last year, the community service contribution of students and employees in the Geneva area is estimated to be more than 190,000 hours. This is the equivalent of 4,760 forty-hour work weeks, or 91 full-time jobs. One of the biggest recipients of student services are school children. Last academic year, more than 180 America Reads and America Counts tutors—all HWS students —worked with 210 local children in reading and math skills, serving about 7,300 hours.
"We're fortunate to have positive relationships with local and regional agencies," says Flowers. "I'm confident that when an HWS student is engaging with the many wonderful community partners, they are receiving as much as they give. It is a reciprocity that mutually benefits all involved."
Another office constantly tapped by the local community is The Finger Lakes Institute (FLI), which provides environmental expertise to citizens, municipalities and watershed agencies through research, public lectures and seminars and teacher training. Established in 2000, the Institute serves as a clearinghouse for information on the health and vitality of the Finger Lakes to the greater Geneva area. "I believe the Finger Lakes Institute connects the Colleges and the broader Finger Lakes Region," says FLI Director Lisa Cleckner. "Our partnership with the community is why we are here, serving as good stewards and promoters of this great resource of the Finger Lakes."
Professor of Economics and Interim Provost and Dean of Faculty Pat McGuire explains that even though the service learning benefit to the community has been the focus of the past decade, it should not overshadow the economic partnership that the Colleges have with the community. In economic studies that span more than two decades, McGuire has sought to quantify the financial value of the Colleges to the community. His latest study released in March 2011 found that the total spending impact of the Colleges on the Geneva area is estimated to be nearly $131 million per year.
McGuire adds that above the total annual spending, the Colleges have a multiplier effect. The Colleges spend more than $40 million in annual compensation; employees then use that compensation to purchase goods and services which is an additional revenue stream to local businesses. This revenue stream then promotes job creation in the community. He also notes that the Colleges have been a good economic stabilizer for an area that has witnessed a downturn in industrial development.
But in no way does McGuire find the relationship one-sided. "The essence of the relationship is an interdependence; you can't have one without the other. No one layer is more important than another," says McGuire. "Part of the excitement of Geneva is the added benefit to city life that exists because of the Colleges. The community benefits from that interdependence. It's not a thread; it is an interwoven fabric."
Assistant Professor of Architectural Studies Kirin Makker is a relative newcomer to Geneva. Arriving three years ago, she wasted little time before walking downtown to meet business owners and entrepreneurs to seek out new internships for students interested in design, applied arts, and planning careers. Her students have done promotional work for the Cracker Factory gallery and performance space, designed and installed exhibit furniture for the Geneva Neighborhood Resource Center and fabricated a bike rack for a business owner downtown.
"In their classes, our students learn about the power of design and how little changes in the built environment can improve city life. I believe our students should struggle with trying to implement some of what they learn in the classroom by getting involved and experiencing it," says Makker. "I want them to come back in future years not just to visit HWS, but also to check-in on Geneva, the place where they worked and that was a significant component to their learning."
One young alumnus, Josh Strenger '09, believes this is true. While an anthropologysociology student, Strenger worked in many capacities with the local community such as the city's economic development office, with the city planner, and through internships with the city mayor and Finger Lakes Railway.
Strenger, who is now an analyst for the Department of State in Washington, D.C., says that when he first began working in Geneva, he was amazed at the openness of the community. "They cared about what I thought. The Geneva community is a caring group of folks who want to see Hobart and William Smith students succeed. They see us as growing and they are taking a mentorship role in that growth. There is definitely a partnership. In reality we support each other."
Samantha Tripoli '11 was also welcomed by the residents she encountered while engaged with her research team's senior sociology project on the revitalization of the downtown area. "I was impressed by the passion that Geneva residents have for the community. Everyone is so optimistic about Geneva's future. Their passion and commitment is very inspiring."
Bob Doeblin of the Geneva Housing Authority has worked with the Colleges on several projects. Some have been with Harris' class that have, for example, helped the housing authority conduct surveys on rent and property management satisfaction. Doeblin also works on projects with CCESL and the Office of Intercultural Affairs where students with technology savvy have helped seniors with computer issues.
"It has been overall completely a positive experience," says Doeblin. "We keep accomplishing things we wouldn't be able to do without the Colleges' assistance. The residents of Geneva have come to depend on the HWS community and especially the students. They are comfortable with the fact that students are around. They are used to them being here. In turn, I hope that we are providing a great location for them to study. The Colleges have always been a part of my life and I think that's true for most in Geneva."
Professor of Public Policy and Political Science Craig Rimmerman has spent much of his life studying politics, activism and service. In July, the revised fourth edition of his book The New Citizenship: Unconventional Politics, Activism, and Service was released.
Being an author and expert with a 25-year history teaching HWS students allows him an opportunity to create a 360-degree-view of the citizenship that has formed between HWS and the Geneva community. Rimmerman credits the Colleges with increasing faculty involvement and making improvements in the administration that have made it easier for members of the community to find assistance. But it's the students who he believes have truly created the bond.
"I think we've come a long way in the past 20 years in our ability to build positive relationships with many organizations," says Rimmerman. "But I believe it is our students who have built that bridge. We have outstanding young people whose maturity and dedication is impressive. They could choose to do other things with their time but they are driven by learning from and contributing to the Geneva Community."
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You couldn't blame Michael Stephens if he's spent the better part of this season a little wide-eyed.
The rookie midfielder plays for the Los Angeles Galaxy, the closest thing MLS has to a circus.
Each game he takes the field with Landon Donovan, the best American soccer player ever. Here's Edson Buddle, leading the league in scoring despite missing time for the World Cup. There's Gregg Berhalter, a former U.S. international. The coach is former U.S. coach Bruce Arena.
"It's great," said Stephens, 21, a Naperville native who was the Galaxy's first-round draft pick last winter. "You can learn a lot from them. When I first came in I watched guys like that train. And it's not just those two (Donovan and Buddle). There's a lot of guys with international experience. I think we've got five or six guys that have played in World Cups. It's amazing to be able to see every day how they train."
And now David Beckham is back training with the club after suffering a torn Achilles' tendon in March while loaned to AC Milan. Beckham hopes to see game action next weekend, just missing Saturday's game against the Fire.
"The big thing the first year is just to get experience, and it's been good so far," Stephens said.
But Stephens has spent the season doing more than just filling a roster spot on a star-laden team. He's the only Galaxy player to touch the field in all 22 of the team's MLS games this year. His 7 assists rank him among the league leaders. He's in a tight race for the MLS Rookie of the Year award.
"The most important thing is our team is putting up a lot of production," Stephens said, explaining the assist total. "I've definitely benefited from that."
Stephens grew up playing club ball for the Chicago Sockers, and after a brief stint at Benet Academy in Lisle, he spent his high school years at U.S. Soccer's residency program in Bradenton, Fla. From there he went to UCLA, then on to the Galaxy, the best team in MLS so far this season. The 2012 Olympics is on his radar.
"That's definitely a goal of mine," he said.
But first comes Saturday's game at sold-out Toyota Park against the Fire and players like Brian McBride and Nery Castillo. Don't expect Stephens to be starstruck.
Bob is back: It wasn't exactly the most popular decision, but the U.S. Soccer Federation announced this week that Bob Bradley will be back for another World Cup cycle as men's national-team coach.
There appears to have been only one other candidate, Juergen Klinsmann, and U.S. Soccer chief Sunil Gulati refused to answer questions about Klinsmann.
Bradley's choices to use Robbie Findley and Ricardo Clark so much during the World Cup earned him a great deal of criticism. They might have cost his team a chance at the World Cup quarterfinals.
But the fact remains that other than Klinsmann there were no other obvious choices, and despite the Findley and Clark blunders, Bradley did get his team out of group play, and he did get the team to the Confederations Cup final, scoring some big upsets along the way.
U.S. fans have to hope the Princeton-educated Bradley learns from his mistakes.


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(This article is partly derived from conversations I've had with Monte Cook.)
The d20 system is an interesting beast, with a legacy of thirty years of D&D game design. There are a lot of old rules in the system, and some of them don't work cleanly with the rest of the system. One of these rules is a category I call "absolute effects"--things in the game that say "this is unstoppable" (active effects) or "this stops everything" (passive or reactive effects). Examples of this are energy immunity (reactive--absolute immunity to energy damage of a particular type), the knock spell (active--automatically opens a lock, no matter how difficult), and see invisibility (active--pierces invisibility, no matter power of the caster). In this article I'll explain why absolute effects cause logical problems and present ways to replace them with less absolute rules.
Logical Problems at the Extremes
The biggest problem with absolute effects is that they are absolutely effective, no matter how extreme the circumstances are regarding their use.
Exaggeration? Corner cases? Never going to happen? Yes, yes, and probably. But they let us see that these absolute effects are a problem, and that problem opens up doors to bad game design.
For example, imagine a "Megaflames" feat that lets a spellcaster deal fire damage to a creature that's immune to fire (such a feat exists in a published book). Suddenly those fire giants are taking fire damage from a burning hands spell. Even more strange, that means that a fire elemental--a creature made of fire can take damage from a burning hands spell.
Next step in this example is to make a Megafireimmunity feat for creatures with fire immunity that says, "No, I really am immune to fire damage, even from people with the Megaflames feat."
Then the spellcaster makes a new feat, Megamegaflames, that lets him pierce the fire immunity of creatures with the Megafireimmunity.
Then the fire-immune creature makes another counter feat, as does the spellcaster, and so on and so on. It's a ridiculous escalation of absolutes, and eventually introduces weirdness like "this fire creature has as many bonus feats as it needs to really be immune to all fire damage," which just means you're cheating the player who spent a lot of feats trying to pierce fire immunity.
Proposal: Fire Resistance Instead of Fire Immunity
So what if we didn't have fire immunity as an absolute? What if fire giants had fire resistance 60 and fire elementals had fire immunity 100? An empowered maximized fireball is an 8th level spell that can do up to 90 points of damage (averaging about 75), so it's possible to hurt a fire giant a little bit with fire if you're willing to blow an 8th-level spell on it, but you still can't hurt a fire elemental (but in theory you could harm a fire elemental with fire under extremely rare circumstances, like teleporting it into the heart of a star or into the stomach of the god of fire elementals, both of which probably do more than 100 points of damage per round). A fire giant with fire resistance 60 may or may not take damage each round from wading through lava (20d6 per round for total immersion), which seems more realistic than the current (fire immunity) setup where they can eat and drink molten rock without harm. Dropping immunity in favor of strong resistances also negates the need for custom silly feats like Megaflames; if you want to do more fire damage, take Empower Spell or Maximize Spell, or a custom feat that increases your all of your fire damage.
(The dorky thing about the actual feat that Megaflames is based on is that it doesn't increase your fire damage against anything but fire-immune creatures ... so your "super-hot" fire spells don't do any more fire damage to 99% of your targets!)
In other words, by removing the absolute effect, we close loopholes and make existing rules more valuable.
Proposal: Skill Check for Knock Instead of No-Roll
What if we didn't have knock as an absolute? We could have the caster make an Open Lock skill check instead of getting an automatic success. This accomplishes two things:
An Ounce of Prevention
There are some absolutes built into the game that you cast or invoke ahead of time to counteract specific monster attacks (delay poison and death ward are the first to come to mind). When converting these absolutes to non-absolutes, keep in mind that it is good game design to reward players for being smart. That means that these newly non-absolutes should lean in favor of the creature using it; if your chance of preventing a negative level is only 50%, you're better off skipping on the death ward and using that 4th-level spell on some sort of attack; instead, the death ward should be 75% effective or more in CR-appropriate situations. (This is especially important because the system is designed to reward taking an active and aggressive role toward your opponents rather than a reactive and passive role, and the few effects designed to prevent potential attacks rather than cure successful are supposed to be strong to reward you for trading away a general attack for a specialized defense).
Don't Be Too Quick To Cut
Some absolutes have a place in the game and are there to speed up gameplay. You could say, for example, that it's not realistic that the Improved Unarmed Strike feat absolutely negates the AOO for making unarmed attacks against an armed opponent, and propose that Improved Unarmed Strike just gives your attacker a -10 penalty to their AOO against you. However, that means that every time a monk enters battle, she's going to have to deal with at least one AOO every round, which greatly weakens the monk, and makes combat run a lot slower (especially at higher levels with multiple attacks, and combat is already slow at high-level). We can accept a little abstraction in the game for the sake of speeding up gameplay (especially in combat, where we're already accepting that a person with a dagger can attack a person with a greatsword without provoking an AOO). So any time you propose making a change like this, think about if it'll slow down the game--in most cases, re-establishing a saving throw for a formerly-no-save absolute effect doesn't slow down the game because the default option is that effects have a save, but adding a save or opposed roll when one isn't normally called for does slow down the game. (In the Improved Unarmed Strike example, the normal situation in combat is to not have an AOO, even though the specific situation for unarmed combat is to have an AOO.)
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Six Key States in the Presidential Election
Florida again promises to be a big battleground. What are the others? WSJ's Gerald F. Seib names six states that will help determine the 2016 presidential winner. Photos: AP
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... it's become pretty clear in the last couple weeks and if you listen to the debate the argument really that's or a broken out between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton that were in general election land were no longer in a primary election environment when a general election Pharma which raises the obvious question how's the selection going to be determined ... from a heavy thought about this um for the last a week or so in written some about in my column ... I think in about six states notably will be the most important states the ones the star watching now if you wanna know what's going to happen in November ... first is the big three Florida because it's very important both parties I was this cheap imported Donald Trump to take Florida away from the Democrats ... to make the local college work for him if he can't do that's can be hard for him to get there ... the other two ... Ohio and Pennsylvania to dig a Rust Belt industrial states says like to sixteen o Piketty has won the presidential action without winning two of those three states Florida Ohio Pennsylvania to put those three together ... and think of them is packaged ... up the low them the three others are many paying attention to Wisconsin is another big draw spell state that ... if doll Trump has the ability to turn state's with working class white voters ... that'll make a huge difference for him Wisconsin is of the tests in that category finally Virginia North Carolina the two states and in the mid Atlantic ... Republicans won North Carolina two thousandeight Democrats won Virginia ... question of who bail the swing those two swing states in the mid Atlantic is going to be crucial as well ...


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As the only vegan pro beach volleyball player, Russ Marchewka has become passionate about spreading healthy philosophies to other players, fans and now the world at large with his new book, The Winter Wellness Diet.
"Over the past 7 years I've made it my life to study what makes us healthier and live longer. It's not about converting people to my lifestyle, it's all about inspiring others to make healthier, informed choices for themselves and the planet."
Russ' first book provides the basic foundations of health and nutrition all year round. Whether it's cold or hot, there are basic metabolic principles of the body that can be exploited for a healthier, leaner you. Not everybody can play sports at a world class level, but they can achieve a world class body and feeling of vitality by taking a few minutes to read this book.
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"There are several companies in the health and nutrition industry that set themselves apart from the crowd. I mentioned many of them in this book, none who pay me any kind of endorsement for the recommendation. I wanted to make my book available as a free download to those companies making a real difference in the world. For a limited amount of time Growing Naturals fans and associates can enjoy this book as a free gift and my thanks to you for inspiring me."
Check out Russ' article, Mr Healthy Mondays: Building Muscle
To get a copy of The Winter Wellness Diet, visit The Body Blog


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The Hebrew that is translated as "kinsman-redeemer" (or "next-of-kin" or "close relative") is translated in Yasa as "a near family member who has responsibility for protecting the family."
Joshua Ham explains why: "One of the most important terms in the book of Ruth is the Hebrew word go'el. This word is often translated kinsman-redeemer in English Bibles. In ancient Hebrew culture, the go'el could play many roles. If a married man died without children, his brother (acting as go'el) was expected to marry the widow and carry on the dead man's lineage. If someone was forced to sell their family land (keeping in mind that family land was very important in the Old Testament), a family member (again acting as go'el) was supposed to eventually restore the family's title to the land. If a family member was murdered, it was up to the go'el to seek justice.
"As you can imagine, there's just no way we're going to find a single word in any language that covers all of those cultural aspects. And if we tried to explain all of those aspects in the text itself, it would get unwieldy pretty fast. So in translating a word like go'el, we try to pick out the most salient points. In the Yasa text of Ruth, we ended up with something like 'a near family member who has responsibility for protecting the family.' It's a bit smoother in Iyasa than it sounds in English!"


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The Retail Design Institute, the industry's largest association for retail design professionals, has recognized the WHOLE FOODS MARKET SUBDURY for excellence in design and execution. The project will be inducted into the RDI's "Class of 2017" at the 47th Annual Awards Gala taking place in New York City. Kudos to Whole Foods and their design team at Jacobs.
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Looks like there are new kids headed to the block! Four, soon to be favorite, food spots will be joining Whole Foods at Meadow Walk Sudbury starting this summer.
This July, Mooyah a fast-casual restaurant with the best burger in town, and Oak Barrel Tavern a rustic gastropub with gourmet comfort food and a large selection of draft beers, bourbon and whiskeys, will be opening.
These restaurants will then be followed by Panni with its refined Indian cuisine, and craft coffee brought to you by Peet's later this fall.
Be sure to follow us on social media, @meadowwalksudbury to hear about all the latest news.
The brand-new facility at 536 Boston Post Road replaces the grocer's former location in Wayland, which closed in February. The store is a key component – and the first milestone – of one of the largest developments in Sudbury's history, the reuse of 50 acres formerly home to defense contractor Raytheon.
The project includes a 250-unit apartment building, a 48-unit memory care assisted-living facility, and 57 condos for those age 55 and older. Some housing units are expected to come online as early as winter and spring of 2018, while the entire project should be complete by next year's end.
Shops and restaurants near the Whole Foods are scheduled to open by early summer 2018. National Development and Avalon Bay Communities are partnering for the project, known as Meadow Walk Sudbury


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The Weekly Recap (July 19-25)
Well, this week seemed a little slow with the news, netting in 28 submissions. Nothing truly spectacular surfaced this week, so it's just a little dry. We did manage to find a few things though! Without further ado, here's what we had going on this week:
PSP Go development issues.
Trev – July 19th
Indie Game Challenge
Tosh – July 20th
Reverse Gaming w/ Retro/Grade
JimmyMagnum – July 20th
Lemmings to get a Trophy Patch
Eddie – July 21st
PS3 games MIA.
fleakitten – July 21st
Wand is "two generations" ahead?
Trev – July 21st
Uncharted 2 Release Date Oct. 13th!
Eddie – July 21st
Metalocalypse: Dethgame Announced
JimmyMagnum – July 21st
Street Fighter IV Championship 2009.
Trev – July 21st
Shatter – Retro Brick Breaking Awesomeness
Eddie – July 22nd
Dissidia Final Fantasy Demo Tomorrow on PSN!
Eddie – July 22nd
The ten year life plan, and competition.
Thepreppymonk – July 27th
LittleBigPlanet Reaches Over 1 Million Levels!
JimmyMagnum – July 22nd
John Carmack of id Discusses Blu-Ray Advantage
JimmyMagnum – July 22nd
When It Comes to Cool Collectibles…
JimmyMagnum – July 22nd
No Splinter Cell planned for PS3.
Trev – July 22nd
Castle Crashers Announced for PS3
Eddie – July 23rd
Ratchet and Clank Future: A Crack in Time Comic-Con Edition
Eddie – July 23rd
New Borderland's Screens and Interview
Eddie – July 23rd
Comic-Con news: New playable character revealed in Uncharted 2
fleakitten – July 23rd
Konami ID's Going Away
Tosh – July 23rd
Pixel Junk Shooter – GIANT ENEMY CRABS!!!
Eddie – July 23rd
TGS Sony Keynote Details
Eddie – July 24th
Are Music Games a Passing Fad?
Darrin – July 24th
PS3 to pick up famed 360 exclusive? :Updated info:
fleakitten – July 24th
FIFA 10 + PES 2010 new features detailed.
Trev – July 25th
HD era not ready yet?
Trev – July 25th
Uncharted 2's new Gold Rush mode.
Trev – July 25th
As you can see, for the most part, nothing truly amazing. We'll probably be in this dry news spell until maybe TGS (I hope earlier than that, though, because that's a ways away).
Also, no surprise here, Eddie has gotten 'Contributor of the Week' with 9 entries. Maybe I should start doing 'Everyone but Eddie Contributor of the Week' haha! In which case, Trev would win that with 7 submissions. I don't have a Comment of the Week this week because I hadn't had the time to look through all the responses and pick one. Haven't been feeling too hot this week either…


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The materials in this section are meant to be resources used by New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services, Division of HIV, STD and TB Services funded HIV/AIDS service providers who conduct Social Networks Strategies (SNS).
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VEGF induces differentiation of functional endothelium from human embryonic stem cells: implications for tissue engineering.. Arteriosclerosis, thrombosis, and vascular biology. 30(1):80-9. Abstract. 2010.
Vascular niche promotes hematopoietic multipotent progenitor formation from pluripotent stem cells.. The Journal of clinical investigation. 125(3):1243-54. Abstract. 2015.
Lymph node-resident lymphatic endothelial cells mediate peripheral tolerance via Aire-independent direct antigen presentation.. The Journal of experimental medicine. 207(4):681-8. Abstract. 2010.
Induction of the Warburg effect by Kaposi's sarcoma herpesvirus is required for the maintenance of latently infected endothelial cells.. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 107(23):10696-701. Abstract. 2010.
Endothelial cells are essential for the self-renewal and repopulation of Notch-dependent hematopoietic stem cells.. Cell stem cell. 6(3):251-64. Abstract. 2010.
A CMV-actin-globin hybrid promoter improves adeno-associated viral vector gene expression in the arterial wall in vivo.. The journal of gene medicine. 7(10):1348-55. Abstract. 2005.
Activation of NF-kappaB by palmitate in endothelial cells: a key role for NADPH oxidase-derived superoxide in response to TLR4 activation.. Arteriosclerosis, thrombosis, and vascular biology. 29(9):1370-5. Abstract. 2009.
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In the few (grim) years I worked as a government employee, I watched firsthand how otherwise nice and even smart people act weirdly when in official roles. They will consistently spend public money wastefully on projects that sound sensible at first, but quickly become more complex and convoluted. If the decision makers are of the elected sort, it can be even worse. Fearful of looking stupid or incompetent, these people will throw more and more money at a poorly conceived project, a response that, of course, appears to the rest of us as stupid and incompetent. Because it is.
The only thing that seems to stop money-wasting decisions is intervention from citizens who, because they are on the outside of the locked-in thinking, are free to say, "Wait a minute! Let's reconsider this."
Last week, there was a budget vote on a proposal that would impact Bay Area users of BART and the Oakland Airport. Based on observation—mine and a Marin County supervisor's—I have not been holding my breath for a sensible outcome.
A number of Bay Area citizens are saying "Please reconsider!" to those voting on whether Alameda County's transportation budget should be thrown at the Oakland airport BART-extension project, proposed at $130 million and now up to half a billion dollars. Because it's not too late to rethink the entire concept, advocacy groups would like the BART board members to consider an alternative project that would cost so much less that there would be money left over to use on additional transportation improvements. A debt could be avoided as well.
Earlier this year, the watchdog group TransForm (formerly known as TALC, the Transportation and Land Use Coalition) hired Kittelson & Associates, independent bus and rail transit planners based in Portland, to study alternatives to the current plan for linking BART to the Oakland airport. Their findings, released last week, showed that a proposed RapidBART plan would be cheaper by $350 million than the present plans, and would also be faster, more direct and cost half the individual fare per passenger—$3 a ride instead of $6.
Marin County supervisor Steve Kinsey, who serves on the Metropolitan Transportation Commission, told the Bohemian that he's read the report and finds it hopeful. "The TransForm report," said Kinsey, "is very positive for rapid transit." But Kinsey has his own observations of government decision-making."The issue for us, primarily," he says, "is that the decision maker for this is really the elected board of BART, which has consistently elected to enter into debt to have a rail connector. I think the report could be helpful in illustrating that there really is [the possibility for] a significant savings."
"It's not too late," says John Knox White, program director for TransForm. "The battle is not over with [this] vote." Knox White claims that although the BART connector project suffers from complacency and project tunnel vision, the public can have an impact through phone calls and email directed to the board.
"Right now, we haven't signed any contracts," says Knox White. "We have been asking people to email commissioners to tell them this is an issue. Even though it's an Alameda County project, it's going to impact the whole Bay Area."
The existing airport service is a bus that runs every 10 minutes between the Oakland Airport and the Coliseum BART station. If a rail connection is the goal, wouldn't it be better to build one that saves $350 million and is, well, superior? I guess if we email the BART commissioners and ask, we might get an answer.
"If you're remodeling your closet," Knox White says, "and it's a $5,000 project, when the contractor tells you it's going to cost $95,000 and require an addition to your home, most of us would stop and rethink the project. This BART connector project needs rethinking."
For more information on taking action, visit www.transformca.org. Marin's MTC representative is Steve Kinsey. 415.499.7331. firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Editors for the Bicycle Retailer and Industry News publication came away greatly impressed with the Emerald City during their recent Seattle dealer tour.
I know that the bicycling is great here in the Pacific Northwest, but it's always good to hear praise from those who don't spend a lot of time here.
As the magazine reports from the industry and retail perspective, the article calls Seattle a "bike retailing dream market".
The article "Seattle retail: The more things change … " can be seen at an online version of the December newsletter at the BRAIN website.
The editors found bicycling to be going strong here. Although Seattle is also known for its wet weather, that only means that the city leads the nation in the sales of aftermarket fenders, according to a supplier.
The magazine attributes Seattle's strength to a young, active, and affluent population. Bike commuting is growing here, and that's good news for bike shops that specialize in transportation, utility and urban markets
Sidebars report on the shape of bicycle infrastructure reflected in the completeness of bike lanes, bike paths and cycle tracks in the city, which lags behind Washington DC, Portland, Oregon and Minneapolis.
Cyclocross mania is explored, as are the efforts by Evergreen Mountain Bike Alliance to provide mountain biking in the urban area as well as surrounding parks and forests.
There are also quick profiles of some local bike shops, from 81-year-old Gregg's Greenlake Cycle to the relative newcomer Ride Bicycles. Other shops profiled include such venerable institutions as Elliott Bay Bicycles, Recycled Cycles, Velo Bike Shop, and Alpine Hut, as well as Speedy Reedy, Herriott Sports Performance, and the nonprofit Bike Works.
Two bike shops at the end of a ferry trip — Bainbridge Island Bicycle and Classic Cycle — also were profiled.
Maybe all the attention will draw more bike shops to the Seattle area.