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Discussion in 'Mayberry Lounge' started by Headkicktoleg, May 16, 2018.
LOL how entitled and dumb can you be. What was she expecting?
Idiocracy really is happening
SJWs behold your creation and rejoice.
Does the US taco bells not have fries? I always gets the chili cheese fries at taco bell.
Who in the developed world has never been to Taco Bell and is unfamiliar with their offerings?
That's the real mystery here.
I went to taco bell and they gave me fries
Well, that proves it. All claims about racism are invalid because of this one incident. Right? Right?
Taco Bell has fries ya dumb shits
The workers are rude. Chic-fil-a would have made her some fucking tacos is she asked some tacos from them. Chic-fil-a has the GOAT customer service.
No it show this girl is retarded and we need to laugh at her
So, I haven't been to Taco Bell in a while. But they don't have fries, do they? Even if they did, they probably just didn't give them to her because she was an asshole.
At Participating Locations.
For a limited time.
They had nacho fries for like 2 weeks.
Because you're white. Taco Bell fries is the one true white privilege.
Kinda overrated then TBH
well, if she was a black woman Detroit would be rioting right now
Taco Bell is SHIT.
That is all.
If you feel constipated, Taco Bell helps. Great on wight cuts. Gotta get that last 5lbs out
What a dumb bitch...
I blame Del Taco for introducing fries as a side to tacos.
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The academic world is buzzing with a new scientific revelation and in typical YouTube fashion, the 'Sonnet on a Higgs' gives a talented observer's two cents on the matter.
A short 40-second video animation accompanies the 14-line poem. Using rhyming prose, it educates those who are not quite familiar with what a Higgs particle is or what its discovery means in the simplest of terms. The cute picture tutorial that frames the poem makes the otherwise dry and boring scientific lecture a pleasant experience to be enjoyed by all ages.
The poem and animation-fused educational video concept could be a breakthrough in how the future of learning is going to go. Similar to the video style of the massively popular Khan Academy, the 'Sonnet on a Higgs' spot represents a change in the way we synthesize content.
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I've been drawn to dark interiors lately and Black Bottle hit the spot. With affordable eats, delicious drinks, and only a few steps away from the Ace Hotel, this place was a winner. I'm not going to lie, we went there twice in one day! I highly recommend it.
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But, when necessity compels, not those only who are invested with power of rule are bound to safeguard the integrity of faith, but, as St. Thomas maintains: "Each one is under obligation to show forth his faith, either to instruct and encourage others of the faithful, or to repel the attacks of unbelievers.''[12] To recoil before an enemy, or to keep silence when from all sides such clamors are raised against truth, is the part of a man either devoid of character or who entertains doubt as to the truth of what he professes to believe. In both cases such mode of behaving is base and is insulting to God, and both are incompatible with the salvation of mankind. This kind of conduct is profitable only to the enemies of the faith, for nothing emboldens the wicked so greatly as the lack of courage on the part of the good. (SAPIENTIAE CHRISTIANAE-ON CHRISTIANS AS CITIZENS #14)
"In our time more than ever before,"the greatest asset of the evil-disposed is the cowardice and weakness of good men, and all the vigour of Satan's reign is due to the easy-going weakness of Catholics. Oh! if I might ask the Divine Redeemer, as the Prophet Zachary did in spirit: What are those wounds in the midst of Thy hands? The answer would not be doubtful. With these I was wounded in the house of them that loved me. I was wounded by my friends, who did nothing to defend me, and who, on every occasion,made themselves the accomplices of my adversaries. And this reproach can be levelled at the weak and timid Catholics of all countries." Pope St. Pius X 12/13/1908
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Universal Logo 1937-1946. This logo has been been brought back for a few period films like Changeling and Leatherheads in 2008, and The Wolfman in 2010.
Universal 75th Anniversary logo in 1990, incorporating many of the past studio logos with music by James Horner.
1997 brought Jerry Goldsmith's new music and updated logo - first seen in Lost World: Jurassic Park.
ET The Extra Terrestrial. For the 2002 anniversary, the logo was arranged with John Williams' ET theme.
Cat in the Hat - 2003. Terrible movie, great animated version of the logo.
Van Helsing - 2004. Black and white logo, which bursts into flames and transitions into the torch. Great start to the movie.
Inglourious Basterds - 2008. A recent film again uses an older logo - this time using the 1963 Universal logo.
Scott Pilgrim vs the World - 2010. This is one of my favorites, the video game intro arrangement and arcade graphics are great for this movie.
For Universal's 100th Anniversary, they premiered a new logo in 2012 with The Lorax. Goldsmith's tune is adapted and arranged by Brian Tyler.
Pitch Perfect - 2012. A new fun one. Paired with the new logo look, the theme is sung a capella by the cast before starting the film.
Oblivion - 2013. The omnipresent Tet is show hovering over the Earth, which looks ravaged like in the film.
Pitch Perfect 2 - 2015. Another a capella arrangement of the theme, sung by actors John Michael Higgins and Elizabeth Banks. This version also appears on the soundtrack.
Minions - 2015. The Minions provide a vocal version of the theme, with a neverending finish. This version also appears on the soundtrack.
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Agriculture in Scotland
At first glance, the situation north of the border does not appear as dire as in England, but that does not mean that all is well...
Scotland's countryside is still home to the braiding of field margins with poppies, cornflowers and chamomile, to hay meadows of buttercup, cranesbill and rare northern bedstraw and to hedgerows vibrant with hawthorn, black-thorn, dog rose and honeysuckle.
However, agricultural intensification and specialisation are in danger of simplifying this farmed landscape and making it the domain of fewer species where once there was abundant diversity.
Our wild flowers and plants support an extraordinary diversity of pollinators, birds and mammals. Flowers, including bird's-foot trefoil (which supports 132 invertebrates, such as burnet moths and small blue butterfly) and common knapweed (which supports 67 invertebrates), are part of our productive landscapes. As well as supporting pollinators, our native flora also contributes to flood control and clean soil and water. Without wild plants, our productive lands could not be productive.
Scotland's farmers, however, are not in a position to farm for free and the wildlife benefits we want to see need to be paid for. Agri-environment schemes are the only mechanism to do this. Worryingly, these cannot deliver the environmental priorities we, in Scotland, have set. To date, only 18% of the Rural Development programme funding is spent on agri-environment. The rest goes to rural infrastructure and Less Favoured Area Support payments. And of agri-environment scheme funding in 2011–2012, just under 15% was approved for options that could benefit plants and fungi in enclosed production lands. The actual benefit of this spend for plants and fungi has never been measured.
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New Minnesota Wild GM Paul Fenton has hired as an assistant former Terrier Jack Ferreira, the man who gave him a scouting job with San Jose when Fenton's playing career ended. Ferreira was also GM of the previous Minnesota team, the Stars. https://www.hockeywilderness.com/201...n-front-office
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The BMO Harris Bradley Center in Milwaukee, WI is liquidating some of the various artifacts they have acquired through the years. One of the items is a Boston University jersey signed by the team.
I would guess this is from 1997 when Michigan appeared in the Frozen Four at the BC. This looks like a game-worn jersey from Billy Pierce, with a Captain's C on the chest.
Take a look and see if this is something you might want to add to your collection.
From this outsiders perspective, I think BU made the right decision going with Albie as well. The guy has built some good experience, he's put his time in, and it provides continuity, and it would be very hard to say that he doesn't deserve it.
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Here's his twitter feed: https://twitter.com/CHN_AdamWodon/with_replies?lang=en
You'll have a hard time backing up the assertion that he was shilling for Bennett based on those tweets. FYI the BU fans in his mentions seem just as butt hurt about mildly critical comments about the BU hiring process as he does responding to them.
BU's AD locked himself in a bubble during this process and it's going to cost this storied program dearly.
I was formerly a tasty 7-11 beverage. Now I'm a fan of defunct hockey teams.
However, those two seem very eager to throw some suspense and drama into this process and they have produced nothing to back that up. The below tweet is particularly ridiculous.
BU's AD locked himself in a bubble during this process and it's going to cost this storied program dearly. https://t.co/ffdzAzWDsP— Adam Wodon (@CHN_AdamWodon) June 4, 2018
Where I will agree with Wodon is that BU shouldn't have eliminated candidates that didn't graduate. That is kind of silly IMO. People can coach NHL without graduating but not at BU? I know the response would be something like BU is a high-end University and should have a college graduate coaching. Well my response would be BU has been recruiting players for years that we know will never graduate before they even set foot on campus. Makes that point a bit hypocritical, no?
FYI - to be clear, I am completely supportive of hiring Albie. Not the exciting pick that Quinn was IMO, but likely the right pick.
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Best of luck to Albie. I echo the sentiments of most here, especially given that I have frequently emphasized the "continuity" component. I was glad to see that he was rewarded for his time, effort and commitment to the program. Regarding the Bennett talk, if they were going to hire an "outsider," he would have been about the last person I would have wanted to see. I don't feel as though it will have a negative impact on recruiting at all, and I wouldn't be surprised to see things move forward without missing a beat.
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the "never graduated" issue is a significant part of what I'm talking about.— Adam Wodon (@CHN_AdamWodon) June 6, 2018
Okay, I have read through the tweets. I think they were very out of line. I also read through some of their other tweets that are not hockey related, and can definitely see that their tweets regarding BU probably are not out of the norm for their personalities. I do not think Albie O'Connell was the best person for the job, but I don't think it is going to cost the program "dearly." I don't think it will cost us much, I imagine things will stay pretty consistent and similar to the past four years.
I have no problem with requiring a college degree for the job. As someone posted the other day, isn't that a NCAA rule? Or at least something that is standard across the NCAA? I mean, come on - you want a job that pays several hundred thousand? Get a degree. It's not that tough. If Sacco couldn't get it done by September, then he shouldn't be eligible for the position. If Pandolfo could, then I think he should have been given strong consideration.
The aspect that I disagree with the most is the idea that we need a coach who is going to stick around for decades and decades. Our coaches don't all need to be Jack Parker. Yes, it isn't great that we had a coaching search again, five years later (can't blame Quinn at all - way too much money to pass up). It was probably sooner than most people expected - I figured more around the 10-year mark. But if you thought David Qiunn was going to coach at BU for 30 years, then you are insane. How many coaches have done that in the history of college hockey? Four or five? But I think you need to get the best coach available, even if he "might" leave after awhile for an NHL head coach position. There are way too many factors that go into that to be able to predict that a potential hire will ever get that call, let alone have it be the right situation with the right money offered. Not offering the job to someone like Pandolfo because he might want to be an NHL head coach someday? Sounds like a big mistake to me. Not talking to Hynes? I don't know ... that whole situation is weird, anyway. Rather than go for it and get a great coach, they got a guy who is one step down from that. Decent hire, but not great. Which is probably how we'll describe his career when it is over. I know we're going to be looking at a dysfunctional, underachieving power play. I just hope he recognizes his own weaknesses and gets a strong associate HC to do strategy, x's and o's, in-game adjustments. Who knows, maybe he was better at that stuff than Quinn and Quinn just never let him get his ideas out.
With that being said, I think anyone who thought BU would hire Bennett is an idiot. Including Bennett, if he actually thought that. Blow up the program and change to a completely different style of coaching, recruiting, and playing the game? No thanks. Bennett would know that, too. I am sure they brought him in (and probably considered other coaches, too) to get an outside idea of things. What are other coaches like, etc. Doing their due diligence. I don't think they strung him along at all. Do these writers really thing the AD and President and VP are going to waste their time interviewing candidates? The other thing to consider here is that these clowns at CHN were the ones who said Bennett was a candidate at BU. Everything started from them. Was he really a final candidate for the job?
My final thought is that, five or so years from now, we are going to be sitting here saying, "Man, we should've hired Freddy Meyer." He will end up being the Hynes of the last coaching search.
I previously stated my opinion that BU should hire Albie, so I want to thank Drew and BU for doing so and to congratulate Albie on his promotion and wish him and BU great success. I do, however, have one request: bring back the traditional jerseys worn for most of the past 50 seasons.
As for Adam Wodon:
https://twitter.com/CHN_AdamWodon/st...27747632123905Give a read here ... BU is stumbling through this hire this time around. They have unnecessarily narrowed their pool of candidates to try to find someone who will stay a while. These days, the NCAA/NHL bond is strong, so good people may leave. So what. Don't shoot self in foot.
What I find most interesting about this is I didn't read anything like it when Denver hired David Carle as head coach. No talk about DU's AD costing their program dearly for hiring an assistant with no head coaching experience over Coach Bazin. And compare the two CHN articles. In the fourth paragraph of the article on Carle's hire, after a glowing paragraph of him being the youngest DI head coach since 1999 and a single sentence paragraph that he was he was offered the UAA position, it states "...but Denver went through with a lengthy interview process that included a long look at Massachusetts-Lowell's Norm Bazin.". Yet no knock on Carle for his lack of head coaching experince. In fact the article makes sure to let it be known that Carle had starting coaching as a freshman in college, so he had 4 more years of coaching experience than others his age. Now compare that to the article on BU hiring Coach O'Connell where, in the second paragraph it states "Though he has never been a head coach on any level, O'Connell has been an assistant at a variety of New England schools consistently since he started coaching in 2003." Pretty much a straight slap in the face.
I was also surprised by Joe Meloni's tweet
Albie has spent 15 seasons as an assistant coach in the college ranks and it's a "hell of an ascent"? Yet when I do a search for similar tweets about Coach Carle I don't find any. Which is strange because it would seem that Coach Carle had more of a "hell of an ascent". And I don't recall any such concern when North Dakota promoted Brad Berry within 24 hours of Dave Hakstol resigning and being named the Flyers head coach. No national search, no looking at top head coaches, and yet nothing about how UND made a mistake.Hell of an ascent for Albie in the last few years. BU is in an interesting spot right now.
Oh, and I really like that the CHN article on Albie being named head coach states Coach Parker stayed for the next 30 years. They can't even get a simple and well known fact correct.
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Although it didn't always look like it, BU's PP was one of the more effective ones in the league.
It was the penalty killing this past year thst was pretty woeful. Who was in-charge of that unit?
Albie's assistant coaching hires will tell a lot about him. A solid head coach will hire strong assistants in areas that he recognizes his own weaknesses.
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Brett Favre Replaces Rex Grossman As Bears QBApril 8, 2008
Brett Favre hasn't signed his retirement papers with NFL management yet... it could happen, right? Brett Favre as the Chicago Bears QB? Wouldn't that be a dream come true? Certain rumors circulating about Favre's re-emergence as a QB for another team—possibly the Bears—tend to point in that direction.
You would think so...
But here's the first article you would read after Favre's first start as the Bears starting QB in week one of the 2008 season:
Brett Favre walked off the field tonight knowing he'd done something he's only done a few rare times in his career—lose at Solider Field. Only this time he did it donning a Chicago Bears uniform.
Favre's efforts were true, but he threw up three INT's and only one TD, getting sacked five times as his line collapsed and Benson proved to be the inefficient pass blocker we all knew he was two years ago.
Brandon Lloyd dropped two for sure TD passes and Marty Booker showed his age, catching only three passes for 27 yards.
Favre's legacy seems to have taken a turn for the worst as he felt the sting of a team who has a reputation for turning on its QB at a moment's notice.
One man, who I'm sure enjoyed watching tonight's game, sat on the opposite end of the spectrum. Earlier today, in an afternoon game featuring the Packers and Lions, Grossman, whom Chicago traded to Green Bay for Favre, threw for two TD's and over 300 yards.
Grossman's missing link all along in Chicago had been an offensive line and running game, which Green Bay's huge linemen and star running back Ryan Grant seemed to make up in a hurry.
It seems that Chicago is at it again, basing the hopes of a team on the shoulders of a QB when in reality, it was the entire offense that needed a revamp. Anyone could have seen this coming with the Bears' lack of activity in the offseason in which they let solid running backs like Michael Turner and star wide receivers like Dante Stalworth slip through their fingers. This is especially disappointing when you figure they were one of the 13 teams that sat $30 million under the cap.
Welcome to Chicago, Brett Favre, it will be the worst mistake of your life.
This article is to hopefully open the eyes of Bear fans who seem to think they can pinpoint all our mistakes to the play of the QB. Look back at Tom Brady in the past year's Superbowl XLII—he posted worse stats than Rex Grossman did against the same Giant's defense weeks earlier. Take his line away—and he becomes surprisingly human.
I wrote this article because the Bears are getting a lot of mouth for their inactive offseason behavior—as they should. But come game time, if the scene hasn't changed much, and the Bears become "who we thought they were" again, we all know who will get booed off the field... not Jerry Angelo, not Lovie Smith—Rex Grossman will, and it's ridiculous.
Rex: I really hope your "new-found" line, P.O.S running back and "upgraded" receiving corps can jump into high gear and actually give you a decent offense to run.
If not, we both know that Chicago will point the finger at you and only you even when it's apparent that it's not your fault.


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Last week, the latest in the Now! series (the 83rd, to be precise) became the fastest-selling "album" of the year so far.
Nothing else is likely to beat it either, given that it shifted 295,000 copies in seven days, dwarfing the highest first-week sales of artist-led albums in 2012 by almost 200,000.
But why do the public, in an age where they can download exactly what they like, when they like - for as little as 59p in some cases - buy a full compilation record? We've looked at some reasons below:
The Now! series appeals to those who don't regularly buy music anymore.
As single sales continue to grow, so does the amount of new songs released each week. For those who struggle to follow the weekly goings-on in the charts every week, the Now! compilation serves as a handy summary of the most popular songs released over the last few months for those without the inclination to search out music via any other route.
They're generally released at 'gifting' times in the year.
Three Now!'s are released each year; in April, July and November. The November album is obviously aimed at the Christmas market, while things like Mother's Day, Easter and summer holidays make it an easy present earlier on in the year. In fact, April's Now! 81 is technically the biggest-selling album of 2012 so far (compilations are counted separately by The Official Charts Company), having shifted over 700,000 copies.
They're backed by a big, expensive ad campaign.
The advertising around each Now! compilation is near-unavoidable. Its ubiquity means the TV ad can be played round the clock across all channels, while its push online is equally as strong (it dominated the iTunes store homepage last week). It also serves as the perfect "supermarket album" - i.e the sort of record a casual shopper will pick up on impulse, probably because it's been pushed in their face via a garish point-of-sale as soon as they enter the store.
Will it be the last one?
Many people will continue to buy the Now! series purely out of tradition, meaning some of those who were bought and enjoyed them as children will continue to buy them for their children/siblings/nephews/nieces/etc. If reports are anything to go by, this year could mark an end to Now! (although it most likely won't), which may also go some way in explaining its huge sales.
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|The special edition album with the set of nuchucks.
The DVD also had special back-stage filming showing how he and his crew practiced so hard and organised everything so that the concert will go smoothly. He also has his parents and his beloved grandma who attends a lot of his concerts in the back-stage filming as well. And you can see how much his family means to him in the short clips, its just heart-warming.
I always dreamed of going to Jay Chou's concert live one day. And the closest he has been was in Sydney. He wasn't performing when I was working back in Singapore / Malaysia, though I know his first concert was in 2001. That time I probably wasn't so into him yet and by 2004 I was already here in Melbourne.
So yeah, here's hoping that he will make Melbourne one of his concert destinations in future and there's already a facebook campaign that someone has set up to try and do that, of which I most definitely clicked "YES" on it. 永远周杰伦! :)


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Currently, I am an instructional designer for a local university. I am in the process of redesigning our semester long Desire2Learn (D2L) Brightspace (a Learning Management System that we use) faculty courses that newly hired faculty take during their first semester of employment.
I have found that D2L is a little bit difficult to navigate at first, so I have purchased Clarify-It for our eLearning team (we have four staff members, a director, and student workers). I have used Clarify-It to make tutorials on how to use D2L and the tutorials are housed in our helpdesk portal called Freshdesk. I have also embedded the html code directly into the courses so the steps are right there for the faculty members. Having adequate troubleshooting and tutorials helps eliminate the cognitive load required to develop online courses, which in turn can provide more opportunity for the creation of BETTER online courses. However, I have a lot more work to do with this process, which I'll explain in the rest of the paper.
Interactivity between students and faculty is a frequent issue in all education institutions. My plan is to provide a certification program teaching the faculty members about the Community of Inquiry (CoI) Framework (Garrison & Arbaugh, 2007) . I created a course on this topic in a different class I took, and therefore, I already have a lot of the graphics and content ready. I'd like to propose including the CoI Framework in the optional Mastery and Leadership level D2L courses we already teach for continuing education unit or college credit. But, most importantly, I have to model what the CoI Framework and optimal course design looks like.
Faculty members may also struggle with accessibility, and many may refrain from doing videos in their online courses because they do not want to caption the videos. I plan on having videos available that demonstrate the process I go through to caption the videos I create for them. I'll demonstrate creating the script, filming, editing, and captioning. I'll keep the videos under 10 minutes. I'll then place the videos in our helpdesk portal, but also email the videos, as many of the faculty cannot attend face-to-face trainings. I also plan to provide trainings face-to-face, film them, and place them in a location for faculty access. I want to demonstrate that it is possible to caption a lecture, as many of the faculty may feel it is impossible. It does take time, but it can be done.
Overall, I want to continue my practice of taking face-to-face faculty members and demonstrating how many of the same things they already do can be transitioned into an online environment. Essentially, I have the exact opposite task of what was asked for this paper, but I wanted to offer a different perspective.
Garrison, D.R. & Arbaugh, J.B. (2007). Researching the community of Inquiry
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Before and After: A Williams-Sonoma Exec's Lively Traditional Home
After purchasing a five-bedroom, five-and-a-half-bath new-construction home as it was nearing completion, and selecting all the finishes to their liking, a Hillsborough, Calif. couple hired Bay Area interior designer Chloe Warner of Redmond Aldrich to bring the blank slate to life. The husband, a Silicon Valley executive, had given his wife, an executive at Williams-Sonoma Inc., "free reign to create a new house for entertaining and raising their kids," Warner tells us.
Fortuitously, the Williams-Sonoma Inc. exec has "access to the entire Williams-Sonoma family of furniture," Warner says, so she was able to stretch the design budget quite a bit. Her client "wanted it to look totally different from the pieces she works with everyday," she says, so Warner put their own spin on catalogue pieces with reupholstery and styling, giving the traditional items a fresher, more youthful look.
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When it came to a colour scheme, Warner says her client drove the palette of every room. "She is very decisive colour-wise, and devours shelter magazines and blogs." But it took some time to get there. "In the beginning of working together, I don't think I took her at her word, and when she said 'youthful and happy and bright,' I would come back with palettes that were happy, but had touches of darkness or felt kind of granny chic." Finally, Warner, says, her client sat her down, looked her in the eyes, and said: "Pink. Purple." "All of a sudden, I got it," she explains.
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Needless to say, pink and purple are certainly a current throughout the home, and they speak to the client's style, which Warner describes as "feminine, happy, and preppy, in a nutshell." Quite a few preppy patterns are sprinkled throughout the space as well, including Quadrille's Arbre de Matisse wallpaper in one of the bathrooms, Katie Ridder's Attendants wallpaper in a bedroom, and a collection of sprightly pillows by Caitlin Wilson Textiles in the great room beside the kitchen.
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While the suburban home's grand size didn't present any of the challenges of small-space city living, Warner says she actually found herself moving in a different direction with pattern in this home. "We push clients all the time to embrace big pattern and big colours, but in a big house it can get to be too much very quickly," she says. Instead, she used louder neutrals, and patterns and colours in moderation. "I love a dramatically papered entryway so much, but here we did subtle stripes that contrasted ever so slightly," she explains. "It was marvellous, because once you notice them they feel great, and bring order to a very huge surface area."
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Genealogy Workshops Online
Each Wednesday in October we are offering free genealogy workshops here at the Central Library. Thanks to Justin Thompson and the fine folks at our TV station, WYPL, you can watch the programs you missed:
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Making Sense Out of Shiloh
Despite the rain, we had a great turnout last night for Part III of our continuing series Making Sense of the American Civil War. We hope that everyone will join us again for Part IV: The Shape of War on Thursday, March 14th at 6:00 pm.
Unfortunately, last night's session was not recorded. We apologize for any inconvenience.
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Genealogy Workshops
Our biannual genealogy workshops are almost here. Join us each Wednesday in October to learn more about how to research and explore your family's history. These free classes will take place in the library's meeting rooms from 1-3 pm each week of October, with a different area of interest being explored each week. If you plan to attend, please call the History Department at 415.2742 to reserve a seat and ensure that we have handouts for you.
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Lisa's passions are houses and food! Graduating with a 1st class business degree she started her career designing food ranges for Sainsburys. "The whole ethos at Sainsburys was "retail is detail", its an ethos I've brought to renovating and designing properties whether its seeking out the perfect vintage button for a cushion down to making sure the right choice of bulb is made for a light!
After the purchase of a large renovation project Lisa undertook an interior design diploma to help with the renovation of her own home. This coincided with the opportunity to move back into corporate life as Brand Director for global and UK marketing projects. "The role was fantastic it really honed my project management, people and budget management skills" But she had always had an desire to start her own business and decided to put her house renovation, interior design and project management skills together by starting her own business; initially developing her own renovation and rental portfolio then undertaking work for private clients.
Lisa believes that her strength comes from great vision combined with a fanatical attention to detail. Understanding and listening to what clients want to achieve and helping them navigate the myriad of choices available. Having a property development background she believes also comes into its own. "the ability to keep close financial control on projects and being creative in finding solutions that look amazing but don't break the bank is a real bonus for clients".
About Paul (Chartered Architect)
Both Paul and Lisa believe that great design makes homes better places to live. Sometimes this means designing a new building, creating an extension design or sometimes it's just a change of layout to an existing footprint. Whichever route is required Paul has over 25 years architectural experience on building projects ranging from traditional housing to listed buildings. Having developed a broad range of skills from feasibility, design through to on-site administration.
"Good design always means a careful and sensitive understanding of the needs of the client and every project is approached individually without a stylistic agenda. The only preconception is that all successful projects are the result of good communication and collaboration"
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Michelle is a Bath-based fully qualified structural engineer with over 20 years' experience. She thrives on blending technical expertise with teamwork and a passion for great structural engineering! She provides fresh solutions to the varied and complex problems of modem architecture in an historic environment. Structurelle's approach is characterised by minimalist intervention of structural form, coupled with in-depth consideration of the performance of a building's structural elements.
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January 2019 Relaxation Oil Painting Series 2 - Episode 3 - Skyscape uploaded
"Did you ever take lesson from Bob Ross? You are amazing!"
- Laracraft97
"Your voice is so soothing and sexy." ; ) - Hannah
Series 2 Episode 2
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New Relaxation Oil Painting - Episode 10 has been uploaded to social media.
Episode 9
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Beautiful paintings!
Ally - San Francisco, CA
Can you please paint a seascape?
"Fro God Bob Ross would be proud of his ninja son."
Keep these coming, Todd. My sister Krista who is ill in the hospital likes to watch you on You Tube. She says hello!!
Jennifer - WA
New Instrumental "A Monk's Journey"
'Never My Love' - was originally recorded in 1968 by the band "The Association". The harmony love-song was an instant hit. It was the 2nd most played song on radio and TV in the 20th century.
All vocals and instruments were Performed by Todd Norcross in 2018.
"Wow! Amazing rendition!" Shane
"This is a beautiful song." - Sharma
"I remember my Dad playing this in the car. He would have loved this
song. Great job, Todd." - Christine Williams W.V.
"Nice organ playing on this track. Don't get to hear you play that instrument often. Moog? How did you get that sound? I play piano. Would you recommend a Roland or a Yamaha keyboard?" - Mick
"Never My Love was one of my wedding songs. Such good memories come back when I hear this. Very nice job..." - Freedomsara89
"OMG. Vocals made me melt." - Gina
Awe in Music - Composed by T.N.
Performed by T.N.
About this song:
"It isn't often that I mix 'old and the new' together.
Sometimes, the fuzz of an electric guitar sucks up all of the cool
empty spaces in a song.
I wanted to orchestrate something sweeping and classical and then risk adding the heavy electric guitar on top of it.
This composition was meant to be played with very few notes. No 'showing off' on the Fender Strat here; just free-style soloing behind the strings and melody.
This recording took me about four hours to make on a Sunday afternoon.
It is comprised of about twelve digital tracks. Since it was a sparse melody, it took about twenty minutes to mix and master. No compression was applied.
Moon Wolf - Recorded February 19, 2018
About this song:
"I recorded this in the moonlight on a bright, Monday night. I used a black Takamine left-handed electric/acoustic guitar, panned out (on three tracks). I recorded the three guitar tracks in one take. It was an experiment in 'free-flowing' guitar playing from the heart, mistakes and all. No compression was added."
"If" is a new cover of classic love song by the group Bread, originally written in 1971. Vocal, acoustic guitars, bass and strings performed by Todd Norcross. Recorded in three hours in the studio of T.N. on February 4th, 2018.
"Wow!! Awesome!" - Kim
"This is truly beautiful, Todd." - Carpediemma
"How can I get this song downloaded? Love it!" - Alan
"Sounds of Silence is one of my faves. You did it better imo." - Sage2001
"Wow!! Awesome!" - Kim
"This is truly beautiful, Todd." - Carpediemma
"How can I get this song downloaded? Love it!" - Alan
"Sounds of Silence is one of my faves. You did it better imo." - Sage2001
Becca comments: "OMG. Such a great voice!!
Stephan asks: "When will new album be out - 2018?"
Alyssa writes: "Your version of GDay is better than Chris Isaak IMO."
I LOVE this song! Ellie You have such a beautiful voice Todd.
Keep em coming. Jennifer Greaves - California Hey!
SOunds just like the Brothers Gibb. Great job! Simon - Portland
How did you manage these harmonies? Fantastic!
Orlandostreek88 Nice! Niggpwr69 I love your voice.
Go on The Voice show, please. Reahlsmoooth Michelle D. Asheville Great voice!
Gtrboy3312LA I always love this song - LOTB. You did an amazing job on this. Emmie99er
Amazing, beautiful songs. Leanne OMG Your voice is so sexy
Brittney LOVE the new song Todd!!!
Great job, Sensei Norcross. Can't wait to pick this up. Amazon??
Fantastic news! Congratulations. When will DVD be available for purchase?
Nilesh I love your teachings. The Buddha and God are both in you Sensei Norcross.
Robert H. Master Norcross, Where will the new DVD be for sale??
Wow! Can't wait for the DVD, Ryotoshi!
Fan Made Video of "My Love".
My Love is my favorite song. I love it! - Alyssa D. - Miami, FL
Ferenzix411 write "Master Norcross, your videos inspire me. Thanks for teaching us the ways of the ninja and the ways of music. Much respect. "
From: John Lang "Respect to you Master Ryotoshi. Your You Tube Budo videos are the best out there. Domo!"
Various Reviews of "The Essential Todd Norcross": Bujinkan Ninjutsu 15th Dan "Dai Shihan" Arnaud Cousergue writes:
"Excellent music! I hope to include some of these tracks into my next martial arts DVDs (once I get permission). The many Japanese instruments including taiko, shamisen, koto harp, classical guitar, and others, can be used as a nice "asian backgroung" music for my next videos. Thank you Todd for such a professional work." - AJC
"Awesome album from start to finish!" - Remowllmsdrummer
"This is a really special collection - chosen by Todd's growing fan base. Both it's pacing and it's content really flowed well." - J. D. Nelson
"Todd's abilities on a plethora of instruments is an amazing talent." - Genxartists
"Awesome CD from beginning to end." Arjay Kumar
"I was mesmerized from beginning to end. I highly recommend this gem." - Alan White CD Reviewer
"Beautiful compositions from an accomplished musician." "Hard to pick a favorite color of of this canvas." - S. Kumar
"The Essential Todd Norcross is a superb album" - Artist Review
"A nice mix of moody instrumentals to fade away with." - Rhonda Moore
"You won't find any studio tricks on this compilation from Norcross. He plays from the heart." - Trent H.
"Excellent and Eclectic" - Indie Album Reviews
"Norcross carries melodies and sonic themes like he carries a samurai sword." - R.J Thomas
"A great CD..." - Rhythm Nation
"...another accomplished body of finger-picking work for Norcross." - Allison Taylor Review
"I have been a Todd Norcross fan since 2003's Taiken. I think this is his finest work to date." - Prabhat Singh
"If you pick up any of his albums, this is the one." - Brittney K.
"The Essential Todd Norcross is, simply put, essential..." - Garden State Album Reviews
"I loved it!" Denise Garner - New York __________________________________________________________________________________
Musician/Producer Todd Norcross receives 10k plus sales award for the fourth in the Martial Art Music series (Taiken 4). _______________________________________________________________
New Videos featuring music by Todd Norcross The full 1996 Demo Album "Welcome to My World: was uploaded on You Tube.
New Love Song Uploaded - featuring Todd Norcross singing:
"Sounds just like Adam Levine's voice?" - Sheri "Stunning!"- Aryasrk466
"I think Goodbye is so beautifully sng. Please add it to digital streaming?" - Anya o
"I love your rich voice Todd. What chords are you playing? They sound unusual." - Telecassie89
"How can we get a concert set up for Todd to perform live>???? Best IMO" - Sigmund
Make sure you order or download your copy of the best selling (10,000 plus copies wordlwide) Taiken 4 album here:
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Amazon plans iTunes rival
Jumps on DRM-free wagon
Amazon.com is prepping an MP3 music download store, offering DRM-free songs from EMI and 12,000 other labels.
The e-tailer will open shop "later this year". In the meantime it is not commenting on pricing.
But according to WebProNews, Amazon is said to be offering "full album downloads retailing at $4.99 to $8.99 and individual tracks ranging from $.89-$.99".
Bruce Houghton, the author of the WebProNews story, appears to have the inside gen on launch time too. He cites unnamed sources who says that "Amazon is pushing for an 'as soon as possible' launch that is primarily being held up by technology and data issues. June or July would seem a likely launch time frame as Amazon is anxious to beat competitors to the inevitable rush of DRM free product".
Speculation was rife last month that EMI's agreement to sell DRM-free music would tempt Amazon, the internet's top seller of physical format music, into launching its own iTunes rival.
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Do Shorter Men Live Longer?
the MPR take:
Being a shorter man could indicate a longer lifespan, according to research published in the journal PLOS One. Qimei He, PhD, and colleagues from the University of Hawaii examined data of the 8,003 American men of Japanese ancestry from the Honolulu Heart Program/Honolulu-Asia Aging Study (HHP/HAAS) spanning over 40 years. Men that were 5-foot-2 and shorter had the lowest risk of all-cause mortality, as well as a lower risk of all cancer mortality and mortality from cancer unrelated to smoking. These men were also more likely to have a protective form of the gene FOX03 that is associated with longevity, lower blood insulin levels, and reduced cancer risk.
Here's the long and short of it: Being vertically challenged isn't necessarily a disadvantage, especially when it comes to longevity. A study of Japanese-Americans in Hawaii found that shorter men live longer than their taller counterparts. Researchers studied the characteristics of thousands of ...
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Today is my last full day in my apartment in Worcester. I will be moving out tomorrow afternoon.
Right now, I'm thinking about my last bit of packing…
But I also can't help but think about the past two years I've had in this apartment.
When I moved into this apartment, I had just gotten back from a semester studying abroad in London. I literally had $2.00 in my bank account when I returned to the States, so I got a job I hated, waiting tables at a fancy restaurant where customers did things like emailing management to let them know the tables were not aligned correctly. Seriously.
Since then, a lot has changed. I've gone through four jobs. My boyfriend and I have grown and changed, and even though there were times when I thought for sure things wouldn't work out, we are still together and happier than ever. My senior season of field hockey ended, and I got a job as an assistant coach at a nearby college. I had to learn how to enjoy running, since I only ever did it to train for the season. I discovered what it's like to live on the third floor of a triple decker without air conditioning when the city is struck with a major heat wave. One roommate moved out (and went to western Africa with the Peace Corps) and another one of our friends moved in. I walked across a stage and got my Bachelors degree handed to me. A year later, I walked across that same stage and got my Masters degree handed to me.
A lot has changed in the past two years and even more has changed since I left for school five years ago. I can't believe that tomorrow, after everything, I will be moving back home. Part of me knows it will be okay because I am very close with my family.
Part of me is excited to see this guy everyday:
Part of me is not happy that I will be moving home. Without a job. Part of me is happy that I won't be living in a messy apartment anymore. But part of me is really going to miss living with my best friends of the past five years.
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For this post, I'm going to describe my impression of cycling in California, specifically San Francisco - somewhat of a diversion from the usual subject of this blog. For the last few weeks, I have been holidaying in the Golden State. Part of our itinerary involved three nights in San Francisco, notable for having one of the highest cycling modal shares in the USA - I couldn't resist the opportunity to try it out.
Before I start the discussion, a few caveats:
- Probably a bit controversial for a cycling advocate to admit but my holiday was - first and foremost - a driving holiday; therefore a proportion of the observations were made from the seat of car
- With that said, as when on holiday, we walked a lot and made use of public transport in SF
- We mainly drove during off-peak hours - we tended to avoid the busiest periods - thus might not have had a realistic perception of traffic and congestion
- Cycling provision and modal share across towns, cities, counties and states can differ enormously
- I was there primarily as a tourist and was thus concentrated on enjoying myself - I wasn't there specifically for a study tour
- My impressions and perceptions are my own - it's very likely that I've made errors of fact or incorrect assumptions
- For the more egregious errors I make, I welcome comments from residents or people better informed - please, please let me know!
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Here's a rough itinerary of the whole trip:
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As you can see, we covered quite a lot of Pacific, Central and Southern California, as well as a couple of (fairly weird) days in Las Vegas, Nevada. We spent the greatest amount of time in the big cities of Los Angeles, San Francisco, Las Vegas and Palm Springs - almost all of the other places were daytime visits or overnight stop-overs.
GeneralI think it bears stating the obvious first of all: like other parts of the US I have previously visited, California is overwhelmingly set up to accommodate motor vehicles. Cars are - almost without exception - given the highest priority. Aside from congestion and traffic (a big aside, I know), it is generally convenient and comfortable to drive about; there is simply so much space allocated to you. From the sprawl of Los Angeles and the so-called "Inland Empire", to little provincial towns like Pahrump NV, most roads are at least five lanes and often widen to seven - pretty much all of them feature a central lane dedicated to making left turns (equivalent of our right turns). Most towns are arranged in traditional grid-iron layouts, meaning you tend to travel along a die-straight road between seemingly endless arrays of crossroads. Local, minor highway infrastructure that would count as a major trunk-road in the UK are ubiquitous.
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Traffic LawTraffic laws also prioritise traffic, with "jay-walking" (i.e. pedestrians crossing the road away from designated areas) being an offence and with some peculiarities relating to red lights. Unless otherwise stated, you can make a right-turn on a red light if there is no obstruction - you are merely obliged to stop, then "yield" (give way) to vehicles coming from your right or to pedestrians on the crossing to your left. One strange (but paradoxically welcome) consequence of this arrangement is that waiting times for pedestrians are much shorter, because the pedestrian crossing phase cycles much more frequently (as they don't have to wait until all four arms of the junction are at red). Other than traffic lights, stop signs are the primary means of controlling traffic at junctions: four-way intersections with stop signs at each are a common arrangement; European-style give-ways are relatively rare.
Clearly there are potential problems here because it relies on drivers being aware of pedestrians and their willingness to stop, which could create conflict. Perhaps because US drivers are continually stopping and yielding, combined with the ambiguities of the red light and the four-way stop - it comes naturally to look out (is this not one of the principles of shared space after all)?
Speeds are on the whole higher than in the UK. Most roads have a 35 mph speed limit or higher (25 in school or in some residential zones). Aside from parks or civic squares, I only recall one instance of a pedestrianized zone (indeed, the only other examples I can remember seeing in previous trips to the US are Times Square in New York and Main Street, Memphis TN).
CyclingAs is hardly surprising, motor traffic is legion. What is thus perhaps more surprising is that cycling is common here too. Against my expectations, even "the city where nobody walks" - Los Angeles - has a large contingent of bike users. I believe this is facilitated in part by the acres of space on the carriageway, the lack of on-street parking and the peculiar traffic laws (thus legitimising red light jumping). Painted cycle lanes are a common sight on many streets, although they share similar problems with their UK counterparts, namely that they tended to abandon the rider at junctions and provide no explicit priority (although I guess one might use the pedestrian phase to traverse it). Some painted cycle lanes have an additional painted buffer with solid hatched lines which provide a little extra distance and the subjective sense of separation (despite no physical barrier). I do not recall seeing any protected cycle paths, although off-road sections through parks existed. Suffice to say, I saw very little in the way of filtered permeability, which seems like a lost opportunity, given that the grid-iron layout of these cities means there are often multiple routes to the same destination (and thus scope for diverting motor traffic away from some routes).
Signage and painted symbols explicitly warn drivers to be aware of bikes and to "share the road" - on roads with narrower lanes, you'll often see things called "Sharrows" which indicate to drivers than people on bikes will be in the middle and have priority (this perhaps indicates the vehicularist mindset that underlies US cycle policy). Anecdotally, I have heard that some states have laws which require cycles to yield to traffic behind it if they are "causing an obstruction", which appears to be if more than 5 cars are queuing behind them - whether or not this applies in California, I'm not sure, but the presence of sharrows suggest it might be the case.
A (slim) majority of bike users I observed wore helmets but it certainly wasn't universal. Perhaps as a function of the climate (hot, sunny, dry) and the geography, very few urban riders were kitted out like how we typically view "the cyclist" here - the vast majority wore normal (weather appropriate) clothes and shoes - almost none of it "hi-viz". There were a lot of people riding fixed-gear bikes, either the typical "hipster"-style fixie or (my favourite) large, heavy-looking cruiser bikes.
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San Francisco
Bike HireOne of the things I'd wanted to do months before I came to the city was to cycle over the Golden Gate Bridge - I knew this was possible by virtue of people who had done it previously suggesting it. You can cycle over the bridge to a little town called Sausalito in Marin County and get the ferry back to the city.
I consulted our guidebook and came across a few options for hiring bikes - none of the suggestions were terribly close to the down-town area we were staying in. There was one past North Beach, which (in hindsight) was actually relatively close to the bridge but we also wanted to have a go at cycling around Golden Gate Park, a lovely rectangular park with similarities to New York's Central Park, although in my view slightly misleadingly named, as in reality its not particularly near to its namesake bridge.
One oddity about San Francisco, which has a large public transportation system - MUNI for buses, BART for its metro system, as well as the world-famous hill-climbing street-cars - doesn't seem to serve the western part of the city particularly well, with only the buses going west of Van Ness Avenue. Hence, after a somewhat disconcerting walk through the rather sketchy Tenderloin area we had to hop what seemed like the slowest possible trolley bus through the Civic Center to the Haight-Ashbury district (you know, "Haight-Ashbury"...? Flower power, Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane etc. Ask someone less square!), replete with slightly scary passengers talking to themselves...
Hiring a bikeWe arrived at the hire centre, which was at the eastern gates of the park. Aside from the vehicle, it was a similar experience to hiring a car, namely filling out a form, adding on the extra charges for insurance and the damage excess waiver (!) and then providing a credit card (with the ubiquitous ID request). Somewhat disappointingly, the only bikes available were generic (albeit well-maintained) mountain bikes - no cruiser bikes for me unfortunately. It took between 5-10 minutes to get set up and ready to go.
I should add that, at this point, I saw the park on the little map they provided, as well as what looked like a continuation of that park up the coast and round towards the bridge... perceptions can be deceiving, as we were to discover.
Golden Gate ParkWe set off through the park, which has some surprising features, namely that a whole lot of traffic drives through it, specifically Highway 101 ("El Camino Real") - as the name suggests, a very busy road which makes its way directly across the park and on towards the bridge. I took one look at it and thought "well, we're not going that way!". Thankfully, there are relatively traffic free routes around the park, although to my surprise (given what I know from Glasgow parks) there were multiple restrictions on where you could use the bike. Mainly these were bike lanes on the road, albeit with a large painted buffer between you and traffic. We travelled along John F. Kennedy Drive down a gentle slope towards the western coast and the Pacific Ocean.
After a quickly dipping our feet in the water, we headed northwards to what turned out to be a fairly steep cliff to what I presumed was the rest of a trail towards The Presidio and henceforth to the bridge itself. My cycle partner - not a seasoned commuter cyclist like me - started to complain about the additional unexpected effort. It's difficult from a map to appreciate the geography of the city, in particular the numerous steep hills that dominate it. I hadn't anticipated this particular set of climbs I must admit. After a bit of huffing and puffing, we turned into Land's End Park and followed what was marked as a cycle trail, which I expected to take us to "El Camino Del Mar". We cycled on until we reached a large, steep set of stairs... followed by yet another steep set of stairs!
At this point, my cycle partner doubted my navigational skills, so rather than face the 2nd flight of stairs, we turned back and headed towards Point Lobos Avenue, which seemed to take us back towards the city (and another large hill to climb). We turned up towards Clement Street, where I took this picture:
|Looking South - this is quite a steep hill
|Not as much fun though...
As for the rest of the hire, we dotted back through the park again, although this time we travelled along the much less forgiving Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, which again entailed cycling completely with traffic - in the end, we bailed from the roads and (illegally) carried on the footpath - such was the unfriendliness of the traffic and the parked cars (again, in the middle of park - why?).
Dropping off the bike was fairly easy, albeit by the time we returned they were getting pretty busy with other customers. It's a pity that a more local hire service couldn't be found to make it a bit easier to explore the city - albeit the hills make that a daunting prospect. This is precisely the sort of place where I'd expect a bike-share scheme to come into its own, which brings us nicely into the next section...
Bike ShareI'd been hunting about for SF's bike-share scheme since we arrived and I finally came across it during my aborted attempt to visit the Museum of Modern Art at the edge of the SoMa district - remember kids: check the website before you travel, otherwise you might find your destination is closed for refurbishment (!) until 2016. Having a few hours to kill, I headed along Market Street, a long wide avenue that cuts diagonally south-west across the down-town area from the bay at the Embarcadero to the famous Castro District and beyond. It's notable for being really pretty much flat (certainly compared to other nearby streets!) and for being a major thoroughfare for public transport - MUNI, BART and streetcars all have hub stations here. There are numerous shops, department stores and even a Westfield centre.
Getting the bikeI happened upon the 4th Street bike station as I was wandering up Market and decided to investigate. Similar to London's bike-share scheme (which I'd not had the courage to try out last time I was there) you have a line of bikes deposited in docking stations, alongside a little kiosk/auto-teller device. For unregistered, casual users like me a credit or debit card is required to make use of it. The hire process is similar to the way you might buy a rail ticket at an automated teller - except with a few more options. After what seemed like several minutes of clicking through screens (most of which appeared to be liability disclaimers), I had paid my $9 for 24 hour usage (free for 30 minutes per hire, thereafter a sliding scale of charges for every additional half hour) - contrast this with the flat rate of $2 for a one-way ticket on the MUNI which we took to Golden Gate Park the previous day.
A little ticket printed out, providing me with a 5 digit (base-3) code to take to the bike and enter to unlock. At this point I made an error - for some reason, I typed my code into an empty docking bay (I think I momentarily got confused about where you had to enter this code - total idiot!), which was duly accepted and proceeded to unlock my non-existent bike! In a panic I tried re-entering the code into an occupied dock but it wouldn't accept it! I returned to the kiosk, concerned that I'd be counted as having "rented" an invisible bike and would be charged the full "lost bike" amount. Happily when I re-swiped my card, I was immediately issued with a new code, which successfully released a bike. Phew! Perhaps they don't think anyone would be daft enough to try an empty dock but it would have been better if it had recognised the lack of a bike and had rejected my code in the first place. In any case, I checked out my newly acquired steed (you ought to do this first, it occurred to me later), verifying the brakes functioned and that the seat was adjusted correctly, thereafter I set off along the street towards the Embarcadero. I should add was wearing sandals, shorts and T-shirt at the time - no special clothing required!
The bike itself is a little heavier than my own but it is very comfortable (albeit not ideally proportioned for my 6'3" frame), with swept back handle bars and a wide, chunky (well cushioned) seat. It has seven relatively low-ratio hub gears (given the hills, this is probably for the best), a set of permanently-on lights and a little basket area, replete with stretching rope-tie. One odd thing for me was that the gear changer rotated counter to the way I'm used to - hence I sometimes found myself in the top gear at the junction or would find my legs comically whirring at pace whilst in full motion as I shifted lower in error.
I felt a little rush of joy as I swept along the cycle lanes of Market Street at a relatively gentle pace. I found myself un-harried by the cars in the lane to my left, nor indeed was I bothered much by the trolley buses and street-cars that otherwise patrol the route. Perhaps because I am relatively comfortable mixing with traffic, combined with the wide Californian streets which afford a bit of confidence. It's easy to be seduced by the relatively care-free nature of this sort of cycling; the weather, the sight of other (normal) people on bikes. For a moment, I genuinely had a feeling of the sort of ordinary, stress-free cycling that people in the Netherlands take for granted. However, this changed a little as I reached the Ferry Building.
The Embarcadero
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I found out later that this road had once been the site of a large two-level expressway which was damaged during the 1989 earthquake and subsequently demolished - if only Glasgow's council had the courage of San Francisco's mayor Agnos, who pressed ahead with the removal of this once polluting eyesore on the shore of the Bay, in the face of vociferous opposition from local business interests (sounding familiar?)
The resulting space has opened up the bay-front area - which as the name "Embarcadero" suggests consists of a series of landing piers for ferries and cruise ships - and is now a major tourist area (trap?), regularly overflowing with pedestrians, generally pottering about buying chintzy souvenirs or catching the ferry over to Alcatraz. There is however still a two-carriage roadway going north-south, which is where the problem is. There are painted cycle lanes on the roadway and thats the route I took northwards to Pier 39.
Looking at the map as I have been writing this blog, I notice that there's seemingly a parallel cycle path on the pavement but I assure you that this wasn't particularly clear - what you appear to have is a shared pavement; a textbook example of why these arrangements don't work properly if there's too many people on foot. Suffice to say, I remained in the cycle lane.
This is where it starts to unravel. Despite removing the express-way, this is still an exceptionally busy road, filled with slow moving motor traffic (although thankfully it is no longer directly linked to the nearby Bay Bridge). I was heading northwards and it should be noted that there are no further right turns here - all the junctions ahead (other than bays for taxis and buses) came from the left. And yet cycles are still expected to stop at all red lights, which I duly did. And the lights took what felt like aeons to change - I was passed several times by less patient cycles who (naturally) passed safely through the junction against the red light.
Suddenly, without warning the cycle lane just gave up and I was back in amongst the cars - this is the point where my Glasgow cyclist instincts kicked in and I reverted back to a quick, aggressive vehicular style of riding. I was also starting to panic somewhat as I couldn't find a docking station and was keenly aware that my 30 minutes time limit was rapidly running out. This is where my initial fears about bike share schemes were realised - how do you find a station?
Station-huntingNow it will be argued that bike share is merely intended as a form of public transport: you start off at point A and you get off at point B, just like you would a train or a bus. It isn't necessarily meant for someone to just drift about aimlessly on. In hindsight, what you clearly need to do is examine the map and identify the station you want to stop at, but this still requires a degree of navigational competence and awareness. If you get on a bus or a train, the stops are generally called out and (unless you are particularly unlucky) the driver will know where he or she is going - it's just a case of counting off the stops and waiting for the appropriate point to jump off. Bike share schemes don't have the benefit of this - you are on your own.
It turns out that there's a Bay Area Bike Share App which can help you with this (although I'm not sure if it features navigation functionality to guide you there step-by-step) but again this wasn't clear when I set out to use the service (I don't recall seeing it being advertised at the docking station). What would have been more useful would be the inclusion of bike share stations on Map applications, in the same way that metro and bus stops are usually - then you could make use of the sat-nav feature (bearing in mind this would use up some precious and ludicrously expensive international roaming data).
I can't remember which junction I turned off the road onto, but I tired of being held in queuing traffic on the Embarcadero, so I opted to change to a parallel road (Front Street), which to my astonishment turned out to be almost empty of traffic. "Why aren't the cars here?" I thought to myself.
Eventually, after fruitlessly circling about looking for the blasted docking station, I elected to turn around and come back the way I came, heading back onto the busy bay-front road. This time, the road layout was more complicated, due to the numerous right-turns. Here, the bike path will often divert left over into the second lane to allow right-turning traffic to cross the cycle lane and hug the kerb - in other words, a design for conflict not a million miles away from what I found on the Clyde Gateway.
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Mission StreetI bombed as quickly as I could down the road and turned right onto Mission Street - as this was down-town, I did encounter on-street parking which required me to adopt a traditional primary position. Note, the "sharrow" on the road in this next street-view image:
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On Mission, the bike lanes are replaced in favour of the more familiar (to me) bus and bike lanes, which meant sharing with taxis. At this point, I'm firmly out of holiday-pottering mode and fully into a defensive cycling mindset - although how refreshing to do it without all the accoutrements of British cycling (namely helmet, hi-viz jacket etc. - I'd recommend trying out cycling in sandals incidentally). However, I'm starting to sweat profusely (not just due to the warm April afternoon), which isn't my idea of calm, normally clothed utility cycling. My aim was now clear - find a station back where I came from in time to meet my partner at 5pm. After more fruitless journeying down Mission, I looked to my right and noticed this pedestrian pathway - the pedestrianized zone I referred to above:
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... but there was no indication whether or not I could use this on a bike! Thus I had to carry on a further two blocks to 5th Street, in order to turn back on myself along Market to the 4th Street docking station - the only location I knew for certain I could return the bike to! So there I was - a bit of a sweaty, dishevelled mess returning to where I had left, probably about 30 minutes over my time - but arrived safely.
ThoughtsAs I hope I indicated in the text above, I found the overall experience of using the bike-share to be pretty good. Clearly there were problems finding a docking station but that could perhaps be mitigated with a bit of forward planning. The big problem is still the obvious one - infrastructure. I still can't really fathom why cars are permitted on the Embarcadero - there seems to be no real reason for traffic to be there (other than that required for access to the piers perhaps) - it certainly wasn't a convenient way to travel. It seemed to me that it could be directed away via other parallel routes, or perhaps motor traffic could be restricted to one side of the street-car tracks (the western carriageway), with the remaining lanes being given over to pedestrians and bikes. It would also be nice to permit northbound bikes to bypass the junctions completely - there's no need for the continual stopping and starting next to noisy, dirty traffic.
One thing I didn't touch on above - like a lot of bay area public transport, the bike-share scheme is overwhelmingly concentrated in the eastern down-town areas, specifically around Market Street, in what appears to be a mirror of the BART metro station layout. I'm guessing this is intended to allow BART users to transition quickly onto bikes for the so-called "last mile" journey - perhaps with destinations such as SoMa or North Beach in mind. The westmost station is at the intersection of Market and Van Ness Avenue (a major trunk route northwards to the Golden Gate Bridge, Marin County and beyond), at the threshold of the Lower Haight. As I pointed out in the bike-hire section, the only ways to get west of this point is to walk, drive or take a bus, which seems somewhat disenfranchising to residents in this part of the city, never mind in places like Mission.
I also thought the cost was a little steep for what you get, and it wasn't clear to me how people who don't have bank accounts (let alone credit or debit cards) would have access to the scheme. You don't need a credit card to use a bus or the metro, why for a bike? Given the poverty I witnessed in areas such as Tenderloin, I'd be interested to know if people of more modest means could apply for free access or discounted rates. Otherwise it begs the question: who is the bike-share schemes for?
Was it a good way for a tourist to see a city? Well, the true bike hire scheme allowed a little more freedom (in that you were provided with a lock) but I liked the relative simplicity of bike-share - the fact that the bikes are (in a sense) disposable from the user's point of view. The bike was sturdier and more comfortable than the generic mountain bike we were allotted previously. It's definitely a more fun way of getting to know the city at ground level than, say, getting on a sight-seeing tourbus (and no need to tip anyone on the way either). But the slight stress of not knowing the destination, unfamiliarity with the roads might be a barrier, particularly if the streets lack the required sense of subjective safety.
Whether or not I'd use such a scheme at home (such a scheme is due to be implemented next month) I'm not sure - one of the new stations will be near my house, but this will only be temporary - like the residents of Richmond, SF, the Southside of Glasgow is going to be pretty much neglected by it. I would certainly recommend trying out such a scheme if you happen upon one in your travels though! Just remember to check the map first...


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The Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit will be released after a long captivity. One can only rejoice for him, his family, his loved ones. And forget, for a moment, that he is a member of an occupying army. And that no-one seems to care about the fact that European-Israeli dual nationals are serving in the Occupied Territories, in violation of international law. When will the EU decide that such acts are punishable by the courts?
According to an AFP report, Nicolas Sarkozy "warmly welcomes the announcement of an agreement that should lead to the release of Gilad Shalit," and has congratulated Netanyahu for "major success". We can be sure that Bernard-Henri Lévy will do the same.
In return, if you will, 1027 Palestinians (including 27 women) will be released. Who are they? How do their families feel ? You know nothing of this, or at least next to nothing, from reading the Western press. They are a faceless mass, a subgroup of the 6,000 Palestinians still held in Israeli jails, of whom 22 are members of Parliament, and 280 are children (34 of them less than 15 years old) – see here how Israel finds guilty all the children it arrests. Some are "administrative prisoners", that is to say, imprisoned without trial. Others have passed through the Israeli justice system, which - according to all international reports - is far from just, often mistreats detainees, and convicts them on the basis of weak or non-existent evidence. Dozens of them are now on hunger strike. Do they have no family? No relatives? No, they are just a number. They are Arabs, colonized and faceless.
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Now, the project for CA 2 is as attached and please do not forget to name your airline.
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