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A year ago today, I found myself going back to such a sad time in my life. The below message is what I captured on February 5, 2014 followed by what happened on March 20, 2014:
"With my husband traveling all week for the 3rd, 4th week in a row, I couldn't handle cooking dinner tonight. Decided to go to tarjay to get a very overdue birthday present…wait, make that two overdue presents. Happened to remember that there's another b'day party coming up. Maybe I'll be on top of the gift at the party (thank goodness we missed the other parties).
Anyway, with 3 boys in tow (thank goodness for the Suburban carts @ tarjay), about to check out, I decided to get a PT. Eek! What? What in the hey?
Yep, I knew it could be true. Too much energy my dear, feeling too great. Not needing sleep….here we go again. This is how I've typically felt when pg.
Crazy, right? Well, then I took my crew out to good ole Chappy's and totally forgot about that test. Got home and started unpacking the goodies from the store. Then, I came across that pink box and thought – why not go ahead and take it now. So on to the bathroom I went.
Then those little crumb snatchers came along. J and B can't really talk so they were just marching along the tile floor in the bathroom. I did my business and was holding the stick in my hand when all of a sudden B tried to grab it. "Yuk!" I said. Then T comes walking in and is like, "what's that mom?" I said, "nothing, please go away. One day you'll think this is gross to come in here while I'm going to the bathroom."
In less than 10 seconds two little lines appeared. I had to take a deep, long breath. Then B tried to grab the stick again – what's up with that? All three of them were in the bathroom again and there I was staring at the three little stair steps walking around…marching…clueless.
So excited.
I love babies. Love them – well, mainly my babies.
Tonight, going through my head is how two days ago, I read an article about how having four children was better than three. Well, maybe not better but supposedly not as overwhelming as having three. Something about becoming more relaxed with four. God willing, we'll find out in a few months.
But…there's more. I'm supposed to be President of Junior League in three months. President. As-in-leading over 100 women. This is scary. Not only because I know it's a lot of work but also because my (now) President of JL is pregnant and due in two weeks. I love her to death but that baby has taken away her very superior brain cells. Or, she's sucked the memory out of her. Crap, is that going to happen to me? If so, what is most scary to me is dropping a bunch of responsibility on my PE next year. Maybe being more "relaxed" will come in handy! Ha!
Next, I have to figure out how to tell Brian. Did I mention he's traveling? Oh yeah, I did. I looked for a previously made/embroidered "Big Bro" shirt for Blaine to wear. Couldn't find it so I'll have to go back to the drawing board. Yep, this is going to be fun.
So that's it for now. I at least wanted to capture my thoughts on this day. It's almost midnight and I'm not even tired.
One thing that's odd so far is that I haven't had the aura of a migraine yet. This has happened with each pregnancy I've had. I'm praying for this child and hope he/she will be healthy. I'll love him/her either way, of course.
Four. Children.
Where are they going to fit?"
On March 20th, 2014, I wrote:
"The fourth child. The one he really wanted. The one I was fine with and was on the boat about but still had a hand on the he dock, not quite ready to drift off. Until, at 10 weeks, that baby didn't have a heartbeat.
With no heartbeat, I was heartbroken. Completely heartbroken. All of a sudden I wanted on the boat, way far away from the dock and on my way through another wonderful pregnancy.
Before I became pregnant, my newsfeed filled up with articles about having a forth child. I knew it was destiny. I just knew it! Most of what I got out of the articles is how the forth child is the easiest because each child has a playmate. A few months before, I'd been studying a book about what it would be like being married to me. Delving into learning more about myself, I'd changed my attitude toward my husband and realized how important it was for us to date, for us to spend time together talking and for us to work on our marriage. To be a good wife and to let him know that I love him and want to make him happy not only with his life but with me. Even in the midst of my labor with our third child, he and the doctor were talking about the "forth" child we should have. You know, to "try" for a girl. I'd periodically remind him to rub my lower back as I labored, drug-free, through the upcoming birth of our 10 pound, 6 ounce son. A third son, mind you. So this past fall when our youngest was about to be a year old, he brought it up again. My desire to honor his desires overcame and I thought, "you know, you can do this. God will work this out for you as long as you're faithful." Fast-forward to March 20th. No heartbeat.
"Thank you for letting us know" is all I could say to the ultrasound tech. My doctor put me in the ultrasound room as a nice gesture for Brian and myself. I think he was almost as excited as us and was so sad to have to talk to me about the options."
The next few days/weeks consisted of seeking God in my sadness, minor surgery, lots of mourning, sharing my experience with friends and trying to make sense of it all. But, it doesn't need to make sense. My God loves me and will never forsake me. Over the past year, I've learned so much. I've tried to embrace the need to spend time with my family and prioritize life a little differently. As I mentioned earlier, I've had the role of President of Junior League. This has been no small feat and it's taken my mind off of the miscarriage as well as really made me manage my time. I've had to say no to a lot and have had to keep promises I committed to previously. I realized I can't do it all but I can only do what is a priority and what I feel is the best choice. My friends have been wonderful to me. The loss of a child, no matter if it's at 4/5 weeks, 10, 16 or 36, it hurts. Period. The pain is real and it makes an impact on your life. Forever. I've learned this from my own experience but mainly from friends who have had losses themselves. While I wish none of us ever had to endure such a thing, the community of ladies who have reached out to me during such a sad time has been heartwarming.
Fast forward three months after my surgery, I realized I wanted a fourth child. Brian always did but after that loss, I wasn't so sure. It was such a painful loss. A year after the surgery, I'm almost 40 weeks pregnant with boy number 4. Elated and excited, I'm waiting patiently for him to make his grand entrance. One little piece of me feels like Graham can't come into this world until I mention the loss from a year ago. Why? I don't know, it's just a feeling I have. So while I talk about having my fourth child, it's tough because technically I have a little baby in heaven. Shortly after the miscarriage, while doing prayers with Troy, he asked about the baby in my belly. I had to explain to him that Jesus wanted the baby with him in heaven more than on Earth. Out of the blue, Troy said he wanted to see baby "Andrew" here at home. Now, we never talked about the sex of the baby (and don't really know) but Troy named him that night. So I feel like I have a baby, Andrew, in heaven.


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Kodak Reports Larger Net Loss on Lower Revenue
ROCHESTER, NY—Oct. 30, 2012—Eastman Kodak reported that it has made continued performance improvement in segment profitability during the third quarter of 2012. This improvement was the result of a tightened focus on the company's most profitable customer accounts and businesses and a substantial reduction in costs.
Kodak's revenue of $1.018 billion in the third quarter represented a decline of 19 percent from the year-ago quarter. This reduction reflects strategic decisions to focus on profitable businesses and accounts, lower sales of traditional products, unfavorable foreign exchange impact, and soft industry demand as a result of the broader economic downturn in some businesses and regions.
The company's net loss for the quarter totaled $312 million. Excluding restructuring and reorganization costs, the loss would have narrowed to $139 million, an improvement of $66 million over the prior-year quarter.
"Since our Chapter 11 filing in January, we have focused on the businesses that are core to our future strategic direction and exited businesses that were unprofitable," said Antonio M. Perez, chairman and CEO. "The actions we are taking in response to economic and market conditions are working and will position us to emerge in 2013 as a growing, profitable, sustainable company."
The company's focus on cost reductions and profitability resulted in a decrease in selling, general and administrative expenses of $63 million, a 24 percent reduction from the same period in the prior year.
The segment operating loss for the third quarter was $37 million, an $87 million improvement from the prior year. The company's gross profit margin increased by 2 percentage points.
On a GAAP basis, the third-quarter loss from continuing operations before interest expense, other income (charges), net, reorganization items, net and income taxes was $193 million, compared to the prior year quarter loss of $167 million. Excluding restructuring costs, the operating loss was $76 million.

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A late goal from substitute Divock Origi ensured Belgium booked their place in the last 16 of the World Cup with a 1-0 win over Russia.
Marc Wilmots' side looked set to suffer frustration at the Maracana on Sunday after looking short of ideas against Fabio Capello's well-organised team.
However, teenage striker Origi came off the bench to grab an 88th-minute winner - his first international goal - and secure progression from Group H with a game to spare.
Two substitutes, Marouane Fellaini and Dries Mertens, had combined to help Belgium come from behind to beat Algeria in their first match, and another change paid dividends for Wilmots on this occasion, leaving Russia stunned.
Prior to Origi's strike, Belgium had hit the post through Kevin Mirallas, while Russia striker Aleksandr Kokorin spurned the best chance of the first half when heading wide from an unmarked position.
Russia, who were held by South Korea in their opening game, will now require assistance from elsewhere if they are to join Belgium in the knockout stages.
Fellaini and Mertens were rewarded for their goalscoring exploits against Algeria with places in the Belgium starting line-up, at the expense of Nacer Chadli and Mousa Dembele, while skipper Vincent Kompany was passed fit and Thomas Vermaelen came in for Jan Vertonghen.
Alexei Kozlov and Maxim Kanunnikov came into the Russia side, with Andrey Yeshchenko and Yuri Zhirkov dropping to the bench.
Belgium made a positive start, but it was Thibaut Courtois who made the first save of the game when he got down well to keep out Viktor Fayzulin's left-footed strike from just outside the penalty area 11 minutes in.
Mertens was proving to be a real handful for the Russia defence and the Napoli winger fired wide with his right foot after an incisive run.
Russia could have had a penalty when Kanunnikov went down under a challenge from Toby Alderweireld in the penalty area, but referee Felix Brych waved play on.
Vermaelen suffered an injury in the warm-up and was subsequently forced to come off shortly after the half-hour mark, so Vertonghen entered the fray.
Mertens remained Belgium's biggest threat and Russia goalkeeper Igor Akinfeev had to be alert to palm the winger's cross away after he cut in from the right at full tilt.
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from the urls-we-dig-up deptPork is one of the most commonly consumed meats worldwide. Interestingly, even though it was marketed as the "other white meat" (that slogan was retired in 2011), the USDA always referred to pork as a "red meat" on its website. Here are just a few more fascinating tidbits on pig products.
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Editor's comment: People with fibromyalgia are frequently hypothyroid or thyroid hormone resistant, however, it is often missed because their TSH (thyroid stimulating hormone) test appears to be normal.
Although the following discussion of the thyroid and fibromyalgia between Dr. Joseph Mercola and Dr. John Lowe appears to be in video format, it is actually an audio presentation. If you would prefer to read a transcript of the discussion rather than listen to the audio, you can download the transcript here.
The Simple Fibromyalgia Treatment that's Nearly Always Overlooked…
Dr. John Lowe is a skilled clinician, recognized as one of the leading experts on treating thyroid disease with natural medicine. In this interview, he discusses hypothyroidism and the lesser known thyroid hormone resistance, and how thyroid disease is connected to fibromyalgia.
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Thyroid disease, or inadequate thyroid hormone regulation, is extremely common. According to estimates, anywhere from 10 to 40 percent of Americans have suboptimal thyroid function.
The Difference between Hypothyroidism and Thyroid Hormone Resistance
Hypothyroidism occurs when you produce insufficient amounts of thyroid hormone or when you have thyroid hormone resistance. As a result, your body cannot maintain normal metabolism, and your ability to convert tyrosine to dopamine, norepinephrine and epinephrine is impaired. This can cause a ripple effect of symptoms, including cognitive dysfunction.
A common give-away that you may be hypothyroid is feeling cold most of the time. This is because your body cannot generate enough ATP molecules to keep the core temperature of your body high enough.
Thyroid hormone resistance began being investigated in the 1950s, yet many endocrinologists still have never heard of it, or believe it's a rare condition.
"The difference between hypothyroidism where there is a deficiency of thyroid hormone, and thyroid hormone resistance, is that the same amount of thyroid hormone—within the laboratories' reference range—that would maintain normal metabolism in cells don't do so adequately.
Those people [with thyroid hormone resistance] need a much higher dosage of hormones—a dosage that would cause most endocrinologists to scream, "You're going to die of heart attack if you don't get off that," Dr. Lowe explains.
Why Lab Testing is NOT the Most Useful Tool for Diagnosing Thyroid Disease
Unfortunately, many if not most conventional doctors do nothing but look at lab test data when diagnosing thyroid disease, and typically ignore signs and symptoms revealed by the patient, such as dry skin or hair loss. Dr. Lowe and I often refer to these as extremist medical technocrats.
However, Dr. Lowe says he's noticed a revival of sorts of the practice to listen to the patient; getting a list of the symptoms; looking at the patient and touching them.
This can be particularly valuable in the case of diseases like thyroid disease, which is littered with clinical symptoms.
The exclusive reliance on lab tests is actually NOT advisable in this case. In fact, Dr. Lowe discusses why these tests may at times be completely useless for diagnosis. For example, based on three decades worth of work in this area, and two rigorous studies, Dr. Lowe has concluded that the traditional testing used does not correlate with the far more powerful assessment of thyroid hormone in your body, which is your basal metabolic rate.
For more information about that, please listen to the interview, or read through the transcript.
A Forgotten Sign of Thyroid Disease
Dr. Lowe's interest in the thyroid was ignited about 25 years ago. At the time he used myofascial trigger point therapy to treat pain, taught by Dr. Travell who used it on John Kennedy. Most patients responded favorable to this treatment, but some did not get the typical relief and he started wondering why.
"I went to Travell and Simon's textbooks and found a huge section on perpetuating factors," Dr. Lowe says.
"What can make a patient resistant to usually effective myofascial therapy? Among those were nutritional deficiencies. If patients don't take enough B complex vitamins, various ones can cause neuromuscular hyper-excitability that has to be dealt with. I would give injections of B complex vitamins and would immediately get them on megadoses…
[R]ather than three treatments it might take eight or 10, but I was able to release them as 'recovered'. But there were some patients for whom none of those usual tactics worked. They kept coming back. The reprieve from pain might be only six hours."
He finally discovered information that linked myofascial pain and trigger points to hypometabolism, especially due to inadequate thyroid hormone regulation.
The standard tests used today to diagnose inadequate thyroid hormone regulation due to hypothyroidism are the free T3, free T4 and TSH. There's also a test called TRH (thyroid releasing hormone) stimulation test. Using these tests, Dr. Lowe was able to determine that many of those patients could be diagnosed with central hypothyroidism.
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"They didn't have a thyroid gland problem per se where the thyroid gland wasn't producing a thyroid hormone, but they had either a problem with the hypothalamus or with the pituitary," he explains.
Some of the clinical symptoms presented by these patients were primarily pain, such as headaches and cervical- or back pain. One such patient became pain-free once she started taking thyroid hormone. That's what got Dr. Lowe started on the path of treating thyroid disease.
Signs and Symptoms of Thyroid Disease
So, if the conventional lab tests are unreliable, what are the signs and symptoms to look for? As stated earlier, there are some 60 different symptoms (including many that correspond to symptoms of fibromyalgia) that are indicative of thyroid disease—although, remarkably, you won't find these in the newer endocrinology books.
Dr. Lowe's web site, www.DrLowe.com, contains a full list of all the signs and symptoms. Here are a few of the most common:
- Fatigue—If you don't have enough dopamine or have too few dopamine receptors due to inadequate thyroid hormone regulation, you end up with extreme fatigue, which is also a common complaint in fibromyalgia patients
- Hair loss
- Weight gain–Thyroid hormone controls gene transcription for lipolytic enzymes, which lower cholesterol and break down triglycerides and fatty tissues. If you have enough of these enzymes, they will reduce fat tissues in your body even if you do not diet and exercise
- Dry skin, hair, eyes and other mucous membranes
- Excess muscle tension and trigger points—For muscles to completely relax, filaments must lengthen and separate, which requires energy (ATP molecules). Low thyroid hormone reduces ATP
- Delayed deep tendon reflexes (slow relaxation phase of the Achilles reflex)—Thyroid hormone controls gene transcription for calcium ATPase. When you hit the Achilles tendon and your foot goes down rapidly and then raises back slowly, it's a sign of hypothyroidism or thyroid hormone resistance. This is due to lack of ATP molecules to provide the energy for the contractual filaments to separate and relax, hence you get a visibly slow relaxation phase of the Achilles reflex.
Here again is a classic thyroid indication that does not correlate with high TSH values. Unfortunately, this test (which used to be an established gold standard in thyroid testing) is no longer used because endocrinologists assume high TSH values must be present for hypothyroidism, which is not the case—but lab testing, like drugs, is big business, brining in billions of dollars.
Thyroid Disease and Fibromyalgia, and the Treatments that Work for Both
Interestingly, inadequate thyroid hormone regulation may be one of the primary underlying factors in many patients with fibromyalgia.
Dr. Lowe explains:
"I had prior training as a research psychologist and was able to pull forth that training and enlist physicians on the research team. It was a loose net research team until it eventually became a non-profit organization called the Fibromyalgia Research Foundation.
Seven or eight years ago, I gave a presentation at the Fibromyalgia Coalition International based in Kansas City… I got there late and heard none of the other presentations.
When I gave my presentation, people began saying, "Dr. Lowe, you've used the word "integrative metabolic therapies" for getting patients free from chronic fatigue and fibromyalgia. It just so happens, every single one of the — at that point, considered alternative doctors — have said exactly the same things."
Through their personal, clinical experiences they had come to the same conclusions we had. If they used metabolic integrative therapies, nutritional deficiencies, anti-inflammatory diet, exercise, getting off medications that impede metabolism, and possibly treating cortisol deficiency, possibly balancing sex hormones, and treating the patients with effective thyroid hormone therapy… They got the patients well.
I said the same thing they had said, but my experience was based on rigorous scientific testing. Their experience was based on intuition and the wisdom that comes from listening to patients and working with them."
This is yet another potent testimony to the truthfulness of the theory that health is based on a few fundamental principles, and although you will typically address specific aspects of a disease, the bulk of the therapy is the same for ALL diseases:
- Eating a nutritious diet (a low-sugar, low-grain, mainly raw organic diet is optimally nutritious and anti-inflammatory)
- Exercising
- Normalizing hormones
- Avoiding medications (virtually all medications create further imbalances, hence the side effects and deterioration of health)
Creating health really isn't rocket science. It's just "returning to basics," and although it may not be easy, it's rather simple.
Logic and Deductive Reasoning in Medicine—A Novel Idea
Dr. Lowe's research team came to the conclusion that the thyroid was involved with fibromyalgia through the use of a method called "deductively formulated theory," which he calls the "ultimate logic of problem solving." Unfortunately, this method is virtually never used in medicine, and it's a rare scientist who truly understands it.
Dr. Lowe explains it as follows:
"[Y]ou take competitive theories or hypotheses about what causes something, then use the methods of mathematical physicists to show which hypothesis tops them all out.
Well, there simply is no competitor to inadequate thyroid hormone regulation that accounts for about 43 of the 46 subjectively verified findings in fibromyalgia — reduced brain blood flow, inhibitory alpha-2 adrenergic receptors, platelets that cause constriction of arterials and cold fingers… The list goes on.
If anybody looks at the method of deductively formulated theory and compare the inane serotonin deficiency hypothesis, which has been thoroughly refuted, there are no competitive theories.
… Hippocrates wrote about people with these symptoms and said, if these people will get a reasonable amount of physical activity, stop eating the trash the aristocrats eat and start eating vegetables and fruits, they'll recover. Nothing has really changed there.
What we learned about fibromyalgia patients is that one set of symptoms: chronic aching and pain that lasts for three months or longer, and abnormal tenderness with associated symptoms (there are 12 of them), are all classic hypothyroid symptoms. It's just another of what we call a clinical phenotype…
[M]ost [fibromyalgia] patients are either hypothyroid or thyroid hormone resistant."
Thyroid Hormone—The Missing Ingredient in Fibromyalgia Treatment
Dr. Lowe's extensive experience with treating patients with both thyroid disease and fibromyalgia has led him to come to some startling conclusions. One, that thyroid dysfunction is a component of fibromyalgia, and second, that the conventional thyroid test is typically useless in making a diagnosis.
Instead, he recommends simply treating fibromyalgia with thyroid hormone until the symptoms improve.
"We give patients monitoring forms. One of those forms is the 20 most common symptoms of thyroid hormone over-stimulation," he explains.
… [P]atients record their basal body temperature and their basal pulse rate. The pulse rate in most of these patients is too low for their levels of cardiovascular conditioning. It's under-regulation of the thyroid. Some of them are bradycardic (less than 50-60 beats per minute).
If weight is an issue, they measure their weight after getting out of bed before consuming any liquid or solid, along with temperature and pulse rate. We have a lot of symptom severity scales where they estimate the intensity of their symptoms. They fill out this form at least three times a week.
Then, it's easy for us to chart the data on line graphs. We can see, as the dosage increases, are the data points moving in the right direction? Is the temperature rising properly? Is the pulse rate coming up so that it's more appropriate to that person's level of cardiovascular conditioning?"
A one-line summary of Dr. Lowe's research would be that thyroid hormone is the missing ingredient in the treatment of fibromyalgia that is nearly universally overlooked.
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Choose from hundreds of hotels, resorts, budget and family-friendly accommodation options on the Gold Coast. Along the coastline, you'll find 5-star luxury hotels, caravan parks and self-contained apartments. In the Hinterland you'll find retreats, glamping options and camping spots.
If you want to be in the thick of the action, pick a spot in Surfer's Paradise or Broadbeach, where dining, shopping and entertainment options will have you extending your beach day late into the evening. Craving a cruisier beach vibe? Set up shop at a self-contained apartment in Burleigh Heads or Currumbin, where the pace is a little slower, but the beaches are just as brilliant.
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List of lighthouses in Florida with lots of lighthouse pictures. FL lighthouses take terrific photos. Their outdoor nature and deep history make lighthouses some of the most beloved buildings anywhere. Small wonder then that many are famous and some even supposedly haunted. Although many of them are being rendered obsolete today by the advent of GPS, there are fortunately private lighthouse preservation organizations keeping them maintained, along with local communities wishing to protect their landmarks. This also means that one may sometimes find lighthouses for sale! Lighthouses were, of course, originally used for navigation, providing light with their lantern to ships and boats as a signal for safe entry to harbors or as a warning of a reef, shoal, or rocks. Many ships would have run aground if not for the light given off by the amazing bulb and fresnel lens of the lighthouse. This list of lighthouses and its images are a tribute to the safety lighthouses provide.
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New York is an expansive metropolis where anything is possible. Many of the city's landmarks are in the midtown area, where visitors can take in the view from the top of the Empire State Building, or catch a show in the Broadway theater district. You can spend a whole day navigating the winding paths that course through Central Park, or perusing Picasso and Van Gogh heading uptown along the museum mile.
In trendy Lower Manhattan, the city's most fashionable can be found in the boutiques and cafés of Greenwich Village and Soho.
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Each visitor finds a different experience on a New York vacation. Underneath a skyline of skyscrapers lies a jumble of cutting-edge restaurants, glittering Broadway shows and quiet brownstone townhouses. Book a New York City hotel and soak up this exhilarating city.
Get your bearings
The island of Manhattan is the cultural centre of New York City's 5 Boroughs. Its numbered grid makes it easy to get around – avenues run north-south, streets run east-west. Broadway shows buzz under the bright lights of Times Square. Skyscrapers, classy department stores and the Rockefeller Center form Midtown, a few blocks east. A stroll along Fifth Avenue takes a trip past palatial mansions, museums, designer shops and lush Central Park. Downtown, jazz clubs, sidewalk cafés, art galleries and ethnic eateries fill Greenwich Village. From Battery Park, on Manhattan Island's southern tip, you can see the Statue of Liberty standing tall amid the busy waters of New York Harbor.
Nonstop shopping
Shopping is part of the Big Apple lifestyle, and New Yorkers pursue it with gusto. Couture designer shops line Madison Avenue on the Upper East Side, while a few blocks south sit stylishly grand luxury department stores like Saks Fifth Avenue and Bergdorf Goodman. In Midtown there are bargains to be found in the tiny computer shops and family-run camera stores. Vintage clothing stores and fresh young accessory designers pepper the maze-like streets of both East Village and Greenwich Village. Behind the many cast-iron facades of Soho are high-fashion designers, cool housewares and handbag shops.
Dining in all flavours
This city of immigrants can serve up a world of cuisines; grab a New York slice from hole-in-the-wall pizzerias, pick out your lobster from the tanks in front of Chinatown restaurants or splurge on sushi in minimalist surroundings in Midtown. Brunch is a New York speciality – be it pastries and iced tea in the stylish sidewalk cafés of the Upper East Side or the spice of huevos rancheros and syrupy Cuban coffee from an authentic East Village cantina.
Art and Music
Egyptian coffins and Roman frescoes lurk around every corner in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, while Jackson Pollock and Roy Lichtenstein canvases drape the galleries of the Whitney Museum of Art. Smaller galleries in Chelsea showcase a colourful selection of new artists. Dinosaurs prowl the Museum of Natural History and wax replicas pose at Madame Tussauds. At night, glamorous theatres stage elaborate productions on Broadway. In Greenwich Village, classic jazz clubs keep the music going into the night.
New York for free
New York is filled with free things to do. Take an afternoon stroll in Central Park (looking out for the free performances on the Central Park Stage) or catch the sunset skyline from the Brooklyn Bridge. Friday night is free entrance at some of the city's best museums and galleries. Catch the free Staten Island Ferry for one of the most iconic views of this great city – the Statue of Liberty framed by Manhattan's towering skyscrapers.
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This is Practical Biking, not Practical Folding Biking, so I've resisted the temptation to ramble on about my delightfully practical Brompton folding bike, but Velouria over at Lovely Bicycle wrote an homage to the Brompton a while back, and she'd only taken a quick jaunt. (More recently, she gave a Brompton a two-day test ride.) Alan, over at EcoVelo, also has waxed enthusiastic about Bromptons, and his enticing photos will have you searching for the nearest Brompton dealer. It's long past time for me to weigh in with my own experiences.
I bought a Brompton because I wanted to start driving less. I'm the poster child for urban carlessness—I don't have kids to ferry all over creation, I'm in reasonably good shape, I like to bike and walk, I don't need to drive for my job, I live in a city with a good bus system, I can read on the bus without getting queasy, the buses all have bike racks—and yet I was frittering away 10,000 miles, hundreds of hours, and buckets of money each year behind the wheel of a car. A combination of bike and bus could get me anywhere in town, but I was afraid of getting stuck: eventually I'd encounter a bus with a full bike rack just when I could least afford to be late. What then?
Enter the Brompton. I'd first noticed folding bikes (also known as "folders") during a trip to China. Back home again, I researched folders and looked into whether I could take one inside buses in the Seattle area. (Yes.) Time and again, I ran across favorable mentions of Bromptons even in reviews of other folders, and the short list of dealers in the U.S. at the time (now much longer) included one in Seattle. After a couple of test rides at Folding Bikes West, I asked Eric to order one for me. Ever since it arrived, the Brompton has been my ride of choice.
Right: Seeing folks on folders all over China, like this pair in Shanghai, started me thinking about whether a folder could be useful back home. (They're not riding a Brompton.)
Why do I love my Brompton? Let me count the ways.
- A Brompton rides much like a full-sized bike
- Gearing compensates for the smaller wheels
- Folding and unfolding a Brompton is quick and easy
- You can take a Brompton nearly anywhere
- A folded Brompton takes up very little space
- A Brompton doesn't weigh much
- You can roll a Brompton around even when it's folded
- You can carry oodles of stuff on a Brompton
- You can take a Brompton onto buses, subways, light rail, and Amtrak
- You can fly with a Brompton easily and inexpensively
- Brushing against a folded Brompton won't get you greasy
- Traveling with a Brompton can be less trouble than traveling with a car
- You can use a Brompton as a shopping cart
- Riding a Brompton is just plain fun
A Brompton rides much like a full-sized bike
For many years, I rode an old Schwinn Le Tour touring bike. After I got the Brompton, I expected that I'd switch between the two depending on whether I needed the convenience of foldability. However, the ride and the convenience of the Brompton made the Le Tour superfluous, so I moved it to the attic, where it resides to this day.
The 16″ wheels make a Brompton more sprightly at low speeds and more skittish at high speeds on rough surfaces, but as long as the road is in reasonably good shape, I can happily ride at 30 miles an hour/48 kilometers an hour or more on a downhill. You have to be more attentive to potholes, road debris, and other obstacles because, for example, a 16″ wheel will drop further into a pothole than a 26″ or 27″ wheel will. If you're accustomed to the feel of a heavy, stable mountain bike or commuting bike, the ride of a Brompton might startle you at first. I spent a week on a heavily loaded mountain bike in September of 2010, and when I got home and hopped on the Brompton, the difference in the ride was like swapping a moving van for a Miata.
The relative positions of seat, pedals, and handlebars on a Brompton are similar to those positions on the Le Tour, so the Brompton doesn't feel small. If anything, I had to stretch out a little more than I was accustomed to, so I added an adapter that allowed me to mount the seat a smidge further forward (see the arrow in the picture at right), and I tilted the handlebars a wee bit toward me. Neither of these changes affected my ability to fold the bike.
Inexplicably, some bikers are weirded out by what they perceive as the nerd factor of a bike with 16″ wheels, which I never considered until Alan did a survey. In my own experience, people have far more often admired its convenience (and cuteness) than they've sniffed at its appearance. Methinks the sniffers, and those who worry about the sniffers, just need more imagination.
Right: A key to the clutter on my seatpost. From the top:
- Brompton offers a Brooks saddle, but this isn't it. I like the additional comfort afforded by the springs on a Brooks B67.
- At arrow: The Brompton saddle pin adapter lets you adjust the seat further forward or further back than you could by sliding it fore and aft on the seat rails alone.
- The quick-release clamp secures the top part of a two-part, telescoping seatpost. At 5'10", I was a smidge too tall for the standard seatpost, which proved to be a stroke of luck. Bromptonauts on the BromptonTalk group on Yahoo occasionally ask how to determine how high to raise the seatpost when unfolding the bike. When I bought the bike, I raised the bottom (longer) part of the two-part post all the way, set the top part to a comfortable height, and then forgot about it. Now I raise and lower only the bottom part. (Access to BromptonTalk requires a free Yahoo membership.)
- A Planet Bike blinky buttlight. The Planet Bike products I've used (several blinky buttlights and a floor pump) have been of high quality, and Planet Bike gives 25% of their profits to bike advocacy, so I'm glad to give them my business.
- The stub for the Xootr CrossRack. With the two-part seatpost, I can easily flip this around to the back when I want to use the rack and still point the seat forward. See You can carry oodles of stuff on a Brompton.
Gearing compensates for the smaller wheels
The smaller wheels on a Brompton don't mean you have to pedal faster. The default gearing is comparable to the top (harder) half of the gears on my mountain bike. I ride a lot of hills, so I got the six-speed model, and David at Folding Bikes West replaced the bottom bracket and crankset with a Schlumpf Mountain Drive for me, which gave me six additional gears below (easier than) the default gears. With this combination, the range of gears is much like that on my mountain bike, except in 12 well-spaced gears, in two groups of six, instead of in 27 gears, many of which are nearly duplicates of one another.
Right: You shift the Schlumpf Mountain Drive by tapping a button in the bottom bracket with your heel. Tap it with your right heel, as I am in this picture, and you shift into the lowest (easiest) gears. Tap it on the left side, and you shift into the highest (hardest) gears.
I briefly tried the Schlumpf with the newer Brompton Wide Range (BWR) internally geared hub and didn't think much of that combination. You still have two groups of six gears, but there's some overlap between the high end of the low gears and the low end of the high gears, so you're reduced to eight or nine different gears. With so few gears over such a wide range, the jump from one gear to the next is huge, and I often had trouble finding a comfortable gear. I soon gave up and swapped for a rear wheel with a standard-range internally geared hub.
A second opinion from one of my biking gods: I stopped into Clever Cycles in Portland shortly after I wrote this piece and talked with Todd, who biked part way down the Pacific coast on a Brompton with a BWR hub. He said that only for about 10 minutes of the entire trip did he wish for gearing that was more closely spaced. We theorized that my frustration with the BWR was that I was trading back and forth between the BWR and another Brompton with a standard hub, so I never really got accustomed to the BWR.
Folding and unfolding a Brompton is quick and easy
I've never timed myself, but it certainly takes me no more than 20 seconds to fold or unfold the bike, and I've made no effort to improve my speed.
Once the bike is folded, it mostly stays that way, which is not true of all folders. If you jog a folded Brompton much, you can spring the handlebars loose from the clamp that holds them in place. For the rare occasions when I want to be sure the handlebars won't start flopping around, I keep a foot or so of two-sided velcro (available at a fabric store near you) wrapped around the frame and use it to secure the handlebars to the front wheel.
You can take a Brompton nearly anywhere
The small size of a folded Brompton means that you can take it almost anywhere and not have to worry about leaving it outside to get wet or stolen. I've never tried to take it into Canlis, but I've checked it at the coat check at the Seattle Art Museum; have confirmed that the coat check at Benaroya Hall (home of the Seattle Symphony) will take it if ever I need them to; have taken it into innumerable grocery stores, department stores, hardware stores, bike shops, chocolatiers, and assorted other retail establishments; and have parked it next to me (and out of the way) in many a restaurant, pub, bakery, dessert shop, and coffee shop. Often I'll end up talking about the Brompton with the folks at the next table, and more than once someone has walked out with me to watch me unfold it.
My employer provides secure bike parking in the basement of our building and, with office space at a premium, forbids parking full-sized bikes anywhere else in the building, but I'm allowed to take the Brompton to my office and park it next to my desk.
A folded Brompton takes up very little space
Unlike a full-sized bike, you can squeeze a folded Brompton into any number of out-of-the-way places. My house is a good deal smaller than average (under 900 square feet/84 square meters), and bookcases take up quite a bit of the available wall space, so space for parking bikes is at a premium. Among the many benefits of a Brompton is the ease with which you can find an out-of-the-way corner in which to hide it away. Alas, you can't get a Brompton in paisley or in wood grain, so it may clash with the adjacent furniture.
A Brompton doesn't weigh much
Straight from the factory, and with all of the heaviest options available, my Brompton weighed around 27 or 28 pounds (12.3 to 12.7 kilograms). If you skip the rear rack and some other optional bits and pieces, and if you get a couple of (very expensive) titanium parts, you can get it down to the low 20s (around 10 kilograms). For most folks, 27 or 28 pounds is a carryable weight for short distances, for example, to lift it onto a bus or into the trunk of a car.
You can roll a Brompton around even when it's folded
If you need to move a Brompton further than you want to carry it and you can't unfold it (because, for example, you're somewhere that doesn't allow bikes), you can roll it around on two, three, or four itsy-bitsy wheels that are attached to the frame, the rear fender, and/or the rear rack, depending on which options you choose. I wanted a rear rack, so I got four wheels. The factory wheels rolled well, but when they started to come apart (too much grocery shopping), I replaced them with larger and more durable Razor scooter wheels.
The larger wheels have the additional advantage of getting the bike a little further off the ground, which allows you to install the Ergon ergonomic handlebar grips that have the longer bar ends. (You can install the Ergon grips with shorter bar ends without changing the wheels on the rack.) On long rides, the bar ends give you another hand position, so you can change your grip from time to time.
Digression alert: You can't use the Ergon grips on the Brompton P-type handlebar, which moustaches out from the stem to shoulder width or so, turns up for six or eight inches, and then turns back toward the middle. Think rectangular donut with a bite taken out of the top. I tried the P-type bar for about a year and finally replaced it with the M-type. The M-type bar is a little wider and maybe a tad taller, and the hand positions aren't quite as far forward, so you ride more upright, which I prefer. I also never used the lower position on the P-type bars because it took my hands too far from the brakes.
Above right: My friend Tim, who had never rolled a Brompton around like this, quickly caught on. You only need to lift it as Tim is when you're turning a corner.
Another mystery solved: I got an email from the North American agent for Brompton shortly after I posted this piece, and he explained why Brompton installs wheels that are squooshier than my Razor scooter wheels:
We see people putting larger/thicker roller wheels on the bike, which arguably makes for a better roll. But we intentionally design the rollers smallish and a bit fragile! The idea is exactly like crumple zones on a car, or a modern bike helmet. If you drop your folded bike or it falls a distance (or it's bashed in shipment) there's a likelihood it could land crooked; on just one roller. If the wheel is massive/solid it transfers the impact into the little arm on the rear frame. These can bend or even break with significant impact. A little wheel that gives first and absorbs impact is more likely to protect the frame itself from damage. So there's a method to our madness 😉
You can carry oodles of stuff on a Brompton
I carry too much stuff wherever I go on a bike: a few tools, a spare tube, a pump, something to read, a foldup nylon duffel bag in case I somehow end up with even more stuff, rain gear if the weather's looking dodgy, maybe a sweater, a water bottle or two, sometimes a camera, occasionally a change of clothes. With the Le Tour, I always rode with at least one pannier hooked to the rear rack, so one of my concerns when I was first looking at the Brompton was how I'd haul everything on a bike that is too small for panniers.
The Brompton engineers took my silly ilk into account when they designed their luggage system. Bags that attach to the front of the bike come in several styles and sizes, the largest of which, at 31 liters, holds about three-quarters of the volume of a pair of the largest Ortlieb panniers (42 liters). (That's not an endorsement of Ortlieb panniers, which I don't much like. I mention them only because they're a well-known brand of enormous panniers.) The Brompton bags clip securely into a sturdy bracket (the luggage block) that is bolted to the frame instead of being attached to the front fork or to the handlebars. This means that, when you turn, you aren't swinging the weight of whatever is in the bag. If you've ever ridden with front panniers or with a handlebar bag, you know what a difference this makes when you're carrying a heavy load.
|The luggage block from the front.
|Inserting the bag into the luggage block (view from left rear).
|The bag secured in the luggage block (view from left rear).
|The bag from the front.
Never one to be satisfied with three-quarters of a load, I added a seat-post pannier rack—the Xootr CrossRack—and an Arkel utility basket, which is really naught but a big (27 liters) grocery bag with a zipper top that attaches to a bike rack. Combined, the Brompton and Arkel bags let me carry the equivalent of about three big bags of groceries. Be forewarned that the Xootr rack has some quirks. The diameter of the clamp is smaller than the diameter of the Brompton seatpost, and the clamp is not padded, so you have to add a lot of padding of your own to prevent the clamp from denting the seatpost. I used part of a 4″x6″x3/32″ sheet of red rubber that I found in the plumbing section at my local Ace Hardware, and that has worked reasonably well.
I further expanded the range of stuff that I can haul around by getting another rack that I can attach to the seatpost. The Topeak MTX BeamRack is a substitute for a rear rack, after a fashion, although the recommended weight limit is a measely 20 pounds. The seat-post clamp is padded, and it's just big enough to fit the Brompton seatpost. The Topeak bag that you can get for the BeamRack is so small that it's marginally useful at best, but the rack itself has allowed me to haul assorted awkward stuff, including some trim that I bought at the lumber yard. (I had them cut it to the lengths that I needed so I wasn't trying to secure 8′ lengths to a rack that's less than 12″ long.)
The silver tubes on either side of the main tube are the neon lights of a Down Low Glow. A while back, I showed how to install a Down Low Glow on a Brompton.
The rear rack on the Brompton isn't much use as a rear rack if you fold the bike very often, as I do. Brompton makes a bag for the rear rack, but it's wide enough that the few times I used it, I constantly kicked it with my heels as I pedaled. That bag now keeps the Le Tour company in the attic.
Brompton tech support weighs in: I've traded a few emails with a nice chap in Brompton tech support who checked in after seeing this blog entry. He was concerned about the amount of weight that I'm hanging off of the seatpost in the picture of the Topeak Beam Rack above. Instead of trying to accurately paraphrase him, I'll just quote him (with his permission):
This offset weight, particularly the rack with the lumber hanging on it, puts a lot of offset loading onto the seatpost clamping area of the mainframe. We have seen a small number of examples of the mainframe cracking in this area [11 since 1996, all discovered while raising or lowering the seatpost, he reported in a later email] when owners have done similar loading of the seat post at the top e.g. by attaching a trailer to a hitch mounted at the top of the post (we recommend attaching trailers on a rear axle hitch) where the load imposed at a radius of 500mm+ from the clamp can cause distortion of the seat sleeve and potentially cracking around the seat slide tube to mainframe tube joint.
He went on to say that the Arkel bag is fine as long as it's resting on the rear rack. Sadly, it's not, so he also discourages using the CrossRack/Arkel combination. (For pictures, see Traveling with a Brompton can be less trouble than traveling with a car and You can use a Brompton as a shopping cart.)
On the theory that weight firmly secured to the seatpost might somehow be different from weight hanging from a saddle, I asked what he thought of large saddle bags, and his response was in the same vein:
Any large saddle bag will inevitably result in a significant weight being loaded offset to the seatpost and adding a magnified bending force on the frame at the seatpost clamping area.
In short, if my frame breaks at the seatpost, I'll have a tough time claiming ignorance.
Russ of Path Less Pedaled fame did a video about how he and Laura attach backpacks to their Bromptons in a way that Brompton tech support would approve of. Next time I need to carry a really big load, I'm following their lead.
You can take a Brompton onto buses, subways, light rail, and Amtrak
In Seattle, if I need to get somewhere faster than I can bike there but I want the bike for later, I take it inside the bus or onto Link light rail. On articulated buses (extra-long buses with a hinge in the middle), there's an ideal space for the Brompton between seats in the area where the bus folds. On regular city buses, I sit near the front, in the seats that face the middle, and put the bike between my legs and parallel to the seat.
Right: The bike sticks out into the aisle a little, but not as far as my legs do when I'm sitting next to it instead of taking pictures.
I've also taken the Brompton onto public transit in other cities, including:
- Portland's MAX light rail
- the Bay Area's Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART)
- Monterey-Salinas Transit
- Chicago's L
- the Vancouver, BC SkyTrain
On some subway and light-rail systems, including BART, you can't take a full-sized bike on the train during rush hour, but you can take a folding bike.
When I'm traveling by Amtrak, I take the Brompton on board with me and stash it in the luggage rack at the end of the car. I checked it a few times, but checking it in on one end of my journey and getting it back on the other end takes almost as much time as checking luggage with the airlines.
You can fly with a Brompton easily and inexpensively
If you want to check something with the airlines and not pay an oversize charge, the sum of the length, width, and height of the object must be less than 62″. For a Brompton, the sum of those dimensions is 56″, which makes it the only folding bike with 16″ or larger wheels that qualifies as standard checkable luggage. This means you pay the fee for checking a regular bag but not the outrageous fee that most airlines now charge for checking a full-sized bike.
You can fit a Brompton into a few models of hard-sided suitcases, but I don't recommend it because then you have to figure out what to do with the suitcase when you reach your destination. Brompton makes a soft-sided travel bag that has wheels and a handle, so you can roll the bag around with the bike inside. When the bag is empty, you can fold it up enough to strap it to the rear rack (assuming your Brompton has a rear rack). In the debates I've seen in the BromptonTalk group on Yahoo, many Bromptonauts prefer the soft-sided Brompton travel bag to a hard-sided suitcase because, the logic goes, baggage handlers are less inclined to treat soft-sided luggage roughly or to put it on the bottom of a tall pile of bags. The Bromptonauts encourage padding the bike just in case, though. (Chris Rust, one of the frequent contributors to BromptonTalk, has written in detail about how he flies with a Brompton.)
I've flown a couple of round trips with the Brompton, and both times I slipped it into the Brompton travel bag, locked the bag with a TSA-approved lock, and checked it as regular luggage. TSA inspectors don't always know what to make of it; twice I've opened the travel bag to find a notice inside about the importance of preventing terrorism, meaning they'd opened the bag for a peek when they couldn't decipher the contents from an x-ray.
Oops: As I was taking the pictures for this piece, I discovered that the combination of Ergon handlebar grips and Razor scooter wheels make my Brompton just enough bigger that it no longer fits in the Brompton travel bag.
Todd at Clever Cycles takes his Brompton through security and gate-checks it as you would a stroller or a wheel chair. Inspired by Todd, I took my Brompton to SeaTac Airport for a one-way flight to San Diego on Southwest. (I rode Amtrak back to Seattle.) I planned to gate-check the bike, but I had another bag to check, so I had to go to the ticket counter anyway. When the Southwest agent saw the bike, she called over a supervisor, who explained that if I gate-checked the Brompton, it'd still end up in the baggage hold and would come out at baggage claim, not at the gate. He offered to send it, for no charge, with the special luggage, including oversized trunks and the upright bass that Matt Weiner was taking to Wyoming for a gig with the Blue 4 Trio.
In many cases, you can get your bike to and from the airport either by riding it or by taking it on public transit. For example:
- In Seattle, Link light rail takes you right to the airport.
- BART takes you right to the San Francisco airport. (In the comments, Nigel notes that most of the time you have to change trains to get to the San Francisco airport.) When flying into or out of Oakland, a bus with generous luggage racks takes you between BART and the airport.
- In Washington, DC, Metrorail (the subway) takes you to National, as does the Mount Vernon Trail. The subway doesn't go all the way to Dulles, but buses connect the subway to the airport.
- In Palm Springs, California, you can bike out of the airport and directly into a residential neighborhood.
For information on whether a given airport is readily accessible by bike, do an internet search on <city name> airport bicycle access.
Brushing against a folded Brompton won't get you greasy
In Washington, DC, you can take a folding bike on the subway or inside a bus at any time of day, but you have to cover it up first. Bromptonauts in the UK report similar regulations on various modes of public transit. My guess is that transit managers are trying to protect other riders from greasy chains in cramped quarters. On some folding bikes, the chain and derailleur are exposed when the bike is folded. This isn't true of a Brompton, as you can see in the photo at right. The chain, the gears, and the derailleur are all safely tucked in between the frame on one side and one of the wheels on the other side.
Brompton makes a lightweight nylon cover that you can toss over the bike and zip closed to satisfy the transit police. The bottom of the cover is open, so you can still roll the folded bike.
Right (bike-nerd alert): Fresh from the factory, the left pedal on a Brompton folds up and out of the way. It's a pretty good pedal, but I wanted something that was easier to attach toe clips or Powergrip straps to, so I got a pair of MKS quick-release pedals. Then I spent a summer riding a mountain bike that had neither toe clips nor Powergrips, which I found much more convenient for all of the city riding I do. In the end, I got a pair of MKS Lambdas (also known as Grip Kings if you get them from Rivendell Bicycle Works), and swapped the spindles on the Lambdas with the spindles on the other pedals. Now my Lambdas are quick-release pedals. That's what you see in this photo.
Traveling with a Brompton can be less trouble than traveling with a car
Especially in a big city, where parking can be expensive and hard to come by, traveling with a Brompton instead of a car can save you a lot of trouble and expense. You don't have to pay the outlandish hotel rates for parking your car, you don't have to wait for a valet to retrieve it when you want to go out, you don't have to circle the block, then two blocks, then five, then ten blocks in search of a parking space at your destination, you don't have to worry about whether the car will have been broken into when you return. You do have to learn how to travel lighter because you don't have an immense car trunk in which to carry the kitchen sink, but most hotels have plumbing these days.
A couple of summers ago, I did a few days of spur-of-the-moment island hopping in the Gulf Islands, the islands between Vancouver, British Columbia and Vancouver Island. I had to be back in Seattle in under a week, so I didn't have a lot of time to waste. Twice on my journey I rolled past long lines of cars that were waiting to get onto the next BC Ferry, or maybe the ferry after that. I bought a ticket as a walk-on passenger, which is much cheaper than taking a car, and was on my way hours before the folks at the tail end of the car line. On the ferry that had a passenger cabin, I was able to take the folded Brompton inside instead of leaving it on the car deck, and I wasn't charged extra for traveling with a bike.
Above right: The Brompton and I are riding on the BC Ferry from Fulford Harbour on Salt Spring Island to Swartz Bay on Vancouver Island. The bag on the front is the large Brompton touring pannier (now called the T bag), and the bag behind the seat is the Arkel utility basket. For more information, see You can carry oodles of stuff on a Brompton.
You can use a Brompton as a shopping cart
While I was first researching folding bikes, I ran across a photo of a Brompton being used as a grocery cart. Cute, sure, but probably not practical. Then I tried it, and now I go grocery shopping that way all the time. I fold the bike almost all the way, but I leave the handlebars up. The bike by itself is reasonably stable, but I have to be careful how I distribute my accumulated groceries so the bike doesn't tip over and smash six perfectly good bottles of beer or an expensive bottle of olive oil.
Riding a Brompton is just plain fun
In addition to the boundless pleasure I get from riding a Brompton, I have a marvelous time talking with folks about it. I'm not a salesman or a proselytizer—I've never asked anyone if I could show them my bike—but I can only guess how many conversations have started because folks asked me about the Brompton (as many as three or four in a day), how many times I've demonstrated the fold (hundreds, at least), or how many times I've heard someone, even kids, call out, "Cool bike!" as I ride down the street (a few, anyway). Sometimes when I'm sitting at a stop light, the driver in the car next to me rolls down the window to ask about my bike. When I get on the bus, the driver often looks at the bike and grins, and several have said, "I want your bike." Of course, if you're an introvert, all of this attention could be agony, but I want more people to ride bikes, and anything that makes someone more likely to ride more often—for example, the convenience of a folding bike—is something worth demonstrating and explaining.
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Flames finish fourth, Hoff eighth, Steltzer 12th at nationals
March 8, 2013 | Sun Valley, Idaho
Traveling to Sun Valley, Idaho, for this week's United States Collegiate Ski and Snowboard Association national championships was the highlight of the year for Liberty University head coach Will Scheren and the six members of his team that competed Thursday and Friday. The Flames got some serious air time, as well as significant media exposure, with their four men's snowboarders finishing fourth as a team in Friday's slopestyle competition, a day after Eden Jones placed fourth individually in the women's event.
"Being out here has accelerated our program far and away more than anything else we've done this year," Scheren said. "We were hitting jumps that were 50-foot gaps, 68-feet jumps, the biggest jumps you're able to hit anywhere unless you're riding in the Winter X-Games. As riders, these guys were able to hit jumps much bigger than they ever have before and they're coming back with a ton of confidence."
He said the Flames made a name for themselves in Sun Valley, even if Friday's finals didn't turn out quite the way they had hoped. Junior Tim Steltzer placed 12th out of 40 skiers in the men's individual slopestyle event after winning Thursday night's Big Air competition, an exhibition similar to an X-Games showcase. The men's snowboard team took fourth in the slopestyle team standings behind only Sierra-Nevada, the University of Colorado-Boulder, and Western Colorado State University.
"Liberty University has become a well-respected snowboard program," Scheren said. "Other coaches are interested in Snowflex and we've been told by most universities that we are a force to be reckoned with. We should be able to win a national title in slopestyle in the next three to five years and I don't think there's any question about that after the way our guys were riding and hitting their jumps this week."
Two of the Flames' four men's snowboarders reached the slopestyle finals, with seniors Kevin Hoff finishing eighth and Dave Promnitz placing 16th out of 60 riders. Promnitz took 10th at last year's nationals in Maine, where Liberty came in seventh as a team.
"That was very respectable," Scheren said. "Kevin had a really clean first run. He went backside 360-(degree spin) over the first jump into a giant method air on the second. He went like 80 feet so that was huge. After that, he did a front lip 270 out on the first rail and the last rail was a 50-50 front-side 180 out."
As tricky as that may sound, Scheren said that was "actually a pretty conservative run for him. It was a smart run. That was the run we put together at the start of the year to make sure that he made finals at nationals. By our count, he was in fifth place after the first run."
For the second run, Hoff tried to repeat his first, with the exception of doing a 720 instead of a 360 on the first jump. He managed to land it, but put his hand down and had significant drag coming out of it, slowing him down for the rest of the way.
As his younger brother, Jonathan, did last year, Steltzer stole the show and soared through the sky on Thursday, only to come back down to earth a bit on Friday.
"Big Air is an exhibition event that the USCSA puts on," Scheren said. "It's almost like the Academy Awards or something. Liberty got quite a bit of recognition that night. There were about 400 or 500 people watching it. It was not a national championship event, but only eight out of the 100 skiers and snowboarders got a chance to compete, so it was quite an honor.
"Tim won it, beating the champion and the second-place finisher for slopestyle," he added, noting Steltzer's winning run combined a switch 900 with a rodeo 900. "That's a very elite trick."
In Friday's ski slopestyle competition, Steltzer fell on the first jump on both of his runs.
"He had a bit of a rough day," Scheren said, noting there were numerous falls on Friday. "On his first run, he hit a bit of a weird lip off the jump and on the second run, he was just going over the jump and his ski popped off. It's a bummer things didn't go his way today, but he doesn't have anything to hang his head about. He rode great all week and he has the respect of some of the best riders in the country. They were afraid of him."
Steltzer recovered well on both of his runs, which consisted of two jumps and two rails.
"Tim's a great rail rider and he made up for it on the rails both times," Scheren said.
Scheren is excited about the opportunity to take what he learned at Sun Valley and apply it to his coaching at Snowflex, with a series of four Collegiate Freestyle Association events coming up in the next two months.
"Being here gave me the ability to coach these guys and to give these riders more confidence," Scheren said. "We now have all the tools needed to win a national championship, except for an air bag (which cushions the falls on big aerial stunts). I would love to get an air bag. We're knocking at the door to be a powerhouse in slopestyle. I'm looking forward to going out and getting back to work, training for slopestyle and increasing the difficulty of the tricks we're doing."


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Electric Cloud has announced that version 3 of its ElectricCommander software production management software will support "preflight" builds and tests, letting developers run builds and tests on production hardware before they check in their changes. This lets developers catch errors before they impact the productivity of the rest of the team, and makes the agile best practice of continuous integration (building and testing each time a change is checked in to source control) more scalable and reliable.
"The problem with continuous integration is that it can quickly turn into 'continuously broken builds,'" says Electric Cloud's Mike Maciag. "The preflight build and test functionality in ElectricCommander 3.0 enables developers to run builds and tests on production hardware before checking in code to the SCM system, thereby catching errors before they impact the productivity of the rest of the team."
Continuous integration is an agile best practice that promises to speed development and improve quality, but it can actually slow development and hurt quality by introducing frequently broken builds. ElectricCommander 3.0 enables simple, push-button "preflight builds and tests," a capability that makes continuous integration safe and reliable, particularly to enterprises with a high volume of builds, such as game development organizations.
For instance, a development team practicing continuous integration integrates their work frequently, and each integration is verified by an automated build and test process to detect errors. In organizations with many developers or high volumes of code check-ins, such as game development organizations, a continuous integration approach means many build cycles per day. However, builds and tests that work on a developer's machine often fail during integration due to differences in machine configurations, tool versions and platforms. When builds break, the quality and productivity benefits of an agile approach are simply not realized.
Just as a pilot goes through a rigorous preflight check routine to ensure the plane is in top condition prior to takeoff, automated preflight builds and tests put the power to compile and test each change before check-in and across all target environments with the developers themselves. This provides feedback at the earliest possible moment and reduces the impact that an error will have on the rest of the team. Preflight builds enable effective continuous integration in an enterprise environment.
ElectricCommander automates and accelerates the software build-test-deploy process that follows the creation of new code. ElectricCommander 3.0 makes preflight builds push-button and easy for developers to complete right from their IDE. It runs a clean source snapshot and overlaying developer changes through production build and test procedures across all targets, giving developers the opportunity to commit only if they are successful. ElectricCommander 3.0 also includes new integrations with the Microsoft Visual Studio and Eclipse IDEs to make this process as simple as possible for developers.


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CHICAGO -- The planned shutdown of up to 238 air-traffic control towers across the United States under federal budget cuts will strip away an extra layer of safety during takeoffs and landings, leaving pilots to manage the most critical stages of flight on their own.
The towers slated to close are at smaller airports with lighter traffic, and all pilots are trained to land without help by communicating among themselves on a common radio frequency. But airport directors and pilots say there is little doubt the removal of that second pair of eyes on the ground increases risk and will slow the progress that has made the U.S. air system the safest in the world.
It's not just private pilots in small planes who stand to be affected. Many of the airports in question are serviced by major airlines, and the cuts could also leave towers unmanned during overnight hours at some big-city airports such as Chicago's Midway and General Mitchell Airport in Milwaukee. The plans have prompted airlines to review whether the changes might pose problems for commercial service that could mean cancelling or rescheduling flights.
Without the help of controllers, risk "goes up exponentially," said Mark Hanna, director of the Abraham Lincoln Capital Airport in Springfield, Ill., which could see its tower close.
As part of the spending cuts that went into effect this month, the Federal Aviation Administration is being forced to trim $637 million for the rest of the fiscal year that ends Sept. 30. The agency said it had no choice but to subject most of its 47,000 employees, including tower controllers, to periodic furloughs.
Representatives of the FAA declined to discuss the effect of the cuts with The Associated Press. In two recent speeches and testimony before Congress, FAA administrator Michael Huerta stressed safety remained the agency's top priority. But many in the aviation sector are frustrated that the political brinkmanship in Washington has affected such a sensitive area of aviation.
Jim Montman, manager of the Santa Fe Municipal Airport, which is on the list for tower closures, said the absence of controllers raises the risk of mid-air collisions "or some sort of incident where somebody lands on the wrong runway... That critical link is gone."
Hundreds of small airports around the country routinely operate without controllers, using procedures in place since the earliest days of aviation. Pilots are trained to watch for other aircraft and announce their position over the radio during approaches, landings and takeoffs.
But past crashes, however rare, have exposed weaknesses in that system.
On Nov. 19, 1996, a 19-seat United Express flight landing in Quincy, Ill., collided with another twin-engine turboprop that was taking off. They slammed into each other at the intersection of two runways, killing all 14 people aboard the two planes.
The National Transportation Safety Board concluded the probable cause was a failure of the pilots in the outbound flight to monitor the radio frequency for air traffic and to properly scan for other planes.
"If a tower was there, it's highly likely that that accident would have been prevented," said Hanna, who became director of the Quincy airport about two years after the crash and before moving to the job in Springfield.
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- Reverse Fountain Cytoplasmic Streaming in Rhizopus Oryzae
- Diné Research Practices and Protocols: An Intersectional Paradigm Incorporating Indigenous Feminism, Critical Indigenous Research Methodologies and Diné Knowledge Systems
- Developing an Augmented Reality Solution for Mapping Underground Infrastructure
- Characterization of 2D Human Ankle Stiffness during Postural Balance and Walking for Robot-aided Ankle Rehabilitation
- Using Molecular, Cellular and Bioengineering Approaches Towards Understanding Muscle Stem Cell Biology
INTRODUCTION: Exercise performed at moderate to vigorous intensities has been shown to generate a post exercise hypotensive response. Whether this response is observed with very low exercise intensities is unclear. PURPOSE: To compare post physical activity ambulatory blood pressure (ABP) response to a single worksite walking day and a normal sedentary work day in pre-hypertensive adults. METHODS: Participants were 7 pre-hypertensive (127 + 8 mmHg / 83 + 8 mmHg) adults (3 male, 4 female, age = 42 + 12 yr) who participated in a randomized, cross-over study that included a control and a walking treatment. Only those who indicated …
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