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The Loudest Mammals
By: Easton Smith
Whales can sing to each other across oceans. Their sound waves refract in the changing depths and temperatures of the water, which increases their speed and reach. The deep coo of the sperm whale, the loudest animal in the world, can be heard for more than a thousand miles in these "deep sound channels". These whales push their immensity through expanses of pressured black water in solitude, hundreds of miles from their own kin; alone, but for the calls of their distant lovers.
And us humans, we can also speak across the ocean. But first we had to learn to ret the hearty hemp plant into fiber and weave that fiber into fabric for sails, to chop and shape trees into vast vessels. Even then, we had no deep sea channels and it took us weeks to travel one thousand miles. It wasn't until we started digging up the fossilized remains of long dead whales and algae and began burning them in furnaces to stir mighty propellers that things sped up. It only took about two days for the Titanic to travel one thousand miles. Finally, with modern sonar technology, we have caught up with the whale and can ping across the ocean almost instantaneously. The ocean is now filled with our screams.
The whales can no longer hear each other. The low hum of their song can only travel a few miles before it is interrupted by some ocean liner, some fishing ship whose engine vibrates at the same low frequency. Our sonar disorients the whales, they get lost and sometimes aren't able to feed. In some cases, sonar causes acoustically-induced hemorrhages in a whale's' ears, and they become so disoriented that they wash ashore to die. The small fraction of whales that have survived 300 years of human hunting, less than ten percent for some species, they get to live out their lives next to a highway, right by a noisy intercom, in a constant fire drill. In our effort to make the world smaller for ourselves, we emptied it of such largeness.
I learn about our silencing of the whales when in the desert one night, as Kate and I look at the stars. I don't know why it is this that makes me cry, when so many other facts related to humans' shitty neighborliness don't. I feel beached on a shore of such facts, but most of them just feel like grains of sand. This one, it feels as weighty as the whale, as deep as their hum, as devastating as all of those stars disappearing.
I am in a truck with a man I have never met before. We are on our way up to an activist gathering, and I am picking his sandy-hair-covered brain about his past. He is typical of these men that I meet in trucks going some place in the Southwest: he has lived many lives, and each seems to have changed him just as much as was required for him to survive, and no more. He has molded himself through direct bodily experience, rather than contemplative, abstract reflection or adherence to some moral code. He knows that he should be doing something about the environment because he has walked on the environment, enjoyed its sights, sounds, and temperatures. He knows that certain races work harder than others because he has hired them, season after season, to put up and pull down christmas lights. He knows the name and conservation status of the white tailed prairie dog because he has seen so many while hunting, which is also when he learned to call for elk as he does out the truck window with some frequency. He is full of the contradictions of a man who takes life as he finds it, one day at a time, and doesn't bother to second guess himself by trying to put it all together into some coherent, seamless picture.
His descriptions of some thirty-odd years of life are matter-of-fact, clear, unmurkied by doubt or emotion. Recently, he spent many years living with his wife out of a truck, rock climbing every day and traveling the country. Explaining this raises not the slightest excitement in him. Whether by accident or by design, he has nearly perfected this masculine equanimity. And this begs out of me some intrusive desire to dig into him. I ask towards some deeper places and notice his occasional sighs and pauses, the way that he stares longingly into the desert. I try to wade through his ocean of anecdotal stories to find a soft, sandy place to dig in my feet, to find some root of emotion hidden in the opaque waters. My direct queries are fruitless at first, but after about an hour I finally toe some different sand, some riled up part. The topic is banking.
The banking system is controlled by an elite cabal of super-rich and powerful families, he explains assuredly. The federal reserve is actually a private bank, he explains hurriedly. There is a whole web of interrelated, secret schemes by powerful individuals that keep us confused and oppressed, he explains hotly. Explanation animates him, as if his words bring life to his theories and the charisma of the telling will undo the injustice of it all. He lays it out for me as if I asked, as if I were asking with a very big grin, every minute and half, that he tell me more. He moves too quickly, masticating his own words before they can leave his mouth. He pontificates with the sudden appearance of a single emotion: excitement. It's not just banking, but also vaccines, 9/11, the food industry, international relations, and a whole litany of other conspiracies that compete to be told. He has transformed from a curt, stoic man who has his own, humble opinions into a zealot for the cult of obscure truths.
I offer small affirmations and probing questions out of politeness and because I have been fringey enough in my life to know the pain of a conversation partner's empty pauses and blank stares. I listen actively until, exhausted, I sit quiet through his screed. My final reticence seems to remind him of something, as he trails off, mumbles an apology, and joins me in silence. After a few seconds he states, back in his deadpan, that he knows he takes it too far, he even lost a marriage over all this stuff. I should respond quickly to ease the tension left in the wake of his admission, but I fear eliciting another tirade, so I let these words pool up in their own emotional vulnerability. We both look out the window at the desert cliffs, and a scant sense of shame fills the silent truck.
In 1875, a "scientific English gentleman," Mr. James Wickham, released two whales into the Great Salt Lake. A team spent two years capturing the whales off the coast of Australia, then had them shipped to San Francisco, where they were loaded onto a train (in tanks of seawater) and shipped to Salt Lake City. The two 35-foot whales were dumped into the salty water (the Great Salt Lake is five times saltier than the ocean), caged in by a large, underwater fence. With a single purposed ferocity, the whales swam right through the fence and within "twenty minutes, they were out of sight and the chagrined Mr. Wickham stood gazing helplessly at the big salt water." A team spent days tracking the free roaming whales across the 75-mile long lake. They finally found the couple months later, and they had amassed a pod of whale babies that numbered in the hundreds. "The scheme is a surprising and complete success and Mr. Wickham has earned the thanks of mankind." So goes the story from a June 24, 1890 article from the Utah Enquirer.
The grandchildren of these two whales, perhaps they were Sei Whales from the Australian coast, could be swimming in the happy shallow waters of the most eerily magical body of water into which I have ever dipped a toe. But they are not. Even if the whales were blessed by Salacia, god of salt water, to be able to withstand the heavy salinity of the lake, and even if they could survive a strict diet of brine shrimp, the very story of the whale-scheme is itself likely fallacious. The Utah Enquirer was a reputable enough publication, but the article was written fifteen years after the supposed incident, and there are no other accounts of Mr. Wickham's venture to be found in any other newspaper or history of the Salt Lake Valley.
But it's true, too. True as a legend kept alive through its telling, like whales themselves will one day be kept alive only in our wild imaginations. And it takes little of my wild imagination to conjure their extinction as I look at pictures of the thousands of whales that, just in the last few years, washed dead on beaches. Last year, 337 Sei whales were discovered rotting, sprinkled across the remote Southern coast of Chile. It was the largest mass Cetacean stranding ever recorded. Evidence suggests that toxic algal blooms from rising ocean temperatures killed the whales at sea and their bodies sailed together towards us in a knot of death and warning. There are only an estimated 80,000 Sei whales left in the world, making this single event an extinction of .04% of their population, which for our species would look like three million humans dying in a single crisis.
The whales will all die in my lifetime. I am not sure of it, but it seems likely. And if there is a mass extinction of the whales, I would like to believe there will be a few left, unknown and undisturbed, living on brine shrimp, enjoying the therapeutic qualities of heavy salinity, and calling to each other across the seventy five miles of the Great Salt Lake. Of course, then I would have to believe that the Great Salt Lake isn't evaporating at a faster rate than it is filling due to overuse of its tributaries. To believe anything pleasant seems to require the willful suspension of one truth or another.
In the silence of our drive I contemplate the organization of this man's life. He seems to have devised for himself an unagitated existence. He lives acutely in the moment, stopping at a whim to spectate elk and deer in the binoculars. His candid speech and quick judgements reveal a juvenile trust that I, a stranger, will not be judging him. I see him open to the world, ready to grapple with and be changed by whatever thing he encounters. Until, upon that mention of banks, he furiously closed off in a moment of psychological transformation.
The silence is filling at first, taking all of the space in the cab, leaving no room for a single word. But the drive is over three hours long, and eventually casual observances of the scenery bleed into casual conversation. I have difficulty floating at the casual, so within minutes I am gently asking him about his history with conspiracy theories. He explains that it all began with studying the economy on the internet after the 2008 mortgage crisis. But once he began, the gravity of the online forums pulled him in and the matter of his life disintegrated in that black hole. I have been a drug addict, and as he speaks I hear a familiar wash of guilt and hunger. He retreated into his basement, desperate for more intricate, more outrageous, meticulously constructed truths. It was all he could think and talk about. He stopped climbing, stopped working. His wife left him. He lost everything but his brother, who explored the catacombs of internet back pages along with him.
Now he has rules about when and how much he can use the internet. He is trying to piece his life back together, and to talk about other things. I try to respect this by eschewing politics, economics, current events or anything else that one could conspire about. I try. I focus on my own life. But I make the mistake of mentioning something about racism, and before I can say another word I am interrupted. "I have a theory about that".
He drives back into it, and I sit astounded and disturbed. It's easy to dismiss his theories as absurdist amalgamations of anecdotal evidence and historical coincidences, but then again, history is full of stranger truths. It's not the veracity of his claims that irk my insides, make my skin feel tight around me as I sit in the passenger seat. It's his eyes, round as a secret masonic seal, his attention, as scattered as the official story of the building seven collapse; it's his gasps for air between sentences that frighten me. He went picking truths without a basket to hold them, and now he is trying to juggle them all at once while also demonstrating their quality and consistency from every angle. He is fumbling all over. He is highly emotional, trying to piece together a thousand piece puzzle on a table that is too small. Every time he moves to a new part, a corner of the puzzle falls to the floor. He mistakes the distraction and offense in the face of his onlooker as a violent demand to pick up the pieces and try again. There is no satisfying end in his quest for a complete truth.
We don't get to choose which stories make us cry. In our atmosphere of constant information flows, certain truths couple off with our emotions without our consent. From this union our so-called beliefs are constructed more through the mindless shedding, than thorough investigation, of every other truth. At least this is what I have seen.
I grew up in close proximity to conspiracy theories, to full-grown adults who would bear their teary eyed testimony to a blonde, blue eyed Jesus Christ, who even after dying on the cross went to the Americas to preach to the historic peoples of these continents, some of whom were cursed with their dark skin by God himself. A story that explains white supremacy and the mystery of the soul, all at once. I have been in my share of activist meetings where someone interrupted the speaker to explain to us all how the Newtown massacre was a false flag operation. A story that explains the phenomena of random, brutal violence and government corruption all at once. I myself have often felt the tug of the real story, the secret truth, the final, complete narrative that relieves the discomfort of doubt. That drive is present in me now, as I eschew every deviant thought trying to wrap this essay up nice and tidy, clean, genuine and powerful.
The first point of the essay is: there will be errant threads and dropped pieces as I try to get to the second point, which is: my yearning for story, myth and even naive optimism is not the same as a drive for explanation and truth. I want whales in the Great Salt Lake, not because it completes the picture. It does nothing for our concrete world. It makes the death of the oceans more bearable to me, that is all.
I need an arsenal of false beliefs before I can turn my eyes towards the truths of the world, which are already so numerous and terrible that I don't need to dig beneath the surface for new ones. I don't need to find out who did 9/11 to see how it was, blatantly, without conspiracy, used to stoke the old fires of racism and to rally the will for endless war and perpetual insecurity. I don't need more truth, I need more stories. They are songs from far off lovers in a sea of The Real and without them I would be as fraught as my friend at the wheel.
Truth doesn't set us free, I don't think. It can just as easily drive us to our basement. It's not the statistics of oceanic collapse that motivate me. It's the thought that since whales can live up to 90 years, there are a few out there who might remember a time when all they heard in their vast, dark homes of the sea were each other's songs.
Between his espousing of theories, my driver mentions that he has been working on writing, trying to get all of his heavy, complicated thoughts onto paper. As we stop along the road at one point to pee and look at the Book Cliffs, he lends me his notebook. He is self-conscious about his writing abilities, but his boyishness pervades as he proudly points to a short piece that stretches from corner to corner of one page, but doesn't spill past it by a single word.
In this page he describes a desert hike: the species of every animal and plant he passed, the fierce satisfaction of moving his body through the landscape. His narrative says nothing about the Rothschild family or vaccines. He is, on this page, that man of contradictions and humble observation. At the end of his hike, he sits basking in solitude until he hears a ruffling, a conversation, the yells of teenagers at play. This group settles in near him, disrupting his sanctuary. His last line is a lament. If I remember correctly the words are, "those who think they are alone are the loudest." I read the line and I think of him, screaming his theories at the windshield in the car. I think of lonely humans, yelling from the pulpit, scurrying across the ocean surface in ships of great importance. And the whales below, the loudest animals on earth silenced by the cries of the most lonely.


After months of campaigning for independence, Scotland voters have decided to remain united to the United Kingdom. Prime Minister David Cameron was extremely happy with the decision. Many feared the separation would cause dire consequences for both territories, especially economically.
Alex Salmond, Scotland's First Minister had urged Scotland voters to vote for independence. They did vote, but were on the losing side. Over 86% of voters turned out to vote with 123,927 for "Yes" and 194,628 "No" votes, making it one of the largest turnouts.


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by Gary L Steltermann | Mar 22, 2016 | Alumni, Faculty, Parents, Staff, Students
Kristin Finn, PhD, professor in the Teacher Education Department, has recently been exploring the problem of childhood obesity. Research consistently affirms the negative relationship between Body Mass Index (BMI) and academic outcomes, although the reasons for this relationship have not been adequately explained. One possible explanation is weight bias – prejudiced attitudes toward children who are obese.
Finn is currently conducting an investigation that examines whether weight bias among teachers leads to grade discrimination. Finn is collaborating with Drs. Clancy Seymour and Dennis Koch in the School of Education and Human Services (SEHS) on this investigation. They hypothesize that samples of students' school work will be graded more harshly for obese than non-obese girls. This work is being supported by the SEHS Dean's research support award and is being conducted at professional development schools that have established partnerships with the SEHS. Dr. Finn's upcoming sabbatical will be devoted to exploring mediating factors of the link between obesity and academic success.
Jonathan Lawrence, PhD, has served Canisius College well in his 11 years of service. Dr. Lawrence is the author of a monograph, Washing in Water: Trajectories of Ritual Bathing in the Hebrew Bible and Second Temple Literature, published in the Society of Biblical literature series. Since this work, Dr. Lawrence has, in recent years, expanded his interests to explore religious diversity and interfaith relationships in the Western New York region. This work is affiliated with the Pluralism Project based at Harvard University. Dr. Lawrence's endeavors in this area were rewarded with the opportunity to give a TedXBuffalo talk stemming from this research. He has also produced a YouTube video, Voices of Justice in Buffalo. In addition, Dr. Lawrence is a committed teacher as his many conference presentations and grants for workshops on pedagogy attest. Among his wide array of service to the college, most notable is perhaps his two years as Director of the Core Curriculum.
Did you know…that when Dr. Lawrence took students to India in 2010, he got a cameo in a Bengali movie named "Egaro." They dubbed over his voice but used his photo in the movie posters so he likes to say that he is now the face of British oppression. To read the description of the movie, click here.
Greenwald Recognized by Naples Alumni Chapter
Members of the Naples Alumni Chapter honored Patrick Greenwald, director of principal gifts, for his decades of service to the college. During the surprise tribute, the group thanked Greenwald for his unfailing good nature, friendship and unwavering devotion to Canisius College and the Naples chapter. Greenwald's wife, Becky, also received a shout out during the event. The group presented Greenwald with a beautifully engraved Chelsea clock.
Pictured (L-R): Thomas Dipasquale '51, Patrick Greenwald and Chester (Chet) Pawenska '52 pose during the event.
Softball Set to Open Home Schedule on Wednesday
Your Canisius Golden Griffin softball team opens the home portion of its 2016 schedule with a game on Wednesday, March 23, at the Demske Sports Complex, against the University at Buffalo at 4:00 p.m. The Griffs are coming off a season that saw them claim the MAAC regular season title.
Desire2Learn Workshops and Tutorials
by Gary L Steltermann | Mar 22, 2016 | Faculty, Staff
Whether you use Desire2Learn (D2L) to teach or are considering using it to teach, Canisius has plenty of resources available to support you. Faculty members can attend workshops that cover the basics for getting started in D2L, or focus on the grades tool for recording, calculating and reporting students' grades.
See our signup sheet for workshop dates and times.
Additionally, you can look up and learn about specific D2L features and tools in our D2L Faculty Users Group Video Tutorial Set.
Submitted by: Mark Gallimore, educational technology specialist

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First, think about what you need your bike for -- if it's just for a short city commute, in among traffic, then consider a smaller frame that's easy to manoeuvre through cars. The GoCycle G3 (right) is impressively nimble and its electric assistance will help propel you up to 15 mph (24 kph). Better yet, it has built-in lights, automatic gears and you can customise the amount of power the motor provides using a phone app.
The oldest patent for an electric bike I've been able to find at the US Patent and Trademark Office is this one, by Ogden Bolton, Jr. of Canton Ohio, which was filed in September 1895 and granted three months later. You can see from these original diagrams that it bears an amazingly close resemblance to modern electric bikes. In the general picture on the left, you can see there's a hub motor on the rear wheel (blue), a battery suspended from the frame (red), and a simple handlebar control to make the thing stop and go. In the more detailed cutaway of the hub motor on the right, you can see there's a six-pole magnet in the center (orange) bolted to the frame and an armature (made from coiled wire, yellow) that rotates around it when the current is switched on. It's quite a hefty motor even by modern standards; Ogdon mentions "a heavy current at low voltage—for instance, to carry one hundred amperes at ten volts." So that's 1000 watts, which is about twice the power of a typical modern bike hub motor.
DON'T BUY THIS BIKE!!!!! Worst customer service ever!!! I bought this bike for my 18 year old son to commute to school. It worked well for the first 2 months but the battery is cheap and stated to wear out. I tried going on the website, but they battery shows as out of stock, and has been for 3 months now. I left 5 emails with customer service, never got a reply. Also there is no number listed on their website to even speak to a real person. Now I have a worthless 5 month old bike..... horrible this company should be ashamed.
In the theoretical electric bike we considered up above, we had the dynamo/motor driving the back wheel directly, simply by pressing on the tire. Most electric bikes work a different way. They have compact electric motors built into the hub of the back or front wheel (or mounted in the center of the bike and connected to the pedal sprocket). Take a look at the hub of an electric bike and probably you'll see it's much fatter and bulkier than on a normal bike. You can read more about how these motors work in our main article about hub motors.
In 2012, two e-bike advocates completed the first 4,000-mile (6,400 km) transcontinental e-bike tour from New York to San Francisco to advocate for e-bikes in major cities across the U.S.[81] Pedego Electric Bikes is the best selling brand in the U.S. Many e-bikes in the United States are standard bicycles converted using a kit. In general, the kits include the motor (the majority of which are hub motors built into the front or rear wheel), a speed controller, throttle (usually twist-grip or thumb throttle), necessary wiring and connectors, and a battery. Several U.S. companies offer conversion kits which also offer advanced lithium battery packs. Major manufacturers also offer complete e-bikes. Trek offers a line of e-bikes using the Bionx system in which the rider programs the controller to determine how much effort the motor will give in response to rider effort, from 25% up to 200% of the rider's power. This system ensures a minimum level of rider participation and is also used to comply with many European laws mandating partial human effort before the motor engages.
In the past few years bike sharing schemes have become more popular across Britain as town and city councils don their "green" hats and look to invest in the future of public transportation. With 25 cities and towns now with dedicated bicycle sharing schemes, more than 25,000 shared bikes are now available in places such as London, Bath, Glasgow, Liverpool, Bristol, and Brighton.
It is important to note that if a vehicle has an electric motor greater than 500 watts and is capable of powering the vehicle when traveling at a speed greater than 32 km/h and it does not have a CMVSS compliance label it cannot be registered unless the owner can prove, by having the vehicle certified by an engineer, that it is safe for operation on NB highways. Also, not all vehicles are suitable for operation on NB highways and it could be that the vehicle in question may not be a motor driven cycle or a bicycle and cannot be operated on the highway at all.
Let's face it – Commuting can be a nightmare. Seemingly infinite price hikes, delays to trains, crammed tubes and congested roads dominate the ways of getting to work. The commuter misery is real. But, what if you could transform this part of the day from a chore to a pleasure? Enter the eBike. The clean, … Continue reading Why an eBike is so good for commuting
There are two main categories when choosing an e-bike: a pre-built electric bike or a custom e-bike conversion. Prefab electric bikes come in a wide variety of setups and styles and are designed specifically as electric bicycles. With unique characteristics and design qualities, most meet the law requirements which limit power and speed. There is also a variety of options to choose from equipped with different design and different motor and battery configurations to suit different riding styles and preferences: cruisers, commuters, mountain bikes and more. Pre-built e-bikes are clean and sleek in design with all of the wiring and electrical components built directly into the bike. For most people, production e-bikes work great and there's no need for a custom conversion.
While the first functional battery was developed in the year 1800 by Italian physicist Alessandro Volta, a practical battery would not be seen for several decades yet. By the end of the 19th century, practical and portable batteries were more widely available, this finally freeing the electric motor to be used in a wide new array of applications. It might come as a surprise, but the electric motor, battery, and a bicycle were first paired as far back as the 1890s. It would be approximately 100 years later that electric bicycle development finally entered the mainstream, but the technology and concept behind the electric bike were all in place generations ago.
In Israel, persons above 16 years old are allowed to use pedal-assisted bicycle with power of up to 250W and speed limit of 25 km/hour. The bicycle must satisfy the European Standard EN15194 and be approved by the Standards Institution of Israel. A new law, effective January 10, 2019, states that riders under 18 who have no automobile license will need a special permit. [51] [52] Otherwise, no license or insurance is required. Other motorized bicycles are considered to be motorcycles and should be licensed and insured as such.[53] The maximum weight of the e-bike itself cannot exceed 30 kg.[54]
Ebike definition in Colorado follows the HR 727 National Law: Template:Convert e-power and Template:Convert max, 2 or 3 wheels, pedals that work. Legal low powered Ebikes are allowed on roads and bike lanes unless the city or county has passed laws to the contrary (Boulder city bans ebikes over 400W from bike lanes and all ebikes from bike paths) -none -(except Boulder city) have to date. Bicycles and Ebikes are disallowed on certain high speed highways and all Interstates unless signed as "Allowed" in certain rural Interstate stretches where the Interstate is the ONLY means of travel. [35] Unless the locality has specifically passed laws making ebikes illegal on sidewalks or trails, Ebikes are legal. However most business and shopping districts do not allow riding bikes or ebikes on sidewalks. Boulder and a few other cities specifically dis-allow ebikes on their trail systems through legal statute.
The frame itself incorporates a series of mounts allowing you to easily trick-out the Road E+1 with a rack, fenders, or panniers to more aptly meet your touring requirements. Again, most touring purists will certainly scoff at the mere notion of pedal-assistance, however, individuals looking for more of a guided tour and less of a tour de force will swoon over the Road E+1.
The Tidalforce Electric Bicycle was an electric bicycle manufactured by Wavecrest Labs from 2003 until the company went out of business in 2006. All models of Wavecrest Tidalforce electric bikes have a 36 volt electric hub motor built into the rear wheel hub and a 36 volt battery pack built into the front wheel hub. Wavecrest Labs manufactured three models of Tidalforce bikes: The Wavecrest Tidalforce M-750, the S-750 Traditional hard tail mountain bike and the iO-750 Cruiser. Any of the three bikes with an X suffix denotes that the motor is a 1000 watt motor without a set speed restriction as compared to the speed limited 750 watt version.
Most consumers want an e-bike that will accommodate its motor without being too cumbersome and will remain stable in spite of its electronic components. Some consumers want only the most basic of e-bike features, including lights, a cargo rack/basket, and a water bottle holder. Others are focused more heavily on safety features, such as brake type. And still others are concerned with convenience and portability.
Every bike on this list has been thoroughly evaluated and vetted by our team of test editors. We research the market, survey user reviews, speak with product managers and engineers, and use our own experience riding these bikes to determine the best options. Our team of experienced testers spent many hours and miles using these bikes for their intended purpose. We've commuted to and from work on them, used them to stock up on groceries and beer, tested their passenger-hauling capability, ridden them on questionable terrain (just to see how they'd handle), and run their batteries down to officially see how long they last on one charge. We evaluated them on performance, price, comfort, handling, value, reliability, fun, and overall e-factor to come up with this list of bikes that will best serve the needs of anyone looking to add a little pedal assist to their ride.
Historically, women's bicycle frames had a top tube that connected in the middle of the seat tube instead of the top, resulting in a lower standover height at the expense of compromised structural integrity, since this places a strong bending load in the seat tube, and bicycle frame members are typically weak in bending. This design, referred to as a step-through frame or as an open frame, allows the rider to mount and dismount in a dignified way while wearing a skirt or dress. While some women's bicycles continue to use this frame style, there is also a variation, the mixte, which splits the top tube laterally into two thinner top tubes that bypass the seat tube on each side and connect to the rear fork ends. The ease of stepping through is also appreciated by those with limited flexibility or other joint problems. Because of its persistent image as a "women's" bicycle, step-through frames are not common for larger frames.
The European Committee for Standardization (CEN) also has a specific Technical Committee, TC333, that defines European standards for cycles. Their mandate states that EN cycle standards shall harmonize with ISO standards. Some CEN cycle standards were developed before ISO published their standards, leading to strong European influences in this area. European cycle standards tend to describe minimum safety requirements, while ISO standards have historically harmonized parts geometry.[55]
Whether squeezing onto the 4 train or pedaling through Lower Manhattan, I notice a few curious glances at the bike with the big battery in the center of the frame. This is not surprising; e-bikes are huge practically everywhere but the US. According to the latest figures from the Confederation of the European Bicycle Industry, e-bike growth in the UK is up from 40,000 units in 2016 to 63,000 in 2017.
Government regulation is written and administered with a broad, dull, painful axe. Regulations do not mix well with independent, maverick, DIY programs either. Vehicle regulations get started when there is either a visible tragedy, or a rising conflict with the status quo (like the SFO scooters program). The ebike community cannot afford a deadly accident especially if it involves others and the ebike or ebike rider are at fault. The Ebike community is up against a tough status quo that consists of pedestrians, motor vehicle traffic, the large well-funded and battle tested regular bicycle community, and the environment (especially for MTB riding and off-road use).
Every person riding a bicycle, electric personal assistive mobility device, electric power-assisted bicycle, moped, or an animal or driving an animal on a highway shall be subject to the provisions of this chapter and shall have all of the rights and duties applicable to the driver of a vehicle, unless the context of the provision clearly indicates otherwise.
Because the power is applied through the chain and sprocket, power is typically limited to around 250–500 watts to protect against fast wear on the drivetrain. An electric mid-drive combined with an internal gear hub at the back hub may require care due to the lack of a clutch mechanism to soften the shock to the gears at the moment of re-engagement. A continuously variable transmission or a fully automatic internal gear hub may reduce the shocks due to the viscosity of oils used for liquid coupling instead of the mechanical couplings of the conventional internal gear hubs.
In the 1870s many cycling clubs flourished. They were popular in a time when there were not cars on the market and the principal mode of transportation was horse-drawn vehicles, such the horse and buggy or the horsecar. Among the earliest clubs was The Bicycle Touring Club, which has operated since 1878. By the turn of the century, cycling clubs flourished on both sides of the Atlantic, and touring and racing became widely popular. The Raleigh Bicycle Company was founded in Nottingham, England in 1888. It became the biggest bicycle manufacturing company in the world, making over two million bikes per year.[31]
Another style is the recumbent bicycle. These are inherently more aerodynamic than upright versions, as the rider may lean back onto a support and operate pedals that are on about the same level as the seat. The world's fastest bicycle is a recumbent bicycle but this type was banned from competition in 1934 by the Union Cycliste Internationale.[43]
In general, electric bicycles are considered "bicycles", rather than motor vehicles, for purposes of the code. This implies that all bicycle regulations apply to electric bicycles including operation in bike lanes. Exceptions to this include a restriction of operation on sidewalks and that a license or permit is required if the rider is younger than 17 years of age.[125]
Vehicles exceeding any of the criteria above must be registered and titled as a motorcycle. Other types of vehicles, such as electric scooters, "pocket rockets" and mini-choppers, may fit the definition of a moped or a motorcycle, but cannot be registered by the Department of State if they lack the equipment required by law to legally drive on public roads.[101]
The second type of electric bike is a much smaller, often foldable unit designed for convenient urban (or suburban) commuting and for easy storage in minimal space. These compact electric bikes are perfect for trips of a few miles, and many are small and lightweight enough to be carried onto trains or buses, allowing their rider to make use of multiple types of transportation in a single trip, and to store their bike in a closet or even under a desk at work, at school, or at home.
Connect the battery to the speed controller and the throttle. Follow the instructions included with the kit to connect each part. Typically, you'll only need to plug the connector on the speed controller into the connector on the battery, then repeat the process for the throttle. Be sure not to touch the battery wires together, as this could create a dangerous spark! [14]
This is a cool eBike fits in your car's trunk or back seat! It's well made. And it only has one rear disc brake, you dont really need the front brake. It's simple to operate and fun to use - just put one foot on one foot attachment while turning the throttle slightly, then as soon as you start to move add the other foot...and let the joy ride begin!
Speaking of which, if you're used to non-electric cycles, be aware that e-bikes are heavy and capped at 25kph or 15.5mph. In many cases, that means the bike starts to feel like its actively fighting against you, if you try to push the speed higher than that by pedalling. That's especially true with heavier bikes, for obvious reasons, and can take a while to get used to.
A lot has happened since we founded the very first eMTB specific magazine in 2013. In the beginning, manufacturers simply mounted electric motors on regular mountain bikes, more or more often than not, rather less successfully. Last year a lot of brands focused on the topic of battery integration. There are some exciting new trends and developments headed our way next season, which we take a closer look at below.
"Medical Exemptions" are also a standard right in the State of Texas for motorcycles & even bicyclists. Through Texas's motorcycle helmet law (bicycle helmet laws from city ordinances), it is only required for those 21 years old or younger to wear a helmet. However, a medical exemption,[133][134][135][136][137] written by a certified licensed medical physician or licensed chiropractor, which exempts one from wearing a helmet, can be used for bicyclists if helmets are required.
At $799, it is one of the most affordable full-size folding electric bicycles on the market. There are cheaper folding e-bikes out there, but they generally have much smaller wheels and lower top speeds. With 16″ wheels and a max speed of 32 km/h (20 mph), the Shift S1 combines the specs of higher priced e-bikes with the affordability of a budget folder.
A "class 1 electric bicycle," or "low-speed pedal-assisted electric bicycle," is a bicycle equipped with a motor that provides assistance only when the rider is pedaling, and that ceases to provide assistance when the bicycle reaches the speed of 20 miles per hour. (2) A "class 2 electric bicycle," or "low-speed throttle-assisted electric bicycle," is a bicycle equipped with a motor that may be used exclusively to propel the bicycle, and that is not capable of providing assistance when the bicycle reaches the speed of 20 miles per hour. A "class 3 electric bicycle," or "speed pedal-assisted electric bicycle," is a bicycle equipped with a motor that provides assistance only when the rider is pedaling, (no throttle) and that ceases to provide assistance when the bicycle reaches the speed of 28 miles per hour, and equipped with a speedometer. Local government ordinances are allowed to permit or ban any class of electric bicycles on dedicated bicycle paths and trails, with Class 1 & 2 permitted, and Class 3 banned, by default.
The electric bike revolution has officially crossed into the arena of off-road motorbikes. For those who prefer riding in nature, Cake introduced a product which not only respects the environment but other riders, as well. Cake's Kalk is a silent off-road motorbike that releases no emissions into the atmosphere. Additionally, its electric motor means no gear changing or clutching — a silent motorbike that won't detract from the experience of others. Perhaps the best part is Cake avoided any sacrifice in performance. The Kalk reaches speeds of fifty miles per hour and features three distinct driving modes: Discover, Explore, and Excite.
Artwork: Hub motors aren't the only way to power electric bicycle wheels. If you've ever watched a mouse scampering around inside an exercise wheel, you might have wondered if you could drive a wheel electrically, in a similar way, with something that pushes against the inside of the rim. A company called GeoOrbital has been developing an ingenious mechanical equivalent that can be used to power conventional bikes—and here's a simplified illustration of how it works. It has a motorized drive roller (red) that presses against the inner rim, powered by a battery pack (orange) that sits snugly inside the wheel. Two guide rollers (blue) mounted on a tensioned framework (green) take the place of the conventional arrangement of spokes. According to GeoOrbital, you can fit one of its wheels to a normal bike in just 60 seconds.
The first functioning electric motor was displayed in the early 19th century, though the device constructed by British scientist Michael Faraday did little more than swirl a wire around a magnet when an electric charge was introduced. Still, the concept proved that electricity could do work. Functional electric motors would follow in many forms after that achievement in 1821. Soon scientists and tinkerers around the world, including visionaries such as Nikola Tesla, were experimenting with all manner of electric motors -- some worked with DC power, others with AC. By the end of the century, myriad electric motors had been produced, capable of exerting enough force with enough reliable control that they were practical for use in myriad applications.
The rest of the bike is equally impressive. Integrated lights in the front and the rear run directly off the main battery, so you're never replacing coin cells or AAA batteries. And the disc brakes give you plenty of stopping power. The 36-volt battery attaches to the down tube and is designed to be easily removed for recharging. A key-lock at the top of the mount ensures that no one can steal your battery if your bike is left in a public place. And a built-in alarm system, activated with a car-like key fob, is ear-splitting enough to keep thieves away altogether. (Miller promises the alarm's sensitivity is tuned so it shouldn't go off if the bike is jostled at a public bike rack, but I didn't have the bike long enough to test this out.)
In principle, you would use about 100W (your own energy) for moderate pedalling at 22km/h. If you select 300% assistance (high), that will add another 300W and you can pedal almost twice as fast, i.e. about 27km/h (you will encounter increasing resistance from wind). Therefore, if you got a 400Wh battery, you got a range of about 37km at 37km/h. If go more slowly and use less support (200%), then you can drive further, e.g. 60km with a 400Wh battery. (Read more in die Die Schnellen im Vergleich)
We'll start this off with the latest two Customer Profile videos. In the first one we follow up from the well received Leigh Cross video with a look at his son, Tig Cross. Tig's been refining an original bike concept combining the best parts of an ebike, scooter, and velomobile, and showcases the merits of an electric generator for the human drivertrain.
Faster e-bikes usually run at higher voltage. But higher voltage reduces range as well, because lower speeds are more efficient. So e-bikes running higher voltage will have less range unless significantly more battery capacity is added to compensate. This causes higher speed builds to be increasingly expensive for the same range that could be gotten from a slower e-bike. Therefore deciding on a build requires balancing several factors: Range, Speed, Cost, and Quality.
The first regularly produced device resembling the modern bicycle was unveiled in 1818. It was called the Dandy Horse. The two-wheeled ride-on Dandy Horse was the brainchild of German inventor Baron Karl Drais, and it featured a handle bar, a padded seat, and two inline wheels of nearly equal size. What it did not feature were pedals; this was a "running machine," thus its name in German, Laufmachine. The Dandy Horse saw only a flicker of popularity, and was largely an historical footnote within a handful of years, though its design is nearly mimicked in the child's balance bike of today.
Bicycles are popular targets for theft, due to their value and ease of resale.[113] The number of bicycles stolen annually is difficult to quantify as a large number of crimes are not reported.[114] Around 50% of the participants in the Montreal International Journal of Sustainable Transportation survey were subjected to a bicycle theft in their lifetime as active cyclists.[115] Most bicycles have serial numbers that can be recorded to verify identity in case of theft.[116]


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Danny Tetley Wiki [Gay], Age, Partner, Family, Net Worth, Biography
December 12, 2022 by Jeevan Shetty
Danny Tetley Wiki
Danny Tetley is 39 years old who pleaded guilty after he sexually exploited 7 teenage boys by getting them to send him explicit selfies in exchange for cash. He was popularly known for his appearance in the X Factor and was also one of the semi-finalists.
Recently, Danny admitted that the sexual exploitation of seven teenage boys after he exchanged more than 10,000 messages with the youngsters. BBC reported that he entered guilty pleas to five charges of causing sexual exploitation of a child relating to five teenage boys aged 15 and 16.
A court order had prevented publication of four other previous guilty pleas. The restriction was lifted after Tetley admitted the latest allegations at Bradford Crown Court. The restriction was lifted after Tetley admitted the latest allegations at Bradford Crown Court.
The Recorder of Bradford, Judge Jonathan Durham Hall QC lifted the restriction on reporting that Tetley admitted four other allegations, understood to have involved similar offending with two 14-year-olds, at a previous hearing. The latest charges covered between October 2018 and August this year.
At an earlier hearing, which could not be reported because there may have been a jury trial, the Benidorm entertainer, pleaded guilty to the sexual exploitation of two 14-year-old boys. Prosecutor Michael Smith said: 'These pleas are acceptable and we will not seek to try any.'
He said the police investigation is now complete into the seven different victims. We have nothing else in the pipeline,' he said. Defense barrister Andrew Dallas asked for sentencing to be adjourned because he needs more time to go through the messages, DailyMail reports.
Danny Tetley Career
He is an Actor and Singer from Bradford, Yorkshire. In 2018, he auditioned for The X Factor and he performed the Jennifer version of "And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going" and after the performance all the four Judges were impressed and Danny received all four Yeses.
Earlier, he was Pop Idol Contestant in 2001 but Simon Cowell turned down his Performance and later he auditioned in the 2002 Series PopStars: The Rivals. According to his IMDB page, Danny appeared in the Benidorm (2007).
Danny Tetley Age
How old is Danny Tetley ? He was born on September 21, 1981, and from Bradford, Yorkshire, England. Furthermore, there is not much information about his father, mother, and siblings.
Danny revealed that he is gay and so is his dad. In a twist, his father came out on the same day as his son, when the pair were on holiday in Los Angeles together in 2001.
Accidentally stumbling into a gay bar, the pair ended up opening up to one another, with Danny, 37, disclosing his sexuality to his father, prompting him in turn to make the same admission.
Danny's father and mother split up when he was only six-years-old, yet Danny admits he knew he was gay when he was just four. In his life, he has had two long-term relationships with men but is no stranger to dating women, too.
Danny Tetley Net Worth
Estimated Net Worth of him is $180K USD as of 2019. He stands 5 feet 6 inch tall and weighs around 85KG.
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American Apparel Laying Off Hundreds of Employees, Says Report
People walk past an American Apparel store in downtown Los Angeles on Jan. 27, 2016.
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By Sarah Begley
Updated: April 13, 2016 1:39 PM ET
Clothing manufacturer American Apparel is reportedly laying off hundreds of employees in an effort to streamline costs after emerging from bankruptcy.
According to the L.A. Times, 500 workers have been laid off out of a total Southern California employee pool of more than 4,000. Chief Executive Paula Schneider reportedly wrote to staff last week saying the company needed to "redesign" its "production process" and will potentially stop making some of its own clothing in L.A. This could mean outsourcing more complicated items like denim goods to other companies, though Schneider says everything will still be made domestically.
Founder Dov Charney, who was ousted as CEO and chairman over accusations he'd misused funds and behaved inappropriately with employees, said the move marked a departure from the company's ethos. By "outsourcing and searching for ways to pay people less money," he said, "[t]hey are doing exactly what American Apparel fought against."
New Line of Barbies Refashions Dolls as Scientists
Model Robyn Lawley on What Victoria's Secret Must Do Next After Canceling Its Fashion Show
American Apparel declined the L.A. Times' request for comment.
[L.A. Times]
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What do you view as Timothy's role in writing this letter?
2 Corinthians 1:1 From Paul, a special messenger of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and our brother Timothy, writing to the church in Corinth and all the believers in Achaia.
How do you think Paul's asking God's favor affected the believers in Corinth?
2 Corinthians 1:2 May God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ favor you with peace and contentment.
What are the topmost reasons we have to praise the Lord?
2 Corinthians 1:3 Praise be to God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, merciful and comforting.
1:4 He comforts us during hard times so we may comfort others in similar situations, sharing the hope we had in Christ that brought us through.
1:5 The more we suffer for Christ, the more we are comforted.
How can God have a good purpose in allowing our suffering?
2 Corinthians 1:6 Our suffering works for your comfort and deliverance. As we receive comfort in our trials, we are able to comfort you. Then you may comfort others as you endure suffering similar to ours.
After asking peace and contentment for the believers in Corinth, why would Paul see a need to address pain and suffering?
2 Corinthians 1:7 We are confident that in your suffering you will find comfort in God the same as we have.
Why did Paul see a need to let the Corinthians know about how he and his companions had suffered?
2 Corinthians 1:8 You need to know, my friends, about our extreme calamities and persecutions in Asia, beyond the limit of human endurance, so severe that we looked forward to being in Heaven.
1:9 Expecting to die, we had no strength to trust in ourselves but could only rely on God, who raises the dead.
1:10 And he did save us, proving his power to deliver his people from certain death. So we have confidence that he will continue to protect us.
1:10 Who delivered us from so great a death, and doth deliver: in whom we trust that he will yet deliver us.
What benefit did Paul see in the prayers of Corinthian believers? Why do you think Paul didn't expect those prayers to save them from persecution?
2 Corinthians 1:11 Your prayers for us were a vital help, and many are giving thanks that we are safe.
What was the benefit and consequence of not being "politically correct"?
Is it possible to be more open and honest with people who want to know the truth? Why or why not?
2 Corinthians 1:13 We have been open and honest with you, speaking words that I trust you know are true.
2 Corinthians 1:13 For we write none other things unto you, than what ye read or acknowledge; and I trust ye shall acknowledge even to the end.
Why might the believers in Corinth have lacked appreciation for Paul and his ministry? Why do you think he thought their attitude would change when the Lord returned?
2 Corinthians 1:14 Right now, you may be limited in your understanding and appreciation of our ministry, but when the Lord returns, you will be as proud of us as we are of you.
What was motivating Paul to visit Corinth again?
2 Corinthians 1:15 I was so thrilled with your growth in the Lord that I decided to bless you with a second visit.
1:16 After seeing you on my first trip to Macedonia, I planned to stop in Corinth on my way to Judea.
1:17 Was this decision just a matter of convenience? Am I like people of the world, saying one thing when I mean another?
Why wouldn't a motivational speech have been better than the plain truth?
2 Corinthians 1:18 As God is my witness, every word I have spoken has been entirely sincere and truthful.
1:19 Silas, Timothy and I preached Jesus Christ, Son of God, the plain truth without pretense or hidden agenda.
2:19 For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by us, even by me and Silvanus and Timotheus, was not yea and nay, but in him was yea.
How do you distinguish between your personal desires and what God wants to do?
2 Corinthians 1:20 To experience God's promises, we must always say yes to him, just as Jesus did. For when we are in complete agreement with his purpose, we share his achievements and glory.
What reasons might God have in cooperating with your plan while denying his own, otherwise preferable, plan?
1:21 For God has empowered us together with Christ to fulfill his purpose.
2:21 Now he which stablisheth us with you in Christ, and hath anointed us, is God.
In serving the Lord, how much of our effort is needed and to what extent do we depend on the Holy Spirit?
2 Corinthians 1:22 He has labeled us as his chosen servants, the presence of the Holy Spirit equipping us to do his work.
Why did Paul not want to go to Corinth earlier? What would make that the right or wrong choice?
2 Corinthians 1:23 God being my witness, because I wanted to spare you from a severe rebuke, I have not returned to Corinth.
Under what conditions are people willing to accept words of truth, and when must they learn the hard way, by experience?
2 Corinthians 1:24 We cannot dictate what you believe, but we reason with you for your benefit, because what you believe determines how well you will stand.


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Part #10 of The Sullivans series by Bella Andre
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Less than thirty seconds later, she was amazed when the lock slid open. "Look! I picked the lock on my first try. "
Rafe looked between her and the open lock, clearly stunned. "That's the fastest I've ever seen a beginner get a lock open. If I had known how bad my good girl could be. . . "
She thrilled at the desire beneath his words, but before she could tackle him and show him exactly how good being bad with her could be, he was tugging her to her feet and into the kitchen.
"There's more?" It was like following a scavenger hunt where love was the ultimate prize.
He shot her a grin over his shoulder, but she could see that he was a little nervous about whatever he was going to show her next. Rafe brought her to a stop at the edge of the kitchen counter. Two days earlier, they'd made love right in that spot, in the chocolate, and her skin was flushing with remembered heat when she realized there was a blindfold sitting on the counter.
"I'm ready to do that taste test for you now," Rafe told her.
If she didn't already love him, if she hadn't already forgiven him for his mistake, she would have been a goner as he picked up the blindfold and handed it to her. Especially when she could see how hard it was for him to let her take away one of his senses like this.
With trembling hands, she lifted the blindfold up over his head. She kissed him as she slid it in front of his eyes. Fortunately, a batch of her new Summer's Pleasures recipe was within reach, so she didn't have to move away from him to take one out and put it to his lips. The scrape of his teeth and tongue against her fingertips as he took a bite had her pressing closer to him.
"Delicious. "
She couldn't resist licking the chocolate off his lips as she put the rest of the truffle down and took the blindfold off. "So are you. "
There was such sweetness to everything he'd done to prove his love to her. Brooke had thought she'd need endless apologies and groveling after the way he'd screwed up. Now she knew that the only thing she needed was Rafe Sullivan exactly as he was—fun and dangerous, light and dark, sweet and sexy, supportive and overprotective, too.
"I never saw my parents argue," she told him. "I never saw them hurt each other in any way. And I never saw passion, either. They always wanted everything to be so perfect, so clean and safe, that I think they were willing to give up true love to make sure they had it. But even if it means I am lacking in common sense, if being without you is what being sensible and making the 'right' decisions means, then I'm happy to keep making the wrong ones. Because I'm not willing to ever give up on true love. "
"Do you remember when you asked me what I thought true love was?"
"You looked so shell-shocked, even by the question about it," she teased.
"That's because I suddenly realized I was looking right at it. Right at you. " Now she was the shell-shocked one as he told her, "I thought I had so many smart reasons why we needed to stay away from each other, but all of them boiled down to the same thing: I was afraid to trust anyone. But then there you were on the beach after our first almost-kiss, staring me right in the eye, asking me why I was running. You scared me more than anything ever had in my life. I already knew I wanted to fall asleep with you every night and wake up every morning with you in my arms, but I didn't understand how it could be possible to make a mistake and still find a way to work things out together. "
"If you ask me, I think we made it through our tough times even better than we were before. "
Bright hope lit his eyes, and oh, how she loved to see it replace the darkness as he made absolutely sure. "Have we?"
"We have. " She took his hand and began to draw him back toward the bedroom. "And now I think it's time for us to celebrate. "
Being wild, she realized now, wasn't just about sex. It was about wanting Rafe to be her partner in adventures of all kinds—especially the biggest one of all: a love that would last forever.
Of course, she thought with a smile as he scooped her up into his arms and kissed her breathless, she was more than happy to take the wild sex, too.
Rafe could have kissed her all night long, and never wanted to let her go, but there was one more very important thing he needed to give to her, something she had asked for again and again. Relishing the sweet, soft slide of her body against his as he slowly put her down on her feet in the bedroom, he moved his hands to frame her beautiful face.
"What do you say we get a little kinky?"
Her eyes opened wide with surprise, and then such happiness that he knew he'd been a fool to hold out on her for so long.
"You know how badly I want that," she told him, "but only if you want it, too. "
Did he ever want it, but first he needed her to understand why he'd held back before. Looking into her eyes gave him the strength to admit, "I was afraid to trust myself with you. I was afraid I wouldn't know when to stop, not just during sex, but after. I was afraid I'd give too much of my heart to you and end up like one of my clients, with it broken in my hands after you were done with me. "
Her eyes were soft with emotion, and so much love it floored him. "And now?"
"Now I understand that when passion burns this hot, it's okay to be scared of the power you have over me, the way you turn me inside out with a look, a touch, a kiss. " Every word she'd said to him that night at the Italian restaurant when she'd spoken of true love was forever etched on his heart. "And now I know that I can talk to you about absolutely anything, and that you'll still love me. No matter what. "
"Always," she promised as she kissed him. "Forever. " Her eyes were bright with anticipation when she drew back.
Rafe gave her one last kiss before moving to sit on the soft chair in the corner. "Take your clothes off, sweetheart. Let me see you. All of you. "
His breath hitched in his chest as she reached for the belt on her dress. Rafe's heart was beating so hard, his blood roaring so loudly in his ears, that he barely heard the leather falling to the rug. She moved her long hair over one shoulder so that she could pull down the zipper along her spine. The blue fabric slid off her shoulders and hips to puddle on the floor at her feet, and when her bra and panties quickly followed, he thanked God that she wasn't torturing him with a slow striptease tonight.
"How do you want me?"
"Just the way you are. " Her answering smile was the brightest he'd seen yet.
Rafe rose up from the chair and took the binding silks out of the dresser without taking his eyes off her incredible beauty. By the time he came to stand in front of her, Brooke's chest was rising and falling rapidly. He lifted one wrist and gently tied one of the silks to it, pressing a kiss to the inside of her palm and then all the way up the inside of her arm. When colorful silk streamed from both wrists, and she was trembling from the path of his kisses across her sensitive skin, he knelt in front of her. Instead of immediately tying the silks to her ankles, he kissed the soft skin across her stomach, her hips, her thighs, moving lower and lower until his mouth was warring with the silks in his hands for the chance to be against her skin.
"Please," she begged. "More. "
He was going to spend the rest of his life giving her everything she wanted, starting tonight. Lifting her into his arms, he carried her to the bed and laid her down in the center.
"Arms and legs spread, sweetheart. "
He'd never dreamed that a woman could be this innocent—and naughty—all at the same time. His hands shook as he tied first her wrists and then her ankles to the bed, and when he was done and she was completely open to him, he knew it was more than her body she was baring, more even than her heart.
Brooke had let him all the way into her soul.
And he was the luckiest man who had ever lived.
Seconds later, he had his clothes off and was kneeling
between her thighs as starlight spilled in the bedroom window, illuminating every beautiful curve, every sinful stretch of skin. Her mouth was warm and giving beneath his as he kissed her, and though his lips and hands repeatedly wandered over all of her most sensitive spots, he kept coming back to her lips. . . and to the kisses that had brought him back to life.
Knowing she trusted him enough to completely let go like this—and that he trusted her enough to completely let go, too—was the most beautiful thing he'd ever experienced.
"I need you, sweetheart. "
He quickly untied the silks and as Brooke wrapped her arms and legs around him, with Rafe holding on to her just as tightly, he finally saw that the true love that he'd once thought was as rare as the blue moon had been there all along.
Though Rafe wasn't even close to having his fill of Brooke, for a few precious moments it was enough to hold her in his arms and know that he'd made her happy tonight. Truly happy.
He gazed down in wonder at the beautiful woman beneath him on the bed. "Once upon a time you said I could ask you anything. "
"Anything," she confirmed as she wrapped herself tighter around him, her cheek pressed against his.
He'd planned everything else that night, but pure instinct—and love—was what drove him to ask, "Will you marry me, Brooke?"
"Now, that," she said as she lifted her big green eyes to meet his, "sounds truly wild. " And then she pressed her lips to his and whispered, "Yes. "
Later that summer. . .
"Mom, Dad," Rafe said with Brooke beside him holding his hand, "there's something I want you to have. "
Mia made sure to take a picture of the surprise—and utter joy—on her parents' faces at the exact moment they realized Rafe had deeded them the lake house. It was theirs again, only this time no bank could ever take it away from them.
"Rafe? You're giving us the deed for the lake house?" Her mother, Claudia, had tears of joy in her eyes as she pulled her son into a warm hug. "Oh, honey, you're simply amazing. "
Her father, Max, wrapped his arms around his wife and his son. "Thank you," he said, his low voice thick with emotion.
Mia sniffled a little, but she refused to cry during the best day she could remember having in years. Along with her parents, all of her brothers except Ian were back at the lake for the weekend. So far they'd been swimming and waterskiing and hiking, and she'd laughed more with her family and her new sister-to-be than she had in a very long time. The sun had set, the bonfire was roaring, and they were about to bust out the s'mores, when Rafe had decided it was finally time to give his parents their anniversary gift.
She'd thought he would do it earlier, but Rafe had seemed a little distracted ever since Brooke had tied her hair back with some really pretty silk scarves after their swim. Lord knew the heat from the way they looked at each other would have been enough to roast the marshmallows even before they'd lit the bonfire. They'd disappeared into the house with some lame excuse that no one bought for a second and hadn't returned to the group on the beach for quite a while.
First her eight cousins had all found love, and now her brother. She had no doubt whatsoever that Rafe and Brooke had what it took to make love last, just like her parents.
Who, she wondered, was going to be next? Adam? Dylan? Ian? Or maybe one of her many cousins on the East Coast?
Just then, Dylan picked up the guitar he'd brought with him and started playing one of her parents' favorite songs, The Way You Look Tonight. Just as they had when she was a kid, her parents started slow dancing in the sand, the water from the shore lapping over their bare feet. Soon, Rafe and Brooke joined them, so much in love that it was almost hard for Mia to watch them without longing for something that beautiful for herself.
When the song ended, Dylan quickly switched gears from the old standard to a new rock song. Damn it, she thought as the s'more she was eating turned to cement in her stomach, did he have to play that song? Even all these years later, Mia couldn't believe she'd been stupid enough to fall for a rock star whom her family and friends never even knew she'd been with. . .
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/// <reference path="../../typings/_custom.d.ts" />

/*
 * Angular 2
 */
import {
  Component,
  View,
  Directive,
  Validators,
  FormBuilder,
  CORE_DIRECTIVES,
  FORM_DIRECTIVES
} from 'angular2/angular2';
import {ROUTER_DIRECTIVES} from 'angular2/router';

/*
 * Services
 */
import {TodoService} from '../services/TodoService';

// Simple form component example
@Component({
  selector: 'todo'
})
@View({
  directives: [
    // Angular's core directives
    CORE_DIRECTIVES,

    // Angular's form directives
    FORM_DIRECTIVES,

    // Angular's router
    ROUTER_DIRECTIVES,
  ],
  styles: [`
    .error-message {
      color: red;
    }
    form {
      padding:16px;
    }
  `],
  template: `
  <form
    [ng-form-model]="todoForm"
    (submit)="todoForm.valid && addTodo($event, todoInput.value)"
    novalidate>

    <input type="text" [ng-form-control]="todoInput" autofocus>

    <button>Add Todo</button>

      Todo is required

  </form>

        {{ todo.value }}

        <button (click)="removeTodo($event, $index)">[Remove]</button>
        {{ todo.created_at }}

  `
})
export class Todo {
  todoForm:  any;
  todoInput: any;
  state: any;
  constructor(
    public formBuilder: FormBuilder,
    public todoService: TodoService) {

    this.todoForm = formBuilder.group({
      'todo': ['', Validators.required]
    });
    this.todoInput = this.todoForm.controls.todo;

  }

  addTodo(event, todo) {
    event.preventDefault(); // prevent native page refresh

    this.todoService.add(todo);
    // update the view/model
    this.todoInput.updateValue('');
  }

  removeTodo(event, index) {
    event.preventDefault(); // prevent native page refresh

    this.todoService.remove(index);
  }

}

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Q: Swapped screenshot shortcuts between file and clipboard not working as intended So for my convenience, I swapped the shortcuts for saving screenshot file and saving to clipboard as follows because I rarely need the file:

The problem with this is that Print and Shift+Print now do nothing, while all others (including Alt+Print, which I used for pasting here) work as intended.
If anybody knows a way to force these shortcuts to work properly, please let me know. I'm kinda new to Linux in general, but I come from a technological background so I'm not afraid of getting my hands dirty.
This is a persistent live USB Ubuntu 20 on an external hard drive I've been playing with for a few months already for maybe fully migrating my operations to Linux in the near future. I want my mistakes to happen here and not after I moved :)
Edit: just so you don't simply close this as a duplicate, I did check other similar questions but they seem to be using a command line instead of the shortcut or settings interface and some seem to have it working but the clipboard is cleared afterwards. In my case, not even the screenshot flash and area selection happens. It's like as if the shortcut isn't triggering anything.

A: Maybe this is an issue with the dialog. Try changing these keys through the command line as:
gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.media-keys screenshot "['<Ctrl>Print']"
gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.media-keys screenshot-clip "['Print']"

Undo these changes by using reset instead of set, and leaving out the last argument.

A: I don't know why or how, but this time, going the Windows route of restarting the OS solved the issue.

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How much do you love your earbuds? For many of us, these are throw-away items, an accessory destined to be left at the gym or ruined by a child's sticky fingers. Yurbuds wants you to buy into your earbuds… or, at least, their earbuds. According to this website, earphones can be instrumental in helping you achieve your dreams.
Yurbuds are sports earphones that lock into the ear via a mechanism that looks painful but hopefully is not. They are designed to work well with a busy, athletic lifestyle. To underscore the important of such a lifestyle, the company has posted a 'Gallery of Heroes' with people wearing the earbuds with inspirational words written across their faces. You can share your own story (and photo) through a link to the company's Facebook page. Although most of us would never dream of submitting a photo of ourselves with painted words across our face, many fans would simply for the bragging rights of having been on such a large company. This helps the company build fans, an important part of getting sales.
The black website is designed so that the accents (and the earphones) are red. This makes the product stand out and also gives a streamlined feeling. While the fonts in the website are not identical to that used in the logo design, they are related and similar in shape and form. Details like this may not be obvious to a person without a background in design, but to design junkies these are the hallmark of a professional website.
The product looks well designed as well. The company swears that they do not fall out and that they do not hurt (again, they screw into your ear), making them perfect for modern people with busy lives. Design is important, but we'll be sticking to our good old fashioned earphones for now.
Creativity: 5 stars. The website is not particularly creative, but it is designed to draw attention to numerous photographs that are indeed very creative and well-done. The photographs create the impression that the product is intended for people of all ages and lifestyles.
Ease of use: 5 stars. The navigation bar makes it easy to find what you need, and the site is clearly organized. The website presents a large amount of information in a logical way, which can be difficult.
Functionality: 4 stars. There are numerous links to social networking pages as well as an ecommerce section in which you can buy the earphones along with other branded items such as t-shirts and armbands. There are also links to contests being held on the Facebook page. These are scattered throughout the site, but they might be better placed in the same location on every page.
Content: 3 stars. The content is minimal but written well. We wish there was a little more information on the sales pages; most people want a lot more specifics before spending fifty dollars on a pair of earphones. While the earphones are described in detail elsewhere on the website, there is almost no info on the actual sales product page.
Appropriateness: 5 stars. All content is appropriate for the audience.


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Q: Does NT5DS time synchronization have any place in a mixed Windows / Linux environment? I am working on a plan towards overhauling how time synchronization is handled on our network.  Currently our network is predominantly Windows-based, in a fairly standard AD domain broken up into various sites.  However we are starting to utilize Linux-based servers in our environment as well, with the thought that this balance will continue to shift towards that direction.
In such a mixed environment I am trying to figure out where NT5DS is used, if at all.  Is it a better idea to have the Windows infrastructure respect the domain hierarchy for time synchronization and have the Linux servers pull time from the domain, or should an NTP server be spun up and have everything (Windows or Linux) pull its time from it?
I see both avenues as being functional, but am concerned that I am overlooking obvious gotcha's down the road.  On one hand, it seems silly to have a (proposed) fleet of Linux servers getting their time from a Windows domain.  On the other hand, having every host on the network pull from one NTP server on the local network feels like a comparatively flat solution.

A: NT5DS Is the client protocol for Windows systems to retrieve time from a DC.  Using this on your Windows machines does not prevent you from also enabling the NTP server on your Windows DCs, and configuring your Linux clients to use your DCs as a source of time using the NTP protocol.  I configure my DCs using group policy to enable NTP so I can point my Linux systems at them.  Enabling NTP on the Windows servers also allows me to use check_ntp from my nagios box to monitor time.
Your PDC emulator really should be pointed at a good sources of time.  For the best results you should be configured to use at least 3 low stratum servers.

Is there any difference (in terms of functionality and reliability) between using the Windows NTP server as opposed to a Linux-based one? If they're essentially the same, it does seem like it's a lot less headache going the Windows route.

It partly depends on your Windows DC.  If you aren't running at least 2008r2 on all your DCs I wouldn't trust them to keep time accurate at all.  Earlier versions of the Windows time service did SNTP only.  Many people will swear by the reference implementation of NTP and say it is the only true NTP, but recent versions of Windows seem to do a relatively good job at keeping the time accurate enough.
I monitor time on all my servers (Linux&Windows) using nagios, and the Windows boxes are usually within ~2-6ms with respect to the monitoring system, which is certainly accurate enough for my usage.  If you have higher accuracy requirements you may need to setup an internal NTP servers running on Linux.  You could setup a Linux box as an NTP server and use that in addition to your Windows DCs.
Honestly, I would just start with the Windows DCs, and setup time monitoring.  If your time isn't kept accurate enough, then add additional NTP servers or making changes as required.


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Finska mästerskapet i bandy 1914 avgjordes i cupform, och deltog gjorde fyra lag. Det var två lag från Helsingfors och två lag från Viborg, som på den tiden låg i Finland.

Semifinaler

Första playoffmatchen mellan HIFK och KIF ställdes in på grund av tvist om matchdatum.

Final
Spelades 15 mars i Helsingfors

Slutställning

Källor

Fotnoter

1914 i Finland
Bandysäsongen 1913/1914
1914

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Today yet another high level Trump administration official announced their resignation – Federal Emergency Management (FEMA) head Brock Long. FEMA, with Brock Long as its administrator, faced widespread criticism for an anemic response to Hurricane Maria, which devastated Puerto Rico, especially as compared to FEMA's response to hurricanes in Florida and Texas. Long has said he is leaving to spend more time with his family, but it comes at the same time that House Democrats have announced the intention to investigate the Trump administration's response in Puerto Rico.
Federal Emergency Management Agency chief Brock Long is leaving the agency he led through a record period of natural disasters — including a widely panned response to a storm that devastated Puerto Rico. "While this has been the opportunity of the lifetime, it is time for me to go home to my family –- my beautiful wife and two incredible boys," Long said in a statement…House Democrats have pledged to investigate the agency's response to Hurricane Maria's strike on Puerto Rico. The storm left most of the commonwealth without electricity for months, and caused an estimated 2,975 deaths…An inquiry by the Department of Homeland Security Inspector General concluded that Long took government cars for his personal use despite FEMA's own lawyers telling him it wasn't appropriate. Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen said that Long would have to reimburse the government for the cost of the vehicles and staff involved in the trips, many of which were between Washington and his home in North Carolina. The report puts that cost at $151,000.
President Trump's administration has featured an unusually large number of high level resignations and firings, amid multiple ethics scandals (involving, e.g., former EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt and former Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke as well as Brock Long). Brock Long's departure from FEMA likely will not stop Democrats from investigating FEMA's response to Hurricane Maria.
Featured image of FEMA Administrator Brock Long (center) with President Trump and Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) via Wikimedia Commons.


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Movie reviews: 'White Noise' is a disjointed, yet perfectly cast suburban satire
This image released by Netflix shows Adam Driver, center, in a scene from "White Noise." (Wilson Webb/Netflix via AP)
WHITE NOISE: 3 STARS
This image released by Netflix shows Adam Driver, from left, Greta Gerwig, and Don Cheadle in a scene from "White Noise." (Wilson Webb/Netflix via AP)
Director Noah Baumbach has made idiosyncratic movies in the past like "The Squid and the Whale," "Margot at the Wedding" and "While We're Young." But his new film, "White Noise," an adaptation of the 1985 novel of the same name by Don DeLillo, now playing in theatres before moving to Netflix in December, may be his quirkiest to date.
Adam Driver is Professor Jack Gladney, a middle-aged college lecturer whose life's work is the study of Adolph Hitler's rise to power. He is a superstar in the world of academia, and a loving father to the blended family he shares with elaborately coiffed wife Babette (Greta Gerwig). In his quiet moments, however, he is obsessed with mortality, afraid that he will outlive his wife, and be left alone.
Babette, or "Babo" as the family calls her, also has a secret. She's been taking an experimental drug, one that makes her forgetful and furtive.
In the second of the film's three act structure, the family's day-to-day lives are turned upside down when a nearby railway accident unleashes a toxic cloud over their town. Forced to evacuate and take shelter from the "Airborne Toxic Event," they hit the road, and, in new circumstances, cracks in the family structure are revealed.
The final sequence manages to both tie up loose ends while taking the story in a completely new and unexpected direction toward murder, mortality and moral turpitude.
There is much to enjoy in "White Noise." Gerwig and Driver seem born to recite Baumbach's dialogue, bringing dry humor to the ever-escalating situations the Gladneys find themselves in. Lines that wouldn't necessarily read as amusing on the page are brought to life by the delivery of these two perfectly cast actors. A third act back-and-firth between them, a cleaning of the air scene, is masterfully played, poignant and peculiar at the same time.
Baumbach also nails the 1980s time period, in both style and attitude, sharpening the satire with a vintage look that could have been borrowed from any number of contemporaneous sitcoms or big screen comedies. Also, this may be the one and only movie that can cite "National Lampoon's Vacation" and "Barry Lydon" as stylaistic inspirations.
The look elevates the hectic family scenes, with everyone speaking over one another, wandering in and out of frame, like a mix of Robert Altman and "Family Ties."
But, and I wish there wasn't a but, a lack of cohesion between the film's three sections gives it a disjointed feel, almost as if you're watching a trio of short films with the same cast and characters. The clear-eyed lucidity of the opening act drifts as the running time sneaks toward the end credits. Once the movie leans toward the spectacle of the "Airborne Toxic Event" it loses its way, valuing the unwieldy, bewildering consequences of Jack and Bobo's existentialism over clarity.
There are funny, satiric, enjoyable moments and performances in "White Noise," but the initial suburban satire loses its way, succumbing to the busy script's white noise.
THE INSPECTION: 3 ½ STARS
This image released by A24 Films shows Gabrielle Union, left, and Jeremy Pope in a scene from "The Inspection." (Patti Perret/A24 Films via AP)
Based on writer/director Elegance Bratton's experiences as a queer Black man in the Marines boot camp, "The Inspection," now playing in theatres, avoids the jingoistic tone of so many films set within the military. Instead, it is a painful, cathartic tale of overcoming oppression in order to survive.
When we first meet Ellis French (Jeremy Pope), he's a queer, 26-year-old Black man, cut loose from his disapproving family. "I will love you till the day that I die," says his prison guard mother Inez (Gabrielle Union), "but I can't love what you are." Her deeply held religious beliefs have led her to reject her son, so much so, she even puts down a newspaper on the couch before he sits. With no home to call his own, he has spent years living rough, in and out of Trenton, New Jersey shelters.
With no money and no family support, he makes the choice to join the Marines and do whatever it takes to create a future for himself in the military. At boot camp Ellis, nicknamed French by the other recruits, is a disciplined candidate, even under pressure from his strict drill sergeant (Bokeem Woodbine) who promises, "I will break you."
Although French never formally announces his queerness, his sexuality puts a target on his back. At the barracks, despite beatings, bullying and outright bias, he excels, proving to himself, the other jarheads and possibly even his homophobic mother, he has found his niche.
"The Inspection" will likely bear the weight of comparison to "Full Metal Jacket," but despite the obvious similarities in location and the presence of a harsh drill sergeant, these are two very different films thematically. Bratton's film is not an anti-war film. Instead, it adopts a neutral stance to most of the questions about the duality of war Stanley Kubrick raised in "Full Metal Jacket," preferring to concentrate on the more introspective note of one man's transformation in the face of adversity.
This is a classic against-all-odds story that paints a vivid picture of life inside the boot camp, the dehumanization, the violence, but also brotherhood, in the form of instructor Rosales as played by Raul Castillo. Bratton and cinematographer Lachlan Milne carefully build the world of the boot camp, creating a palette of claustrophobia, brutality and tension that adds layers to the telling of French's survival story.
Bratton brings a personal touch to the filmmaking that feels therapeutic, the kind of storytelling that can only come from his lived experience. The director is aided by a raw and powerful performance from Pope and an unrelenting Union, whose work helps elevate the occasionally cliched aspects of the story.
BONES AND ALL: 3 STARS
This image released by MGM Pictures shows Timothée Chalamet and Taylor Russell in a scene from "Bones and All." (Yannis Drakoulidis/Metro Goldwyn Mayer Pictures via AP)
Usually, it is fairly easy to pigeonhole a movie. Comedy, drama, romance, sci fi, horror, action. Those are the easy ones. It gets slightly more complicated as you branch off into hybrids like dramedy, Menippean satire, docufiction or rom-com. Then, along comes a movie like "Bones and All," a new, queasy genre buster starring Timothée Chalamet, Taylor Russell and Mark Rylance, and now playing in theatres.
Based on the 2015 novel of the same name by Camille DeAngelis, it is something I've never seen before, a "romcanrofi", which I describe as a romantic, coming-of-age cannibal road film.
When we first meet Maren (Taylor Russell), she is a seventeen-year-old high schooler, being raised by single father Frank (André Holland). She appears to be a normal teen, sneaking out to a slumber party with schoolmates and the like, but when her taste for human flesh reveals itself, Maren and her dad have to hit the road before the police turn up.
When Maren turns eighteen, her father disappears, tired of hiding her terrible secret. Leaving the teen to fend for herself, he leaves behind some money, her birth certificate and a tape recording describing her life, from her first cannibalistic incident when she was just three-years-old, to providing details about Janelle (Chloë Sevigny), the mother who abandoned Maren when she was an infant.
On a search for answers, Maren hits the road, landing in Ohio, where she meets Sully (Mark Rylance), an older cannibal who says he could smell a fellow "eater" from blocks away. Like Maren, Sully is a drifter, but he's not looking to answer life's questions, he's on the hunt for food. "Life is never dully with Sully,' he snorts.
Sully teaches her the tricks of the trade, how to pick victims and feed without attracting attention, but something about him makes Maren uncomfortable and she moves on to Indiana where she meets Lee (Chalamet), a fine young cannibal who becomes her partner in life and death.
"Bones and All" isn't exactly a horror film. The subject matter might be horrifying and there are some stomach-churning sound effects that won't easily be forgotten, but this is more a coming-of-age love story as Maren adapts to her ever-changing circumstances.
The blood and guts are kept to a minimum, mostly serving as a vehicle for the movie's metaphor of cannibals as anyone who has ever felt like an outcast. Maren and Lee are the ultimate others, a compulsive couple who aren't treated as monsters, but as two people living outside of collective norms. Come for the cannibals, stay for the languid, sensitive essay on life on the fringes of society.
Seductive and strange, director Luca Guadagnino anchors the movie with his two leads, Chalamet and Russell. Both are driven to extremes by their appetites, while, at the same time, searching for acceptance and a place to call home. Both actors bring humanity to their characters, concentrating on their personal journeys rather than the monstrous aspects of their personalities. Their performances give the eccentric story a universal feel even if it is a very specific topic.
"Bones and All" has more to do with relationship road movies like "Two-Lane Blacktop" and "Badlands" than it does "Cannibal Holocaust." It's a haunting tale, if a little languorous for its own good, that makes a meal out of its allegory.