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Sunday, September 11, 2011
Who doesn't love chocolate? I know I do and I probably don't enjoy it enough. I also never knew which kinds of chocolate to pair with wine or that you could and should pair it with wine. Well, the folks at Brix Chocolate provided some samples of their chocolate to me and on one of the cooler evenings recently, I decided to put their chocolate to the test!
I know you are all wondering what the difference is between their chocolate and any other chocolate out there. What makes it so special? There is an interesting story behind this. Brix Chocolate was developed by Dr. Nick Proia, an Ohio physician who met with friends to taste wine on a weekly basis but felt their practice of eating high fat cheeses with the wine defeated the purpose of drinking the wines for health purposes. There are many health benefits to eating chocolate. Chocolate is good for you, most of us already know this. It is full of antioxidants, helps lower cholesterol and blood pressure. When paired with red wines, it gives you a double dose of benefit--good for your heart, good for your mind! After much experimentation, Dr. Proia chose chocolate from Ghana, in its purest form, for its fruity notes and thus Brix Chocolate was born.
I will admit, I was a bit skeptical but I tried to use the same skills that have made me a great wine taster and apply them to the chocolate--with amazing results. It was a tasting I truly enjoyed.
Brix Chocolate is sold in several ways: It comes in block form or in individual packets called "Brix Bites" of which I received samples. They make four kinds. I was able to sample three of the four.
The first was the Brix Milk Chocolate. I'm a sucker for milk chocolate. It's my favorite and I never ever thought about pairing it with wine. But, it does go with wine, very well in fact. I sampled this one with a Rose', as mentioned on the label. The creaminess of the chocolate paired so nicely with the strawberry and pomegranate flavors of the wine. It was like the chocolate softened the wine and made it taste richer! Other varietals it pairs well with is Port, Ice Wine and Pinot Noir/Burgundy.
Next was the Brix Dark Chocolate. I paired mine with a Zinfandel (though it can also be paired with Syrah/Shiraz or Merlot). This version contains 60% cacao and is the perfect compliment to a spicy, fruity red wine. Not too bitter but not too sweet. Still rich enough to hold its own but not overpowering so the fruity flavors of the wine stayed intact. Very nice!
Lastly, I decided to sample the Brix Extra Dark Chocolate on the evening of #CabernetDay with three different Cabernet Sauvignons. With 70% cacao, this is great chocolate to pair with a layered, but sturdy Cabernet! Also pairs nicely with Bordeaux blends and Barolos. I must admit this was my favorite pairing of the three. I would venture to guess this chocolate would even pair well with the spicy, fruity Zinfandel I had tried earlier.
I highly encourage everyone to try these different chocolates and pairings. Not only are they delicious but they're a very healthy way to enjoy some decadence with your wines. For more information on Brix Chocolate and how you can purchase it, please visit their website, brixchocolate.com. You can also follow them on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/BrixChocolate.
I'd like to thank Brix Chocolate and my friend Ryan Wycoff for enlightening me with this delicious treat! Cheers and here's to your health everyone!
"You Saw It Here First"...This post was created solely for "Cellarmistress' Cellar Talk" by Grace Hoffman. Grace is an Italian-born, American-bred wine blogger/educator with an all-consuming passion for wine and all it encompasses.


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Source: Lovely Little Losers
Cast: Reuben Hudson (Stanley Balthazar Jones), Jake McGregor (Benedick Hobbes), Bonnie Simmonds (Freddie Kingston), Caleb Wells (Peter Donaldson), Jessica Stansfield (Meg Winter), Harriett Maire (Beatrice Duke), Pearl Kennedy (Hero Duke), George Maunsell (John Donaldson), Phodiso Dintwe, Mouce Young, Ella McLeod, Daniel McBride, Kalisha Wasasala, Bronwyn Ensor, Robbie Nicol
Credits: Creators: The Candle Wasters; Writers: Claris Jacobs, Elsie Bollinger, Minnie Grace, Sally Bollinger; Directors: Elsie and Sally Bollinger; Producer: Minnie Grace; Production Designer: Claris Jacobs; Trailer Editor; Editors for the Series: Claris Jacobs, Elsie Bollinger, Minnie Grace, Sally Bollinger; Sound Director: Sarah Jessica Golding; Cinematographers: Claris Jacobs, Harriett Maire, Sally Bollinger; Production Runner: Calum Gittins; Clapper Loader: Elsie Bollinger, Jen Smith, Minnie Grace, Shannon-Mae Read; Lighting: Shannon-Mae Read, Sally Bollinger; Motion Graphics/VFX: Carlo Grunwald
Duration: 84 videos (including trailer)
The most imaginative, ambitious and successful works of Shakespeare on video at the moment are being produced by the Candle Wasters, a four-women creative team from New Zealand. Their first production was the multi-episode Not Much To Do, an updating to Much Ado About Nothing set among high school students in New Zealand. Lovely Little Losers, ingeniously structured as a sequel to the first series with some of the same characters (so you can find out what happened next to Beatrice and Benedick), adapts Love’s Labour’s Lost to the same twenty-first century New Zealand setting, with everyone now at university.
The set-up is that four students (three male, one female) at a Wellington university share a flat and have complicated personal lives, each being losers in one way or another. To impose some order on flat life, they decide to establish some rules, which include a curfew and a ban on all relationships, the central conceit of Love’s Labour’s Lost being that four companions deny themselves the company of women. The unfolding series then shows how impossible it is to live by such rules. The story is told through a series of vlogs and musical interludes, alongside accompanying social media feeds, in which the various characters reveal the thoughts and feelings natural to a generation accustomed to sharing everything and living in the presence of cameras.
The series takes a while to get going, riffing on the characters, and when the complication is added of the flat rules (in episode 14) it feels as forced and unlikely as does Shakespeare’s original. Certainly some among those of the series’ many followers were puzzled, as YouTube comments indicate, but once the premise has been established the series works through the assorted dilemmas and their resolution with wit and style. Every video trick in the book is used, usually self-referentially so, with the series building on lessons learned making Not Much To Do. One does think that the omnipresent camera pushes at the barriers of what even a twenty-first century student might be prepared to tolerate – to a degree that maybe one of the flat rules that might have been imposed could have been a ban on being filmed.
The contrivance of the situation is more than made up for by the freshness of the performances. The students are no more annoying than students have always been from Shakespeare’s time onward, and are played with a vivacity and conviction – by skillful cast – that clearly strikes a chord with followers of the series. The Shakespeareaness lies not only in the plot borrowing and in the use of his songs and sonnets, but in the forensic exploration of love and desire (straight and gay), and in the substitution of visual conceits for literary conceits. As with Not Much To Do, it shows how one way forward for Shakespeare in an online age is to free the plays from the two hours’ traffic of the stage and to break then down into their constituent parts, letting each of these take on a life of their own through sharing.
Lovely Little Losers ran throughout 2015, with eighty main episodes (each 3-5 minutes long), three extras and a trailer. You wouldn’t want to watch the whole thing in one go – it can get a bit samey (all those scenes in the one flat) and cute – but of course you’re not meant to. It’s there to be followed in fragments. The sequel to this sequel, Bright Summer Night (adapting A Midsummer Night’s Dream) begins on July 8th…

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This is a really cute, light hearted comedy. The plot may be pretty
unrealistic, the ending kooky & unbelievable, and don't get your morals
from it, but all in all...it's great fun to watch.
The story revolves around three carefree bachelors (Peter, Michael, and Jack) who share a New York City apartment. All are busy with their jobs, girlfriends, and social lives and have no intention of settling down anytime soon. While actor Jack is away shooting a movie, a baby is left outside their apartment door with a note indicating that this is Jack's child from an affair with his co star (though he's previously been unaware of this offspring's existence). His two room mates mistakenly believe that they are to deliver the baby to a couple of men who appear at the door asking for 'a package'. Right before they are about to hand the baby over, they realize these men are drug dealers. Then the bachelors have to contend with the baby's care as well as the drug dealers' demands for payment.
The three bachelors are played by famous name stars...Tom Sellick (Peter, the architect), Steve Guttenberg (Michael, the artist), and Ted Danson (Jack, the actor). Their considerable talents and playboyish charisma have a lot to do with this movie's success. The unlikely trio must learn to juggle the demands of baby care with their careers and social lives. It's really fun to watch them in all the stereotypical hilarious circumstances of diapering and baby tending. The men's paternal instincts come into play and the bachelors grow quite attached to the little tyke.
Directed by Leonard Nimoy (Spock, my favourite), this is a generally light, mindless, and entertaining movie that shows how these three 'hunks' & confirmed bachelors are won over by little baby Mary. Switch your brain into neutral and enjoy the ride.
"3 Men and a Baby" is a comedy that's cute and funny. Tom Selleck, Steve
Guttenberg, and Ted Danson star as three bachelors who live together, and
who's lives are changed forever when on one particular day a baby infant is
left on their doorstep. The three bachelors are now forced unexpectedly to
become fathers to the baby. Plenty of wonderful comedy scenes throughout as
the three stars go through the frustrations of having to deal with this
infant girl in the early stages, then the baby eventually starts to win them
over. If only the filmmakers threw out the subplot involving drugs, then
this film would've been a great comedy.
*** (out of four)
Three bachelors have their lives flipped upside down when little baby
Mary is left on their doorstep.
A remake of successful 1985 French film Three Men And A Cradle, this Hollywood version took the box office by storm to make a domestic profit of over $155,000,000. It's not hard to see why really. Yes it looks a touch twee now, and the irritating drug-smuggling sub-plot (also in the original) grows more tiresome with subsequent revisits. Yet it has a frothy cleanness so lacking in many more similar big budgeted movies that came after it. Starring Tom Selleck, Ted Danson and Steve Guttenberg as the "no parenting skills" bachelors, Leonard Nimoy's film , (yes, Spock) sees quality interplay between the guys and some bona fide funny sequences as they in turn attempt to do right by Mary. Yep it's all telegraphed comedy, and the ending holds no surprises for anyone once Nancy Travis as Mary's mother comes back to claim the child. But come on folks, three beefy bachelors trying to change diapers and entertain a wailing baby has to be charming; surely? 7/10
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Until last night if someone had asked me about Three Men and A Baby, I
would have said...oh great movie, classic eighties I loved it! Well, it
being one of my wife's all time favourites she insisted we watched it
and now I'm convinced that it might have been the first time I've seen
it all the way through. It is a fun, madcap adventure that's only
problem is that with time it has become a little predictable. However,
that doesn't make it any less fun and it certainly presents the best
possible of "baby changing bachelor(s) life" and "inept new father's
taking care of baby." Its not a new concept, we've seen it time and
time again even on Television but this is still an 80's classic thanks
to chemistry of the cast, a solid story and simple fun. Only an
eighties movie could mix together the new father angle with drug
dealers and a thriller type ending in a construction building. A great
80's film in my opinion encompasses and shows off everything we loved
about the 80's and this film does that. Success, gluttony (but in a
good way), free love, spirit, bright bold and sassy with a touch of
gaudiness and you will see all of that in Three Men and a Baby. It also
is unique in the fact that it really isn't a family film, it really was
geared to adults making it a unique comedy in that way.
I could start with any of the main three guys but I will start with my favourite, the unbeatable Mr. Tom Selleck. He's handsome, he's suave, he's an incredibly versatile actor and he was at his prime in this film. His chemistry is palpable and you can see it at every turn. He is a scene stealer just by being Tom Selleck. You can't hardly make an adult 80's comedy without Steve Guttenberg. You can make fun of him, and you can point out he is always the same character but you can't deny he commands attention in 80's comedies. He has a down to earth style that you really like and he's good in this. I happen to think that he gets downplayed because of Selleck and Ted Danson but he is still a welcome member of the cast and has great comedic timing. Ted Danson basically plays Sam Malone in this film. He is absent for almost half the movie and his character has a much faster story than the other two guys but he is still a necessary part to the three men aspect. You can't deny the three of them have great chemistry and they all have at least one great scene between them that will make you laugh, smile or feel all warm and fuzzy. I can't say a lot for the supporting cast, they are all good but they do nothing more than support the three guys. Even our "villains" are mostly just run of the mill bad guys that don't really shine in their roles but they are completely adequate.
I was nearly bowled over when I saw Leonard Nimoy directed this film. I just had no idea that he did anything like this as a director. He does a very good job. He keeps the script simple and he lets his three stars do what they do best. All three of them were 80's TV and movie heavyweights so you just let them do what they do and it works. The movie is fun and light, cute and weepy at times but it just hits the right chords. No one will ever say its a brilliant feat of film making but the fun and entertainment factor is without a doubt high! If you love 80's then you have to see this of course, and moreso if you want a light fun comedy then look no further because this will fill the void!! 8/10
It turned out to be a good idea after all. I actually liked this movie since I have seen it years ago. I can't remember until now the appeal. It's actually cute and well-done without any real nonsense. It actually makes sense when you watch it. It is actually entertaining without overdoing it. It's a great family movie too. There are hilarious moments between the men and baby Mary. I only wished she had a better name than Mary. The cast is first rate with Tom Selleck, Ted Danson, and Steve Gutenberg as the three fathers and Nancy Travis as British Sylvia. I love seeing Celeste Holm playing grandmother to baby Mary even if it was for only a moment. They have quite a ball with baby Mary in their lives even though she was a surprise beyond belief. Baby Mary usually steals the scene because of her beauty. Babies are beautiful and fun but lots of work for one parent, much less two or three or four parents. I won't give away the ending but I think they should have filmed it in New York City rather in Toronto but that's just my opinion.
Three men and a baby is a good example of a feel-good comedy/drama. The
cast is big named with stars like Steve Guttenburg, Tom Selleck, and Ted
Danson as three bachelors living in an apartment (with a ghost) who gets a
baby at their doorstep. I think that that's pretty creative. Leonard
aka Spock directs this and it is good.
Overall the movie is a good feel-good comedy and I enjoyed it. Look for the boy in the window. the ghost. Rating 9 out of 10.
THREE MEN AND A BABY is one of the big beasts of Hollywood cinema of
the 1980s. It's a simple story, one that's well executed by Leonard
Nimoy in one of his forays behind the camera, and truth be told there's
little to dislike about it as a film. It's basically Steve Guttenberg,
Ted Danson, and Tom Selleck in an apartment looking after a baby.
You can guess the easy, laid back nature of the film in this film and it really is an easy viewing experience. Even a mildly suspenseful crime style sub-plot added to the proceedings never endangers the characters much or adds much in the way of real danger to the story. The three main actors are all charismatic and you can easily see why women would fall in love with them, although it's worth noting that the baby is the real scene stealer here.
THREE MEN AND A BABY frequently threatens to veer into cheesy sentimentality, particularly at the climax, but that it never becomes too overwhelming is testament to its success as a film.
Architect Peter Mitchell (Tom Selleck) has an ex in Rebecca (Margaret
Colin). Michael Kellam (Steve Guttenberg) is a sensitive cartoonist.
Jack Holden (Ted Danson) is a playboy actor. The three bachelors
happily share a Manhattan penthouse with a long line of women coming in
and out. Then somebody leaves a baby at their doorstep. A note
indicates that Mary is the result of an union between Jack and Sylvia
(Nancy Travis). Jack is away doing a TV movie. Peter and Michael are
forced to deal with the baby. Jack has a package of drugs delivered to
the apartment which is to be picked up by two men. Peter and Michael
mistakenly assume the baby to be the package. Narcotics officer Sgt.
Melkowitz (Philip Bosco) come to question the guys.
The combination of the three stars makes this work. Selleck is terrific. This has good comedy and some awkward stuff. I can do without the heroin. It takes the movie down a dark alley. The tone is completely wrong. I would have liked more with Rebecca and Sylvia doesn't need to be British. Overall, it's a mix bag with some laughs.
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I watched this movie with high hopes based on the three stars. I mean Tom Selleck, Ted Danson and Steve Guttenberg are all funny in their own right and I figured the three together would be really funny. I was a bit disappointed. I do figure it was the writing and the directing since I have seen all three guys perform a lot better. The whole premise that three roommates would date the same woman is not too far fetched for the 70's-80', what is a little hard to believe though is that all three "slept" with her with in enough of a time period so that any one of them could be the baby's father. I guess DNA matching was still not reliable when this movie was shot. All in all though it was fairly funny.
Having reacquainted myself with this implausible Eighties classic this
afternoon, there were a number of things that took me by surprise. The
first surprise was the director, Leonard "Spock" Nimoy, who I imagine
felt quite out of his depth when he directed something as polar
opposite to "Star Trek" as this. The second was recalling a time when
actors like Tom Selleck, Ted Danson and Steve Guttenberg was seriously
big-time stars. I also had no idea it was a remake of a French
original, also making this the most successful US remake of a French
film in history. The last thing that surprised me was given the high
esteem this movie is held in was how largely forgettable, implausible
and not especially entertaining the whole thing was. It has flashes of
brilliance but sadly, these are all too infrequent.
Selleck, Danson and Guttenberg are three bachelors living the high life in a New York apartment. When actor Jack (Danson) flies off to Turkey for filming, artist Michael (Guttenberg) and architect Peter (Selleck) are left to hold the fort when, unexpectedly, a baby appears on their doorstep - apparently belonging to Jack. As their lives begin falling apart at the seams trying to care for little Mary, things take a turn for the ugly when hoodlums turn up to pick up another package of Jack's from Turkey - smuggled heroin.
The impression I got watching "Three Men And A Baby" was that it wasn't enough having the three leads fannying about Mary who cries, gurgles and coos about as often as possible. So the whole drug sub-plot was crudely shoved into place to give the film some momentum but by doing this, it nearly completely wrecked the film for me. None of it felt the slightest bit believable and aside from Selleck and Guttenberg, most of the characters were fairly unlikeable. As for those two, the only real difference between them is that Selleck is much hairier and that's it. Even Mary's mother (Nancy Travis) wasn't particularly sympathetic and to be frank, I wanted to give Social Services a call to come in and take poor Mary off the pair of them. However, this film is not a complete loss. There are some good bits in there (I quite enjoyed Selleck's scene in the supermarket trying to buy the right stuff) and Mary herself (played jointly by infant sisters Lisa & Michelle Blair) is very watchable, as most babies are. It's just a shame that it went off the rails in the middle because I didn't feel that the movie needed any further pushing towards its typically sugar-coated climax.
Assuming that you can stand the enormous retro-trip this movie puts you on, I'm struggling to see why new viewers should seek out "Three Men And A Baby". I suppose it's nice to see a baby-centred film that doesn't rely too much of comedic slapstick (I'm thinking primarily of "Baby's Day Out" here) but a bit more comedy and a little less drama might have helped its cause. Such as it is, this movie remains little more than a pleasant time-passer even if you can see what will happen come the end. Selleck, Danson and Guttenberg are perfectly competent actors who also possess decent comic timing but making movies such as this was never likely to launch any of them into the stratosphere and before long, two of them were heading into sitcoms while Guttenberg pretty much disappeared altogether. I wonder if the French original is any better...
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Windham, New York (June 30, 2012) —– Americans scored three medals and nine top five results in Saturday’s cross-country contests at the RockyRoads.net UCI Mountain Bike World Cup Presented by Shimano in Windham, N.Y. After leading much of the elite women’s race, Olympian Georgia Gould (Fort Collins, Colo. /Luna Pro Team) finished in bronze medal position with fellow Olympic teammate Lea Davison (Jericho, Vt. /Specialized Racing) close behind in fifth. Soon-to-be three time Olympian Todd Wells (Durango, Colo./Specialized Racing) recorded the best world cup finish of his career in fourth and his London Olympic teammate Samuel Schultz (Missoula, Mont. /Subaru-Trek) finished 10th in the elite men’s event.
“All of the 2012 Olympians rode very well on a hot, dry day today,” said USA Cycling’s Mountain Bike Programs Director Marc Gullickson. “Each finished inside the top 10 and Georgia had the win in the bag until a mechanical in the last half lap. Wells also raced to his best World Cup ever. It was also a breakout day for many of our junior and U23 riders. I couldn’t be more satisfied with the way we performed on home soil.”
American juniors Kate Courtney (Kentfield, Calif./Whole Athlete-Specialized) and Keegan Swenson (Park City, Utah/Cannondale Factory Racing) also showed the future is bright for American mountain biking with gold and silver medal performances in the junior women’s and men’s races respectively.
Gould jumped out the early lead and seemed destined to win her first-ever world cup title in front of the N.Y. crowd. Just as race announcers claimed she had the win in the bag barring any major mishaps, Gould suffered an untimely flat that left her struggling to finish the final lap. Only her Luna Chix teammates Catharine Pendrel (CAN/Luna Pro Team) and Katerina Nash (CZE/Luna Pro Team) were able to catch and pass Gould before she completely lost her rear tire and carried her bike across the line for third. Davison soon crossed the line in fifth to equal her best world cup finish.
“Lowlight today was spectating on the final turns of the women’s race,” said fellow American mountain biker and 2004 Olympian Jeremy Horgan-Kobelski via Twitter. “I wish I could have given Georgia my bike.”
American veteran Wells finished just 34 seconds off the pace of gold medalist Burry Stander (RSA/Specalized Racing) of South Africa to record his best-ever world cup result. The 26 year-old Schultz also landed inside the top 10 at a world cup for the first time in his career as the Americans showed they are ready for London.
“First world cup top 10 today!” shared Schultz via Twitter. “I’m pumped! Also, great to see North America represent with four riders in the top 10 and Todd Wells on the podium!”
After finishing sixth at last week’s Mont-Sainte-Anne World Cup, Courtney stepped on to the podium’s top step this week in the junior women’s event. Supported by USA Cycling’s National Development Program, Courtney rode to a comfortable win of more than a minute over last week’s winner Frederique Trudel (CAN). Grace Alexander (Boise, Idaho/BYRDS) pulled off a strong ride for fourth place less than two minutes back and Shayna Powless (Roseville, Calif./BMC Mountain Bike Development Team) also landed inside the top five for the U.S.
Swenson helped reiterate future American strength with his silver-medal performance in the junior men’s event; finishing three minutes behind New Zealand’s Anton Cooper (NZL/Trek World Racing). Lucas Newcomb (Nicasio, Calif./Whole Athlete-Specialized) added another top-five finish to the American tally and joining Swenson on the podium in fifth place.
After becoming the first American junior in history to win a world cup at this event last year Howard Grotts (Durango, Colo./Specialized Racing) pulled off a podium spot by finishing fifth in the U23 men’s event. Russell Finsterwald (Colorado Springs, Colo./Subaru-Trek) also recorded a strong ride, finishing just outside the top 10 in 11th.
Also moving up to the U23 ranks after a medal-winning performance as a junior at this race last year, AliciaRose Pastore (Durango, Colo./BMC Mountain Bike Development Team) led the U23 women’s effort in 11th, with fellow American Kaila Hart (Durango, Colo./Stan’s NoTubes Elite Women’s Team) on her heels in 12th.
Racing will continue on Sunday with the men’s and women’s downhill finals. Live streaming coverage can be seen at live.redbull.tv.
UCI Mountain Bike World Cup
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June 30 – July 1, 2012
1. Catharine Pendrel (CAN/Luna Pro Team) 1:37.53
2. Katerina Nash (CZE/Luna Pro Team) +0:01
3. Georgia Gould (Fort Collins, Colo. /Luna Pro Team) +0:10
5. Lea Davison (Jericho, Vt. /Specialized Racing) +1:50
13. Mary McConneloug (Chilmark, Mass./Kenda-Seven-NoTubes) +5:07
19. Heather Irmiger (Boulder, Colo./Subaru-Trek) +07:54
28. Erin Huck (Boulder, Colo./Tokyo Joes Cycling Team) +12:54
34. Amy Dombroski (Boulder, Colo./Crank Brothers) -1 lap
40. Sarah Kaufmann (Ogden, Utah/Stan’s NoTubes Elite Women’s Team) -1 laps
41. Nina Baum (Albuquerque, N.M./NoTubes) -2 laps
42. Bryna Blanchard (Troy, N.Y./Windham) -2 laps
1. Burry Stander (RSA/Specalized Racing) 2:38.90
2. Sergio Mantecon Gutierrez (ESP/Wildwolf-Trek Pro Racing) +0:17
3. Marco Aurelio Fontana (ITA/Cannondale Factory Racing) +0:31
4. Todd Wells (Durango, Colo./Specialized Racing) +0:34
10. Samuel Schultz (Missoula, Mont. /Subaru-Trek) +1:39
19. Jeremiah Bishop (Harrisonburg, Va./Cannondale Factory Racing) +4:15
29. Jeremy Horgan-Kobelski (Boulder, Colo. /Subaru-Trek) +6:07
37. Adam Craig (Bend, Ore. /Rabobank Giant Off-Road Team) +7:51
49. Mitchell Hoke (Boulder, Colo./Team Clif Bar) +10:08
50. Alex Grant (Salt Lake City, Utah/Cannondale Factory Racing) +10:10
56. Michael Broderick (Chilmark, Mass./Kenda-Seven-NoTubes) +15:13
59. Justin Lindine (New Salem, Mass.Redline) -1 lap
62. Pete Ostroski (Intervale, N.H./Wild Things/Rocky Mountain) -1 lap
65. Nathan Guerra (Oconomowoc, Wis.) -2 laps
67. Thomas Sampson (Plymouth, N.H./Alpine Clinic POC) -2 laps
1. Michiel Van der Heijden (NED/Rabobank Giant Offroad Team) 1:23:37
2. Markus Schulte-Luenzum (GER/Focus Mig Team) +0:48
3. Reto Indergand (SUI/BMC) +1:06
5. *Howard Grotts (Durango, Colo./Specialized Racing) +1:36
11. Russell Finsterwald (Colorado Springs, Colo./Subaru-Trek) +3:58
24. Kerry Werner (Banner Elk, N.C./BMC MTB Development Team) +7:40
29. *Skyler Trujillo (Fort Collins, Colo./Team Niner-Stan’s-Ergon) +8:46
33. *Seamus Powell (Round Top, N.Y./Giant) +10:08
35. *Payson McElveen (Durango, Colo./Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory) +11:34
40 *Cameron Dodge (Huntingdon Valley, Pa./Scott) +13:46
46. *Cole Oberman (Philadelphia, Pa./Breakawaybikes.com) +18:47
1. Jolanda Neff (SUI/Wheeler-IXS Team) 1:23:03
2. Rebecca Henderson (AUS) +1:24
3. Candice Neethling (RSA) +2:49
11. *AliciaRose Pastore (Durango, Colo./BMC Mountain Bike Development Team) +13:14
12. Kaila Hart (Durango, Colo./Stan’s NoTubes Elite Women’s Team) +13:25
15. Jill Behlen (Boulder, Colo./Tokyo Joe’s -Whole Foods/Primal) +14:12
1. Anton Cooper (NZL/Trek World Racing) 1:08:12
2. Keegan Swenson (Park City, Utah/Cannondale Factory Racing) +3:18
3. Nicolas Sessler (BRA) +5:06
5. *Lucas Newcomb (Nicasio, Calif./Whole Athlete-Specialized) +6:07
10. *Casey Williams (Big Bear, Calif./Whole Athlete-Specialized) +7:18
14. *Bryan Duke (Salinas, Calif./Ritte Elite) +8:31
15. *Jacob Albrecht (Soquel, Calif.) +9:02
19. Taylor Smith (Navoto, Calif.) +10:13
21. *Skyler Taylor (Mill Valley, Calif./Ritte Elite) +11:16
23. *Tyler Coplea (Fountain Hills, Ariz./BMC) +13:13
25. *Tyler Berliner (Richmond, Vt.) +14:37
26. *Connor Bell (Harrisonburg, Va.) +15:56
28. *Forrest Conrad (Lambertville, N.J./Pure Energy Cycling-ProAirHFA) -1 lap
1. *Kate Courtney (Kentfield, Calif./Whole Athlete-Specialized) 1:06.48 beat winner of Quebec WC
2. Frederique Trudel (CAN) +1:25
3. Amber Johnston (NZL) +2:39
4. *Grace Alexander (Boise, Idaho/BYRDS) +1:48
5. *Shayna Powless (Roseville, Calif./BMC Mountain Bike Development Team) +3:14
9. *Kaylee Blevins (Durango, Colo./Durango Devo) +7:14
*A slew of both junior and U23 riders were supported by USA Cycling’s National Development Program. Visit usacdf.org to make a donation to USA Cycling’s Development Foundation and support the future of American cycling today.


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ATLANTA (AP) -- Georgia's high court will hear arguments Monday in the case of a DeKalb County man who's trying to withdraw the guilty plea he entered in the murder of his son.
Gary DeToma was convicted of suffocating his 5-year-old son in July 2010 during a bitter child custody dispute. He was indicted later that month, and prosecutors immediately announced they would seek the death penalty.
DeToma pleaded guilty in May 2012 to malice murder and was sentenced to life in prison without parole. A month later he filed a motion to withdraw his guilty plea. The trial court turned him down, and he appealed to the Georgia Supreme Court.
DeToma's lawyer says his client was pressured into pleading guilty. Lawyers for the state say there's no evidence DeToma was manipulated.

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Authorities from the Schoharie County Sheriff's Department and anima care workers removed 67 dead cats and 99 living cats and a couple of dogs from the filthy home in upstate New York last week. Three of the live animals were so sick they had to be euthanised.
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Source:Radio Vaticana (Holy See)
Posted: Monday, December 2, 1996
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It was announced that, during Fidel Castro's recent visit to the Vatican, Pope John-Paul II had asked the Cuban leader to restore Christmas as a non-working public holiday in Cuba.
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WASHINGTON – A group of Democrats demand that Secretary of State Rex Tillerson tell them if the frequent use of President Donald Trump's social networks is endangering US diplomats and Americans who travel abroad.
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The move provoked outrage in Britain and prompted Prime Minister Theresa May to criticize Trump. She said her retweets were "the wrong thing to do" and called Britain First "an odious organization" that goes against "common British decency."
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The Embassy of the Netherlands responded to the broadcast of Trump's video with a tweet addressed to him: "The facts do matter. The perpetrator of the violent act in this video was born and raised in the Netherlands. He received and completed his sentence under Dutch law. "
Trump's spokeswoman, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, suggested that the accuracy of the videos was not a high priority amid concerns for national security and strong borders." Whether it's a real video, the threat is real and that's what the president is talking about, "he said.
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As a child watching the old black and white movies of Universal Horror, I would be mesmerised in a world of excitement and wonder. To me, it was a different world altogether, one where I could escape, one that was attractive and full of amazing characters. I was introduced to the wonderful Gothic architecture and mobs of angry peasants with blazing torches chasing the monsterous Wolfman, Frankenstein’s monster and Dracula down to an unfortunate end.
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I loved the dramatic acting style from the likes of Lon Chaney Jr, Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi against the backdrop of a musical score that built in intensity as the drama unfolded. Back in those days, they worked a lot harder to scare and create a full range of emotions to excite the movie goer. I love movies before the invention of CGI!
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Although not horror, Universal’s picture, The Hunchback of Notre Dame created in 1923 is one of my favourites. What I didn’t know until recently is, I named my daughter Kerry Norman and one of the main stars of this movie is Norman Kerry. How bizarre and what a coincidence?
Graveyard Photography Inspired by Universal Horror
The old graveyards in these films looked beautiful with the white smoke and the long casting shadows. This has undoubtedly influenced my passion for photographing graveyards in order to try and capture the same eerie atmosphere that Universal Horror projected so well. Please visit my Graveyard Cemetery Gallery for more images.
It’s not just Universal Horror and Hammer Horror that inspire me. In my teens, I stumbled across The Munsters. This TV programme made me laugh and it still does to this day as I have both season one and season 2 on DVD. I always remember wanting a family like The Munsters and for Herman to be my Dad.
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As a teenager, I fell in love with Hammer Horror. These films were like the modern day Universal Horror, but they were in colour and they were illicit with their sexual undertones. No wonder I was captivated as a teenager going through puberty. I was totally mesmerised with Christopher Lee. He was scary, but also very sexy. The power he had over the numerous women who would fall weak at his knees and beg to become his vampire lover, so that they could be with him for all eternity, obeying his every command was exciting. How I often wished that I would be woken by Dracula standing beside my bed. It must have been the forbidden desires of falling under his erotic spell that I loved so much. Lee turned Dracula into a master of horror while Hammer Horror put the sex into vampires.
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The story of Countess Dracula played by Ingrid Pitt was based on the very real Elizabet Bathory (1560-1614) who was sentenced to live out the rest of her life in an asylum for the murder of over 600 young women. She tortured and killed them for her sadistic pleasures. Hammer Horror based the story around her thirst for blood. When she bathed in virgins blood, Countess Dracula believed it kept her looking young.
I was extremely lucky enough to interview Ingrid Pitt and talk about her role as Countess Dracula and more. Please read the Ingrid Pitt and Hammer Horror Interview.
Hammer also based three of their other films on the character Carmilla Karnstein created by Joseph Sheridan LeFanu in 1872. The first film was ‘The Vampire Lovers’ starring Ingrid Pitt. The second film was Lust for a Vampire starring Yutte Stensgaard and finally The Twins of Evil starring the Collinson twins. All three of these vampire films are absolute favourites of mine. I used to run a vampire website and went by the name of LiaCarla as I misheard the name MiaCarla from Lust for a Vampire.
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Kenny Stewart wasn't sure he would see his ninth birthday.
Some called him pastor, but to many more he was a friend.
A local non-profit organization that takes aim at substance abuse is looking to change its name and its scope in the near future.
The woman credited by many with saving Thunder Road and keeping Dawsonville's racing history alive died Monday following a brief illness.
Members of Etowah Masonic Lodge No. 222, Free and Accepted Masons, Vietnam Veterans of America Chapter No. 970, Dawsonville Lions Club and Dawson County Jaycees will be placing veterans memorial markers for this year's Memorial Day in the city of Dawsonville on May 19.
Murder and mayhem was the theme Saturday night as Peach Brandy Cottage opened its doors for a presentation of The Curse of the Hopeless Diamond.
Stepping up to the children's area at the Spring Fling in Dawsonville Sunday afternoon, Nathan Frazier told his sister he was going to win a goldfish.
It was a star-studded week for the city of Dawsonville.
There have been more than 600 fire fatalities in the U.S. since the beginning of the year.
This year marks the 10th anniversary of the Spring Fling Festival in Dawsonville.
April is Child Abuse Prevention Month, and a statewide organization with presence in Dawson County is looking to spread the word.
Kelly Jones doesn't go anywhere without George.
A former Lumpkin County commissioner who spent the last several years in Dawsonville was killed Friday in a three-vehicle wreck near the War Hill community.
More than 65 bags of trash and 27 tires were collected last week as Keep Dawson County Beautiful and the Dawson County Marshal's Office teamed up to kick off the Great American Clean-up.
Ben Mathes isn't the type of journalist who confines himself to a safe, air-conditioned office.
A lifelong Washington Redskins fan, Jim Sheppard really doesn't care who wins Super Bowl XLIX on Sunday.
The 2015 Relay for Life season is officially under way in Dawson County.
Friends, family, neighbors and even strangers are pouring on the love for Dawson County Sheriff Billy Carlisle and his family after their home caught fire on Saturday afternoon.
The memory of a local businessman and community leader is now forever enshrined upon a bridge renamed last week in his honor.
A fire that may have started in the laundry room Saturday afternoon destroyed the home of Dawson County Sheriff Billy Carlisle.
Even without a crystal ball, there's no doubt that Dawson County will see some major changes take place in 2015.
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Tesla Tops Battery-Electric Vehicle Registrations In Germany, Beating Volkswagen
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Tesla topped registrations of battery-electric vehicles in Germany in the first nine months of this year at nearly 38,500, federal data showed, beating the Volkswagen brand by around 6,000 vehicles.
Tesla's battery-electric registrations jumped nearly 50% from the January-September period last year, while Volkswagen's dropped 40% to just over 32,300 in line with a broader drop across most of the Volkswagen Group brands in Europe's biggest car market.
Only Audi and Seat saw an increase in the number of battery-electric cars registered in Germany among Volkswagen Group brands, the data from the federal motor transport authority showed.
Globally, Volkswagen Group saw total deliveries of its battery-electric vehicles rise 25% in January-September from a year earlier, figures released by the carmaker last week showed.
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5×06 Legal Guardianship
Whether you decide to adopt or have babies through assistant reproduction, you’ll want a judgement to approve your guardianship on your baby. In this episode of Daddy Squared podcast, we explore different types of legal guardianship with the help of Family Formation attorney Amira Hasenbush, JD, MPH.
For gay men who want to become fathers, it doesn’t matter if you choose to do it through assisted reproduction or adoption, you’re going to need a lawyer to protect your parentage. Some states now have administrative procedures where you don’t have to go to court, but Family Formation lawyer Amira Hasenbush warned against that.
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In our interview with Amira we explored the various ways in which attorneys are involved in protecting parentage for gay men, from adoption, to nomination of legal guardianship, to surrogacy, which include, besides the contracts with the surrogate and egg donor, a judge’s order that your babies are yours.
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“So some states will do pre-birth, some will do post-birth and there are states that from time to time will require some sort of adoption proceeding. So it’s really important that when choosing your surrogate, talk to lawyers where the surrogate lives and the baby’s going to be born.”
Talking to a family formation lawyer before you begin your journey to fatherhood can be helpful – no matter what route to fatherhood you choose. There are some family formation lawyers who only do assisted reproduction, some will only do adoption and there are many who do both. Amira advises to choose your lawyer from either AAAA, or The Family Law Institute, which is more specific for LGBT people.
In our discussion on adoption, Hasenbush explained the difference between step-parent adoption and second-parent adoption.
“Step parent histrorically was switching out the parents,” Amira explained, “it was usually, let’s talk historically, a different-sex couple, so you got mom and dad, they got divorced, let’s say kid goes with mom and mom gets remarried to step dad, so step dad wants to raise the child so they basically take out bio dad and replace, because you could only have two parents.”
“Then we had all these same-sex couples who couldn’t get married, and they said, well, we’re two parents, and we’d like to both be the parents of this child,” and that’s how second-parent adoption started, which is basically an adoption outside of marriage.
Amira also said that in California, starting in 2016, it was determined that we can actually file for more than two parents, and there are different ways to do it depending upon how things started – but that’s a whole other episode!
In this episode we also talked about godparents, and how it’s related to guardianship. We heard on the show Godfather stories from three gay men, Kyle from Texas, Armani from California and Jonathan from Wisconsin. Below are the full interviews with the guys.
Our Guest: Amira Hasenbush, JD, MPH
Amira Hasenbush is a family formation attorney, and the founder of All Family Legal in Los Angeles, California. She helps families through the process of surrogacy, adoption, sperm donation and egg donation. Amira has chosen family representing all ends of the LGBTQ spectrum, giving her a deeper understanding of the special needs that may be involved for LGBTQ+ families. Prior to taking her law practice full-time, Amira spent five and a half years as a Fellow for the Williams Institute at UCLA School of Law, where she did research and published reports on LGBT law and policy. She graduated second in her class from UCLA School of Law and holds a Masters in Public Health from UCLA School of Public Health. Amira has been published extensively and cited and featured in a variety of media outlets and journals, including the Boston Globe, ABC News, Time and the New England Journal of Medicine. She is an active member of the National LGBTQ+ Bar Association’s Family Law Institute, the chair of the Legal Advisory Committee for Men Having Babies, and the Family Law Section Liaison for the American Bar Association ‘s Commission on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity.
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Daniel is a single dad, co-parenting with his former partner to raise their son, Torbett, who came to them through open-adoption. Daniel founded his design firm over twenty years ago, designing custom interiors and waterwise landscapes for clients in SoCal and through the US. Daniel is an outdoor enthusiast and enjoys sharing time backpacking, snowboarding and dadventuring with Torbett.
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Men Having Babies is a community, nonprofit organization that helps gay men become fathers via surrogacy with education and financial assistance. In each episode this season, the team of Men Having Babies (MHB) will educate us on aspects of having kids through ethical surrogacy. In this episode, Sara Miller of the MHB staff talks about the role of the lawyer in the surrogacy process.
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text: Announcement, News, Press Release GreenLight Fund Announces the Center for Employment Opportunities as its First Social Impact Investment into Detroit Mar 12, 2018 Detroit Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Email The Center for Employment Opportunities is a national leader in providing employment for formerly incarcerated citizens and will receive $600,000 and expansion support to enter Detroit. Detroit, MI – GreenLight Fund Detroit selected the Center for Employment Opportunities (CEO) today as the first organization it will bring to Detroit under its portfolio of social impact programs to support low income residents. GreenLight’s four-year, unrestricted $600,000 investment provides the majority of philanthropic funding for CEO’s Detroit expansion and sustainability, where it will grow using a social enterprise and earned income model. After a year-long needs assessment and due diligence process, GreenLight chose CEO for its proven ability to provide immediate, effective, and comprehensive employment services to recently incarcerated citizens. CEO’s highly structured and tightly supervised programs reduce recidivism and help participants regain the skills and confidence for successful transitions to stable, productive lives. “As our city comes back, we need to make sure that every Detroiter has the ability to participate in that comeback,” said Mayor Mike Duggan. “This partnership with GreenLight Fund Detroit and the Center for Employment Opportunities will bring a critical support to our returning citizens so they can have access to employment opportunities and become productive members of our community.” GreenLight Fund Detroit will accelerate the new program’s launch locally as well as serve on CEO’s local advisory board, deepen relationships with local partners, and support their business planning. “GreenLight is similar to a traditional venture partner in ensuring CEO’s local success and fidelity to their evidence-based model,” said Rishi Moudgil, Founding Executive Director of GreenLight Fund Detroit. “We’re excited to serve as a catalyst for CEO to begin and grow their important work for families in Detroit almost immediately.” CEO will launch its Detroit program in the spring of 2018, with the goal of serving several hundred returning citizens annually by its third year of operations. CEO is currently recruiting a local Detroit Director, as well as other permanent staff members ranging from site supervisors to business account managers and job coaches. “We are thrilled that CEO will be launching in Detroit, and especially grateful for the GreenLight Fund Detroit’s support and partnership in making this a reality,” said CEO’s Chief Executive Officer, Sam Schaeffer. “We look forward to working with the City, local organizations, and the State to help people returning home develop the job skills and work experience that will enable them to succeed in the community.” GreenLight Fund Detroit’s inaugural selection cycle focused on connecting residents to jobs, particularly young people with existing barriers to employment. With over 2,500 individuals returning from prison to Detroit annually, the youngest suffer the lowest odds of achieving stability later in life. CEO is most successful when working with these high-risk, young adults. Overall, independent evaluation has shown CEO to reduce new crime convictions by 22%, decrease the number of days incarcerated by 30%, and gain $3.30 in societal benefits and cost savings for every $1 spent (MDRC 2012 study). “We believe CEO has the experience and commitment to make a significant impact on formerly incarcerated Detroiters,” said Heidi Washington, Director at the State of Michigan Department of Corrections. “CEO’s proven model can directly address the unique workforce needs of a significant number of returning citizens and will not only benefit those individuals, but the families and communities to which they return.” About the Center for Employment Opportunities: The Center for Employment Opportunities (CEO) is dedicated to providing immediate, effective and comprehensive employment services to men and women with recent criminal convictions. CEO, a national non-profit organization headquartered in New York City, operates in 20 cities across eight states, helping 5000 participants annually regain the skills and confidence needed for successful transitions to stable, productive lives. Learn more at: www.ceoworks.org Current CEO Detroit staff openings can be found at www.ceoworks.org/about/careers/ About the GreenLight Fund: The GreenLight Fund is a national venture philanthropy organization that transforms the lives of children, youth and families in high-poverty urban areas. GreenLight builds local infrastructure and runs a consistent annual process to identify critical needs that inform the replication and sustainability of proven social impact programs. Founded in Boston in 2003, GreenLight has grown to six cities since 2013, including Detroit in 2016. 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Minnesota planners want to be “ready” for driverless cars. But most of what they propose sounds like things that the anti-car crowd wants to do anyway.
This includes things like reducing parking spaces and shrinking the size of streets–both items high on urban planners’ agendas for years. While that may be possible when driverless cars come to dominate the road, there is no guarantee, so they shouldn’t jump the gun.
They are happy to jump the gun when it comes to not building new roads. “The last thing cities should do is add lanes to existing roads,” said a planner from the University of Minnesota. This assumes that driverless cars will dramatically relieve congestion and that neither population nor personal mobility will grow in the future. Actually, a good case can be made that some lanes should be added to existing roads both because they are needed now and because population and travel growth in some areas will make up for the potential congestion relief from driverless cars. Continue reading
Two weeks ago, the Center of the American Experiment published a report by the Antiplanner showing that traffic congestion in Minneapolis-St. Paul was the deliberate result of the region’s Metropolitan Council’s plans to increase congestion in order to get more people to ride transit, walk, or bicycle. The Antiplanner quoted Met Council documents saying that it was not going to try to relieve congestion, cited budgetary numbers showing that more than 80 percent of capital spending was going for transit systems that carried less than 1.5 percent of travel while less than 10 percent went for roads that carried 90 percent.
Since the report was released, Met Council supporters have issued a couple of responses, including one yesterday. What do they say?
- Let’s spell Cato Institute with a K as in Kato. Get it? KKK? Right wing? Ha ha!
- Don’t believe anything the Antiplanner says; he doesn’t even have a degree in urban planning. (Thank Edwin Mills for that.*)
- Congestion is actually a good thing; be glad you have it.
In 1982, the Twin Cities had the 35th-worst congestion in the nation. By 2016, it had grown to be the 17th-worst and amount of time the average commuter spent in traffic had quadrupled. If you are stuck in traffic in the Twin Cities, says this new report, don’t blame population growth; blame the Metropolitan Council, the region’s metropolitan planning organization.
Click image to download a 1.7-MB PDF of this report.
The Metropolitan Council’s official attitude is, “We can’t build our way out of congestion, so we will provide alternatives to congestion” in the form of light rail, bike paths, and maybe a few high-occupancy/toll lanes. The council’s 2040 plan has $6.9 billion programmed for transit improvements, $700 million for bike paths, and $700 million for road improvements. That means 8 percent of the funds goes for the 90 percent of the people who drive to work while 83 percent goes for the 6 percent who take transit. Continue reading
The Antiplanner confesses to not be a bible expert, but I don’t think Jesus ever said, “Thou shalt steal from thy neighbors so thee can afford to take expensive train rides.” But that seems to be the goal of Isaiah, a faith-based group in Minnesota that demands that taxpayers subsidize commuter trains from St. Cloud to Minneapolis.
Taxpayers spent $317 million to start the Northstar commuter train, shown here near Big Lake. Flickr photo by Jerry Huddleston.
The Northstar commuter-rail line currently operates over the 40 miles from Minneapolis to Big Lake, about 28 miles short of St. Cloud. The line is a huge loser: it carried an average of around 1,250 round-trips a day in 2014, earning fare revenues of less than $2.4 million but spending $15.2 million on operations and $7.4 million on maintenance.
An insanely expensive light-rail project in Minnesota just got more insane. The cost of the Southwest light-rail line, which had previously been estimated at $1.65 billion for 15.7 miles, or just over $100 million a mile, is now estimated to cost $341 million more, or just shy of $2 billion. That’s $126 million a mile, or more than seven times the inflation-adjusted cost of the initial San Diego Trolley, the nation’s first modern light-rail line.
Considering that freeways with many times the capacity of a light-rail line can be built for about $10 million a mile, spending more than $100 million a mile on light rail makes no sense at all. The only way people could support it is if they have no understanding of numbers, which explains why many politicians do support it. The good news is that some in Minnesota are having second thoughts about the Southwest line, including Governor Mark Dayton (who professed to be “shocked and appalled,” though he doesn’t say why he wasn’t appalled at the previous price) and Metropolitan Council chair Adam Duininck.
As the Antiplanner has previously noted, Eden Prairie, the destination of this line, is one of the wealthiest suburbs in the Twin Cities area. In order to provide “transit equity,” regional transit planners have promised to build a few bus shelters in poor neighborhoods. That’s so equitable.
Advancing its “regional transit equity” plan, the Twin Cities Metropolitan Council issued a press release last week announcing it has received a $3.26 million federal grant to build or “enhance” 140 bus shelters. This money is matched, on a one-to-four basis, with $815,000 of local funds, meaning each bus shelter will cost a whopping $29,000.
Meanwhile, the Met Council is twisting the arms of city officials to gain support for a $1.7-billion light-rail line extending from Minneapolis to Eden Prairie, which is probably the Twin Cities’ wealthiest suburb. Three (out of 13) members of the Minneapolis city council voted against the project, partly due to concerns over transit equity.
“If we think equity means maybe we might build some heated bus stops in north Minneapolis sometime in the future that we can’t promise or guarantee and we won’t tell you where they’ll be, then good for us for standing up for equity,” one of the councilors who voted “no” sarcastically stated.
Kansas City voters rejected a plan to build an extensive streetcar system. The city already has plans to build a short “starter” line, and the mayor wanted to build more. But voters agreed that buses were cheaper and more sensible. This is the ninth time Kansas City voters have rejected rail transit.
Meanwhile, the Antiplanner has given several presentations in the Twin Cities about rail transit and associated land-use planning. These presentations can be downloaded, with a summary of my narration in the “notes” section, as either Zip files that include several short videos or smaller PowerPoint files that leave out the videos.
- Presentation to the SW Metro Tea Party: Zip file (111 MB) or PPT file (32 MB)
- Presentation to Daytons Bluff neighborhood: Zip file (82 MB) or PPT file (39 MB)
- Presentation to Metro North Chamber of Commerce: Zip file (98 MB) or PPT file (15 MB)
The Antiplanner is in the Twin Cities this week giving presentations on land-use and transportation issues in that region. Here are the sessions, most of which are open to the public:
- “Thrive Planning vs. the American Dream,” sponsored by the SW Metro Tea Party, Chanhassen Recreation Center, 2310 Coulter Blvd., Chanhassen, 7:00-8:30 pm, Monday, August 4
- “Rebalancing Transportation Planning,” sponsored by Expose the Truth, Dayton’s Bluff Recreation Center, 800 Conway St., St. Paul, 5:00-8:00 pm, Tuesday, August 5
- “Transportation and Your Business,” sponsored by the MetroNorth Chamber of Commerce (must pre-register), Harvest Grill, 12800 Bunker Prairie Road, Coon Rapids, 11:15 am to 1:15 pm, Wednesday, August 6
- “The Folly of High-Speed Rail,” Goodhue County Fairgrounds, 8:00 pm, Friday, August 8
By coincidence, the Antiplanner’s faithful ally, Wendell Cox, will also be speaking in Minneapolis about the Thrive plan at 7:30 am, Wednesday, August 6 at the Doubletree Hotel Park Place, 1500 Park Place Blvd., pre-registration will save money if done by noon, August 5.
If you are in the Twin Cities area this week, I hope to see you at one of these events.
Debates over smart growth–sometimes known as new urbanism, compact cities, or sustainable urban planning, but always meaning higher urban densities and a higher share of people in multifamily housing–boil down to factual questions. But smart-growth supporters keep trying to twist the arguments into ideological issues.
The choice should be yours: suburbs, or . . .
For example, in response to my Minneapolis Star Tribune article about future housing demand, Thomas Fisher, the dean of the College of Design at the University of Minnesota, writes, “O’Toole, like many conservatives, equates low-density development with personal freedom.” In fact, I equate personal freedom with personal freedom.
. . . New Urbanism. Flickr photo by David Crummey.
University of Minnesota planning professor Richard Bolan has responded to the Antiplanner’s critique of the Twin Cities’ Metropolitan Council’s plan to emphasize high-density housing and discourage large-lot single-family homes. My op ed pointed out that planner Arthur Nelson’s predictions that the demand for single-family homes was declining were based on oversimplified surveys that asked people questions like would they want to live in a “walkable community.”
A lot more factors are at work in people’s housing choices. “Given a choice between a 1,400-square-foot home on a tiny lot in a congested part of town for $375,000 and a 2,400-square-foot home on a large lot in a quiet suburb for $295,000,” my op ed said, “most people would prefer the larger home.” My point was the issues were too complicated for planners to be able to see what people would want 26 years in the future, and since homebuilders can adequately respond to changes in demand, there was no need for central planners to try to predict the unpredictable.
Bolan admits that he’s “not a supporter of Arthur C. Nelson’s report” on future housing demand. But Professor Bolan has his own reasons why central planners should try to determine people’s housing choices in the future: externalities.


Chief Curator and Senior Director of Historical Resources, The Henry Ford Museum
Marc Greuther is chief curator and senior director of historical resources at The Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation, which earned IDSA's Special Achievement Award in 2016. He has a bachelor’s degree in art history from the Courtauld Institute of Art, and University of London, and has nearly three decades of experience with collections at The Henry Ford. His seven years as a member of the institution’s Historic Operating Machinery Unit involved him in the operational stewardship of a wide range of artifacts—from 19th century machine tools and steam engines to late 20th century robots and production equipment.
As curator of industry and design, Greuther has broadened and deepened the institution’s technology, innovation, and design holdings, particularly through the acquisition of several significant archival collections. As chief curator, he leads the curatorial team and the development of curatorial strategy. He has made many media appearances on behalf of the institution—most recently as part of The Henry Ford’s "Innovation Nation" television show for CBS and as a writer for Make magazine and the Society for the History of Technology’s quarterly, Technology and Culture. In 2010, he served on IDSA’s Designs of the Decade jury.
Presentation of the IDEA 2022 Winners
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Marc will co-present the winners of the International Design Excellence Awards (IDEA) 2022, along with Erika Avery, IDSA, and Jason Belaire, IDSA.


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THIS IS A CAMPAIGN FOR IMPROVING CITY SERVICES & OPERATIONS:
As Mayor I will work to reduce the bureaucratic experience of interacting with the City Government and return to a customer service based model. Both the elected, sworn, and administrative officers of the City are here to serve the Hyattsville public.
Far too often issues of traffic calming, pedestrian safety, parking, and noise violations require exhaustive studies, and uninviting processes only to arrive at impractical solutions. As Mayor, I will work to reduce this cumbersome resident experience through the use of more on-site community meetings. Bringing the City to the location to witness occurrences and hear directly from residents will provide an opportunity develop better solutions based on community input.
On Parking & Code Enforcement, I will ensure that policies thoroughly pursue community input before implementation and any changes are clearly presented and explained to residents. Additionally I will ensure that policy decisions, particularly related to code and parking, are reviewed by both the council, resident community, and business community before implementation.
On Policing, I will push for a citywide re-imagine policing initiative with the purpose of unburdening HCPD with social services responses and developing actual City crisis programs to address: homelessness, domestic violence, substance abuse, and mental health issues.
The economic impact of COVID-19 has contributed to a rise in certain types of crime. I believe our police must have the tools and resources it needs to combat criminal activity and protect our community. This includes a clear mission, defining the set of services provided by our police department consistent with expectations of the Hyattsville community.
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A dive team is searching for the body of a 34-year-old man from the Toledo area, believed to have drowned in a Jet Ski accident on Saturday. It happened around 8:30 p.m. Saturday in a private pond inMore >
The body of 34-year-old Jason Mitchell, from Perrysburg, was located by divers around 1pm on Sunday in about seven feet of water.More >
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Initial work has begun on Toledo's first off-leash dog park. The new Glass City Dog Park will open in late September. The park is located at the former site of the South Toledo YMCA, just south of theMore >
The park is located at the former site of the South Toledo YMCA, just south of the Toledo Zoo and part of Woodsdale Park.
Dogs will be able to legally run and play off-leash at the park.More >
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It seems like every time you check YouTube, you see a new viral cat video. This time the video features an adorable kitten trying to attack a ceramic cat stature. This kitten has moves you would expectMore >
It seems like every time you check YouTube, you see a new viral cat video. This time the video features an adorable kitten trying to attack a ceramic cat statue.More >
The recent crash of a Malaysia Airlines flight that was shot down over Ukraine was a tragedy for many as hundreds on board died. One Toledo woman is thankful that, for her, the tragedy is not worse.More >
The recent crash of a Malaysia Airlines flight that was shot down over Ukraine was a tragedy for many as hundreds on board died. One Toledo woman is thankful that, for her, the tragedy is not worse. More >
Ohio State University fired the director of its celebrated marching band on Thursday after determining he ignored a "sexualized" culture of rituals including students being pressured to march in their underwear and participate in sexually themed stunts. More >
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Have you ever voted for a candidate in an election that doesn't even represent you? It happened Tuesday to Donna Puccetti.
"After I cast my ballot, I go back to the desk and they tell me somebody messed up," she said.
Puccetti cast her ballot at Regina Coeli School for Toledo school board candidates. The only problem was that she lives in the Washington Local Schools district.
"How does it make me feel? Toledo Public got my vote and it should have gone to Washington Local. Washington Local actually got pushed out," she said.
Puccetti says the poll book apparently listed her as a TPS voter, not Washington Local. She's heard from other Regina Coeli voters who were registered the same way.
"Basically, I cast the ballot, not realizing until after the fact. I did ask for help but everybody was busy," she said.
Puccetti's biggest worry is that the outcome of the Washington Local school board race could change because of the mix-up, but the Lucas County Board of Elections website shows the five-person race wasn't even close.
"You have to be very careful," Puccetti said. "Look at your ballot before you cast that ballot. Make sure you're voting for the right people you should be voting for."
Board of Elections Director Megan Gallagher says the mistake will be investigated.
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31 people are in trouble with the law after a three day prostitution sting in Richmond. Police told NBC12 they targeted specific areas where residents and business owners complained about the illegal activity.More >


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Tonight the nation has witnessed, yet again, that the modern Republican Party has the spine to rival that of a garden snake in summer. With an almost glee-like atmosphere, the Republicans in the U.S. Senate threw off any pretense of holding to any values they claimed to represent in all those town hall sessions and folky interviews at campaign time. The GOP senators in Washington are foolish and so easily manipulated. It is clear that any huckster could pickpocket any one of them and walk away with one testicle, the other having been freely given to Donald Trump.
These once-traditional Republicans have demonstrated for an entire nation to witness they will gladly prostrate themselves before a self-proclaimed sexual predator. They will not do anything to stop a president from abusing the powers of his office–even when it comes to an ally at war with Russia.
Republicans tossed the Constitution aside with the same flick of the wrist they do when tossing a burger wrapper into a waste bin. There was never any need to think of these Republicans as constitutional scholars but after having been subjected to the painful discourse from that side of the aisle for days on end it becomes clear that they are not even literate about the document. They are raging incompetents who care more about partisanship than love of the country.
It is one thing to be stupid and another to be willfully stupid. For Republicans to reject the learning process that the House managers put forth. and focus instead on how far one’s head can be placed inside Trump’s backside for political gain, is not a matter of conjecture. We have actually seen that play out over the past days.
Constitutional protocols that are maligned and grossly ripped apart, as the Republicans have demonstrated repeatedly, prove how low they will go with our institutional norms when controlling any aspect of power in Washington. They have now proven to be a menace to our republic.


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A one-time fix to help balance the state budget has now become regular practice in the annual appropriations process. Michigan has shifted a total of $4.5 billion intended for K-12 public schools [...]
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