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Adventure North is a nonfiction adventure memoir written by Sean Bloomfield. While most high school seniors were enjoying the last few months of their final spring semester, Bloomfield and his friend, Colton Witte, were setting out on the adventure of a lifetime. They had concentrated their studies in order to allow them to set out early enough to complete their canoe voyage from Chaska, a Minneapolis suburb, up to York Factory, on the Hudson Bay, before the end of the Arctic summer. They would depend only upon maps, a compass and their own rowing power, with a satellite tracker being the only concession to technology; one that would enable them to let their parents know they were okay; would allow them to signal for an emergency assistance and, to request a float plane once they arrived at their destination. The two eighteen-year-olds were following in the footsteps of Eric Sevareid and Walter Port, whose journey in 1930 was memorialized in Sevareid’s book entitled Canoeing with the Cree. Witte had read that book while he was in the seventh grade, and had shared it with Bloomfield. They were experienced canoers and had carefully prepared for this challenge. But just how challenging it would be was waiting for them to discover.
Adventure North is not for the faint of heart. There are endless days of cold, chilly fog, rain and wind. The two explorers had set out against the wind and currents of the Minnesota River with no grace period of easy paddling, and their April departure date meant grueling cold mornings and chilly nights. But despite the gray skies, the frigid temperatures and the bone-breaking effort of portaging their canoe and supplies past dangerous rapids, dams and waterfalls, there’s that sense of adventure that comes through on every page, and that one can only find in the writings of true explorers. Bloomfield and Witte have handily earned their place in that lofty pantheon of adventurers who continue to inspire other like-minded souls.
I loved every minute I spent reading this book and got more deeply involved in their journey with each succeeding page. I found myself poring over Googled maps of the rivers and lakes they traversed and started studying the specs of the two Bell canoes they used on their trip. And while it’s been a while since I’ve owned a canoe or a kayak, I began considering adding kayaking to my water sports activities. Reliving their journey was that inspirational for me, and that’s a fine thing indeed. Bloomfield’s story is an honest and moving account that shares both the exhilaration and the downright despair, including those moments when giving up seemed so easy. Anyone who has ever had an ounce of adventure in their mind or imagination should definitely consider picking up this book and letting it rekindle that spark as it did mine. Bloomfield and Witte are the perfect companions for any outdoor quest or challenge, and they’d definitely top my list were I assembling a team. Reading this account of their adventure up to York Factory is an adventure itself and not to be missed. Adventure North is most highly recommended.

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Kenyan athlete, Abraham Kipton has emerged the winner of the Lagos City Marathon 2017 for the second year running. Abraham won the same marathon last year in Lagos on February 6, 2016 in time of 2hrs 16mins, 21seconds. Kipton will smile home with $50,000 for his victory today.
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In a typical site, the construction staff arrives with large containers or cabinets full of tools, and as the work progresses, tools go missing one-by-one. The Stanley DIMS Tool Tracking System employs smart tags to keep track of power tools, tailored for teams of construction workers and other professional users.
The Tool Tracking System needed to be easy to adopt and integrate into the current workflow. From a mechanical design perspective, it needed to survive the harsh conditions of a construction site - dust, water, and of course, being attached to a power tool, high impact.
The system is built around a controller, which communicates with and logs the tagged tools through RF technology, enabling monitoring of the location of each tool. The individual tags for the tools are designed to be durable and waterproof, using an internal elastic material to both seal the unit for water and dust, and absorb vibrations from impact. Each tag comes with a tamper-free band to attach it to the power tool, and ensure that the tool won’t be removed from the site and lost. The Stanley Tool Tracking System allows tool inventory to be managed and monitored simply and worry-free.


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The international spread of the SARS‐CoV‐2 virus that causes the disease COVID-19 has prompted many governments to close their borders. Immigration policy plays an important role in limiting the international spread of contagious diseases.
Prior to the COVID-19 crisis, several commentators were concerned that immigrants – especially illegal immigrants – were spreading serious diseases in the United States. This blog post is the first in a series to answer the question of whether immigrants spread serious notifiable diseases other than COVID-19 in the United States. This post focuses on all pooled notifiable diseases for which there are vaccination requirements to enter the United States.
This post tests the correlation between the incidence of notifiable diseases and immigrant population shares on the state level for the 2010–2018 period. We use annual, state‐level data on notifiable disease cases from the CDC’s National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System (NNDSS), which reports the number of nationally notifiable infectious diseases and conditions by state and year. A notifiable disease is one where the CDC states that “regular, frequent, and timely information regarding individual cases is considered necessary for the prevention and control of the disease.”
Numerous diseases are reported to the CDC, but this post focuses on diseases that the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) and CDC require vaccination for prior to immigration. USCIS requires vaccination for mumps, measles, rubella, polio, tetanus, diphtheria toxoids, pertussis, haemophilius influenza type B, and hepatitis B. The CDC requires vaccination for hepatitis B, varicella, seasonal influenza, pneumococcal pneumonia, rotavirus, hepatitis A, and meningococcal disease.
Data for the foreign‐born population on the state‐level comes from the American Community Survey (ACS) provided by IPUMS. From the raw ACS microdata, we can identify immigrants by their nativity, citizenship status, and year of arrival. A further strength of the ACS microdata is that we can apply statistical techniques to identify likely illegal immigrants from observed characteristics in the data. Specifically, we use the residual technique of Christian Gunadi to identify illegal immigrants.
To test whether states with higher immigrant shares experience higher rates of notifiable disease, we run a two‐way fixed effects regression to estimate the correlation between the rate of disease per 100,000 population and the share of immigrants in a state. The regressions use state and year fixed effects and the standard errors are clustered at the state level.
Table 1 shows the results of the regressions. They are all statistically insignificant except a 1 percent increase in the share of a state’s legal immigrant population is correlated with 4.2 fewer cases of disease per 100,000 state residents, which is significant at the 5 percent level. There is no relationship between the share of a state’s population that is foreign‐born and the rate of disease per 100,000 residents. There is also no relationship between the illegal immigrant share of a state’s population and the rate of disease per 100,000 residents.
Figure 1 shows the lack of a relationship between the immigrant share of the population and the incidence of these diseases on the state level. Figure 2 shows no relationship between the illegal immigrant share of state populations and the incidence of these reportable diseases.

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Despite 2020 being a tough year for the U.S. economy due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the majority of pet owners (64.7 percent) still spent between $100 and $500 or more on non-medical needs and supplies, according to a reader survey conducted by PetPlace, an online community for pet owners.
The goal of the survey, A Year in the Life of a Pet Parent, was to assess the habits and preferences of pet owners across the country. PetPlace officials distributed the survey to their reader community during the fall and collected more than 400 responses. Readers were given the opportunity to address their day-to-day pet care routines, as well as the ways pet ownership affects annual traditions, like holiday celebrations and vacations.
About 46 percent of respondents were dog people, just under 26 percent preferred cats, 16 percent kept both as pets, and about 12 percent responded with another type of pet in mind.
Pets are definitely part of the family, and treating pets like family means “spending quite a bit of money throughout a given year,” officials said. Discounting necessities like veterinary care and food, PetPlace officials asked survey respondents how much they spend on their pets every 12 months. Nearly 4 in 10 (38.05 percent) pet owners spend more than $500, and some made it clear they spend much, much more, officials said.
“One reader couldn’t name an exact figure, but noted, ‘trust me, she is spoiled,’” officials said.
About 74 percent of respondents said that they buy birthday presents for their pet each year.
Other readers, according to the survey, admitted to spoiling pets with treats and regular snacks from the table. While more than a quarter of pet owners (28.5 percent) say they never offer scraps, nearly a third (30.8 percent) can be convinced to do so, and almost 10 percent are always ready to offer a handout, according to the survey.
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|Publication number||US5144151 A|
|Application number||US 07/672,173|
|Publication date||Sep 1, 1992|
|Filing date||Mar 20, 1991|
|Priority date||Mar 20, 1991|
|Publication number||07672173, 672173, US 5144151 A, US 5144151A, US-A-5144151, US5144151 A, US5144151A|
|Inventors||Brent a. Thorne, Salvatore J. Riera|
|Original Assignee||Thorne Brent A, Riera Salvatore J|
|Export Citation||BiBTeX, EndNote, RefMan|
|Patent Citations (8), Referenced by (13), Classifications (15), Legal Events (5)|
|External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, Espacenet|
This invention relates generally to an apparatus and method for detecting the presence or absence of a discontinuity on a glass surface, and in particular an apparatus or method using a photoelectric sensor.
Automotive glass sheets such as front windows or back lights are generally adhesively secured within window frames of automotive vehicles. Prior to installation, a number of preparation steps are required to insure that the adhesive properly secures the glass within the frame.
The first step is to chemically etch the marginal edge of the glass. This is accomplished by the application of a liquid primer which etches and cleans the glass surface. After applying this solution by brush, dobbing, spraying or other means, this primer is wiped away with a lint free substance to provide a clear, dry surface.
The second step is to apply a black primer to the etched edge of the glass prior to the application of a urethane sealant. The black primer protects the urethane sealant from sunlight which causes deterioration in the sealant. The black primer is applied by means of a brush, spray or drip and is allowed to dry. Then the urethane sealant is applied prior to installation of the glass in the vehicle.
A serious problem over the years has been to detect whether the primers, in particular the etching primer which is generally clear, ave been applied continuously along the marginal edges of the glass surface. If any primer, either the etching primer or the black primer, is not applied, the bonding of the urethane sealant may fail resulting in the glass coming free of the automotive vehicle.
Various approaches, i.e., camera systems, thermal sensors, and flow sensors have been experimented with and capacitative probes have been inserted into a brush applying the primers all in an effort to determine whether the sealant has been or is being applied to the glass. None of these approaches has proven satisfactory.
These means of detection of the primer coatings suffer from several disadvantages. First, typically a rather large quantity of primer must be present in order for these detection means to insure detection of their presence. A second problem is that these detection means generally indicate only whether a coating is present and do not readily quantify the amount present. Third, these means are not suitable to sense the presence of a coating on a glass surface as the sensing means moves relative to the glass surface.
Previous attempts at directing electromagnetic radiation perpendicularly downward towards a glass surface and measuring the difference between the reflectivity of a wet surface and a dry surface has proven unsuccessful in determining the presence or absence of a coating of primer.
It has been discovered that there exists a difference in the relative reflectivity of incident infrared electromagnetic radiation upon a dry versus wet glass surface when the incident radiation is directed at an angle of 3°-18° from a line perpendicular to the glass surface. The present invention senses this difference in reflectivity to determine the presence or absence of liquid coating on a glass surface. Further, this invention may detect the presence of a crack on a glass surface due to the change in reflectivity of incident radiation upon the glass surface with a crack therein.
The present invention includes an apparatus for detecting the presence or absence of a discontinuity on a glass surface. These discontinuities include a coating such a liquid primer or a crack located on a glass surface. The apparatus comprises a transmitting means for directing electromagnetic radiation in the infrared range toward a glass surface and for receiving infrared electromagnetic radiation reflected back from the glass surface. Also included is a sensing means for sensing the relative strength of the reflected radiation to determine the presence or absence of a discontinuity. The invention further includes a positioning means for positioning the transmitting means in a fixed angular and distance relation relative to the glass surface. The apparatus may be moved relative to the glass surface to sense the presence of a discontinuity over a continuous region of the glass surface.
The present invention has several advantages over other detection apparatus and methods. First, the present invention is more sensitive to discontinuities than the apparatus and methods used in the past. Second, the present invention can be used to evaluate the presence of a discontinuity as the apparatus moves relative to the glass surface at a relatively high rate of speed. Finally, this invention can, to a degree, quantify the amount of material present on a glass surface.
An important object of the present invention is to overcome the disadvantages and problems encountered with respect to prior methods of detecting discontinuities on a glass surface and in particular to detecting coatings on the surface.
Another object is to provide a more sensitive method for detecting the presence or lack of presence of a discontinuity on a glass surface as compared to prior methods used.
Yet another object is to provide an apparatus and a method wherein the sensing of a discontinuity as the sensing device moves relative to a glass surface is performed at a relatively high rate of speed.
Other objects, features and advantages will become more readily apparent from the following description and accompanying sheet of drawings.
FIG. 1 is perspective view of an apparatus made in accordance with the present invention being translated relative to a glass surface;
FIG. 2 is an enlarged fragmentary perspective view looking in the direction of arrow 2 of FIG. 1 showing the apparatus engaging the glass surface;
FIG. 3 is an enlarged fragmentary perspective view looking in the direction of arrow 3 of FIG. 1;
FIG. 4 is a partial side view of the apparatus engaging the glass surface;
FIG. 5 is a top sectional view taken along line 5--5 of FIG. 4;
FIG. 6 is a partial side view taken along line 6--6 of FIG. 5 showing a felt ribbon which removes a coating residing on the glass surface;
FIG. 7 is a top view of a coating of primer on a glass surface with patches of primer missing;
FIG. 8 is a top view of a glass surface having a crack located therein which may be detected by the apparatus or method of the present invention; and
FIG. 9 is a partial side view schematically showing radiation emitted by a transmitting means directed upon and partially reflecting back to the transmitting means.
The present invention includes an apparatus and a method for detecting the presence or absence of a discontinuity on a glass surface. A description of the preferred embodiment of the apparatus and method follows.
As shown in FIG. 4, an apparatus 12 for detecting the presence of discontinuities on a glass surface 14 includes a transmitting means 16 for directing incident upon and receiving from the glass surface reflected electromagnetic radiation in the infrared range of the spectrum, i.e. 880 nanometers, a positioning means 18 for supporting and positioning transmitting means 16 in a fixed angular and distance relation from the glass surface 14, and a sensing means 20 for sensing the magnitude of the reflected radiation received by the transmitting means 16. Transmitting means 16 is optically connected to the sensing means 20. FIG. 9 shows that a portion of the incident radiation is reflected back to the transmitting means 20 as coincident radiation 15 and a portion scatters as noncoincident radiation 17.
Transmitting means 16 is preferably a commercially available fiber optics light guide such as Model BF-C-36 sold by Tri-Tronics Company, Inc. This particular model has a bundle of fiber optics, approximately half of which transmit and direct emitting radiation towards the glass surface 14 and the other half which receive and transmit reflected radiation from the glass surface 14 or discontinuities 22 located thereon. The emitting and receiving fiber optics are parallel to one another and evenly dispersed throughout the bundle. The bundle of fiber optics is arranged rectangularly and the width of radiation scanning glass surface 14 is approximately 0.55 inch.
Sensing means 20 is a photoelectric sensor such as a Smarteye Switching Model SAL sold by Tri-Tronics Company, Inc. The sensing means 20 is connected to the transmitting means 16 through an Optical Block model F1, also sold by Tri-Tronics Company, Inc. The sensing means 20, i.e. the Smarteye Switching Model SAL, both emits infrared radiation and senses the magnitude of the reflected infrared radiation which is input from the transmitting means 16. It is contemplated that a separate means for generating the infrared light could also be used and connected to the transmitting means 20. The sensing means 20 generates an analog output voltage proportional to the magnitude of reflected radiation input thereto.
Positioning means 18 is a compliance device which adapts to the glass surface 14 and supports and positions the transmitting means 16 in a fixed angular and distance relation relative to the glass surface 14. An angle α, as shown in FIG. 4, defines the angle between a line perpendicular to the glass surface 14 and the incident and reflected radiation transmitted through the transmitting means 16 and lies in a plane parallel to a longitudinal member which is also the plane of translation of the apparatus 12. The perpendicular distance between the glass surface 14 and the end of transmitting means 16 is defined by distance δ. α may range from 3° to 18°, and the distance δ may range from 0.5 to 1.5 inches.
For a particular type of glass surface and fretting (the marginal edge of the glass surface often comes with a black coating or fretting thereon from the glass manufacturer), the optimal angle α and distance δ are experimentally determined. A variety of α and δ combinations are investigated to establish which output of voltage from sensing means 20 for reflected radiation received from a dry surface is maximum relative to the output when receiving reflected radiation from a wet surface.
Glass used by different automakers has proven to have different optimal combinations of α and δ. For a particular glass tested, at an α of 15.5 degrees and a δ of 0.500", the relative difference in reflectivity of the dry surface versus the wet surface has been established to be maximum. The voltage output from the sensing means 20 for a wet surface is nearly zero while with a dry surface a voltage of 15 volts is output. Consequently, the value of voltage output from sensing means 20 is determinative of the presence or absence of the primer coating on glass surface 14. In the event that streaking of the applied primer occurs, the degree of streaking is proportional to the voltage output from sensing means 20 and is somewhat indicative of the amount of liquid or primer present.
As shown in FIG. 4, positioning means 18 includes longitudinal member 30 having a leading end 32 and a trailing end 34. Pivotally connected to the leading end 32 is a rolling member 36 and at the trailing end is a similar pivotally connected rolling member 38, both of which are made of a wear-resistant material such as nylon. The rolling member 38, as shown in FIG. 6, serves as a pulley around which a felt ribbon 40 is driven. The felt ribbon 40 is made of polypropylene and/or polyester material, and is stored on a large rotatable spool 42.
Positioning means 18 further includes a positioning bracket 46 connected to longitudinal member 30 and supports the end of the transmitting means 16. Preferably, the optimal α and δ for the particular glass surface 14 is experimentally determined as described above, with bracket 46 then being fixedly secured to longitudinal member 30 such that α and δ are permanently fixed relative to the glass surface 14. This prevents accidental misalignment of α and δ while apparatus 12 is operating. Alternatively, bracket 46 may be designed such that it is slidably and rotatably adjustable relative to longitudinal member 30 to fix the transmitting means 16 in various angular and distance relations relative to the glass surface 14.
Longitudinal member 30 also supports a dispenser 48 having a brush 50 attached thereto for applying primer. Primer is supplied to the dispenser 48 by a supply tube 52. The brush 50 applies a coating of the primer ahead of the incident and reflected radiation.
A pair of springs 54 provide biasing to ensure that rolling member 36 and felt ribbon 40 maintain contact with the glass surface 14.
The apparatus 12 may be either stationary or moving relative to glass surface 14 when detecting discontinuities 22 on the glass surface 14. Preferably, a robotic linkage 56 supports apparatus 12 such that it is translated about the marginal edge of glass surface 14 with the positioning means 18 having rolling member 36 and the felt ribbon 40 contacting the glass surface 14 while maintaining the relative positioning of transmitting means 16 with respect to glass surface 14. The translational movement of apparatus 12 is such that rolling member 36 will precede felt ribbon 40 across the glass surface 14. The rolling members 36 and 38 are longitudinally spaced rather closely together so that the transmitting means 16 and the brush 50 maintain a relatively uniform distance δ from glass surface 14 as apparatus 12 translates about changing contours of glass surface 14. Using the transmitting and sensing equipment as described above, apparatus 12 may be translated at a rate of 25"/sec while accurately detecting discontinuities 22.
In operation, rolling member 36 and felt ribbon 40 are placed in contact with glass surface 14, with springs 54 biasing the positioning means 18 such that the contours of the glass surface 14 are followed. The positioning bracket 46 is fixedly secured to longitudinal member 30 such that the distance δ and the angle α are permanently set to their desired parameters, which for a glass surface as described above would be preferably at an α of 16.5° and at a δ of 0.500".
The dispenser 48 and associated brush 50 are also positioned such that the brush 50 contacts the glass surface 14.
The sensing means 20 is then calibrated. If there is no interfering discontinuity 22, i.e. a dry or uncracked surface, located on the glass surface 14, a substantial portion of the emitted radiation from transmitting means 16 will reflect off the glass surface 14 and is received by transmitting means 16 which transmits the radiation to sensing means 20. The output of voltage from sensing means 20 is proportional to the magnitude of the reflected radiation and is adjusted such that a steady voltage, i.e. 15 volts, is output in response to emitted infrared radiation upon the clean, continuous glass surface 14. The output voltage relatively to a wetted surface should be very low. FIG. 9 shows schematically that some of incident radiation from transmitting means 20 returns back thereto.
As seen in FIG. 1, robotic linkage 56 supports and translates apparatus 12 about the marginal edge of glass 14. Supply tube 52 supplies dispenser 48 with primer and brush 50 applies a coating of the primer to glass surface 14 as apparatus 12 is translated along the margin of the glass.
When the coating completely covers the glass surface 14, very small amounts of radiation will be reflected back to the transmitting means 20, and accordingly very little voltage will be output from sensing means 20. If no coating is applied, the glass surface will remain fully reflective and a large magnitude of reflected radiation will be received and the 15 volts will be output by sensing means 20. In the event that streaking occurs as shown in FIG. 7, the increase in output voltage will be indicative of the severity of the streaking.
If a sufficiently high voltage is output, i.e. 5.0 volts if the maximum output is 15 volt, a signal device (not shown) may be activated indicating that glass surface 14 is defective and appropriate corrective measures should be taken.
Trailing the applied coating of primer is felt ribbon 40 which wipes and removes the primer from the glass surface 14. The rolling member 38, as shown in FIG. 6, is driven to rotate the felt rope 40 thereabout to ensure that all of the excess primer is removed.
A black primer is applied thereafter, which is a prerequisite to applying a urethane sealant. A pivotally connected trailing rolling member (not shown) similar to rolling member 36 replaces rolling member 38 and is perpendicularly offset from longitudinal member 30 such that the black primer is left undisturbed on surface 14 and is allowed to dry without being crossed by the offset rolling member. The urethane sealant is then applied.
FIG. 8 shows a marginal edge on the glass surface 14 which has a crack therein. The crack serves as a discontinuity 22' which adversely affects reflectivity of glass surface 14 and accordingly creates a spike in the voltage output from sensor means 20. The spike in voltage output may be used to signal that a crack is present in the glass surface and that appropriate corrective measures should again be taken.
While the foregoing specification of this invention has been described in relation to certain preferred embodiments thereof, and many details have been set forth for the purpose of illustration, it will be apparent to those skilled in the art that the invention is susceptible to additional embodiments and that certain of the details described herein can vary considerably without departing from the basic principles of the invention.
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Lift 1A side of Aspen same as it ever was
The Aspen Times
As Lift 1A on Aspen Mountain’s west side started spinning Saturday, the landscape around it likely will look much the same next season as developers slow their roll on plans to construct hundreds of thousands of square feet of commercial space at the base.
However, Lift One Lodge developers Michael and Aaron Brown, who walked away from a voter-approved development plan for the base at Aspen Mountain this past summer, are back at the table with the group they had lost confidence in earlier this year.
The Browns are moving forward with the Gorsuch Haus group to develop roughly 320,000 square feet of lodge and commercial space at the western base of Aspen Mountain.
The Lift One Lodge is a 107,000-square-foot timeshare project and the Gorsuch Haus is a 64,000-square-foot luxury hotel.
Lift One Lodge will add 34 fractional interest and six full-interest condominiums at the base. Gorsuch Haus will add 81 rooms.
The project also comes with a new chairlift coming 500 feet farther down the hill to Dean Street.
The Browns this fall applied for a six-month extension to submit their final review plans for approval on the details of the project.
As approved by ordinance, those documents are due no later than March 5, according to city planner Ben Anderson.
“There’s a lot of work their design team has to work on,” he said Friday. “They are saying they are not ready.”
Anderson noted that the engineering aspect of the site will be difficult, and there will need to be a lot of coordination among all of the landowners involved.
City Manager Sara Ott said Friday the decision to extend the deadline can be made administratively in the community development department, or it can be presented to Aspen City Council.
“We need to understand some things first,” Ott said. “We need to understand the rationale for the request, and for the partners to understand the request.”
Michael Brown wouldn’t comment on the status of his role in the project that voters approved by a 26-vote margin March 5.
But Jim DeFrancia, principal of Lowe Enterprises and a partner with the Gorsuch team, confirmed last week that the development team is reassembled.
That’s despite the Browns having reservations earlier this year because the Gorsuch group had been looking for an investor in a recapitalizing effort.
DeFrancia said Norway Island LLC, the company behind Gorsuch, is “fully funded for the efforts undertaken for the next steps.”
The Browns sent a letter to the city in July informing the government that they were walking away from the combined development.
And they’ve been tight-lipped ever since.
When what the status of their role was in the publicly funded, publicly approved development in August, Michael Brown responded in an email to The Aspen Times saying, “We don’t feel the need to utilize the press as our means of expressing ourselves to the public, at this time.”
The Browns were planning to rely on their previous entitlements for a timeshare lodge.
That 2011 approval, which was amended in 2016 for more commercial space, includes roughly 100,000 square feet with 22 timeshares and five residential condos, along with a ski museum.
It also includes 100% housing mitigation, which is for 91 full-time employees.
As part of the ordinance that voters approved, an escrow account with the city’s $4.36 million contribution toward the development must be established by the end of the year.
Aspen City Council on Tuesday is set to vote on a resolution approving an escrow agreement with Lift One Lodge Aspen LLC.
The city’s contribution will go toward public amenities like a refurbished and relocated Skier’s Chalet Lodge that would serve as a ski museum on site.
In passing the question, 1,555 voters also blessed a skiers’ services space, restaurants, bars and a parking garage, among other amenities.
The terms in the escrow agreement state the money will remain in the account until either a new chairlift has been installed by Aspen Skiing Co., or the city’s cost-sharing obligation expires because the project hasn’t proceeded.
That clause is standard and is meant to protect taxpayer money in the event that the project stalls, noted Ott.
“We don’t want the public’s money unfairly being held up because the developer is underperforming,” Ott said, adding that it appears the parties involved are moving forward in a positive manner. “We want to make sure the public’s interest is protected.”
City Attorney Jim True said it’s the city’s obligation to set aside the money, since it was part of Ordinance 38 that voters passed.
“This is the first deadline and I am recommending the city comply,” he said.
The city also would be released from its cost-sharing obligation if Lift One Lodge Aspen formally withdraws in writing its approvals granted in the ordinance.
Anderson said it appears that all entities involved are showing a new energy for the project.
“The folks are talking,” he said. “We are being optimistic.”
Aspen City Council approved a contract with Daniel Joseph (DJ) Watkins during Tuesday’s regular meeting to move forward with his intentions to operate his proposed “Aspen Collective,” which is currently occupied by Mia Valley’s Valley Fine Art.


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Ingrown hairs develop when hair becomes trapped underneath the skin or grows back into the skin after shaving.
Did you know that when a hair is under the skin, your body doesn’t see a difference between that hair and a splinter? Your body will fight it like a foreign object, which can lead to infection, resulting in painful and inflamed skin.
If the problem is left untreated, you can even end up with unsightly scar tissue! For those who suffer from ingrown hairs, the experience can cause discomfort and even a decline in self-confidence.
However, there are ways to prevent ingrown hairs and they are related to two very important personal shaving practices: using sharp blades and proper lubrication. Here is the rundown on how to improve your shaving techniques if you want to prevent ingrown hairs.
Avoid Dull Blades While Shaving
If we had to choose the #1 rule for safe shaving to prevent ingrown hairs, we’d say avoid using dull blades at ALL costs. Unfortunately, most blades are not made from good quality steel, which is why so many become dull even after one or two uses. The general rule of thumb is if the blade’s appearance changes and it no longer looks new, it is time to replace it!
If you really want to prevent ingrown hairs, never EVER use a dull blade. Since dull blades take more pressure for the same shave, they drag against the skin, causing irritation, and irritated skin is the perfect environment for ingrown hairs and infection. Indeed, as the skin swells from the irritation, it is more likely to trap individual hairs below its surface.
Dull blades also tend to cut the hairs unevenly, resulting in jagged edges, which poke back into skin and become ingrown.By now it should be clear you need to throw out those dull razors and buy some fresh ones if you want to prevent ingrown hairs!
Properly Lubricate to Prevent Ingrown Hairs
The 2nd most important rule of safe shaving is to lubricate properly! A lubricating product will soften and moisturize the skin, making it much easier to shave. For the best results, avoid harsh, soap-based lubricants like shaving foams. Often, these soap-based products remove the skin’s natural oils, which results in a more difficult shave as the blade struggles and scrapes against the skin.
For a healthier shaving experience, try a silicone-based lubricant instead. A silicon-based product helps the razor glide smoothly across the skin, working with it and not against it. That way you cut the hair and not your delicate skin!
When it comes to personal shaving practices, using sharp blades in addition to silicone-based products can help to prevent ingrown hairs. Yes, these simple changes will make all the difference!

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Do you find yourself irritated by selfish partners, friends, and family? Upset because as much as you reach out to them, remembering their important events and what ails them, it’s never reciprocated?
Here’s some tough love. It’s not them. It’s you.
If you find this happening not once, but again and again – what’s wrong with you? Why do you continue to put effort into those who care nothing about putting effort into you?
Yes, we accept people for who they are but at some point, we should cut our losses. We should seek to find partners and friends who meet us where we are. Who step up and be present in our lives. Because it goes both ways.
And if one way is all you’ve been experiencing, maybe it’s time to reconsider your relationships.
At the end of each day, you need to be your own best friend. That’s who you have at the end of any day – and a pet, if you’re so fortunate. Most, not all, people are inherently selfish.
Learn how to thrive alone. Learn how to channel your energy into activities that make you feel good – and give back to the world at large. Appreciate your solitude and manage your time wisely.
Stop focusing on those who continuously let you down and remember – you’re the only one who will be there for you at the end of each day.

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