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The Biggest Problem With San Francisco's Rent Crisis The suburbs.
Editor's Note: To urbanists, the problem with displacement has an easy fix, force development on the suburbs. The city dwellers want to make sweetheart deals with developers to increase the value of their housing stock and push the low/moderate income folks out to the suburbs. How will they do this? Through agencies like MTC who will force housing quotas in Marin. Goodbye to local control.
The Biggest Problem With San Francisco's Rent Crisis
The suburbs.
By Henry Grabar
San Francisco, pictured above, has the highest rents of any large city in the U.S. But lately, it's been building more housing units per capita than New York City or Los Angeles.
Photo by Jorg Hackemann/Shutterstock
In the big, sad joke that is America's urban rent crisis, San Francisco is a recurrent punchline. Last year, photographer Scott Hampton adopted a real estate broker's poetic license to advertise "waterfront condos," "cozy studios," and "lofts" alongside pictures of dumpsters, trash cans, and manholes. And this month the Onion reported that San Francisco would shut its doors due to rising rent—a literally unbelievable premise, but one that's not too far from the mentality of Bay Area anti-gentrification activists who believe that stopping new housing projects will halt new arrivals at the city limits. David Campos, the supervisor who represents the city's Mission District, has proposed halting all new residential construction in that hip, Latino neighborhood for a period as long as two years. The moratorium narrowlyfailed in a Board of Supervisors vote earlier this month but may be reborn as a ballot initiative in November.*
San Francisco has the highest rents of any large city in the U.S. The city doesn't build nearly enough housing. But it doesn't deserve to be the poster child for inaction in the face of inequality: In 2014, San Francisco built about 30 percent more housing units per capita than New York City, and more housing units per capita than Los Angeles. Between 2007 and 2014, San Francisco issued as many permits per capita as booming Santa Clara County, home to San Jose and Silicon Valley, one of California's fastest-growing counties.
The biggest problem with housing in San Francisco isn't actually in San Francisco. It's in the suburbs.
In the Bay Area, the cities that have shut their doors to housing are the suburban municipalities that contain most of the region's population. "The smaller communities, in my opinion, need to step up, and I don't see that happening," San Francisco planning director John Rahaim says. "There's such a huge demand in general and that can't be met just by the big three cities."
Nor should it be. Once upon a time, a forward-thinking planner might have conceived of the region as three high-density nodes of housing and jobs, in San Francisco, San Jose, and Oakland, with quiet bedroom communities strung like beads along commuter rail lines and highways.
The city doesn't build nearly enough housing. But it doesn't deserve to be the poster child for inaction.
But that vision has long since been dashed by the Bay's unusually sprawling geography of employment. Of the 1.75 million jobs within 35 miles of downtown San Francisco, only 45 percent are within 10 miles. That's 12 percentage points lower than average for a big U.S. city. Adding new housing only in the big three cities, then, will only exacerbate the region's transportation woes.
To some extent, job sprawl in the Bay has the same causes as elsewhere. Manufacturers sought cheap land and highway access. Pulled by emigrating executives, white-collar work shifted to campuses and office parks. Retail and services followed consumers down the highway.
In this part of the country, though, this phenomenon played out with special intensity because of Proposition 13, the 1978 ballot referendum that froze California's property tax rates. David Dowall, a professor of regional planning at the University of California–Berkeley, was one of the first to observe how the law skewed small-town zoning priorities. "Caught in a fiscal squeeze," he wrote in 1982, "many towns have stepped up efforts to increase their tax base by attracting more commercial, office, and light industrial development. While attempting to attract economic development, most communities have not concomitantly adjusted their zoning to provide housing for additional employees. Consequently, new employees, particularly those migrating to the region, find it extremely difficult to acquire affordable housing."
Three decades later, Dowall's words perfectly describe San Mateo County—San Francisco's visually suburban neighbor to the south, home to Oracle, Facebook, and YouTube—which hosts almost one job for every two residents. (That's a considerably higher ratio than Westchester or Nassau Counties, adjacent to New York City, and nearly as high as San Francisco itself.) It's also the most expensive county in the Silicon Valley region to buy or rent a home.
The wreckage of this perfect storm: A region with housing costs so high they are a drain on national economic indicators, zoning restrictions so stringent they push new residential construction to the fringes of the East Bay, and an average commute that takes longer than it does in Los Angeles.
So, how do you get existing suburbs to build their share of housing? In the Bay, at least, the Association of Bay Area Governments (there are nine counties and more than a hundred municipalities) has for years set forth a "Regional Housing Need Allocation" that suggests how much housing various counties and towns should build. They rarely cut it: Marin County, where George Lucas is building affordable housingto spite his NIMBY neighbors, didn't clear 30 percent of its "objective" in 2014. San Mateo was at 42 percent. The region as a whole built half what had been deemed necessary.
In 2008, with climate change in mind, Sacramento required the state's metropolitan regions to draw up long-term plans for urban growth. Five years later, ABAG and the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (a more powerful regional organization) introduced Plan Bay Area—a proposal to funnel the majority of housing and business growth into just a few key areas.
"The three main cities of the Bay Area, while there may be background noise, have made significant and sustained commitments to housing," says Randy Rentschler, the director of legislation and public affairs at MTC. Elsewhere, progress has been spottier. "There is every incentive not to do it, economically," he says.
But in contrast to the toothless RNHA, the commission controls about $1.5 billion in regional transportation funds each year. For municipalities, Rentschler said, the offer is simple: Build more housing, get more money. With homes and jobs closer together, commutes get shorter, easing the weight on the region's sagging transportation infrastructure. With better incentives to allow more construction, cities might start building enough housing to bite into the monthly rent increases.
Naturally, some conservatives see Plan Bay Area as part of the broader, Soviet-style plot to urbanize America. "The ultimate vision is to make all neighborhoods more or less alike," wrote Stanley Kurtz in National Review, "turning traditional cities into ultra-dense Manhattans, while making suburbs look more like cities do now." In response to this type of criticism, Plan Bay Area bothered to republish the American Planning Association's factsheet on Agenda 21, a popular conspiracy theory that's invoked in local land-use meetings to foil schemes for bus lanes and apartment buildings. (Meanwhile: What living environment in human history is more a product of central planning than American suburbia?)
Suburbanites, who always seem to value the freedom to drive more than the freedom to build, can relax. The Bay Area is not being Manhattanized—or even Brooklynized—at any scale. Plan Bay Area is neither radical nor combative. It directs housing and job growth primarily to jurisdictions that want it. Housing advocates have complained that, far from pushing for more balanced, regional urbanization, it concentrates 95 percent of 30-year housing growth in just 15 of the region's hundred-plus cities.
That same imbalance in the PBA predecessor, RHNA, prompted a letter of concern from the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) that the plan might violate fair housing laws. And this month, HUD is finalizing rules that will allow the department to use grant money to fight segregation. Congressional Republicans are currently trying to block the rule, called Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing. Writing in National Review, Kurtz warned AFFH would "urbanize suburbs and Manhattanize cities."
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But suburbs are a hard nut to crack. New York's Westchester County, which is half detached single-family homes despite boasting one of the world's best commuter railroad systems, has been ignoring a court-ordered fair-housing plan for six years. Its county executive, Rob Astorino, has railed against "social engineering" and even asked if HUD also planned to break up ethnic urban neighborhoods.
Surely Astorino was being sarcastic, but that's exactly what affordable, proximate suburban housing did to white ethnic enclaves in the 1940s and '50s. It was a terrible thing for U.S. cities then: San Francisco's population, like that of most other U.S. cities, fell for three straight decades. Suburbs employed racial covenants and other measures to keep out blacks. Car dependency was etched into the landscape.
But a modern-day building boom in the inner suburbs wouldn't repeat those mistakes—it would correct them. This time, it would do a city like San Francisco good.
*Correction, June 22, 2015: This article originally misstated that a proposed moratorium on residential construction in the Mission District failed the week before the article's publication. The moratorium vote failed earlier in June. (Return.)
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No Final Deal With Serbia Without A Solution On Missing Persons, Says Kosovo's Minister Of Justice
by Tsarizm Staff October 8, 2020 October 8, 2020 01778
Kosovo's minister of Justice, Selim Selimi stated on Wednesday that there will be no final agreement with Serbia that will not include a solution for the missing persons.
Reporting at the parliamentary committee on Human Rights, Selimi said that the issue of missing persons will be the first to be discussed in the dialogue.
The basic principles for an effective solution of the issue were set during the three dialogue meetings held at experts level in Brussels, according to him.
"The agreement in Brussels foresees the creation of a joint commission that will be headed by an EU representative, and that will be responsible to shed light on the missing persons issue," Selimi stated.
He noted that Serbia continues to play an obstructive role in the process, despite having "sufficient information on the locations of missing persons".
Selimi recalled that the issue is also part of the documents signed by Kosovo and Serbia at the White House in September.
1,643 people are still missing in Kosovo, 21 years after the war ended.
The "Mother's Call" Association representing the families of missing persons in Kosovo, requested on Tuesday to be part of the dialogue with Serbia, and to condition it with a solution on finding and returning the bodies of the missing persons home.
The reaction came following a statement of the deputy prime minister and foreign minister of Serbia, Ivica Dacic, who stated during an interview:
"What do we do with some Serbs who tell Croats and Albanians where their missing conationals are buried across Serbia, and similar stupidities?"
The speaker of Kosovo Parliament, Vjosa Osmani commenting on this said that the leadership of Serbia hasn't changed since the times of Slobodan Milosevic, and "Serbia is still led by these deplorable genocidal minds."
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In addition to Sāvitri and Venus & Adonis, New Camerata Opera will produce an "off-night" single performance entitled "The Enchantress & Bombay Rickey Meets the Psychology of Desire" on November 30th at 7:30pm, showcasing original works by and performances from Dr. Kamala Sankaram. The evening will feature Sankaram's one-act opera "The Enchantress", based on the life of Ada Lovelace, who is credited as the world's first computer programmer. The second half of the evening will feature Bombay Rickey, a five-piece band encompassing the sounds of surf rock, cumbia, spaghetti-Western, and Bollywood - balanced out with soaring operatic vocals from Sankaram.
New Camerata Opera is a New York City based, cooperative company in its third season. Their mission is to engage, excite, and educate through immersive performances that break down barriers and inspire fans of the future. In addition to mainstage productions, New Camerata Opera offers children's operas through Camerata Piccola, and produces short operatic films with CamerataWorks. For more details and interview opportunities about the upcoming production of Sāvitri and Venus & Adonis, as well as "The Enchantress: Bombay Rickey Meets the Psychology of Desire", and New Camerata Opera, please contact info@newcamerataopera.org.


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It's hard not to feel a swell of pride at the amazing achievements of Calderdale's Paralympians representing Great Britain in Rio.
In what has been a phenomenal week, Hannah Cockfroft, Steve Bate and Karen Darke all stormed to success. At the time of writing, wheelchair basketball player Harry Brown (right) was also gearing up for a semi-final match against Spain on Thursday night.
'Hurricane Hannah' Cockroft's Rio winning streak began on Sunday, when she won her third Paralympic gold medal and first of the Rio Games at the Olympic Stadium.
The 24-year-old, from Mount Tabor and a former student of Trinity School, Holmfield, retained her 100m T34 title in a Paralympic record time of 17.42 seconds.
She then scooped her second gold medal of the 2016 games on Wednesday, when she she rode to victory in the T34 400m in a world-record time of 58.78 seconds.
Cockroft will compete in the 800m final tonight at 10.15pm.
Steve Bate, who lives in Mytholmroyd, has also done Calderdale proud.
Speaking at the time, he said: "It's hard to back up a world record ride like this morning but I was super stoked to be able to do it by winning gold.
In another triumphant result, the pair won Britain's third cycling gold of Wednesday with victory in the tandem road time-trial.
Wednesday proved to be a great day for Karen Darke, also from Mytholmroyd, when she went one better than the London 2012 Paralympics by winning gold in the H1-3 time trial.
She continued her good form this season and triumphed in the road cycling event in 33 minutes 44.93 seconds. Darke also competed in the H 1-2-3-4 Women's Road Race at 4.20pm yesterday (Thursday).
Harry Brown and the men's Team GB wheelchair basketball lost a match against Spain last night, but will go into a match with other semi-finalists to compete for a bronze medal.


In our first installment of looking at Enterprise Architecture, we looked at the foundation of what I am calling the house of EA. This foundation is focused on vision, strategy, and knowledge, as a basis for how all of Enterprise Architecture is built. As we move up into the pillars of the house, we move into what are called the four 'domains' of architecture. The four domains are the areas where the work of EA happens.
The first of these domains is Business Architecture. Business architecture is concerned with what makes the business tick. It asks the tough questions about how business goals can be met utilizing the tools that are available. BA is the area of architecture that is most concerned with how the vision of the business meets the practical needs and capabilities of the organization.
It's important to note, that just because the word 'business' is in the title, it doesn't mean that this area of architecture is limited to corporations. Every organization can benefit from looking at how they "do business". The term 'business' is more about the actions of the organization, not a definition of what type it may or may not be.
Some of the work that happens in the business architecture domain revolves around the capabilities of a business. One of the key elements about moving a vision forward, is having the knowledge of what you're capable of, at the current time. Business architecture helps an organization look at it's capabilities, and then aligns those capabilities with the vision of where the organization wants to go. Then once you understand the current state, you can start to examine a path to move forward. This also helps identify gaps that need to be fixed before change can happen.
Sometimes this can sound very corporate and structured. However, if we look at our fictional cafe from the first part of this series, we can see how business architecture would apply in a very real way, despite not being a big corporation. In our first part we identified a cafe that has a stated vision of being a central place of community within a neighborhood. Business architecture would then examine the capabilities of the cafe, and how those align with the vision of where it would want to be in the future.
This means first identifying everything that the cafe has at it's disposal to build itself up. Perhaps there is space that is not being utilized as best as it could, or perhaps there are improvements to how the marketing of the cafe is being done. These types of outcomes result from a solid understanding of how the business is architected. Once this understanding is complete, then plans could be put in place for how to make changes.
Let's say that there is space in the cafe that isn't being utilized the best that it could be; perhaps it's closed off from the main area, and doesn't feel as connected to the primary space. Business architecture would ask how this capability deficit could be turned into a benefit for the business. If the stated vision of 'community' is driving the analysis, then perhaps showing how this space could be used as a private meeting area for community groups would be a benefit to the cafe, turning something that wasn't useful before into something that helps drive the overall vision of the organization.
Business architecture would be the domain of EA that would be looking at these opportunities and presenting them to the ownership of the business as potential ways to meet the vision of the organization. In a formal corporate structure this involves the development of capability models, impact analysis, gap analysis, goal to outcome mappings, and other various artifacts. Yet, I feel that the basics of what business architecture is trying to accomplish can be done on any scale. It just comes down to being willing to do a through analysis of how business is being done, and use that analysis to plan for the future.
Business architecture is a key element of of EA gets done. Many big organizations see business architecture as a small part of EA, but it is really one of the most crucial. It's very easy to want to skip over doing all of the business analysis and jump right in to how to solve problems, but if you don't understand the foundation of what you're dealing with, you can't plan for the future in the best way possible. Good planning helps to avoid pitfalls of jumping too fast, and makes an organization stronger and more capable of achieving what they want to become.


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Just so you, I'm following along and am enjoying your info and the event itself.
This thread helps remind me.
I always follow your updates and enjoy as well. Watched That amazing lean in 100m final. Made all the difference.
Thanks guys. Means a lot.
BG, I've seen the Olympic Channel advertised on the NBC channel, but I don't get it with my current TV setup. I've had to watch the Worlds on the regular NBC channel in the afternoon and watch other things on replay.
Mason Finley getting a bronze in the discus was great. Men's throws for the USA have been subpar outside of Shot Put for awhile, so it's great to see us branch out in that area. It's the first US men's discus medal since 1999. Awesome! Biggest surprise so far for sure.
I don't focus on marathon even though it is part of the Track and Field area at World Championships, but Amy Cragg getting a bronze in an event dominated by East Africans was awesome! She almost chased down silver, too!
In the Women's 1500, things went like I expected. Jenny Simpson is just on another level than other American runners and I hope she can medal again. Sara Vaughn and Kate Grace making the semi was great and I was hoping one of them could make the final, but maybe in the future, we'll have more Americans in the final!
Sandi Morris is making Arkansas proud with another silver after her Olympic one last year. She is unfortunately going against a Greek athlete who is going up to some incredible heights right now, but Sandi is an amazing athlete and I hope to see her get her gold some day.
Jarrion got some redemption from last year's near Gold miss. He hit a season best on his first jump to put him in bronze position most of the event and then on his last jump, he hit a new season best to give him the silver medal. Love to see him with some hardware. This only helps recruiting! I was disappointed that no other American man even made the final, but Henderson, the gold medalist from Rio, seems to be dealing with something as he hasn't jumped well all year.
Now the 100 meter dashes...wow! After a disappointing Rio in sprints for the Americans, we've done pretty good so far! Justin Gatlin and Christian Coleman taking down Bolt in his final race was something to see! I'm not a Gatlin hater like some. I think he did his time and deserves this chance. Coleman looks to be the next big American sprinter for years to come as Gatlin is hitting his twilight. 1-2 in that race was awesome. Belcher was a bit of a surprise to make the team so I wasn't to shocked to see him not make the final.
In the women's, I will say I was a little disappointed that we only had one woman make the 100 final, but Washington and Stevens are both young. But Bowie did amazing with our one opportunity. Going into the race, the Jamaican athlete was the big favorite, but after the gun, I thought the Ivory Coast athlete had it for sure until the last 20 meters of the race where Bowie finished about as well as I've ever seen. What an amazing lean for gold. First time American has had both 100 golds since 2005.
The 10Ks have really not been disappointing at all. We will probably have a hard time ever matching what our distance crew did in Rio. Most of our guys ran PBs, but just some tough competition right now in the world. No medals for men or women, but you can't ask for much more than personal bests. That Ethiopian woman in the 10K is a beast. She lapped the WHOLE FIELD.
Still doing great things in the Men's Shot Put. All 4 men made the final, which is almost unheard of. Of course, only Kovacs got the silver, which might be called a little disappointing, but that shows hard hard it is for the same country to get two medals. Kovacs was a very slight scratch away from getting gold on his last throw. Sort of like Lawson's scratch last year in Rio.
We qualified a woman in the hammer throw for the final, DeAnna Price, which is great to see since we don't do well in that event in either gender.
Now for the 400 Meter Dash...perhaps I'm being too unrealistic, but I think we are weaker than we've ever been here in both genders. Perhaps Rattler can shed some light on the situation. In Men's, we only have one finalist and he only made the final on time. Women's side still has 3 fighting for a final spot, but it seems like only one is going to make it...hope I'm wrong.
In the Women's Triple Jump, America's best, Keturah Orji, had to withdraw because of injury, but we still had Tori Franklin qualify and she honestly did pretty good. This has been our weakest jumping event for years and Tori was one place for qualifying for the final.
And just to finish this up real quick, the Men's 800 was a mixed bag. America has never had 3 Americans make the Semi-Finals...but then we had none of those guys make the final. The 800 is getting stronger and stronger and our guys are very young. It also didn't help that last year's Rio Medalist, Clayton Murphy, didn't qualify for the team off a questionable decision by him. The Women's Heptathlon was a bit of a let down, but that event is VERY strong. Williams and Bougard are also VERY young and this was their first world championship.
McLeod wins gold! 3 Razorbacks alumni with medals! Two silvers and one gold!
No Americans medal. First time an American has not medal'd at a World Championship in the Men's 110 Hurdles ever.
Jenny Simpson silver in the Women's 1500!!! Incredible race!
1:20 PM - Women's Javelin Throw - Final: No Americans/Razorbacks competing.
Still a bit early for Merritt to get back to peak form from his surgery.
Good run but understandable for USA.
Just an opinion, but I believe there are a few factors for 400m showing. I think the American season is just too long compared to other countries; I think we have a wealth of talent but maybe less elite during this year; I believe many great 400m runners choose football upon leaving high school which is a bigger deal with the rest of the world being so good now; and that is the biggest thing: three guys running sub 44 in the same race last year tells you how strong the 400m is now. Read something where Clyde Hart believes lots of potential 400m runners now are choosing short sprints. Could be the Bolt effect with him dominating track headlines during past decade or so. But the future looks bright according to results from AAU and World juniors. Hoping it is just a short lull.
Good points, Rattler. I think Coach Hart might be onto something with 400 people doing short sprints now because of the Bolt effect.
1:05 PM - Men's Javelin Throw Qualification - Group A: No Americans/Razorbacks competing.
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The former residence of Professor Ma Yanying, a famous geologist, is an elegant house filled with old Taipei memories.
Walking across the wooden floor panels bearing the marks of time feels like going back in time. This small and exquisite piece of Japanese architecture bears testimony to the aesthetics of early architecture in the capital.
Qingtian Street is a green oasis where you may see magpies and colorful birds perch in the trees-an idyllic surprise in the city.
From the Fullon Hotel Taipei Central is only an 8-minute walk to beautiful Daan Forest Park with its shady trees and bright flowers. Five more minutes will take you to Qingtian Street.
After taking in the culture and nature of Daan, you may be ready to check out the nearby Yongkang shopping area with its old alleys lined with small boutiques, art shops, studios, and eateries — a sweet conclusion to your little urban journey.
Once an eatery in the Japanese era, Jizhou Temple is a graceful presence in Taiwan's literary life.
In his book Watertown Taipei, author Shu Kuo-chi writes about the Jizhou Temple: "One wouldn't pay attention to the one or two blackened Japanese-style wooden houses toward the end of Tong'an Street, destroyed by a fire a few years back. Built on that spot 60, 70 years ago, despite the risk of flooding, these houses offer a blissful view of the river flowing by." Here on the south bank, the Kishu An Forest of Literature was built, Taipei's first purpose-built space for art and literature and now a municipal relic. The literary quarter is also home to the Chengnan Literature Park. A stroll there may well slow down the pace of your feet and the beat of your heart as you breathe in the park's elegance and freshness, only too rare in the city.
Located in the popular Gongguan area, Treasure Hill Artist Village mansion, with its artsy feel and proximity to the mountains, is like Little Jiufen. It's a place filled with the beauty of art and nature. Wandering there, you can also overlook the pretty riverbank scenery and enjoy the peace and quiet in the middle of the city. The Wenluoding bookstore area covers the streets and alleys of Wenzhou Street, Roosevelt Road, Tingzhou Road, where many independent bookstores are concentrated. Their collections and events on a wide range of topics add immensely to the cultural fabric of the city. After enjoying the beauty of the humanities and art of the Treasure Hill Art Village, you may want to visit the Gongguan area for some serious shopping, try its food stalls, and go to the Wenluoding bookstore area for a shot of culture. Another perfect little urban journey.
The Treasure Hill Art Village is only a 10-minute drive from Fullon Hotel Taipei Central, or a short walk from the Gongguan metro station.
The stylish design, safe environment, and smart tech in the rooms meet the needs of business and leisure travelers alike. With the stylish design, the panoramic view with the iconic Taipei 101, your eyes will only see beauty wherever they look. During the day or by night, Taipei's landmark exudes an architectural charm that's unforgettable.
The room has a calm and tidy atmosphere, with a simple and bright interior space as preferred by business travelers. The natural daylight also reaches the bathroom space, so it feels even more spacious and comfortable. The rooms also feature a direct-dial telephone and broadband Internet service — making it the best choice for business travel. The hotel's Lih Spa Club comprises a gym, outdoor swimming pool, and sauna, as well as the Golden Beauty Spring, the only such ladies-only spa in Taipei. Hotel guests can use the sauna free of charge during the wintertime. Whether working out or winding down, the Lih Spa Club will make you feel good.
A low-key luxury star hotel, the Fullon Hotel Taipei, East is the eighth hotel in the Fullon Hotel and Resorts Group and opened its doors in 2010. 10 minute from Taipei 101 and the World Trade Center, this 317-room Fullon hotel is the most aesthetic tourist hotel in the Xinyi District serving business and leisure travelers alike.
The hotel is drawn up in a fashionable neoclassicist style, towering over the traffic between Shenkeng and Taipei, and brings a cultural note to this bustling industrial and commercial area. The elegant decoration and the landscape garden have created a unique style. The splendorous Hibiscus Hall can accommodate 50-60 tables and high-tech AV equipment, and offers nearly 300 parking spaces, making it an ideal choice for meetings with an entertainment component.
Conveniently accessible, it is located close to the Muzha Interchange of Freeway No. 3. XinHai Road connects straight to downtown, while XinYi Road connects to Xinyi District. Nearby sights abound: nostalgic Shenkeng Old Street and the food stalls at Shenkeng temple are at walking distance. The Taipei Zoo, a favorite with of the young and old, and the Maokong Gondola are not far either. Leisurely Pingxi, Shiqian Scenic Area, and the secluded Thousand Island Lake are also easily accessible by public and private transport. Exhibitions, shopping, the Taipei World Trade Center, the Xinyi Shopping District, the Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall, and many more sights are all only a 10-minute drive away.
The Lobby Lounge offers a variety of special drinks and Chinese and Western meals, and English afternoon tea. Whether it is a business lunch, a relaxing afternoon tea, dinner and drinks with some friends after work, or cocktails, you'll have a good time in this spacious and comfortable environment.
Booking time: 13:30-22:00. Reservation line: 02-2701-1239 # 317. Reservations will only be accepted for up to 14 days in advance.
※ Maximum charge per person is NT$120.
※ Outside alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks are subject to a service fee: TWD 300 for fruit juices and red and white wines, and TWD 500 per bottle of liquor.
※ For every TWD 1,000 of consumption in the restaurant, you receive 1 hour of free parking with a maximum of 4 hours per car.
※ The above content is subject to change without prior notice. On-site announcements prevail.
Master A-Ji Tea and his five-star team serve Hong Kong-style and Jiangzhe-style cuisine that's affordable and delicious. The restaurant can accommodate approximately 120 people. It's a great place to meet up over dinner with friends and relatives — and you might have a chance to meet Master A-Ji himself.
Hong Kong-style dimsum: From TWD 90 + 10%.
Chinese dinner: Monday to Thursday From TWD 10,000 + 10% per table, Friday to Sunday From TWD 12,000 + 10%.
Booking time: 10:30-21: 00. Reservation line: 02-2701-1239 # 323. Reservations will only be accepted for up to 14 days in advance.
Your exquisite Japanese cuisine and fresh seafood is prepared in a spacious and bright show kitchen. The restaurant has four VIP rooms: Pine, Bamboo, Sakura, and Chrysanthemum. These elegant Japanese-style spaces can each accommodate 8 to 40 guests-an excellent option for business dinners and small gatherings.
※ Last orders can be placed 30 minutes before the end of business hours.
Located on the 1F Level of Fullon Hotel Taipei Central, the Arcadia Café offers a spacious and bright dining environment with delicious international buffet. Lunchtime, dinnertime, weekdays, weekends, or holidays, the price is always the same and very competitive in the five-star hotel scene. Try it out! The space can be rented for wedding banquets, lectures, meetings, etc. Accommodates approximately 160 people.
※ The above rates are subject to an additional service charge.
※ Booking time: 10:00-18:00. Reservation line: 02-2701-1239 # 383 & #320. Reservations will only be accepted for up to 30 days in advance.
1. Each valid voucher can redeem a buffet. However, during certain times (most notably Mother's Day, Mid-Autumn Festival, Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, New Year's Eve and Lunar New Year) and special events the hotel may charge a higher rate in which case a voucher may only be used in partial payment.
2. An expired voucher can be used but an adjustment may be required where the expired voucher is of a lesser value, in which case the guest will pay the extra. No change given.
3. The giveaway vouchers may only be redeemed in weekdays and non-holidays.
※ Please read the detailed conditions and information on the back of the ticket. The hotel reserves the right to interpret and modify the content.
Prices and definitions of holidays may change without notice and on-site announcements prevail.
Classic, elegant, and fully-equipped, this flexible and open space can accommodate 50 Chinese banquet-style tables and 250 guests at Western-style meals. A great choice for your business seminars, celebratory dinner parties, birthday parties, weddings and so on.
The design of these rooms offers a high degree of privacy and wide range of dining options by a dedicated chef team. An excellent venue to entertain VIPs.
※ Outside alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks are subject to a service fee: TWD 300 for fruit juices and red and white wines, and TWD 500 per bottle of liquor. For every TWD 1,000 of consumption in the restaurant, you receive 1 hour of free parking with a maximum of 4 hours per car.
Freeway No.1 ◊ Exit from Yuanshan Interchange ◊ Take the Jianguo Elevated Highway ◊ Exit at Ren'ai Road ◊ Drive straight until 7-Eeleven.
1. Take the Bannan Line to ZhongXiao Xinsheng ◊ Take exit 3 ◊ Walk toward the Jianguo Elevated Highway ◊ Turn right into Jianguo South Road Section 1 ◊ Walk straight for about 15 minutes.
2. Take the Huilong-Wenzhou Line to ZhongXiao Xinsheng ◊ Take exit 6 ◊ Walk toward the Jianguo Elevated Highway ◊ Turn right into Jianguo South Road Section 1 ◊ Walk straight for about 15 minutes.
3. Take the Wenhu Line to Daan Station ◊ Transfer to the Tamsui Line ◊ Alight at Daan Forest Park Station ◊ Take Exit 6 ◊ Walk straight for about 8 minutes.
4. Take the Tamsui Line ◊ Alight at Daan Forest Park Station ◊ Take Exit 6 ◊ Walk toward the Jianguo Elevated Highway ◊ Turn right into Jianguo South Road Section 1 ◊ Walk straight for about 8 minutes.
1. Alight at Taipei Railway Station.
Please contact the hotel counter directly.


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Hall & Ogle Architects was chosen to design new additions and renovations for Volusia County School's Westside Elementary. The proposed additions and renovations will ultimately include 46,800 sf of new and updated facilities for students and facility. The construction will include 5,600 sf of new and renovated administration areas, 11 new classrooms, 8,064 sf of new and renovated ESE areas, new and renovated kitchen and food service facilities, a new music suite, P.E. suite and art lab. Along with additions and renovations, the existing parent pick-up/drop-off loop and bus loop will be reworked along with over site improvements.
First Step Shelter
Hall and Ogle Architects was chosen to design a 17,922 sf. homeless shelter for Volusia County. First Step Shelter will be a 24 hour, full service shelter offering approximately 100 beds for men and women across the county. Some of the amenities provided will include separate male and female dormitories, a full service kitchen with interior/exterior dining areas as well as health and medical services.
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The ribbon cutting was held last week for the brand new Flagler Avenue Lifeguard Station for Volusia County's Beach Safety Department. Located in New Smyrna Beach, a block away from Flagler Avenue, the 2,000 SF facility includes a large garage space, law enforcement office, staff office, kitchen, first aid area, and shower/locker room facilities. Beach Safety personnel had been housed for many years in an old dilapidated building from the early 1900's that was originally built as a part of a Coast Guard facility. That building was just demolished within the past few weeks. Check out the awesome custom made surfboards on the columns in front of the building, locally fabricated of course.


Drivers have been asked to be patient when a section of a main road between Blackpool and Fylde is closed later this month for roadworks.
Queensway, linking Marton and St Annes, will be shut between its junctions with Kilnhouse Lane and Blackpool Road North to allow for the installation of utilities outside the new Queensway housing development.
The closure will run from 8am on Saturday, October 20 to 6pm on Sunday, October 28 and diversions will be set up in both directions.
Blackpool-bound drivers will be directed along Blackpool Road North to its junction with Kilnhouse Lane.
Temporary traffic signals are being set up there to allow vehicles to turn right towards the junction with Queensway, where the normal route resumes.
Drivers heading from Blackpool towards Lytham will follow the route in reverse from Queensway's junction with Kilnhouse Lane.
The closure coincides with the half term break at many local schools, including Lytham St Annes Technology and performing Arts College, which is Fylde's biggest, but delays are still expected, particularly at peak times.
St Annes mayor Karen Henshaw, who represents Kilnhouse on the town council, added: "The work will cause traffic disruption and it will be necessary for all drivers and cyclists to allow extra time for their journeys.
Michael White, highway regulation manager for Lancashire County Council, said: "This work has been planned by the utility companies to take place during the school half-term holidays.
"It will include gas, electricity, water and BT.


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With the aim of analyzing the trophic dynamics of deep-sea shrimp over the central Algerian slope, stomach contents of 219 individuals of Parapenaeus longirostris and 263 Aristeus antennatus were collected at night at depths between 200 and 400 m on a seasonal scale in 2007. Fullness (f), which is a measure of feeding intensity, showed significant seasonal changes in Aristeus antennatus, and the highest f was found in pre-reproductive periods (3.3% in January; 3.0% in April) before the beginning of gonad maturation (April-September in the area). This trend was coupled with the period of high surface productivity off the central Algerian coast (November-April). In that pre-reproductive period A. antennatus consumed more crustaceans (e.g. large decapods such as Processa sp.) with a high energetic value. These kinds of seasonal oscillations in f were not found in P. longirostris, probably because it was distributed shallower than A. antennatus and does not have a single marked peak in its reproductive cycle. The dietary composition of P. longirostris and A. antennatus was clearly segregated in the MDS analysis, which suggests there is good resource partitioning between the two species. Foraminiferans, bivalves and polychaetes were the most frequent prey in the diet of both P. longirostris and A. antennatus. Small micro and mesoplankton prey (radiolarians, tintinnids, copepods and pteropods) were more important in the diet of P. longirostris, while A. antennatus fed more on benthos. Planktonic prey found in the diet of the two shrimp were more frequent in January-February and April-May, e.g. in periods of higher water homogeneity coupled with periods of higher surface production. The large contribution of zooplankton to the diet of the deep-water shrimp over Algerian slopes is probably due to the importance of eddies in the area, which may enhance water column production locally. The high surface temperature (lowest T in January of 15.2°C) may accelerate the degradation of the organic matter that reaches Algerian slope bottoms, thus reducing the biomass of macrobenthos. We hypothesized that this low availability of benthic food resources may favour night time migratory movements by benthopelagic shrimp off the Algerian coast in search of more productive, shallow bottoms.
Anderson, M.J., R.N. Gorley and K.R. Clarke. – 2008. PERMANOVA + for PRIMER: Guide to Software and Statistical Methods. PRIMERE: Plymouth, UK.
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Guijarro, B., E. Massutí, J. Moranta and J.E. Cartes. – 2009. Short spatio-temporal variations in the population dynamics and biology of the deep-water rose shrimp Parapenaeus longirostris (Decapoda: Crustacea) in the western Mediterranean. Sci. Mar., 73(1): 183-197.
Kapiris, K., M. Thessalou-Legaki, G. Petrakis, M. Moraitou-Apostolopoulou and C. Papaconstantinou. – 2000. Population characteristics and comparison of feeding parameters of Aristaeomorpha foliacea and Aristeus antennatus (Decapoda: Aristeidae) from the Ionian Sea (Eastern Mediterranean). In: F.R. Schram and J.C. von Vaupel Klein (eds.), Crustaceans and the biodiversity crisis. Proceed. Fourth Int. Crustacean Congr., Amsterdam, Netherlands, 20-24 July 1998, pp. 177-191. Brill, Leiden.
Khelifi-Touhami, M., R. Semroud, E.H. Hamdi, M. Ounissi, A. Haridi, M.N. Daly and P. Aissa. – 2007. The planktonic copepod communities from the southern Mediterranean Sea (Algeria, Tunisia) with a re-description of Paracalanus indicus Wolfenden 1905 (Copepoda: Calanoida). Cah. Biol. Mar., 48: 327-337.
Lagardère, J.P. – 1972. Recherches sur l'alimentation des crevettes de la pente continentale marocaine. Tethys, 3: 655-675.
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Nouar, A. – 2001. Bioécologie de Aristeus antennatus (Risso, 1816) et de Parapeneaeus longirostris (Lucas, 1846) des côtes algériennes. Rapp. Comm. int. Mer Médit., 36: 304.
Nouar, A. and C. Maurin. – 2001. Nature of and typical populations on the characteristic facies of substratum of Parapenaeus longirostris (Lucas, 1846) along the Algerian coast) Crustaceana, 74: 129-135.
Relini-Orsi, L. and M. Wütz. – 1977. Aspetti della rete trofica batiale riguardanti Aristeus antennatus (Risso, 1816) (Crustacea, Penaeidae). Atti X Congr. Sic. Ital. Biol. Mar. Ischia., 389-398.
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Tselepides, A. and A. Elefhteriou. – 1992. South Aegean (Eastern Mediterranean) continental slope benthos: Macro-infaunal-environmental relationships. In: Rowe G. T., Pariente, V. (eds.), Deep sea food chains and the global carbon cycle, pp. 139-156. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht.
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BARCELONA star Arthur has apologised for attending Neymar's birthday party last month while injured.
The 22-year-old attended the glitzy event in Paris just 48 hours before an El Clasico showdown with arch rivals Real Madrid.
But according to Marca, Artur regrets his decision to attend the party and has vowed to improve as a person.
He reportedly said: "I think I was wrong, life has these things, sometimes you're wrong and sometimes you're right.
"I was excited to go, but I'm big enough to take responsibility, I knew what I was doing, but I apologise.
"My colleagues have helped me a lot and I am grateful to them, I am also grateful to the members of the sports management.
"I am happy for having recovered, I give the best of myself, I know I have to improve, as a person."
Reports claimed that Barcelona's technical staff gave Arthur a dressing down after he was snapped at the event.
Ernesto Valverde decided not to drop the midfielder, but wanted him to be aware that his behaviour was not acceptable.
The six-cap Brazil international was sidelined with a hamstring injury and was ruled out for up to four weeks at the start of February.
He has cemented his spot in Barcelona's midfielder this season, bagging two assists in 30 appearances in all competitions.
Arthur was one of 200 guests at Neymar's red-themed birthday bash - including Kylian Mbappe, Edinson Cavani and David Luiz.
The Paris Saint-Germain forward hobbled into the event on crutches as he continued his recovery from a foot injury.


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I have been intending to submit my success story for the last few years, and I now realize why I was waiting. Even though I have lived Primally for the last 4.5 years I only decided to become a Primal Blueprint Health Coach and start a Primal wellness business in the last several months.
A chiropractor told me about Mark's Daily Apple in August of 2010. I signed up immediately for the 'weekly' email, which turned out to be daily. I loved that pace of information flow. After 14 months of reading all I could from Mark's Daily Apple, and independent researching, I finally believed those postings to have merit. The success stories carried the most weight, as I could see how others benefited from going Primal. The stories of others who were similar weight and had similar health issues were the most compelling to me. I thought people who lost 180 lbs in 1.5 years, or 65 lbs in a year, had to starve and work out for hours several days a week. Boy oh boy, do I know otherwise now!
I've gotten a lot of feedback about my leadership post earlier this year—particularly from people who connected with the humility aspect. It's a characteristic I think most people would agree is in short supply these days, but most of us still admire it when we see it. In truth, little in our culture today encourages a humble disposition, and I think that's a relatively new development. More than ever it seems to be the loudest, boldest, and (often) most obnoxious voices that garner our attention. Brashness somewhere along the line became an asset rather than an irritation. We're told we need to do more, be more, have more, "fight" for what what we presumably deserve, and push our way to the front if we want our good in life. Put yourself out there, talk yourself up, and—above all—look out for number one. Is anyone else exhausted by these instructions? The key (and related) question of the day, however, is this: what would Grok have said about this social shift?


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WASHINGTON, DC – National Council of Textile Organizations (NCTO) President & CEO Auggie Tantillo testified at the U.S. Trade Representative's (USTR) hearing on Negotiating Objectives Regarding Modernization of North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) with Canada and Mexico held in Washington, DC on Tuesday, June 27.
In his remarks as prepared for delivery, Tantillo outlined the U.S. textile industry's NAFTA negotiating objectives:
"On behalf of the National Council of Textile Organizations, thank you for the opportunity to provide input as USTR develops its objectives for modernizing NAFTA. NCTO represents the full spectrum of the U.S. textile sector, from fibers to yarns to fabrics to finished products, as well as suppliers of machinery, chemicals, and other products and services with a stake in the prosperity of our industry. The entire U.S textile manufacturing chain, from fiber through finished sewn products, employs 565,000 workers nationwide. In 2016, the industry manufactured over $74 billion in output, while exporting more than $26 billion of our production.
We strongly support President Trump's intention to reopen NAFTA and agree that it can be updated and improved to significantly enhance U.S. textile production, exports, and employment. The NAFTA region enjoys vibrant fiber, yarn, and fabric sectors in addition to cut and sew capabilities. As a result, NCTO supports building on the successes of NAFTA through seeking reasonable improvements to the agreement, but not a cancellation thereof, due to the high level of supply chain integration that exists today.
This partnership is evidenced by robust trade flows. The U.S. textile sector has a demonstrated capability of developing export markets within the NAFTA region. In fact, Mexico and Canada are our two largest export markets, where U.S. textile and apparel exports topped $11 billion in 2016. Furthermore, we maintain a positive trade balance in the sector with our NAFTA partners, achieving a $3.5 billion surplus last year.
NCTO does not foresee a need to reinstate tariffs on NAFTA-qualifying trade. Instead, we recommend a thorough review of the rules of origin to ensure that lucrative tariff benefits are appropriately reserved for manufacturers within the region. NAFTA is based on a yarn-forward rule of origin for textile and apparel trade, a main driver for the integration that has developed among the three countries. Yarn forward was originally devised under NAFTA and is the accepted rule for the industry and the U.S. government in every free trade agreement (FTA) since because it reserves key benefits for manufacturers within the signatory countries. It is also easier to enforce than a value-added rule.
Despite the logic of the yarn-forward structure, most U.S. FTAs, including NAFTA, also contain damaging loopholes in the textile rules of origin. The most egregious example is tariff preference levels. Tariff preference levels (TPLs) allow for products to be shipped duty free despite their components, representing the bulk of the value, being sourced from outside countries. For example, a cotton top, made from Chinese yarn and fabric, can be cut and sewn in Mexico and shipped duty free to the United States. Consequently, TPLs undermine benefits for NAFTA textile manufacturers, transferring them to non-signatories, such as China, who often use predatory trading practices and have made no market-opening concessions themselves.
Altogether, Mexico and Canada may ship nearly 236 million square meter equivalents of apparel, made-ups, and fabric and 12.8 million kilograms of yarn containing third-party inputs annually under the TPLs. It is our strong recommendation that the NAFTA TPL regime be eliminated.
Beyond TPLs, there are other yarn-forward derogations, including assembly-only rules for certain garments. These additional loopholes warrant analysis to determine whether they should be eliminated or adjusted to enhance the benefits for U.S. textile manufacturers under the agreement. We also believe that there should be a review of certain buy-American concessions that were unnecessarily granted to our NAFTA partners.
As a final point, it is our view that there has been a systematic deemphasis of commercial fraud enforcement at U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) over the past 30 years. CBP suffers from both a lack of resources and focus particularly considering the layering of new trade agreements and significant increase in imports over this time. As a result, the benefits of NAFTA are being siphoned off by those willing and able to circumvent U.S. trade laws. Our sector is especially prone to fraud, noting that textiles and apparel represent 40 percent of all U.S. duties collected, or $14 billion a year. Clearly, improving NAFTA customs enforcement should be a major focus of this renegotiation.
In conclusion, we fully agree with President Trump that NAFTA can be improved through a set reasonable adjustments to the current text designed to enhance U.S. textile manufacturing and exporting. Further, we believe that by closing unnecessary loopholes in the agreement and placing a greater emphasis on customs enforcement, all parties throughout the NAFTA region will benefit. Doing so will help to build on the vibrant textile and apparel production chain in North America that has evolved under NAFTA.
Thank you for your consideration of our views, and NCTO looks forward to working with the Trump administration as the NAFTA modernization effort progresses."
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