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"That too was": Darkness in the Work of Nicolas Baier
81 - Being Thirty Archive Features Nicolas Baier
"The man who meditates not, lives in blindness; the man who meditates, lives in darkness." — Victor Hugo, William Shakespeare1 1 - Victor Hugo, William Shakespeare, trans. Melville B. Anderson (Chicago: A. C. McClurg and Company, 1887), 175.
"The man who meditates not, lives in blindness; the man who
meditates, lives in darkness."
— Victor Hugo, William SHAKESPEARE2 2 - VICTOR HUGO, WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, TRANS. MELVILLE B. ANDERSON (CHICAGO: A. C. MCCLURG AND COMPANY, 1887), 175.
I like Réminiscence. Or, rather, I should say that I like the work now. Yet on the evening when I saw it for the first time, hanging near the bar at Montreal's PHI centre, I remember finding it disturbing. Too dark. This perspective above the clouds seemed ominous. There was something unsettling in the imposing thick clouds, in the reflections of the room captured in the image, something that was beyond my comprehension, something troubling. I chatted away with my friends about a screening that we had seen earlier, but my gaze was constantly drawn back to this darkness, to these clouds, to our reflections in the glass.
Perhaps it was a case of pareidolia, perhaps hidden in the image was a disquieting figure that escaped my consciousness? Or perhaps this image was watching me, and, feeling observed, I couldn't help but raise my eyes? But I don't think so. Something else was at work. Something that, like all unsettling dramas, was at once insignificant and cosmic. The human psyche is strange: it only takes one seemingly incongruous element for everything to suddenly become uncertain, fragile, contingent — for the turmoil in the image to become the turmoil in our perception and, by contagion, in our whole being.
Nicolas Baier, Méduse, 2005.
Photo : © Nicolas Baier
permission de | courtesy of Galerie Division, Montréal & Toronto
A broad array of art — and contemporary art is no exception — aims at immersing the viewer in another universe, another world that stretches beyond what can be seen in the frame. The real world is thus coupled with another space, one that resides beyond the image. And so we dream of simply looking at a representation, mentally exploring the new space that is portrayed, that is evoked.
Tourism of the imaginary has been developing for centuries. We enjoy immersing ourselves in images to escape our current condition: cinema, an extension of painting and literature, confers body and movement to these new environments, these new latitudes; video games offer us immense, immersive, interactive universes to explore.3 3 - In this regard, see my research: Le monde sans fin des jeux vidéo (Paris: Presses universitaires de France, 2009).
And yet, what these worlds have in common is that they all make sense; they all bear some resemblance to our own. It is only thus that we can project ourselves into them, find a space to land and move around. The characters inhabiting these worlds share our hopes and fears; it is only thus that we can identify with them. All imagination is, as a matter of principle, humanistic; that is, on a human scale.
"Little by little, my retina did what was necessary, setting in motion the obscure mechanical movements of the eye; my pupil dilated, my eye became accustomed, so to speak, and this darkness that I was observing began to grow pale. I distinguished what? Impossible to say. It was indistinct, transient, imperceptible to the eye, as it were. If nothingness had a form, it would be this."
Victor Hugo, Le promontoire du songe4 4 - Victor Hugo, Le Promontoire du songe (Paris: Éditons Gallimard, 2012), 20 (our translation).
What Hugo is describing here is his visit to the Paris Observatory, upon the invitation of his astronomer friend Dominique François d'Arago. What he observed, what remained so vividly in his memory that he would recall it thirty years later in Le promontoire du songe, is the moon. The moon seen through Arago's telescope. Arago, however, had a surprise for Hugo: before showing him the moon illuminated by the sun, the moon as we know it, he revealed it to him in the shadow of Earth, a dark body against the absolute darkness of the universe. It was this primal darkness that disoriented Hugo and upset the fragile balance between reality and dream.
Nicolas Baier seems to take up the role of Arago and offer us his telescope, a lens through which we can observe neither the familiar nor the strange, but something that challenges the very structure that determines these categories and their opposition. Baier proposes images that are monumental not in terms of their size, of course, but in terms of the vertigo that they engender. We feel strangely fragile when we look at them; they confront us with a world — our own — from which we seem to be absent, a world suddenly unfamiliar and whose disconcerting scale, the infinite nature of its rhythms, and the ineluctability of its forces we can finally measure . . . rupture of scale, turmoil, detachment.
Confronted with these key words — infinite, excessive scale, vertigo — the philosopher or art historian will return to his notes on Kant and the sublime, then dip his quill in his inkwell, satisfied. The art historian is au fait with the sublime.
Nicolas Baier, Réminiscence 02, 2013.
Therefore, locating these images in a reassuring category means contemplating them in light of Kant's notion of the sublime. Indeed, for Kant, the sublime stems from the moment when the imagination, unable to determine the scope of an event, is surpassed. The result is a feeling of vertigo, of amazement.5 5 - Kant writes that the sublime "is a pleasure that only arises indirectly, being brought about by the feeling of a momentary check to the vital forces followed at once by a discharge all the more powerful, and so it is an emotion that seems to be no play, but a serious matter in the exercise of the imagination. Hence charms are also incompatible with it; and, since the mind is not simply attracted by the object, but is also alternately repelled thereby, the delight in the sublime does not so much involve positive pleasure as admiration or respect, i.e. merits the name of a negative pleasure." Immanuel Kant, Critique of Judgement, ed. Nicholas Walker, trans. James Creed Meredith (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007), 75–76. Yet for Kant, true sublimity means that the vertigo and thrill of the sublime must take on meaning and underpin a particular idea, a particular vision of the world. It is by virtue of a certain romanticism that the infinite ocean charms us, and it is by virtue of an admiration for the forces of nature that the tallest peaks haunt us. The sailor does not feel a constant sense of the sublime at sea, nor may the Sherpa always experience the sublime in the eternal snows of Everest. Kant writes, "Thus the broad ocean agitated by storms cannot be called sublime. The sight of it is horrible, and one must have stored one's mind in advance with a wealth of ideas, if such an intuition is to attune it to a feeling which is itself sublime — sublime because the mind has been incited to abandon sensibility, and employ itself upon ideas involving a higher purposiveness."6 6 - Ibid., 76.
For Kant, the great immensity and force of nature can be sublime only if this greatness and force resonate with a certain idea held by the subject. But what happens when an experience does not serve a "higher purposiveness" but challenges it instead? What happens when an experience shakes our comprehension of the world and exposes us to its limits?
It is not to Kant's sublime that we must turn to understand such a sense of dispossession, but to Burke's, which is less idealistic and less distinct — a sublime in which vertigo is not set within reason but, on the contrary, dislodges it. Burke defined the sublime by means of the terrible: "Whatever is fitted in any sort to excite the ideas of pain, and danger, that is to say, whatever is in any sort terrible, or is conversant about terrible objects, or operates in a manner analogous to terror, is a source of the sublime; that is, it is productive of the strongest emotion which the mind is capable of feeling."7 7 - Edmund Burke, Philosophical Enquiry into Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful (London: Printed for J. Dodsley, 1770), 58 – 59.
Nicolas Baier, Étoile (noire), 2010.
Photo : Richard-Max Tremblay
It is this that allows the sublime to absorb and destabilize the viewer. "The mind is so entirely filled with its object, that it cannot contain any other, not by consequence reason on that object which employs it. Hence arises the great power of the sublime, that far from being produced by them, it anticipates our reasonings, and hurries us on by an irresistible force."8 8 - Ibid., 95 – 96. For Burke, reason is vanquished by the sublime event; it is carried away by a force, a phenomenon that surpasses it. Suddenly, meaning vacillates and may be reconstructed later, yet the damage inflicted by this moment remains like an open wound.
This dispossession holds sway in our times: the sublime confronts us with the otherness of the real. We live in a world that is generally comfortable — comfortable and meaningful. We prefer to avoid uncertainty and doubt; we prefer rationality. We live in a most conventional form of humanism in which everything exists only on a human scale, according to an established world order. Even fiction and entertainment essentially serve as a means for us to accept or tolerate our lot; the sublime allows us to confront the real, that which is most painful, most indifferent to the human condition. Arago's telescope presented Hugo with only a very small — tiny, minuscule — image, and yet this image contained a fragment of the infinite, a hint of vertigo.9 9 - To understand such a phenomenon, one must not turn too quickly toward the unpresentable or to Lyotard's thoughts on the sublime. The same can be said of Baier's work.
Creating Darkness
"And yet, everything remained indistinct, and the only difference was this pallor in the darkness. Confusion in the detail, diffusion of the whole; the sole contour and relief that could take shape in the darkness of the night. The sensation of depth and loss of the real was terrible. And yet the real was there. I touched the folds of my clothing. I was, me. Well, that too was."10 10 - Hugo, Promontoire, 20 (our translation).
Victor Hugo, Le promontoire du songe
There is no psychologism in Baier. One would have to search a long time to find the traces of a human face to interpret. The artist presents us with stones, cloudy skies, mirrors. Emptied out, this space seems twofold: on the one hand, through the absence of human traces, and on the other, through the very gesture of the artist, which tends to be as discreet and indirect as possible. Baier's process is based on contingency and the uncertain. For Réminiscence, he underlines that at first he wanted to depict the cloudy mass that supposedly reigned on Earth before it became a rocky mass. He explains, "I wanted, with the help of a professional programmer and powerful software, to go back in time, several million years into the past, to 'photograph' the mixture of gases and dust from the era when Earth was forming, under the thermal and gravitational force of the sun."11 11 - Nicolas Baier, Réminiscence (vision d'artiste), accessed February 10, 2014, http://nicolasbaier.com/pages/Reminiscence.html (our translation).
Given the impossibility of this task, he decided on a more modest scale: to capture the mass of clouds that loomed over Montreal ten thousand years ago. He used computer programs that ran for hours to produce this strange view, this blanket of clouds. He adds, "If there is a formal fabric, an aesthetic design behind this project, it is to allow the process to follow its course. The image, the proposal, is the result of this lengthy operation. The camera (the point of view in the software) was simply placed at a height and high angle that guaranteed a view from above a cloud horizon. In short, the pictorial composition was not constructed. What is seen is nothing other than the culmination of a mechanical operation."12 12 - Nicolas Baier, Réminiscence (vision d'artiste), accessed February 10, 2014, http://nicolasbaier.com/pages/Reminiscence.html (our translation).
Nicolas Baier, Vanités 04, 2013.
Photo : Gareth Brown-Jowett
A similar process was used in Vanités; here, Baier digitized mirrors whose silvering had been ravaged by use and time, resulting in images without reflections, in which only abstract forms and darkness can be seen. Beautiful yet disturbing, these images offer us a blind reflection, an abyss implied by the silvering, which, framing these invisible reflections, veils their content in mystery. If mirrors usually reflect our world, here their silence disturbs us. Vanités reveals an impossible truth: a reflective surface that no one beholds, that reflects not even light.
The Inhuman and the Abstract
What do these works show us? They are anti-humanistic in the strictest and least ideological sense: humanity is not the measure of all things. The artist does not present aestheticized objects, meaningful to the viewer avid for interpretations. The artist's gesture discreetly places us in front of vistas of a universe indifferent to our condition, indifferent to our presence. Faced with the infinite, with eternity, with celestial orbits, it is not with triumph that we observe the world, but with fear, an expression of our contingency. As Pierre Bertrand rightly noted in an essay on Baier, "Consciousness is not made to embrace everything. Things must, from time to time, pass through it in order to exist in our eyes, yet consciousness is itself but an element of a whole that is greater than its parts. A thing is greater than the name we give it."13 13 - Pierre Bertrand, La vision de l'univers, accessed February 10, 2014, http://nicolasbaier.com/pages/univers.html (our translation). Baier calls on us to contemplate almost infinite time, objects that we haven't created, rhythms that normally defy human consciousness. And this knowledge is not formative; it is distorting and destabilizing.
It is certainly difficult to maintain the tension of this unknowing, it is difficult not to reduce it to some reason or another. It is nevertheless imperative that we do so. It is one of the strongest and most effective levers for prying us away from our usual view of the world. Being struck with such images offers us a moment of detachment, the first step toward, and condition for, a new less certain, more fragile, yet more lucid perspective.
[Translated from the French by Louise Ashcroft]
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Wednesday, October 15, 2008 by Bradley Campbell in News
Jimmy Nisser just might have been the nicest person in all of St. Louis Park. He had a trimmed mustache and buoyant eyes, and always knew the score to the Twins games. He was the type of guy who cleaned the storm drains on his block, showed up an hour early to church to prepare coffee for groggy parishioners, and never forgot to send a birthday card.
He was also a lifelong cyclist. Born with cerebral palsy and unable to drive, he used his bicycle as his main mode of transportation. On sunny days, he'd wake up and pedal to work at 4 a.m. to prepare for his job at the Minikahda Club, the delicately combed golf course where he worked for 43 years. His daily path took him down Excelsior Boulevard, a four-lane roadway lined by American elm trees and Virginia creeper vines that separates the fairways like a deciduous canyon. Its green leaves and branches arch over passing traffic like solemn guards.
On September 11, Nisser strapped on his helmet, turned on his safety lights, and took his bike to work. But a block away from his turn off Excelsior, a tan Jeep Grand Cherokee slammed into his bike. The Jeep dragged Nisser across the pavement about 30 feet before he fell in a heap. The Jeep sped off.
Nisser's death echoed like a gunshot through the Twin Cities' close-knit cycling community. He was one of four riders killed as the result of collisions with cars within the last few months. The reaction has been an upsurge of concern for bicycle awareness, including black-clad memorial rides and ghost bikes at accident sites.
Yet despite these high-profile incidents, it is actually safer to ride on the street than at any other time in recent memory, according to city statistics. Minneapolis reports that accidents are down 20 percent from the 1990s.
To nervous cyclists, it sure doesn't feel that way, which is why we decided to assemble a list of the city's 10 most dangerous intersections for bike riders. We obtained crash reports from the city of Minneapolis that pinpoint intersections with the highest number of car/bicycle collisions over a recent three-year period. But raw numbers don't tell the whole story, as not every incident gets reported. So we also went out and polled the local cycling community, bicycle shop owners, race organizers, city planners, nonprofits that allocate federal funding for bicycle infrastructure improvement, and messengers who make their living crisscrossing the city's streets.
Hurl Everstone, owner of CRC Cykel Garage, says he goes out of his way to avoid Lyndale and West 15th
"It's really about safety and convenience," says Doug Shidell, publisher of the Twin Cities Bike Map. "It's the same reason why people lobby to change intersections for motorists. We want to get through them safely and quickly."
The Light Rail Trail (LRT) and 26th Street
In 2006, Emily Wergin was waiting at this intersection when a truck pulled up and blocked her view. As Wergin pedaled forward, an onrushing van slammed directly into her, striking her front tire and handlebars with enough force to send her cartwheeling across the pavement.
"I ended up contorted in a very strange way," she says. "And my handlebars got torqued."
Luckily, she walked away with only bruises and cuts.
Even before her accident, this intersection frustrated Wergin, who works on projects, some federally funded, to make neighborhoods more pedestrian- and bike-friendly.
She says the technical term for the LRT and 26th is a "double threat intersection," meaning that a cyclist has multiple dangers to look out for. "When you get to this intersection you never know where to look," says Wergin.
It's also one of the busiest intersections in the city, with 2,000 cyclists passing through it daily. And the only time cyclists really get the right of way is when the Light Rail train goes by, once every five minutes during rush hours.
Wergin's idea to solve the tricky intersection would be the installation of a larger median in the center of the road. Cyclists could then make their way through the trouble spot in two steps. "But I don't even know if there's enough room for that. There is no easy solution to this one," she says.
Hennepin/Lyndale and West 15th Street
If a cyclist makes it north and out of the Franklin and Lyndale gauntlet, they come upon a two-lane bike path off the street. It runs parallel down the length of the Walker Art Museum, in the shadow of the Hennepin Avenue United Methodist church, and is protected by raised pavement.
But all this safety comes to an abrupt end when the bike path suddenly vanishes at West 15th, spitting cyclists out into traffic.
Along this stretch there have been at least five car-bike accidents between 2003 and 2005. And about 900 cyclists a day ride this path.
"That one is a bad one," says Hurl Everstone, owner of CRC Cykel Garage. "I really think it has to do with the five stoplights. I avoid that one if possible."
The Minnehaha Roundabout
When Nick Mason biked into the Minnehaha roundabout, he was following the law to behave like a car. But someone should have told that to the drivers. As he veered around the lane on his Trek 5200 road bike, a vehicle shot out in front of him. Mason slammed into the side of the car, crushing the front end of his bike and sending his body skipping across the pavement.
An employee of Dero Bike Racks, a business that has a partnership with the Safe Routes to Schools program and sponsors the national bike summit, Mason had experienced an unintended consequence of the beautiful engineering solution that weaves together four unevenly sized streets.
While it allows cars to proceed without creating traffic and reduces the number of auto accidents, the same can't be said for bikes. When a cyclist enters the roundabout, it's as though they just entered Thunderdome.
Known as the godfather of the Minneapolis bike scene, Gene Oberpriller says Hennepin is particularly dangerous
In one quick moment, a rider must negotiate multiple intersections. While safe for a car, bicycles tend to disappear from view. And with the lack of roundabouts in the Twin Cities, cars aren't accustomed to driving them, either.
Even though there has only been one reported accident between 2003 and 2005, close calls are a regular occurrence. On a recent day, three cyclists were nearly hit in the span of 11 minutes.
Bob Witter learned to navigate this roundabout the hard way. When he pedaled into it, a car decided to overtake him before cutting him off as it exited. "I slammed on my brakes and the car nearly clipped my wheel," Witter says. "Now, I move way out into the roundabout and take up the whole lane. While it feels dangerous, it's the only way to stay safe."
Cedar and Riverside Avenues
Linkage continues to be the city's Achilles' heel for cyclists, who find themselves stymied when trying to get from one neighborhood to another. The intersection at Cedar and Riverside reflects this problem. About 820 cyclists cross through it a day; most of them are traveling between the U of M and the Light Rail stop near the Bedlam Theatre.
There are also plenty of attractions that draw cyclists. Within a couple of blocks, the street has two bicycle shops and numerous concert venues including the 400 Bar, Acadia, and the Triple Rock.
Yet the intersection and most of the Seven Corners area lack something as simple as a bicycle lane.
Since 2003, there's been only one reported crash. But Transit for Livable Communities, a Twin Cities-based nonprofit that allocates $21.5 million to improve infrastructure for bicycles and pedestrians, highlighted this corridor as a top priority. Jeff Frane, a local rider who organizes one of the largest alley-cat messenger races in Minneapolis, also points to Cedar and Riverside as one of the worst places to ride.
The problem is the odd angles of the streets, which creates a labyrinth of blind spots for drivers and riders.
Benjamin Tsai, from the Hub bicycle co-op, works a block away. "It's just a confusing intersection," says Tsai. "It's not just a four-way stop. The other thing is there is a lot of traffic and the pavement is also rough in sections."
Joan Paisuk, program director for Transit for Livable Communities, says that the city plans to change Riverside from four lanes to three and color-coat the bike lanes. "And there'll be bike lanes on both sides of the street," she adds.
University Avenue and I-35W ramps
On a normal day, the bicycle lane on University Avenue fills with about 1,400 cyclists: everybody from hipsters on fixed-gears to freshman on mountain bikes and professors on cruisers.
But the commute gets sketchy as the cyclists approach the university and make their way across a nasty section: the I-35W northbound ramps.
According to city statistics, this intersection is the fifth-worst in the city for bike/car collisions. A big reason is that it asks drivers to instantly start looking for bikes after being on the highway for miles.
Yet Don Pflaum, city bike coordinator, feels this problem might soon be resolved. "With the completion of the bridge, planners took into consideration sight lines of drivers on the northbound ramp," he says. "This should improve the intersection. But only time will tell if this actually makes an improvement."
26th Street and Lyndale Avenue South
With the CC Club, the Bulldog, and Common Roots anchoring the corners, Lyndale and 26th is an ideal destination for cyclists who like to socialize. As if the allure of cheap beer and fried cheese curds weren't enough, there's ample bike parking.
Still, Lyndale Avenue and 26th Street are horrid to ride. Both lack bike lanes and traffic moves at around 35 mph. Buses blast by, inches away from cyclists—the wind whipping off is enough to startle riders. The intersection has seen six crashes between 2003 and 2005, placing it in the top four worst intersections according to the city.
There are currently no plans to fix this intersection. Ideas being tossed around the cycling community include changing the street from four lanes to three, providing room for a bike lane, and offering a turn lane for cars in the center.
Another goal is to get cyclists to use the slower yet safer Bryant Avenue, a future bike boulevard.
"Honestly, you have so many other options I don't see why you'd ride down 26th or Lyndale at all," says Phil Werst, general manager of Common Roots Cafe, who rides this section of town every day and purposefully avoids the intersection. "You got Bryant and Aldrich avenues right there as way better alternatives."
Hennepin Avenue. All of it.
Throughout the city, if there's one man who can be considered a local cycling sage, it's Gene Oberpriller, co-owner of One on One bike shop downtown and a former bike messenger.
When approached with the question of the worst intersections in the city, he didn't hesitate to answer.
"Every intersection in the city is dangerous," he said, "but the Hennepin bike lane is especially bad. And by the library is the worst. I've had almost a dozen near-death experiences there."
The Hennepin bike lane is something unique and dangerous for the entire downtown. It's a doublewide bike lane in the middle of the street, used as a main drag for cyclists looking to get through the north side of downtown. Between Sixth and Seventh Streets, 1,500 cyclists ride the Hennepin bike lane every day.
Then, at Washington Avenue, the lane simply ends. Cyclists suddenly find themselves in the middle of a giant intersection complete with buses turning in on them, oncoming traffic approaching from all directions, and three additional lanes of traffic to cross just to get back over to the right side of the street.
From 2003 to 2005, there were 16 accidents on this stretch—approximately two crashes for every block. The major problem is cars making left turns—most drivers on Hennepin are concentrating on buses coming at them rather than cyclists coming up behind them on the left.
"I think the reality is that if there was no bus traffic there wouldn't be as many accidents," says Tom Becker, the former assistant system director of transportation.
The city has plans to make Hennepin a two-way street, but one idea on the board would place the bike lane in the center of the avenue, asking cyclists to make their way through two or three lanes of traffic every time they want to turn.
"If we don't voice our concerns," says Doug Shidell, "we'll be stuck with it for the next 20 years or more."
Lyndale and Franklin Avenues
Last spring, Chris Duerkop coasted down the hill on Franklin and came to a stop at a red light. A technical writer at Quality Bike Parts, one of the top bicycling distributors in the nation, Duerkop waited for the light to change, then proceeded into the intersection. But as he entered it, a car turned left, crossing into his lane.
"It forced me into the median," he recalls. "And the car just kept on cruising."
Between 2003 and 2005, there were six bike-car collisions at this intersection, tying it with three others for the highest number in Minneapolis. A major reason is that it serves as a link between Uptown and Downtown. But it's also a place where cars look to enter the I-94 eastbound ramp.
To mitigate the danger, the city built a bike bridge a block to the south that links Lyndale to Bryant Avenue. The goal was to get cyclists to avoid the dangerous intersection entirely.
But while it's a beautiful bridge, it's also a major inconvenience. In a study conducted last September, the city found that an overwhelming majority of cyclists preferred to take the short route rather than wind around on a bridge with a tight switchback and semi-steep incline.
28th Street and Portland Avenue
In the early 1990s, city planners made the decision to place bike lanes on the left side of the road. Their thinking was that it would dramatically lower the chance that a cyclist would get "doored," the term for when a driver opens a car door in front of a biker.
But that decision had an unintended consequence: It placed cyclists closer to faster-moving traffic unaccustomed to looking for bikes on the left.
Six collisions occurred at 28th and Portland between 2003 and 2005; at least two of them were the result of a car making a left turn, side-swiping the cyclist making his way south. These accidents are causing the city to rethink its position on left-hand bicycle lanes, and whether dooring is really that big of an issue.
"Dooring really just makes up a fraction of all bicycle collisions," says David Hiller, advocacy director of Cascade Bicycle Club, a nonprofit in Seattle, Washington. "Cities should really focus on people turning into intersections."
Hiller's group launched a plan to solve the problem in Seattle. They installed movable signposts next to areas where cars park for short periods of time, usually in front of coffee shops. The signs read, "Look for Bikes."
And that's it. Instead of relying on infrastructure to solve the problem, they educated Seattle residents, and it worked.
Central and Lowry Avenues
When the two main drags in northeast Minneapolis converge, they create some serious pain for cyclists. City data points to Central and Lowry as the worst intersection in the city. Buses whiz through, while cars treat the streets like mini-freeways. Absent is any sort of bike lane. And even though only 180 cyclists use this deathtrap on any given day, it has the highest collision rate in Minneapolis.
This intersection is the one, above all others, to avoid at all costs. For cyclists who do ride it, don't make the mistake of pedaling on the sidewalk. This makes riders invisible to cars. "What we know from traffic reports," says Steve Clark from Transit for Livable Communities, "is that riding on the sidewalks doubles your risk to get hit."
About six collisions have occurred in this area between 2003 and 2006. To put it in perspective, that's more than the total number seen at University and I-35W, which gets about 10 times the amount of daily bicycle traffic.
"It's really the worst when it comes down to numbers," says Shaun Murphy, bicycle project coordinator for the city. "Hopefully we can get some bike lanes or something other installed to prevent further collisions."
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Investigating hookworm genomes by comparative analysis of two Ancylostoma species.
Mitreva M, McCarter JP, Arasu P, Hawdon J, Martin J, Dante M, Wylie T, Xu J, Stajich JE, Kapulkin W, Clifton SW, Waterston RH, Wilson RK.
BMC Genomics. 2005 Apr 26;6:58.
Characterizing Ancylostoma caninum transcriptome and exploring nematode parasitic adaptation.
Wang Z, Abubucker S, Martin J, Wilson RK, Hawdon J, Mitreva M.
BMC Genomics. 2010 May 14;11:307. doi: 10.1186/1471-2164-11-307.
Stein LD, Bao Z, Blasiar D, Blumenthal T, Brent MR, Chen N, Chinwalla A, Clarke L, Clee C, Coghlan A, Coulson A, D'Eustachio P, Fitch DH, Fulton LA, Fulton RE, Griffiths-Jones S, Harris TW, Hillier LW, Kamath R, Kuwabara PE, Mardis ER, Marra MA, Miner TL, Minx P, Mullikin JC, Plumb RW, Rogers J, Schein JE, Sohrmann M, Spieth J, Stajich JE, Wei C, Willey D, Wilson RK, Durbin R, Waterston RH.
PLoS Biol. 2003 Nov;1(2):E45. Epub 2003 Nov 17.
Transcriptional changes in the hookworm, Ancylostoma caninum, during the transition from a free-living to a parasitic larva.
Datu BJ, Gasser RB, Nagaraj SH, Ong EK, O'Donoghue P, McInnes R, Ranganathan S, Loukas A.
PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2008 Jan 9;2(1):e130. doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0000130.
A survey of the intestinal transcriptomes of the hookworms, Necator americanus and Ancylostoma caninum, using tissues isolated by laser microdissection microscopy.
Ranjit N, Jones MK, Stenzel DJ, Gasser RB, Loukas A.
Int J Parasitol. 2006 May 31;36(6):701-10. Epub 2006 Mar 6.
Molecular cloning and DNA binding characterization of DAF-16 orthologs from Ancylostoma hookworms.
Gao X, Frank D, Hawdon JM.
Int J Parasitol. 2009 Mar;39(4):407-15. doi: 10.1016/j.ijpara.2008.09.005. Epub 2008 Oct 7.
The canine hookworm genome: analysis and classification of Ancylostoma caninum survey sequences.
Abubucker S, Martin J, Yin Y, Fulton L, Yang SP, Hallsworth-Pepin K, Johnston JS, Hawdon J, McCarter JP, Wilson RK, Mitreva M.
Mol Biochem Parasitol. 2008 Feb;157(2):187-92. Epub 2007 Nov 9.
Identification of a DAF-7 ortholog from the hookworm Ancylostoma caninum.
Brand AM, Varghese G, Majewski W, Hawdon JM.
Int J Parasitol. 2005 Dec;35(14):1489-98. Epub 2005 Aug 24.
The dingo non-long terminal repeat retrotransposons from the genome of the hookworm, Ancylostoma caninum.
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Exp Parasitol. 2006 Jul;113(3):142-53. Epub 2006 Jan 30.
Schwarz EM, Hu Y, Antoshechkin I, Miller MM, Sternberg PW, Aroian RV.
Nat Genet. 2015 Apr;47(4):416-22. doi: 10.1038/ng.3237. Epub 2015 Mar 2. Erratum in: Nat Genet. 2015 Jun;47(6):689.
Cloning and characterisation of an aspartyl protease inhibitor (API-1) from Ancylostoma hookworms.
Delaney A, Williamson A, Brand A, Ashcom J, Varghese G, Goud GN, Hawdon JM.
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The bandit, a new DNA transposon from a hookworm-possible horizontal genetic transfer between host and parasite.
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PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2007 Sep 27;1(1):e35.
Cloning, sequencing and phylogenetic analysis of the small GTPase gene cdc-42 from Ancylostoma caninum.
Yang Y, Zheng J, Chen J.
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Exploring transcriptional conservation between Ancylostoma caninum and Haemonchus contortus by oligonucleotide microarray and bioinformatic analyses.
Cantacessi C, Loukas A, Campbell BE, Mulvenna J, Ong EK, Zhong W, Sternberg PW, Otranto D, Gasser RB.
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Mechanistic and single-dose in vivo therapeutic studies of Cry5B anthelmintic action against hookworms.
Hu Y, Zhan B, Keegan B, Yiu YY, Miller MM, Jones K, Aroian RV.
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Dryanovski DI, Dowling C, Gelmedin V, Hawdon JM.
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Ancylostoma caninum: the finger cell neurons mediate thermotactic behavior by infective larvae of the dog hookworm.
Bhopale VM, Kupprion EK, Ashton FT, Boston R, Schad GA.
Two potential hookworm DAF-16 target genes, SNR-3 and LPP-1: gene structure, expression profile, and implications of a cis-regulatory element in the regulation of gene expression.
Gao X, Goggin K, Dowling C, Qian J, Hawdon JM.
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Skin penetration of infective hookworm larvae. III. Comparative studies on the path of migration of the hookworms Ancylostoma braziliense, Ancylostoma ceylanicum, and Ancylostoma caninum.
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Rhodora 61: 103 (1959)

#### Original name
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Libre's Law passes the Senate, goes on to the governor
HARRISBURG – A comprehensive bill to prevent numerous forms of animal cruelty is on its way to Governor Wolf to be signed into law, according to Senator Rich Alloway II (R-33).
House Bill 1238 strengthens existing animal abuse laws and makes it easier to prosecute a person who knowingly mistreats, abuses or neglects an animal. The bill also adds a new classification of aggravated animal cruelty for offenders who cause the death or serious bodily injury of an animal. Violators could be found guilty of a third-degree felony.
MORE: Libre's inspiring story sparks change
MORE: Libre, animal advocate awarded by Humane Society
MORE: Caring for Libre
The Senate passed the bill unanimously on Tuesday.
Gov. Tom Wolf said in a statement before the vote that he was "eager" to sign the bill.
"The improvements in this bill are the most significant changes to Pennsylvania's animal abuse laws in more than three decades," Alloway said. "The effort to strengthen laws against animal cruelty was driven not only by members on both sides of the aisle in the General Assembly, but also by an army of tireless advocates who wrote, called and emailed their Senators and Representatives in pursuit of a safer environment for our furry friends."
The re-write of Pennsylvania's animal abuse laws is based on a bill Alloway introduced last year in response to the story of Libre, a Boston terrier puppy who was rescued last year from a Lancaster County farm after suffering from weeks of severe neglect. The Senate approved Alloway's version of Libre's Law in April.
MORE: Libre is looking healthy in new photos
MORE: Charges filed against Libre the puppy's former owner
MORE: Lancaster SPCA official resigns over Libre case
The legislation also includes language Alloway introduced to prevent dog owners from tethering their pets without access to food, water and shelter, or during periods of intense heat, cold, or other forms of inclement and dangerous weather.
In addition, the bill includes a number of other provisions to protect animals, including measures to provide for the forfeiture of animals in cases of abuse, adds protections for horses and creates a new classification for crimes against guide dogs and police animals.
MORE: Rescuer plans to adopt Libre the puppy


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Q: PXE a W7x64 Task Sequence on a Lenovo X250 with SCCM 2012 SP1 & Windows ADK My purpose is to PXE boot a Windows 7 (x64) Task Sequence on a Lenovo X250 with :

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*Boot Image 4.0 x64 / WinPE 6.2 generated with Windows 8 ADK

With these Lenovo drivers for SCCM , I tried several configurations :

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*WinPE Boot Image Driver Packs 3.1 x64 + Windows 7 x64 Pack Driver

*WinPE Boot Image Driver Packs 5 x64 + Windows 7 x64 Pack Driver.

Both of them didn't allow the download of WinPE and display the endless "connecting to server........." message.
Now, I would like to know the recipe of downloading Boot Image for a Lenovo X250 w/ SCCM 2012 SP1.
If anyone knows, Please share...

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Odd that the "mini-boss" is more powerful in every way than the "boss". Might as well put the boss on floor 1.
Actually the mini-boss has less effective HP than the boss if you're using the best-suited color for this dungeon, red.
Same if you happen to be stuck with green.
Because red requires the least total damage to defeat the two bosses.
How is red the best suited?
dunno. I used awoken orochi, rodin, 3x grodin, and some wildcard to blast through this in challenge mode. 4 tpa blasts through both fl 6 and 7 defense no matter the color. only used poison because this build is also for an earlier floor in this dungeon and I forgot the defense wasn't that high here.
By Steph: Extant Sonia@lvl70 (all awoken); Odin@max lvl (all awoken); Hino@lvl30; Baddies@lvl28 & lvl 31. Friend's Sonia@max (all awoken) Stall on floors 1-5 until all skills are ready. Floor 6: Baddie's skill & Extant Sonia's skill for OHKO. Floor 7: Hino's skill & Baddie's skill & Dragon Caller Sonia's skill for OHKO.
By ☸ Shelli Δ: * CHALLENGE MODE * ~ You'll have all the HP you need to tank hits from F6 and 7. Grodins should be fully awoken; 3 are plenty to ensure recovery on boss mobs in time, even if heart orb trolled. Just pop poison on each boss and wait till they die! Gungnirs speed things up; use Noah on F6 (when you have full turns) if you like.
By DragnsBane: Didnt see a healer team, so figured I would post. Maybe 250 + eggs, average lvl of 75. Easy dungeon. Make sure shynee is up by 6, use shynee, angelion, and valk and ohko graviton, then use echidna on boss. 5 or 6 turns to burst 900k is easy. Valk and Angelion should be up before she acts, but i didnt need it.
⊃ ❀ ◬: I used a high-plussed Bastet instead of Angelion. Quick and easy compared to some other builds I tried out first.
Belle: I used a max lvl +51 valk as my lead instead of Metatron, max skilled siren instead of angelion, and a +52 lvl 71 blue Isis instead of a valk as a sub. Got to F6, siren, valk, shynee, and DIDN'T OHKO graviton. Had to use echidna to finish him, which cost me my life on Minerva. Not sure what went wrong here.
By Btc84: stall & pray for a gold dragon to help stall. fl6 use first ronia + shiva for enhance red but won't one shot. use Shaitan's active to void wood dmg. use phoenix knight to help you get more red orbs to finish off Earth Dragon. fl7 use other ronia + king baddie = one shot. my monsters' were lvl 22-33, friend was max level.
By Bonny: Monsters: -All Awakened -Only thing skilled is fafnir, but stalling with this rcv doesn't matter, just speeds it up. -All levels ~70 R1-5. Stall for fafnir, pop ADKZ when needed. R6. Pop a sonia active, should kill, due to 5/3 row enhances. BOSS. Pop sonia+zombie dragon, should one hit.
By maskedfoo: Charge Haku skills from rounds 1-5. Siren's for safety and stalling but I never used her skill. Round 6 use echidna and a haku skill. By then the rest of the team's skills should be charged. Round 7 use the other Haku skill and Hera-Ur's skill to nuke. Average team level around 70.
By 47 Ronia: Typical Ronia strategy, kill synced monsters and stall. F6 use Ronia, Echidna if needed. F7 use burst skills. Gravity use is situational. If you have enough fire damage then save Gravity for F7. If not then use on F6.
By Cullinaire: Stall for skills-EZ due to Ra. Make sure you have enough hp if you are going to use Susano on Graviton, otherwise use Menace like I had to. Grav is better used on Graviton than Minerva due to hp and def difference. Use Susano or Menace on Minerva and 24x until done.
By Seankekong: Siren max skill and awoken Lilith awoke 1 for auto heal Odin max awoke. Use mvd to sweep small demons and poison the big ones build up Lilith and mvd skills each round. Round 6 and 7 just grind through with 3 auto heals plus sirens rondo as long as you match orbs each turn you can't lose. Takes a while but it works.
XCWarior: Slow but effective, used a different dragon but same effect. No way to die, just takes forever.
By bobert: Struggled with this level and finally made this build. Takes time but works well. Odin is fully awoken and Lilith has 1 awoken skill. The auto heals take pressure off versus the two bosses. Use Hera, Odin and Lucifer skills with the bosses and recharge. Use Kush and Echidna when in trouble or low on heal orbs.
By Etat: Charge skills on 1-5. Goemon skill not needed. Haku skill to nuke 6, then friend's Haku for 7. Jotunn and Siren are panic buttons.
By Woofer: 40000 hp with 4x multiplier. Use snow globe flame gift if necessary ardbeg to whittle monsters, trying to make sure to finish monsters with orbs to build up those skills for round 2-5. Round 6, focus on healing, use echidna and goeman skill same turn to leave room to build up heal/fire orbs for next attack. Repeat on round 7.
By Gutentag: Slow but very safe. As long as the monsters on round 1 aren't synced you're safe.stall on round 1. Hera or any gravity user makes battles 6 and 7 go faster. Any combination of ancient dragons can be used.
By AdarSA: Low RCV, non-IAP team. One RGG and the echidna should be max skill. 700-1K RCV recommended to manage HP on stage 1. If all mons are level 40-50+ and both RGGs are max skill, stalling for the bubblie is not required. Dragon dies in 2-3 turns of 2 red combo matches. Save Echidna for Minerva.
By kirk: Just stay around until Ninja Fireworks are ready. Team RCV ~ 1400. Use two Fireworks to clear the boss. Use Lucifer in case of accidentally healing up to 20%.
By SB: For satety, add keeper of rain bow one more. For better attack, add vampire.
By Jonnyサマー: RCV can be as high as 2000. Since Minerva and Graviton Earth Dragon hits really hard, Viper's Perseverance is important. With good RCV, your Echidna is only a backup plan. Your fire attack will burn through Earth Dragon fairy quick but expect a semi-long battle against Minerva.


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Development List for Buildings in Houston
By Urbannizer, August 17, 2013 in Going Up!
arche_757 743
Location:Lurking about
^Yes, we're not doing bad - I just wanted a few more projects in and around the downtown area.
Atlanta has a better topography than Houston. The hills are interesting and add a challenge in developing anything, of course we have the water in Galveston Bay but that area is soo heavily industrialized it has made development there very difficult. No one wants a view of a petrochemical plant afterall! But that same industrial base is what makes this the strongest economy in the country.
I guess I'm just bummed that ATL's downtown has a lot more residential than Houston. Their residential buildings - and a few commercial buildings are more innovative than just about anything we have. Go click on the map and center around the Downtown area, they have a lot of nice proposals under works.
609 is nice - but I would hardly call it ground breaking (considering Hines did Pennzoil/Transco/Republic Bank). Hotel Alessandra is nice too. All the buildings except Chevron in Downtown are spec buildings, so I won't blame oil companies conservative design nature (if they are indeed) on those.
You must be looking at a different development map than I am. I don't see anything in Atlanta developments on that map that is better than ours and there is a whole lot less of it (including downtown residential) than on the Houston map.
rellott 24
I am the owner / builder of http://devmap.io and I'm really excited to see all of your contributions! Please feel free to give any feedback / suggestions, I want to make devmap.io a really simple, collaborative reference for all things development. Also, if you'd like an easier to remember way to get to Houston's map you can use http://houston.devmap.io.
Well, this woulda been nice to know!!! Greatly appreciate the openness to sharing. Collaboration is key. HAIF 2017!!! Sorry, I got carried away
sorry. off topic.post deleted
Edited April 11, 2014 by LarryDierker
Triton 9831
Location:Woodland Heights/Glen Park
Here's a development map for all of Houston. The best thing about it is that anyone can add a project to the map, and it's pretty easy to use. I've added quite a few, hope you guys contribute as well.
http://devmap.io/cities/houston/developments
You'll probably want to pin that to your first comment of this thread. It's already starting to get buried!
Based on that development map, there is just no love for the east side!
Atlanta is ahead of Houston in residential downtown. And some of their proposals are quite nice. Just my opinion.
arche_757 are you adding Midtown Atlanta with Downtown Atlanta... I can't see much of any new residential in downtown Atlanta except for the skyhouse.
Yeah, I'm including both. Still, Atlanta has some nice projects.
And remember folks - potential or planned doesn't mean anything until dirt is being moved and a crane is put up. How often have we seen "potential" buildings not come to fruition in the past? Very often.
I may just replace the list with the map, downtown map and relotts images. The list will still be available, you'll just have to go over to SkyscraperPage for it.
Why not have both? I like the list. The map requires clicking on each individually to see them.
fkp5 467
Location:Austin
Atlanta's midtown and downtown are connected by continuous development, so I think it is fair to compare them to downtown Houston. Looking at the two maps, it looks like downtown Houston and midtown+downtown Atlanta have about the same number of total projects, but Atlanta has much more high rise residential buildings proposed. I think that Uptown and Upper Kirby are the most to blame for downtown lacking in high rise residentials compared to Atlanta. While I might give a slight edge to Atlanta in overall building design, I still think 609 Main is better than anything proposed in Atlanta.
No! Keep the list!
Avossos 1269
Greek-Texan
Yes, I like the list the most
por favor gracias 369
H-Town Man 3031
Atlanta has an established pattern of residential high rises in Midtown that makes more ambitious development possible. Downtown Houston just got into this with One Park Place. I'm just happy that we have the proposals we do; if we can get those off the ground, the progress will be extraordinary and then we can talk about the next level.
Edited April 14, 2014 by H-Town Man
What I envy most about those is the concentration of new projects in Midtown. They are really building an urban environment there block by block, while our high rises are scattered between Uptown, Downtown, Upper Kirby, and all over. I still wouldn't trade our downtown and its more big city feel; Midtown Atlanta doesn't synergize with their Downtown, it's too far to walk, and their downtown lacks our mass of buildings and tight street grid.
Timoric 1427
Edited July 8 by Timoric
cloud713 3644
At the end of 2013, 274 million square feet of office space in Houston Market. 11 million square feet of new office space under construction. (This number seems different from different sources) I would forecast at least another 5 million must be going up this year.
http://www.costar.com/News/Article/Market-Trend-Houstons-Office-Deliveries-Construction-and-Inventory/157185
What year did/does the Exxon sq footage hit? If it's when it's completed, that's 3 million sq ft right there. Downtown will have ~2.5-3 mil sq ft of office u/c with 609 Main, 6HC, capital tower (though I guess that one technically isn't u/c yet), and Hilcorp.
Then aren't there a handful of new towers in the EC? Energy center 3, 4, and 5, energy towers 3 and 4, and at town & country aren't they building one or two high rises?
The new Phillips 66 complex (2 mil sq ft I believe), then the two projects further south around beltway and Richmond.
How many office buildings are going up in Hughes landing? Then there is the research(?) complex across the lake with a handful of new office buildings.
Actually I just reread your comment. Maybe you meant 5 mil of new projects would go up this year, not counting the 5-10 mil sq ft that carry over from last year. In which case I agree. I wonder how much office space was under construction in Houston in the early 80s...
nativehoustonion 568
I talked to a friend from Atlanta. He said nobody wants to live the city. That is why Atlanta's population is 443,775 number 40 on the populated list. Everyone else live in the burbs. Ted Turner wants to move the Braves to Cobb County. Is there a reason why?
Here's the new downtown development map:
https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3721/13912898155_4787082091_b.jpg
609 Main is 41 floors now? How accurate are the floor counts on these things?
I noticed that too and wondered the same thing. Is this a new update or have they failed to update it from the original announced height and square footage?
EDIT: The previous version of this development map had it listed as 47 stories and 1 Million square feet. Hines and Colvill websites still say it's 48 stories and 1,000,000 + square feet. There appears to be a linkage problem that brings up a prior version of Colvill's 609 Main at Texas website. If you do a Google search for 609 Main, then click on the first result (Colvill's 609 Main website, then click on "Click to Enter". This takes you to a page that says the building is 41 stories and 815,000 square feet (the old numbers). But then when you try to click further into the site, it takes you to the updated page saying the building is 48 stories, 1 million square feet.
I suspect someone who updates the downtown development map did a Google search and posted the old numbers based on that initial result.
Edited April 17, 2014 by Houston19514
nate4l1f3 673
I wouldn't be upset if (38) the parking garage across the street from MMP ended up getting canceled. Why put this directly next to the stadium???
asubrt 434
With so many surface parking lots near MMP being developed (at least 5 blocks by my count), it may be useful for parking during Astros' games. Although it's not like anyone goes to games these days...
Makes sense, but I think that location is prime for something that creates street activity. I would take a watering hole
HoustonIsHome 1340
If the city was sneaky they would get together with metro and other grps and have huge but cheap parking out of downtown and force people on to the rails to boost ridership.
Agreed, they should have built a parking garage over the two narrow parking lots east of minute maid, between the stadium and 59, with skybridge ramps from the garage directly over to the upper decks of the field.
swtsig 2499
I expect several as of yet unannounced projects to become public in the near future including hotels and multifamily high rises in uptown, a couple office/mixed use projects along the Allen parkway/memorial corridor, a perhaps some additional condo high rises which are picking up serious steam in houston.
Sellanious Caesar 183
Alright that does it, before I was just giddy with excitement but now it's just starting to become a staggering portfolio for this city.
Looks like those demographers got it right, Houston is Americas next great elite city. It's not just the highrises but the city is booming in every way except public transport IMO.
BTW, start expecting more from TMC and other med centers in Houston metro. HBJ has the healthcare boom neck in neck with the energy boom, which speaks for staggering volumes.
Edited April 23, 2014 by Sellanious Caesar
Can you confirm if any high rise condos will be announced for Downtown? I mean, it's great that Uptown is booming, but I would hate to see Downtown get left behind. Downtown is already way behind The Central Business Districts of other comparable cities, like Seattle and Atlanta. I would hate for it to get even farther behind by not building more during these boom years.
Huh? Downtown is booming so I'm not sure what you're talking about.
A little help for you.
All of the blue boxes in this picture are residential. All but a couple of them are 20+ stories, and one of the shorter ones takes up three blocks. As swtsig mentioned, DT is blowing up with active projects right now.
I am excited to see what else we have in store. I think the buffalo bayou area should rise. I didn't know how or when, but I am now excited to see there may be things in the works.
A birdie has told me something is going in at Memorial Dr. and Logan Ln. The lot was recently cleared.
On a separate note, I've noticed there are quite a few multi-family units going up that aren't being mentioned on HAIF surprisingly. There's one between Detering St. and Memorial Dr. called Park Memorial Apartments. There's also another unit going in at the corner of Sage and Greentree. I'll have to take pictures of them and create threads for them I guess.
HoustonMidtown 3190
Location:Midtown/EaDo
Here is a summary of all the apartments going up in downtown from HBJ
http://www.bizjournals.com/houston/morning_call/2014/04/tenapartment-complexes-on-tap-for-downtown.html
I gotta think there is more going up this year than went up last year, even if the things started last year, it LOOKS like more is going up this year than last, I wonder if this will be the best year since say 1985 or 1986 when the last deliveries hit the market before the 35 percent vacancy rates and the empty Phoenix Tower article near Greenway Plaza in the New York Times - if the metric is total square footage, total commercial construction value, or something along those lines.
Based on all the economic reports I've seen for Houston, they indicate that based on the trend lines the city will peak in construction from late 2014 into somewhere late of 2015. Now of course, trend lines aren't always correct. Price of gas can plummet and skyrocket. The Fed's quantitive easing can have some impact. Quickly rising home prices can put a damper on all the single-family construction. However, single-family construction is well below the historical norm. Annnnnnyway, I think the Houston area can support a couple of more years of good solid construction, but anything after that and you could be dealing with a Spain-type situation of overbuilding... that's well off into the future.
Chart at historical residential construction:
Wow, I had no idea 2007 was so high up there. Great chart!
It looks like the peaks were 2006.
I didn't realize the decline was that much ahead of the recession
I think the Houston area can support a couple of more years of good solid construction, but anything after that and you could be dealing with a Spain-type situation of overbuilding... that's well off into the future.
Ha! Funny... and a Houston Chron article comes out about it:
http://www.houstonchronicle.com/business/real-estate/article/Construction-boom-may-lead-to-lower-rents-5458011.php ($)
Based on supply and demand patterns in Houston over the past 20 years, five jobs are needed for every new apartment, Bowden said.
If developers build between 16,000 and 18,000 units this year, that would require at least 80,000 jobs.
Brandt said he has heard job projections in the 70,000 range.
"We probably are going to experience some amount of oversupply," he said.
Again, we are FAR FAR away from any overbuilding at this point. But it's good to know that there are people asking those questions of "Are we overbuilding?" When everyone is thinking that it's a never ending chart upwards, that's when you know you are in a bubble about to pop.
I hate when these experts make projections based on projections. Hee is using unreliable info to make an even more unreliable conclusion.
First that 5 jobs per apartment isnt a stress fast rule. There must be some give and take, then he goes on to say that there is going to be some over building because we need 80k jobs and he HEARD, that we are only projected to get 70k?
What about other variables? What about migration of supercomputers, retirees, people who moved in with family during the recession and looking for a cheap place of their own, student housing, second homes...
Using that 5 jobs rule should be just a guide. It might be a helpful guide but I wouldn't bet much on it. We were still building when we were losing jobs. Looking at projections for one year are as helpful as the projections themself
I think he was just using it as a guide? It's clearly an oversimplification.
I am more speaking in general and using this as an example of overusing projections
I see the point though. I have read that a large part of the increase in apartment construction - not just in Houston but nationwide - is driven by the wave of retirees wanting smaller quarters more conveniently located. Owned housing seems to be considered much less of a sure thing financially than it once was.
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Outstanding break down OP, thanks for putting this together.
Again, we are FAR FAR away from any overbuilding at this point.
I've been reading up on this and you seem to be right.
For the last couple of years Houston has been number one for apartments demand but lagging in apartment construction. It seems the inventory set to be delivered this year won't make a crack in demand.
2015 and 2016 are slated to deliver more hefty numbers of units than 2014, but presently we are far from overbuilding.
It looks like we have been underbuilding for a couple of years which have driven occupancy to 96%. Strong influx of people and healthy job growth hints that this high rate will continue.
On a positive note it seems like 65% of new deliveries are centered around 4 job markets all in the core. 65% of the units are around Downtown, TMC, Greenway and Uptown. So that is a positive for urban growth.
Think we should probably update the development map on the first post and probably should include http://devmap.io/cities/houston/developments since it is getting buried already in this thread.
Edit: Oh and Marriott Marquis should be moved to under construction.
Edited May 11, 2014 by Triton
Not sure if y'all like these graphs but this shows that the hotel boom we are having here is actually a national trend. 2014 is the best year for hotels since 2000:
http://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2014/05/hotels-on-track-for-strongest-year.html
In other words, high occupancy.. new hotel construction is likely.


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Benjamin "Ben" Linus är en rollfigur i TV-serien Lost. Han spelas av Michael Emerson.

Före kraschen
Tillbakablickar  visar när Benjamin Linus är föddes i en skog utanför Portland, Oregon. Hans far var Roger Linus och hans mor Emily Linus. Emily dör efter förlossningen. Ben och hans far flyttar till ön efter att Roger erbjudits ett jobb hos Dharma Initiative. På ön börjar Ben se hallucinationer av sin mor. Hans far utvecklar alkoholism och misshandlar Ben verbalt. Ben utvecklar ett hat mot Dharma Initiative och en dag smiter från området. Han träffar Richard Alpert i djungeln, en av öns infödingar, mer kända som De andra. Alpert accepterar Bens begäran om att ansluta sig till gruppen. Ben får senare kontakt med en fängslad Sayid Jarrah, som har kommit tillbaka i tiden från 2007.

Många år senare kidnappar De andra Alex när hon är en vecka gammal. Alex är dotter till en kvinna som blivit skeppsbruten på ön, Danielle Rousseau.

Fyra år efter detta dödar Ben sin far med giftgas. När han återkommer till DHARMA-initiativet upptäcker han att alla medlemmar också dödats av giftgas. Han ansluter sig till De andra och intar så småningom en ledarroll.

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Efter att ha bevittnat kraschen organiserar Ben kidnappningen av några av de överlevande från Oceanic Flight 815. Han skickar Ethan Rom och Goodwin Stanhope för att utreda vilka som kan vara intressanta att rekrytera till De andra. Han väljer Goodwin för att undanröja konkurrens kring Juliet Burke, som Ben har känslor för.

Ben kom själv i kontakt med de överlevande i säsong 2 då han fångades i en fälla utsatt av Danielle Rousseau. Ben avslöjar inte sin riktiga identitet, utan säger att han är Henry Gale, en man från Minnesota som kommit till ön då hans luftballong kraschade.

Två dagar innan kraschen av Oceanic Flight 815, Ben upptäcker att han har en ryggradstumör. När De andra tillfångatagit Jack, Kate, Hurley och Saywer övertygar han Jack att operera honom i utbyte mot att Jack ska få lämna ön.

När ett fraktfartyg, inte långt från ön, upptäcks tar han, Locke, och några av de andra överlevande sig till De andras by, då de tror att folk på fraktfartyget att vara farliga. Ben lämnar så småningom ön och gör Locke till den nya ledaren för De andra.

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import {
	REQUEST_COUNTRIES,
	RECEIVE_COUNTRIES,
	RECEIVE_COUNTRIES_ERROR,
	SIDEMENU_SET_SELECTED_COUNTRY_ID,

	REQUEST_REGIONS,
	RECEIVE_REGIONS,
	RECEIVE_REGIONS_ERROR,
	SIDEMENU_SET_SELECTED_REGION_ID,

	REQUEST_CITIES,
	RECEIVE_CITIES,
	RECEIVE_CITIES_ERROR,
	SIDEMENU_SET_SELECTED_CITY_ID,

} from './SideMenu.actions';

import { cloneDeep } from 'lodash';

const initialState = {
	countries: {
		isFetching: false,
		lastUpdated: null,
		items: [],
	},

	regions: {
		isFetching: false,
		lastUpdated: null,
		items: [],
	},

	cities: {
		isFetching: false,
		lastUpdated: null,
		items: [],
	},
};

const setCountriesFetching = (state, isFetching) => {
	let newState = cloneDeep(state);
	newState.countries.isFetching = isFetching;
	return newState;
};
const setCountries = (state, action) => {
	let newState = cloneDeep(state);
	newState.countries.items = action.payload || [];
	newState.countries.lastUpdated = action.receivedAt;
	newState.countries.isFetching = false;
	return newState;
};
const setCountriesError = (state, action) => {
	let newState = cloneDeep(state);
	newState.countries.items = [];
	newState.countries.lastUpdated = action.receivedAt;
	newState.countries.isFetching = false;
	return newState;
};
const setSelectedCountry = (state, {countryId}) => {
	let newState = cloneDeep(state);
	newState.countries.items.forEach( country => country._selected = (country.id === countryId));
	newState.regions.items = [];
	newState.cities.items = [];
	return newState;
};

const setRegionsFetching = (state, isFetching) => {
	let newState = cloneDeep(state);
	newState.regions.isFetching = isFetching;
	return newState;
};
const setSelectedRegion = (state, {regionId}) => {
	let newState = cloneDeep(state);
	newState.regions.items.forEach( region => region._selected = (region.id === regionId));
	newState.cities.items = [];
	return newState;
};
const setRegions = (state, action) => {
	let newState = cloneDeep(state);
	newState.regions.items = action.payload || [];
	newState.regions.lastUpdated = action.receivedAt;
	newState.regions.isFetching = false;
	return newState;
};
const setRegionsError = (state, action) => {
	let newState = cloneDeep(state);
	newState.regions.items = [];
	newState.regions.lastUpdated = action.receivedAt;
	newState.regions.isFetching = false;
	return newState;
};

const setCitiesFetching = (state, isFetching) => {
	let newState = cloneDeep(state);
	newState.cities.isFetching = isFetching;
	return newState;
};
const setSelectedCity = (state, {cityId}) => {
	let newState = cloneDeep(state);
	newState.cities.items.forEach( city => city._selected = (city.id === cityId));
	return newState;
};
const setCities = (state, action) => {
	let newState = cloneDeep(state);
	newState.cities.items = action.payload || [];
	newState.cities.lastUpdated = action.receivedAt;
	newState.cities.isFetching = false;
	return newState;
};
const setCitiesError = (state, action) => {
	let newState = cloneDeep(state);
	newState.cities.items = [];
	newState.cities.lastUpdated = action.receivedAt;
	newState.cities.isFetching = false;
	return newState;
};

export default function sideMenu (state = initialState, action) {
	switch (action.type) {
		case REQUEST_COUNTRIES:
			return setCountriesFetching(state, true);
		case RECEIVE_COUNTRIES:
			return setCountries(state, action);
		case RECEIVE_COUNTRIES_ERROR:
			return setCountriesError(state, action);
		case SIDEMENU_SET_SELECTED_COUNTRY_ID:
			return setSelectedCountry(state, action.payload);

		case SIDEMENU_SET_SELECTED_REGION_ID:
			return setSelectedRegion(state, action.payload);
		case REQUEST_REGIONS:
			return setRegionsFetching(state, true);
		case RECEIVE_REGIONS_ERROR:
			return setRegionsError(state, action);
		case RECEIVE_REGIONS:
			return setRegions(state, action);

		case REQUEST_CITIES:
			return setCitiesFetching(state, true);
		case RECEIVE_CITIES:
			return setCities(state, action);
		case RECEIVE_CITIES_ERROR:
			return setCitiesError(state, action);
		case SIDEMENU_SET_SELECTED_CITY_ID:
			return setSelectedCity(state, action.payload);

		default:
			return state;
	}
}


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Apple Cider Caramels – Homemade Candy!
Apple Cider Caramels have a wonderful, apple-pie flavor. Reduced apple cider adds a background tang that goes perfectly with cinnamon and ginger. With just a touch of salt to bring out the other flavors, Apple Cider Caramels are a nice change from the ubiquitous salted caramels!
For the holidays I always make little treats which I can package-up as small gifts for family, friends, hostesses, etc. A couple of years ago I created Shortbread Gift Boxes that were a big hit. Last year I filled gift bags with Cherry Almond Scone Mix –just add water to make warm, fresh-baked scones!
This year's package will include these delicious Apple Cider Caramels.
This recipe was inspired by an article I read in Sift Magazine. Sift is a magazine published by the folks at King Arthur Flour. I adore their products, their website and their magazine.
The story that inspired this recipe was about a family in Vermont that makes old-fashioned "boiled cider". Despite the fact that we visit Vermont a couple of times every winter, and our daughter went to college in the state, I'd never heard of boiled cider before. But I have been using reduced apple cider in my own kitchen forever.
Whenever we have apple cider left over, I cook it to a concentrated syrup and freeze it. Reduced cider gives you all the flavor of fresh apples, with very little added water. I use it in salad dressings, on pork chops and toss it with roasted winter veggies.
But I hadn't thought to use the reduced cider to make candies until I saw the recipe for Boiled Cider Caramels in Sift Magazine.
With the original recipe as a starting point, I replaced the boiled cider with reduced Gold Rush Apple Cider. I also changed the spices a bit because I always want a little more ginger. The flavor of the first batch was A-MAZ-ING! But the caramels were very, very soft and a little pale.
For the second batch I reduced the amount of cream and changed how the candy was cooked. The original recipe mixed all the ingredients together then cooked the mix to 248°F. I wanted a deeper caramel color and firmer texture, so I decided to caramelized the sugar and corn syrup, then add the other ingredients and cook to 250°F.
The candies from the second batch (seen in the photos and video) are firm enough to hold their shape, but still have a soft bite. They have a deep caramel color and flavor. Exactly what I was after.
Since I wasn't happy with the first batch I decided to run a little experiment (yay, we love kitchen experiments!). I put the soft caramel back into the pan, brought it up to a boil, and cooked it to 250°F. I was delighted and, frankly, surprised that the recooked candies didn't get gritty or crystallized. They did set up quite firm. I think they probably went a bit over 250°F by the time the candy melted and came back to a boil. Still delicious, though.
If you like softer caramels cook the candy to 248°, if you like them a little firmer cook to 250°F. But as you can see from my little experiment, this recipe is pretty forgiving.
Watch the recipe video to see how to make Apple Cider Caramels.
These candies are a perfect "Gift from the Kitchen"!
Caramel candies get a special flavor from apple cider and warm spices. They taste like apple pie!
Butter an 8"x 8" square baking pan and line in both directions with parchment paper, also butter the parchment paper.
Bring the cider to a boil over medium high heat and allow it to reduce by 3/4. You should have 1/2 cup when you're done. This should take about 15 minutes. Reduce the heat to low, then add the cream, butter and vanilla to the reduced cider. Cook until the butter is melted, then set the mixture aside.
Combine the sugar and corn syrup in a large, heavy Dutch oven. Heat over medium high heat until the sugar is melted and the mixture becomes a medium caramel color. Do not stir once the sugar is boiling. You can pick up the pot and swirl it around if you see dark spots in the caramel.
Add the cider/cream mixture all at once. Keep your face away from the pan because the steam can burn. Stir with a silicone spatula to combine. Reduce heat to medium and cook until 248°-250°F, do not stir. Turn off the heat and whisk in the salt, cinnamon and ginger.
Pour the caramel into the prepared pan and let set, uncovered, overnight at room temperature.
Cut into 1" squares using a sharp, oiled knife. Wipe the blade between cuts with an oiled paper towel. Wrap the candies in squares of wax or parchment paper.
Keep in an airtight container at room temperature.
The candies will keep indefinitely in an air tight container.
I would like to leave out the corn syrup, would I use an equal amount of white or brown sugar instead?
Sorry for the delayed response. The corn syrup not only adds sweetness, it also prevents the sugar from crystallizing as it boils. If you replace the corn syrup with sugar you'd need something else to prevent crystallization. Lemon juice or cream of tarter also prevents the boiling syrup from forming crystals. I can't say exactly how to make the replacement since I haven't tried it. But I would start with a teaspoon of lemon juice and see how that works.