You are someone who likes trees, and you have planted many of them on your landscape it can be really bad if you trees look unhealthy and this is the reason as to why it is important for you to sick the guidance of an arborist once in a while. The work of an arborist is to show you how to care for your trees so that they can grow looking healthy at all times. What people tend to think about caring for trees is that the only thing that they are needed to do is to water the trees which is not true in order for you to have healthy trees there are lots of things that you need, and only an arborist can help you in this. The good thing about an arborist is that you will have a one on one talk on trees and they will slowly educate you on what you need to do so that you can end up having healthy trees. Below are some guidelines that will help you in choosing a good arborist so that they can help you out in caring for your trees.
If you are looking for an arborist who is qualified the first thing that you need to do is to make sure that your research thoroughly on different search engines that are there for an arborist in your area who is popular. If you find an arborist who so many people in your local area know about then know that the service has to be the best and that is why they are quite popular. One thing to know how well an arborist does his job is important, and you can be able to get this information if you go through their website tree care humble or social media pages and read the testimonies that their previous clients have written. If you find that there are a lot of negative testimonies from their previous clients it is usually advisable for you to find another specialist instead of you risking your money. Another thing that you need to focus on is the amount of money that the specialist will charge you for the job if you end up hiring them. The good thing is that different specialists charge tree care the woodlands differently there for you can be able to find one whose charges you can easily afford without going broke. Remember that how much an arborist charges will not determine the type of service that you will end up getting.


Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell said on Wednesday that "the U.S. economy is now in a good place."
The Fed last week kept interest rates steady but said it would be patient in lifting borrowing costs further this year in a nod to growing uncertainty over the economy's outlook. The U.S. central bank removed language from its December policy statement that risks to the outlook were "roughly balanced."
Thursday's claims report showed the number of people receiving benefits after an initial week of aid fell 42,000 to 1.74 million for the week ended Jan. 26. These so-called continuing claims had raced to a nine-month high in the prior week.


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Archive for the 'Lee Hazelwood' Category
JUDY CLAY
Listen: Country Girl, City Man / Billy Vera & Judy Clay
Country Girl, City Man / Billy Vera & Judy Clay
Judy Clay got a raw deal. An early member of The Sweet Inspirations, she grew up singing with her relatives, Cissy Houston, Dee Dee Warwick and Dionne Warwick. She's on endless sessions (mostly Atlantic) for Wilson Pickett, Don Covay, Aretha Franklin, God only knows how many. When she finally had a hit with 'Storybook Children', as one half of the intentionally multi-racial duo Atlantic Records had masterminded: Billy Vera & Judy Clay; network television wouldn't touch them. Instead Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazelwood got their slots, including performing 'Storybook Children' on The Hollywood Palace. Hey, we love Nancy & Lee but hold on.
I used to hear the follow-up, 'Country Girl – City Man', on a bunch of stations. It featured The Sweet Inspirations (as did 'Storybook Children' and most tracks on their Atlantic LP), mixed RnB with country beautifully, and appealed to lots of formats. It's another permanent jukebox fixture. I play it a lot. She sounds like she could've been an actress, that phrasing.
Listen: Private Number / Judy Clay & William Bell
Private Number / Judy Clay & William Bell
If you're not a believer, check her duet with William Bell.
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Did you know that Duane Eddy combined single-note melodies by bending the low strings and adding echo, a vibrato bar (Bigsby), and tremolo – thereby producing a signature sound unlike anything that had been heard prior – the sound that would be featured on an unprecedented string of thirty four chart singles, fifteen of which made the Top 40 and sales of over 100 million worldwide? Me neither. I read it on Wikipedia.
He was not alone in the creation. Then disc jockey Lee Hazelwood became his partner in 1954, taking on role of producer and co-writer. 'Rebel-Rouser' is one of those songs that probably every last human being has heard, but didn't know it. Well I hope so at least. Peaking at #6, it was also his biggest chart success.
Listen: Stalkin' / Duane Eddy & His Twangy Guitar DuaneEddyStalkin.mp3
It's B side, 'Stalkin" is a whole other story. Now this is more the dark side sound that helped invent one of the most potent threads in music, a line followed by The Gun Club, Tav Falco's Panther Burns, The White Stripes and most importantly, The Cramps. And of those bands alone, there were endless unsuccessful imitators.
It just oozes of girls in tight sparkly capri pants and spiked heels, slowly grooving their hips to the the record as it spun in the jukebox at a local malt shop.
Listen: Your Baby's Gone Surfiin' / Duane Eddy DuaneEddySurfin.mp3
Everyone jumped on the surf craze in the early 60′s. For Duane Eddy, it actually was a perfect fit. He kind of invented the sound, a seamless musical transition from rockabilly to the white kid, carefree, silver spoon lifestyles of surfers. Despite 'Your Baby's Gone Surfin" hardly denting the Billboard Hot 100 (#93), I remember it vividly. Even bought the single, or had someone buy it for me more likely. Little did I know, his band, The Rebels, had become Phil Spector's regular studio outfit. Makes perfect sense then that The Blossoms, also vocal backup regulars on Spector sessions, provided all the singing here. Yes, that's Darlene Love you're hearing, just as you might be suspecting.
Listen: Shuckin' / Duane Eddy DuaneEddyShuckin.mp3
B side 'Shuckin", you gotta love the song titles, sounds like a routine jam with the sole purpose of churning out a flip to 'Your Baby's Gone Surfin". Even so, the natural groove makes it a keeper. How many of these would they knock out in a day? I'm scared to reckon. Somewhere there are tape vaults….
Listen: This Guitar Was Made For Twangin' / Duane Eddy DuaneEddyRepriseUSB.mp3
Once the Nancy Sinatra success train was powering full steam ahead, on her Dad's Reprise label, with Lee Hazelwood ably handling all production and songwriting, my guess is he suggested Duane Eddy be added to the roster. A seemingly under thought covers album of then current day hits, THE BIGGEST TWANG OF THEM ALL, allowed for one original 'This Guitar Was Made For Twangin". Despite a basic instrumental re-write of 'These Boots Are Made For Walking', he retains full writer credit, well at least as far as the label copy reads. I have to believe behind the curtain, there was a handshake share with Lee Hazelwood, writer of 'Boots' – or maybe not. He was the producer, it didn't sell, and who cares anyways. Luckily the track was issued as a single.
Tags: Darlene Love, Duane Eddy, Jamie, Lee Hazelwood, London American, Nancy Sinatra, Phil Spector, RCA, Reprise, Tav Falco's Panther Burns, The Blossoms, The Cramps, The Gun Club, The White Stripes
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What do you guys think of this line?
I am loving the tote bag! Not really feeling the smaller ones though.
If it was 2/3 the size...maybe.
It does look big, but those models are always very tiny (especially in their profile). They always make the bags look bigger.
Actually, I'm not sure if I am fond of how the bag looks. The vertical quilting lines are modern, but I'm not sure if I am in love with them. I need to see one in person to make a decision on what I really think.
Anyhow, the price tag is ridiculous- I hear that a small black bag from this line is costing $2,195.00!!!
I am not liking it. It looks like Oldsmobile puffy car seats to me, or vinyl booths in a diner. Maybe it would look better in a smaller size. Just doesn't do it for me.
It's okay but that price IS ridiculous. I agree.
if anyone finds out how much the clutch is, please share!
It looks like Oldsmobile puffy car seats to me, or vinyl booths in a diner.
The tote is nice, but I think its hard to stop it from getting scratched.
Noriko, I have seen this IRL and thought about buying it. But there is a plastic label at the bottom of this bag with "CHANEL" on it which totally turns me off. The leather is very delicate and not a good choice for everyday bag. Plus the lining is like nylon,kind of cheapen this bag. But I do LOVE the double chain handles which is very very nice worn over the shoulder.


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import sqlite from 'sqlite3';
import {resolvePath} from "../utils/utils";

const DATABASE_PATH = process.env.DATABASE_PATH;
if (!DATABASE_PATH) {
    throw 'Environment variable DATABASE_PATH is not set!'
}

sqlite.verbose();

/**
 * Helper function to promisify Database.all()
 * @param db
 * @param sql
 * @param params
 * @returns {Promise<unknown[]>}
 */
export function all<T>(db: sqlite.Database, sql: string, params = [] as any[]): Promise<T[]> {
    return new Promise(((resolve, reject) =>
            db.all(sql, params, (err, rows) => {
                if (err) reject(err)
                else resolve(rows as unknown as T[])
            })
    ))
}

/**
 * Helper function to promisify Database.run()
 * @param db
 * @param sql
 * @param params
 * @returns {Promise<{lastId, changes}>}
 */
export function run(db: sqlite.Database, sql: string, params: any[] = []): Promise<{lastId: any; changes: any}> {
    return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
        db.run(sql, params, function (err) {
            if (err) reject(err)
            // @ts-ignore
            resolve({lastId: this.lastID, changes: this.changes})
        })
    })
}

/**
 * Helper function to promisify Database.get()
 * @param db
 * @param sql
 * @param params
 * @returns {Promise<unknown>}
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export function get<T>(db: sqlite.Database, sql: string, params = [] as any): Promise<T> {
    return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
        db.get(sql, params, function(err, data) {
            if (err) reject(err)
            resolve(data)
        })
    })
}

/**
 * Setups a db connection
 * @param readonly = true
 * @returns {Promise<sqlite.Database>}
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export const getDb = async (readonly = true) => {
    const db = await new Promise<sqlite.Database>((resolve, reject) => {
        //sqlite3 creates a DB immediately but could throw in error if it fails
        //to find the file, or permission is denied, etc. So best to promisify
        //the whole thing
        const _db: sqlite.Database = new sqlite.Database(resolvePath(DATABASE_PATH),
            readonly ? sqlite.OPEN_READONLY : sqlite.OPEN_READWRITE,
            err => err ? reject(err): resolve(_db) //resolve the object already created 🤔
        );
    })
    if (!readonly) {
        await run(db, 'PRAGMA foreign_keys = ON;')
    }
    return db;
}

export const beginTransaction = (db) =>
    new Promise(resolve => db.exec('begin transaction', resolve));

export const commitTransaction = (db) =>
    new Promise(resolve => db.exec('commit transaction', resolve));

export const rollbackTransaction = (db) =>
    new Promise(resolve => db.exec('rollback transaction', resolve));

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We're very excited to collaborate with our friends at Brindisa Spanish Foods and the Academy of Cheese for this incredible Spanish cheese and wine pairing. Presented by Rupert Linton of Brinsida and our own Lydia Harrison DipWSET.
The Academy of Cheese return to WSET School London, this time with Brindisa Spanish Foods!
We've chosen a selection of exceptional regional Spanish cheeses from Brindisa's range, and paired them with an array of brilliant Spanish wines. The event will be co-hosted by Brindisa's Rupert Linton along with our own Lydia Harrison DipWSET, who'll be giving you some information and insight into the wine pairings.
Please note, the exact list may differ slightly on the evening.
The evening starts at 6.30pm, and tastings finish between 8.00 and 8.30pm.
Booking Terms and Conditions: Payment in full must be made at the time of booking and places are not confirmed until payment has been received, we cannot take provisional bookings.
Cancellation charges: Up to 2 weeks before the tasting you will receive a refund less 10%. Within 2 weeks of the tasting fees are non-refundable and non-transferable.
Contact us: Book online or call student services on 020 7089 3841.


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In addition, the European waste framework directive 2008/98/EC stipulates that by the year 2020 useful applications should be developed for 70 % by weight of all construction and demolition waste.
In this respect, the consideration of environmental aspects is facing road geotechnicians with new challenges.
The booming use of new (artificial and recycled) geomaterials in road applications has created a need to develop suitable procedures in order to make sure that they can be used in an adequate process of high-quality road construction.
Characterizing these materials with a view to assessing their short and long-term behaviour in road structures is an important objective in the work area Geomaterials and base layers.


Mezhgorye (Межго́рье) is a closed town in the Republic of Bashkortostan, Russia. The town is located in the southern Ural Mountains near Mount Yamantau, about 200 kilometers (120 mi) southeast of Ufa, the capital of the republic.
Welcome sign at the Mezhgorye town entrance.
This town has a population of 17,353 inhabitants according to the latest 2010 census. It is one of the most interesting towns of this type for sure.
Mezhgorye is a congested town in Russia which is supposed to house people operational on the highly secret Mount Yamantu.
According to one recent account, this whole city were huge construction projects begun in the late 1970s when U.S. nuclear firepower took special aim at the Communist Party's leadership complex.
Monument near Mezhgorye dedicated to fallen heroes of the Soviet army during WWII.
As a closed town, Mezhgorye is administratively subordinated to the Russian federal government.
Fearing a decapitating strike, the Soviets sent tens of thousands of workers to these remote sites, where U.S. spy satellites spotted them still toiling away in the late 1990s. During the time of Boris Yeltsin's pro-Western government after the fall of the Soviet Union.
A massive underground facility is said to exist in the Ural Mountains on Yamantau Mountain, near the city of Mezhgorye. Though the actual size of the facility is unknown, it is rumored to span more than 400 square miles.
The whole story begins from the cold-war period. However, the special restricted area status is still unchanged. Because of that, Mezhgorye is one of the most mystical towns even today.


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CRTC issues licence suspension in Bell v. TVA Group
The CRTC has suspended the broadcasting licence for TVA Sports, but says the suspension will only go into effect if TVA Sports' signal is withheld from Bell prior to the resolution of its ongoing carriage dispute.
The decision follows a Wednesday hearing to show cause why the commission shouldn't issue a mandatory order requiring Group TVA to comply with Discretionary Services Regulations after it pulled TVA Sports' signal for Bell TV customers Apr. 10, just as the NHL playoffs were getting underway.
At the hearing, Bell called for revocation of TVA Sports' licence, or alternatively a suspension until the end of the playoffs in June.
TVA Group submitted a legal argument that by forcing parties to maintain a contractual relationship throughout the dispute resolution process, the commission is determining the terms and conditions of affiliation agreements, which it submitted is not permitted under section 9 or 10 of the Broadcasting Act.
The CRTC's decision, issued Thursday afternoon, finds that TVA Group has contravened regulations by withholding TVA Sports' signal from distribution by Bell. The commission has issued a mandatory order requiring TVA Group to continue to provide TVA Sports programming to Bell until the present dispute is resolved and comply with regulations at all times.
In its decision the CRTC states, "The Commission takes the intentional contravention of its regulations very seriously. Not only did TVA Group premeditate its non-compliance with section 15(1) of the Regulations by announcing to Bell's subscribers that it would withhold the service, but once directed by the Commission to continue to provide the service to Bell, TVA Group carried through on its threat to withhold the service."
The commission also says it is not convinced TVA Group would have brought itself back into compliance without an order from Quebec Superior Court and says it's "gravely concerned" with TVA Group's disregard for its authority.
"The Commission reminds TVA Group and Quebecor that holding a licence is a privilege, not a right. Moreover, the Commission is prepared to pursue further recourse in the courts in the case of non-compliance…Given the inflexible behaviour displayed by the licensee in respect of its regulatory obligations and the lack of a firm commitment to correct the situation, the Commission cannot be assured that TVA Group will respect its regulatory obligations going forward," states the decision.
"Should TVA Group again withhold or interfere with the TVA Sports signal provided to Bell's distribution undertakings before an agreement settling the dispute is reached or the Commission renders a decision concerning any unresolved matter, the suspension of the licence will automatically take effect for the duration of the time for which the programming service is not provided to Bell until an agreement concerning the carriage and terms of carriage of TVA Sports is reached or the Commission renders a decision concerning any unresolved matter."
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[Funding alert] Sunstone Eduversity raises $28M in Series B from WestBridge Capital, others
By Press Trust of India
Sunstone Eduversity will use the funding to invest in cutting-edge learning and technology assets, building a network of colleges across multiple cities, and hiring across different functions.
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Sunstone Eduversity Pvt. Ltd., owned by Sunstone Education Tech, on Wednesday said it has raised $28 million (about Rs 208.8 crore) in funding, led by WestBridge Capital.
The series B round also saw participation from existing investors Saama Capital and Alteria Capital as well as Work10m -- a work-focussed fund by Pankaj Bansal, Group-CEO PeopleStrong, a statement said.
The company will use the fresh capital to invest in cutting-edge learning and technology assets, building a network of colleges across multiple cities, and hiring across different functions, it added.
Sunstone has over 300 employees and is planning to hire across technology, growth, product, and learning functions.
Sunstone - an edtech startup offering higher education programmes - said it is currently the third largest B-school in the country, and in the next five years aims to be the largest higher education provider in India.
Sunstone, in partnership with various universities, has added three new programmes -- BBA, MCA, and online MBA -- this year and will be introducing various undergraduate programs such as BCA, B Com and BSc in the next 12 months, the statement said.
[Funding alert] Equity management platform Qapita raises $15M in Series A led by East Ventures and Vulcan Capital
It will be enrolling over 25,000 students across 35 cities by the end of 2022, it added.
The institute is registering a 4X growth over student enrollments in 2020. It has expanded its presence in 24 campuses across 18 cities, which includes institutions such as GD Goenka University, JECRC University, Noida Institute of Engineering and Technology, and others.
Sunstone works closely with corporates to develop industry-ready programmes for both postgraduate and undergraduate students with a special focus on BFSI (banking, financial services and insurance), business analytics, logistics, sales management, retail, digital marketing, and others.
"Education experience for a majority of students is still archaic, input driven, with zero focus on outcomes. Sunstone flips the norm by putting outcomes at the forefront, and arms each student with tools they need to realise their dreams," Sunstone Eduversity co-founder Ashish Munjal said.
On the investment into Sunstone Eduversity, Sandeep Singhal, Managing Director, WestBridge Capital said,
"Sunstone's higher education programs have the potential to bring in the much awaited transformation in the Indian education system where students will now have access to a high quality education product in all corners of the country. We are excited by Sunstone's growth and the innovation in technology and learning systems so far and look forward to the next phase of growth."
(Disclaimer: Additional background information has been added to this PTI copy for context)
Sunstone Eduversity
Sunstone Eduversity is a one-of-its-kind business school operating in an asset-light model since 2011.
1. Ashish Munjal
2. Piyush Nangru
3. Divyendra Rathore
Westbridge Capital


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Case Study: Pop-Up Mobility Paths & Open Streets due to COVID-19 Crisis
Author: Shared-Use Mobility Center
The crisis caused by the novel COVID-19 virus in the spring of 2020 has been wreaking havoc on traditional transportation patterns. Beginning in March, public transit ridership and TNC use dropped precipitously in cities around the globe, and there has been speculation as to whether some e-scooter companies will be able to survive the pandemic's financial fallout.
However, one potentially-optimistic outcome of the crisis has been an increased willingness on the part of cities to explore open streets and mobility paths to tackle the outbreak and the challenges it has raised for residents.
For example, Bogota, Colombia was one of first to garner national attention for launching temporary bike lanes to help prevent the spread of COVID-19. On March 17th, Bogota opened 22km (13miles) of bike lanes overnight by repurposing car lanes, with plans to open 76km (47miles) in total throughout the crisis. These temporary lanes were able to be reconfigured quickly and without significant city investment.
Other cities are pursuing similar efforts. Berlin, Germany, for instance, has worked to expand existing bike lanes to make more space for the uptick in travelers using these active modes. Oakland, CA, meanwhile, has launched a "Slow Streets" program to slow vehicle speeds and ensure roads can be more safely shared with bikers and pedestrians, and Philadelphia, PA closed down vehicle access to a section of its Martin Luther King Jr. Drive altogether.
In part, these and other cities have been prioritizing mobility paths during the pandemic because many have turned to active modes like bikes and scooters to avoid crowded public transit, where the risks of transmitting the virus are perceived as higher due to closer proximity to other users. For example, the Office of New York City Mayor, Bill de Blasio, actively encouraged residents to "consider commuting to work via alternative modes of transportation, like biking or walking, if possible." Additionally, because vehicle traffic has decreased so significantly as a result of more people working from home and limiting their recreational movements, there is less congestion on streets, making the temporary reallocation of car lanes to bike lanes less contentious. Cities have also recognized an increased need for public space during the crisis, because so many people have turned to biking and walking to get exercise while other options are closed.
Because cities can use fairly cheap supplies like traffic cones, "Closed to Thru Traffic" signs and tape to denote these temporary mobility paths, they can be deployed quickly and without the large budget that accompanies major capital improvement projects like new bike lanes. However, much speculation abounds regarding what these efforts could mean for greater public support towards micromobility paths and pedestrian zones long-term.
Tools Leveraged
One of the reasons there has been a proliferation of mobility paths like expanded bike lanes and car-free zones during the COVID-19 crisis is because such paths can be established leveraging tools already at cities' and transit agencies' disposal.
In Berlin, for instance, the city used tape and mobile signs to denote its widened bike lanes. These tools can also be removed easily and the bike lanes returned to their previous size when travel patterns return to normal following the pandemic. Similarly, San Francisco, CA's Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA) is using signs and cones to close select roads, divert traffic, and slow vehicles.
City cyclists have long advocated for the use of such inexpensive tools to facilitate safer biking where major investments like protected bike lanes are not feasible. This type of tactical urbanism has historically involved spray-painting potholes, placing cones to demarcate improvised protected lanes, and other DIY-traffic reducing actions. Cities can leverage the long-earned expertise of cycling and safe streets advocates for further similar endeavors.
City employee lays down tape for temporary bike lane, Berlin. Source: Annegret Hilse/Reuters
In some instances, the push for temporarily reallocating space reserved for cars to cyclists and pedestrians came from residents themselves. In Philadelphia, PA, for instance, the order to close over 4 miles of Martin Luther King Jr. Drive to vehicles was largely due to a petition from non-profit Bicycle Coalition of Greater Philadelphia. Similarly, over 130 cities in Germany have seen petitions for more pop-up bike lanes, supported by environmental NGO Deutsche Umwelthilfe eV.
In other cases, cities themselves have taken the lead on deploying more mobility paths during the crisis. Oakland, CA's Slow Streets program, for example, which aims to "make neighborhood streets safer to walk and bicycle during the COVID-19 shelter-in-place order" includes an interactive map for residents to suggest which streets should be included in the program, as well as a survey to gain greater feedback on preferences for existing and proposed changes. In Bogota, the city's ambitious plan to deploy over 45 miles of temporary bike lanes coincided with a community awareness initiative to encourage use of active transportation modes and city-wide lockdown drills.
Map of proposed temporary bike lanes and existing system, Bogota. Source: Smart Cities.
Street Selection and Planning
For initiatives that close a corridor to vehicle traffic and open it to pedestrian and bicycle traffic, the street or streets selected are typically chosen because they are well-suited to help alleviate crowding, facilitate exercise and/or enable trips to meet essential needs. In Denver, CO, for example, the city asserted that it will prioritize deploying car-free zones in "densely populated neighborhoods and those without immediate park or trail access". In a similar vein, the first 5 miles of expanded pedestrian space established in Minneapolis, MN as a result of COVID-19 were prioritized for areas where there were "higher concentrations of pedestrians accessing essential services and narrow sidewalks that do not easily support social distancing".
Map of street closures, Minneapolis. Source: Minneapolis Public Works.
In San Francisco, CA, the city has launched Phase 1 of its Slow Streets program, with 12 corridors selected for participation. These streets were chosen to supplement reduced bus service caused by the pandemic, and the majority run parallel to major streets and transit routes in the area. The SFMTA asserts that the speed of the roll-out will depend on staff resources, with a goal of deploying about 2-3 corridors per week, at approximately 8 blocks at a time. Additional streets will also be selected that "prioritize walking and biking for essential trips", and the city has launched a community survey to gain feedback on proposed corridors thus far. Burlington, VT's Shared Streets for Social Distancing program has designated some corridors as "shared streets", where vehicles should be driven slowly and drivers should be extra cautious, and other corridors as "local traffic only" streets, meaning the street should only be used for driving to destinations on that street. Some of the factors that contributed to corridor selection in Burlington included sidewalk availability, traffic volumes and neighborhood density and activity.
Initiatives to expand micrombility paths without prohibiting vehicle through traffic altogether also aim to increase mobility by facilitating more bike and scooter users. For example, Berlin's effort to expand its bike lanes began in the neighborhood of Kreuzberg, where vehicle traffic was down significantly, and biking was already a commonly-used mode. In March, the city experimented by widening two busy bike lanes, and after determining that car traffic was not negatively impacted, it decided to expand the initiative to other lanes in the same neighborhood and to two other bike-friendly neighborhoods in April.
Widened bike lane in Berlin. Source: Philip Oltermann/The Guardian
While most cities have been able to reallocate space traditionally dedicated to vehicles to active transportation modes with resources already available – such as traffic codes, signage, and tape – some agencies are taking steps to provide financial resources to support this aim.
At the federal level, the New Zealand Transport Agency invited cities to bid for funding from its Innovating Streets for People fund to widen sidewalks and deploy temporary cycleways, and it lifted the budget cap on this fund. Similarly, the United Kingdom's Department for Transport has announced that pop-up bike lanes with cycle and bus-only corridors will begin being established in the coming weeks by leveraging a £250 million emergency active travel fund, part of the £5 billion in funding for cycling and buses announced in February.
At the local level, the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board passed a resolution in early May that authorized up to $250,000 to establish and maintain parkway closures in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Long-Term Impacts
Although much remains uncertain about the long-term effects of the COVID crisis, many transportation experts anticipate that the pandemic could result in a sustained uptick in the use of active transportation modes like biking, e-scootering and walking.
Around the globe, cities experienced an increase in people turning to these modes during the pandemic, as they tried to avoid crowded public transit, navigate disruptions to their regular service, and keep healthy. Importantly, early data suggests that these trends may extend past the pandemic: modelling from London's transit authority recently suggested the city could see a "tenfold increase in distances cycled, and up to five times the amount of walking compared with pre-coronavirus levels" following the crisis.
As a result, some cities are considering how to plan for this increased demand for mobility paths and walkable routes. Milan, for example, announced in April its Strade Aperte plan, which will result in a total of 35km (22 miles) of temporary bike lanes, widened pavements, and low speed limits to be deployed over the summer 2020. Paris, too, plans to invest heavily in expanding its existing bike lane systems after the city begins to open. In the US, long after stay-at-home orders are lifted, some cities may choose to experiment with keeping their street closures or pop-up bike lanes in place, at least on designated days or during select times. Barcelona's "Super Block" program – which groups several adjacent blocks together, and through which traffic by vehicle is restricted or prohibited – could serve as an even more ambitious model for cities exploring long-term avenues to re-prioritize individual travelers over vehicles.
In general, active transportation advocates are hopeful that the pandemic – as disruptive and difficult as it has been – will at least spur support for more infrastructure that facilitates walking and micromoblity modes. From the cities' perspective, experience with these sorts of pop-up lanes and shared street initiatives could be beneficial down the line, particularly if cities are faced with similarly disruptive events that require rapid responses to changing mobility needs.
Select Examples
Street Closures to Vehicle Traffic
Philadelphia, PA: Closed 4.7 miles of Martin Luther King Jr Drive, following petition from a biking coalition
Minneapolis, MN: Closed part of its riverfront parkways to motor vehicles; Park and Recreation Board passed a resolution in early May 2020 that authorized up to $250,000 for parkway closures
Denver, CO: Closed roads around lake to help with social distancing while exercising
Oakland, CA: Slow Streets Program
Community Survey Results
San Francisco, CA: Slow Streets Program
Burlington, VT: Shared Streets for Social Distancing Program
Pop-Up and Expanded Bike Lanes
Bogota, Colombia: Opened 22km (13miles) of bike lanes overnight by repurposing car lanes, with plans to open 76km (47miles) in total throughout the crisis
Budapest, Hungary: Established temporary bicycle lanes for several key routes, with lanes created at the edges of multi-lane roads in each direction.
Winnipeg, Canada: Expanded active transportation routes on nine streets from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.
Calgary, Canada: Reduced lanes on some roads to help walkers, cyclists keep their distance
Berlin, Germany: Widened bike lanes in select neighborhoods to accommodate more active transportation users during crisis
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The Little Book of Cannabis
How Marijuana Can Improve Your Life | A book by Amanda Siebert
Q+A with the Author
Amanda Siebert is the author of The Little Book of Cannabis. Learn more about what led her to writing the book in this Q+A compiled by Greystone Books.
What inspired you to write The Little Book of Cannabis?
For many years, I've found cannabis to useful, not just in my own life, but for so many people in my community and around the world. I like the idea of showing people how beneficial its use can be, even if it's something they might not completely understand.
Even though cannabis is used by hundreds of millions of people around the world, it remains highly stigmatized. What are some of the most common misconceptions about this unique plant?
Cannabis prohibition began less than a hundred years ago, so society's idea that it is "bad" is relatively new. (Up until the early 1900s, its wasn't uncommon to find cannabis tinctures in medicine cabinets throughout North America.) Also, cannabis use definitely does not kill brain cells! In fact, in a recent study, German researchers were able to show that cannabis has the potential to reverse aging in the brain. Finally, people who use cannabis aren't stupid or lazy—I bet some of your favorite musicians, writers, directors, actors, filmmakers, and chefs enjoy cannabis from time to time. Equally unfair as the stigma against the plant is the stigma against the people who use it.
Many of us will be surprised to hear that seniors and baby boomers (50-70) are the fastest growing market in the cannabis industry. Do you know why there's been such an increase in uptake among this age group?
There are a few reasons, but one large factor is because cannabis doesn't come with as many side effects that accompany many conventional drugs. Plus, if people can find relief from their arthritis or glaucoma or Parkinson's disease with one drug, cannabis, instead of five or six, it can make a big difference financially.
Cannabis is sometimes thought of as a "gateway drug" or entry point to future drug use, but in The Little Book of Cannabis, you argue that the opposite might be true. Can you explain?
Though it's only recently been brought to the attention of the media, the idea of cannabis functioning as a sort of, 'exit drug' isn't entirely new. As early as the 1970s, researchers in California were investigating whether or not cannabis could be used as an effective substitute for recovering alcoholics who were going through withdrawal. At that time, they found that when alcoholics supplemented with cannabis, they were more comfortable during withdrawal and less likely to relapse. That notion has been carried into the 21st century, and today scientists in North America have shown that cannabis could have similar applications for people suffering from opioid addictions and more. It's even being employed at a modern treatment facility in California, called High Sobriety, where patients are allowed to consume cannabis while in recovery.
Do the different modes of cannabis consumption require different regulations? Are their effects known to vary in any significant ways?
While the different modes of consumption don't require different regulations, the manufacture of certain cannabis products sometimes does. Canada, for example, will soon introduce special regulations for the production of concentrated cannabis and edibles—though the government says it could take up to one year after legalization for the changes to take effect. Edible cannabis—that is, cannabis in tinctures, concentrates, oils, or foods that are consumed orally—can certainly affect consumers in a different way than smoking can. Not only does it take longer for a user to feel the effects of an edible, the effects usually also last longer. And rather than feeling the effects cerebrally, edible highs are felt throughout the whole body. Similarly, "dabbing" cannabis concentrates like shatter, rosin, or wax—which can sometimes contain up to 90 percent THC—will definitely make a user feel more stoned than they would if they had stuck with a simple joint—which, on the high end, tops out at about 25 or 30 percent THC. Plus, because different strains of cannabis contain different amounts of certain cannabinoids, one strain might make you feel completely different than another strain. Finally, cannabis effects every person in a different way, which means that a strain that makes me want to take a nap might make you want to go for a run. The possibilities really are endless!
To write The Little Book of Cannabis, you interviewed some of the world's top researchers, scientists, medical professionals, and consultants about the pros and cons of marijuana use. What was the most surprising thing you learned?
It's hard to nail it down, but I think one of the most interesting things I learned was the relationship between cannabis and mental health. Many people believe that early cannabis use can lead to mental health issues, or that it can exacerbate anxiety—but in my research, I learned that these risks are often overstated, and that cannabis can be valuable tool for individuals suffering from depression, anxiety, and post-traumatic stress disorder. The idea that this plant has been written off in this regard for so long saddened me at first, but learning that minds are changing was uplifting.
Cannabis has been used as a health aid and comfort for thousands of years, yet relatively little is known about its effects on the body. Why are we so behind when it comes to the research?
One word: Stigma! It's hard to research a plant that is so vilified, and it's made even more challenging rigorous research standards set by governments that fear the plant is a risk to public health and safety. As cannabis accepted as medicine in more countries around the world, we're seeing some of that stigma shake away, but every scientist I've spoken with says it's been the biggest barrier to moving forward.
You recently became one of Canada's first journalists dedicated exclusively to cannabis, joining the ranks of the Guardian's Alex Halperin and the San Francisco Chronicle's David Downs. Tell us: how, exactly, does one become a cannabis editor? Honestly, it sort of fell into my lap. Let's just say it started when I got to interview one of the world's most legendary cannabis users, Tommy Chong.
What is the most important thing you hope readers will take away from your book?
Cannabis isn't scary! It's a powerful plant with a purpose.
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I'll show you step by step my way to patch large holes.
Note about texture: Later in the project we will have to try and match this texture. It's too thick really to be called an orange peel. It looks like a knock down that never really got knocked down. Anyhow, we will try to make our texture match. We will call it a "splatter"
If you look at the picture below, to the left of the big hole you can see an air bubble deal. Fixing that is not part of my deal with the home owner but, I'm going to do it anyway. The 1st thing you want to do is square the hole up using a keyhole saw. There are 2 ways of going about this. Some people like to cut the sheet rock back to the middle of the closest stud using a router or utility knife. I like to saw mine flush with the edge of the stud and nail on some 1" by 2" chunks of wood. For me it's the fastest way.
After you get the hole squared up you need to nail or screw on your backing material. For the top and bottom you will need to hold the board in place with one hand while you screw with the other. Watch out for your fingers.
Now cut and hang your patch piece of sheet rock. You can see by the picture below, not only did I screw the patch piece real good, I also screwed the area around the patch. This way everything is good and tight and the patch will not crack. I also dug out the bad air bubble on the left. I do this for a living so in order to make money, I have to go fast.. I am going to be using mesh tape and "Hot Mud" for the 1st coat.
If you're scared of hot mud, you can use regular all purpose joint compound and paper drywall tape. To learn about how to tape with regular mud and paper tape go here How to hand tape If you do use regular mud and paper tape you must wait 24 hours before you can 1st coat, then another 24 hours before you can 2nd coat.
Stick on the mesh tape, you can see by the pictures how and where to apply the tape.


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David Usborne, "Bush and Rumsfeld 'Knew About Abu Ghraib' "
June 19, 2007 - 10:39am -- autonomedia
Bush and Rumsfeld 'Knew About Abu Ghraib'
David Usborne, The Independent
The two-star Army General who led the first military investigation into human rights abuses at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq has bluntly questioned the integrity of former US Secretary of Defence, Donald Rumsfeld, suggesting he misled the US Congress by downplaying his own prior knowledge of what had happened.
Major General Antonio Taguba also claimed in an interview with The New Yorker magazine published yesterday that President George Bush also "had to be aware" of the atrocities despite saying at the time of the scandal that he had been out of the loop until he saw images in the US media.
The White House issued a response denying the claim, however. "The President said over three years ago that he first saw the pictures of the abuse on the television," Scott Stanzel, a spokesman, said.
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Paul Wolf, "Terror-Victim Advocates Sue Banana Giant"
June 10, 2007 - 7:00am -- autonomedia
Terror-Victim Advocates Sue Banana Giant
(Washington, D.C.) Advocates for the families of 173 people murdered in
the banana-growing regions of Colombia filed suit today against Chiquita
Brands International, in Federal District Court in Washington, D.C. The
families allege that Chiquita paid millions of dollars, and tried to
thousands of machine guns to the Autodefensas Unidas de Colombia, or
AUC.
The AUC is a violent, right-wing paramilitary organization supported by
the Colombian army. In 2001, the Bush Administration classified the AUC
as a "Foreign Terrorist Organization." Its units are often described as
"death squads."
According to family representatives, the AUC was used to assassinate
husbands, wives and children, who were apparently interfering with
Chiquita's financial interests. In the last ten years, more than ten
thousand people have been murdered by the AUC, many of them in the
zones where Chiquita financed the AUC's operations.
"This is a landmark case, maybe the biggest terrorism case in history,"
said Terry Collingsworth, who directs the litigation. "In terms of
casualties, it's the size of three World Trade Center attacks."
Collingsworth is already known in Colombia for his lawsuits against Coca
Cola, Drummond, and Nestle for the targeted killings of union leaders by
the AUC.
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Gregory Wilpert, "Chavez and Gramsci"
June 8, 2007 - 9:28am -- autonomedia
Chavez Dismisses International Disapproval of Venezuela's Media Policy
Hundreds of Thousands March in Support of Chavez
Gregory Wilpert
As several hundred thousand Chavez supporters rallied in Venezuela's
largest avenue on Saturday, President Chavez rejected all international
interference with his decision not to renew a television station's
broadcast license. Referring to the Marxist theorist Antonio Gramsci,
Chavez also spoke at length about how private media maintains a cultural
hegemony that must be broken.
"Go to hell, representatives of the global oligarchy, we are a free
country!" said Chavez to wild applause, once marchers reached the
Avenida Bolivar in the center of Caracas. The demonstration converged on
the avenue from two starting points, one in the east of the city and the
other towards the city's south. Unofficial estimates of the number of
demonstrators ranged from 300,000 to 500,000.
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Rev. David Kirk Dies, Crusader for New York City's Disenfranchised
June 4, 2007 - 5:48pm -- autonomedia
Rev. David Kirk, 72, Crusader for New York City's Disenfranchised, Dies
Margalit Fox, New York Times
The Rev. David Kirk, an Eastern Orthodox priest who spent most of his adult life working with New York City's disenfranchised, died on May 23 at Emmaus House, the communal residence for the homeless that he founded in Harlem more than 40 years ago. He was 72.
Father Kirk, who had been in declining health with kidney trouble and other ailments, died in his sleep, said his nephew Kirk Barrell. At Father Kirk's request, he was buried near his longtime mentor, the Roman Catholic social reformer Dorothy Day, at Resurrection Cemetery in Staten Island.
Father Kirk, for decades a presence in the civil rights and antiwar movements, established Emmaus House in the mid-1960s on East 116th Street. It was conceived not as a shelter but as a community for the city's homeless men and women and was modeled on the Emmaus movement, begun in France after World War II to aid the poor.
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Wayne Spencer, "Gasping From Out the Shallows," Part Two
This essay continues from Part One, here.
"Gasping From Out the Shallows," Part Two
Wayne Spencer
From late 1945 until 1947, strikes in Polish factories were common, with the autumn of 1946 in particular seeing a huge mobilization in most of the major centres of industry. In the following years, the crude police terrorism and anti-worker laws of a state capitalist regime seeking to expropriate the totality of labour and social life for its own benefit managed from time to time to secure the disgruntled acquiescence of proletarians; but eruptions of discord and dissent repeatedly returned.
In the mid-1950s, wildcat strikes continuously disrupted Polish industry. In June 1956, workers in Poznań went further. Reacting to a refusal by party officials to address their economic concerns, some 75,000 marched on the city centre. Party, police and security buildings were attacked, prisoners were released and police dossiers destroyed, and barricades thrown up. Nearly three days of fighting with the security police and army followed. The party managed to suppress the Poznań uprising and to overcome a large wave of strikes in 1957; yet social peace eluded it.
In December 1970, a wave of violent conflicts with striking workers erupted, as thousands of workers around the country attacked party headquarter buildings and fought government troops; scores of workers were killed. This new peak of resistance, however, also produced developments that were to have disastrous consequences in the following decade. For the first time, factory occupations and inter-factory committees to exchange information and co-ordinate struggles came into being. In both cases, the organizational structures erected were not subject to the total control of the striking proletarians. An element of mediation and hierarchy emerged as a group of elected or self-appointed specialists began to carry out important aspects of struggles as separate leaders. These specialists in the organization of the proletariat came to conceive and pursue the project of creating a trade union.
Matters came to a head in August 1980. Price increases and the dismissal of Anna Waletynowicz, an admired veteran of the 1970 protests, provoked strikes in Gdańsk and Szczecin, which soon came to engulf almost the whole of each city, as well as spreading elsewhere on the Baltic coast. Lech Wałęsa and the other bureaucratic specialists who exercised control over the inter-factory committees entered into negotiations with the government for the legal right to form a trade union. A moment of choice had arrived for the proletariat: either take the management of its struggles back into its own hands and deepen its attack on the separate power of the state and economy or surrender to an organization that would negotiate in its name in the hope of improving the terms on which the economy and the state dominated it. In the event, the proletariat failed to act for itself and Solidarność (Solidarity) was born.
Solidarność accepted the legitimacy of both the state and the separate economy, aiming only to create a mediated voice for workers within production and a measure of independence within a banal daily life confined between the state and the economy. Its limited objectives inevitably brought it into conflict with a party whose logic required it to dominate every aspect of society. But the tendency of both its philosophy and its hierarchical structure of governing local and national committees was to reduce the proletariat to order-takers and spectators in any conflicts that might ensue with the state. It also discouraged the development of a critique that ranged over ever aspect of alienated life, whether economic, political or domestic. The road to self-managed revolution led directly out of the union. It was not taken. In the months that followed the foundation of Solidarność, Wałęsa's attempts to secure control over the organization and moderate local struggles that threatened to go beyond what he felt the communist party would tolerate created conflicts and dissent within the union. However, these remained within the structures of the union and were often dominated by bureaucratic factions. Solidarność continued to be trusted by the large majority of the proletariat and it soon had ten million members.
On 13th December 1981, the Polish leader, General Wojciech Jaruzelski, declared Martial Law and the leadership of the national Solidarność movement was soon detained. This decapitation of the union provided an opportunity for autonomous organization and struggle by the proletariat, especially as the imposition of martial law left Solidarność's strategy of collaboration with the state in ruins. However, although workers resisted the militarization of workplaces by sit-ins, occupations and physical force, and the period of martial law was marked by numerous protest and clashes with the authorities, these typically remained under the control and co-ordination of local Solidarność organisations or other equally hierarchical bodies. The habit of submission persisted after Martial Law was lifted in July 1983. In 1984 the Party ended the suspension of independent trade union activity that had been imposed at the outset of martial law and granted a legal right to strike. Solidarność itself remained proscribed but some union activists proposed to take advantage of the new conditions to form local unions and even a new national union.
The leadership of Solidarność discouraged both this union-building work and industrial action generally. It equally opposed local activists' efforts to register local Solidarność unions after a general amnesty was granted in 1986 and the possibility of legal recognition of Solidarność was re-opened. Instead, the national leadership created first a Provisional Council and later a National Executive Commission, and adopted an increasingly free-market ideology.
The union was preparing for a capitalist solution to Poland's economic problems that would centrally turn on subjecting workers to freer market forces. It was interested in workers' struggles only insofar as they could be used as bargaining chips to advance its separate interests. More than this, as the state capitalist regime began to disintegrate after the communists' disastrous showing in a round of free elections that had permitted in June 1989 in the characteristically delusional expectation that they the ruling party emerge triumphant, the Solidarność leadership was in effect preparing to assume power and commence the construction of a system of liberal capitalism. Strikes continue to break out in these last days of state capitalism, but the proletariat failed to look beyond its immediate conditions. The question of who was to dominate society in the post-communist era was now at large but only Solidarność and other advocates of the continuance of capitalism in another form were thinking at this level of theory and practice. The proletariat was crippled by its long years of alienated thought and action within hierarchical unions and committees, an alienation that left it bereft of the desire, the organization means, and the consciousness necessary to seize control of the society that was collapsing around it and was to be rebuilt outside and against it. It continued to share Solidarność's fundamental acceptance of a separate economy, a separate state and an everyday life shaped by both. As new foundations for a different society were proposed and constructed, it lacked the theoretical consciousness and means of association necessary to contest the fundamentals of the new alienation. It was unable to begin a struggle against separation and for a self-managed society at the moment when the implosion of the dominant society opened history to its grasp. It was accordingly swept aside and left to quibble over the compensation to be offered for its continued exclusion from the conscious control of the socio-economic mechanisms for the making of history.
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Dutch-American Writer, "Resist" Co-Founder Hans Koning Dies
April 17, 2007 - 8:12pm -- autonomedia
Dutch-American Writer, "Resist"
Co-Founder Hans Koning Dies
Radical writer and "Resist" co-founder Hans Koning died April 13, 2007 at the age of 85 at his home in Easton, Connecticut after a short illness. The author of over 40 fiction and non-fiction books, he was also a prolific journalist, contributing for almost 60 years to many periodicals including the New York Times, International Herald Tribune, Atlantic Monthly, The Nation, Harpers and The New Yorker.
Born in Amsterdam on July 12th 1921 to Elisabeth van Collem and Daniel Koningsberger, he was educated at the University of Amsterdam 1939-41, The University of Zurich 1941-43, and the Sorbonne in 1946. He was the grandson of the well-known Dutch poet Abraham van Collem.
Escaping occupied Holland with the Resistance (he was a wearer of the Dutch Resistance Cross), he was one of the youngest sergeants in the British Liberation Army, 7 Troop, 4 Commando, working as an interpreter during the allied occupation of Germany at the end of the war. His Major wrote of him, "The problems of occupation have been made much easier with the help of this NCO who not only knows the character and customs of the German people but has studied the academic approach to international affairs. Sgt 'Hans' as he is known to everyone in the battery has been a loyal and trustworthy member of the unit…his quiet sense of humor and his fundamentally serious mien have won him the friendship of officers and men alike".
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French Philosopher and Social Theorist Jean Baudrillard Dies
March 7, 2007 - 12:36am -- autonomedia
Elaine Ganley, Canadian Press
PARIS (AP) — Jean Baudrillard, a French philosopher and social theorist known for his provocative commentaries on consumerism, excess and what he said was the disappearance of reality, died Tuesday, his publishing house said. He was 77.
Baudrillard died at his home in Paris after a long illness, said Michel Delorme, of the Galilee publishing house.
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Philip DePaolo, "Terminal Marketing" in Real Estate, Greenpoint, Brooklyn
February 2, 2007 - 11:50am -- autonomedia
Analysis & Polemic
Philip DePaolo writes:
"Terminal Marketing" in Real Estate
Greenpoint, Brooklyn
Philip DePaolo
Today's article in the The Real Deal really got me going. Let's review the facts...
An ad on craigslist.com in March 2006 for the Greenpoint Terminal Market showed the property on the market at $481 million.
The ad stated, "Land, Land and More Land, On The Waterfront, 852,160 SF, 10 Lots, $481,000,000 ... Investors, Developers ... Contact Broker & Dealmaker Frantz."
The ad went on to include extensive descriptions of the individual lots, zoning calculations, lot coverage and the public waterfront access plan (as required by the new zoning regulations).
"Offers were being made daily on this piece," Joseph Kosofsky, a lawyer for Mr. Guttman, said in a May 4th NY Times story. "Everybody wants to be your partner."
One prospective buyer stood out: Baruch Singer, 52, a veteran developer. His offer did not have the sort of restrictive clauses and riders that Mr. Guttman found in the others, Mr. Kosofsky said.
"It was all cash," Mr. Kosofsky said. "It looked like a slam-dunk, in terms of a simple deal. They were going to buy it without any conditions or anything else."
Mr. Singer was involved in a dispute in 2000 with tenant groups and the federal Housing and Urban Development Department. The department blocked Mr. Singer from bidding on a Harlem property the department owned after it was alerted to a long record of complaints against him. Over the years, city housing officials have cited Mr. Singer's buildings for thousands of code violations.
According to the lawsuit Mr. Singer has filed in connection with the deal for the Greenpoint buildings, he planned to develop two of the property's six sites into condominiums quickly, and then pour the proceeds into the four remaining sites. Mr. Guttman agreed to help the deal through the maze that is familiar to anyone in theNew York City real estate business, the lawsuit states.
"All of it looked like it was a go," Mr. Kosofsky said.
Mr. Guttman had hired Perkins Eastman Architects to prepare a proposal for development of the site. Their proposal called for about 2.6 million square feet of residential space over 14 acres stretching from Oak Street to Greenpoint Avenue.
Several tall buildings were in the proposal, the biggest being 35 stories.
But the developers found that they could not begin work on the two fast-track sites until they won approval from the Department of City Planning for a "master plan" for the whole property.
That would have been impossible to do before the Jan. 17 closing date, the lawsuit states. A spokesman for the planning department said there was no requirement for a "master plan," but that a plan for waterfront access was required.
Mr. Singer's financing for the property fell through, Mr. Kosofsky said.
Mr. Singer contends in the lawsuit that they "orally agreed" to put off the closing date for at least six months. He says Mr. Guttman, continued to help him with the Department of City Planning after the closing date had passed.
"But Guttman has apparently had a change of heart and now pretends there was no agreement to extend the closing. The lawsuit says Mr. Guttman has kept the $42 million down payment. Some of the details of the troubled sale were reported in the May 3rd New York Sun.
Members of the Municipal Art Society and the Williamsburg Greenpoint Waterfront Preservation Alliance along with the Preservation League of New York State were attempting to preserve and Landmark the site.
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US Urges Scientists To Block Out Sun
February 2, 2007 - 9:28am -- autonomedia
Solve et Coagula writes: "It seems 'their' silly, poisonous and useless chemtrails didnt work out neatly, hmm!?!?! When do human beings realize/accept that we're part of Nature itself, to see the entire Cosmos as a lovely, caring Being where everything is in its perfect place for good reason, and when are we humble enough to start benefiting from these eternal forces..."
David Adam and Liz Minchin
The US wants the world's scientists to develop technology to block sunlight as a last-ditch way to halt global warming.
It says research into techniques such as giant mirrors in space or reflective dust pumped into the atmosphere would be "important insurance" against rising emissions, and has lobbied for such a strategy to be recommended by a UN report on climate change, the first part of which is due out on Friday).
The US has also attempted to steer the UN report, prepared by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), away from conclusions that would support a new worldwide climate treaty based on binding targets to reduce emissions. It has demanded a draft of the report be changed to emphasise the benefits of voluntary agreements and to include criticisms of the Kyoto Protocol, which the US opposes.
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Joseph Goldstein, "Operation Overlord II: NYPD Planned RNC Arrests"
Operation Overlord II: NYPD Planned RNC Arrests
Joseph Goldstein, New York Sun
The police department had a code-name for its plan to cope with the invasion
of tens of thousands of protesters who were expected to take to the streets
during the 2004 Republican National Convention: Operation Overlord II. The
name is an apparent reference to the secret plan for the Allied invasion of
Normandy, which was codenamed Overlord.
Reports of the planning and intelligence gathering leading up to D-Day are
a part of military lore. But the preparations for Overlord II, which resulted
in the contentious detention of protesters during the convention, are still
Over the city's objections, a fraction of the police documents from the
months before the August convention are expected to be made public in the
coming days, following a recent ruling that lifted a protective order over
them. The New York Sun has obtained several of those documents.
One document suggests that the decision to arrest — instead of ticket —
all persons whose protests were deemed illegal was made months prior to the
convention itself.
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BORN: Find athletes who will 'Be the Difference'
Jacob Born
There has been plenty of bad press concerning the NFL these past two weeks.
Ray Rice's video of him beating his wife was leaked, which resulted in his indefinite suspension. Adrian Peterson was indicted for child abuse and has also been suspended. Wednesday, Greg Hardy was placed on the NFL's exempt list Wednesday for his impending domestic violence case, and Brandon Marshall's ex-girlfriend claims the NFL did not handle her 2007 domestic violence case correctly.
Commissioner Roger Goodell and the NFL has been in the media's crosshairs, as they deserve to be. However, with all these negative stories getting published, two stories deserve to share the spotlight.
The first is the story of Devon Still. Still's four-year-old daughter was diagnosed with cancer during the summer, and Still told the Cincinnati Bengals he could not devote the time needed to play. After hearing the hospital bill, however, he returned to Cincinnati. The Bengals could not give Still a roster spot, but signed him to the practice squad so he could have health insurance.
After signing him to the practice squad, the Bengals announced proceeds from his jersey sales would benefit pediatric cancer research. According to ESPN.com, his jersey sales set a record for team sales in a 24-hour period. Over the next 24 hours, the Bengals sold 1,000 jerseys.
Among those who bought Still's jersey was Sean Payton, head coach of the New Orleans Saints. Payton proceeded to buy 100 jerseys, which amounted to $10,000 in cancer research. Because of injuries, the Bengals have activated Still to the active roster, where he p plays meaningful minutes.
The second story is of two brothers: Ma'ake and Chris Kemoeatu. Chris was a lineman for the Pittsburgh Steelers, winning two Super Bowls with the team. However, he was forced to retire in 2011 after chronic kidney pain proved to be too much. A year later, Ma'ake, a linemen for the Baltimore Ravens, also retired from the NFL to be with Chris.
Doctors told Chris that he had an advanced kidney disease, and he needed a transplant. Ma'ake immediately offered to be a donor, and he was a 99 percent match. The two brothers had the transplant three weeks ago, and are currently recovering from the surgery.
These two stories paint a much different picture than what the media has been painting recently. Football is the most popular sport in the United States, and many people search for athletes to be their role models. Marquette teaches students to "Be the Difference," meaning to have an impact on someone's life. When looking at athletes as role models, find the Sean Peytons, the Ma'ake Kemoeatus. Fans should find role models who make a positive impact in the community.
The NFL has had its fair share of negative press recently, all warranted. But it is important not to forget that there are good people in the NFL as well.
Devon Stills
Ma'ake Kemoeatu
Sean Payton
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Q: Ruby on Rails model save rest_client no local database I was wondering if there was a "proper" way to use RoR's MVC for doing all CRUD actions through something like rest_client. I won't have access to the DB but rather rest requests to do all CRUD actions.
Is there any way to define a model that contains all of the json data that would be returned on a get and put that into a model that can use Model.Save, Model.Create etc like a regular RoR application?
Would creating new methods def save, def create inside the ApplicationController work for this or not?
Edit: rest_client isn't required, just the ability to send json in post, get, delete and put with basic auth at the same time.
Edit 2: The only other idea I had was to use Active Model but those don't have save, delete etc methods. Would creating those that somehow tie into the ActionController::Base for wiring do this or not?

A: take a look at activeresource http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActiveResource/Base.html

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La Ruta Nacional 249 es una carretera argentina asfaltada, que se encuentra en el partido de Coronel de Marina Leonardo Rosales, al sudoeste de la provincia de Buenos Aires, a pocos km al sudeste de Bahía Blanca.

Su recorrido es de 20 km en la dirección noreste a sudoeste, numerados de km 650 a 670. Comienza en el empalme con la Ruta Nacional 3 en el km 650 en el caserío Bajo Hondo y finaliza en la ciudad de Punta Alta.

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Speaking at his pre-match press conference, the Spaniard said: "I try to choose the best players for the next game. I am only thinking about trying to win the next game. I don't want to think any further.
"I think we had time to recover. The players had three days off and they were ready to start preparing for the next game. We have enough time as we play on Monday.
"I think it's good for us to have more time to recover and prepare for Monday. We have good professionals and with these players, it is easy as they know the next game is very important.
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Major League Baseball Looks For Strike Out In Stadium Safety Case
Major League Baseball has asked a California federal court to dismiss a proposed class action claim that accuses the league of failing to sufficiently protect spectators with safety netting. Brought in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, Gail Payne et al. v. Office of the Commissioner of Baseball et al., 4:15-cv-03229, names the MLB, Commissioner Rob Manfred, and all 30 teams as defendants.
The plaintiffs argue that the defendants are engaging in negligence, misrepresentations, and exposing the spectators of the sport to personal injury . The claim also states that the putative class is afraid for their safety and, as a result, cannot enjoy the games as much. The class points to a Ninth Circuit decision holding that fear or anxiety of future harm is enough to establish injury-in-fact.
Thus far, the plaintiffs have failed to demonstrate standing to bring these claims because they are struggling to prove imminent danger of injury.
In response, MLB argued that the injury rate per ticket is far below one percent and, therefore, the chance of injury is extremely small. MLB argued that fear is not enough to establish standing because the putative class members have failed to demonstrate an imminent danger of injury. Additionally, all fans have the option to purchase seats behind foul ball nets or a seat that is not in the range of foul balls. Either way, MLB argued, the plaintiffs cannot demonstrate a certain impending injury.
The issue of spectator safety at professional sporting events is not a new one for litigation. Previous litigation, however, has set the bar for spectator recovery for injury extremely high. For example, in 2002 a 13-year-old girl was struck and killed by a puck while attending a hockey game. Even in such an extreme case, the team and the NHL were not held liable for her injury or death.
Since fans at sporting events are aware that they could be injured, this knowledge generally absolves the teams, arenas, and leagues of any legal liability.
More often than not, arenas will announce prior to a game starting, provide warnings on tickets, and put up nets to warn spectators about errant balls, pucks, bats, and the like. It appears that so long as teams, arenas, and leagues continue to warn spectators, they will not be found liable for spectator injury anytime soon.
Jackson Lewis P.C. © 2023National Law Review, Volume VI, Number 252
Paul V. Kelly is a Principal in the Boston, Massachusetts, office of Jackson Lewis P.C. He has extensive experience in white collar criminal defense, internal investigations, complex civil litigation and crisis management. Mr. Kelly is the firm's White Collar and Government Enforcement Practice Group Leader. A former sports industry executive, he is also one of the firm's Collegiate and Professional Sports Practice Group Leaders.
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News: On course at University Centre Rotherham
As building work continues on the new £10.5m university campus in Rotherham town centre, details have been released showing the types of higher level education courses that the first cohort of students will take.
The University Centre Rotherham (UCR) includes specialist teaching facilities, seminar and lecture rooms, library, café and independent and group study spaces. The RNN Group is due to open the campus on Doncaster Gate in autumn 2018.
There are a wide variety of degree courses accredited by top universities and awarding bodies, including Sheffield Hallam University and the University of Hull, with plans for over 50 courses to be running at UCR by 2020.
And they are cheaper too, backed by student loans and maintenance loans, tuition fees are considerably less than others with undergraduate courses ranging from £3,000 to £7,000 per year.
Bachelor degrees, foundation degrees, HNCs and HNDs, PGCEs and higher and degree apprenticeships are being offered by the institution.
Accounting, business and management courses are set to include guest lectures delivered by industry-based speakers, enterprise challenges and visits to related organisations. Example arts courses include studying for degrees in graphic communication design, fashion and fine and applied art.
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Jana Checkley, director of higher education and skills for RNN Group, said: "The University Centre Rotherham is an amazing opportunity for the community. We are building a university specific centre that is going to house over a thousand students over the next five years.
"The UCR is a place were students are able to focus on developing their skills for a career in music, graphics, computing, engineering and many other fantastic opportunities that are going to help enrich the community of Rotherham.
"We are going to be working with local employers to help build a more diverse curriculum that is going to have over 50 different subjects by 2020."
Dan Jarvis, candidate in the upcoming Sheffield city region mayoral election, recently toured the building site for the new campus with the leader of Rotherham Council, Cllr. Chris Read.
Mr Jarvis met on site with the deputy principal of the RNN Group, Philip Sayles and construction manager from contractors, Willmott Dixon, Alan Neal, to take a tour of the latest developments, as well as learn more about course offerings.
Rotherham Council provided the land for the campus in a cut price deal. The Sheffield City Region (SCR) Combined Authority agreed to fund infrastructure works. A grant of £3.5m has been approved with the balance coming from RNN Group.
Dan Jarvis said: "The UCR site in the centre of Rotherham points to great opportunities and it is fantastic to see it taking shape. It shows how by working together, we can create jobs and secure the investment that we need to bridge the skills gap and offer local people the skills they need to succeed in future employment."
Cllr. Chris Read added: "When I was last here it was for the ground-breaking ceremony and the build was still in its early stages, with nothing much to see – today's visit shows how far the build has come along and I can't wait for local people to come and see UCR for themselves this September.
"UCR is not only the first key piece of the jigsaw for our regeneration of the town centre, it is also a critical investment to ensure that Rotherham people have access to the skills that they need in the future. We still have too few people with higher level qualifications, and for too long it has been difficult to study locally – over the coming years that is going to change."
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Tata Bolt Review & Test Drive Video- Potent Rival For Swift And Punto
Sometime back we shared with you our review of the Tata Zest compact sedan and shared how Tata cars are getting a generation ahead of what they were till a few years back. We test drove Tata Bolt hatchback at a media drive event in Udaipur last week and were really impressed with the way the car performs as an all round performer. In this post, we share with you our experience with the car on around 100 Km round trip we did on the car on city roads as well as curvy highways to Mount Abu in Rajasthan. We share with you all you need to know about exteriors and styling of Tata Bolt. We will also talk about interiors, space and features of the car. We share our behind the wheel experience of this car and how it rides and behaves around the corners and at high speeds. We have also done a video review of the car which you can see below. Lets get started with the Tata Bolt Review.
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The Tata Bolt is based on the improved X1 platform by Tata and does looks somewhat similar to the Tata Vista in outline. On the front, you will see a higher chin, sleeker grille and mean-looking-eyes-like headlamp appearance which gives it a sporty character. There are bonnet lines falling towards the grille, there are blackened projector headlamps to give it an upmarket look. You also get a chrome strip on the top of upper part of the grille and some chrome garnish around the fog lamps housing.
Move to the side of the car and you will notice chunky allow wheels which looks classy and smart, there are body lines running at the sides at both the shoulder lever and lower lever on the side profile. The wheel arches are subtle but visible. You will also notice body colored door handle, chrome strip running towards the bottom of the windows, blackened B-Pillars and C-pillars which give the roof a floating appearance.
Come towards the rear of the car and you will notice the flame tail lamp cluster, which is a combination cluster, which is sleek and chunky. There is a sporty spoiler with high mounted stop lamp, rear wind-shield which comes with defogger, rear washer and wiper. There is use of chrome at the rear boot door. The bumper also gets dual tone treatment with black and body colour panels and there is also a rear fog lamp mounted there.
If you look at the car from an overall top view, you will find it to be very sporty at some places and slightly conservative at other. Its neither too modern nor too retro, somewhere in the middle. Its not as curvy or sculpted as the Hyundai's are and not so much rounded as Marutis are. It has a style statement of its own. I would describe the exteriors as slightly conservative as the outline still remains similar to older generation Indicas and Vistas that we have seen from Tata earlier, but the similarities end there.
As soon as you enter the cabin of the Tata Bolt, you can feel the quality of the car, which we must tell you is impressive. There is nicely finished dashboard, high quality of plastics used all around the car. The steering wheel has a nice 3 spoke design with a dash of silver and piano black. The dashboard also uses a dash of piano black finish inserts near the glove box and central console.
The instrument cluster gets two large analogue dials for speedometer and tachometer, in the middle of these two is a digital MID (multi-information display) which shows fuel economy, odometer, trip meter, temperature, fuel, distance to empty and a lot more.
The central console gets a touch screen infotainment system by Harman which also gets display for climate control. It can connect with USB, Aux-input, SD card and is loaded with features. There are voice controls in the car with which you can control the infotainment system as climate control system. It is also equipped with Bluetooth for using the phone with the infotainment system. There are 8 speakers (2 in each door) in the car which sounds amazing. The infotainment system can play videos too, but it is highly recommended that you use it only when the car is not moving.
The seating comfort is good with what Tata calls Rugby-Shoulder seats which are bucket seats with driver side height adjust available. The steering wheel is also tilt-adjustable. There are plenty of cubby holes and door pockets to store your stuff. There is also under-seat tray for storage under the passenger seat at front.
The rear seats are also comfortable and have ample leg-room, shoulder room and head-room. July like any other Indica or Vista, the Bolt also has oodles of cabin space. For comfort and safety of rear passengers, there are also adjustable head-restrains at the rear. The rear seats are 60:40 split seats which can be folded on need basis if you need to carry more luggage in the car.
The boot compartment is around 196 litres and gets a boot lamp for convenience of the users. However, there is no knob or handle to open the boot when you are outside the car, you can only open it with a key or from the remote boot release knob on the floor near driver seat.
Few things that could have been better were boot space and rear-AC vents could have been provided on the top end.
Performance, Ride & Handling
This is one area where we were pleasantly surprised. I will start with the engine. We drove 1.2 litre turbo-charged petrol engine car which comes with a peak power of 90 PS and peak torque of 140 Nm which starts to deliver around 1500 RPM (there is a turbo-charger involved). The car has good agility, however, you can't pull too much on revs below 1200 RPM, so some gear-shifting is necessary for spirited driving. Once you are past 1500 RPM, the engine becomes a monster of power. It delivers great punchy torque beyond that and it becomes a great fun to drive, you just need to keep the revs higher than 1500 RPM. Gear-shifting is smooth, gearbox has short throw and is well sorted. Once you hit the road, the car is surprisingly silent. At idling (around 600 to 700 RPM as seen on the tachometer), you can't make out whether the engine is on or off by just listening to it. Its so silent on the petrol variant. Also there are low rolling resistance tyres which help improve fuel economy. During our limited 100 Km run, we saw average fuel economy numbers on MID showing 12.7 KMPL which is not bad at all.
The best part about the engine is the driving modes. We saw that in Tata Zest as well. It is like having 3 cars in 1, well it may sound like an exaggeration, but if you change the engine mode, the throttle response changes considerably, the car responds differently to your accelerator inputs. By default, it runs in City mode, where there is moderate response and fuel economy. There is also Eco mode which puts the car in slow response and high fuel economy mode; and when you apply the Sport mode, it changes the engine tune to high response and low fuel economy. So if you want to drive with high agility, Sport mode makes it real fun. It is live hacking your engines ECU to a sport tune, but in this case, its a feature in the car that won't void your car's warranty.
Coming to the handling part, the steering has got good weight and feel to it. It does give you nice feedback and feels confident event at speeds higher than 100 KMPH. The suspension is slightly on the harder side, which makes the driving even more fun. It helps to corner at high speed with ease and a lot of confidence without any drama. The car is extremely planted and silent on the road. After experiencing high speed drive on the Bolt, we can say that it will easily rival the popular Swift and Punto in handling department. So if sporty handling is a turn-on for you, Bolt will not disappoint you.
Coming to the ride comfort aspect, Tata has manages to keep the ride quality decent considering that the car is fairly sporty to drive as well. This can be achieved in multiple ways like having stiffer suspension but more suspension travel, better damping in suspension etc. We don't know the exact secret recipe used by Tata, but they have managed to hit the sweet spot between the ride and handling.
What We Like?
Loaded with features
Sport / City / Eco Modes
Very good NVH
Well balanced suspension
Great handling at high speeds
What Could Have Been Better?
Styling is still conservative on the outside, could have been more modern
Boot space might concern some buyers
Low end engine punch could have been better (might be much better on diesel as they have more torque, we will test and tell)
If you see the list of pros and cons, it is a clear verdict that Tata has cracked most pieces of the puzzle correctly for this segment. It has a great car at hand which is compact yet spacious, not so expensive (we believe) yet loaded with features, fun to drive, silent and stable at high speeds. It has got all it takes to be an everyday family car and at the same time it doubles up an an enthusiasts car who loves to enjoy driving. We like the way the car is well sorted in most departments. On a scale of 10, I would give it an 8.5 overall.
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Q: How to mount an ext3 VMware Virtual Disk Image (vmdk) I found a wiki entry on how to mount an NTFS VMware Virtual Disk Image (vmdk) and another link. I want to mount an ext3 vmdk file on Windows XP. How can I do that?

The VMware-mount-5.5.0-18463.exe utility mounts NTFS filesystems
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A: you need vmware mount, and an ext3 driver. Mount the drive with vmware mount, and as long as you have a driver that works, it should be readable.


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The Research Project "Chinese Everyday Technologies" - Introduction
From 2002 to 2005 the Volkswagen Foundation (VolkswagenStiftung) was funding the research project "History and Anthropology of Chinese Everyday Technologies". It was based at Berlin Technical University and collaborates with the Institute of Philosophy, Philosophy of Science, History of Science and Technology and the Study Group for the History and Philosophy of Chinese Science and Technology as well as the East Asian Seminar of Berlin Free University (section Prof. von Mende).
The topic of this technical-anthropologically and everyday-historiographically oriented research project was the way in which people in China have since earliest times been organising their basic necessities. Chinese people have implemented culturally obstinate, flexibly adaptable technologies in their daily lives. These are to be understood on the background of the sociotechnical systems of the different periods of Chinese history and have developed in line with basic cultural technological choices.
There were three aspects to the research project: (i) basic research with the aim to produce an outline of a history of Chinese everyday technologies; (ii) the training of young researchers; (iii) setting up a database that will be a valuable resource to researchers in the area (particularly on the subjects of clothing, alimentation, dwelling and communication).
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