As you get older, you 'grow into' certain foods – like my new love of artichokes or a preference for goat's cheese and brie over bright orange cheddar.
But there are some foods you never 'grow out of'.
In my case, this is pizza. You might remember me and Jess wandering around on the hunt for the best pizza in Buenos Aires – a place that outsiders might not realize has its very own specific style of pizza. We make a point of eating pizza everywhere we go. The thing is, in a city like New York, your pizza palate can really enjoy a range of styles, from basic slices to, well, artichokes and goats cheese (but maybe not together).
So what's the best pizza in New York City, you ask?
Joe's Pizza – thumbs up!
I was determined to try them all.
After spending another four months in New York City this year, I am happy to announce that the list has grown! Some of these I've made it to, some of these places are on the list for my next summer in New York (I love summer in New York City, but I tend to stay away during the winter months…). But the more time I spend in NYC, the more recommendations I get.
Speedy Romeo's – tried, excellent!
Lucali's – tried. solid pizza but I wasn't too impressed.
L&B Spumoni Gardens – tried, loved it!
Because it's New York City, we have to talk about the $1 slice, so let's get that out of the way first.
The first slice of New York pizza we had was actually from a $1 pizza place. It is impossible to resist the smell of fresh pizza and the price… But I quickly learned that the irresistible smell and price tag doesn't necessarily mean that it's good (it also depends on your level of drunkenness, to be fair). It's hit or miss with a $1 slice, and to be sure, when in need of a $1 slice I always go to 2 Bros Pizza, which is my favorite slice chain in NYC.
Address: There are Dollar Pizza parlors all across New York. Check this map for a slice near you!
Verdict: Excellent value for money.
I continued our 'research' with Grimaldi's, one of the most famous coal brick-oven pizzerias in the city and just a five-minute walk from our Brooklyn Heights housesit. I'd seen the crowds outside the restaurant on my runs, as there seem to be people waiting in front of Grimaldi's as soon as they open and pretty much non-stop until they close, and one day we finally joined the long line of people waiting out front. Tourists flock here, so I wanted to see if the hype is worth it.
Brick ovens like the one at Grimaldi's can reach 1200 degrees Fahrenheit, which results in especially crispy and flavorful pizzas. As any good pizza would do, we opted for the classic mozzarella and cheese to absorb and compare the true flavor quality… The truth is, I expected a bit more considering the massive hype. If the line isn't too long and you happen to be in Brooklyn, stop in for some pretty good pizza – but it's not the best. Tip: Patsy Grimaldi, the founder of Grimaldi's, sold his pizzeria in 1998. In 2012, he actually opened a new pizzeria right next to the famous original – his new venture is called Juliana's. It's supposed to be much better than Grimaldi's, but we didn't eat there (yet!).
Verdict: If the line isn't too long and you happen to be in Brooklyn, stop in for some pretty good pizza – but it's not the best.
As mentioned above, Patsy Grimaldi opened a new pizzeria right next door to Grimaldi's which he sold in 1998. While the word about Juliana's wasn't out in 2013 when we lived five minutes from Grimaldi's, it definitely was out in 2014, when there was always a line out the door at Juliana's. I had a pie of the classic Margherita ($16, enough to split between two hungry or three not-so-hungry people) a couple of times and it always delivered. Definitely a notch up from Grimaldi's – so if you find the line at Grimaldi's too long, why not try Juliana's instead (it's cheaper, too!)? Tip: If you want to skip the line, you can just order a pizza for pick-up and eat it in Brooklyn Bridge Park right down the road, that's what I usually do. Nothing tastes like a New York slice like a slice with the view of the Manhattan skyline, trust me!
Verdict: Definitely one of the best pizzas I've had in New York City. It's worth the wait, and better than Grimaldi's next door.
Paulie Gee's wasn't even on our list but when we made plans to meet a friend there for dinner and saw the menu, we were immediately intrigued. Unfortunately that day the wait was over 40 minutes so we skipped it, but we headed back to Greenpoint for a second go when another foodie friend was in town.
Greenpoint is quite out of the way, even for Brooklyn, but it is so worth the trip! This isn't 'New York Style' pizza – here you get innovative pizza creations that might sound strange at first, like the Cherry Jones – with cherries, gorgonzola, prosciutto and honey, there was one with fennel and anise, or vegan sausages with grapes. Paulie Gee's gets extra points for awesome pizza names like Arugula Shmoogula, A Whiter Shade Of Kale or Ricotta Be Kiddin' Me! Tip: Paulie Gee's also has a wide range of vegan pizzas! Check out their menu here.
Verdict: Absolutely delicious and if you're into trying unusual pizzas, make your way to Paulie Gee's!
While researching for our next quick three-day stay in New York, I stumbled on a pizza tour on Vimbly. Vimbly brings together almost all the tours you can take in New York – food tours, movie tours, walking tours, kayaking tours of the Hudson River…and pizza tours!
Less than 48 hours later, we were booked onto a pizza tour through four different neighborhoods with Scott, the biggest pizza aficionado we have ever met. Seriously.
I was already happy when I read that the meeting point for Scott's Pizza Tour was Lombardi's, another pizzeria high on my list.
When you roll with Scott's Pizza Tours, Scott gets you access that you could never otherwise get. For example, the first thing we did at Lombardi's was peek into the kitchen at the incredible pizza oven. It was lunch time and had just opened, but the brick oven has been on continuously for years – they only put the coals out entirely when they do routine maintenance every decade or so. Once you really start to pay attention to the difference between flavors of a brick oven vs a regular gas oven, you'll opt for brick oven every time.
Lombardi's was one of the first pizza places in the U.S., established in 1905 by Italian immigrants. It is indirectly responsible for the foundation of some of the best pizza places in New York: Anthony Pero of Totonno's, Patsy Lancieri of Patsy's and John Sasso of John's Pizza all learned under Gennaro Lombardi, the founder of Lombardi's. We sat down at three tables set up just for us and tried the first of four pizza slices on the tour. It was fun to see Scott geek out over the fact that you could see the brick marks in the bottom of the crust. The pizza style is similar to Grimaldi's, with melted slices of part-skim mozzarella covering the slice only partially. The sauce and cheese were better than Grimaldi's, no question.
Scott actually showed us a picture of him crawling inside that oven a few years ago!
Tip: Come right at noon when they open to skip the line. We arrived just when they opened and it was still fairly quiet when we left 30 minutes later.
Verdict: Decent New York-style pizza, worthy of hype.
We had been told by a few New York locals that Patsy's in East Harlem was a must, so I was happy to discover that Scott's Pizza Tour would include Patsy's that day and I could check another pizzeria off my list! Patsy's is another one of the original Neapolitan style coal fired oven pizzerias. Different from Lombardi's or Grimaldi's though, the mozzarella cheese here covers the entire pie which makes the pizza super cheesy (and delicious!).
Tip: Every year in mid-August, Patsy's celebrates its anniversary with Great Depression–era pricing: coal-oven pizzas for 60¢, 12-ounce steaks for 90¢ and sodas for 10¢.
Verdict: Well worth the trip up to East Harlem and possibly our favorite pizza on the tour.
Roberta's is hands down the best pizza I've had in New York. There's no question about that. Even though it is housed in what looks like a ramshackle building from the outside and is far out in Brooklyn, in Bushwick, it is so worth coming here! I totally understand why Beyonce and Jay-Z eat here regularly – I'd eat here every week, if I could. Absolutely scrumptious! Bonus: Compared to some of the other famous pizza places in NYC, Roberta's $12 Margherita is an absolute steal!
Tip: If you want to skip the lines, come here for lunch. If you don't want to make the trip out to Bushwick (even though it is so worth it!) and you happen to find yourself in New York in May or September, you're lucky. Roberta's usually has a stall at the month-long Madison Sq Eats food festival in Madison Square (right in front of the Flatiron Building).
Verdict: Best pizza in New York, Dani voted. Ignore all the other pizza places in this list, make a beeline straight for Roberta's. Stop reading this list now. Hop on the L Train, get off at Morgan Ave and it's less than two minutes from the subway.
Artichoke Basille is another favorite of mine, especially their artichoke pizza. On this pizza, you basically have an artichoke spinach dip instead of a tomato-based pizza sauce, but if this sounds weird to you, hear me out: it is absolutely amazing. Seriously one of the best pizza inventions out there! They have a number of other pizzas (Margarita, Vodka, etc), and because they all look fantastic, I find myself ordering some of the other slices here every now and again, as well. Stick to the artichoke pizza though, this is their signature pizza and it's killer.
Tip: There are three branches in Manhattan (plus one in Astoria, Queens). The East Village location is more like a hole-in-the-wall pick-up-a-slice place, while the Chelsea location is a full sit-down restaurant. Because of its location (right by the Highline Park and one block from Chelsea Market), the Chelsea location can get busy, but prepared for lines in the Greenwich Village and East Village branches, too.
Verdict: The artichoke pizza is drool-worthy and one of my top five pizza slices in New York!
Joe's Pizza is a Greenwich institution, and perfectly located in midst of all the Village bars to lure you in after a drunken night out, to soak up some of that booze before you go to bed. Even though this is a 24-hour pizza slice parlor, it's much more than a cure-your-hangover pizza place, it is probably the best slice you can get in the village. At $2.75 the margherita is slightly more expensive than a $1 slice, but so worth it. The cheese-sauce ratio is perfect – not too cheesy and not too saucy, and if you want a really really good slice, splurge on the $3.50 slice with fresh mozzarella. You'll thank me later.
Tip: Don't miss a slice of Joe's on a trip to New York!
Verdict: I can't think of a better cheese slice in New York City! The only slice I'd put above this is the artichoke pizza at Artichoke Bastille, but their cheese slice isn't anywhere near as good as Joe's.
Bleecker Street Pizza would be my #2 slice in the Village, but has been named 'Best pizza in New York' by the Food Network three years in the row. Since it's only a 3-minute walk to Joe's Bleecker Street location, you might as well try both and decide for yourself. Both have a long list of celebrity fans. I love the huge selection at Bleecker Street's, making it always hard for me to decide which one to go for (or ending up with a slice more than I wanted!), but starting at $3.50, they're more expensive than Joe's and I am not sure that the higher price tag is justified.
Tip: Combine a visit to Bleecker Street Pizza with a visit to Joe's and compare!
Verdict: One of New York's best slices.
When I planned a trip to the 'true' Little Italy of New York – in the Bronx, not on the Lower East Side, where the touristy Manhattan Little Italy is located – I started researching the best pizza place in the Arthur Avenue area right away. If there are true Italian restaurants here, there must be a true Naples-style pizza somewhere. My research led me to 089, or Otto Zero Nove, and it didn't disappoint. I opted for an unusual pizza choice: Pizza La Cirilo ($16.95), with butternut squash puree instead of a tomato-based pizza sauce, and topped with fresh mushrooms and fresh mozzarella, with truffle oil drizzled on top of everything. The pizza was absolutely divine!
Tip: A solid choice if you are visiting the Bronx' Little Italy. Many unusual pizzas on the menu (with potato, butternut squash puree, etc), and all ingredients are imported from Italy.
Verdict: Who would've thought that the pizza had such good Italian-style pizza? Definitely worth visiting, would eat there again.
Fornino's is definitely not one of the most amazing pizza places in New York, but they make a decent pie and have a good lunch deal. Lunch, exactly. Because, their other problem is that they are in Williamsburg and in Greenpoint, and if you find yourself in Greenpoint at night, you should obviously go to Paulie Gee's and if you find yourself in Williamsburg at night, you head to Best Pizza, no question. But if you are near one of their branches and you want to have a proper sit-down pizza lunch, it's an excellent choice. I have only had the Margherita pizza (which was solid) so far but I'm keen on trying the ricotta eggplant pizza.
Tip: Go for their lunch special: $12 for a pizza and a salad. Excellent value for money!
Verdict: A decent Italian-style pizza and the lunch special is a fantastic bargain – I mean, look at the size of the pizza!
To call your pizzeria simply 'Best' when you're way out on the edges of a city famous for its pizza – now that's daring. Here, in the capital of pizza, Best Pizza is still much more 'underground' than Underground Pizza mentioned above, that's for sure. This well-kept secret only opened in 2010, and is located a couple of blocks up from popular Bedford Avenue in Williamsburg.
It wasn't just the adorable décor that impressed us – although we loved the white paper pizza plates, designed by customers, hanging all over the walls and ceiling. Best Pizza was actually able to win us over on a white pizza – which we usually do not enjoy – and we scarfed down slices with ricotta, shaved parmesan and caramelized onions with a sesame seed crust that made this pizza so so delicious.
Tip: Get here before the secret gets out and this place will be crowded at any time of the day!
Verdict: Was it the best? We'll let you decide – but definitely a must for pizza peeps who like more than just a classic cheese slice.
You know what the coolest thing about Scott's Pizza Tour is? Beyond the fact that we drove to three different boroughs in a yellow school bus – Queens, Brooklyn, Lower Manhattan and Harlem in under four hours and got to eat slices at places that normally only serve whole pies – and you couldn't eat four whole pizzas in a day – could you?! And even cooler than 'backstage' access inside the kitchens to learn possibly everything there is to know about making pizza and watching Scott use his own personal super high temperature pizza oven thermometer to test the actual temperatures of each of the pizza ovens. The best thing is that Scott goes to different pizza places each Sunday. This is a guy who samples pizza in nearby states on his days off, so of course he doesn't want to get sick of places…if we wanted to do this tour again (and again), odds are we would continue to cross places off my list. Not only that, but he also offers a Greenwich Village Pizza Walk – which we'll probably join next time we're in town, too!
This Italian-style pizzeria is in the middle of Greenwich Village, right on Bleecker Street (and in the vicinity of John's Pizza and Bleecker Str Pizza!). Kesté's oven was handmade from the lava clay of Vesuvius volcano near Naples, or so the story goes. The Pizza del Papa (with butternut squash cream, smoked mozzarella, red and yellow peppers, and zucchini) sounds like the perfect autumn dish, but I have only tried the wood-fired Margherita ($13) which hit the spot.
Tip: Come here for a nice dinner, Keste is a bit fancier, and has a lot of specialty pizzas that are pricier than your usual pizza – worth it though, in my opinion. No slices, only full pies.
Verdict: A proper Italian-style pizza in New York! Perfect.
Totonno's is a Coney Island institution, having served pizza on Neptune Avenue since 1924. This is another one of New York's iconic coal fired brick oven pizzerias. Antonio "Totonno" Pero, the founder, worked at Lombardi's first and once he had perfected his pizza-making skills, he decided to open his own place out in Coney Island. Totonno's hasn't changed their recipe since 1924 and is supposed to be one of the most quintessential New York pizzas, and hey, who doesn't need to take the occasional trip out to Coney Island, anyway?
Tip: Don't ask for the menu – you can see all available pizzas on the board. Totonno's only does full-size pies, no slices.
Verdict: I must admit that I had expected more. It was a bit of a let-down, like the other much-hyped and Totonno-related Grimaldi's, so I wouldn't make the way all the way out to Coney Island just to eat at Totonno's. If you're planning to visit Coney Island anyway, for the amusement park or some beach time, then it's well worth stopping here for a pizza.
Don Antonio's is right in the Theater District, just down the road from Times Square actually. I was skeptical. Could a place right in the middle of the tourist center of Manhattan be any good? It was surprisingly good. Not amazingly good, and the dough was a little too gooey for me, but the rest of the pizza was convincing and definitely authentic Naples-style pizza. When I looked into who is behind Don Antonio's, I found out that it was a joint venture of Roberto Caporuscio of Kesté Pizza & Vino (one of my favorites!), and his maestro, Antonio Starita, of one of Naples' oldest and most revered pizzerias, Pizzeria Starita a Materdei – so it shouldn't come as a surprise that the pizza here is good.
Tip: Make sure to come early if you are planning to dine here because it gets packed at night – you are in the Theater District after all.
Verdict: It's solid enough to be included in this list, and I've heard other people rave about it, plus it has very good reviews all over the interwebs. If you are not as much of a pizza snob as I am, you'll probably enjoy it more than I did (to clarify: I did enjoy it, but it wouldn't make my Top Ten list).
I wasn't sure if I could justify $5 for a slice of pizza (except for Artichoke Basille, where I always happily hand over a fiver), but since there are lines out the door at Di Fara's (with waiting times of up to 1 – 2 hours) despite the price tag and the out-of-the-way location in Midwood, Brooklyn, I had to see f these slices lived up to the hype. Anthony Bourdain claims it's the 'best of the best' and Di Fara's keeps winning 'Best Pizza of NYC' awards by several food publications year after year. Domenico DiMarco, who opened the no-frills pizzeria in 1959, takes pride in using only imported ingredients from Italy.
I finally made it to Di Fara's in 2016, and nearly died of hunger while waiting in line for about an hour for my slice. Had I known that I'd be waiting that long, I would've ordered five slices. We tried the Sicilian style (thick dough, baked in a pan) as well as the regular pizza, and I thought both were perfect, but my friend found the Sicilian style pizza too oily.
Tip: Di Fara's was voted 'Best Pizza in New York' several times, by the likes of Zagat, Frommer's, Anthony Bourdain and Mayor Bill DeBlasio. This pizza is worth the trek out to Midwood if you're a true pizza lover!
Verdict: Loved it! But I wouldn't wait an hour again for a slice here. Unless I happen to be in the area maybe.
I admit, this place is nowhere to be found on any of the 'best slices in NYC' lists, but if you are in the Financial District around Wall Street, in Battery Park or just returning from the Staten Island Ferry, Underground Pizza place is well worth a visit.
We had the eggplant parmigiano pizza on a couple of occasions, and it is so delicious. The classic Margarita style is also good, slices are start at $2.75, and you can even get a breakfast slice with cheese, eggs and either bacon or sausage if you like – but we haven't made it down there early enough to try that just yet.
Tip: Because this is in the Financial District, skip lunch hours or you'll get stuck in long lines.
Verdict: The eggplant parmigiano pizza hits the spot.
There you have it, my favorite pizza places in New York – so far! I will be updating this post every time I visit a new pizzeria in New York, so it just might be worth bookmarking this and checking back here as an ever-growing New York Pizza Resource.
Do you have a favorite pizza place in New York City? Please share it in the comments below!
I head back to NY in 4 months after 3 years of being away. I have been dreaming of a thin crust pizza that I can fold in half and devour for those entire three years. I cannot wait to stop at each and every one of these places. Thanks for the mouth watering list!
Love it! We also have a new-found appreciation for artichokes and goat's cheese. And as for pizza, I've eaten more of it since travelling than the whole of my life previously, and I love it more than ever!
Julia- that is so true!! Although I have to admit that we used to have pizza at least once a week when we were still living in London, so our pizza consumption actually went down. But it's a great go-to food anywhere in the world!
I hope you had pizza for lunch? 😉 I got so hungry when I put the post together and am still craving pizza!!
Hi Dany, This is a great piece, which I'm going to bookmark for my next visit to NYC.
But did you try Best Pizza in Williamsburg? It was amazing, and a really cool place. The 20-inch pie costs just $18 and easily feeds two hungry people.
ah yes, in my haste to post a comment I didn't see that you did visit Best Pizza! Glad you enjoyed it too.
I can totally understand that – the excitement about wanting to share something 😉 And Best Pizza was truly delicious! I want to try their Margarita pizza next time we're in Williamsburg, that one also looked good!
Lucali in Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn. http://www.yelp.com/biz/lucali-brooklyn-3 Tiny place (bring your own bottle). They make pizza by candlelight.
And the more upscale, expensive but utterly delicious Otto in Manhattan. http://www.ottopizzeria.com/lunch_dinner.cfm.
I agree on your Grimalidi's take–doesn't quite meet the hype!
Perfect timing! This past weekend I was thinking I needed to research pizza places for an upcoming trip to NYC! On previous trips I've tried Grimaldi's and Luzzo's (which was great!) but I've never had a really good pizza slice so these are some great places to check out! Thanks!
Hi Cassie, glad to hear that you're about to have some New York pizza! 🙂 You'll have to let us know which one you tried and how you liked it!!
Hey Dani – try Cafe Viva on 2nd Ave in the East Village or on Broadway up around 97th st ish. That's my favorite. They have vegetarian and vegan options and it's by the slice.
Cool fun fact about Totonno's – go there early because they don't have regular hours. Every day they make the dough fresh and once it has run out for the day, that's it. They close again until the next day.
You forgot Joe's Pizza in Greenwich Village! We love that place. Leonardo DiCaprio is a fan too, apparently. They only use two ingredients on their slices – cheese and tomato. Somehow this manages to taste amazing.
Hi Carmen, Joe's was actually #11 on my list but then I took it out for some reason! Good to know that it's worth a visit though – It looks like we'll have to go on the Greenwich Village pizza walk next time we're in New York to fit in as many places as possible 🙂 I am craving pizza!!
I am literally salivating right now looking at these photos! I've been to Lombardi's, and the combination of their pizza and sangria, it was delicious!
OMG, I love the look of the pizza bagels. I recently found the best pizza in Phnom Penh-aftr 2 years there! It is a moto with a pizza oven on top and is called 'Katy Perri's Pizza'. Not only is the name awesome, but the pizza is delicious too.
It's as if this post was written just for us! We've had a similar goal and will check off more on our next visit. We love those $1 slices!
I've tried out some of the places you mention. But I found my favorite by chance, just a couple of days ago: Savoia on Smith Street in Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn, I had Pizza Campagnola there, with wild mushrooms, sausage and Ricotta and it was awesome.
Omg I love love your blog!!! Especially this section!!! Pizza!!! And vegan!!
Spunto Thin Crust Pizza in the West Village, New York is amazing. On week days you can buy slices. I had the Salciccia Dolce and a costum designed pizza and they were both perfect. So you can get artichoke and goats cheese on the pizza if you choose to custom design one 😉 I've been there twice and it doesn't seem to be crowded.
Louise, thanks so much for sharing! We'll definitely head there next time we're in NYC! The artichoke and goats cheese pizza sounds delicious!!
Yummy! That looks so good. I like to cook my pizzas on a stone to get the crust evenly baked and crispy. That's what makes the perfect pizza.
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Can a Website Design Used in One Specialty Be Suitable for Other Medical Professions?
You're in the market for an updated website. Logically, the first thing you do is start to look at websites that you like. After hours of searching online you narrow it down to three different layouts that you just know will make your family medicine practice shine. But every example you found was from a plastic surgeon or cosmetic dentists website. Uh-oh. Can you use those websites as templates to make yourself a killer website, or should you consult with a marketing firm experienced in medical websites to choose something unique to you?
The great thing about a physician who takes the time to actually search online for websites he or she finds useful is that you're involved in the process. And because of that, you'll have a good idea of what you do and don't like. Additionally, you'll understand what functionality you want your website to have. This might include HIPAA compliant email function or allowing patients to schedule appointments online.
When you go into the design process with a clear understanding of what you like, you're capable of achieving the look you want faster and more efficiently.
The bad part about falling in love with a template on a website is that the template might not be the best choice for your specialty. Additionally, you're seeing the website laid out with images specifically chosen for it and with colors that were designed to work with it. Once your brand colors and photos are used with the template, you might totally hate it.
It's important to remember that although you might like the way a website looks, a professional web design and marketing team might suggest an alternative option that's actually better. Keeping an open mind when going through the design process is a crucial part of getting an exceptional product.
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import os
import tempfile
import unittest
import logging
from pyidf import ValidationLevel
import pyidf
from pyidf.idf import IDF
from pyidf.unitary_equipment import UnitarySystemPerformanceMultispeed

log = logging.getLogger(__name__)

class TestUnitarySystemPerformanceMultispeed(unittest.TestCase):

    def setUp(self):
        self.fd, self.path = tempfile.mkstemp()

    def tearDown(self):
        os.remove(self.path)

    def test_create_unitarysystemperformancemultispeed(self):

        pyidf.validation_level = ValidationLevel.error

        obj = UnitarySystemPerformanceMultispeed()
        # alpha
        var_name = "Name"
        obj.name = var_name
        # integer
        var_number_of_speeds_for_heating = 5
        obj.number_of_speeds_for_heating = var_number_of_speeds_for_heating
        # integer
        var_number_of_speeds_for_cooling = 5
        obj.number_of_speeds_for_cooling = var_number_of_speeds_for_cooling
        paras = []
        var_heating_speed_1_supply_air_flow_ratio = 0.0001
        paras.append(var_heating_speed_1_supply_air_flow_ratio)
        var_cooling_speed_1_supply_air_flow_ratio = 0.0001
        paras.append(var_cooling_speed_1_supply_air_flow_ratio)
        obj.add_extensible(*paras)

        idf = IDF()
        idf.add(obj)
        idf.save(self.path, check=False)

        with open(self.path, mode='r') as f:
            for line in f:
                log.debug(line.strip())

        idf2 = IDF(self.path)
        self.assertEqual(idf2.unitarysystemperformancemultispeeds[0].name, var_name)
        self.assertEqual(idf2.unitarysystemperformancemultispeeds[0].number_of_speeds_for_heating, var_number_of_speeds_for_heating)
        self.assertEqual(idf2.unitarysystemperformancemultispeeds[0].number_of_speeds_for_cooling, var_number_of_speeds_for_cooling)
        index = obj.extensible_field_index("Heating Speed 1 Supply Air Flow Ratio")
        self.assertAlmostEqual(idf2.unitarysystemperformancemultispeeds[0].extensibles[0][index], var_heating_speed_1_supply_air_flow_ratio)
        index = obj.extensible_field_index("Cooling Speed 1 Supply Air Flow Ratio")
        self.assertAlmostEqual(idf2.unitarysystemperformancemultispeeds[0].extensibles[0][index], var_cooling_speed_1_supply_air_flow_ratio)

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Dixon-Yates: A Study in Power Politics
Wildavsky, Aaron. Dixon-Yates: A Study in Power Politics. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1962.
"For several years one of the most important controversies in American politics was symbolized by the phrase "Dixon-Yates." It was, along with the Hell's Canyon dispute, a major morality play in which the contestants struggled for a wide variety of large rewards… More
Politics of the Budgetary Process
Wildavsky, Aaron. Politics of the Budgetary Process. Boston: Little, Brown & Company, 1964.
"In this very readable book A. Wildavsky challenges traditional normative approaches to a theory of budgeting and proposes a political basis for understanding the budget process. Normative theory, because of its implicit imposition of a value system, is found to provide an… More
Presidential Elections: Strategies of American Electoral Politics
Wildavsky, Aaron and Nelson Polsby. Presidential Elections: Strategies of American Electoral Politics. New York: Scribner, 1964.
"Brimming with data and examples from the heated 2008 election and laced with previews of the 2012, the thirteenth edition of this classic text offers a complete overview of the presidential election process from the earliest straw polls and fundraisers to the final voter turnout… More
Implementation: How Great Expectation in Washington are Dashed in Oakland; or, Why It's Amazing that Federal Programs Work at All
Wildavsky, Aaron and Jeffrey Pressman. Implementation: How Great Expectations in Washington are Dashed in Oakland; or, Why It's Amazing That Federal Programs Work At All. Berkeley, University of California Press, 1973.
"Very few case studies are interesting except to those who have been involved in the case, but this book is a delightful and worthwhile exception. Although Pressman and Wildavsky focus on the efforts of the Economic Development Administration (EDA) to create jobs for the hard-core… More
The Great Detente Disaster: Oil and the Decline of American Foreign Policy
Wildavsky, Aaron and Edward Friedland and Paul Seabury. The Great Detente Disaster: Oil and the Decline of American Foreign Policy. New York: Basic Book, 1973.
"Multiple authorship rarely succeeds; haste and passion are the enemies of thought. But this book, written in obvious haste by three dissimilar authors, and evidently strongly felt, has one very great merit that easily outweighs its faults: the oil-price crisis caused by OPEC is… More
Planning and Budgeting in Poor Countries
Wildavsky, Aaron and Naomi Caiden. Planning and Budgeting in Poor Countries. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1974.
"It should be little surprise that although economic planning has enjoyed something of a venerated status in the development literature, a proposition should be made for its total abandonment. Naomi Caiden and Aaron Wildavsky present a well-argued and well-documented case against… More
The Private Government of Public Money: Community and Policy Inside British Politics
Heclo, Hugh and Aaron Wildavsky. The Private Government of Public Money. New York: Macmillan, 1974.
Little has been written that would tell anyone how the spending departments, Treasury officials and Cabinet members actually interact with each other and with the world outside to produce the mammoth pattern of public spending. Admirable historical work has given us some knowledge about… More
Budgeting: A Comparative Theory of Budgetary Processes
Wildavsky, Aaron. Budgeting: A Comparative Theory of Budgetary Processes. Boston: Little, Brown & Company, 1975.
Aaron Wildavsky collects in one place the existing knowledge on budgeting. Realistic budgets are an expression of practical politics. Budgeting is so basic it reveals the norms by which men live in a particular political culture. In dealing directly with the universe of governmental… More
Speaking Truth to Power: The Art and Craft of Policy Analysis
Wildavsky, Aaron. Speaking Truth to Power: The Art and Craft of Policy Analysis. Boston: Little, Brown & Company, 1979.
Wildavsky attempts not only to describe what public policy is, but given societal changes in the last two decades, to account for its present status. To learn from the past in order to establish public policy as a discipline in its own right, Wildavsky traces its motifs from their… More
The Politics of Mistrust: Estimating American Oil and Gas Resources
Wildavsky, Aaron and Ellen Tenebaum. The Politics of Mistrust: Estimating Oil and Gas Reserves. Beverly Hills: SAGE, 1981.
Wildavsky and Tenebaum have compiled an interesting and, at time, insightful analysis of the relation between estimates of oil and gas reserves and the formulation of American energy policy. The resultant book has much to recommend it. The Politics of Mistrust is the first major social… More
Risk and Culture, An Essay on the Selection of Technical and Environmental Dangers
Douglas, Mary and Aaron Wildavsky. Risk and Culture: An Essay on the Selection of Technological and Environmental Dangers. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1982.
"Risk and Culture … consists of two interwoven but separable parts: (1) an abstract theory of the relationship between risk and culture; and (2) an application of the theory to explain "the sudden, widespread, across-the-board concern about environmental pollution and… More
The Nursing Father: Moses as a Political Leader
Wildavsky, Aaron. The Nursing Father: Moses as a Political Leader. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1984.
"In recent years there has emerged a new interest in using classic Jewish texts as sources for contemporary political understanding, reviving an ancient art that had fallen into desuitude after the views of the eighteenth century Enlightenment, with its skepticism about sources… More
A History of Taxation and Expenditure in the Western World
Webber, Carolyn and Aaron Wildavsky. A History of Taxation and Expenditure in the Western World. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1986.
"Throughout history, all governments, regardless of their form, have sustained themselves by controlling the purse. This exercise of the power to tax their citizens and allocate resources has resulted in a variety of revenue devices and spending practices. It has also caused… More
Assimilation Versus Separation: Joseph the Administrator and the Politics of Religion in Biblical Israel
Wildavsky, Aaron. Assimilation Versus Separation: Joseph the Administrator and the Politics of Religion in Biblical Israel. New Jersey: Transaction Books, 1987.
How to behave in the diaspora has been a central problem for Jews over the ages. They have debated whether to assimilate by adopting local customs or whether to remain a God-centered people loyal to their temporal rulers but maintaining the peculiar customs that separated them from their… More
Searching for Safety
Wildavsky, Aaron. Searching for Safety. New Jersey: Transaction Books, 1988.
"Nuclear power plants, new vaccines and drugs, pesticides designed to improve agricultural production, and a plethora of other technological advances hold great promise of improving the quality of human life, but also pose great risks to human well-being. Protecting ourselves… More
The Deficit and the Public Interest: The Search for Responsible Budgeting in the 1980s
White, Joseph and Aaron Wildavsky. The Deficit and the Public Interest: The Search for Responsible Budgeting in the 1980s. Berkeley, University of California Press, 1989.
"Political time is counted, not in years, but in issues—the depression defined the political era of the 1930s just as the cold war did the 1950s and civil rights the 1960s. Today the federal budget looms as the dominant issue by which all others are considered and has become a… More
Thompson, Michael, Richard Ellis, and Aaron Wildavsky. Cultural Theory. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1990.
Why do people want what they want? Why does one person see the world as a place to control, while another feels controlled by the world? A useful theory of culture, the authors contend, should start with these questions, and the answers, given different historical conditions, should apply… More
Public Administration: The State of the Discipline
Ed. Lynn, Naomi and Aaron Wildavsky. Public Administration: The State of the Discipline. London: Chatham House Publishers, 1990.
"Public Administration represents an early, and up to this most most useful and complete academic response to the legitimation crisis that has overtaken government, public service, and associated fields of study. Much of the challenge to public administration stems from the… More
The Beleaguered Presidency
Wildavsky, Aaron. The Beleaguered Presidency. New Jersey: Transaction Publishers, 1991.
"Since the presidency of Lyndon Johnson between 1963 and 1968, there is much reason to believe that the executive office is in trouble. For the past twenty-five years, presidents have been subject to continuing criticism, with dissatisfaction rising, approval rates falling, and… More
The Rise of Radical Egalitarianism
Wildavsky, Aaron. The Rise of Radical Egalitarianism. Washington, D.C.: American University Press, 1991.
"Aaron Wildavsky believes that what has always made America exceptional is the extraordinary belief that equal opportunity and equal conditions are compatible. His book begins with an attempt to differentiate the alliance of individualists and egalitarians who combined under this… More
Craftways: On the Organization of Scholarly Work
Wildavsky, Aaron. Craftways: On the Organization of Scholarly Work. New Jersey: Transaction Publishers, 1993.
"The one subject that serious students want most to know about, other than their specialty, is how academic life is lived and how scholarly work is carried out. Their curiosity is equally shared by those interested in how to improve the quality and quantity of their work. With few… More
Singer, Max and Aaron Wildavsky. The Real World Order: Zones of Peace / Zones of Turmoil. London: Chatham House Publishers, 1993.
This old-fashioned book presents a grand line of argument that "the current world order will be different and better than the one with which we are familiar." The reason? "For the first time in history a small number of great democracies – the United States, Japan,… More
Wildavsky, Aaron. But Is It True?: A Citizen's Guide to Environmental Health and Safety Issues. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1995.
"We've eaten Alar with our apples and PCBs with our fish, drunk arsenic with our water, breathed asbestos in our schools. Someone sounded the alarm, someone else said we were safe, and both had science on their side. Whom are we to trust? How are we to know? Amid this chaos of… More
Wildavsky, Aaron. Culture and Social Theory. New Jersey: Transaction Books, 1998.
"Aaron Wildavsky, along with Mary Douglas, identified what they called grid-group theory. Wildavsky began calling this "cultural theory," and applied it to an astounding array of subjects. The essays in this volume exemplify the theory's potential contributions to… More
"Aaron Wildavsky's greatest concern, as expressed in his writings, is how people manage to live together. This concern may at first appear to have little to do with the study of budgeting, but for Wildavsky budgeting made living together possible. Indeed, as he argues here, if… More
Wildavsky, Aaron and Naomi Caiden. The New Politics of the Budgetary Process. New York: Longman Classics, 2003.
"This text explains how the federal budget process has evolved and analyzes recent developments in key areas: entitlements, defense, deficit/surplus and reforms. Its critical and stimulating approach and clear, readable explanations make it essential reading for students of… More
Wildavsky, Aaron. Cultural Analysis: Politics, Public Law, and Administration. New Jersey: Transaction Publishers, 2005.
"As a result of a lifetime of incomparably wide-ranging investigations, Aaron Wildavsky concluded that politics in the United States and elsewhere was a patterned activity, exhibiting recurring regularities. Political values, beliefs, and institutions were neither endlessly varied,… More
Wildavsky, Aaron. Moses as a Political Leader, Jerusalem, Shalem Press: 2005.
A new edition of Wildavsky's fascinating interpretation of Moses' political leadership, with a preface by Yoram Hazony. Allan Mittleman: "Wildavsky's works ride from the twin convictions that the Bible has much to say to modern political scientists and that modern… More
Wildavsky, Aaron. Studies in Australian Politics. Melbourne: F.W. Cheshire, 1958.
"Though primarily a study of the extent to which the interests of particular groups may cut across party lines in Australian politics, this book contains a great deal that concerns industrial relations. The untidiness of a system of industrial regulation under which power is… More
Wiladvsky, Aaron. Trial Without Error: Anticipation Vs. Resilience As Strategies for Risk Reduction. St. Leonards: Centre for Independent Studies, 1985.
Wildavsky, Aaron, ed., Brendan Swedlow, David Schleicher, and Daniel Elazar. Federalism and Political Culture. New Jersey: Transaction Books, 1997.
"Aaron Wildavsky well understood that federalism is about freedom and diversity – not hierarchy and decentralization. His was an intensely normative concern with the promise of federalism and its abandonment in the United States. Over time, he became increasingly focused on… More

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I'll Never Get Over The Original Jurassic Park
Patrick Klepek
Published 6 years ago: June 12, 2015 at 8:00 pm -
Filed to:jurassic park
Today is both the best and worst day of my life. Today, there is a new Jurassic Park movie.
(Before moving on, I'd highly recommend listening to this piece from the soundtrack while you read.)
When I was a kid, there were two things on my mind: aliens and dinosaurs. If there had been a way to combine them, it might have ruined me. Looking back at my youth, there are two moments in film that stand out to me, sequences that are forever burned into my mind.
One, the awful abduction sequence from Fire in the Sky, which remains scary as hell in 2015.
(My love for The X-Files sent me down some dangerous roads, readers.)
Two, the first time we met a dinosaur in Jurassic Park.
The lengthy build up seems to take forever. Movies these days would have cut right to the chase and showed you dinosaurs — any dinosaur at all — as soon as possible. Instead, Jurassic Park refuses to show off its main attractions until you're well into the film. Steven Spielberg knows you're here for the dinosaurs, but as he demonstrated with Jaws, it's worth making the audience wait.
In the movie's opening minutes, also known as "shoot her", we're given the biggest tease ever.
In both that intro and even more so during the big brachiosaurus reveal, the camera focuses on the people. Their emotions, their reactions. It's The Spielberg Face, one of the director's well-documented tricks.
When Jurassic Park came out, I was nine years old. I'm 30 now. As Dr. Grant took off his sunglasses, my prepubescent self was flipping out. I knew him to be cool, collected, and likely a big fan of naps. Not much would prompt him to break out the shock-and-awe face.
The camera never cuts away. It stays laser-focused on the characters taking in the scene, slowly drawing out their reactions, and putting the audience in a tizzy. Our imaginations are running wild.
I remember my eyes bugging out. My fingers were scraping against the theatre chair. My friends were looking around at one another, wondering what the hell was coming.
This was an age before computer generated graphics had taken over cinema, when it was still easy to be dazzled by filmmakers bringing your imagination to life. What made Jurassic Park special was that we in the audience knew dinosaurs weren't imaginary. They were real, once. I'd read about them, seen their bones, touched their skeletons.
Then came the big moment:
God damn.
Even now, ageing CGI and all, it gives me goosebumps. Watching a clip on YouTube, I got a bit teary-eyed. I can't quite tell you why. Maybe it's nostalgia for years gone by, maybe it's the way the music swells at just the right moment.Maybe it's just because dinosaurs are cool as hell.
Some don't hold up when you watch them as an adult. Turns out they weren't all that good, they were better left as fond memories.? Jurassic Park isn't like that for me. Every time I watch it, I'm transported back. Every time, my heart soars when I see that brachiosaurus walking around a world just like ours.
I feel about Jurassic Park the way lots of other people feel about Star Wars. Spielberg's film drove me. For years, I was convinced it was possible to bring back dinosaurs using their spliced DNA. (While dinosaurs are out of the question, it turns out other animals are not.) The first major reading I did outside of school assignments was diving into Michael Crichton's original novel, and soonI was having my first arguments with friends over what bits the movie screwed up. I devoured all of his other novels, too. Chances are Michael Crichton was the first author I could name that wasn't R.L Stine. Jurassic Park even inspired me to pick up a video camera and try to make my own stupid videos with my friends, learning basic shooting and editing in the process.
Oh, and thanks to Jurassic Park, The Lost World was the first time I experienced crushing personal disappointment. I can trace it to a single moment: when that gymnast girl kicked a raptor in the face.
Jurassic Park was everywhere in my life, whether it was video games or toys.
This one was my absolute favourite. I can't remember if it made a sound or not, though?
We even had our own Jurassic Park games. Not video games, mind you — games we made up ourselves. In the basement, we'd flip off the lights, and folks would hide. One person would be the T-Rex, waltzing around with your hands tucked under your armpits. The goal was to make it out of the basement without the T-Rex grabbing you.I can't imagine what it all must have been like for my parents. I hoped they like dinosaurs too?
All that brings us to today. Jurassic World is now in theatres. I'm ready to be disappointed, and I've made peace with that. Jurassic World can't match Jurassic Park; that's a task that I doubt Spielberg himself could pull off. However good or bad it winds up being, Jurassic World couldn't possibly undo the magic of Jurassic Park. I'm not nine years old. But I am 30 years old, and I still think dinosaurs are cool.
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piratepete says:
The link in the article to the original music is not correct, here is the correct link for anyone interested.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=JMlJvq8oRVA
nexi says:
This post is also incorrect, the music you are after is here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-w-58hQ9dLk
mase says:
So is yours.
This one from 0:56 in – https://youtu.be/-RUuftOG1DQ?list=PL19E2C495074C899C&t=57
Nobody click the above link, its just a rick roll. Nexi has the correct link.
What? Give up what you're smoking dude.
Nexi has the clip from the movie, I posted the clean audio from the soundtrack of the exact same scene.
I think this is sarcasm, but if not, you should really watch all the video I linked past the first 10 seconds
gmano says:
I clicked the link…cmon man, quit trying to rick roll us. Its soooo 2010
samipuss says:
exactly how i feel. good write up.
i saw jurassic park with my mum at the cinema, loved it!! & i still love it today.
seeing jurassic world saturday.
as big kev would say "im excited"
garuman says:
For someone who echoes your childhood obsession almost exactly Patrick (I was 11 though), I too was bracing myself for disappointment with JW. I've seen it twice already. It's fantastic. I'll go out on a very controversial limb and say that whilst it will never be as good as the original, it certainly lives up to it.
I thoroughly enjoyed it too. As long as you don't think too hard about the story of the characters that take up screen time then it is a great ride.
spoiler regarding story
The whole divorced parents character development didn't go anywhere even though they spent 2 minutes talking about it on the train. They could have, right at the end, brought it up even briefly and it would have closed the circle but they left it
spoiler regarding scene
The bird claw right at the start was fantastic
The Pteranodon swarm was some god awful CGI, almost like crowd animations in sport games from 2000-2005 era
sabrescene says:
I feel the same way, went in thinking it'd be a decent action film but 'no Jurassic Park.' Was very happy by the end of it, I still didn't think is was as good as the first but that's like saying a supercar isn't as fast as lightspeed.. does it really matter? =D
dknigs says:
At least even from the trailers it looks like they've smashed the CGI, unlike the second and third movie which had woeful CGI (dinosaurs never in the entire two movies matched the lighting of the scene).
It did help that they had a fair few puppets/mechatronics instead of pure CG.
Sean Robert Meaney says:
Intact protiens found in eleven samples of Dino bones…reality within my lifetime. And their closest living relative is a crocodile.
weresmurf says:
Jurassic World does not need to be better than Jurassic Park. What Jurassic World needs to do, is justify its existence as a sequel, it's logical, natural, organic existence as a sequel and as a movie in its own right. Few sequels have truly done this. Aliens, Empire Strikes Back, Godfather 2, are all examples of movies that have done this perfectly. After last night, I'm happy to say, Jurassic World does this with aplomb. By refusing to acknowledge The Lost World and JP3, it returns to its roots healthily, even referencing with reverence, the incident on Isla Nubla, in its dialogue, with people treating it with the reverence one treats September 11. "People DIED!" one of them says with vehemence to another wearing a "Jurassic Park" shirt. It's these little touches that totally make the movie.
The pacing is on par with the original almost. The characters, while not quite as good, are almost up there. Pratt is Starlord again, but that's not a bad thing, Pratt is a great appealing actor like Sam Jackon, he's one note, but that note is appealing as hell. Bryce Dallas Howard is fantastic in her role, but the damn MVP award goes to Irrfan Khan as Simon Masrani, head of the Masrani Corporation who have taken over the duties of Ingen, now a military contractor (for some unexplained reason, one of the few baffling points).
Jurassic World thankfully is *not* a remake of Jurassic Park, it's not a retread and the I-Rex is a thing of fearsome beauty. BD Wong as the only returning human from part 1 is endearing but a little slimy, the movie itself is no cheap cash-in and no half arsed remake or reboot. This is a full blown sequel to Jurassic Park that honours it's roots, it pays homage in the best ways possible and doesn't 'nudge nudge wink wink' as much as understand where it should pay respect to, what it owes to its predecessor and whwere it could easily go wrong, so it avoids all those issues rather grandly and thankfully.
The best thing I can say for Jurassic World, is that it justifies its own existence, it earns its right to exist organically, naturally and logically as a sequel and as a movie in its own right. Better still, my 11 year old son who I took with me, adored the film just as much as I did when I was 15 with part 1 🙂
So don't take the attitude you'll be disappointed, take the attitude that you have no expectations, you may just be surprised.
lf1mtank says:
I watched it this afternoon and I wholly agree with this. I had my reservations but by god were they put away quickly. It was just a good proper sequel and homage to the original. My friend whom I went with couldn't contain his excitement as it hit all the right nostalgic notes, or so he says haha.
ax says:
100% about everything you said. SPOILER ALERT FOR BELOW.
Masrani was a great character who was still trying to live to the ideals that Hammond held and yet run a modern business. By not keeping his eye on the prize so to speak he signed off on things that ultimately led to his demise. Khan was great in this role.
blakeavon says:
when are people going to learn GIFs arent toys, sure they are fun but when put together on mass in a article you want people to read, they are less fun.
The problem with Lost World (and a bit with the original). They completely miss the point of the books. The Lost World book was a cracking and fascinating read but movie felt like Steven dialing it in for a paycheck (but even when he is in that mood its still better than an average director).
+1 on the gifs. I couldn't read more than a couple of paragraphs before I was too distracted/pissy to continue.
crotchdot says:
I would have enjoyed the original a hell of a lot more if the kids had been both eaten at some point. They bugged me.
I still call BS on the boy surviving an electric fence designed to stop Raptors and T-rex's
i still say the 10,000 volts wouldn't do shit to a T-Rex… Plus, how did the T-Rex get up to the correct height to take down the fence in the first place if there's a massive drop from the fenceline that the car falls down?
energydrinkhigh says:
I had that exact "dino damage" T-Rex!!! I also had the Stegosaurus!
Even though I'm 35 and long since moved out of my parent's place, they still have them. My eight and four year old nephews still play with them!
And no… they didn't make noise.
jdrive says:
Yeah I had a heap of JP toys in my garage until a few years ago… sold most of them a few years ago – had an even bigger t rex that did roar and all the people (Nedrys arms came off as a feature lol) and some of the vehicles too. Awesome set of toys had way too much stuff though and my kid was too little to justify storing them for him for another 4 years lol. Did manage to hoard some star wars toys though, and a velociraptor and ellies grappling hook (lol) surfaced recently so the kid got those at least.
I can remember the same type of experience. 10 years old and in love with Dinosaurs at the time, i begged my parents to take as to see the movie as a birthday gift. I loved seeing everything for the first time… Till the point where everything went wrong. The roar of the T-Rex had me crying and scared as fuck! For months after that i thought that the T-Rex was going to escape from the movie somehow and burst through my window and eat me; something that was repeated 6 years later with the T-Rex bursting through the window scene in Dino Crisis for the Playstation (I know, overactive imagination at 16, what a pussy!) I had quite the imagination back then.
Hell, when I finally bought the Trilogy on BluRay (The third time I'd bought the series. Had them on VHS, then DVD, then BluRay. Only other movie I've done that with is the 1986 Transformers movie.) and watched it on my 50 inch TV, it was like being a kid again. The Animatronic/CGI mix holds up extremely well to this day even in HD & 3D. I even saw the re-release in the cinemas… Without crying like a baby this time lol. It's one of the few movies I can throw on every now and again and still feel like i did when I first saw the movie in the cinemas.
irvyne says:
I also had a rather wonderful obsession with Jurassic Park when it first came out. The second movie was okay (not as bad as many people claim) but it was SO much better than the book it was based on. The third movie was just a waste of time, & achieved nothing.
I just saw Jurassic World and was thoroughly entertained. I'd see it again. Loved it!
d3cadent says:
WHAT? The second book was great and the movie was pretty poor….
Looking forward to Jurassic World though! 😀
Saw it when I was in my teens. Pure magic.
whitepointer says:
I wonder if the author actually read the original novel?
EDIT: Yes he did, I somehow missed that bit where he said it.
ozoneocean says:
Jurassic Park is an example of Spielberg at the top of his game in producing big budget, blockbuster, successful, mass appeal film to a perfect mechanical formula where he gets everything right on the money.
But on the other hand it marked the end of him as an interesting, creative film maker because it was such a "paint by numbers" example of his style.
To me it was disappointing. The CGI was blurry, bad and just not up to the task of showing living creatures in live action film yet.
The story was a hackneyed idea by Michael Chrichton that other writers had done before and better, so there was nothing new from that angle, the big screen adaptation was predicable and the Spielbergisims were trite and cliché by that time, not to mention the John Williams soundtrack…
But if you were a young kid when you first saw it and this stuff was new to you at the time, it was pure magic. So it really depended on the audience.
I would say it's a very good young person's film, a very good example successful big-budget film-making, but not a good film in its own right.
haz says:
This scene still gives me goosebumps
https://youtu.be/gTWo9oLJOWk?t=2m47s
timon says:
Jurassic World was pretty bad in my opinion.
It was just 'dumb'. Where Mad Max was an action movie that still managed to not treat you like a moron, JW was the opposite.
A ton of tropes, shallow characters, grating editing, women treated like nothing but sexualised plot devices, lame ideas (militarised dinos? FML) and hordes of obnoxious product placement.
janexo says:
We saw Jurassic World twice in three days (do not recommend doing this, haha) and the second time only served to further highlight the problems this movie has. I went into this really hoping to be blown away, knowing that I wouldn't be. There were a few fun ticks, but mostly it was just too trope-filled, and there were soooo many throwbacks to the original film that it was distracting and disappointing.
After we saw it last night, The Lost World was on tv, and the trailer scene came on – that alone, in its 15 minutes, was better than all of Jurassic World :/
Must say, I got a bit teary eyed during JW. The moment they arrive into the park, the original theme swells, the gates open and we see the realization of Hammond's dream. Damn, I got a little emotional.
What is happening to me. Teary at the end of the new star wars trailer, teary during Jurassic World. All the dreams of my 12 year old self coming true.
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But don't get me wrong ... the hotly anticipated SLADDA bicycle, recipient of a coveted Red Dot Design Award and a 2016 GOOD DESIGN Award from the Chicago Athenaeum Museum of Architecture and Design, is pure IKEA.
Sure, you can't lounge in it, eat off of it, dress your windows with it, or use it to brighten up a drab corner of a room. (OK, maybe that last one is possible). However, this aluminum frame beauty moves beyond IKEA's traditional, domesticity-centric trappings while also perfectly encapsulating the brand's emphasis on goods that are functional, customizable/hackable, aesthetically pleasing and well designed. And while SLADDA is built to last, the bike's price tag of $499 (IKEA FAMILY members enjoy a $100 discount) is such that if it gets majorly banged-up after a few years of solid use, it's not the end of the world. (On that note, the bike comes with a 10-year limited warranty on the belt drive and a 25-year limited warranty on the frame).
SLADDA is also reflective of IKEA's increasing effort to cater to nomadic city-dwellers who appreciate good design but also don't have a ton of space to call their own. Mobility and sustainability is key here and SLADDA, responding to an "increased need for easy and flexible transportation options," demonstrates both.
However, one specific activity seems, somewhat predictably, to get more play in SLADDA press materials than others. And that would be shopping.
Along with the adjustable bicycle itself — it's available in 26" and 28" sizes, by the way — IKEA is releasing a slew of SLADDA bike accessories for easy customization: a minimalist polystyrene helmet with extra-cushy padding; an easy-to-use bike pump; an all-important U-lock for keeping "this nice-looking bike safe when shopping takes a little longer than expected;" and a nifty bicycle bag that converts into a backpack.
And then there are the larger, shopping-centric add-ons: a bamboo and powder-coated aluminum bicycle trailer that can also be hand-towed as well as front and back snap-on racks made from the same materials. Some press photography for the bike might seem to suggest that, in addition to regular shopping trips to the local market, SLADDA is ideal for IKEA shopping trips — that is, quicker shopping trips in which large pieces of furniture aren't involved.
The perfect bike for IKEA shopping trips?
An IKEA-produced bike as a method of hauling home IKEA-produced goods is a lovely idea but also one not entirely rooted in reality. In the U.S., most of the 40-some car-dependent IKEA outposts are located off major freeways in the far-flung suburban hinterlands of major cities. Translation: IKEA, a retailer with sprawling big box stores that require significantly more land than your average Target or Home Depot, is very much not an urban store despite the retailer's enthusiastic endorsement of largely urban means of transportation like cycling.
An exception is the bike-friendly — and public transportation-accessible — New York City outpost perched on the Brooklyn waterfront. As someone who lives within a 10-minute walk from IKEA Brooklyn, I can think of several instances when a trailer-equipped cargo bike, IKEA-made or not, would have come in very handy. (IKEA is the kind of store where the "only buy what you can carry home" is hard to abide by).
"It is an absolute pilot project for us. We want to get closer to people and know people are consciously choosing not to have a car," Johannes Ferber, IKEA expansion chief for Germany, explained to Reuters. "We want to learn from this project and see what we can improve that we can then apply in other locations."
In addition to lending itself to a range of uses such as shopping, commuting, transporting all of your worldly possessions, cruising through a park on a sunny day, or selling pencils and pantyhose door-to-door like IKEA founder Ingvar Kamprad did as a child in rural southern Sweden, SLADDA is remarkably unfussy and low-maintenance. The belt drive is rustproof and oil-free, the two-gear system is automatic and the rear coaster breaking is reliably old-school. A bell is integrated into the frame as are front and rear lights.
In total, the bike weighs a relatively lightweight 33 pounds, making it a bit easier to haul up and down stairs and on and off trains. (Although I've only taken SLADDA for a brief stationary spin, the Guardian has a full review on the bike's performance).
For now, an inoffensive grey is the only color offered. And because this is IKEA we're talking about, some assembly is required.
The SLADDA Bicycle is being released in tandem with the 2017 edition of IKEA's triennial-ish PS (Post Scriptum) collection, which, much like the 2014 IKEA PS range, caters specifically to young and on-the-move urbanites. Offerings in the 2017 PS collection — the retailers ninth since 1995 — spans over 50 products and includes a self-watering plant pot, a modular folding couch, lovely marbled vases made from recycled waste glass and a weird sort of quilt-vest hybrid that's billed as a "wearable throw" (IKEA's take on the Snuggie?) and is meant to be used on chilly days when apartment dwellers might be tempted to pump up the thermostat instead of donning an extra layer or two.
Both the SLADDA bicycle and the 2017 PS collection will hit stores in February. It goes without saying: be sure to check ahead to make sure that your nearest IKEA store has these new releases in stock before you head out via car, bike, bus, train, covered wagon, mule, pogo stick or however you choose to get around town.
The SLADDA bike's optional attachable trailer is perfect for small-sized IKEA hauls.


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John 19—20 God had a plan to send a Savior. When the time was right, God sent His only Son, Jesus, who came to earth and died on a cross for our sins. After three days, He rose from the grave. Jesus is alive!
Read John 20v1. Remind your child that the "stone" was really a large boulder!
Your child can understand simple comparisons. Play "full or empty" using a box with a lid and some familiar household objects to help your child begin to understand the empty tomb.
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This drape jacket is so soft and buttery and under $70.
We got this suede jacket last year, and never regret it! We got XS.
This moto jacket sold out in a lot of sizes so quickly. It is AMAZING because it has a removable hood! We got size S.
We are major fans of this jacket, and it is actually in stock! We got size US2 and it is under $60!
We don't own one of these yet, but we are definitely ordering this one! It is under $100 and and comes in XS!
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The only person in the house who seems halfway normal is Grandma Mimi (Diane Ladd), who has always predicted greatness for Joy and narrates the story — even from the grave.
Russell and Lawrence walk a fine line here between absurdity and genuine anguish. This isn't belly laugh material; while it's obviously comic, "Joy" takes a low-key approach.
Then Joy comes up with a self-wringing floor mop that doesn't require the user to get wet or dirty. And from that point she's on an emotional and financial roller-coaster ride.
With a second mortgage on the house and a loan from her dad's new millionaire-widow girlfriend (Isabella Rossellini), Joy goes into production, turning the auto body shop into a mop factory.
But it isn't until the manager (Bradley Cooper) of the QVC shopping network gives her a chance to peddle her product on nationwide TV that Joy's rocket really takes off.
Watching this young woman's rise to success after a lifetime of failure is uplifting. We're rooting for her. Which makes it doubly upsetting when things go south — in part because of predatory patent claim jumpers — and all the folks who were singing her praises now write her off as a pathetic loser.
With a lesser actress in the central role "Joy" might not have worked. But Lawrence is so good at effortlessly establishing her character's decency, ambition and sense of self that we happily stick with Joy's exhilarating ups and anguished downs.
This is lesser David O. Russell, but still worth a look.


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Q: Same number or each Sylow p-subgroup $\implies$ isomorphism? I have a question about Sylow theory and isomorphic groups. I came with it while trying to solve some problems from my group theory course. The question is if this statement is true in general:

Being $G$, $H$ two groups of same order, $|G|=|H|=p_1^{\alpha_1}\cdots
> p_n^{\alpha_n}$ with each $p_i$ prime. Then, if the number of Sylow
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Is this true? Is it true just in certain cases? If not, why? Any help will be appreciated, thanks in advance.

A: This looks false to me. Take $Q_8$ and $D_8$ for instance. Then, they have the same number of Sylow 2-subgroups (since their orders are $8$, they both have one) but they are not isomorphic.

A: Since there was a discussion under my previous answer, for consistency, I am adding this as a new answer for the cases where order of the group has more than one distinct prime factors:
Take $\mathbb{Z}_6\times \mathbb{Z}_2$ and $\mathbb{Z}_{12}$ for instance. Then, since they are abelian, Sylow 2-subgroups and Sylow 3-subgroups are normal in these groups. This means, $n_2=n_3=1$ for both but they are not isomorphic.

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Humans hot, sweaty, natural-born runners
Hairless, clawless, and largely weaponless, ancient humans used the unlikely combination of sweatiness and relentlessness to gain the upper hand over their faster, stronger, generally more dangerous animal prey, Harvard Anthropology Professor Daniel Lieberman said.
The evidence belies the long and firmly held belief that humans are the animal world's biggest wimps and, if not for our big brains and advanced weapons, we'd be forced to subsist on fruits and vegetables, always in danger of being gobbled up by fiercer predators.
The problem with that theory, Lieberman said, is that we began adding meat to our diets around 2.6 million years ago, long before we developed advanced weapons like the bow and arrow, which was developed as recently as 50,000 years ago.
While some of our ancestors' meat-eating may have been due to scavenging, Lieberman said the appearance about 2 million years ago of physical adaptations that have no impact on walking but that make humans better endurance runners provide evidence that early scavengers became running hunters.
Specifically, we developed long, springy tendons in our legs and feet that function like large elastics, storing energy and releasing it with each running stride, reducing the amount of energy it takes to take another step. There are also several adaptations to help keep our bodies stable as we run, such as the way we counterbalance each step with an arm swing, our large butt muscles that hold our upper bodies upright, and an elastic ligament in our neck to help keep our head steady.
Humans, he said, have several adaptations that help us dump the enormous amounts of heat generated by running. These adaptations include our hairlessness, our ability to sweat, and the fact that we breathe through our mouths when we run, which not only allows us to take bigger breaths, but also helps dump heat.
"We can run in conditions that no other animal can run in," Lieberman said.
While animals get rid of excess heat by panting, they can't pant when they gallop, Lieberman said. That means that to run a prey animal into the ground, ancient humans didn't have to run further than the animal could trot and didn't have to run faster than the animal could gallop. All they had to do is to run faster, for longer periods of time, than the slowest speed at which the animal started to gallop. Most animals would develop hyperthermia -- heat stroke in humans -- after about 10 to 15 kilometers, he said.
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Dear Lazyweb,
The fax machine we have in the office is a piece of shit. Not only is it slow, but I noticed the other day that the cartridge doesn't contain toner, it contains, basically, carbon paper on which everything that the thing has ever printed is easily readable. Wow, that's secure.
There seem to be a zillion services out there that let you send and receive faxes via an email gateway. So many that they clog the googles. Are any of them any good? Do you use one?
I'm hoping for something like: sign up with a service that gives us a new telephone number such that when someone faxes something there, it shows up in my inbox as a PDF or JPEG or something. And likewise, a web page or email address that lets me attach an image that will be delivered to someone else's telephone number.
(Suggestions that involve buying modems and running software locally will be summarily ignored.)
Update: Hey, what do you know: Macs have this shit built in, and it actually just works, out of the box! You just plug the internal modem into a phone line and it'll dump incoming faxes in a folder, print them, and/or email them. And sending faxes is on the Print menu. It's almost like the future.
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This is my new favorite building. It's some kind of crazy Akira technology that dropped from orbit last year. It's going to start sprouting tentacles any day now, I'm sure.
Apparently the mesh panels on the south side are part of a convection system that makes the building use half the power of other buildings its size. This is interesting, too: "The tower also nudges workers to exercise. Most elevators stop only at every third level, forcing employees to use stairs for part of the journey. To make the climb enticing, wide staircases march past collegial atriums and stop at protruding picture windows."
I think it's even cooler looking than the de Young Museum, which is itself a pretty awesome building. That's just weird, that a government office building would even come close.
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Proven Defense Against Health Care Fraud Charges
Health care fraud occurs when a person, with the intent to defraud a health plan, knowingly and willfully provides materially false information (or omits material information) to receive a payment that the person is not entitled to under the circumstances. This New York law is codified in Penal Code Article 177. Like many New York laws, there is a federal law that criminalizes the same conduct.
New York prosecutors do not take these matters lightly, and neither do we. At Konta, Georges & Buza, P.C., our criminal defense attorneys use decades of combined experience to advocate for our clients. Throughout their careers, they have helped countless residents in all five boroughs of New York City resolve intricate criminal matters efficiently. We are qualified to protect your reputation and your rights when a health care fraud charge puts both in jeopardy.
Common Types Of Health Care Fraud
Health care fraud essentially occurs when medical providers like doctors or hospitals lie to an insurance company about the services they rendered to a patient. An example of health care fraud is when a patient goes to a doctor for a routine checkup, but the doctor bills the insurance company for the removal of a mole that never happened. The insurance company then pays the doctor for the procedure. The degree of health care fraud that the doctor would theoretically be guilty of depends on the amount of money the doctor gained from the procedure.
Health Care Fraud Charges And Penalties
In its most basic form, this kind of fraud is health care fraud in the fifth degree, which is a class A misdemeanor. However, the degree of the crime increases as the money gained increases. So, if a person gains over $1,000 from the fraud, they are now guilty of health care fraud in the fourth degree, which is a class E felony.
Under New York law, all degrees of health care fraud have an affirmative defense. This affirmative defense, which is listed in Penal Code Section 177.30, essentially states that the accused person is not guilty if the person was a clerk, bookkeeper or another employee; the person was merely acting on the orders of a supervisor; and the person received no personal benefit from the act.
Like with all affirmative defenses, however, this defense does not immunize the person from arrest or prosecution. It is still the duty of the accused to prove at trial, through a preponderance of the evidence, the exculpating facts to prevail with this defense.
The degrees of health care fraud, what the government needs to prove to sustain a conviction, and the applicable sanctions are listed below. If you or a loved one is accused of health care fraud, do not hesitate to contact us at 212-710-5166 for a free consultation.
Health Care Fraud In The First Degree
Health care fraud in the first degree is codified in New York State Penal Law Section 177.25. It is a class B felony.
If a person with no prior felony convictions is convicted of a class B felony, the minimum period of incarceration is an indeterminate sentence of one to three years in prison and the maximum is 8 1/3 to 25 years. An indeterminate sentence is one in which the person is sentenced to a range, and the department of corrections determines how much of that range the person must serve before he is eligible for release.
If the person has been previously convicted of a prior felony within 10 years of the new conviction, excluding time spent in prison, the minimum period of incarceration is 4 1/2 to nine years and the maximum is 12 1/2 to 25 years. In all circumstances, the person is forced to be on parole between one and three years after their release.
For the government to sustain a conviction for health care fraud in the first degree, the government must prove the following four elements beyond a reasonable doubt.
It must prove:
The person provided materially false information or omitted material information for the purpose of requesting payment from a health plan for a health care item or service.
The person did so knowingly, willfully and with the intent to defraud a health plan.
As a result of such information or omission, the person received payment in an amount that he was not entitled to under the circumstances.
The payment or portion of the payment wrongfully received from a single health plan, in a period of not more than one year exceeded over $1,000,000 in the aggregate.
Health Care Fraud In The Second Degree
Health care fraud in the second degree is codified in New York State Penal Law Section 177.20. It is a class C felony.
There is no minimum period of mandatory incarceration if a person with no prior felony convictions is convicted of Class C (nonviolent and nondrug) felony, however, the maximum period of incarceration is an indeterminate sentence of five to 15 years. An indeterminate sentence is one in which the person is sentenced to a range and the department of corrections determines how much of that range the person must serve before he is eligible for release.
If the person has been previously convicted of a prior felony within 10 years of the new conviction, excluding time spent in prison, the minimum period of incarceration is three to six years and the maximum is 7 1/2 to 15 years. There is no period of mandatory parole after the person is released from custody.
For the government to sustain a conviction for health care fraud in the second degree, the government must prove the following four elements beyond a reasonable doubt.
The payment or portion of the payment wrongfully received from a single health plan, in a period of not more than one year exceeded over $50,000 in the aggregate.
Health Care Fraud In The Third Degree
Health care fraud in the third degree is codified in New York State Penal Law Section 177.15. It is a class D felony.
There is no minimum period of mandatory incarceration if a person with no prior felony convictions is convicted of Class D (nonviolent and nondrug) felony, however, the maximum period of incarceration is an indeterminate sentence of 2 1/3 to seven years. An indeterminate sentence is one in which the person is sentenced to a range and the department of corrections determines how much of that range the person must serve before he is eligible for release.
If the person has been previously convicted of a prior felony within 10 years of the new conviction, excluding time spent in prison, the minimum period of incarceration is two to four years and the maximum is 3 1/2 to seven years. There is no period of mandatory parole after the person is released from custody.
For the government to sustain a conviction for health care fraud in the third degree, the government must prove the following four elements beyond a reasonable doubt.
The payment or portion of the payment wrongfully received from a single health plan, in a period of not more than one year exceeded over $3,000 in the aggregate.
Health Care Fraud In The Fourth Degree
Health care fraud in the fourth degree is codified in New York State Penal Law Section 177.10. It is a class E felony.
There is no minimum period of mandatory incarceration if a person with no prior felony convictions is convicted of Class E (nonviolent and nondrug) felony, however, the maximum period of incarceration
is an indeterminate sentence of 1 1/3 to four years. An indeterminate sentence is one in which the person is sentenced to a range and the department of corrections determines how much of that range the person must serve before he is eligible for release.
If the person has been previously convicted of a prior felony within 10 years of the new conviction, excluding time spent in prison, the minimum period of incarceration is 1 1/2 to three years and the maximum is two to four years. There is no period of mandatory parole after the person is released from custody.
For the government to sustain a conviction for health care fraud in the fourth degree, the government must prove the following four elements beyond a reasonable doubt.
Health care fraud in the fourth degree is codified in New York State Penal Law Section 177.05. It is a class A misdemeanor. A person convicted of a class A misdemeanor may be sentenced up to one year in jail.
For the government to sustain a conviction for health care fraud in the fifth degree, the government must prove the following three elements beyond a reasonable doubt.
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Fraud charges will not resolve themselves on their own. It is critical to take swift and effective legal action if you want to protect your professional reputation and your rights. Contact our team and begin identifying legal solutions for your criminal matter.
Whether you are facing accusations or fraud charges, we are ready to help. Connect with our team online or over the phone at 212-710-5166 to schedule your free consultation. Accusations of any kind of fraud are serious. Our attorney is available 24 hours a day for arraignments.


You're invited to our Open House at our new headquarters for off-stage and administrative operations, located at 4020 N Rockwell St in Chicago.
Drop-in on Saturday, May 12 between 5pm and 9pm for tours and camaraderie with The House staff and artists.
This event is free and open to the public, and RSVPs are requested but not required.
The House will continue presenting plays at the Chopin Theatre venue, where we've have been in residence since 2008. Additionally, our long-running hit, The Magic Parlour, continues its open run at the Palmer House hotel.
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A scene shop replete with power tools, a slop sink and skylights will enable technicians and artists to build sets, and props on site.
The shop will also be available for rent, a rare and valuable resource for the theatre community.
A costume studio for on-site fittings and wardrobe maintenance.
1,600 square feet of storage.
Complete with a green room and kitchenette. More than 1,400 square feet!
A sprung floor for dance and movement.
Skylights for natural light year-round.
A custom-installed truss for acrobatics, or illusions like the Water Torture Cell featured in Death & Harry Houdini.
The former site of a commercial bakery.
Will also include Anytime Fitness.
Developed by entrepreneur Scott Waltenburg.
Overlooking the north branch of the Chicago River.
1,800 square feet of office space gives The House the capacity to grow into its full potential.
Features three enclosed offices, large conference room and capacity for nearly twenty staff and interns.


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