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Der Bundestagswahlkreis Forchheim war von 1949 bis 1965 ein Wahlkreis in Bayern. Er umfasste die kreisfreie Stadt Forchheim sowie die Landkreise Forchheim, Ebermannstadt, Höchstadt an der Aisch und Pegnitz.

Zur Bundestagswahl 1965 verlor Oberfranken einen Wahlkreis. Das Gebiet des aufgelösten Wahlkreises Forchheim wurde auf die Wahlkreise Kulmbach, Bamberg und Bayreuth aufgeteilt. Der Wahlkreis wurde stets von Kandidaten der CSU gewonnen, zuletzt durch Karl Theodor Freiherr von und zu Guttenberg.

Wahlkreissieger

Wahlkreisgeschichte

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Forchheim
Politik (Landkreis Forchheim)

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US military warns service members of potential for mass killings during screenings of Warner Bros. 'Joker'
Controversy surrounding the film continues to grow
Image source: YouTube screenshot
The U.S. military issued a warning to its troops advising them of a potential threat of violence during upcoming screenings of Warner Bros. "Joker."
The new film, which stars Joaquin Phoenix as the movie's namesake "Joker," is set to hit theaters Oct. 4 and has been at the center of recent controversy.
What is this alleged threat all about?
The U.S. Army Base at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, warned commanders of the threat in a Monday memo.
The memo, pointing to an intelligence bulletin, warned of a "credible potential mass shooting to occur at an unknown movie theater," and noted that there had been "disturbing and very specific chatter on the dark web" about such an incident.
According to Stars and Stripes, the intelligence bulletin came from the Travis County, Texas, sheriff's office in conjunction with the local FBI field office.
"Commanders need to be aware of this threat for Soldier and family safety and to increase situational awareness should they choose to attend the release of this movie," a portion of the memo reads.
Additionally, U.S. military also received a second memo on Tuesday, warning service members that there have been incidents of posts on social media that have "made reference to involuntary celibate ("incel") extremists replicating the 2012 theater shooting in Aurora, Colorado, at screenings of the 'Joker' movie at nationwide theaters," according to Gizmodo.
The outlet points out that "[i]ncels are individuals who express frustration from perceived disadvantages to starting intimate relationships" who "idolize violent individuals like the Aurora movie theater shooter."
Film is getting a lot of early press — for the wrong reasons
Families of the Aurora, Colorado, mass killing victims called on Warner Bros. to help fight gun violence earlier this week in an open letter to the production company.
A deranged killer shot moviegoers at a theater in 2012 during a screening of "The Dark Knight Rises." The mass killing took the lives of at least 12 people and injured more than 70 others. Early reports said that the killer had referred to himself as "the Joker" — but a subsequent investigation found that the killer never made such claims.
2019's "Joker" follows a man whose significant mental illness leads to him committing acts of violence.
The letter requested that the studio donate to advocacy groups that help victims of gun violence. It also asks the production company to dissociate itself from politicians who support the NRA.
"We are the family members and friends of the 12 people killed at the Century 16 movie theater in Aurora, Colorado, at a screening of 'The Dark Knight Rises' on July 20, 2012," a portion of the open letter reads. "This tragic event, perpetrated by a socially isolated individual who felt 'wronged' by society has changed the course of our lives."
"When we learned that Warner Bros. was releasing a movie called 'Joker' that presents the character as a protagonist with a sympathetic origin story, it gave us pause," the letter continued. The letter explained that while the group supports both free speech and expression, it also believes that the studio is responsible for using its "massive platform and influence to join us in our fight to build safer communities with fewer guns."
Is anybody saying anything in defense of the film?
During a Tuesday interview, Phoenix said that he doesn't believe the film is dangerous or would inspire violence.
"I think that, for most of us, you're able to tell the difference between right and wrong," Phoenix reasoned. "And those that aren't are capable of interpreting anything in the way that they may want to. People misinterpret lyrics from songs. They misinterpret passages from books. So I don't think it's the responsibility of a filmmaker to teach the audience morality or the difference between right or wrong. I mean, to me, I think that that's obvious."
The 44-year-old actor pointed out that emotionally disturbed people can find inspiration anywhere in order to carry out violent actions.
"The truth is you don't know what is going to be the fuel for somebody," Phoenix explained. "And it might very well be your question. It might be this moment, right? But you can't function in life saying, 'Well, I can't ask that question for the small chance that somebody might be affected by [it].' I wouldn't ask you to do that." "It's uncomfortable. It's uncomfortable for all of us," Phoenix added. "I think we all are aware of these issues and we're concerned, and I think that's why we talk about it. I don't think that we can be afraid to talk about it."
JOKER - Final Trailer www.youtube.com

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FULL RECAP - TPiR 06/20/2006
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tpiradam
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Re: FULL RECAP - TPiR 06/20/2006
In regards to Pathfinder, during Bob and Rogers little chat about how many times it was played perfectly, Pathfinder must have been played perfectly more than 2 times, Pathfinder wasn't around in 1986 (but there was a perfect win on its first playing in 1987 if im not mistaken) and they forgot about that episode in March.
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You quick on the draw Adam, yeah, how could Bob forget about Avon chasing him all over the place? I detect a little bit of memory loss at his age of 82.
BRB_TheFireball
A Man Without A Forum
One-Bid #1 - Martina!
PG #1 - Ummm, didn't we just play this game yesterday? Man, I thought there was gonna be a riot after Michael put the $2,450 tag on the home gym. That piano was so obviously the most expensive prize up there. Good thing he wised up at the last second and switched that tag.
PG #2 - OK, Bob's having a senior moment! He didn't ask Joel to turn the safe wheel before opening the safe. That's the best part of this game--turning the safe wheel!
PG #3 - They're playing a SP game without a "Dumbo" DVD? That was unusual. Wrong, Bob--we had a Pathy exacta with "Contestant of the Year" contender Avonne earlier this season! Wrong again, Bob--the choices are 2 and 0, not 5 and 0. And holy cow--Pathy malfunctioned for the first time in years! Methinks the Trivia Trap activated cuz Bob was standing on the 2 and the 2 lit up.
PG #4 - "Quit looking at the audience, Ryan!" First number was obviously higher than 2, so that made 8 possible choices. Ryan might just have been quick enough to attempt at least 6 of those 8 possibilities if he had used logic and 1) put the first disk higher and 2) didn't look at the audience! Honda motorbike prices end in 4, so a pair of them would mean that the last number had to be 8 (higher than 7). That would've given me, at most, 4 guesses to win.
One-Bid #5 - LOL! First Judy, now Justine!
PG #5 - Yay! Half Off cue! And Hit Me! Uh-oh, Bob's having another senior moment! He didn't ask Judy if she wanted to stay or hit on 16. Not like it matters at this point... the MidNite is an 8 and the Capzasin is a 7. But I won't be surprised if Bob declares this a blooper win...
One-Bid #6 - Yep, I thought so. Personally, I don't agree with Bob's decision to declare a blooper win given that she would've lost anyway if she had taken another card, but I ain't the executive producer, now am I?
PG #6 - Wow! Another Mustang is won! Today's playing of Money Game was... interesting. Upon seeing the 9 numbers, I wonder why Roger went 15-17-19 for the three lowest numbers instead of, say, 19-20-21. It almost made me believe that Roger was pulling a Frank by putting the back of the car behind 15! And this car had paint sealant on it, but the last number was a zero! When was the last time a car with PS/FP ended in 0 or 5? Had I been on stage playing this game, I would've lost. Upon hearing the paint sealant, I would've avoided any number that ended in 0 or 5. I would've picked 42, 93, 81, and 51.
Showcases - Man, talk about your friggin' random spas! And I didn't know Janice was driving that van...
My bids - Starcrossed: $17,500. Van: $31,600.
Overall - Great show today! Now if only Ryan had not looked out in the audience during Bonky...
Well, this week was supposed to be a return to normalcy, but that's clearly not allowed. Since you feel there is no need for this week's FPG to continue, I feel there is no need to continue as an FPG host or a G-R.net member. Since most people are so desperate to push me out of here, why delay it? I would have preferred that everybody publicly admitted it rather than string me along for the last two days, but it is what it is. I am hereby resigning as FPG host and moderator, effective immediately. whammy007 is the new permanent host. No R-rated rant or airing of grievances from me. Just a polite "goodbye for good".
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Jordan7 wrote:
I don't know what to say about Hit Me. It's Bob's fault for not asking if she wanted to go again or stand, so I see no problem with awarding Judy the prize. But if she went again, she would have lost.
Then wouldn't you say that's "a problem with awarding Judy the prize," seeing as there was literally no way for her to win at that point?
Jordanar18
Currently, I live in the past.
For me, this was a show of the year nominee.
I wouldn't be surprized, Joe, if there was an edited overbid on the bar set. I was shocked how slow the first half of the show was going, especially when they revealed Pathfinder. The second half was also kinda slow, with Bonkers, not the quickest of one-prizers, leading off, and Hit Me, taking a while fifth. Having said all that, thank goodness there was Money Game sixth, otherwise more of the show was liable to be edited out.
Something else about Pathfinder -- the 2 was still lighted up when the "path" usually flashes, resulting in six numbers flashing.
Two things I'm getting REALLY tired of:
1) Contestants coming up on stage
2) Bonkers losses
With the setup in Money Game, it looks like The Dob wanted it won.
br wrote:
Clearance: How much easier can it get?
Much. The piano was kind of obvious, but the sofa could have been either price tag.
tpiradam wrote:In regards to Pathfinder, during Bob and Rogers little chat about how many times it was played perfectly, Pathfinder must have been played perfectly more than 2 times, ...
br wrote: You quick on the draw Adam, yeah, how could Bob forget about Avon chasing him all over the place? I detect a little bit of memory loss at his age of 82.
I think it should be fairly obvious by now to almost everyone that the "historic moments" Bob offers up are fictional most of the time. Bob doesn't even really try to pass them off as the truth most of the time, and it's clearly obvious by watching Roger that he's just making them up. Please don't blame this on Bob's age....
With all of that said, this show was just really fun to watch all the way through, just because it was so weird. Bob did seem to be a bit off today, but today, it just made the show more interesting rather than really getting in the way of it.
Regarding Hit Me, I would have been ok with Bob coming back up after the commercial, showing the two cards she had left proving she'd have lost the game had she gone on, announcing the mistake, and going forward without awarding the prize.
Martina gets my vote for contestant of the day. She was just so excited to be there, and then the weird ending of Pathfinder. I was very happy she won the car.
Jordan7
SteveGavazzi wrote:
I guess. Sorry. Has this ever happened before, when someone is awarded a prize when they shouldn't have been?
SteveGavazzi, thanks for noticing my mistake---I meant LAST week, not yesterday. Ten Chances was visibly frustrating last week and I had to scream at the TV. Even with Bonkers today, I screamed at the TV with Ryan's poor playing. Ryan deserved to lose in my honest opinion by not being fast enough in Bonkers.
I honestly had no idea where to place any sale prices to win Clearance Sale today. It was a very difficult setup in my opinion.
I was amazed that Joel won Safe Crackers. There's no way I would have guessed $560 over $650.
Speaking of Safe Crackers, they better not have permanently dumped the bring-in shot of the three-digit prize.
Still speaking of Safe Crackers, I can't say I've ever heard the cue run longer than I heard it today. That was nifty.
Martina started on my annoying side, but quickly redeemed herself. She was wonderful, and that awesome Pathfinder win of hers that she managed to score made her all the better.
Speaking of Safe Crackers, the ending, as awkward as it was, was quite hilarious.
They have a giant red curatin on wheels. I suggest bringing it out and using it to block the contestant's view of the audience when they play Bonkers!.
Hit Me was just a mess, but even then, there was no justice for awarding Judy an automatic win. Forget that Bob didn't ask her if she wanted to stop. She couldn't win at that point anyway. Her only hope was if Bob had made the house's ace one and played on from there hoping the house might bust, which I'm surprised that he didn't do.
I said in chat that Aaron would pick sixty off the Money Game board before the game was over. I never thought that would actually be a correct choice.
The van drive-on in the second Showcase was too funny.
Roger Dobkowitz's Seven Commandments of The Price Is Right:
1. Tape and edit the show as if it were live.
2. Never tell the contestant what to do.
3. Size matters. (The bigger the prize, the better the prize and the bigger the reaction.)
4. All prizes are good.
5. Never do anything on the show that would embarrass a parent with a kid watching.
6. Never put on a prize that would make the show look cheap.
7. It's the game, stupid! (It's about the game.)
- Roger Dobkowitz on Stu's Show September 23, 2009.
pathfinder2119
Me immortalized as a South Park character
Today's show was very good.
Even though what happened at the end of Pathfinder was kind of weird, it was still a very good playing. Also, Martina was a great, fun, contestant.
Having lots of contestants look towards the audience in Bonkers is really starting to get old, like today.
In my opinion, it wasn't necessary to award Judy a win in Hit Me.
whinbaby
Showcase #1
Home by Largo bedroom and a King Koil Comfort Sensations Elite Pierce Sleep Set, and the Pierce model is non-existant. This is pure Jaclyn Smith! - $4,994
Safenet Security Systems - $1,950
Bullfrog Spa, which has never appeared on the Price is Right before - $11,863
Dell Laptop Computer (40 GB Drive, CD/DVD Burner) - $999
Voyage vers Paris, France, and I wonder if that luxury hotel is a Hilton hotel. That would be cool. In fact, there are five Paris Hiltons in Paris. - Its price is $8,611
Ford Freestar - $24,490
Modeling Report for June 20, 2006
Score to beat: $68,755
[color=3FB0D0]Shane Stirling[/color]
Total - $39,706
[color=0000FF]Won - $37,459 (94.34%)[/color]
[color=FF0000]Lost - $2,247 (5.66%)[/color]
Record - 7-4
[color=D0A97D]Lanisha Cole[/color], and boy, she looks a bit like Phire Dawson today!
[color=FF0000]Lost - $3,093 (22.41%)[/color]
[color=C54865]Gabrielle Tuite[/color]
[color=FF0000]Lost - $24,490 (33.31%)[/color]
...and then, there were 15.
All 24 prizes today totaled $126,656!
I've got modeling totals for all of the daytime shows since September 18, 2000 and for all of the primetime specials!
heelsrule1988
Richie wrote:
Ten Chances was visibly frustrating last week and I had to scream at the TV.
Ten Chances is always frustrating. Bob always manages to relieve some of the tension with his humor, though, so it's not always bad.
My Deal or No Deal recaps
On that comment about historical moments, I do believe Bob was right on the money about May 2005. It was that exacta win on Switcheroo, and said that hadn't happened since 1984. Well, if he wasn't counting Tom Kennedy's version, he probably had it right. But later in the same show, there was a Bonkers exacta win. In the video, I still have trouble figuring out if Bob meant 2 exacta wins hadn't happened in the same show since 1976, or Bonkers hadn't been exacta since 1976. Lol, me thinks he could possibly have been trying to say Bonkers was around in '76.
Incidentally, I just thought of this, is the sound effects lady the same one that was on the "50 years of CBS" special back in 2002? I forget her name, but there was a clip of the TPIR segment from that show at tpir.tv. She seems a lot sharper than that, maybe they have some newbies up in the booth? Scott would probably know this one for sure....
PimpinJC
Clearance Sale-Good job with Michael winning Clearance Sale. Audience really helped him out. Good job!
Safe Crackers-Easy. Great win! Obviously now the wheel on the safe does nothing.
Pathfinder-Haha, Martina's reaction to getting up on stage was awesome! Awesome Pathfinder win; played perfectly.
Bonkers-Him looking at the audience costed him big time. The first digit was definitely higher, so that gives you 8 choices maximum; then the 3rd digit was more than likely higher, so that's basically 4 choices. If he wouldn't have looked in the audience, he would have won.
Hit Me-She said she knew how to play the game, but obviously she didn't know how. She would've lost anyway. I was shocked that Bob actually gave her the prize.
Money Game-Playing can't get much better than that. Excellent playing!
What a way for Joel to celebrate his birthday: winning his game, getting $1000 on the Big Wheel, and winning his showcase. Good job!
All Hail Sinfonia!


Italian design brand Arper presented their collection in a 900 sqm exhibition at Salone del Mobile. Visitors to the exhibition were able to explore new designs, some previews and a selection of Arper's iconic products in an immersive experience that fully expresses Arper's identity. Arper also invited guests to their showroom at Via Pantano 30 in Milan, to celebrate the launch of the new modular sofa KIIK by Ichiro Iwasaki. Arper's values presented at the Arper stand, were also interpreted at the brand's showroom.


Demi Lovato has always kept it 100 with her fans about her life with sobriety and relapse, and her new single "Sober" continues to do just that.
The haunting track includes a long list of apologies – to her parents, her friends, her fans and to her future lover. She also gets real with the line, "I wanna be a role model / But I'm only human".


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Kigali: Operations against skin bleaching cosmetics heightened
On 1 December 2021 at 05:36
On Monday, November 29, the Rwanda National Police (RNP) Anti-Smuggling and Organised Crimes unit (ASOC) arrested five people in separate operations conducted in Nyarugenge, Gasabo and Kicukiro districts, who were selling banned skin whitening cosmetics commonly known as Mukologo.
Those arrested are Albert Niyonsaba, 35, Aaron Bigirimana, 31, Eugene Mutabaruka, 28, Valentine Mukamuruta, 43, and Jean Claude Ntawinanirwa, 29.
They were found in possession of combined 487 pieces of assorted lotions including Caro light, Mediven, Epiderm Crème, Beauti, Coco Pulp, Éclair 600, Extra clair, Infini Clear, Extra&White and Rapid Clair.
The cosmetics are among the 1,342 listed cream and oil brands with hydroquinone and mercury, which are prohibited in Rwanda.
Eugene Mutabaruka, one of the suspects, said that he started selling the cosmetics last year and that he buys them from the street vendors.
"I was arrested in Masaka, on Monday at about 10am after Police officers found banned lotions in my shop," Mutabaruka said.
Aaron Bigirimana who also runs a shop in Kabuga, admitted that he was aware that the cosmetics he was selling are illegal, but asked for leniency.
RNP spokesperson, Commissioner of Police (CP) John Bosco Kabera said that the suspects were arrested due to the good collaboration with the public, who share information.
"We urge those dealing in cosmetics to sell only products that are allowed in Rwanda. A list of outlawed lotions, oils and creams was published and anyone selling them is breaking the law and will be arrested," CP Kabera warned.
The outlawed creams and oil brands contain chemicals such as mercury and hydroquinone, which can cause liver damage, reduce resistance to bacterial and fungal infections, and increase anxiety, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).
If it enters the bloodstream, it also results into fatal liver and kidney damage, although medics say the most immediate visible side effect is skin scarring.
Health experts confirm that prolonged use of corticosteroid creams and lotions can also decrease levels of collagen in the skin.
Collagen strengthens and supports the skin, and a reduced amount can increase the risk of striae commonly known as stretch marks.
Article 266 of the law determining offenses and penalties in general, states that any person, who produces, sells, or prescribes harmful products; cosmetics or body hygiene substance or any other products derived from plants, commits an offence.
Upon conviction, he/she is liable to imprisonment for a term of not less than one year and not more than two years and a fine of not less than Rwf3 million and not more than Rwf5 million or one of these penalties.
The suspects were found in possession of combined 487 pieces of assorted lotions.


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Category Archives: CO2
The San Francisco Green Energy Ripoff
A photo of San Francisco at night with green power?
It seems San Francisco will soon have "free" green energy that isn't "free" or very "green." Instead of "free" and "green" we get this:
Monthly bills will increase by $84 to $180 annually
You're signed up automatically and if you don't opt out your stuck with the increase
Due to the unreliability of wind power and solar your electricity will still come from coal and gas power plants when those don't work on windless and cloudy days.
The startup costs $19.5 million including $15 million placed in an escrow account to pay Shell Energy North America if the program is terminated before the contract expires in 4½ years.
San Francisco, touted as "the city that knows how" evidently only "knows how" to rip off the taxpayers. There are probably 19.5 million ways to spend that $19.5 million on things that would make San Francisco a better place to live than on overpriced faux green energy.
The city's a mess in many places. Traffic's a mess, the streets are a mess, the homeless are a mess, crime is a mess, there are many blighted places. Let's not forget that the schools are taking it in the shorts thanks to Jerry Brown's faux budget that recently fell apart and could also use that money.
Nope, in San Francisco politics it's better to genuflect to the imaginary green energy god. Keeping PG & E who appears to be able to provide cleaner, more reliable and less expensive energy would have just been too simple compared to creating another SF bureaucracy that appears to be FUBAR before it even starts.
If you thought that the power going out a Candlestick Park during a nationally televised football game was an embarrassment just wait and see what happens, or doesn't, as the case may be. No wonder the 49'ers want to move to Santa Clara.
Sources: SF Examiner & SF Business Times
Filed under AB32 California, California Green Jobs, Climate Alarmism, Climate Change, Climate Disruption, CO2, Co2 Insanity, Financial, Global Warming, Government, Green Energy, Politics, pollution, Solar, Wind Power
Tagged as San Francisco
BP DUMPS SOLAR
……And another one bites the dust. British Petroleum is shuttering its solar manufacturing business. More proof that solar isn't the big panacea it's touted to be and is not going to be providing many shovel-ready jobs in the United States or anywhere else, with the possible exception of China.
The unit, which BP has been scaling back since 2008, is the latest sun energy business to fall victim to rampant competition from China, falling prices, overcapacity and lower government subsidies on which the industry still depends.
This doesn't only affect Europe, this is going to have a worldwide effect…..
The company confirmed on Wednesday that it plans to exit its large-scale projects at Long Haven in the U.S. and Moree in Australia.
Add this to the long list of dead or dying companies such as Solyndra and Evergreen Solar in the US and…..
Swiss bank Sarasin said in a recent study that Conergy and Q-Cells were among the German solar companies most exposed to the sector's crisis.
We continue to maintain that if solar power was such a great idea government subsidies would not be necessary for solar to be a big financial and energy success and it appears we're becoming more right as each day passes. Someone should get the people running the US Department of Energy and California Governor Jerry Brown out of their green comas and advise them of this.
Please don't bring up oil company subsidies. At least they have a viable product, make a profit and pay taxes.
Filed under California, California Green Jobs, Climate Alarmism, Climate Change, Climate Disruption, CO2, Co2 Insanity, DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY, DOE, Editor, Financial, Global Warming, Government, Green Energy, Renewable Energy, Solar, Solargate, Solyndra
Tagged as BP, British Petroleum
Antarctic Sea-Ice Not Melting
The alarmist cries of unprecedented global warming causing unprecedented sea-ice melting at the poles doesn't seem to be working. Perhaps if they yell louder it will obey.
Source: NSIDC
Filed under Antarctica, Climate Alarmism, Climate Change, Climate Disruption, CO2, Co2 Insanity, Global Warming, Sea-Ice
Eight Questions to kill the Kyoto Climate Protocol in 2012
As Canada becomes the first major nation to cut and run from the UN's global warming scam a prominent environmentalist now plunges another deadly dagger into the soft underbelly of junk climate science.
Geologist and radio and TV broadcaster Leighton Steward succinctly points to eight crucial unanswered questions to slay the mythical climate dragon. The questions Steward poses should now be thrust to the fore as nations scramble for excuses to pull the plug on the Kyoto Protocol's life support after the abject failure of the UN's COP17 talks in Durban.
It's these eight glaring anomalies in the science that Peter Kent, Canada's environment minister, can add to those 14 billion other reasons (those dollars saved in unpaid UN penalties) why his nation was right to bail out of the biggest scam in history.
Canada, the new climate realist at the party, joins Japan and Russia in steadfastly refusing any new Kyoto-style climate commitments. The CO2-limiting treaty, signed by various world governments in 1997 expires in December 2012 with little if any prospect of a replacement in sight before 2020. But joy of joys, Kyoto is increasingly exposed for being premised on the discredited hypothesis that human emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) would precipitate runaway global warming.
Inconvenient Questions Routinely Dodged by Alarmist Advocates
In his analysis 'The climate-change con artists' for WorldNetDaily (December 9, 2011) Steward lists his eight straightforward key questions that climate science dodged for decades and which must be addressed before cash-strapped governments ever again vote to fatten UN coffers:
Why can't warming alarmists produce a single legitimate example of empirical evidence to support the manmade global-warming hypothesis?
Why has Earth been warming for 300 years when man has only emitted measurable amounts of CO2 into the atmosphere for the last 150 years?
Why did Earth cool for 500 years before the recent 300-year warming and warm for several hundred years before that when even the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says CO2 levels did not change?
Why was the Medieval Warm Period, a thousand years ago, warmer than today even though the CO2 level was 38 percent lower than today?
Why did many of Earth's major glaciers in the Alps. Asia, New Zealand and Patagonia begin to retreat nearly half a century before the Industrial Revolution and man's CO2 emissions?
Of the last five interglacials, going back 400,000 years, why is our current interglacial the coolest of the five even though Earth's CO2 level is about 35 percent higher?
Why has our current 10,000-year-long Holocene epoch been warmer than today for 50 percent of the time when CO2 levels were about 35 percent lower than today?
Why are correlations of Earth's temperature with natural factors such as sunspot numbers, solar cycle lengths, solar magnetic variations and changes in major ocean currents all better than the correlation of Earth's temperature with CO2 levels?
Why are such inconvenient yet crucial questions still left unanswered? What turns mere incompetence into wilful fraud is that these 'researchers' were also intentionally ignoring all evidence that disproved their hypothesis.
Governments and voters may now fairly infer that for the last 30 years a clique of government climate scientists in English-speaking nations deliberately wasted millions toying with unfeasible toy models hoping (but failing) to concoct a causal link between carbon and climate.
Two Degrees Celsius Drop in Temperatures 'Plucked out of Thin Air'
The evidence for fraud gets more compelling when we add to the mix the leaked Climategate 2.0 emails of November 2011. Our conscientious friendly whistleblower at the University of East Anglia, England (UEA) shows us that government climatologists secretly concede the science to back Kyoto is paper-thin.
A main requirement is that the treaty demands a two degree Celsius drop in global temperatures. But top UEA climate scientist, Professor Jones, admits that no scientific basis was ever established for the "2 degrees Celsius" benchmark. Jones admits:
"The 2 deg C limit is talked about by a lot within Europe. It is never defined though what it means…. I know you don't know the answer, but I don't either! I think it is plucked out of thin air."
[Phil Jones email to C. Kremer; Thursday, September 06, 2007 6:40 PM]
Thus opinion trumps hard evidence in the topsy-turvy world of climate science as further substantiated by the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPPC). Buried deep in the 2007 IPCC Report is the disturbing fact that climatologists admit to "low" or "very low" understanding of 13 of the 15 factors that drive climate. [1.]
No wonder Professor Jones chose to break the law and refuse to honor Freedom of Information (FOIA) requests from independent researchers. There was so little evidence to back all those doomsaying climate claims and Jones didn't want to be caught giving policymakers mere opinions (dressed as 'fact'). He and his co-conspirators needed to keep milking that research cash cow. All the while, gleeful that their scientists were giving them ammunition to concoct apocalyptic scenarios to scare the public into paying ever higher taxes, the politicians went along with the scam. Just follow the money, as they say.
As Icecap reports, Penn State University, a hub of climate alarm, alone acquired $470,000,000 in federal grants and contracts between 2010 and 2011. After the Sandusky child sex scandal the world now sees just how Penn State values profit over principle.
The US government alone spent over $106 billion on climate research money between 2003 and 2010. Such munificence can buy a lot of 'consensus' in university laboratories. Opinionated and ill-informed faux climate science was thus used to justify a $100-billion-a-year "climate change reparation and mitigation" fund for poor nations.
That hotchpotch treaty, designed to severely restrict human emissions of an essential life-giving gas (CO2), offered nothing for the planet while impoverishing humanity by crippling industrial development.
Canada Saves Taxpayer Billions in Moment of Climate Realism
In short, Kyoto was never about climate change but more probably a nefarious UN vehicle for global population control and wealth redistribution – a veritable gravy train for corrupt and opinionated ideologues. No wonder Peter Kent, Canada's environment minister, denounced Kyoto as one of Canada's "biggest" policy errors. At the earliest opportunity (Monday 12, December 2011) the Canadian government sensibly invoked its legal rights and withdrew from the Kyoto agreement.
By bailing out of the UN's climate Ponzi scheme Canada will now save itself having to pay $US14 billion ($A13.94 billion) in needless penalties for not achieving its Kyoto targets. Mike Hudema of Greenpeace Canada reacted to the news with the expected doomsayer hyperbole: "The Harper government has imposed a death sentence on many of the world's most vulnerable populations by pulling out of Kyoto."
Yet Canada's environment minister aptly summed up the lunacy of the extreme cost of climate legislation, as it would be:
"the equivalent of either removing every car, truck, ATV, tractor, ambulance, police car and vehicle of every kind from Canadian roads or closing down the entire farming and agriculture sector and cutting heat to every home, office, hospital, factory and building in Canada."
Thus by consideration of the aforesaid paucity of hard evidence and Leighton Steward's Eight Unanswered Questions the Kyoto Protocol deserves to be tossed into the trash can of history. Rest assured, Canada will be just the first of a glut of nations abandoning pointless and moribund UN 'emissions targets' that do more harm than good.
Taxpayers have a right to demand this secretive, corrupt and wasteful culture in government science be swept away. It urgently needs replacing with a new era of principled, open and objective science.
[1.] IPCC: Climate Change 2007: Working Group I: The Physical Science Basis; 2.9.1 Uncertainties in Radiative Forcing.
John O'Sullivan is a science writer and legal analyst, coordinator of the 'Slayers' and founder member of Principia Scientific International (PSI).
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Tokelau isn't Tanking
With COP17 CON17 going on, the shrillness of those who want to make big bucks off the global warming scam is increasing exponentially.
Today we have the Honorable Foua Toloa, head of Government of Tokelau in the Pacific, who believes the island's 1,400 inhabitants are at grave risk from climate change lack of money. Of course him, and others in charge of low-lying (emphasis on lying) islands worldwide are hoping to cash in on the global warming gravy-train.
You can look at the graph below showing the south Pacific sea-levels at Tuvalu, which is adjacent to Tokelau, and see just how much that sea-level is rising (not).
You can also look at the below graph of the south Pacific. While, yes there is an overall uptrend of 2.73 millimeters per year, note the downtrend that is starting in 2010. Also note that 2.73 millimeters = 0.107480315 inches. Or, a whopping 10th of an inch a year.
Tokelau is 5 meters above sea-level. 5 meters = 16.4041995 feet. Divide 16.4 feet (196.850394 inches) by 0.107480315 inches per year sea-level rise and we find it will take a mere 1,831.5 years for Tokelau to be completely submerged.
You have to ask yourself what all the rush is about? Being submerged in 1,832.5 years? Or, helping the United Nations clown circus by BS'ing everyone in order to get hundreds of billions of dollars sucked from productive countries via phony carbon trading scams and carbon taxes?
You can read more about the low lying that is going on from Andrew Bolt here.
Source: The Daily Mail
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Prince Phillip on Wind Turbines: "Disgrace" "Fairy Tale"
It appears there's at least one person in the Royal family with some common sense. Prince Phillip lets it fly and tells us what he really thinks!
In comments that put him sharply at odds with the Government, the Prince reportedly said the farms were a 'disgrace' and they would never work. He also described people who backed them as believing in a 'fairy tale'.
Energy Secretary Chris Huhne last month denounced opponents of the plans as 'curmudgeons and fault-finders' and praised the turbines as 'elegant and beautiful'.
Chris Huhne. who's obviously dumb and blind, must also think that Roseanne Barr should be parading around in a bikini at the next Miss America contest.
Now if he'd only grab his son, Prince Charles, by his Dumbo-sized ears and rattle some sense into his head we might have something.
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Yet Another Reason to Bury the Bullet Train in California
What started as a $33 billion project, then recently mushroomed into a $98.6 billion project, that only one week later mushroomed into a $117.6 billion dollar project, now has another problem. This problem, no doubt, will again raise the already astronomical costs of the bullet train that Californians will not only get stuck paying for, but will probably be stuck subsidizing for almost eternity.
It now seems that the grand plan to tunnel under San Jose, California isn't so grand after all. According to yet another study:
"We have looked at this very thoroughly and done very detailed engineering for this," said Dan Leavitt, the authority's deputy director, about the tunnel option. "It is not a constructable scenario for high-speed rail."
In a nutshell this means the transportation hub in San Jose will need to be built above ground, which means that they'll have to spend more money buying up property that they would not have had to purchase if the underground station was viable.
Meanwhile, in what appears to be a fit of delusion, instead of telling the state to shove it, the City of San Jose will continue to spend more tax dollars studying this, even though budget problems have reduced the number of police and fire personnel on duty.
The Legislature and Governor Jerry Brown also appear to be delusional about this costly and unneeded train to nowhere. It is seriously not funny that this fiasco continues to spend money needed elsewhere. California's budget deficit is now expected to have a $13 billion budget deficit by mid-year that will cause $2 billion in automatic spending cuts, many in education.
Meanwhile, the Board of Regents of California State University, who raised tuition 15.5% last November just voted yesterday to again increase tuition by another 9%. This is a total increase in just one year of 25.5%. If you want to know what this costs students in dollars here it is:
The price of a year at CSU has risen steadily for years. Next fall, basic tuition will be $5,970. With a mandatory fee averaging $1,047 across the 23-campus system, the price will stand at $7,017. That's more than triple what it cost in 2002-03.
It is a total shame that the State Legislature and Governor Jerry Brown don't pull the plug on the bullet train boondoggle that continues to grow in size and cost and may accelerate putting the State of California into bankruptcy before it's over and done with. Talk about fiddling while Rome burns, this has to be it.
The only thing green about this project is the obscene amounts of money that will be spent on a boondoggle that will only green the pockets of unions, who evidently have much of California's government in their hip pockets.
Let's not forget the United States debt just hit $15 trillion yesterday. How about paying bills before spending on boondoggles?
We urge you to read more of the gory details of this CO2 Insanity at the source below.
Source: San Jose Mercury News
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Do you have religion?Do you believe there are many of people don't join any religion?I am one of them.Recently I just realized that why I always ask myself what's the meaning of life?My friend told me the purpose of human life is having a hope.But I just want to know where does hopes come from?If we are in trouble or we want some good lucky turns to ourselves ,we normally go to the temple.I had a 3 years experiences went to the temple to pray my slippers business goes well and praymy family's members are healthy. Do you think that's a shame story?I think the meaning of life is not only hope that also should be get some positive power from somewhere.So I think no matter what kind of religion you choose as long as you canget energy from it ,then that is a good thing.
Religion is and has always been a scam. There are some good parts i.e. teaching people to follow moral guidelines. Honestly, I don't need some organization that follows fictional gods and prophets to tell me how to live. There are good people and there are bad people, does not matter if they believe in god, Allah, Buddha, Jehovah, Jesus, or aliens.
Religion has caused more pain and suffering in this world and should be abolished. Rather than waste time praying, people should take positive action in the real world and make things happen for themselves. People pray for healing and they die, people pray for prosperity, they starve, people pray for peace, they get shot, and so on.
Life means something different to every person on earth so you cannot simply define it; Life is what you make of it and remember, you only get out of it what you put into it.
I'm an athiest. Everyone should be able to follow what makes them happy.
The meaning of life. Have fun while your here and be good to each other.
You don't need church or god to teach you that.


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What is being proposed? According to Chikwanda's statement this appears to be a savings fund where all the state-owned enterprises that will fall under the Industrial Development Corporation [IDC] will deposit their money. This naturally raises three important questions : (a) Which companies will fall under the IDC; (b) How much will the companies deposit; and, (c) What will be done with the money they deposit?
The answer to (a) was answered by Chikwanda earlier this year. He said that only parastatals facing operational difficulties will be incorporated under the IDC. In his words, "Companies that are under the Act of Parliament and those that were doing fine will not be incorporated under the IDC" (Source: Lusaka Times, January 2014).
That clarification from came because the IDC has actually been incorporated under the Companies Act as "the holding company of all State-owned enterprises that were incorporated under the Companies Act or the Banking and Financial Services Act". Chikwanda's intervention was designed to calm legitimate fears that all SOEs will be run by the IDC.
Chikwanda's January statement presumably answers question (b) on how much the companies will deposit into the SWF. Since the parastatals in the IDC will be initially loss making companies we cannot expect a lot of money to be deposited. Certainly nothing will happen in the early years. In fact more subsidies will be needed to keep them going. Indeed going by Chikwanda's narrower criteria the new SWF will have the likes of Daily Mail, Times of Zambia, Nitrogen Chemicals Zambia and similar bankrupt companies in its portifolio.
Worth pointing out here that ZCCM-IH would not fall under that IDC because it is actually not 100% government owned. The government can of course create another mining vehicle that takes shares in ZCCM-IH. That vehicle can then in turn be held under the IDC. The only problem of course is that the IDC according to Chikwanda is for poor performing companies.
At this point we should also note the chaos around the IDC. The SNDP says "the Government will in the Plan period, operationalise the Industrial Development Commission (IDC) to promote investment, industrial development and deepen reform of SOEs. The IDC will facilitate the optimal use of resources aimed at accelerating the process of transformation of the economy through coordinated development of primary, secondary and tertiary industries" (Sixth National Development Plan, 3.2.1.4) .
President Sata earlier this year issued a presidential directive, making it clear that 75 per cent of dividends from the IDC and its subsidiaries would be deposited in the SWF. Clearly the IDC cannot achieve its goals whilst investing in the SWF, never mind the loss making composition of companies in the IDC.
Back to the SWF. Assuming that some companies which form part of the IDC are eventually turned around the answer to (c) may become important. What will be done to the money deposited in the SWF? But we must slow down and ask a prior question which we should have addressed at the start : What is a Sovereign Wealth Fund?
SWFs are a special purpose investment fund or arrangement, owned by a general government. Created by the general government for macroeconomic purposes, SWFs hold, manage, or administer financial assets to achieve financial objectives, and employ a set of investment strategies which include investing in foreign financial assets.
SWFs are commonly established out of balance of payments surpluses, official foreign currency operations, the proceeds of privatizations, fiscal surpluses, and/or receipts resulting from commodity exports. Zambia is planning to create its SWF from general business profits of the IDC. Zambia is currently in debt. It is also making very little from commodity exports. So the issue of smoothing out consumption to avoid resource curse problems does not arise.
This observation is cardinal because it helps us address properly the standing question : What will be done with the money which may be deposited by IDC companies in the SWF?
If we look at the Norwegian model, 4% of its annual return goes on public spending and the rest is invested ABROAD as it seeks the highest (safe) return for its money. So Zambia's SWF would need to hold foreign assets to make money. The problem of course is that Zambia needs investment domestically. We are not Norway.
Therefore one expects that Zambia's version of the SWF will in fact be an expanded version of IDC, just in another name. It is a fund focused on microeconomic objectives of job creation and better management of existing parastatals not macroeconomic ones. The SWF will be the governance framework for the reborn INDECO. It cannot really be regarded as a sovereign fund in a traditional sense. This probably explains why the SWF is housed at the Ministry of Finance rather than BOZ.
So, does Zambia need a proper SWF?
No! For the simple reason that it has no macroeconomic objectives that would be achieved by such a fund. Zambia is broke and needs every Ngwee to fund infrastructure. It is economic folly to borrow from abroad K100m (via the Eurobond) and then put it into a SWF which runs broke parastatals with no prospects of ever making a profit. If Zambia wants state capitalism it should focus its effort on getting the governance framework of the IDC right rather than creating SWFs.
Dr Mukanga. Your last paragrph is totally correct.
The name of the party shall be the Patriotic Front (hereinafter referred to as "the Party").
The Party guided by humbleness and self-criticism.
The militant organization of revolutionary peasants, workers and intellectuals.
The main task of the Party and the working people of the Republic of Zambia is to accomplish a transition from self centeredness.
The Party demands hard work, honest, sacrifice and self-reliance in all activities to improve the living conditions and ensure greater benefits to the people of Zambia.
The Party shall ensure that all the public institutions, State-owned enterprises and popular mass and similar organizations are led by persons who are members of the Party and who are uncompromisingly committed to achievements of the Party.
The Party shall wage a relentless struggle against all domestic and international forces of reaction. It shall fight for the eradication of Capitalism, with its offshoots of Hunger, Ignorance, Disease, Crime, Corruption and the exploitation of man by man.
I'm sorry but none of Dr Scott's Party's Articles that speak of Revolutionary Peasants and the eradication of Capitalism with its offshoots of Hunger, Ignorance, Disease, Crime seeems to chime with creating a Sovereign Wealth Fund.
Please Dr Scott - if there is any revolution to be had, revolutionise the economy. Look after that and all else will follow. You can start by asking your Min of Finance to rip up his 2015 Budget before it bankrupts Zambia.


Casting aside Itachi's lectures to him, Kabuto reveals he assimilated more than just Orochimaru's DNA as he creates a construct of Sakon from the base of his navel snake through which he can use the signature attacks of the Sound Five. Although easily countering Kabuto's attacks at first, Itachi and Sasuke find themselves trapped in Tayuya's genjutsu so he can finish them off with an white snake Orochimaru construct. However, though a combined effort, Sasuke and Itachi escape the genjutsu and fend the snake off by casting genjutsu on each other. Kabuto, however, appears from the mouth of the snake with a surprise attack and bisects Itachi, tearfully stating his superiority before attempting to regain control over the reanimated ninja. As his body reforms, Itachi called out to Sasuke as he threw his sword at Kabuto, only for the snake sage to block and then counter. Kabuto then attacks Itachi with the sword and claimed that his genjutsu cannot affect him. But upon realizing a sense of déjá vu in the brothers' attack pattern, having claimed to be immune to such a trick, Kabuto learns that he is trapped with his mind via the endless loop of the Uchiha Clan's genjutsu Izanami.


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package com.ligati.apipixie;

import com.ligati.apipixie.exception.APIConfigurationException;
import com.ligati.apipixie.http.APIHttpManager;
import com.ligati.apipixie.http.DefaultAPIHttpManager;
import com.ligati.apipixie.tools.Preconditionner;

import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.Map;

public class APIPixie {
	private String apiUrl;
	private APIHttpManager httpManager;
	private Map<APIPixieFeature, Boolean> features;

	public APIPixie(String apiUrl) {
		this(apiUrl, new DefaultAPIHttpManager());
	}

	public APIPixie(String apiUrl, APIHttpManager httpManager) {
		Preconditionner.checkNotNullConfig(httpManager, "You have to provide a non-null APIHttpManager.");
		this.setAPIUrl(apiUrl);
		this.httpManager = httpManager;
		this.features = new HashMap<>();
	}

	public void configure(APIPixieFeature feature, boolean enabled) {
		Preconditionner.checkNotNullConfig(feature, "You have to provide a non-null APIPixieFeature.");
		this.features.put(feature, enabled);
	}

	public boolean isFeatureEnabled(APIPixieFeature feature) {
		Boolean result = this.features.get(feature);
		if (result == null)
			return feature.getDefaultValue();
		return result;
	}

	public <T, K> APIService<T, K> getService(Class<T> clazz) {
		return new APIService<>(this, clazz, this.httpManager);
	}

	public String getAPIUrl() {
		if (apiUrl == null)
			throw new APIConfigurationException(
					"You have to provide an URL for the API.");
		return this.apiUrl;
	}

	public void setAPIUrl(String apiUrl) {
		if (apiUrl == null || apiUrl.isEmpty())
			throw new APIConfigurationException(
					"You cannot define a null or empty url for the API.");
		else if (apiUrl.endsWith("/"))
			this.apiUrl = apiUrl.substring(0, apiUrl.length() - 1);
		else
			this.apiUrl = apiUrl;
	}
}

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To unlock this achievement, as it says, beat the Tank Squadrons mission on Veteran difficulty.
This mission is split into two parts (which will be covered below) Crusader Charge and 88 Ridge.
General tip while manning the tanks. Keep the back of your tank away from the enemy, on veteran mode, if you get hit from behind you typically will die. Thanks to Bob Almighty125 for this!
This part is fairly easy. The point of the mission is to, of course, not die however you must also have at least one allied tank alive as well to pass this part of the mission. I did not have an issue with my allies too much, it was me that was dying.
You will want to run and gun. If you stand still too long you WILL get hit. You also want to avoid hitting the tanks head-on, it seems they have more armor on the front, best places to hit them are on the sides and back ends.
Focus on the tanks by themselves or with few allies, don't attempt to rush into a whole horde of them.
This part is a little harder but still not too bad. You will need to take out two small groups of reinforcements and then your done with this level. You will not be able to use the same exact strategy for this portion of the mission that you used in the first part. You can not find solo tanks that often so just work on the outside of this group and try not to rush it. You will be taking out tanks and anti-tank guns. The tanks are really not too hard, it's the AT guns, they can rip you apart.
If within range, take out the AT gun first (they are destroyed in one hit). But if tanks are in between you and the guns of course take out the tanks. Same tips as above, keep moving, hit the tanks on their back ends, work from the outside in (don't try to rush).
- Cover is your friend. Don't be afraid to kill enemies but don't stay out of cover for too long and never stand in the open. Take cover and use it well. Always take cover when reloading. It only takes 2-3 hits to die not to mention getting sniped. If your flashing red TAKE COVER.
- Your team members, or mates, comrades, or meat shields (whatever you want to call them) are GREAT most of the time. They will take out numerous enemies and keep you well protected as long as you take cover and let them do the good deed of dying for country. If they are not advancing then you must do it, there are several times it pays to advance some and once you see them coming drop back. They also raid house pretty well (the bottom floor most of the times).
- In open areas with gun fire use smoke grenades. Also in open areas the best weapon to use is either riffles or snipes.
- In close areas (read raiding houses) use real grenades, they are the best weapon). Also equip yourself with anything that is an automatic.
- Many times if you get stuck try to go a different way or take different types of cover in different positions. There are defiantly different ways to make it through this game.
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Cities, Places, Regions
Metropolitan, Midtown Redevelopment
By uptownliving, July 1, 2004 in Charlotte
norm21499 724
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I wonder how wide they will make the sidewalks in the area. I hope they are about as wide as in uptown, to promote more walking and to encourage buildings to face the street and to cater to pedestrians as well.
ElricSeven 0
Pappas properties' application is up for the HDExpo/Target shopping center in Elizabeth.
http://www.charmeck.org/Departments/Planni...ns/2005-060.htm
DigitalSky 5
you mean midtown right?
That's it, yeah. Forgot what the name was.
dubone 1573
Location: Uptown Charlotte
Midlizabethtown
uptownliving 909
If you really want to get technical...its on the border of Cherry.
Midlizacherrytown
appatone 14
Is Cherry not considered a part of Elizabeth?
atlrvr 4225
Location: Dilworth, Charlotte
Nope......Cherry is it's own thing......in fact, the Midtown Square redevelopment is really closest to Cherry (since Baxter is the main street in Cherry). Elizabeth really ends at 3rd Street.
From today's Observer:http://www.charlotte.com/mld/charlotte/business/10830167.htm
Uptown DIY crowd may soon have Lowe's
An uptown Lowe's? It's in the works, Bob Tillman told the Big I before stepping down last month as CEO of the home-improvement chain. In fact, the chain had a deal to join the massive remake of Midtown Square but pulled out because it was too pricey, Tillman said. Home Depot then moved on the space.
"You'll see Lowe's stores in inner-city Charlotte, Raleigh," he said.
I hadn't realized that Lowe's was originally eyeing the spot, but i wonder where Lowe's will build a big-box store uptown, there aren't too many spaces left, unless they build parking under the store. It will be really cool, if they do because Home Depot's Expo center doesn't have the basic hardware stuff (from what i understand). It isn't like Wendover/Monroe and South/Woodlawn are that far, though, to go to the current home depot's, but having a Lowe's uptown will be a nice addition (especially since Lowe's is a NC/Charlotte Metro company). Lowes + Home Depot Expo + Target + any other national retailers at Grubb-Elizabeth Ave i think will create he critical representation that will draw the rest. I think we are just a few years away from having sufficient numbers of national retailers within a few miles of uptown.
Would they go in the Elizabeth area along 3rd you think? I thought maybe on North Tryon right outside of 277.
I think the article is a bit misleading. Bob Tillman was referring to urban/infill sites, not necessarily "uptown". Lowe's is currently buying up land along Mecham off of South Blvd. just south of David Furman's Village at Southend. It will certainly be a more urban Lowe's with rooftop parking and multi-family units buffering the store from the residential McDonald St.
I doubt we will ever see a Lowe's within I-277, but this site is a good location IMO.
monsoon 1
Gigalopolis
There used to be an intown Lowes on Walnut Avenue where it intersects Morehead. They closed it eons ago, but maybe Lowes still owns that property.
That is likely where it will go, then. Honestly, i don't think any large retailers will be within 277, but i had assumed it would go generally between morehead/kings and 7th/hawthorne. That general area (myersparkmidlizcherrytown or whatever neighborhood it really is) seems to be the most serious concentration of current and future retail near 277, but south blvd would be a great place, too. In fact South Blvd south of atherton still needs major redev, so lowe's would do wonders for that area.
Rooftop parking for bigbox retail would be awesome if it became a trend. I wonder how much it adds to the cost, considering how much less the they'd need to spend on run-off remediation, etc.
Since this thread mentions Target, looks as if the SuperTarget is in fact coming to the Northlake Mall area. I suppose the original billing of this mall being New Urbanist, pedestrian friendly, TOD, etc etc. was just window dressing. This will be the first SuperTarget in the Charlotte city limits. (In Meck cnty too)
MidTowner 0
In reply to the initial post.. are those the actual rezoning plans submitted? From my understanding of the Midtown project, the zoning changes should extend beyond Baxter Street. Also, it appears that some of the zones in the Cherry do not appear to be correct. The R6 zone between Torrence/Baldwin, Ranlo and Luther should reflect single family. Does anyone know if this was either an oversight on the Pappas project or if recent Zoning changes where made in Cherry.
StevenRocks 2
Location: Southwest Virginia
I was just in Charleston last night looking at the way Saks anchors King St. It would be great to have Saks anchor Elizabeth Ave. the same way.
It would be nice to see Saks as an anchor in a midtown district like Elizabeth; it would certainly give the neighborhood enough pull to land some national chain stores and designer boutiques. But I think they could have other plans.
Like I said in http://www.urbanplanet.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=8744
I don't think Dick's [sporting Goods] has a future at SouthPark. The couple of times I went on the weekend, the place was really dead while the mall was bustling. Hopefully all the new restaurants and bookstore will push some people closer to it and pump up the activity.
If not, the store is almost exactly the size building that Saks wanted to put up at Seven Eagles.
JunktionFET 0
Location: Northwest Raleigh NC
"Midtown" Charlotte is actually a very old name that has recently become more popular. My adopted father, who grew up in Charlotte during the 1950s, as well as others in his generation (like my former employer in Charlotte) used the term a lot to describe the area around Presbyterian Hospital, etc.
Now the imaginary line between Uptown and Midtown is I-277. I would say that Midtown extends SE out to Caswell Rd/Pecan Ave, or somewhere in that general area. Everything SE of that is considerably less urban and more vintage suburban.
Before CPCC was there and Presby became so large.....all of the commercial areas (i.e. Elizabeth Ave) were street car suburbs as well......
UptownJ 1
Whistle-Stop
Does anyone know the break down of projects going on in midtown Charlotte?
I know about the target/home dep. thing but is there anything else?
The green way is going through there right... is there any talk of high rises?
When I look at this little area of Charlotte I see such great potential being that its so close to dt. I would love to see this become a hot bed for retail, hotel, and residential.
Any word or thoughts on the matter?
The Target/Home Depot site will be built where the existing movie theatre is.....then there will be shops and offices where the closed mall is and across the street on the surface lot....there will be a 14-15 story residential tower where the Exxon station is as well......
At some point I think that a fair number of the strip centers on Kings will be redeveloped, but there is nothing currently in the works that I know of......The big piece of land between Kings, Independence and 3rd is for sale, and there have been rumors of serious interest, though no one has stepped forward yet......that is a key piece since it connects the Elizabeth Ave area to the Midtown Square redevelopment...
I think that people in the Midtown, Uptown and surrounding neighborhoods will be happy once Target comes there because they're tired of driving so far for target-type stores.
Is there any word on whether or not Saks will be joining the project or Elizabeth?
eastsider 770
I also think that redevelopment along Kings will happen after the greenway opens and Midtown is redeveloped. The greenway master plan has fairly aggressive changes for Midtown and CPCC areas. The realignment of Kings north of 4th should open up more space for development. The land between 3rd, Independence, and Kings will be key to linking the area.
Greenway Master Plan Maps
so Really theres just those three projects then... I really hope this area booms like the rest of dt... it could be an awsome area
CLTfanatic 0
When is construction supposed to start?
Moore Building/15 Stories/222 FT/227,000 sq. ft. office/8,500 sq. ft. retail, internal garage, 19th & Chet Atkins
By PHofKS
From the city's development tracker..
As promised...
Spectrum/Emery Midtown Office Bldg, 18th South & Chet Atkins, 8 stories, 130,000 sq. ft. Mid-2018 target
By markhollin
Spectrum | Emery Inc. has offered specifics and has released an image for its 18th & Chet office building planned for Music Row. The 10-story building, to anchor the northeast corner of 18th Avenue South and Chet Atkins Place, will span about 130,000 square feet, with Nashville-based Earl Swensson Associates to serve as architect.
Spectrum | Emery has the multi-parcel property under contract and hopes to close on the purchase by August's end. David Wells, Spectrum | Emery vice president, told NBJ the company expects to ask about $38 per square foot.
An early to mid-2018 completion date is being eyed. --Nashville Post, June 23, 2016
The development is within the light blue square in the center of this screenshot from Smeagolsfree's excellent Nashville Metro Development Map:
Kenect Nashville, 20 stories, 420 apts, 24,000 sq.ft. retail, garage, 1815 Division Street
A 20 story, 421 unit residential tower that will include ground floor retail and a garage to be called Kenect Nashville is slated for 1815 Division Street in Midtown. This is the former site of the Florence Crittenton Home for Unwed Mothers at the T-intersection of Division and 19th Ave. South. No renderings as of yet.
Chicago-based developer Akara Partners will be in charge of the project. Going before Metro Planning on Oct 12 with more specifics.
http://www.nashvillepost.com/business/development/article/20974398/midtown-site-eyed-for-highrise-building
http://www.tennessean.com/story/money/real-estate/2017/09/01/20-story-421-unit-kenect-nashville-apartments-retail-space-planned-midtown-site/625881001/
https://www.bizjournals.com/nashville/news/2017/09/01/chicago-developer-unveils-plans-for-midtown-high.html
Here is what Kenect Chicago looks like (just 16 stories):
Vanderbilt Place-12 story Spec Office-30th Ave-Midtown
Eakin Partners now has a website promoting the 2018 opening of their 12 story spec office building in the western end of Mid-town in Nashville.
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Ela Canela – This easy and lovely café provides a weekly menu that shifts seasonally with what's out there from native markets. The menu is predominantly vegan and vegetarian with a rotation of recent fish and poultry. Each dish is worthy of a photograph, and the drinks are made with well being and longevity in thoughts.
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Pricey Breakfast – A contemporary, stylish and Lisbon-cool vibe spot that serves natural breakfast all day.
Different locations to pop into for brunch, lunch, snacks or inexperienced juice: Fauna & Flora, O Botanista, Juicy Lisboa and Epur.
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Ao 26 – A stunning area for impressed vegan and vegetarian delicacies.
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Lisboans – Reasonably priced and stylish flats in shut proximity to cultural landmarks and stylish neighborhoods. The Lisboan flats present a comfortable and cozy place to really feel at house simply outdoors of the noise and chaos of the town and with a village-like really feel.
Airbnb – My suggestion: Keep in Alfama, the oldest and most fascinating a part of the town.
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LX Manufacturing unit – An revolutionary industrial area transformed into a spot for native artisan outlets, eating places and cafés.
The Gulbenkian – Hosts two museums and a backyard area to chill out and luxuriate in.
Little Yoga Area Lisbon – Provides yoga and pilates every day, together with workshops and therapeutic massage remedy.
Foodprintz – Provides yoga, meditation and workshops, plus an natural café, which serves locally-sourced vegan meals.
Prado Market – A small gourmand market with specialty gadgets, native bread, espresso and Portuguese meals.
Obrigado Obrigada – A stunning store providing native ladies's and males's linen clothes, ceramics, footwear and purses.
Embaixada – A set of idea shops in a romantic previous constructing.
Chic Comporta's three beautiful eating places.
Comporta Café – A stunning beach-side café with native delicacies. Good for a drink or tea at sundown!
Restaurant Sal – A beachside restaurant sharing native, conventional and quintessential Portuguese delicacies. Order the recent native fish-of-the-day in addition to the scallops and clams. Consider me, you've by no means had fish this recent.
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Comporta seashore – A pristine place to take pleasure in a summer time getaway and delight in the great thing about twelve kilometers of untouched golden sand.
Comporta outlets – Comporta hosts a small bohemian-style village with distinctive outlets and native cafés. Most outlets are open throughout excessive season and shut within the fall and winter months.
São Lourenço do Barrocal – Beautiful minimalist design blended with historic historical past is the impression that founder José António Uva created at SLDB. This five-star lodge in Alentejo is simply two-and-a-half hours outdoors of Lisbon. The land and property has been in the identical household for over 200 years. Historical past, group and integrity run deep via each rigorously constructed piece of the property. Surrounded by historic holm oaks, olive groves, unique cobblestone brick buildings and vineyards, you instantly really feel related to the land, its individuals and the abundance of pure assets.
The restaurant presents flawless Portuguese delicacies provided by the natural gardens and different native producers. Order freshly-made juices and salad by the pool for the last word afternoon snack. The spa gives a variety of remedies with natural merchandise by Susanne Kaufmann, and there's a wellness studio with group health courses. Consideration to element and constant care are current all through your expertise at Barrocal. This enchanting place will depart you feeling deeply related to the pure environment and depart an enduring impression in your coronary heart and soul.
Monsaraz – Maybe considered one of Portugal's most picturesque settings, this candy medieval village is only a 15-minute drive from São Lourenço do Barrocal. The outlets are charming and supply distinctive presents and crafts from native artisans. A few our favorites embrace Casa Tial (a gourmand grocer) and XarazArte (the right place to select up Portuguese ceramics).


The Fellowship of The Carpenter is about sharing your gifts in ministry. Those of us who have been given talents to create....whether it be in wood, cloth, paint, clay, metal, or anything that utilizes the gifts or beauty of nature...we are called to share those talents in this group of all ages, abilities and interests.
The Fellowship of The Carpenter is a virtual community. We are connected via the Internet where we can share ideas, creative images, and learn more from one another.
Members of the group will have the opportunity to support the Krislund ministry in a variety of ways through the use of their talents.
We will endeavor to communicate regularly and meet at least twice each year at Krislund where skilled artisans will share information, teach skills, and enable us to grow in faith and service.