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Saturday, March 1, 2014
Monday, March 3, 2014
»Craig Epplin, Isabel Jaén, Lina Quiroga and Robert Sanders, World Languages and Literatures faculty, presented a panel discussion titled "Culture, Heritage, and Spanish at PSU" at the 2014 Confederation in Oregon for Language Teaching Conference at Pacifi
»Emily Ford, Library faculty, presented "Open Peer Review: Directions and Challenges" at the inaugural Innovating Communication in Scholarship Project meeting, Publish or Perish?: The Future of Scholarly Publishing and Careers, at University of California,
»Kevin Kecskes, Public Administration faculty, presented the closing plenary session at the Middle East Partnership Initiative (MEPI) Student Leaders Alumni Professional Development Conference in Casablanca, Morocco, Feb. 21-25. Kecskes traveled on a U.S.
»Junghee Lee, Art + Design faculty, presented a paper, "Conservation and Management of World's Petroglyph Sites," in the workshop Strategies and Tasks for the Inscription of Bangudae and Cheonjeon-ri Petroglyphs on the UNESCO World Heritage List, hosted by
»Anne McClanan, Art + Design faculty, presented "Digital Humanities in Byzantine and Medieval Studies" at the University of California, Berkeley, Feb. 27.
»Cynthia Mohr, Psychology faculty, presented her research with PSU students Lindsey Alley, Cameron McCabe, and Sarah Arpin on "The Actor-Partner Interdependence Model in Intimate Partner Research: A Systematic Review" at the Society for Personality and Soc
»Barbara Tint, Conflict Resolution faculty, presented a plenary session on networking skills at the Middle East Partnership Initiative (MEPI) Student Leaders Alumni Professional Development Conference in Casablanca, Morocco, Feb. 21-25. Tint traveled on a
»Silvia Boero, World Languages and Literatures faculty, authored an article about the Irish and Italian diaspora, "The Long Walk to Hibernia: The Italian Immigration to Ireland Diasporas, Traveling Nations, and Traveling Communities in 'Chippers' by Nino T
»Anita Bright, Curriculum and Instruction faculty, authored "The Randomness," a creative prose piece, published in "Not So Far Afield: A Newsletter of the Maryknoll Affiliates," Vol. 2, No. 6, November/December 2013.
»Per Henningsgaard, English faculty, co-authored with two former students an article titled "A Pedagogical Tool for Studying the History of the Book: Thirty-five Years of Bibliographical Presses in Australia and New Zealand, 1977–2012," published in the cu
»Michihiro Kosuge, Art + Design emeritus faculty, has his sculptures on exhibit at the Laura Russo Gallery in Northwest Portland, March 6-29.
»Kendall Leon, English faculty, authored "Chicanas Making Change: Institutional Rhetoric and the Comisión Femenil Mexicana Nacional," published in Reflections: A Journal of Public Rhetoric, Civic Writing, and Service Learning, Vol. 13.1, fall 2013.
»G. Tucker Childs, Applied Linguistics faculty, authored the chapter "Problems for the Salvage Linguist: Picking Up the Pieces After Asymmetrical Contact" in the book In and Out of Africa. Languages in Question. In Honour of Robert Nicolaï, Vol. 2. Languag
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Friday, March 7, 2014
Monday, March 10, 2014
»Anita Bright, Curriculum and Instruction faculty, presented a paper she co-authored with doctoral student James Gambrell titled, "Critical Race Theory With Preservice Educators: Unpacking the Uncomfortable Complexity of Privilege," at the 26th Annual Ethn
»Ramin Farahmandpur, Educational Leadership and Policy faculty, presented "Surviving the Academy: The Experiences of Faculty of Color with Institutional Racism in Higher Education" at the 10th Annual Globalization, Diversity and Education Conference in Spo
»Kimberly Kahn, Psychology faculty, presented a poster on "Force and the Face: Examining Intragroup Bias in Police-Citizen Interactions" at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology Conference in Austin, Texas, Feb. 14.
»Susan Kirtley, English faculty, presented a workshop, "Consider the Alternative: Embracing Popular Culture in the Composition Classroom," at the Northwest Regional National Council of Teachers of English Conference in Portland, March 1-3.
»Suwako Watanabe, World Languages and Literatures faculty, was invited by Association of Teachers of Japanese in Oregon to give a lecture, "Chado — Japanese Tea Ceremony — as a Treasure House of Culture Learning," at the Confederation in Oregon for Languag
»Jennifer Allen, Fletcher Beaudoin, Elizabeth Lloyd-Pool and Jacob Sherman, Institute for Sustainable Solutions faculty, co-authored an article, "Pathways To Sustainability Careers: Building Capacity to Solve Complex Problems," published in Sustainability:
»Kimberly Atwill, World Languages and Literatures adjunct faculty, authored an article, "Beginning English Literacy Development and Achievement Among Spanish-Speaking Children in Arizona's English-Only Classrooms: A Four-Year, Two-Cohort Longitudinal Study
»Talya Bauer, Business Administration faculty, with Donald Truxillo and Todd Bodner, Psychology faculty, co-authored an article, "Socioeconomic Status: A Comparison with Traditional Affirmative Action," published in Employee Responsibilities and Rights Jou
»Heejun Chang, Geography faculty, authored a paper, "Spatial Analysis of Annual Runoff Ratios and their Variability Across the Contiguous U.S.," published in the Journal of Hydrology, January 2014.
»Tom Gillpatrick, Business Administration faculty, co-authored an article, "Values-Based Supply Chains: Supporting Regional Food and Farms," in the journal Economic Development Quarterly, February 2014.
»Mel Gurtov, Political Science emeritus faculty, authored "Rotten to the Core: Japan's Unending Crisis," published in the journal Global Asia, April 2014, and was interviewed by Beijing-based China Radio International about the China-Japan territorial disp
»Vivek Shandas, Urban Studies and Planning faculty, co-authored an article, "Valuing Green Infrastructure in Portland, Oregon," published in the journal Landscape and Urban Planning, April 2014.
»Alan Yeakley, Environmental Science and Management faculty, co-authored an article, "Review of Urban Water Body Challenges and Approaches: (1) Rehabilitation and Remediation," published in the journal Fisheries, January 2014.
Tuesday, March 11, 2014
»What do Oregon students from low-income families really pay for college? Surprising statistics give clues
Wednesday, March 12, 2014
»Alumni Notes: American Water Works Company Inc.: American Water Names Linda G. Sullivan Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
»Dr. Huguet receives the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention Young Investigator Award in 2014
Thursday, March 13, 2014
»The Oregonian: PSU professor wins surprise, $100,000 grant from Google's Eric Schmidt to help overcome online censorship
Friday, March 14, 2014
Tuesday, March 18, 2014
Wednesday, March 19, 2014
»Portland Tribune: Professor Mellie Pullman illustrates Portland's take on efficiency using the food industry
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Wednesday, March 26, 2014
»UPDATE: Finance Student Team finish their run in the semifinals of CFA Investment Research Challenge
Thursday, March 27, 2014
Friday, March 28, 2014
Monday, March 31, 2014
»Will Parnell, Curriculum and Instruction Early Childhood Education faculty, has been elected chair of the Critical Perspectives on Early Childhood Education Special Interest Group with the American Educational Research Association, a world-leading educati
»Gerry Sussman, Urban Studies and International Studies faculty, was interviewed by the Voice of Russia on March 26 about the political situation in Crimea.
»Karen Thomson, Contracting and Procurement Services, has been awarded Professional Manager of the Year, recognizing excellence in public procurement, by the local chapter of the National Institute of Governmental Purchasing. Thomson earned the award for h
»Portland State University geologist says we 'don't want to pay' for national system to monitor landslides
»Annabelle Dolidon and Stephanie Roulon, World Languages and Literatures faculty, presented "How to Improve Learning with Digital Credentials" at the Central Connecticut State University eighth annual Conference for Language Teachers, March 8.
»Jill Emery, Library faculty, presented "When a Collection is Not a Collection" at the Association of Subscription Agents & Intermediaries, London, United Kingdom, on Feb. 24.
»Andy Job, Educational Leadership and Policy faculty, presented "Effective Classroom Assessment Techniques for the Adult Learner" as an invited guest speaker at the National College of Natural Medicine's Center for Teaching and Learning 2014 Faculty Semina
»Jason Jurjevich, Population Research Center, and Meg Merrick, Institute of Portland Metropolitan Studies, presented a poster, "Visualizing Uncertainty: A User Study of Techniques for Geovisualizing Uncertainty in Survey Data for Urban Planning," at the 20
»Meg Merrick, Institute of Portland Metropolitan Studies, presented "Moving from Measurement to Action: A Reexamination of Greater Portland Pulse" at the 2014 Urban Affairs Association Conference in San Antonio, Texas, March 21.
»Eva Nunez, World Languages and Literatures faculty, was invited by the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at the University of Nevada, Reno to give a lecture on "The Most Asked Questions in the History of Spanish," March 12.
»Inger M. Olsen, World Languages and Literatures, participated in and presented a paper, "Denmark's Colonial Past Mirrored in 'Rejsen til Kærlighedens Ø' by Jette Kjærboe," at the Yale Conference on Baltic and Scandinavian Studies at Yale University in New
»Lee Ann Phillips, Social Work faculty, and doctoral student Jessica Schmidt, with Maylyn Kane, presented "Building Hope and the My Life Project: Supporting Youth in Special Education and Foster Care" at the 2014 Oregon Association of Vocational Special Ne
»Tracy J. Prince, Portland Center for Public Humanities, wrote an op-ed for The Oregonian, "Why Tillicum is the Right Name for TriMet's New Bridge," Feb. 27.
»Ken Ruoff, History faculty, delivered a lecture on "The Nanjing Massacre in History and Memory" at Oregon Episcopal School, March 7.
»Heejun Chang, Geography faculty, co-edited a monograph on integrated river basin management titled "Lessons from North and Central American UNESCO-HELP Basin (United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization-Hydrology for the Environment, L
»Alan Yeakley, Environmental Science and Management faculty, authored seven chapters in the book Wild Salmonids in the Urbanizing Pacific Northwest published by Springer in early 2014.
»The Oregonian: PSU Prof. Sam A. Oakland, 'political gadfly' and early Oregon bicycling advocate, dies at 80


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The above article from the United States includes a still from the film Secret of the Monastery, directed in Sweden by Victor Sjostrom In the United States Picture Play magazine during 1922 devoted two pages to the silent film of Sweden, thier including oval portraits of Astrid Holm and Gosta Ekman, as well as film stills from the films Dawn of Love, Thy Soul Shall Bear Witness and The Fortune Hunter. A second still from The Fortune Hunter featuring actress Mary Johnson was included on the second page. Greta Garbo Swedish Silent Film
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Danish actress Betty Nansen was quoted by Photoplay Magazine during 1915 in an article entitled The Vikingess about her staring in screen adaptations of Ibsen's work, "Hitherto film offers for most of the plays- "Peer Gynt" being a notable exception have been refused. 'I feel hopeful of inducing the Ibsen family to reconsider", said Madame Nansen, especially since I who have been so closely linked to these plays have gone into the movies."


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HYCAC, an official community coalition made up of members of Community Board 4, local electeds and community organizations, has written a letter to MTA CEO Lee Sander with its reaction to the five proposals.
The letter also brings up community concerns about the planning process at large, including the lack of infrastructure and affordable housing planning, the megablock configuration, the threatened High Line, and the extreme density allowed on the site. HYCAC also urges the MTA to make the financials of the bids public, which has not been a requirement of the process.
The letter is based on the December 10 public presentation and input session with the developers.
The letter is available for download as a PDF, and full text is after the jump. It's lengthy, but worth reading in its entirety, as it suggests plausible solutions to many of the problems addressed.
A summary of points in the letter:
- There is too much density for a successful environment.
- There is no public infrastructure and no commitment to build it.
- There is no plan for affordable housing.
- Allowing changes in the ERY zoning and WRY design guidelines will create a better plan.
- Make real New York City blocks.
- Big open space may not be best.
- The entire High Line can and must be preserved.
- Require a genuine commitment to sustainability.
- Strong labor provisions and opportunities for minority- and women-owned businesses must be provided.
- Put the school in a good location.
- Modify the cultural facility zoning on the ERY, since there is no committed not-for-profit user.
- Make good connections to Hudson River Park.
- The financial aspects of the proposals must be made public.
Elliot G. Sander
Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer
Metropolitan Transportation Authority
347 Madison Avenue
New York, New York 10017
Re: Proposals for Development at the West Side Yard
Dear Mr. Sander:
Thank you for allowing the five development teams that have made proposals for the West Side Yard to put their models on public display and encouraging each of the teams to openly discuss their urban design plans. This amount of public disclosure with little formal public process is an important contribution to open government and better planning.
The development teams responded with remarkable enthusiasm. The models enjoyed a four week run in the storefront at 43rd and Vanderbilt, which drew a large and steady stream of keenly interested viewers. The teams made detailed presentations of their plans to a sell-out crowd of over 1000 people in the Great Hall at Cooper Union on December 3. Two hundred people turned out on December 10 for a public forum sponsored by this Committee and Manhattan Community Board 4, which featured presentations by the development teams followed by working group discussions of the community's reactions to the proposals.
While many broad questions remain about the development process and how best to serve the various public interests at stake, this letter is focused on the planning and design aspects of the five proposals, and is based on what we heard from participants at the HYCAC/CB4 forum.
We are under no illusion that any of the plans will be built exactly as proposed, and look forward to continuing to work with the MTA, the City and the development teams toward a plan that addresses these comments and the community's priorities.
1. There is too much density for a successful environment.
Seeing all of the models makes us realize that the Requests for Proposals ("RFPs") called for too much density. The scale of the buildings is overwhelming. The base floor area ratios (FARs) of 11 on the Eastern Rail Yard ("ERY") and 10 on the Western Rail Yard ("WRY") seem reasonable until you realize that they are calculated across the entire sites, including open space and streets. Excluding open space and streets (as parks and streets are excluded elsewhere in the City), the effective density of these proposals is in the neighborhood of 25 FAR. That is, to our knowledge, an unprecedented density over such a large area anywhere in the City, and far exceeds what can be considered good planning for the future of the City or the local community. To develop successfully, this must be a place where people will want to live, work and visit. That is unlikely to happen in an environment dominated by monumental and intimidating buildings, no matter how much open space there is or how carefully it is designed.
2. There is no public infrastructure and no commitment to build it.
The Hudson Yards area's infrastructure is already strained and insufficient. It simply cannot support such overwhelming additional development without additional investment in public facilities. Although the Hudson Yards Environmental Impact Statement ("EIS") called for two additional power substations, a police station, a fire station, public schools, a library and day care facilities, no plans exist to construct any of this essential infrastructure . When the additional impacts of adding a substantial residential population on the WRY are considered, the infrastructure needs will be even greater than what was called for in the EIS.
In contrast to plans for the rail yards, transportation to another high-density area in the City, Times Square, is provided by more than 10 subway lines and the Port Authority Bus Terminal. Transportation to the high-density West Side Yard is to be provided by extending the already overcrowded # 7 subway line a single additional stop, and there still is no agreement on how to cover all the costs of that extension. This is insufficient.
Transportation and other infrastructure improvements represent a large yet hidden public cost of the project that must be provided for before development proceeds.
3. There is no plan for affordable housing.
We have consistently advocated that 30% of the residential development on this public site must be allocated to permanent affordable housing for low-, moderate- and middle-income families. This message was strongly reinforced by the community's comments in reviewing each of the proposals. Yet the RFPs only required that any rental housing be built using HFA's 80/20 program. Condominium or cooperative units are exempt from any affordable housing requirement, and none of the rental units are required to be permanently affordable. As a result, the proposals range from 300 to 600 units for low-income families (out of 2,617 to 6,500 total residential units), and it is unclear how many of those will be permanently affordable. This result is simply not acceptable.
Public land is one of the few places where government can require that development address the housing needs of a broad range of New Yorkers, and this is the largest publicly owned development site left in Manhattan. Moreover, this new neighborhood will not be a healthy neighborhood unless it includes the broadly diverse population that is this City's hallmark. The State and the City must get together and figure out how to solve this problem.
While the MTA has a corporate responsibility to maximize the value it gets for the property, it is also a public entity; it is appropriate that the MTA's drive for financial gain be tempered by standards of public responsibility that might not apply to a private owner.
Possible solutions include:
• A mortgage subsidy program, as was used in the Mitchell Lama program
• Battery Park City Authority excess revenues and unused bonding capacity
• Union-supported financing
• Pension fund financing
• The City's New HOP program
• Limited-equity coops
Whatever the method, the bottom line is that the State and the City must ensure that development of the West Side Yard creates permanent affordable housing opportunities far greater than the unacceptably small amount currently contemplated in the proposals.
4. Allowing changes in the ERY zoning and WRY design guidelines will create a better plan.
We have said, from the beginning of the process, that the plan for the ERY should have been updated to reflect the new conditions on the WRY. Furthermore, all of the development teams have commented to us informally that they find the RFPs' design requirements unduly confining, and several have submitted plans that do not conform to all of the design requirements. The non-conforming plans feature some good ideas that should not be rejected simply because they are non-conforming.
The MTA and the City have already agreed to seek a zoning text change to change the ERY parking requirements. We support that text change, and would welcome the inclusion in that process of additional text changes to extend the street grid into the site and allow buildings along the east side of Eleventh Avenue all the way to 30th Street. Other changes in the WRY design guidelines should also be considered. For example, many believe that buildings should be allowed along the west side of Eleventh Avenue and/or that the open space should be arranged differently. As the MTA engages in discussion with the development teams, each of them should be given the opportunity to produce the best plan structurally possible, not simply that plan that conforms to the design judgments underlying the zoning and the design guidelines.
5. Make real New York City blocks.
All of the plans seem, to varying degrees, like private enclaves in the City, disconnected from the surroundings and out of step with the feel of Manhattan. Development on the West Side Yard should be an extension of the City surrounding it, not an isolated anomaly. It must be integrated with the City and community around it, welcoming pedestrians in and through the development from all directions. To accomplish this:
• Reintroduce the street grid and break down the superblocks, with particular attention to the Tenth Avenue frontage;
• Allow buildings along both sides of 11th Avenue;
• Create individual development parcels with street frontages;
• Provide multiple access points from the perimeter to the central open spaces, each of them open to the sky, aligned with the surrounding streets, and usable by the disabled;
• Require a variety of ground floor uses and users, particularly on the open spaces, so that no individual use or user dominates;
• Activate the wall that will be created along 12th Avenue between street level and the level of the WRY platform above.
6. Big open space may not be best.
The variety of open space proposals invited lively discussions about what makes for good public open space. Although we want open space to be maximized, after seeing the models we have concerns about assuring the usability of large open space. This space will have to be articulated, subdivided and programmed to be successful, and not overwhelmed by the surrounding buildings. It may well make sense to leave the options for planning open for now, but it should be acknowledged that planning must take place at some point.
Before we saw the proposals, we thought the east-west open space corridor made sense, but the conforming plans raise a concern that they might produce a wind tunnel effect.
The smaller yet more distinctive commercial plaza, residential park and 30th Street Promenade in the Brookfield plan help create a greater sense of inviting public space in the heart of a varied city. Separate, distinctive open space has the added advantage of being constructible in phases and not dependent on completion of the entire plan for the public amenity to be realized.
Some HYCAC members feel that multiple open spaces with distinct programming will be better than one large space without a clear purpose.
The ERY should include a plaza, which should not be dominated by any individual private tenant or user. The WRY should include a clearly separate, pastoral residential park that is programmed to be inviting to users beyond the residents of the surrounding buildings, and that will enjoy as much sunshine as possible. We appreciate the idea of a 30th Street promenade, as shown in the Brookfield plan. It would provide a softer portal to Chelsea to the south, celebrate the High Line, and convert 30th Street into a broad boulevard to the Hudson River. It would require activity at the street level – at the base of the rail yards buildings and under portions of the High Line – but could be a uniquely urban and inviting front porch to residential development along both sides of 30th Street.
All open spaces should be free of obstructions (except for the High Line), and should not segregate any group of users from the others.
7. The entire High Line can and must be preserved.
The Brookfield, Extell and Related proposals, which preserve the entire historic High Line structure on the site, including the spur over Tenth Avenue, demonstrate that full preservation is both feasible and preferred. Given this response, the MTA should make full preservation of the High Line, including the spur, a requirement of any development of the rail yards. Anything less than full preservation is unacceptable.
More specifically, the proposals demonstrate the following principles, which should be adopted for future development of the High Line on the rail yards site, many of which are consistent with how the High Line is treated south of 30th Street:
• the High Line should have a consistent identity along its entire length, incorporating the basic design treatment from the southern sections, so that the entire High Line is experienced as a consistent park environment;
• the High Line structure should be distinct from adjacent structures;
• the 30th Street view corridor should be open and unobstructed by buildings along its entire length;
• connections to the High Line should be made at multiple but discrete points, both from grade and to the platform over the rail yards.
In addition, the continuation of the High Line on the 33-34 Street block should be anticipated, so that the High Line can be fully preserved all the way to its current terminus at grade at 34th Street.
8. Require a genuine commitment to sustainability.
We are pleased that three of the development teams (Brookfield, Durst/Vornado and Tishman Speyer) have indicated that all of their buildings would attain LEED Gold certification and three (Brookfield, Durst/Vornado and Related) would seek LEED certification for Neighborhood Development. This confirms that a high level of sustainability is financially feasible, and should be required of all developers.
9. Strong labor provisions and opportunities for minority- and women-owned businesses must be provided.
The discussion at our public forum has reinforced our long-held belief that all construction and ongoing employment opportunities on the rail yards should be subject to strong labor provisions (including requirements for living or prevailing wages, standard benefits, and apprenticeship training programs) and should maximize opportunities for minority- and women-owned businesses.
10. Put the school in a good location.
Several of the proposals site the WRY school along 30th Street, in the midst of the greatest concentration of residential buildings on the rail yards, and closer to 11th Avenue to be accessible to area residents. This seems the most logical location. Playground space must be included.
11. Modify the cultural facility zoning on the ERY, since there is no committed not-for-profit user.
The City has sought to establish a major new cultural facility on the ERY since the Hudson Yards rezoning first began to take took shape in 2002. In all that time, no user has been identified, and no concrete plan has been proposed. The development teams were invited, but not required, to provide their own ideas. None of them has come up with a committed user for the ERY space. In addition, several of the proposals strike us as primarily commercial uses, such as trade show/convention center uses, rather than the not-for-profit cultural facility uses required by the ERY zoning. (The teams were encouraged in this direction by the City's Cultural Facility Study, which identified the concept of a "Pavilion in the Park.")
No separate cultural facility for a not-for-profit user should be built on the ERY without the normal process of identifying a qualified and capable user and then designing a building for that user's needs. Providing a notable piece of architecture at this site on the ERY is desirable, but it should not take precedence over planning for a real user.
The ERY zoning should be changed to allow other development, preferably residential, at the southwest corner of the ERY. This would strengthen the residential character of 30th Street, provide additional opportunities for affordable housing, and absorb some of the site's problematic density.
We support the desire to enliven the rail yards with cultural activity, but believe that can best be accomplished by providing substantial space throughout the development for smaller cultural uses, especially non-profit theatrical and arts companies and artistic support services.
12. Make good connections to Hudson River Park.
The five proposals present a variety of locations and ideas for the pedestrian bridge to Hudson River Park. There are advantages to each of the proposed locations. Its eventual location should be closely coordinated with the Hudson River Park Trust to maximize its accessibility and minimize its incursion into the park. The design of the bridge should be dimensionally inspired by the adjacent High Line – broad enough to not quite feel like a bridge, but not an overpowering structure. It should remain open to the sky, and function as an extension of the Hudson River Park and the open space on the WRY, rather than a passageway between the two.
The corner of 30th Street and 12th Avenue is also critical for pedestrian access between the WRY and Hudson River Park, as well as bringing activity to the desolate edge of 12th Avenue. This design challenge is already nicely reflected in the WRY Design Guidelines and in several of the proposals.
13. The financial aspects of the proposals must be made public.
It is impossible to thoroughly assess the proposals without knowing what the revenues to the MTA will be, over what period of time, or what conditions and assumptions may be attached to the proposals. This information must be made public before the selection process proceeds, so that the public can be assured that this vast public asset is being disposed of on the best terms possible.
At the public hearing held by the Assembly Committee on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions on January 3, 2008, arguments were made by some members of the HYCAC and other opinion leaders in New York for substantially changing the process for developing the West Side Yard. The comments in this letter are all made in the limited context of the current RFP process.
Thank you for this opportunity to comment. We look forward to further discussion as the plans develop and the selection process continues.
[signed by]
Anna Hayes Levin
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Once Upon a Time in… Hollywood
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Details:Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon a Time in… Hollywood visits 1969 Los Angeles, where everything is changing, as TV star Rick Dalton (Leonardo DiCaprio) and his longtime stunt double Cliff Booth (Brad Pitt) make their way around an industry they hardly recognize anymore. The ninth film from the writer-director features a large ensemble cast and multiple storylines in a tribute to the final moments of Hollywood's golden age.
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Wednesday, August 27, 2008
57 comments:
- Mark said...
I agree to a dgree. But the Olympics did have better purpose at one time. It was supposed to foster peace within countries while pushing man's physical abilities.
Don't ask me though.......I skipped gym class most of the time.
- August 30, 2008 at 12:24 AM
- Mary Monks Hatch said...
There is much to be cynical about in the Olympics - the cheaters, the counters of which country got how many medals, which country had the better staging - but it's difficult not to appreciate individual effort, the years of training by athletes, the joy of little countries whose representatives bring home a single gold, or a silver and two bronzes. And, on this occasion, it was a joyful experience to see China and its people come out and join the world with pride in their nation. Let us not begrudge them their happiness in their great achievement by petty griping about a year or two on the ages of their wonderful young gymnasts or the fact that two children instead of one got to feel pride in singing and lip-synching the singing in their opening ceremonies. Well done China.
Mary Monks from a proud one silver and two bronzes Ireland.
- August 30, 2008 at 7:07 PM
- M said...
Hopefully someday we'll live in a world that can appreciate prepubescent athletes and drug screen evasion.
- August 30, 2008 at 7:42 PM
- Lollie-ext-5555 said...
"but it's difficult not to appreciate individual effort, the years of training by athletes..."
It's not that difficult for me. Have you seen Mark Spitz? I don't think it's healthy to be so utterly obsessed with a medal that you give up any semblance of a normal life to have it. To save lives, to save jobs, to save children from some horror, but for a medal? Not so much.
- August 30, 2008 at 8:01 PM
- Unknown said...
it's all worth it if michael phelps' picture graces my next box of massengill.
- August 31, 2008 at 10:45 AM
- Anonymous said...
china really went all out with their marketing ploys, what with pulling a milli vanilli with the chinese kid "singing" at the opening ceremonies. not to mention expelling nearly all migrant workers and pulling a million cars off the road from beijing until the festivities were over, but they're not the only ones...
as a PR student, the olympics this year - as well as others i've seen - have been a horrible game of playing devil's advocate. truthfully, i think china's human rights violations and censorship are bigger issues than back-stories and transcendental visa and coke ads...the marketing is brilliant, but irrelevant.
so, am i the only person that's still following the conflict turned power-struggle in georgia (the democratic republic of) that's been going on for nearly a month?
...was anybody following it to begin with?
don't be "nicer" bill...think of the olympics like christmas: commercialization is the dominant value, now.
- August 31, 2008 at 5:44 PM
- M.Melamed said...
I think the Olympics are a bunch of nationalistic, flag-waving bullshit.
I do pull for a lot of the people from America though. All this country cares about are football, basketball and baseball. So if you're a fencer or something like that, no one really gives a damn about your sport. I can respect those guys. Bruce Jenner won the decathlon and all he got out out it was a gig on Chips as the guy in the squad car.
Are we really trying to lobby the IOC to get World series of Poker added as an Olympic event?
- September 1, 2008 at 2:25 PM
- BobsBull said...
Modern Sports are the Opiate of the Masses
- September 2, 2008 at 1:13 PM
- shannon2183 said...
The idea of the Olympics...whatever, it's fine. It's not my thing, but more power to the athletes. However I am somewhat irritated in how winning athletes are viewed. Such as Michael Phelps being coined by the media as an American Hero. And again as I was flipping channels last evening and came across the MTV video music awards and saw Michael Phelps come on as a presenter and the guy presenting him said something like "now here's a true american hero"...which to me, especially at a time of war where individuals are actually being killed or hurt serving in our country's military, seemed crazy. And now, quite frankly, I don't even like the Phelps kid, and it's not even his fault...if that makes any sense!?
- September 8, 2008 at 11:39 AM
- joy1111 said...
The Olympics have changed over the years. They should be held in Athens every year instead of different countries having to spend billions of dollars just to be able to hold them. This is done when various cities/countries don't have money for health care, the homeless, etc. but walla - they seem to come up with the $s to erect buildings, build roads, etc. etc. to hold a 2 week event. At least if they were held in one place, unnecessary money wouldn't need to be wasted.
- September 8, 2008 at 11:22 PM
- Unknown said...
Jack Cafferty: If Obama loses, it's because of racism
posted at 1:10 pm on September 17, 2008 by Allahpundit
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Technically he's asking, not asserting, but it's no more an earnest question than the chyrons on Cavuto's show are. Could it be that McCain is a strong candidate and The One simply hasn't run a very good general election campaign, as many Dems admit? Nah. The flaw in that theory is that it would legitimize a McCain victory, and we simply can't have that: It's an article of leftist faith that not only has no Republican been legitimately elected since Bush I in 1988, no Republican could possibly be legitimately elected after eight years of Bush II. If Maverick pulls it out, there'll simply have to be an alternative, discrediting explanation. And so here it is, preemptively, just in case there are no Diebold snafus on Election Day to demagogue. Expect much more next month, needless to say, as well as the odd veiled threat or two if McCain holds tight in the polls and the Democrats start to panic. Biden's and Sebelius's comments are just the start.
Update: Forgot to mention — stick with it until the end or you'll miss the viewer hypothetical about how The One, supposedly doomed by racism, might be faring right now with Hillary as his VP.
- September 23, 2008 at 7:13 PM
- vivaamerica said...
Bill- How about a film knocking Islam or are you too afriad? As someone who clings to religion and my guns, you can take your stupid movie and trash it. You couldn't pay me to see this garbage who produced. I just love those anti-religious leftists who mock Christianity, but never have the onions to knock Islam. Show some courage Bill or are you a bimbo?
Speaking of bimbos, Nancy Pelosi did a great job, didn't she? She is so stupid that she engages in partisan attacks before a crucial vote. She really put country before politics. We are in this mess due to another failed liberal policy, giving loans to people who cannot afford them. Bill, when was the last time you loaned money to someone who could not pay you back?And when there were attempts to reform Fannie, who opposed it Bill? Frank and Dodd, but never let the facts get in the way of your critical thinking.
To Bill and all of his followers- you are all pathetic losers. I'll debate Maher anywhere and anytime. How about it Bill? Do you got the onions to debate a schmuck who clings to religion and guns? I didn't think so.
- September 30, 2008 at 9:32 AM
- Unknown said...
OMG, you don't watch Bill Maher much if you don't know that he does 'knock' ANY religion. Not all of us believe in fairy tales!
I wonder if you have the onions to get rid of your guns.
There's no point in debating. You don't need Bill Maher to make you look like a...... "schmuck".
- September 30, 2008 at 10:16 AM
- awful truth said...
After 8 years of watching The Bushies fumble, stumble and bumble from problem to crisis to disater, how can anyone vote for more of the same? Obama's slogan should be, "I Can't Do Any Worse".
- October 7, 2008 at 9:35 AM
- martha said...
Thank you for your brilliant look at America and the world. You "get it". I am writing in Bill Maher for president. "Religulous" is ... no words to describe. It was the laugh I needed after just having my home broken into. But, it's sad to think that so many people believe all this religious crap.
- October 8, 2008 at 5:51 PM
- Unknown said...
After what Bush has done to the U.S., I can't believe any American would think of rewarding the Republicans by voting in McCain. I couldn't believe he was voted in a 2nd time in 2004 and now it would be impossible to believe. Fear is a powerful thing and McCain is sure pushing it down the Americans throat! Sad, but hope they're smarter than to fall for it this time.
- October 9, 2008 at 5:55 PM
- Unknown said...
And does anyone actually believe McCain was thinking of 'Country First' when he chose Sarah Palin as VP running mate? Puleeeease!
- October 9, 2008 at 6:17 PM
- Tamara said...
They could probably cure cancer with the amount they spend on the Olympics. I also think that it would be nice if they would once in a while pay tribute to the Israeli Athletes who lost their lives in Munich. I'm just not interested in watching the Olympics anymore. A complete waste.
- October 19, 2008 at 12:54 PM
- NOT4Obama said...
On your show tonight, November 7, 2008. You, Bill Maher, said that we should not question Obama's Patriotism. Well, I think you are completely wrong. American's should have every right to question the Patriotism of Mr. Obama. This man has just been elected into the White House, and he has NO Executive experience, and only 4 years experience as a Senator. It is FACT, that Senator McCain was a POW longer than this man has been in politics. Now that is what I call Patroitism and Dedication to ones Country.
I do not like the fact that Mr. Obama hid too much information. Why would he not release his medical records? Oh, I'm sorry, he did release a one page document. I think more details should be released about the connection with Bill Ayers and ACORN.
Change? How funny, will there be much change with a Bill Clinton flucky, Mr. Emanuel, as Cheif of Staff? Gee, this sounds like same old politics to me. I'm not looking forward to January 09!
- November 7, 2008 at 11:25 PM
- bud said...
your guests on march 22 2009 r talking out their butts and u allow it why i want to know
- March 22, 2009 at 1:25 PM
- bud said...
your guests were talking out their butts and u didnt say anything why
- March 22, 2009 at 1:29 PM
- Leigh Carol said...
Your recent speaking engagement with Ann Coulter perpetuates the same hypocrisy and greed that you claim to abhor. Here's where you are just like Hannity and O'Reilly and Ann etc: your relationships exist for profit. And profit seems to trump the principles you claim to have. You hate the person -- but you don't mind making a buck off the public. Moreover, the arguments you present, have an underlying agreement not to seriously offend. It's not substance, it's about the show and the business. Further, you take more money that you don't need. And that's fine. Except when take a platform of attacking the same people doing the same thing.
That you would go "on tour" with Coulter is very disappointing. If you want to make a point, do it for free. UNLESS, it's ONLY ABOUT THE MONEY!
- March 26, 2009 at 11:41 AM
- paul Burtnett said...
Our ancestors learned from research and experimenting that if you put all the horses on the same end of the wagon and have them all pull in the same direction they can move a much larger load faster, easier and the horses do not get near as tired. After a while the horses learn to go to the same end of the wagon by themselves. Now our Congress has a problem or legislation and they surround it,all pull in different directions get so tired they can only work four days a week and need to take several months a year off just to rest up. My concern is are horses smarter than our Congressmen?
Paul Burtnett
121 Regalwood Dr
Manchester Tn. 37355
- March 28, 2009 at 3:08 PM
- Hal2001 said...
Mr. Maher,
If you had any intelligence at all you would,t just bash one political party. I just wish someone had some dame balls and start telling people the truth about what so called, "politicians" are really doing to the USA. This is not a red nor blue thing. Wake the fuck up mister your not funny, your just feeding the sheep.
Shelley Jones
- March 29, 2009 at 3:22 PM
- Holistic Party said...
The End of Humour
Holistic Party Press, Wolfville, Nova Scotia.. 2010
The beginning of one of the most startling and sudden changes in the evolution of homo sapiens sapiens took place in just 4 years.
It began in February, 2006 with the world wide demonstrations, riots, and attacks by the fundamentalist Muslims in Iran and Syria eventually spreading throughout the world. A Danish newspaper published cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed wearing a bomb for a hat and declaring that there were no more virgins for suicide bombers when they arrived in heaven.
The demonstrators were very successful: The President of Denmark apologized as did leaders of all countries where the cartoons were duplicated. No cartoons or jokes were made again about the Muslim religion.
In June, over 100,000 senior citizens, many in wheel chairs from nursing homes throughout the country, drove (or were bussed) to a rowdy demonstration in Wolfville Nova Scotia. The Grapevine had printed the following story:
A little old lady was running up and down the halls in a nursing home.
As she walked, she would flip up the hem of her nightgown and say
"Supersex." She walked up to an elderly man in a wheelchair. Flipping
her gown at him, she said, "Supersex." He sat silently for a moment or
two and finally answered, "I'll take the soup."
The demonstrations against jokes belittling seniors soon spread world wide and the insensitive belittling and crass humour about the elderly came to an end.
In July, over 2 million protesters brought the city of London England to a standstill as Roman Catholics and British Royalists combined to stage one of the wildest protests the world had ever witnessed. They burned down all the printing presses and newspaper buildings in the city as they were enraged by the following which had been printed in all London's papers:
The Pope and the Queen of England are on the same stage at an Anglican and Catholic commemoration of the Anglo-Irish accords - the crowd is huge - thousands. Her Majesty and His Holiness can't help but have a little rivalry - both being heads of churches and all.
The Queen says to the Pope, "Did you know that with just one little wave of my hand I can make every English person in the crowd go wild?" He doubts it, so she shows him. Sure enough, the royal-gloved wave elicits rapture and cheering from every Englishman in the crowd.
Gradually, the cheering subsides. The Pope, not wanting to be outdone by someone wearing a worse frock and hat than he, considers what he could do. So the Pope says to the Queen,"Your Majesty, that was impressive. But did you know that with one little wave of MY hand I can make every Irish person in the crowd go crazy with joy? Their joy will not be a momentary display like that of your subjects, but will go deep into their hearts, and they will speak forever of this day and rejoice - they will recount it to their grandchildren and they to their descendants.
The Queen seriously doubts this, and says so. "One little wave of your hand and all Irish people will rejoice forever? Show me." So the Pope slapped her.
Jokes about the Irish Catholics and Royalty both ended.
At the end of July, the city of London, Ontario was faced with a near riot on a Sunday morning as the many protestant churchgoers stormed out of their churches and smashed the bars and nightclubs which had grown up around Western University - a student paper had published the following insult:
Q: How can you tell if a WASP is sexually excited?
A: The stiff upper lip.
No more jokes against protestants because of the demonstrations.
In August, in Poland over a million people stormed the United Nations building in Warsaw in protest against the rest of the world making fun of the Polish People. They were particularly inflamed because in an article in a United Nations Bulletin, the following anecdote was included:
These two Polish guys rent a boat and go fishing in a lake. They are
amazed at the number of fish that they caught that day, so one says to
the other, "We'll have to come back here tomorrow!"
The other asks, "But how will we remember where this spot is?"
The first guy then takes a can of spray paint, paints an X on
the bottom of the boat, and says, "We'll just look for this X
The other guy says, "You idiot! How do you know we'll get the
same boat?"
In St. Johns Newfoundland, tens of thousands of Newfoundlanders stormed the Government of Canada buildings in protest against all Newfie jokes which were spread throughout Canada - such as the following.
A Torontonian, a Nova Scotian, and an old Newfie went into a bar and each ordered a beer. Each found a fly in their beer.
The Torontonian looked in his beer and said, "Hey bartender I have a fly in my beer. Give me another beer."
The Nova Scotian looked in his beer, found the fly, reached in and picked it out and continued drinking.
The old Newfie looked in his beer, saw the fly, grabbed it by the wings, shook it over the glass and yelled, "Spit it out!"
Over the next year there were protests against such insensitive and insulting cartoons and stories in Israel, in Russia, and in America, the world's super power there were two super protests - one in September by the homosexual community and one in October by the blacks who violently protested the following insult which was told at a Olympic track meet and picked up by a hidden microphone and inadvertantly carried on Nationwide TV:
Q. Why are black people so fast?
A. All the slow ones are in jail.
Political leaders scrambled to end the violence and hatred such jokes and demonstrations provoked. Legislation was passed in various countries prohibiting such insensitive and insulting cartoons and stories. Eventually the United Nations included such activity as an act of Genocide.
Books became outlawed and thousands of writers were put on a prohibited list. Voltaire, Swift, Mark Twain, etc.etc.etc. etc.
Soon all activities provoking laughter became a crime.
Parents were investigated by the Childrens Aid Society for laughing at the courageous awkwardness of their children as they started to learn to walk. People were arrested for laughing at hats which for some prejudicial reason made them laugh. At a restaurant in Paris, a patron was arrested for laughing because she accidently squirted ketchup on her boyfriend instead of on her french fries. A teacher was charged with insulting a student because she smiled when the student nervously stumbled over the wording a poem he was reciting.
The Spanish Inquisition and the New England trials of witches paled in comparision to the punishment inflicted on comedians and humourists.
The medical profession believed that such crimes could be prevented by finding the DNA gene for humour and genetically modifying human DNA codes. The plastic surgeons developed procedures where the lips and cheeks could be corrected so smiling became impossible.
There is now research going on to discover surgical procedures on the lungs and throat to prevent laughter.
As drugs were legalized worldwide in 2008, the courts, police, and penitentiary personnel were not faced with unemployment, in fact they were busier than ever protecting society from the crime of humour.
The words humour, jokes, and cartoons are no longer heard in politically correct and polite society - just as the words fuck, shit and piss used to be rarely spoken.
Our species, homo sapiens,sapiens continues its march forward to a global civilization.And that is not a joke!
The Holistic Party is preparing another platform:
Platform #13 - LLSS - Liberate Laughter - Save Smiling
All jokes, humour, laughter or smiling will be legalized and all references to them will be removed from the criminal code.
- March 30, 2009 at 8:48 AM
- Dave C. said...
Good Day,
My wife and I do enjoy Bill Maher's program. We have followed him since Comedy Central. We felt bad he got kicked off ABC. We get HBO JUST for his show. However, we wish he would stop saying bad things against organized religion. We are Lutherans in a mainline church who do food banks, help the needy and of course worship God. Our clergy attend accredited divinity schools and study all world religions. We agree to disagree in many areas of faith. We try to be ecumenical or dialogue with other belief systems for the sake of the greater community. Just because Bill had a bad experience in his Catholic church upbringing, it does not mean all of us had bad church experiences. We are roughly in our mid 50s of age. We do not think there is any "perfect" church [or TV show!]. For Bill to tear down all organized religion based on his own personal experiences places him in the same arena as the right wing biggots he often critiques.
Dave C.
- April 6, 2009 at 10:25 AM
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- April 10, 2009 at 10:10 AM
- Baldesac said...
Dear Bill Mahr, I really don't know how to say all this but will do my best.
There is something going on this country that is so wrong it is horrible. It is a tactic used by many corporations called psychological harassment. To me this stuff is a horror story! I can't believe what it does to people. To find out more go to psychologicalharassment.com.
For the past several years on my job I have been having this done to me. It is nearly impossible to prove and plays with peoples minds and emotions to the point it can cause mental illness, paranoia and explosive outburst to the point of being deadly. It plays with peoples sanity and for some it can cause mental break downs and financial loss...ruining peoples lives.
Now here is the big whopper!
Last year I was so frustrated with these tactics being used on me that I checked in to the local hospital for outpatient treatment in order to get a break from it and to get my head together. I told the hospital what kinds of things that work was doing and a psychologist said, "Well you have the same psychological profile of Joseph Wesbecker."
Joseph Wesbecker shot eighteen people at Standard Graveir several years ago...and no one knew why. No fault was found with the company.
I am a peaceful person who doesn't own a gun other than a crossman BB pistol. I am not a hunter either. What mad these doctors say that was what I told them the company was doing to me.
The way psyc-harassment works is un believably clever.
Goto psychologicalharassment.com
this stuff is legal too!
I handle what's being done to me by educating myself on the subject and when they get to me too much I go on disability and get away from my work and regroup then go back. But I am aware of the tactics...here is the kicker.
Someone who is unaware of the tactics is at full mercy to the effects.
This stuff can cause mental breaks and it is used to push people out of their jobs. It functions somewhat like politics which brings me to this point....
Seems there are more people than ever in this country suffering from mental issues.
And The knews seems to be showing more every day about people losing their minds and going on shooting sprees either at their work place or in public then killing themselves at a work place they were terminated from.
The way psych-harassment works is perfect in everyway.
It is hard to prove because it blends in with every day human behavior and is utilized through veiled threats by keeping it legal but it is so deceptive and clever that the individual feels threatened but can't prove it for the attacker chocks it up to something innocent and the problem must be the other persons.
The more the victim does to protect himself the worse he looks and his attacker will lie at every turn.
Check out the sight I gave you. IF laws can't be made then maybe you can round up some experts and make it a topic on your show to raise awareness because I am tired of turning on the news and seeing how someone has lost it and shot a bunch of people after being terminated from their jobs. The American People need your help on this issue! People have got to learn more about it.
There was a case a few months ago where a guy went on a shooting spree through a town then returned to his last place of work and blew his brains out. Why go there to blow his brains out? Why....
Maybe it had something to do with psych-harassment tactics.
Get some experts and do a show on this one please.
- April 10, 2009 at 11:08 AM
- Unknown said...
I don't think Bill Maher tears down religion but he makes fun of it. Seems like it's the only thing people can't make fun of. Why? I personally, think it's quite funny and I also think some religions do very good work helping people etc. Many of my close friends are religious; they have faith and do good things, but hey so do Agnostics and Athiests, but many religious people think if you're NOT in an organized religion, you must not be a good person. Surprise - Agnostics & Ahtiests also have morals, help other people, are good people, but their behavious comes from a different place. Religions do like to tell people they KNOW all the answers - they do it all the time. They don't, and neither do Agnostics or Athiests - that's what Bill is saying.
- April 10, 2009 at 11:14 AM
- Unknown said...
paragon bill.
by the way... can anyone give me a link to the actual tenets of the Magna Carta
- April 10, 2009 at 11:53 PM
- Knollsgerbils said...
Last night's program, with the Ron Howard and Gore Vidal interviews, was one of your best EVER! I wish you'd change the format to this.
- April 11, 2009 at 7:44 AM
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- April 13, 2009 at 2:52 PM
- cliffj said...
I want a front bumper sticker that reads ..."george bush was no better (or worse) than all the other republican presidents ... just tooooo stupid to hide it."
On the back I want " Help cure republicanism ...(we tried to help with brain transplants but none had a trade-in)" !!!
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- April 24, 2009 at 8:05 AM
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- April 24, 2009 at 8:06 AM
- Unknown said...
Bill, if you really don't understand how people can be so easily swayed by religion and especially some of its unbelievable stories, look at how easily and persistently we cling to the newest religion of man-caused global warming. You are too intelligent to continue to ignore the ever-increasing evidence exposing this political brainwashing...my suggestion is to start (but don't end) here: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=288952680655100870
- April 24, 2009 at 10:31 PM
- Tom_S said...
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- April 24, 2009 at 10:48 PM
- Joy Luke said...
My husband and I are faithful viewers of all your shows. We look forward to your political debates during each show.
However, we felt your comments regarding Susan Boyle on Friday was "low rent" and a "cheap shot" for someone of your intelligence. She seems like a very nice person and god knows we need more human beings like her in our world.
Jim & Joy
- April 25, 2009 at 1:55 PM
- Dean Jackson said...
In 1997 NORAD said they insure, "Aircraft flying over our air space are monitored seven days a week, 24 hours a day."
In 2004 the Air Force contradictorily said, "Before 2001, 1st Air Force was charged with keeping an eye on the nation's borders, usually looking for threats in the form of Russian aircraft skirting too close for comfort to the mainland. In those few hours, the command's mission went from looking outward to looking inward."
See the 5 articles on NORAD at www.DNotice.org
- August 13, 2009 at 1:55 AM
- electronic cigarettes said...
The Olympics have changed over the years. They should be held in Athens every year instead of different countries having to spend billions of dollars just to be able to hold them. This is done when various cities/countries don't have money for health care, the homeless, etc. but walla - they seem to come up with the $s to erect buildings, build roads, etc. etc. to hold a 2 week event. At least if they were held in one place, unnecessary money wouldn't need to be wasted.
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As a beginner and weekend beekeeper I can hardly resist opening up my (for now only) hive every week. I plan on doing at least one split and catching a few swarms next spring and was considering getting an observation hive. The ones I've seen sold here in Portugal are not particularly interesting so I was thinking of building my own. Here's the plan I've come up with so far:
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I've used Google sketchup to get a rough model of what I'm considering:
Here's what I'm still debating:
- The correct inner spacing glass-to-glass. I've check Michael Bush's website on this and is 1 3/4'' (roughly 45mm) the correct measure or is that something else?
- The space should I leave around frames so that they won't propolize small openings or build burr comb in large ones.
- Figuring out how to make the plexiglass easy to remove/clean. Gluing the plexiglass on all sides to metal L frame and then using some pins to hold the frame in seems like a good idea[1]
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- How to deal with ventilation/opening. Would a large hive-size opening at the bottom be enough for ventilation or would a top entrance definitely be best?
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Last week, we praised Being Human for becoming the supernatural soap we deserved. This week, things got a lot more soapy than supernatural — but the show made up for it with wicked trickery, sad goodbyes and spiritual exercising.
There was a lot that we liked last night on Being Human. So let's go ahead and get the bad out of the way right now.
Nora is pregnant? Oh dear. This is a problem. So let's get this straight: Josh is a werewolf orderly who always wanted to be a doctor (he got into MIT) but is now spending his days taunting himself working as the clean-up guy on what could have been his dream job. He was engaged. His parents basically split after he disappeared to protect his family. His family was broken anyways and always over analyzing him. He has a sister who may or may not have a serious drinking problem and major abandonment issues after her brother's disappearance split her parents. He's afraid to lose control sexually because of his severe lycanthrope-induced anger issues (remember the street tagger he beat the piss out of?) He's awkward. His last crush died in his arms, after she was murdered by a vampire. And he's shy guy with a huge heart. Doesn't Josh have enough on his plate? This character is by far the most developed of the monster roommates, so why not flesh the character issues and background details we've been discovering over time? Do we have to tack on yet another problem? Can't he just deal with what is already in front of him?
The surprise "I'm pregnant and it's YOUR baby plot" is entirely too soap operatic, and just too much. Yes, people do get pregnant, and yes, there have been a whole host of dramas that have excellent pregnancy stories, both regular and supernatural. But this baby felt like just more stuff for Josh to deal with.
Not once did we get the impression that this was a life-changing responsibility that could forever alter this character in a major way. Same for Nora. Sure she said all the right words, but it felt hollow. She's still a bit of a stranger, even though it felt like we were making progress with her last week. This was too big of a bomb to drop on such a distant character.
Sadly, the baby announcement felt much more like "Uh oh, who gave Aidan garlic again!" This is not what adding a baby to a storyline should do. I'm very surprised the show took this twist, after the whole Bernie storyline (something that was executed rather flawlessly).
On a plus note, the baby did give us this excellent dream sequence with a fake baby werewolf (which was very awesome)! So there's always that. In conclusion the werewolf baby just seems unnecessary. Let's hope they give it up for were-adoption. Anyway, that's the bad. Now let's talk about the good.
We love it when a show makes you feel for those you hate. All of the baddies were getting their moment in the spotlight this week. Marcus shared his origins sob story (although he did turn out to be evil from the beginning), The Dutch needed to be saved, and even Rebecca got her redemption. But the true reward has been getting to know Bishop a little better. For the last two episodes, we were lulled into getting onto team Bishop. We met only to find out that he's an evil lunatic who just wants to take over the world. He tricked us with his clever "new school vampire versus old school vampire" argument. Bishop didn't care that The Dutch were old fashioned, he just wanted them gone. And here we were feeling sorry for the blond vampire after his climactic announcement that "tomorrow, I'm going to die." This was great set-up for Bishop to reveal his true bloody colors in an excellent head-chopping scene!
And just like that, we felt sorry for The Dutch, even as they're about to eat a pregnant woman. Aidan picks the lesser of two evils and saves the last remaining member of the old school vampires to tattle on his maker. Will this end with more blood? We certainly hope so. But we definitely don't want to see Bishop turn to ash just yet, he's too good of an actor. We raise a wrist to you sir!
Speaking of being sad vampires, how about Rebecca's big farewell? While she was a bit of a vamp in the beginning of this season, the character really found her stride in the last two episodes. Something was churning behind those sad eyes. The second she found out that Marcus and Bishop had directly caused the death of her new beloved pet vampire Bernie, something changed in her. No longer was she the sexy but miserable vampire, awkwardly stomping about in the morgue, folding napkins and being generally pissed off. She stepped up her game. And now the city vampires won't have Rebecca to kick around any more. We were sad to see her go. It may have taken some time to get to know this character but it was worth it, if just for the vampire porn DVD and the child vampire story. Farewell Rebecca, hopefully your sad exit will only prompt Aidan make bad decisions, we think we like him more when he's evil (or maybe that's just the hair).
Last, but not least, Sally finally got to confront Danny about her death — sort of. Danny and new girlfriend Bridgette hired an exorcist to kick Sally out of the house where she died, thus ridding Danny of the last scrap of evidence of his misbehavior. Smart move for them, and it almost worked. But the whole thing backfired as Sally learned she could jump into the psychic's body, filling the human's head with her thoughts and getting a chance to physically attack Danny. We didn't spend too much time with Sally, but I suspect that things are really going to pick up next week as Sally and Danny are now alone and the ghost girl is pissed. Did you catch the scene where she simply looks over her left shoulder, all vein-pulsed and glassy-eyed? Great makeup, and scary as hell acting for a show that is more about the drama than the thrills.
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The 2012 Honda Civic was highly regarded for being not very good at anything.
Honda did an emergency redesign of the car to make it relevant and up the level of its competitors, thus resulting in the 2013 Honda Civic.
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Yep. I'm still sorting through all the stuff I scanned while visiting my grandmother a few weeks ago. I happened across this scanned postcard that my grandmother sent to her mother-in-law (my great grandmother, Mary Alice Schneider) while the couple were honeymooning at Lake Okoboji, Iowa, in August 1944. Yes, I had already forgotten about it.
I need to get the story behind my grandfather's apparent foot injury and why my grandmother wouldn't go in the water. Guess that's something else for the to-do list!
A recent photo (2005-ish) of Lake Okoboji can be found here. It's a little scary how similar the view is to the postcard above.
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I love old postcards.
You granmother was quite a bit more chatty than my ancestors were. Mine usually detail what they just had to eat...
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Thanks Dee! Apparently she wasn't chatty enough ... left me with some unanswered questions :)
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Copying music and movies on the Internet is legal in Portugal
The news broke out today, but I think this has wider impact and interest than just the Portuguese reader, so I decided to, shamelessly, simply translate the news article that can be found originally (in Portuguese) at Exame Informática.Only the italics (well, and possible language and translation mistakes) are mine, the rest belongs to Exame Informática.
At the beginning of 2011, the Portuguese Association for Audiovisual Commerce of Cultural and Entertainment Works (ACAPOR) made titles in the Portuguese newspapers for having presented a complaint to the Portuguese Republic's Attorney General (PGR) of two thousand Portuguese Internet users that used P2P services to share allegedly ilegal copies of movies (by leaving boxes filled with paper prints of "proof", and they were accusing not persons but IPs). After a little more than one year, the Department of Investigation and Penal Action (DIAP), that has the objective of analyze complaints to PGR that are then forwarded to the Public Ministry, published a devastating dispatch to ACAPOR's pretensions. Besides the several notes to the procedures followed by ACAPOR, DIAP delivers a dispatch that risks marking the history of the defense of author's rights in Portugal. Here's an excerpt that just arrived to our office: «More over, in the legal point of view, and even if we put in this kind of networks the question regarding the user being simultaneously in the digital environment as both an uploader and downloader of the files to share, we see the actions by the participants licit for private use - art. 75 nr. 2) and 81 b) from CDADC, - even if one can think that when the copy is done the user doesn't stop his participation in the sharing». While considering that the Authors Rights and Related Rights Code (CDADC) doesn't make the use of file sharing networks (P2P) illegal, the dispatch from the Public Ministry recognizes the merit of ACAPOR's actions for alerting to the need of rethinking the judicial questions related to the defense of the authors' rights of movies, music and software in the digital age. But even in this point the DIAP investigators leave a message - and remind that the defense of the authors' rights must be applied having also into account «the right to education, culture, freedom of action in the cybernetic space, specially when just freedom is limited to the individual being in nothing related with commercial questions, with the profit of the mercantile activity». In the same dispatch, the DIAP and Public Ministry responsible confess that it is impossible to investigate the distribution and download of illegal copies in the Internet using the IP address. According to the investigators, accusing someone using the IP address as a bases is «erroneous», since the titular of the IP address used in the Net access «isn't necessarily the user in that specific moment, isn't necessarily who shares the work, but the one who has the service in its name, independently of using it or just formally figuring as its holder». The Public Ministry refers, based on the analysis that it made of the CDADC articles, that only in cases where the author (and we assume no one else, even if the CDADC refers also artists, and producers) expressively forbids it you can consider a crime the public sharing of a work. The dispatch also implicitly criticizes the way ACAPOR has dealt with the process, highlighting that the association that represents video rental stores didn't present any document showing that the movie(s) author(s) did forbid the «public sharing».
The article goes on, but this is the important part. If you want to read more about this (also in Portuguese), see also the news at TeK.