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At the opening ceremony of the Center City Commuter Connection, SEPTA chairman Lewis F. Gould remarked: "What we have accomplished here has never done before in the United States. We have, in one regional rail system, joined suburb to suburb and suburb to city." (i)
The Center City Commuter Connection, a direct rail link between Suburban Station and the new Market East Station formally opened for business on Nov. 12, 1984 after six years of construction. The project, which included a four-track wide tunnel and a new underground Market East Station, was finished on time, within its original budget, and with no worker fatalities. It linked all 198 commuter stations and united 500 miles of track in the Philadelphia region into a single system. It was also the largest federally funded mass transit project to date, costing $330 million. (ii)
This public project achieved what never could be done when the railroads were under private ownership. From the 1880s to the 1960s, Philadelphia was a two-railroad town. The first was the mighty Pennsylvania, headquartered at the Broad Street Suburban Station near City Hall. Along with its national network of railroads, it had also helped develop upscale suburban towns along its "Main Line," today know as the R5 Line.
It also developed the "in-town" suburbs of Germantown, Mount Airy, and Chestnut Hill West in the northwest section of the city — today's R8 Line. The Philadelphia & Reading Railroad, occupying its great Renaissance-revival terminal at 12th and Market Streets, had also developed commuter communities north of the city in Bucks and Montgomery Counties, such as Warminster, Ambler, and Doylestown. It also served a set of stations running parallel to the Pennsylvania's Chestnut Hill branch, such as Wyndmoor and Gravers Lane — today's R7 Line. The Reading's above-ground viaduct, which cut through a largely industrial part of the city, emerged at Brown Street and then paralleled Broad Street before branching out into separate lines.
Until the completion of the Center City Commuter Connection, the two trunk lines did not connect. A passenger who wanted to go from, say, Paoli to Doylestown had to walk several blocks from Suburban Station to the Reading Terminal. The distance was more than an inconvenience during inclement weather; city planners felt the lack of a connection between the two stations was severely hampering Philadelphia's role as a regional commercial center.
Ultimately the project's backers hoped that the new Center City Commuter Connection would foster economic development in the city of Philadelphia and its surrounding suburbs. By the 1970s, the exodus of business, industry, and residents to the suburbs had bled the city dry. Numerous attempts had been made to draw affluent residents back into town, most notably the through the redevelopment of Society Hill. But bringing back historic neighborhoods was not enough; the hope was that a massive infrastructure improvement would channel people and tax revenue back into the city's deteriorating commercial core.
Figure 2. Reading Terminal. Courtesy of PhillyHistory.org
The Planning Process
The construction of the Center City Commuter Connection was brought about by the financial woes of the Pennsylvania and Philadelphia & Reading railroads and the consolidation of their commuter lines under the power of a regional transportation authority. Following World War II, the Reading and Pennsylvania started to crumble in the face of automobile competition, and both lost interest in their money-losing commuter lines.
In 1963, the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority, or SEPTA, took over the operations of both commuter systems. But even after cutting their passenger service, both railroads continued to hemorrhage cash. In 1968, the faltering Pennsylvania merged with its archrival, the New York Central. It was too late. The new Penn Central combine filed for bankruptcy only two years after its formation, and by 1976 the private company completely collapsed. That same year, the Reading Railroad also disintegrated. Following the collapse of Penn Central, the new entity, Conrail, charged SEPTA fees to use their tracks. Congressional legislation stipulated that Conrail had to be out of the passenger service business by 1983, after which SEPTA would take over direct operation of the commuter system. (iii)
Soon after the suburban commuter rails were placed under public control, the City of Philadelphia began to think of ways to link the two commuter railroad systems. The City Planning Commission proposed a project called the Center City Commuter Connection. The grand scheme would provide a 1.8-mile long rail link between Suburban Station and the new Market East Station, a link that would lie beneath the Reading Terminal train shed and meet the old Pennsylvania tracks at grade. (iv) The tunnels would contain four standard gauge tracks that could handle 80 trains per hour. (v)
As laid out by the City Planning Commission, the Center City Commuter Connection would consist of two components. The first would be the construction of a new Market East station. The second would be the digging of a new railroad tunnel under Filbert Street connecting Market East and Suburban Stations. The old Reading rail line would be buried until it reached Spring Garden Street, where it would emerge from a new portal. The result would be that a passenger could ride nonstop from a former Reading commuter station such as Doylestown or Ambler all the way to a former Pennsylvania station such as Villanova or Swarthmore.
The scope was daring at the time. Philadelphia, like many major cities, was in fiscal crisis. The flow of businesses and residents from the city that had begun in the 1950s had turned into an exodus. Center City's office buildings, built largely before World War II, were becoming under utilized. Worse, the flow of federal grants that had funded billions of dollars worth of urban infrastructure improvements in the years following World War II was slowing to a trickle. Edmund Bacon, the powerful head of the City Planning Commission who had raised the idea of the Commuter Connection back in 1947, had retired. Three years before Philadelphia made its request, President Ford had refused to help bail out New York City from bankruptcy. On October 30, 1975, the front page of the New York Daily News screamed the headline "Ford to City: Drop Dead." (vi)
In addition, the Philadelphia project's promoters encountered considerable resistance from local labor leaders, which contributed to the initial lack of federal interest. According to the New York Times, "the city lost out because it failed to come up with an adequate agreement that would protect the rights of the labor unions affected by the project." (vii) In addition, local business owners voiced concerns about pedestrian traffic disruptions, and some property owners opposed the condemnation of their properties. In a January 17, 2008 interview, project engineer Michael Griffin stated that some sued the city on the basis on inverse condemnation, claiming that the disruption caused by the construction project was no different than government seizure, and demanded "exorbitant" compensation. (viii)
Figure 3. Map Showing Proposed Center City Commuter Connection, including new Market East Station and burying of part of the Reading Viaduct.
From the Project Engineer's Report. Courtesy of Ruben David, P.E.
Yet the city continued to push for federal funding, arguing that the Commuter Connection would greatly enhance operational efficiency and create a tremendous number of jobs in the construction industry. (ix)
Dr. Bruce F. Baldwin, chairman of the Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority, argued in the project's defense that, "With the tunnel, the network could haul more than 90,000 during peak hours and relieve pressure on our streets and highways." (x) The Commission then issued a report arguing that a unified rail system would not only be more convenient for existing commuters, but that it would also bolster job growth in Center City. "Construction of the center city commuter connection," the report stated, "would be the single most effective means of improving public transportation capacities in Philadelphia." (xi) In addition, the study urged that the linking of the two commuter systems would spur job creation within a city that was rapidly losing white collar jobs to Montgomery County and South Jersey and manufacturing jobs overseas. The study claimed that the Center City Commuter Connection would help boost Center City jobs to 445,000, and increase its permanent population by 7,200. (xii)
The Legacy of Broad Street Station and the Chinese Wall
Broad Street Station, built in 1882 and enlarged ten years later by the famed firm of Furness & Evans, was a brick palace bristling with turrets and spires and crowned with a soaring clock tower. It was located at the heart of the city's business center and made commuting much more convenient for the city's office workers. Before the station's construction, trains terminated at 30th Street Station on the west side of the Schuylkill River, a long way from city center. To connect their new station to its main line, the Pennsylvania built a stone viaduct that linked it with 30th Street Station. Because steam trains could not operate in tunnels, the railroad had no choice but to build their new spur above ground.
If the station was an architectural masterpiece, the viaduct was a monstrosity. Generations of Philadelphian's had scornfully called it the "Chinese Wall," because it created a virtually impenetrable barrier between City Hall and the Schuylkill River.
Sixteen tracks wide at its widest point and several stories high, the viaduct straddled the blocks between Market Street and Pennsylvania Boulevard (modern-day John F. Kennedy Boulevard). Passing locomotives spewed soot and cinders onto the streets below. The noise and pollution depressed surrounding real estate prices. To pass under the viaduct, one had to walk through one of a series of dank, filthy archways that constantly shook from the passing trains above. Few people wanted a crossing under the wall as part of their daily routine.
The "Chinese Wall" was not just a physical barrier; it was also a social one. It created two Philadelphias: "North of Market" and "South of Market" (xiii) by amputating Philadelphia's business and fashionable residential districts from the rest of the city. Among a certain set of Philadelphians, a residential or business address south of Market Street connoted respectability and legitimacy. An address "north-of-Market" as the phrase went hinted at something socially or economically suspect. (xiv) For seven decades, the "Chinese Wall" caused blight and decay that foreshadowed the effects caused by cross-city interstates such as I-95.
Figure 5. The "Chinese wall" as viewed from the top of Broad Street Station, looking west towards 30th Street Station, c. 1945.
Courtesy of PhillyBlog.com.
By 1900, advances in technology had allowed New York to overcome its own version of the "Chinese Wall." During the second half the nineteenth century, Park Avenue north of 42nd Street served as the city's main railroad artery, bringing commuter and long-distance steam trains into Grand Central Station. The dirt and noise made upper Park Avenue the most undesirable street in Manhattan. It was lined with slaughterhouses, factories, and run-down tenements. After a number of gruesome accidents between street cars and onrushing trains, the city ordered the Vanderbilts to cover up and electrify the Park Avenue tracks leading to Grand Central Station. When the project — which included a new terminal — was completed in 1913, it was a win-win situation for the city and the New York Central. Pedestrians and vehicles could now cross unencumbered across Park Avenue, and the air was free of fumes and soot.
The New York Central then sold the "air rights" above the newly-covered Park Avenue to real estate developers at a handsome profit. These developers then built the great luxury apartment buildings that transformed the former eyesore street into the city's most fashionable residential boulevard.
Finally, in 1914, under pressure from the city and a disgruntled public, the Pennsylvania Railroad made plans to follow New York's lead and gradually retire their steam-driven commuter locomotives. Electrified trains, unlike their smoky predecessors, could operate safely underground. In the early 1900s, Pennsylvania's president, the visionary Alexander Cassatt (brother of the Impressionist painter Mary Cassatt) led the push towards electrification. In 1910, the Pennsylvania Railroad put its first electrified trains into service, when their new Pennsylvania Station in New York City opened its doors. Incoming express trains from Philadelphia would stop at Secaucus, New Jersey. There, the steam locomotives would be detached and the train cars transferred to electric power. The trains would then travel the final leg under the Hudson River and glide silently into Pennsylvania Station's soaring, glass-vaulted concourse.
Cassatt died in 1906, four years before the completion of New York's Pennsylvania Station and its underwater tunnel system. His successors, most notably William Atterbury, continued Cassatt's electrification crusade. Between 1914 and 1930 and using its own funds, the Pennsylvania Railroad electrified all of their 131 miles of commuter lines, a project that cost a grand total of $10 million. The first of these lines to be electrified was the most heavily traveled: the Main Line stretch between Paoli and Philadelphia. (xv) The last was the seventeen mile run between Philadelphia and Norristown. (xvi)
The company then constructed a new railroad bridge that spanned the Schuylkill River and led to a new tunnel eight tracks wide running parallel to the "Chinese Wall." In 1930, the project was crowned by the Art Deco Suburban Station, located just to the north of the old Broad Street Station, which lost its trainshed to fire in 1923. As its name implied, Suburban Station would take over as Center City's hub for travel out to the Main Line and the southwestern suburbs.
By the late 1920s, the Pennsylvania Railroad stated that even if Broad Street Station escaped the wreckers after Suburban Station was placed into service, its tracks would be fully buried as well. Railroad officials talked up big plans about replacing the "Chinese Wall" with a grand new "Pennsylvania Boulevard …with room for office buildings and other structures, a pleasing thoroughfare in the center of modern Philadelphia." (xvii) However, the 1929 stock market crash and the ensuing depression interfered with the Pennsylvania's final plan to demolish Broad Street Station and deactivate its above-ground tracks. The damaged structure and the offending wall remained standing for two more decades.
The Construction of the Center City Commuter Connection
In 1978, after over ten years of lobbying by local officials, the Federal government agreed to pay for 80 percent of the project, with the state paying for 16.66 percent and the city paying 3.33 percent. (xxi)
According to Michael Griffin, a city engineer who worked on the project, at $330 million the Center City Commuter Connector was the most expensive federal transit investment project in America up to that time. This was also the first project funded under the "Full Funding Grant Agreement," in which the city and state, not the federal government, were responsible for any cost overruns. This agreement became standard procedure for federal transit projects ever since.
The City of Philadelphia made its request in the nick of time. According to Chris Zearfoss of the City Planning Commission, federal transit funding was severely cut back in 1981 under the Reagan administration, and by that time the Center City Commuter Connection was well underway and safe from the cutting room floor.
Zearfoss said that "the project was funded on a cash-flow basis. There were twelve separate grant amendments made on a year-by-year basis. Back then, federal transit money remained very generous." (xxii) Zearfoss also added that SEPTA "didn't have the means to undertake this project." (xxiii)
SEPTA was facing financial trouble and threatening to cut back service. To some, spending such a huge amount of money on a tunnel instead of using it to maintain existing service was a great waste. "Ironically, while the railroad is dying for lack of money," wrote Frederick N. Tulsky of the Philadelphia Inquirer on May 21, 1981, "millions of dollars are being spent each month on the Center City Commuter Connection between Suburban Station and Reading Terminal. That $400 million tunnel would be useless if the service was terminated." (xxiv)
Penn Praxis director Harris Steinberg, then an architecture student at Penn, observed the construction process and did a series of drawings. He also had mixed feelings towards the project, scrawling at the bottom of one drawing: "This seems like a colossal effort for something that has a very limited market — suburban commuters. Perhaps though, with gas prices rising, the tunnel has the potential to be the salvation of the city, bringing suburban shoppers and commuters into Philadelphia and aiding in a much hoped for economic and cultural rebirth." Steinberg then concluded, "Ed Bacon's dream of 30 years is continuing its slow steps to fruition." (xxv)
The excavation the Center City Commuter Connection finally commenced in 1978.
The project ultimately would hire 46 contractors and 300 subcontractors. (xxvi) The construction process was "cut-and-cover," a technique pioneered in the 1890s for the construction of the New York City subway system. Workers would close the affected thoroughfares, dig track trenches anywhere from 30 to 71 feet deep, lay temporary wooden decking across the street, construct the tunnels, and then build a new street surface on top.
The first major challenge to this project was the building of structural underpinnings against the foundations of structures in the path of the Commuter Connector. These included the City Hall Annex, the old Essex Hotel, the Penn Square Building, and the Reading Terminal itself.
The 1893 terminal had to be replaced by a new, below-grade station in order for its tracks to meet those of Suburban Station. The Reading Terminal had no basement, and train service had to continue uninterrupted during construction. Workers had to cut the Reading Terminal's original weight-bearing columns to make room for the new Market East Station. The old terminal's weight was then shifted to temporary reinforced concrete transfer beams and caissons.
When the new Market East Station was complete, the supports were removed and the old Reading Terminal rested securely on the new, subterranean structure. (xxvii)
The most challenging building in the project's path was the historic Masonic Temple. According to Griffin, "With other buildings we knew what to expect. Not so with the Masonic Temple. It had to be delicately underpinned by hand, and the methods did not always work the first time." (xxviii)
Originally, concrete piers were constructed underneath the rubble foundations to shore up the structure. But according to the project report, the interior walls of the building started to crack. According to the engineering report, the solution was to build a "steel core concrete retaining wall of 95-pound steel tangent piles set in 24-inch diameter slurry-supported drill holes" protected against lateral settlement by "hydraulic flat jacks installed horizontally against the piles and actuated when tie-backs were removed during the forming of the tunnel wall." (xxix) Griffin added, "When we had to stop and come up with new underpinning practices, this added to the cost of the project." (xxx)
Ruben David, also a project engineer who was recently interviewed, noted that another challenge was protecting previously existing underground structures and features. "We had to protect and support a network of utility lines during the digging," he said.(xxxi) The biggest of these underground structures was the Broad Street Subway, built in 1916 and according to the project report, "designed in anticipation of a rail line passing over it …Working just below heavy Center City traffic on timber decking the subway roof was demolished and the tunnel built while maintaining subway traffic on at least two of its four tracks." (xxxii)
One special problem was dealing with archaeological sites located along the tunnel path. When a site thought to be of archaeological significance was found during construction, work would cease and an urban archaeology consultant would investigate the area. The most notable discovery was an African-American Cemetery at 8th and Vine Streets, near the original location of the First African Baptist Church, and "the only black pre-Civil War urban cemetery excavated outside the South." In the end, archaeologists retrieved and catalogued 50,000 artifacts, mostly bowls, bones, and fragments of cloth. (xxxiii)
The final challenge was maintaining community support throughout the project. David maintained that it was crucial to "continue communications with the businesses on the street each day" on how the project was affecting them, and to "ensure the adequate protection of the pedestrians." (xxxiv)
When the Center City Commuter Connection was completed in 1984, Philadelphia became the first city in the nation with a truly integrated commuter rail system, besting even New York City. Manhattan, like Philadelphia, was served by two main railroad stations: Pennsylvania Station (the original terminal was torn down in 1963) and the New York Central's Grand Central Terminal. Penn Station serves New Jersey and Long Island commuters, while Grand Central serves those bound for New York's Westchester County and Connecticut.
The two stations were linked by subway, but the trip is not direct, requiring a transfer to the "S" shuttle between Times Square and Grand Central. Ultimately, Grand Central's convenient location helped boost midtown's real estate values and draw the center of business and finance away from Lower Manhattan. The area around Penn Station, located at 7th Avenue and 34rd Street, remained comparatively shabby and marginal.
The office building boom that followed the completion of the Center City Commuter Connection cannot be fully attributed to the completion of the new tunnel. However, there is no doubt that since 1984, the area once occupied and blighted by the old "Chinese Wall" has prospered. No longer besotted by soot and noise, and supplied with thousands of commuters traveling on both the old Pennsylvania and Reading lines, this area was ripe for growth.
"While the construction of the Center City Commuter Connection presented numerous challenges," wrote Gary Fairfax of SEPTA in a January 25, 2008 email, "by creating a means for passengers to travel more effectively into and through Center City Philadelphia it enabled the further development of shopping malls, department stores, hotels and business complexes in the area … the City of Philadelphia experienced an economic rebirth while allowing passengers to expand their geographic borders." (xxxv)
According to Chris Zearfoss at the Planning Commission, the transit system took a number of hits during and after the completion of the Center City Commuter Connection that decreased ridership from its 1970s levels. Before the two systems were connected, the combined system carried around 130,000 riders per day. Today, the system carries 15,000 fewer passengers, and the tunnel itself has never approaching having the 90,000 daily users predicted in 1970. (xxxvi)
There were three main reasons for the decline, which were independent of the tunnel. The first was a crippling labor dispute. A year before the completion of the tunnel, transit workers went on strike for 107 days, completely shutting down the system. The second reason was a series of service disruptions due to additional constructions, most notably the shutting down of much of the former Reading line between Brown Street and Wayne Junction for renewal and renovations. Many passengers opted to drive into Philadelphia rather than take shuttle buses. The third was a serious cash squeeze. When SEPTA assumed direct control of the commuter trains, they still leased the rails from Conrail, which charged much higher rates than its predecessors. The resulting fiscal crisis led to severe off-peak service cuts. Trains went from running from every half-hour to every hour, and fares went up 79 percent from 1976 to 1983. (xxxvii)
Despite the overall decline in ridership, there is little doubt that the construction of Center City Commuter Connection helped spur a second phase of office high rise construction. In the decade following the completion of the tunnel, a combination of rising real estate values, developer incentives, an improving economy, and the newly unified suburban transit system caused a surge of new office building construction around Market Street and JFK Boulevard.
These economic forces pushed skyscrapers higher beyond the hat of Billy Penn atop City Hall for the first time, violating the old gentleman's agreement. The first, of course, was Rouse's Liberty Place, finished in 1986 at 17th and Market on a lot formerly occupied by "parking lots and a group of nondescript buildings." (xxxviii)
Following the approval of Liberty Place, Mayor Wilson Goode proposed a plan that allowed for more tall buildings to be erected in an eight-block zone between JFK Boulevard and Chestnut Street. (xxxix)
More high rises followed, now directly on the footprint of the "Chinese Wall." The Blue Cross-Blue Shield Building, topping out at 45 stories and echoing Liberty Place's shape, was completed in 1990. That same year, the 54-story Mellon Bank Center arose across Market Street from Liberty Place, joined soon after by the 53-story Verizon Tower at 18th and Arch Street.
An irony is that the cursed "Chinese Wall" might have actually saved many of historic houses and office buildings along the old commercial corridors of Chestnut and Walnut Streets. Because these high rises were built on land long occupied by the viaduct, fewer historic structures had to be sacrificed to construct them than if they were built south of Market.
In addition, the residential population of Center City East increased by 16 percent between 1980 and 1990, and by 14 percent in the following decade. Zearfoss also notes that although Center City West's population has remained fairly constant during the same time period, the housing boom has fueled immense population growth since 2000. (xl)
Today, the Comcast Tower is nearing completion at 17th and JFK Boulevard, on a lot which sixty years ago would have been one of the least desirable in the city. It is only fitting for there to be an underground pedestrian connection between the headquarters of present and past city corporate leaders: the Comcast Tower and Pennsylvania Railroad's old Suburban Station.
i. As quoted by Engineer's Report: Center City Commuter Rail Connection, UMTA Project No. PA-03-0013, PennDOT Project No. CA-5, City Project Number No. 20-590-2-8, 1985., n.p.
ii. Engineer's Report: Center City Commuter Rail Connection, UMTA Project No. PA-03-0013, PennDOT Project No. CA-5, City Project Number No. 20-590-2-8, 1985., n.p.
iii. Interview with Chris Zearfoss, Office of Strategic Planning, Philadelphia City Planning Commission, January 29, 2008.
iv. "A Tunnel is Sought for Philadelphia," The New York Times, July 5, 1970.
v. Engineer's Report: Center City Commuter Rail Connection, UMTA Project No. PA-03-0013, PennDOT Project No. CA-5, City Project Number No. 20-590-2-8, 1985., n.p.
vi. The New York Daily News, October 30, 1975.
As quoted by Joshua Zeitz, "New York on the Brink," American Heritage, November 26, 2006. http://www.americanheritage.com/articles/web/20051126-new-york-city-gerald-ford-labor-unions-municipal-assistance-corporation-emergency-financial-control-board.shtml
Accessed January 14, 2008.
vii. "A Tunnel is Sought for Philadelphia," The New York Times, July 5, 1970.
viii. Interview with Michael Griffin, Center City Commuter Connection Project Engineer, January 17, 2008.
ix. Interview with Michael Griffin, Center City Commuter Connection Project Engineer, January 17, 2008.
x. "A Tunnel is Sought for Philadelphia," The New York Times, July 5, 1970.
xi. As quoted by "A Tunnel is Sought for Philadelphia," The New York Times, July 5, 1970.
xii. As quoted by "A Tunnel is Sought for Philadelphia," The New York Times, July 5, 1970.
xiii. Urban Renewal in Philadelphia: Vincent Kling and Penn Center
Accessed January 8, 2008.
xiv. Nathaniel Burt, The Perennial Philadelphian: The Anatomy of an American Aristocracy (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press), 1963, p.529.
xv. "Opens New Electric Line: P.R.R. Completes Work on Suburban Service at Philadelphia," The New York Times, July 30, 1930.
xvi. "Opens New Electric Line: P.R.R. Completes Work on Suburban Service at Philadelphia," The New York Times, July 30, 1930.
xvii. "Pennsylvania Railway Plans for Far Future," The New York Times, November 18, 1928.
xviii. "Philadelphia to Lose Broad Street Station," The New York Times, February 22, 1952.
Harry Kyriakodis, "Suburban Station."
Accessed January 16, 2008.
xix. "Philadelphia to Lose Broad Street Station," The New York Times, February 22, 1952.
xx. Witold Rybczynski, as quoted by Critique of Penn Center
Accessed January 8, 2008.
xxi. Interview with Michael Griffin, Center City Commuter Connection Project Engineer, January 17, 2008.
xxii. Interview with Chris Zearfoss, Office of Strategic Planning, Philadelphia City Planning Commission, January 10, 2008.
xxiii. Interview with Chris Zearfoss, Office of Strategic Planning, Philadelphia City Planning Commission, January 10, 2008.
xxiv. Frederick N. Tulsky, "Feud May Derail Commuter Trains," The Philadelphia Inquirer, May 21, 1981.
xxv. Harris Steinberg, AIA, Construction Notebook, Spring Semester 1980, Architecture 500. Collection of Penn Praxis.
xxvi. Engineer's Report: Center City Commuter Rail Connection, UMTA Project No. PA-03-0013, PennDOT Project No. CA-5, City Project Number No. 20-590-2-8, 1985., n.p.
xxvii. Engineer's Report: Center City Commuter Rail Connection, UMTA Project No. PA-03-0013, PennDOT Project No. CA-5, City Project Number No. 20-590-2-8, 1985., n.p.
xxviii. Interview with Michael Griffin, Center City Commuter Connection Project Engineer, January 17, 2008.
xxix. Engineer's Report: Center City Commuter Rail Connection, UMTA Project No. PA-03-0013, PennDOT Project No. CA-5, City Project Number No. 20-590-2-8, 1985., n.p.
xxx. Interview with Michael Griffin, Center City Commuter Connection Project Engineer, January 17, 2008.
xxxi. Interview with Ruben David, Center City Commuter Connection Project Engineer, January 17, 2008.
xxxii. Engineer's Report: Center City Commuter Rail Connection, UMTA Project No. PA-03-0013, PennDOT Project No. CA-5, City Project Number No. 20-590-2-8, 1985., n.p.
xxxiii. Engineer's Report: Center City Commuter Rail Connection, UMTA Project No. PA-03-0013, PennDOT Project No. CA-5, City Project Number No. 20-590-2-8, 1985., n.p.
xxxiv. Interview with Ruben David, Center City Commuter Connection Project Engineer, January 17, 2008.
xxxv. Gary Fairfax, SEPTA Press Officer, Email correspondence, January 25, 2008.
xxxvi. Interview with Chris Zearfoss, Office of Strategic Planning, Philadelphia City Planning Commission, January 29, 2008.
xxxvii. Interview with Chris Zearfoss, Office of Strategic Planning, Philadelphia City Planning Commission, January 29, 2008.
xxxviii. Peter T. Leach, "Philadelphia: Rouse Towers Aim to Break Mold And Revivify Center City Streets," The New York Times, May 12, 1985.
xxxix. Peter T. Leach, "Philadelphia: Rouse Towers Aim to Break Mold And Revivify Center City Streets," The New York Times, May 12, 1985.
xl. Interview with Chris Zearfoss, Office of Strategic Planning, Philadelphia City Planning Commission, January 29, 2008. Citing United States Census of 1980, 1990, and 2000.


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NEW YORK (Billboard) - Former Oasis guitarist and vocalist Liam Gallagher says that he and the other members of the band — aside from his brother Noel — are writing songs and will perform as a new group.
"We're sort of doing things at the moment," he said during an Italian radio interview to promote his Pretty Green clothing line. "Not Oasis, Oasis is done. Everyone except for Noel."
Liam Gallagher founded the band in 1991 with Paul Arthurs, Paul McGuigan and Tony McCaroll. Noel joined shortly thereafter and took over as Oasis' lead songwriter. The Gallagher brothers were the longest-standing members of the band; the rest of the current lineup includes guitarist/keyboardist Colin Archer, bassist Andy Bell and drummer Chris Sharrock.
Liam quit the band in late August, shortly after the last-minute cancellation of the group's scheduled performance at the Rock En Seine festival in Paris.
"It's with some sadness and great relief to tell you that I quit Oasis tonight," Gallagher wrote on the band's website. "People will write and say what they like, but I simply could not go on working with Liam a day longer."
During a later interview with the London Times, Liam said, "It's a shame, but that's life. We had a good run at it. The thing about Oasis is, no one ... we ended Oasis. No one ended it for us. Which was pretty, kind of ... cool. I'm thinking of what the next step is musically, which is all my mind's on."
He added: "I'll be doing music to the day I die. People will be able to buy his (Noel's) records. People will be able to buy our records. So everyone's happy."
Oasis' most recent album, "Dig Out Your Soul," peaked at No. 5 on the Billboard 200 last October.
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One of the perks of working for a large company is they often have fitness programs and on-site gyms so you can squeeze in a workout during lunch or after work. However, your average company does not have the benefits that a larger company may have. This does not mean employers and employees can't find ways to make the workplace a healthier place to work.
If you work an office job you probably spend at least six hours per day sitting down. Try to find reasons to get up and walk around. Organize your office space so that any time you need to print, scan, or copy a document you are required to get up and walk to the printer. Park in the farthest parking spot at the office to give yourself an extra few minutes in the morning to walk into work. Instead of calling a co-worker, walk to their office and see if they are available to talk in person. If they are unavailable, walk back later. Instead of sending a mass email to everyone, post information on a bulletin board that requires everyone to get up to read new information.
You can also push to have more programs like the larger companies, but with fewer expenses. An internal 'biggest loser' competition can motivate employees to lose weight by offering a nice reward such as a few extra vacation days. Spend a few dollars per person to buy everyone a pedometer and see who can take the most steps in a one month period and offer a reward for the most active employee. Offer a longer lunch period for employees who plan to exercise during that time. Work out a deal with the local gym to give employees a reduced price on their gym memberships. Also, you can cater a healthy lunch every once in a while.
Office outings can be a great way to build camaraderie and a healthier company culture. Instead of the office going to a sports game or someone's home for a party, plan for everyone to attend a 'high ropes' obstacle course, play a sport, or play paintball. If your company is large enough, create your own internal sports league that meets and plays your favorite sport once a week after work. Or even better, challenge other companies in the local area to see who the best firm in the local area is.
Even if your company does not offer all the fancy perks to help you reach your health goals, there are plenty of ways to make your work life work for you and not against you. Pick your favorite idea and start talking to your colleagues about setting something up. It only takes a few people to like your ideas to get the ball rolling.


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20130901, 11:29 – This is the last page of the scene to be drawn and shaded, so it kinda makes sense that it would be the Labor Day Weekend ATC release. :)
I haven't looked at this page since I finished shading – that was a pensive, crappy day and the build log reflects that. There's a ton of linework, and statistically that always means a few duds – unfortunately they're fairly prominent. So is the change hinted at in panel one of the previous page – the super-detailed screens have been replaced with oranger, simpler contents. The old bridge screens were painfully super-detailed, so much so that proper updates and revisions would have been prohibitively time consuming. That sounds kind of like a bullshit excuse given how much time goes into each page, but believe me when I say that I feel very strongly that there are better uses of ATC production time than creating a super-realistic glass cockpit when the screen contents are in no way the focus of the scene.
It took me until the operative to figure this out.
The existing door panel and environmental controls screens in the rec area, central corridor, etc. will remain in place – those are trivial to update and don't change much. The bridge screens were a fairly big deal, now they're less of one – I can now create the appearance of complex change without getting bogged down in the details. Finally. Backing away from the event horizon of detail.
Panel five implies that Xand's forearm can operate remotely – possibly autonomously. Much like other details of her cybernetic anatomy this fact has little bearing on the story, at least for now – though it does serve as a vehicle for twisting Einstein's criticism of quantum entanglement into a double entendre. I consider that a more valid and amusing use of the technology than anything else a 1990s Cyberpunk derived prosthetic limb might be applied to.
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Another Airbus loss of control incident
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An A330 on Cathay Pacific (CX) Flight 780 experienced un-commanded power changes causing the crew to land at an excessive speed — nearly double the normal approach speed. The normal speed at their weight was reported to be 130 knots, the aircraft touched down at 239. The Rolls Royce Trent 700 engines are controlled by Full Authority Digital Engine Controllers (fly by wire). Throttles that do what they want despite the position selected by the operator; starting to sound familiar? Toyota maybe? Toyota announced today they are going to do an expansive test on their Lexus version of an SUV, I suspect they got a nudge. Quick action; I wonder if an extensive test will be done on fly-by-wire applications?
Unconnected to A330 problems of late? Maybe, maybe not; I think not. The FADECs are integrated into the ADIRU's (aircraft computers) that control every aspect of flight. In the recent control excursions the pitot system has been blamed (AF, NWA, etc) and in the case of the QANTAS excursions the angle of attack system (AOA). Now we get FADEC (duel, very unlikely) failures. There is not a single point of failure; unless you dig a bit deeper and analyze where the information is processed and acted upon. The ADIRU #1. How is engine thrust related? If the ADIRU senses the aircraft approaching stall; taking input from speed (pitot) or angle of attack the engines will be directed to over-ride the pilot and run power up and if the AOA spikes the flight controls will be directed to push negative g. Ah Ha!
Remember the engines on Sully's A320 would have still produced thrust, probably allowing him to reach an airfield. However the FADECs over-rode the crew and shut them down. Humans are smarter than computers, they understand the unquantifiable; for example it is better to burn engines up then go for a swim.
Back in the day, when we fought an F-16 slow we didn't fight the aircraft (we'd loose) we fought the computer. It would over-ride the pilot exposing him to a guns shot. The FA-18 was different (also fly-by-wire); if you wanted to fly zero airspeed it would let you, the pilot had the over-all control. Not that I haven't witnessed a fight for control between an ex A-7 pilot and his brand new F-18 (Hornet does a hands off catapult launch) off the cat. However, in general the Navy wanted the pilot to be the final arbiter. Personally I agree.


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Alex Motut (Ph.D.) and her instruction of LIN204 (English Grammar) were recently featured in U of T News' "Innovations in teaching" series, in an article available here.
LIN204, which the article notes is one of the most popular course offerings of our department, has an enrollment mostly of students in disciplines other than linguistics—putting Alex in the position of providing the first (and possibly last) substantial taste of our field to a large number of students.
With this opportunity she introduces them to fundamental principles of how linguists approach language (descriptively rather than prescriptively), and encourages them to think like linguists by asking them to reflect on why sentences like "I went to the bank" sound fine even if the listener isn't familiar with the particular bank being referred to.
The article also highlights her incorporation of non-standard and innovative uses of English into the course, including "man" as a "street pronoun" that is flexible when it comes to person, number, and gender (as seen in the example "it's her personality man's looking at"), a usage that U of T alumnus Derek Denis (now at the University of Victoria) is currently working on in his research.


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Cavaliers To Travel 10,000 Miles During 2014 Summer Tour
The Cavaliers Drum & Bugle Corps will travel 10,000 miles with more than 30 performances across 18 states as the Rosemont, Illinois-based group celebrates its 66th anniversary season during the 2014 Drum Corps International Tour.
It all started in November as the corps hosted the 2014 GearWORKS: Cavaliers Audition Experience events in Atlanta, Chicago, and Austin to find the next cast of performing members. The excitement builds over the winter and spring as the members dive into technique and show material, all leading to the start of the 86-day summer tour.
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The game was there for the taking, but so were several others that the Dulaney boys basketball team let slip away during a 10-game losing streak to Milford Mill that spanned 12 years.
Why would this night be any different?
Because as Dulaney coach Matt Lochte said, with another game on the line in front of a gym full of people, the Lions "played a full 32 minutes and well from start to finish."
Senior guard scored Alex Kassolis scored a game-high 30 points on senior night and Dulaney (15-5) won for the first time over the visiting Millers Wednesday night since January of 2004 in an 84-71 victory.
"Beating Milford Mill is huge," Lochte said. "It's a big county rivalry and we have had some absolute classic games over the years. And it's really feels good to get this win. Obviously, they have been on the good side on so many of the wins."
Senior point guard Lamont Sanders (17) and senior guard Joey O'Dwyer (14) also scored in double figures for the winners.
Dulaney junior guard Cole Harshman totaled 11 points and 11 rebounds and freshman guard Jaylen Wiggins had 10 assists.
Senior guard DeMarco Lee led Milford Mill with 23 points and senior guard Dominique Miller added 20 points.
Dulaney hit 54 percent (26-for-48) of its shots and went 25-for-35 from the free throw line.
Milford Mill (11-7) struggled from the line, going 11-for-23.
Dulaney jumped out to an 18-11 lead in the first seven minutes thanks to its three-point shooting. Kassolis and O'Dwyer each hit two during that stretch.
The Lions boosted their lead to 25-13 in the first minute of the second quarter when Kassolis opened the period with back-to-back treys.
He had 14 points at halftime as Dulaney held a 35-24 advantage at that point.
Kassolis has scored 30 or more points four times this year.
"He's had an unbelievable season," Lochte said of a player averaging 23 points a game. "He's had a dozen plus Division III schools interested in him and a couple of Division II schools. He's developed late in his high school career."
Dulaney boosted its lead to 41-26 with 7:01 remaining in the third quarter.
Milford Mill used a 14-4 run to close to 45-40 about three minutes later before Dulaney started to pull away.
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New Delhi: The resident doctors of the AIIMS on Monday demanded the removal of Anant Kumar Hegde, who was inducted in Prime Minister Narendra Modi's cabinet, saying he has a history of physical violence against the medical practitioners.
President of the Resident Doctors' Association of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Dr Harjit Bhatti said that the prime minister's move to induct Hegde as the Minister of State for Skill Development has developed a sense of insecurity among the doctors.
Bhatti, in his letter to Modi, said that doctors had gained confidence after the prime minister had raised the issue of violence against the medical practitioners from the ramparts of the Red Fort on August 15 and urged people to follow Mahatma Gandhi's path and stop violence against the doctors.
"But you have shattered the feeling of security. We doctors again feel insecure when you inducted a tainted minister into your cabinet who has a history of physical violence against doctors," he said in the letter.
The doctors, sought expedition of the process of enquiry and fair trial against Hedge, alleging he had assaulted doctors and staff in January at Sirsi hospital over an alleged delay in treatment.
The assault was captured by CCTV cameras and a case was registered against Hegde.
"We were expecting a fair enquiry and conviction, but he was rewarded and made a minister. This step is definitely against the medical fraternity as it portrays that you reward an assaulter of doctors," Bhatti said while urging the PM to review his decision in the best interest of doctors and the public.
The AIIMS RDA, a body of around 1,500 doctors, also sought an apology from Hegde.
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Blizzard is 'Crafty'
--- Tom Chick
One of my questions was just recently answered, and the other---well, it will be soon enough (which is another issue all in itself).
It wasn't the game itself that inspired this post, but rather a recently released podcast featuring Rob Zacny, Tom Chick, Chris Remo and Troy Goodfellow talking about it on a podcast this week (good listen by the way).The game of course, is StarCraft 2.
Now, while I've always been a big fan of StarCraft (or at least the first and its expansion), I also instantly recognized the diversity that the RTS genre at large was sucking in for itself over the past ten years (even those within StarCraft's original timeframe). I've always been a big fan of the genre for its balance between strategy and action, as well as being one of the individual exemplars of that 'balance-of-evils' I so often bitch about. I do however, grow weary of its placement in the current package though (i.e. StarCraft 2). A common pulse in the aforementioned podcast is one of the many who enjoy the 'sport' of it (while not necessarily being pros), the competition that the games so easily implement, nurture, and revolve around.
I've never been one for competition though, so this kind of places me on the opposite end of the spectrum. This is someone who doesn't necessarily enjoy the 'sport' of the game (at least not to such a disciplined extent), but is probably more seemingly adept at it by default because of that fact. Mostly this is due to the fact I have never—once in my life actually played a game of StarCraft to win. I just enjoy the nuances of actually playing, whatever that may entail (though I am admittedly a big fan of the cerebral strategy-rape that the game so easily plays house to). It's in this tactic that I organically relate the game to the third-most common comparison I've seen of the franchise: chess (i.e. I play that almost exactly the same way). I'm going to avoid that board-game-&-video-game can or worms though, I just wanted to emphasize my relationship with the title. It's a game that provides a lovely little mask for how I enjoy tormenting people.
- Did Blizzard just not pay attention this? I'd assume that the craft required to design this game---this game in particular, would hint at some sort of definitive grasp on the its networking aspect as well. I'd imagine this could easily be fixed with a patch (of course!), but it does leave to question just how much focus this game is meant to have (and where that focus is meant to be drawn to), which of course, leads to…
- If it was simply an oversight and if the multiplayer aspect was polished to death in spite of the single-player's neglect (which is not so unreasonable given the title we're speaking of here), how much praise can we really allot Blizzard at this point?
- That sacrifice leaves what? A hackneyed and retconned campaign only slightly hidden by fantastic production values and the game's own base formula/design.
Among the many of the symptoms-of-excess that Blizzard's path has caused, one particularly humorous one is also one I'm fairly proud to be immune to. The first thing I saw when I noticed I could play the entire campaign offline was the constantly (and almost infectious) sentiment of…
…which actually made me laugh out loud. With a 'bye bitch' I was swiftly off to play something I thought I had to pay $60 for to begin with. Little did I know that I was hopping off a burning train into a pit of fire though. The next trench of debate I take up against StarCraft 2 is a common one, its narrative. Now while I do consider myself a fairly pretentious ass, I also see much potential in the general StarCraft universe, some of it realized---most of it not. As a large science fiction fan, it's only a fleeting dream I have to someday see a game soar among the heights that I would love to see the medium find for itself. StarCraft does not do this, it doesn't even aspire to do it. It takes an interesting backdrop, interesting archetypes, and an interesting design---and well, it just runs them through the motions.
I had one of my infamous 'moments' in the first game during Sarah Kerrigan's betrayal on Tarsonis. Something about seeing the character I had grown somewhat attached to become completely overtaken by Zerg with no one around her kind of struck a personal chord for me. Thanks to that though, I was able to grant leniency to the bad-girl trope she later falls into, but that's a digression. The second game's moment came for me when Jim Raynor/Player is guided into reliving/playing Zeratul's vision of the entire cosmos's fall at the hands of the Zerg. The 'In Utter Darkness' mission' was by far one of the greatest and mind-numbingly dumbest things I've ever seen in a game, both at the same time. Both of these moments are just personal instances where I could assert my perception where the game dares not to. StarCraft has always kind of felt like a brilliant toolset and nothing more, anytime I try to break it free of those restraints in my head, I always end up slamming into these hundred-foot high walls. StarCraft 2 is faulty in the sense that it doesn't try to change this at all, it just tries to hide behind its inability to do so.
Had more time been spent actually crafting this universe, StarCraft 2 might deserve at the very least, the majority of its hype. Since all signs point to its multiplayer being the reason the campaign is so silly, I have no choice but to raise my resentment towards online play in general (and anybody that's familiar with me knows how unreasonably high it already is). This is mostly because Blizzard, one of the largest and most successful companies can get away with this swindle unchallenged:
- Making people pay well over $100 for a title who's functionality is tantamount to that of a fixer-upper hot-rod; only bolstering the fact that games can only be products rather than pieces (or even a fusion of both, which StarCraft is perfectly poised to do) will never set well with me.
- It took ten years…for this? Blizzard shouldn't just go unchallenged in this category anymore. Yes, they polish their games extremely well, yes it takes a while to design and furthermore test something as gargantuan as StarCraft, but a decade of unchallenged criticism is something they're simply not getting from me. What's shocking is the legion of defenders mindlessly defending this particular aspect of the game as well (e.g. "Well it's Blizzard, heh").
- The DRM and 'influences' on this game have been horrendous; that I can't play LAN or with someone overseas right now is somewhat sad, and I'm embarrassed people aren't bitching about these things MORE.
It was StarCraft 2, and I wanted to care about it far more than I currently do (which is of course, why I'm so peeved). All I can do at the moment however, is offer some rather crazed and fanboyistic musings over the 'Queen of Blades'…but nothing else.
And though reading this would certainly make it seem like I loathe the damn game (which is untrue, being that I love it by default given my affinity for the first title if nothing else), I actually don't. It's just the burden so few of us bear now to hold this dumbass industry to a higher standard.


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Did anyone see Grand Designs Episode 2 on Channel 4 last week? They were in the Isle of Skye, Scotland, with Indi Waterstone and her partner Rebecca, who had always dreamed of building her own house and having a lawn on the roof. They chose to build it on the scenic Isle of Skye overlooking the sea; it looked like Lord of the Rings could've been filmed there, it was absolutely stunning.
The bit that interested me most, as we are a double glazing company, was when they installed the windows and doors. These windows and doors were made by a Scandinavian company as the house would have to put up with savage weather which will challenge the house on a daily basis. Winds could regularly be up to 100 mph, so the windows and doors needed to be air tight and able to survive these winds.
These windows and doors were installed by a dedicated Scottish team who did a fantastic job, sealing the house like an airlock on a spaceship. It was a job that required precision and although it was time consuming they fitted perfectly and the whistling wind could no longer be heard or felt in the house. The numerous layers of insulation also helped their home retain heat, helping it meet Stroma's strict regulations for air tightness, using a giant fan to suck air out of the house to measure how sealed it is. The closer to zero the more air tight it is – the house came in at 1.4, which was very good!
So, these windows and doors can handle blustering winds, which got me thinking about our product. Did you know our conservatories can take 130mph winds in their stride? The video below demonstrates one of our conservatories being battered by wind, whilst a conservatory not built by Anglian and not meeting the British Standard BS6399 standard has a very tough time. I wouldn't want to be the owner of one of those.
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I have contributed articles to a variety of newspapers and magazines over the years, including, most recently, "CounterPunch," "Commonweal," and "America Magazine."
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Is This Dog Good With Kids?
Very few dogs dislike kids. What dogs dislike is being sat on, hit, poked, carried around like a stuffed toy, having their ears and tails pulled, or being otherwise abused. Would you like these things? Probably not. Be aware: Abuse is still abuse, whether the perpetrator means it that way or not. A puppy who is tossed into the air and injured has been abused, whether the tosser is an adult or an unsupervised two year-old. So rather than ask a rescuer, "Is this dog good with kids?", ask yourself the following:
- Have I taught my child that animals are sentient beings with feelings?
- Have I taught my child to treat animals with respect?
- Is my child old enough to understand that he is capable of hurting an animal? And that an animal who is being hurt is not at fault for defending itself?
- Have I arranged to give my pet a safe place in our home where my child may not approach him?
- Is my child old enough to recognize a pet as a responsibility, not a toy?
- Am I committed to constantly supervising all interaction between my very young child and our pet?
If you answered "Yes" to every question, you're ready to introduce a pet to your family. If the answer to even one question is "No", you need to consider waiting until your child is a more appropriate age.
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I am an English Literature Graduate, I work in a library, and I am always reading a book. There would obviously come a time when I realised that I loved some writers more than others. Not that my opinion counts for anything, but I am going to throw it out there anyway. Perhaps someone agrees with me, perhaps my opinion will englighten someone. You never know, it might happen. So here are my top ten writers, counting down from number 10.
10. Sarah Waters
Sarah Waters. Let's see. Ah, yes. She is British. Wilkie Collins is her favourite writer. She is a feminist. She sets her novels in the Victorian era. I think she's also a lesbian, but that's neither here or there. What's not to like? Waters tends to write Historical novels set in the Victorian era (notably a time of extreme sexual oppression) with a feminist slant but without sounding preachy. She creates genuine atmosphere and really knows how to build suspense. Her work is well researched, and she writes convincingly within the context's style whilst not alienating her audience. Her most well known novels are Fingersmith (2002) and Tipping the Velvet (1998), but my personal favourite is Affinity (1999).


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June is around the corner, and you know what that means – Tiwa Savage debut album in the Nigerian market is around the corner. The album titled, Once Upon A Time is set to released within a few weeks, and an album listening event is already scheduled.
Tiwa Savage shared this picture of the album art. Thoughts?
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Operations With Units of Measure
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Ekklesia, as in the title of this blog, is the greek word that we (usually)translate as church in the New Testament, it means a group of people gathered together for a certain purpose, or an assembly. I wanted to use that word in the title of this blog so that people don't get all the different cultural ideas about the word "church" mixed in with what I'm talking about, maybe to give us all a fresh start on what the church, or ekklesia is supposed to be.
I want to explain what we feel the Biblical model of the church is. We believe the church is a community of believers sharing their lives, and when they are gathered they all participate to encourage one another. Christ is the head of the church and his goals and desires for the church are all that matters. He should direct the gathering and life of the church. Simply put, that is what we think the church looked like in the New Testament and what it should look like today.
My wife and I want to be a part of what the church is supposed to be. This blog will hopefully be a place where we can keep an account of our journey in finding out what the church is and being a part of it. We want this to be a place for people in Southern Maine to find others in the area who want to be a part of the ekklesia so that we can be a community of believers under the headship of Christ. We also want it to be a place that will encourage others who feel that they are alone and don't know what to do in pursuing God's desire for the ekklesia.
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Kanye West Made a Creeptastic Sex Tape With a Kim Kardashian Lookalike
Kim Kardashian has said that boyfriend Kanye West is her perfect match in every way, which means they would already be headed down the aisle if she wasn't already married to the same dude she said that about a year ago.
But she wasn't kidding about that whole "perfect match" thing -- seems someone is shopping around a Yeezy sex tape.
RadarOnline has reportedly seen the 20-minute romp and published a screen grab of the male participant, and it sure looks like the rapper to us. Apparently, the girl he bangs in a hotel (classy!) is 18 and married but says she and her husband no longer have sex, which is totally a valid excuse for cheating.
Oh, and did we mention she reportedly looks just like Kim?
On the tape, Kanye and not-Kim do the dirty, but they never kiss because come on, that would be super intimate. Also, Yeezy supposedly plays it "safe," so Kimmy probably doesn't have to worry a baby mama showing up on her doorstep to ruin her eventual televised media circus of a wedding to Kanye (which we all know is probably being scripted by E! writers as we speak).
A source claims the vid was shot before Kanye and Kim hooked up, and says he's seen both tapes. In his professional opinion? 'Ye's performance is superior, but maybe that's just because the hip-hop star was energized after watching Kim's go-round.
And in case you're wondering if the tape really does exist, seems it does -- in fact, there are two of them. And West's attorneys have demanded that the screenshots floating around the web be removed, writing in an oddly-capitalized letter obtained by AllHipHop, "Be advised that the Screen Shot, as well as the Tape from which the Screen Shot was taken, were illegally obtained and believed to have been stolen from Mr. West's computer."
So yeah, Kim and Kanye really do have a lot in common -- neither of them ever saw a camera they didn't like.


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Dr Maggie Hellström works at the ICOS Carbon Portal, the data center of the European research infrastructure Integrated Carbon Observation System (ICOS). Maggie has a background in experimental nuclear chemistry & nuclear physics, with a MSC from the Royal Institute of Technology,Stockholm in 1988 and a PhD from Uppsala university in 1992. She has worked at several nuclear physics institutes in the US, Germany and Sweden, and holds an Associated Professorship at Lund university. Since 2010, Maggie has been involved in greenhouse gas and environmental science projects including the Swedish national ICOS initiative. In 2013, she joined the ICOS Carbon Portal team, where she is now engaged in research data management issues. From 2018, she is connected to the Swedish National Data service as an environmental & earth sciences domain specialist. Her main interests are identification & citation, persistent identifiers and FAIRness. She participates in a range of RDA working groups, and is also a co-chair of RDA Europe's GEDE expert group. She was recently appointed as Open Data Champion by SPARC Europe.


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At home, watching xtube…and I found out this hot rubber piss pig is locked in Areallytallboy's basement as a urinal…and :
He is in full rubber, head to toe, with a piss hood on top. And a big anal dildo in his ass.
He has been drinking his own piss and Areallytallboy's piss for a while…
There's a metal chain locked on the wall, so this rubber pig cannot escape.
His cock is outside…rock hard…all the time. This rubber urinal must be enjoying all the time! haha


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All of a sudden they heard a big splash, looked at each other, and the priest said to the pastor, "You think maybe we should have just said 'Bridge Out' instead?"
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Ladies – it's time to talk about panties. Is that a weird topic for green parenting? Well, whenever I find a great new product that moms (or non-moms) might like, I want to pass the tip along. And I just had to share the news on these Organic Cotton Thongs.
Not only are they made of organic cotton, but there's also so little material, they must help reduce our energy consumption. If every American woman switched to organic cotton thongs, we'd save 100 million barrels of oil and 40 acres of old-growth forest every day (OK, I guesstimated that, but I'm sure we'd save something.)
But first, my thong history. I started wearing them a few years after college on the advice of a friend – not a skinny, stripper-like girl (that killed that stereotype). I was hooked and said "bon voyage" to creeping, scrunching, and unflattering lines. Believe it or not, I even found maternity thongs at Motherhood!
There's a huge on-line debate about wearing these itty bitty underwears – it's a very personal choice. But as I keep telling my mother-in-law, "don't knock it 'til you try it!"
There are those who shun floss: "I think having your butt cheeks hanging out with a hammock in between them look disgusting myself, not sexy."
And, turning the other exposed cheek, some gals embrace them: "I would rather have a few centimeters of fabric between the crack of my butt, rather than spend every 20 minutes having to pull out a couple or more inches!"
I am finally back to my pre-baby weight (2 years later…), so I was in the market for some new pretty li'l things. When I saw these organic cotton beauties in the Gaiam catalog, I jumped for joy! I bought two pairs to road test. I can attest – they are AWESOME!! These are called Silver Linings™, because of the XStatic® fabric, which is:
an antimicrobial silver treatment that, until recently, only was used in healthcare products. The nontoxic revolutionary treatment helps eliminate odor and prevent infections.
I paid $16 per pair for these, but they are now ON SALE for $12.
So, if you ever wanted to give thongs a try – this is the time. You can be eco-chic, save money, and shop privately. These come mailed in an unmarked brown envelop, so your privacy is ensured. No one need know why you're smiling all day! No one needs to know you're wearing the most comfortable, sleek, carefree thongs ever made.
I swear if you give them a try, you will join the throngs singing the praises of thongs. Everyone should wear them (uhhh….except men, maybe – that's a whole 'nother debate! Check out these YouTube videos to find out why.)


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Here's a confession, guys. I'm torn while writing this article. See, consumer credit absolutely jumped from March to April when consumers started taking out loans like crazy (we're not talking going credit card swipe-happy, we're talking more like auto and student loans.)
On the one hand, that makes me happy to see, because it shows that the economy is recovering enough so that consumers feel confident in borrowing and spending money again. On the other hand, it makes me nervous, because I don't want people jumping the gun here. The interest rates are down, so consumers are naturally trying to take advantage of them, but if you're not in the position to do so, I don't think you should be pushing it. Here's what Jeanna Smialek reported for Bloomberg on the topic:
"Consumer borrowing in the U.S. accelerated in April as Americans took out more education and automobile loans.
The $11.1 billion increase in credit followed a revised $8.37 billion increase the previous month that was more than initially reported, Federal Reserve figures showed today in Washington. The median forecast in a Bloomberg survey called for a $12.9 billion gain in April."
Click here to read the entire Bloomberg article about what is happening right now with consumer spending.
The economy is still in recovery-mode, and unemployment is still down (in fact, down another .01% according to data released by the Labor Department today, according to the above-mentioned Bloomberg article.) Don't push it guys!! Spend what you can afford, stick to a budget. Otherwise it's gonna be a tough summer of paying back stuff you can't afford.


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Above and beyond their exquisite texture, and great taste, I love their versatility. They're a world-class side dish as is, but can be paired with your favorite pasta sauce, and served as an appetizer, or entrée. Rave reviews should come your way; along with lots of "But, why are these called gnocchi, again?"
For a great winter twist, you can place some sage leaves in between the gnocchi before baking them, and they'd be perfect at any holiday feast. In fact, now I'm upset I didn't do that this time. I'm going to have to make another batch. Anyway, I really do hope you give these a try soon. Enjoy!
Ingredients for about 16 Roman-Style Gnocchi:
Note: I used a 2.75-inch cutter
3 cups milk
1 teaspoon kosher salt, or to taste
1 1/4 cup semolina
1 cup freshly grated Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese (only about 1.25 ounces by weight, but if you grate it on a microplane, it will easily fill a cup)
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Drunk officer ruined his army mate's Tower of London wedding by weeing up a gate, knocking an officer's tooth out and upsetting a Beefeater
Lieutenant Phil Roberts's rowdy antics got the whole wedding party kicked out
A GROOM'S dream wedding at the Tower of London was ruined when a drunken Army pal set off a fire extinguisher, urinated on the palace gates and knocked an officer's tooth out.
The officer's antics got the whole wedding party kicked out of the reception and he ended up being arrested.
The episode on Saturday night could mean the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers — who are based at the Tower — will no longer be allowed to use the palace for weddings.
The chaos followed the wedding of Lieutenant Dominic Ward and Cherie Preston, an events co-ordinator at Nando's, in the Chapel of St Peter ad Vincula at the palace, reports The Times.
Lieutenant Phil Roberts is said to have picked up a water-based fire extinguisher and started spraying the walls - hitting a 19th century oil painting - and floors of grade I listed Trinity House during the reception.
A source said: "The staff were screaming and shouting at all the wedding guests to get out. All the guests were kicked out and the best man managed to find a new venue in a nearby hotel complex, which cost a fortune to hire."
The carnage unfolded at around 10.30pm on Saturday.
A source close to Trinity House said: "For the bride and groom... no one wants to be asked to leave their own wedding reception but if an event goes in that direction, I think they understood."
Lieutenant Roberts was taken back to his accommodation at the palace by a friend but started weeing on the front gates, a source said.
He then had a fight with the officer who had been escorting him, knocking out a cap from one of his front teeth.
A Beefeater saw the scuffle and summoned the army's quick reaction force as well as the police.
An email circulated to Fusiliers from a senior officer said Lieutenant Roberts was caught urinating against the front gates of the Tower before having "a scrap with the bloke who is helping him".
He was reportedly arrested and led away from the palace.
The army is investigating.
Lieutenant Roberts is reported to have offered to resign his commission over the incident, but army bosses refused.
Metropolitan Police confirmed that a man had been arrested on suspicion of being drunk and disorderly.
He was issued with a fixed-penalty notice.
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