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Let me begin by saying I admire people who choose cycling as their means of transportation. I would not like to ride along with traffic. My cycling is limited to paths outside the city (and I haven't done that in a few years).
But now I will begin my rant against those cyclists who feel entitled. My city government is trying to make Montreal more cycle friendly. We have many kilometres of cycle paths, some protected and others just lanes demarcated by painted lines on streets. All the laws being proposed have to do with motor vehicles, none about cyclists. I do understand that if a car hits a cyclist, it is the cyclist who will be injured, but the driver will also live with the trauma. Here are cyclist infractions I have seen in the past few days:
- driving the wrong way on a one way street
- driving on the sidewalk
- talking on a cell phone (not hands free) while cycling
- my spouse saw someone taking a selfie while riding in traffic
- going through stop signs and red lights (this is a regular one) - I know someone in another city who was hit by a cyclist going through a red light. Four surgeries later her arm is still not perfect. The cyclist just picked himself up and went on his merry way with no consequences.
- driving through parks where there is a no bicycle sign and there is a designated bike path elsewhere in the park
- driving while holding parcels and a cup of coffee (how will he operate the brakes?)
- driving no hands (our city is full of pot holes - hitting one without control could be disastrous)
- no lights on a bike while riding at night and wearing dark clothes (I could be stopped by police and fined if my car lights were not on or were burned out)
- no reflectors
- no helmet
- no use of hand signals when turning
- driving in between lanes of cars ( a law here says cars have to be at least 1.5 metres away from a cyclist, but there is no law that says cyclists have to stay away from cars)
- being unaware of blind spots, especially for trucks - a number of fatal accidents have been caused by trucks turning right past a cycle lane after a light change. Cyclists move ahead unaware of what the truck will do. Cyclists should stop where they can see the turn signals.


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Study Abroad Experiences and Global Citizenship: Fostering Proenvironmental Behavior
Wynveen, Christopher J.; Kyle, Gerard T.; Tarrant, Michael A.
Journal of Studies in International Education, v16 n4 p334-352 Sep 2012
Short-term study abroad programs currently account for more than 50% of students who study overseas. Using an adaptation of the Value-Belief-Norm theory of proenvironmental behavior (Stern, 2000), we hypothesized that study abroad nurtures global citizenship related to ecologically conscious behaviors by strengthening core relations among environmental values, beliefs, and norms. The sample consisted of students (n = 623) from 10 U.S. universities participating in a 4-week study abroad program to either Australia or New Zealand in 2008 and 2009. A pre-, posttest design was adopted in which students voluntarily completed a survey instrument on the first and last days of the program in the destination country. Results of the study suggested that the modified Value-Belief-Norm approach provides a robust theoretical framework, used in conjunction with theories of learning, for explaining how proenvironmental behavior is nurtured. These findings provided empirical support for the efficacy of short-term study abroad programs and developed further support for the importance of strong pedagogical techniques implemented by competent instructors. (Contains 3 notes, 7 tables and 2 figures.)
Descriptors: Learning Theories, Citizenship, Statistical Data, Foreign Countries, Study Abroad, Global Approach, Conservation (Environment), Student Attitudes, Pretests Posttests, Surveys, Values, Program Effectiveness, Teaching Methods, Environmental Education, College Students, Experiential Learning, Transformative Learning
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Young Big Blaze ~ Feb. 2009
Once again it is a sad time for Yellowstone Wolfwatchers. The wolf known by wolfwatchers worldwide as Big Blaze is dead. Killed by the Mollie Pack. He had been collared and given the number designation 838M. Big Blaze was one of the last remaining wolves who was born in the famous Druid Peak Pack. He, along with many others that have gone before will be missed.
For those of you who follow the wolves in Yellowstone:
Earlier this week 471F the nine year old female Agate Creek matriarch was found dead. Apparently killed by other wolves, most likely Mollies. I don't know at this time if she was pregnant or not but she had mated in February. It was hoped that she, along with a black female yearling would have pups this spring and rebuild the Agate pack that had dwindled down to just these two wolves. I was fortunate to have seen her up close this past winter and got some shots. She is just the latest wolf to be killed by the large Mollie pack in the last year, they are nineteen wolves strong.
These wolves live a very hard life.
Update: It has been reported that 471F was indeed pregnant at the time she died.
"Song Of The Wolf" from C D Cross on Vimeo.
The National Wolfwatcher Coalition is an organization that is very proactive in the wolf conservation effort. They have assembled a slideshow / video to promote wolf conservation that I have contributed images to. You can view it here, or on their website . If you want to learn more about wolf conservation, NWC is a great source for news and information that I am glad to be a part of.
This year's trip was different than last year in a few ways. First the snow level was very low this year. The average snow depth was 10 to 12 inches. Some places the ground was bare. Last year there was 4 to 5 feet of snow in the Lamar Valley.
The second thing was the wildlife. Last year wolves were few and far away, and fox were the K-9 of choice. This year the wolves did not disappoint. There was action from a total of five packs. We only saw one fox the whole time, and it was at night.
The third was the weather. Warmer than last year's -44f, this year's low was a warm -22f.
The first week was slow but still had it's moments. The action this week centered around the very large Mollie pack up from the Pelican Valley. This pack has 19 wolves. They almost killed a pup from the Lamar Canyon pack.
Things didn't really get started until the second week. This is the time when the female's estrous is peaking. That usually cranks up the action a few notches, and that's just what happened. The last two wolves in the Agate Creek pack are females, and they were both in estrous looking for males from the Blacktail pack. It's times like this that wolves have only one thing on their mind, mating. This preoccupation lent itself to the wolves getting close enough to get some good shots, and treating everyone to a rare close encounter.
Also in the second week, we had otters and a badger that put on a good show. Not to mention the Canyon pack making three kills in Mamoth in almost as many days. Two of them were very close. That provided the opportunity to get some coyote shots, but I didn't get any shots of wolves on those. However I did get them on the third.
All in all, this was a very good trip. Debbie and I got to see a lot of old friends and made some new ones too!
You can see full size shots from this trip in the "Yellowstone Winter 2012" gallery.
Our next Yellowstone trip will be in May.
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Lavender Leads No. 5 Ohio State Over Michigan
Jan. 21, 2010
ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP)--Jantel Lavender had 20 points and 10 rebounds to help No. 5 Ohio State win its 12th straight game with a 58-56 victory over Michigan on Thursday night.
Samantha Prahalis added 13 points and nine assists for Ohio State (20-1, 8-0 Big Ten).
Carmen Reynolds scored 20 for Michigan (10-8, 2-6), which was trying to beat its rival at home for the first time since 1999.
Trailing by three, Lavender scored to make it 50-49 with 6:23 left. Andrea Walker's layup gave the Buckeyes the lead. Michigan continued to struggle offensively, but Reynolds' 3-pointer pulled them within two. After a shot-clock violation by Ohio State, the Wolverines had the ball with 23.8 seconds left.
Krista Phillips missed a 3-pointer and the Buckeyes couldn't corral the rebound giving Michigan one more chance. Reynolds though turned the ball over while driving the lane, allowing Ohio State to hold on.
Michigan jumped out to a 17-12 lead behind eight points from Jenny Ryan and seven from Reynolds, but neither scored again in the half. That helped Ohio State take a 32-27 advantage at the intermission. Prahalis had nine points and five assists in opening 20 minutes.
Reynolds scored another seven points in the first six minutes of the second half as Michigan regained the lead. The Wolverines led by as many as seven before Ohio State rallied.


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A horse named for New England Patriots tight end Rob Gronkowski earned a spot at the Kentucky Derby, ESPN reported.
The 3-year-old colt, named Gronkowski, won the Burradon Stakes in England on Friday, qualifying the thoroughbred for the Run for the Roses on May 5 at Churchill Downs.
For the first time, the Derby is reserving one spot in the 20-horse field to a European horse, ESPN reported.
"We've had this dream, and now the dream is alive," trainer Jeremy Noseda told At The Races after the horse's victory.
The Patriots' tight end has attended the Kentucky Derby before, attending Millionaires Row with teammate Tom Brady.
The colt won his last four races, with two victories coming in March, ESPN reported.
"It sounds strange, but I haven't yet seen on the racetrack what I believe this horse is capable of. I'm sure there's more to come," Noseda said.
The 1969 Preakness Cup trophy, the prize of a major thoroughbred horse race won by a stallion that nearly landed a Triple Crown, was among the items an alleged looter grabbed from a storage unit in South Florida, police said.
Alicia Elaine Murphy, 59, of Boca Raton, faces several charges of burglary and grand theft. Investigators said she cut the locks on at least 12 storage units at a CubeSmart in Delray Beach and took electronics, household items, musical instruments and taxidermy.
And one storage unit had more than $300,000 worth of goods, including family heirlooms and memorabilia from the 1969 Preakness Stakes. Majestic Prince, a thoroughbred colt, won the race that year, two weeks after winning the Kentucky Derby.
Murphy sent the Preakness Cup, and other mementos including gilded horseshoes, to an auction house in New York that specializes in sports collectibles, police said.
The auction company had given Murphy a $15,000 advance on the cup before detectives arrested her Wednesday.
Police value Murphy's total haul at between $350,000 and $400,000, the report says.
Murphy told detectives that she rented a storage unit at CubeSmart for 24-hour access, and routinely broke into other units using bolt cutters. She rented a large vehicle and hired laborers at Home Depot to help load trucks with stolen merchandise, according to the police report.
Murphy broke into the lockers at night when workers weren't present, police said.
Murphy has been convicted of several felonies since the early 1990s, including cocaine possession, fraud, grand theft and forgery, according to state records. Most recently, Murphy served eight months in the state prison in 2005 on charges of grand theft and fraud.
The lucrative horse race memorabilia belonged to Francine McMahon, a Delray Beach resident whose father, Canadian industrialist Frank McMahon, owned Majestic Prince, according to news reports. Frank McMahon helped develop lucrative gas and crude oil pipelines in Canada.
Majestic Prince nearly won the Triple Crown, a rare feat in thoroughbred racing earned when a horse wins three prestigious races in a six-week span — Kentucky Derby, Preakness and Belmont Stakes. Only twelve horses have won the Triple Crown, the last in 2015 by American Pharoah.
Majestic Prince was the first horse to enter the Belmont Stakes undefeated in 1969. But he had injured a ligament in his right front leg before the race, according to news reports. McMahon had wanted to rest "The Prince" as media called the champion thoroughbred, but changed his mind.
Majestic Prince finished second by 5½ lengths to Arts and Letters in the Belmont and never raced again.
In honor of the 143rd Kentucky Derby, you can now generate your very own horse name.
Racehorses are known for their colorful names. This year's Kentucky Derby contenders include Thunder Snow, Girvin, McKraken and Patch, the one-eyed horse.
The Courier-Journal has created an interactive that allows users to enter their first initial and day of birth to create a unique Derby horse name. There's also a random name generator.
Users are encouraged to share their Derby horse name on social media.
The 143rd Kentucky Derby will be run at Churchill Downs Saturday at 6:34 p.m. ET.


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Fighting the tides of change in Red Hook
Market pressures are threatening to wipe Brooklyn's working waterfront off the map
When engineering firm AECOM proposed last year to redevelop Red Hook into a neighborhood of high-rises connected to Manhattan by a new subway line, John Quadrozzi Jr. noticed a glaring omission: his business. "I was dumbfounded," said Quadrozzi, president of Gowanus Bay Terminal (GBX), near the mouth of the Gowanus Canal. "How do you color over somebody's property without ever even speaking to them?"
Although AECOM's proposal remains just an idea, the omission symbolized the plight of Quadrozzi and other business owners operating on southwest Brooklyn's industrial waterfront. With demand rising for housing and other amenities, developers, politicians and the public might be content to erase them. Almost all of Red Hook's waterfront is still zoned for manufacturing, but many key parcels are no longer used industrially. Fairway and Ikea are the biggest examples. But for some residents, the arrival of a nearby private school, also built on an industrial site, represented a tipping point for the neighborhood.
The changes in Red Hook mirror those citywide. Between 2002 and 2012, manufacturing zones across the city shrank by 5.2%, or 1,100 acres, according to the Department of City Planning. The most substantial reduction occurred in Brooklyn, where approximately 360 acres zoned for manufacturing have been lost, a decline of 8.2%. These numbers don't reflect special permits or zoning variances, which allow owners to change the use of a property, say, from a dry dock to a furniture store, without altering the underlying zoning. As a result, many industrial areas are shrinking in piecemeal and ad hoc fashion, reduced through attrition and apathy, not planning.
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The Department of City Planning says the loss of manufacturing zones has slowed under Mayor Bill de Blasio, but the trend seems irreversible without a major shift in the city's approach to industrial areas. "The return on investment is so much higher for residential," said Craig Hammerman, former district manager of Brooklyn Community Board 6, which includes the Red Hook waterfront. "If you left it up to the free market, you wouldn't have any manufacturing left in the city."
Quadrozzi's challenge is that most New Yorkers don't realize that essential goods like heating oil and rock salt come from terminals on Gowanus Bay, a pier-strewn inlet between Sunset Park and Red Hook. Slag, stone, fuel and aggregate are not compelling topics, and their purveyors are at a disadvantage because, unlike Fairway and Ikea, they don't deal directly with the public. Quadrozzi said if he can't teach Brooklynites to appreciate the bulk commodities that keep New York running, his business—and by extension the borough's working waterfront—won't survive.
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To win the hearts and minds of New Yorkers, Quadrozzi has crafted models and renderings of his waterfront vision in a mobile building just inside the GBX gates. He imagines a "grandiose" ship or historic boat floating beside the Columbia Street Esplanade, welcoming visitors with tours and classrooms devoted to maritime industry. The current vessel for Quadrozzi's plans is a retired FDNY boat that recently was moved to the esplanade.
Although Quadrozzi's public relations project has yet to be realized, the work it plans to celebrate proceeds apace. On a daily basis at GBX, concrete is crushed, fuel barges are docked and dispatched out to sea via tugboat, and road salt and powdered slag—a byproduct of the steel manufacturing process that can be used in place of cement—is loaded and unloaded.
Quadrozzi was on hand one cloudy afternoon to supervise the removal of a bargeload of slag into the M/V Loujaine, a 500-foot bulk freighter that has crossed its last ocean and now serves as a floating cement silo.
A giant articulated arm reached from the Loujaine into an open barge. At the end of the arm, a nozzlelike screw conveyor transported the slag up, over and into one of the ship's holds. A man with a joystick stood at the rail, moving the arm in parallel arcs through the powdery white material. It would take less than 24 hours to move all 5,500 tons of slag onto the ship.
"It's beautiful stuff to me," Quadrozzi said, as slag settled on his eyebrows.
The GBX property was created in 1920 when the state filled in a marsh to build a port where grain that had come down the Erie Canal could be loaded onto oceangoing ships. The Port Authority acquired the site in 1945 and continued to fill it in, but within 20 years, the elevators stopped running, as grain increasingly moved along inland rivers and by rail. In 1997 Quadrozzi formed Gowanus Industrial Park to purchase the site, which included 13 acres of land and 33 acres of underwater property.
In addition to the slag business, Quadrozzi also rents out the pier and grain elevator for movie shoots and as a backdrop for concerts and theatrical events. One performance, titled Picture Red Hook, had dancers hanging off the silos from cables. At the moment, Quadrozzi said, about 60% of the property's revenue comes from land use, such as shipping-container, bus and truck parking; 10% comes from entertainment-related ventures; and 30% from maritime users.
Climbing the metal staircases up to the Loujaine's top stern deck, Quadrozzi gazed landward. From this vantage point, the changes in the surrounding industrial landscape were starkly visible. Across Columbia Street from GBX, a cement plant was skylighted by the blue bulk of Ikea, which used to be a dry dock where ships were built and repaired. Beyond that, a gleaming office complex is set to rise where the Revere Sugar Refinery used to stand. Next door, a Civil War–era pier and warehouse now house artist studios, galleries, a coffee roaster and the Fairway grocery store with apartments above.
Dotting the IBZs
Under Mayor Michael Bloomberg, the city created industrial business zones (IBZs). They were intended "to protect existing manufacturing districts and encourage industrial growth," according to a city website. In practice, an IBZ "is just an administrative designation with no actual zoning protection," said Ben Margolis, executive director of the Southwest Brooklyn Industrial Development Corp. "It's just one or two incentives, a sort of promise."
But it's a promise the city does not always keep, as many special permits and variances have been granted allowing nonindustrial uses within IBZs and other manufacturing zones. For Margolis, the Whole Foods Market on Third Street in Gowanus is one leading example because it was built on an M2-zoned lot, which the Department of City Planning describes as "the middle ground between light and heavy industrial areas." Now Margolis is fighting proposals to rezone large swaths of land adjacent to IBZs in Gowanus and Sunset Park.
From the inception of the southwest Brooklyn IBZ, two properties—Fairway and the former sugar refinery—were exempted. The refinery site juts into Erie Basin, the home port for about 200 vessels. Two barge companies, Reinauer Transportation and Hughes Bros., own and operate the facility. For a time the refinery's owner wanted to build housing on the site. "That would have been a disaster for us," said Bob Hughes, vice president of Hughes Bros. and the fifth generation of his family to run barges.
People may think it's quaint to reside next to marine facilities, Hughes said, until a tugboat shines its spotlight through their window and sounds its hailer at 3 a.m. After living with that for a while, residents are apt to change their mind and file a nuisance suit, and Hughes would not blame them. Housing just isn't compatible with heavy industry, he said, and when residents turn against their industrial neighbors, even if the companies were there first, there's not much someone like Hughes can do. It begins with complaints and citations from the city. The business may then agree to curtail activities—perhaps just working 9 to 5. Eventually, it just moves away, something Hughes has seen happen to many marine operators in Jersey City and Baltimore.
Mike DiMarino, owner of Linda Tool, moved his precision machining business to Red Hook in 2004, after 45 years on Third Avenue and Carroll Street in Gowanus. On Carroll Street, he said, the old neighbors were accustomed to sharing the area with light manufacturing. Then the neighborhood began to change. "One day, I saw a young woman with a kid in a stroller and holding a little girl by the hand," he said. "I had my forklift on the sidewalk, moving bars of steel. I said, 'You know what, if this kid trips on a bar, I've got to lock the door and keep on going—I'm done.' " Not waiting for complaints, violations or litigation, he purchased an M1-zoned building in the Southwest Brooklyn IBZ.
"People move into the industrial neighborhoods because they are 'cool' and then want to change them to suit their needs," DiMarino said. "You can't preserve the look if you don't preserve the businesses."
DiMarino hopes that cafés, strollers and cyclists don't push his operation out of Red Hook. Sure, he would probably make more money selling or renting to a beer garden or a CVS, but he is proud to offer 28 well-paying jobs out of his relatively small building. He argues that manufacturing jobs are demonstrably better than the service jobs that often replace them, and create more jobs per square foot. Many of DiMarino's employees have been with him for decades; they have raised children and saved for retirement.
A recent study from the Pratt Center for Community Development compared the average incomes of families employed in manufacturing with those employed in retail. The study constructed two hypothetical families, one living on the average yearly manufacturing wage ($50,934) and another living on the average retail wage ($25,416). It found that the industrial-income household could afford to spend about $1,231 per month on rent, whereas the "retail and other neighborhood services income household" could afford only $593 per month in rent. The study concludes that the city would have to spend significantly more on a retail family to provide them with affordable housing and that the city should do more to protect higher wage manufacturing jobs from being displaced by lower-paying retail jobs. But city policy still tends to promote retail and residential development while doing little to encourage manufacturing.
"The problem today is conversion of industrial space to other uses, whether it's hotels, or self-storage or entertainment," said Adam Friedman, executive director of the Pratt Center. These interests can afford to pay more for space, he said, "but often the job quality is nowhere near what it is for manufacturing." Currently, he said, the laws protecting industrial zones are "very weak." It is too easy to evade the intent of IBZs. "Naming it a manufacturing zone" Friedman said, "doesn't mean that's how it's being used." In the absence of strong governmental protections, the real estate market is the de facto authority and it will continue to favor tenants and buyers who can pay top dollar over those that provide more and better jobs.
Blending in
Unlike Quadrozzi, DiMarino tries to go unnoticed in his new building. "People don't even know what goes on in here," he said. He has no plans to leave Red Hook, even though increasing pedestrian and bicycle traffic has made it harder to truck products and materials in and out of the neighborhood. Cyclists have plenty of space to ride, he said, without risking their lives and disrupting work in a designated IBZ.
To the north of GBX, only a ball field stands between the terminal walls and Basis Independent Brooklyn, a private school that opened in 2015, built on a vacant lot within the IBZ that had been zoned M1 for light industrial use. Traditionally M1 zones act as buffers between commercial and residential areas and heavy-industrial M3 zones. Schools can be built in these areas with a special permit, which the Basis developer obtained despite opposition from Brooklyn Community Board 6, residents and some local business owners including Quadrozzi. The city's Board of Standards and Appeals determined that it was the only site where Basis could find a suitably large and affordable property in proximity to its target students.
The community board's opposition to the school's special permit was based on two factors, said former district manager Hammerman. The first was safety and traffic. The second was losing property that could have been used for manufacturing. Though the site was vacant, Hammerman contended that it had the potential to provide good jobs for many residents.
"You can build a school anywhere," he said. But manufacturing cannot go anywhere other than a specifically zoned area.
The industrialists say the school has created traffic that impedes their business while putting students in danger. But Hadley Ruggles, the head of the school, said Basis "goes to great lengths to have a minimal impact." As for concerns that the school could someday pressure manufacturers to relocate, Ruggles said the nearby industrial businesses are "the most innocuous neighbors I could imagine."
Across Red Hook, in Atlantic Basin, Carolina Salguero sees a connection between the anti-industry pressure Hughes fears and the kind of public outreach Quadrozzi is interested in. She is the founder of PortSide New York, which operates out of a retired tanker named the Mary Whalen. PortSide has been working to connect the public to the waterfront for 12 years. When it comes to the city's shoreline, misinformation abounds, Salguero said. The most damaging is the widely held belief that the working waterfront is dead.
Part of the problem, she said, is that most people from neighborhoods like Red Hook don't work on the water anymore. Kids don't grow up visiting their parents at the docks. The business owners are also at fault, she said. They build fences to keep people out and don't encourage visitors.
To break down this physical and cultural barrier, PortSide strives to explain the working waterfront to the public. Adults and children alike are excited to watch boats, cranes and containers move, Salguero said, but without interpretation—coming from PortSide or Quadrozzi's outreach project, for example—people don't know how these things affect their lives.
"There's a system that people don't appreciate," Quadrozzi said, "an infrastructure that works all around them."
But it might not be here for much longer. Elements of AECOM's Red Hook redesign proposal were echoed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo in his State of the State speech Jan. 2. Without government support or stronger zoning protections, industry will be pushed out to where land is affordable. Then, to get those same goods into the city, more trucks will have to travel farther, increasing congestion, pollution and prices.
Quadrozzi estimates the value of his property has gone up tenfold since he bought it. "If I had no choice," he said, "I could do the same thing that the rest of the guys do"—get the zoning changed and redevelop or sell the lot.
"It would just be a matter of necessity."
A version of this article appears in the January 22, 2018, print issue of Crain's New York Business.
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Speaking about the new venture, he says, "This partnership with Hennessy has been almost two decades in the making. I am honored to be included in the group of previous partners Hennessy has selected over the years and hope this campaign will inspire other."
And executive Rodney Williams tells AllHipHop.com Nas is the perfect man for the job, adding, "Our 'never stop, never settle' mantra communicates a value at the core of who we are as a brand and resonates with our consumers: pursuing one's potential comes from an inner drive (to) continuously grow, continuously improve and seek greater levels of mastery. Nas is not only a master in music, but is blazing new trails in film and philanthropy, among other passions."


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The following 40 APIs are handy to have in your developer toolkit. Whether you want to integrate social media advertising with your company's CRM, automate processes, or develop a new platform that works in conjunction with a popular e-commerce platform, there's an API to meet your needs.
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1. Facebook APIs
Facebook provides a set of APIs with functions ranging from integrating chat to querying data exposed by the Graph API using an SQL-style interface. The Facebook Ads API allows you to create your own applications instead of using the Facebook Ads Manager or Power Editor tools.
Key Features:
- Integrate chat, Graph, dialogue, and other features into your own customized apps
- FQL (Facebook Query Language) to integrate advanced features based on other queries not available with the Graph API
- Build your own Facebook ad management and editing platforms with the Ad API
2. Twitter
Twitter's API allows developers to use Twitter Cards to accomplish more with just 140 characters–including allowing Twitter to get more insights into shared URLs and drive more traffic to your website or application. The API also allows for such functionality as embedded Tweets, embedded timelines, and Tweet and Follow buttons.
Key Features:
- Embed Timelines or Tweets
- Use Twitter Cards for enhanced functionality
- Get more traffic to your site or app through advanced analytics
- Integrate Tweet and Follow buttons
3. YouTube
YouTube offers a Data API, Analytics API and Livestreaming API for integrating a variety of YouTube functionality into your applications. Use the YouTube APIs to grab search results and retrieve, insert, update and delete playlists, videos and other resources. When used in conjunction with each other, YouTube's set of APIs allow you to create a fully functional YouTube experience from within your own applications.
Key Features:
- Combine 3 APIs for full YouTube functionality integration
- Build in search and discover, create content, and playback videos
- Analytics integration and account management
4. Google
Google offers a slew of different APIs for developers to integrate the functionality of the many Google properties into their own development projects. From Blogger to Analytics and Ad Exchange Buyer and Seller APIs, the possibilities are pretty much endless.
Key Features:
- APIs for practically every Google application
- Integrate ad management
- Use the AdSense API to build in publisher access to inventory and enable report generation
- API console for monitoring API usage and access control
- Google Developers resource with full API information and tutorials
5. HootSuite
HootSuite's Engagement API provides access to HootSuite's core social media management and message publishing functionality. Build in the capabilities of HootSuite to add comprehensive social media management to your applications.
Key Features:
- Supports OAuth 2.0
- Draft, schedule and publish from any data source
- Organize social networking teams
- Manage the HootSuite web dashboard configuration
6. Yelp
Access Yelp data from any application in real-time with Yelp's API. Pull business listing info, review counts, ratings and more with full API integration.
Key Features:
- Registration provides instant access to 10,000 API calls per day to build your prototype
- Increase call limits for public launch by submitting a link to and screenshots of your prototype
- Access Yelp data in real time
- Business listing info, ratings and review counts, deals and recent review excerpts
7. Oodle
A full-featured REST-based web service, Oodle's API provides access to access to "the same listings and search engine that Oodle uses to power Walmart, MySpace, and Oodle.com."
Key Features:
- Read-only; API allows you to retrieve, but not insert listings
- Integrate classified listings into your website or application
- REST-based web service
8. Yahoo!
While the Yahoo! Local API is scheduled to be shut down as of September 28, 2013, Yahoo! still offers a number of APIs you should stash in your toolkit. With Yahoo! Query Language (YQL), you can call and integrate data from multiple web services to run your apps faster and with fewer lines of code.
Key Features:
- YQL to query, filter, and join data across Web services
- Flickr API for both image viewing and uploading access
- Yahoo! BOSS Geo Services to integrate location-based data
9. Open Street Map
Open Street Map's Editing API isn't designed for embedding maps into a web page. There's a different app for that. Instead, the Open Street Map Editing API lets you fetch and save raw data from the Open Street Map database. It's intended for the purpose of editing map data, not for read-only projects.
Key Features:
- Editing API for fetching raw data
- Not for read-only projects
- Edit map data from within your applications
10. Instagram
Instagram wants its users to have open access to their data–thus the Instagram API, allowing developers to make use of the rich content uploaded to the platform every second in unique and innovative ways.
Key Features:
- Each application has its own assigned OAuth client ID and client secret
- Developers must respect user Copyrights
- Apps must not replicate the Instagram experience or use the Instagram name
11. WordPress
WordPress offers a set of APIs for replicating and integrating the plugin/theme/add-on interface of the WordPress dashboard. From a Dashboard Widgets API to Theme Customization API and Metadata API, you can incorporate a variety of WordPress functions into your applications.
Key Features:
- WordPress.com and WordPress.org APIs
- Ideal for plugin or theme authors
- Customize admin screens
- Add your own custom widgets
- Developer portal for discussions and tips
12. Ning
Ning's API allows you to create custom mobile apps, desktop applications, develop content importers for third-party blogging platforms and more. With a full set of developer docs for reference, there are endless possibilities for integrating Ning's features into your custom applications.
Key Features:
- Build a custom Ning Network feature
- Create custom apps for the Ning community to install on personal profile pages
- Integrate desktop activity network monitors, media editing applications and more
- Create mobile apps for any OS
13. Klout
Klout's API offers the functionality for so much more than merely displaying Klout Scores and data. Pairing the Klout API with other APIs from Twitter, Viggle, Spotify and other prominent platforms creates opportunities for a totally customized app capitalizing on the advanced features of several networks.
Key Features:
- Ideal for pairing with other APIs
- KloutPass – an OAuth API that lends you the Klout brand to deliver a VIP experience to influencers
- Leverage the Influence Graph
- Perfect for performance measurement and analytics
- User-based API
14. Social Mention
Interact with the Social Mention website programmatically with the Social Mention API. "The API provides a single stream of real-time search data aggregated from numerous social media properties."
Key Features:
- Aggregate data from multiple social networks into a single stream
- An API call initializes live querying of each social media source and the data is sorted, processed, and normalized
- Results are limited to the most recent items from each source (data is currently not archived)
- Varying data limits set by each social network
15. Reddit
Reddit's API and code are open-source, so it's subject to change as various developers weigh in with added functionality. The Reddit API enables you to retrieve and display data from the Reddit website. This REST-based API returns data in JSON and requires no authentication.
Key Features:
- REST-based API
- Open-source
- Retrieve and display Reddit data up to 100 links
- No authentication required
- Data returned in JSON format
16. Bit.ly
Bit.ly's URL shortening service offers APIs for link analysis, real-time search and more. The APIs enable both specific phrase queries and filtering data, as well as the ability to get an overview of trending topics across all social networks. Bit.ly's Social Data APIs exited Beta in January 2013.
Key Features:
- True, real-time search for specific queries and filtering data
- Return current phrases getting the most attention with the Bit.ly bursts API
- Realtime story pages aggregate trending articles into a single source
- Query on a URL basis for keywords, topics, content, language, and location relevance
17. Opus Social Media API
The Opus Social Media API is "a hosted social media API for developers and creative agencies." The Social Media API enables developers to build fully functional, rich social media applications without reinventing the wheel.
Key Features:
- Supports both REST and SOAP web services
- JSON, JSONP and XML output formats
- 150ms average response time
- 99.9% uptime since 2003
- Manage and publish digital media (professional and UGC video, audio, images and documents)
- UGC moderation tools
- Analytics and reporting tools
18. Awe.sm
The Awe.sm API is used for integrating social media campaign tracking tools into an app or website. Power sharing features, understand social behavior and increase value from every share.
Key Features:
- Account required; pricing starts at $19 per month
- Conversion tracking and other analytics
- Awe.sm links represent a sharing action, not just a long URL
- Each share has a unique link per network for performance measurement
19. AppAware
The AppAware API enables the embedding of AppAware profiles in your website or application, access Google Play apps and more.
Key Features:
- OAuth 2.0 compatible
- Based on the android-market-api library
- Quickly access details of Google Play apps
20. Strands Recommender
Strands Recommender is an easy-to-use social recommendation and personalization platform offering an API for user management, recommendation integration and other functions.
Key Features:
- Automated cross- and up-sell recommendations based on user behavior
- Email recommendations and targeted campaigns
- Both product-based and user-based reporting capabilities
- A/B testing, algorithm controls and merchant-defined promotions, rules and filters
21. alternativeTo
alternativeTo's API returns queries including information about the specified application as well as the user-specified number of alternatives. Alternatively, results can be returned and filtered by the applications a specified user has liked or recommended.
Key Features:
- Filter by license or platform
- Find alternatives to applications
- Search by user-generated recommendations or additions
22. CloudMade
CloudMade offers APIs for Map Tiles, Geocoding and Routing for enhancing your applications with real-time, turn-by-turn navigational capabilities and more.
Key Features:
- 99.9% uptime or 2x money back
- Real-time, turn-by-turn routing
- Forward and reverse geocoding
- Thousands of categories
- Pricing based on API and use limits:
- Map Tiles: $25 per 1 million tiles; first 500,000 tiles free
- Geocoding: $15 per 100,000 requests; SSL for $5 per 100,000 requests
- Routing: $15 per 100,000 requests; SSL for $5 per 100,000 requests
23. MapQuest
MapQuest's iOS and Android maps APIs are designed as drop-in replacements for the native API, with enhanced features such as integrated driving directions and the ability to use OpenStreetMaps data and MapQuest's licensed data sets.
Key Features:
- Multiple APIs, including Free Map, iOS, Android and Native Mobile Mapping
- Licensed and Open Data available
- No pre-set limits on maps with the free Community Edition license
24. Intigi
Intigi's API allows you to streamline content marketing efforts with targeted user groups, as well as increase site traffic. Put your customers in touch with user-generated sources.
Key Features:
- More than 30,000 user-curated sources
- Monitor a variety of online information sources (blogs, social networks, news wikis, etc.)
- REST-based architecture (JSON via HTTPS output format)
- Filter the best and most relevant sources for display or to connect application users
25. Parse.ly
Built specifically for online content publishers, the Parse.ly API helps you better engage users with content.
Key Features:
- Uses natural language processing technology
- Analyze reader behavior and content engagement to expose trends
- Parse.ly Dash provides exposes data analytics in real-time
26. Animoto
Animoto's API "is a web service that transforms pictures, music, video clips, and text into professional-caliber videos."
Key Features:
- Multiple opportunities to create rich video experiences
- Generate video creation experiences within your app
- Auto-render videos in bulk
- Various programming languages
- JSON and XML support through RESTful HTTP
- Ruby and Java built-in client libraries
- Access to commercially licensed song lists
27. SendGrid Analytics
SendGrid Analytics offers an API enabling users to obtain data from their SendGrid accounts, such as statistics, spam reports, unsubscribes and other data. Customers may also create sub-accounts and control settings with an OEM setup. SendGrid also integrates with Embarke.
Key Features:
- Obtain real-time hooks on bounces, clicks, unsubscribes and more
- Send multiple emails
- Customize plugins
- Manage subscriptions for resellers and subusers
28. Embarke
Embarke is a development tool for social communications with back-end conversation capabilities. Embarke's API is used to expose data from six variables, including users, networks, accounts, conversations and messages.
Key Features:
- Expose data from six critical sources
- One API to connect to multiple social networks
- Create a social CRM app, enable users to share photos, create an app for group conversations and more
29. CrunchBase
The CrunchBase API "provides a RESTful interface to the data found on CrunchBase" with JSON output format. The CrunchBase API was introduced in 2008 and has been used to enhance a variety of applications, such as WordPress plugins and social graphs.
Key Features:
- Retrieve and aggregate data from a variety of industries
- Multiple search-based and filter queries possible
- Custom parameters possible for retrieving different data sets
30. Agile Bench
Agile Bench is a project management tool that integrates flawlessly with a variety of applications, including GitHub, Pivotal Tracker and more. The API exposes five resources, including token, project, iteration, story and comment.
Key Features:
- JSON payload format
- HTTP codes explain status
- User authentication via tokens
31. Agile Zen
Agile Zen's API is still in Beta, so it's subject to change. Currently, resources are organized into two primary types: entity resources and container resources. Resources include comments, tasks, stories, comments, projects and more.
Key Features:
- REST-based
- Retrieve data on stories, projects, comments and more
- Integrate project management capabilities into any application
32. Bug.ly
Bug.ly is "a modern, flexible and enjoyable issue tracker with a powerful REST API, excellent SCM integration, issue dependencies, custom statuses, email integration and much more."
Key Features:
- Supports JSON
- Simple resource-based structure
- Comprehensive documentation
- Ruby library
33. LeadSyncer
LeadSyncer's REST-based API returns JSON-based records, allowing you to feed generated leads directly into a third-party or custom-built CRM/ERP system.
Key Features:
- Simple HTTP GET calls
- REST-based
- JSON format
- View transmitted records in a browser
- Easy URL-based record retrieval
- Design your own data forms
- Export leads into Excel
- Automatic syncing with an Internet connection; some offline functionality
34. Amazon Product Advertising API
Critical for any developer wanting to monetize a website or app, the Amazon Product Advertising API integrates Amazon Product Listing Ads within an app and provides programmatic access to Amazon's product selection and discovery functionality.
Key Features:
- Ideal for monetizing apps and websites
- Integrate Amazon's product selection and discovery functions
- Advertise products in conjunction with Amazon Associates program
35. Highwire
Highwire offers both an HTML and REST-based API, enabling both the retrieval and modification of store records such as orders, products, customers and categories.
Key Features:
- Retrieve and modify categories, customers, orders and products as required
- Accepts and responds with XML or JSON-formatted data
- Limited to making a maximum of 500 calls for each individual store (rolling every 5 minutes)
36. IconFinder
IconFinder's API integrates icon-search functions into your websites and applications.
Key Features:
- Search for icons via search terms
- Multiple parameters, such as result page, icons per page, etc.
37. PayPal
"PayPal offers a set of application programming interfaces (APIs) that give you the means to incorporate PayPal functionality into your website applications and mobile apps."
Key Features:
- Both Sandbox and Production environments
- Both SOAP and non-SOAP request and response formats
- x-www-form-urlencoded, XML-RPC, and JSON-RPC non-SOAP formatting options
38. Constant Contact
Constant Contact's API is used to both integrate contacts and send and receive email marketing campaigns within third-party applications.
Key Features:
- Integration-specific on-boarding and educational resources
- Revenue share options as high as 40 percent per month
- REST, JSON, and OAuth 2.0 compatible
- iOS, C# and other development libraries
39. MailChimp
MailChimp's API allows you to integrate functions with a CMS, blog, shopping cart, and more.
Key Features:
- OAuth2 handles usernames and passwords so you don't have to
- Export API allows you to stream large amounts of data
- Webhooks to collect data in real-time
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Druids have long been known as the potentially strongest class in d20 games, Pathfinder included. While the latter game does tone them down some, it more tries to counter their dominance by bulking the other classes up more than it nerfs this one. But for all its strengths, there's still a lot the druid can't do. Divine Favor: the Druid, by Open Design, aims to give nature's defender more versatility.
Divine Favor: the Druid is a nineteen-page PDF. While I can't hold it against Open Design too much, it's something of a shame that there's no printer-friendly or ePub options available, though the PDF itself is laid out quite nicely, allowing for copy and pasting and having full, nested bookmarks.
The book's introduction covers some of the basics of the druid class, talking about their wild shape abilities, their spellcasting, and viable feats for them. It's a good overview, but didn't feel as holistic in the ones in the Advanced Feats series, which analyzed every portion of the classes they covered.
Two variants for wild shape are given next, one which allows the druid to turn into multiple animals, the other of which allows the druid to become some sort of actual swarm. At first I thought there abilities were similar enough that they should have been one, but there was a subtle distinction that I overlooked. The first power lets the druid become an actual set of singular animals that need not remain contiguous, whereas the second one is a swarm that stays together. It allows for some interesting ideas on what the druid can become (though as alternate class abilities, you can't choose both).
Unfortunately, this is where I noticed some errors creeping in. The nature's multitude alternate class ability functions as per beast shape II…except when you use it to become a small animal at 6th level; then it's as per beast shape I. It's a minor problem, but it is a problem, and it's the sort of problem that happens again and again throughout this book.
A single variant option for animal companions continues with the theme of multiplicities of animals, as the flock companion lets you have several animals of a given type.
Nine new druid archetypes are presented, divided into three overarching categories: moon druids (archetypes for full, new, and phasing moons), the greenmen (green wardens who have power over unnatural creatures, and forest children who have power over natural creatures), and elemental shamans (one archetype for each classical element).
It's unfortunate that these archetypes are the weakest part of the book. Certainly, there's nothing wrong with them per se (though the air elemental shaman's bonus language is wrong, and its elemental transformation power is poorly explained), but rather most of them seem like slight variants of the other. The elemental shaman archetypes, for example, are one archetype with four slight variations between them. Ditto for the moon druid archetypes, and even the greenmen archetypes. You can see why the book put these into three categories – these are really just three archetypes, with a few changes between them.
The five new domains do a pretty good job of presenting some new options for clerics and druids. Where they utilizes spells from the Advanced Player's Guide, alternate spells from the Core Rules are provided in parenthesis in case you don't have the APG. I can appreciate the sentiment there, but it seems like a wasted effort since the APG is in the Pathfinder SRD now. Oddly, they then mention that several subdomains from the APG are applicable here…and then don't reprint the alternate subdomain power, but do reprint the alternate spells (with, I should add, no parenthetical alternates; and in a few cases, leave out an alternate domain spell or two).
Five new animal companions are presented next. These are in animal companion stat blocks only, with no monster stat blocks or even exposition on what exactly these creatures are. I'm unfamiliar with brain oozes and green slugs…this really feels like an afterthought that was added to fill up space. There's nothing truly wrong, here, but nothing makes these creatures anything more than stats on a page.
Ten new feats close out the book. Some of them are inspired, such as Healing Tongue, which allows a creature to lick you for a successful Heal check. Most of the others, however, seem fairly lackluster, such as Primeval Counsel, which gives you a +2 to some knowledge checks when in a natural area.
Overall, Divine Favor: the Druid seems like a product that underlines how a book can be good without being great. It's never poor – though I wish that the small errors I kept seeing had been caught before it released – but it never goes the extra mile to really make what it presents unique, or give any context to show where this can fit into your game. It shows you what its got and walks away. These alternate options for the druid aren't bad, but as a book they, like nature itself, are rough around the edges.


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After 11 years, the leaders of New York's Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art have shuttered their venue. The abrupt closure came Monday, with museum officials saying they will move out of the current space by the end of July, according to reports.
Admittedly, the museum is a small one, occupying the fourth floor of a building in the SoHo neighborhood of New York. The organization, known somewhat humorously as MoCCA, devoted itself to exhibitions on the world of comics. Past shows spotlighted Stan Lee, "Batman," "Archie" comics, Will Eisner and more.
The museum opened in 2011. It remains unclear why officials decided to close the doors to the public. The museum's chairman and president, Ellen S. Abramowitz, told the Wall Street Journal that the organization will continue to exist but did not elaborate on what form it will take.


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The best part of our family get-togethers is the juxtaposition of eccentrics. On Easter, there was my firstborn, the mother hen ("Has everybody washed their hands?"), my second daughter the organic hostess, her husband, their baby Piggly Wiggly, my brother, my Mom (the author), my moron editor (I had to bring him; the homeless shelter was closed) and of course, me (the eye candy).
We were gabbing and gossiping and enjoying the traditional Easter dinner of madras chicken and osso bucco favoured by all families who don't eat ham because it reminds them of a certain pig dog, but I had the niggling sense that something wasn't quite right.
Finally, after the third shot of Hornitos, it hit me. "Hey! We haven't put anything on Piggly Wiggly's head!"
A deadly quiet fell over the room while we looked at each other as if to say "Nobody thought to bring a hooker wig? What kind of family are we?" But then Piggly's mom produced a pair of bunny ears and we all took pictures for a solid half-hour. "Try one with the flash!" "Turn her around and take her from this angle!" "See if you can get her to smile; tilt the ears; try it with backlighting; just one more!"
If that child doesn't grow up thinking Easter is about how Christ died on the cross to escape the throngs of madras-scented paparazzi, it will be a miracle.
EDITOR'S NOTE: Why do those bunny ears look so familiar?
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Synopsis: FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. A painstakingly researched debut imagines the coming-of-age story of young Julia, whose world is thrown into upheaval when it is discovered that the Earth's rotation has suddenly begun to slow, posing a catastrophic threat to all life. A first novel. 100,000 first printing.
Amazon Best Books of the Month, June 2012: In The Age of Miracles, the world is ending not with a bang so much as a long, drawn-out whimper. And it turns out the whimper can be a lot harder to cope with. The Earth's rotation slows, gradually stretching out days and nights and subtly affecting the planet's gravity. The looming apocalypse parallels the adolescent struggles of 10-year-old Julia, as her comfortable suburban life succumbs to a sort of domestic deterioration. Julia confronts her parents' faltering marriage, illness, the death of a loved one, her first love, and her first heartbreak. Karen Thompson Walker is a gifted storyteller. Her language is precise and poetic, but style never overpowers the realism she imbues to her characters and the slowing Earth they inhabit. Most impressively, Thompson Walker has written a coming-of-age tale that asks whether it's worth coming of age at all in a world that might end at any minute. Like the best stories about the end of the world, The Age of Miracles is about the existence of hope and whether it can prevail in the face of uncertainty. --Kevin Nguyen
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Q. In The Age of Miracles, you envision a natural phenomenon that threatens the entire world. This "slowing" is global, yet you decided to focus on Julia. Why?
A. Julia's voice--the voice of a young woman looking back on her adolescence--came into my head as soon as I had the idea of the slowing. It was the only way I could imagine writing the book. Adolescence is an extraordinary time of life, a period when the simple passage of time results in dramatic consequences, when we grow and change at seemingly impossible speeds. It seemed natural to tell the story of the slowing, which is partly about time, in the context of middle school. It was also a way of concentrating on the fine-grain details of everyday life, which was very important to me. I was interested in exploring the ways in which life carries on, even in the face of profound uncertainty.
Julia felt like a natural narrator for this story because she listens more than she speaks, and she watches more than she acts. I think the fact that Julia is an only child is part of why she's so observant. Julia also places a very high value on her friendships, and is unusually attuned to the subtle tensions in her parents' marriage, which increase as the slowing unfolds.
Q. The details of how such a slowing would affect us and our environment are rendered quite realistically. How did you get these details right?
A. No one knows exactly what would happen if the rotation of the earth slowed the way it does in my book, so I had some freedom. I did some research at the outset, but I came across many of my favorite details accidentally. Whenever I read an article that contained a potentially relevant detail--anything from sleep disorders, to new technologies for growing plants in greenhouses, to the various ways people and governments reacted to the financial crisis--I would knit it into the fabric of the book. After I finished the book, I had an astrophysicist read it for scientific accuracy, which was an extremely nerve-racking experience. I was relieved by how many of my details he found plausible, but made some adjustments based on what he said.
In general, I wanted my book to seem as real as possible. I recently read a Guardian interview with the Portuguese writer José Saramago, who said that his books were about "the possibility of the impossible." He explained that even if the premise of a book seemed "impossible," it was important to him that the development of that premise be logical and rational. That's exactly the way I wanted The Age of Miracles to function.
Q. Like Julia, you grew up in Southern California, where natural disasters are always looming. Do you think this influenced you in writing of The Age of Miracles?
A. I grew up in San Diego on a cul-de-sac of tract houses much like the one where The Age of Miracles takes place. In most ways, California was a very pleasant place to grow up. But it could also be a little scary. I remember how the sky would sometimes fill with smoke during fire season, how the smoke hung in the air for days at a time, burning our throats and turning everything slightly orange. I remember the way the windows rattled at the start of every earthquake, and the way the chandelier above our dinner table would swing back and forth until the shaking stopped. I sometimes couldn't sleep at night, worried that an earthquake or a fire would strike at night. But when I think of those years now, I realize that my novel grew partly out of my lifelong habit of imagining disaster.
If I've given the impression that I was constantly afraid as a child, that's not right. In fact, one of the things I remember most vividly about living in California is the way we mostly ignored the possibility of danger. We always knew that the "big one"--the giant earthquake that scientists believe will one day hit the region--could strike at any time, but mostly we lived as if it never would. Life often felt idyllic: We played soccer, we went swimming, we went walking on the beach. A little bit of denial is part of what it means to live in California. Then again, maybe that's also just part of being alive. I really wanted to capture that feeling in The Age of Miracles.
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WATERFORD TOWNSHIP (WWJ) — Federal, state and Oakland County officials dedicated Michigan's first-ever green airport terminal Tuesday in Waterford Township.
More than 200 people attended the opening of the $7.5 million, 15,000-square-foot Oakland County International Airport, touring the building after dignitaries led by county executive L. Brooks Patterson cut the ribbon.
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Now, the airport has a terminal building to match those gaudy statistics. From the "living wall" air cleaning system — a wall of tropical plants watered by stored rainwater — at the entrance, to the state-of-the-art geothermal cooling and heating system in the kitchen-clean basement boiler room, the terminal is a marvel of modern energy efficiency and comfortable, user-friendly architectural design. The geothermal system alone will cut the airport's heating and cooling costs by more than 50 percent, Patterson said.
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State transportation director Kirk T. Steudle called the terminal "eco-friendly, the first truly green terminal in Michigan. This project is applying for LEED Gold certification, which would make it the first general aviation terminal in the state to attain this status."
Hanging in the main atrium in the airport is a Pitts Special biplane once flown by Oakland County stunt pilot Henry A. Haigh II, on loan from the Kalamazoo Air Zoo. The airport also makes prominent display of its original charter — the nation's first airport certificate dating back to February 1930 — and a document commemorating the visit of Michigan's first air tour at what was then Pontiac Municipal Airport, dating back to 1929 and signed by Orville Wright.
The terminal also features an expanded U.S. Customs area capable of handling 70 passengers per flight, up from 20 in the old office, and which includes interrogation areas and holding cells.
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The public's first chance to view the terminal will be from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 28 at the annual OCIA Open House and Air Show. Featured aircraft will include the Scream'n Rebel Airshow Team, a North American B-25 Mitchell bomber, a B-17 Flying Fortress, and an A-10 Thunderbolt II, among others. There will also be a pancake breakfast from 7 to 11 a.m. and family attractions such as bounce houses. For more information, visit www.airfairocia.org.
The project has been under way since the tear-down of the old terminal in early 2010. It was funded by Federal Aviation Administration and Department of Energy grants, a Michigan Department of Transportation – Bureau of Aeronautics grant, and airport user fees. The new terminal was completed on time and within budget.
The project team included architects Neumann/Smith Architecture of Southfield; civil engineers Anderson, Eckstein & Westrick Inc. of Shelby Township and Peckham Engineering of Traverse City; construction managers Frank Rewold and Son Inc. of Rochester; structural engineer Desai/Nasr Consulting Engineers of West Bloomfield Township; mechanical and electrical engineer Peter Basso Associates Inc. of Troy; landscape architect Grissim Metz Andriese Associates of Northville; furnishings from Airea, Farmington Hills. Another 29 companies, most from southeast Michigan, acted as subcontractors.


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