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From nycsubway.org
BMT 4th Avenue at 36th Street, R-160B no. 8842 on N, R-46 no. 5566 on R. Photo by Zach Summer, October 2009.
- 1 Overview
- 2 Opening/Closing Dates
- 3 Route Map
- 4 Station by Station
- 5 Page Credits
The 4th Avenue (Brooklyn) subway began service on June 22nd, 1915. It connected with the BMT's Sea Beach line to Coney Island, as well as the Manhattan Bridge and ran to Chambers Street, Manhattan, over the Manhattan Bridge. This was the first service in the 4th Avenue subway, as well as the first over the bridge. In addition, the first steel cars operated by the BRT (and BMT), the 67' standards, operated over this route. The route was also opened from 85th St, Brooklyn, to Chambers St, Manhattan, in 1916. In 1920, trains ran from 86th St, and the line was extended further south to 95th St (the present day terminal) in 1925. Trains originating from 95th St ran via the Montague St tunnel and the Broadway (Manhattan) subway into Astoria, Queens.
It should be noted that the tracks on the Manhattan Bridge were ready for service shortly after the bridge's opening day (December 31st, 1909). However, they were not connected to any tunnel routes on either side of the bridge, because none existed! In 1912, the Manhattan Bridge Three Cent Line, a trolley company, began running trolleys over the subway tracks on a temporary basis until 1915, when the trolleys were moved to the upper roadways and the BRT subway opened. The trolleys ran over the Manhattan Bridge until 1929, when the auto won out over the streetcar.
The 4th Avenue subway was built jointly by the New York Municipal Railway Corporation (a BRT/BMT subsidiary set up for the Dual Contracts) and the City of New York. The BRT had already built the section between Flatbush Avenue Extension, Fulton St, Ashland Place and 43rd St / 4th Avenue before the Dual Contracts were signed. That section of the line was originally intended to be part of the 1908 "TriBorough Plan". The line runs through part of the site of the Battle of Long Island, and since the ground was filled in from the days of the Revolutionary War, it was expected that artifacts from that battle would be found during construction. None were ever found.
The subway is 4 tracks from Pacific Street to 65th Street. At 36th St, the West End Line connection can be found; at 59th St, the Sea Beach connection can be found. From 65th St to 95th St, the subway is two tracks, and they were built in the west side of 4th Avenue, so that two additional tracks could be laid in the future if traffic ever warranted it.
Provisions for this expansion are visible at several locations along the existing 4th Ave. Subway. The subway is carried in the lower deck of a bridge over the LIRR Bay Ridge branch cut, and here it can be seen that the bridge has four trackways of which only the western two are used. The tunnel leading up to each side of the bridge was built only for the existing two tracks. At Bay Ridge Ave. and 77th St. stations, the southbound platform has the usual columns, but the northbound, being where a trackway would be if expanded, does not. At 86th St, the southbound track swings out around the platform, but the northbound is straight (from the north); in other words, this would be the western half of an express station.
Today, 4th Avenue subway service is composed of R-46s and R-32s on the N line, R-46s and an occasional R-32 on the R line, R-68s and an occasional slant R-40 on the B line, and R-42s on the M line when it runs during rush hours to Bay Parkway, Brooklyn.
Planned Expansion to Staten Island
The original Dual Contracts plan provided for a tunnel under the Narrows from southern Brooklyn/Bay Ridge to Staten Island. The tunnel was intended to leave the 4th Avenue subway at 65th St, Brooklyn, and would have entered Staten Island midway between St. George and Stapleton, and would have had branches to each. The 4th Avenue subway has four tracks between 59th and 65th Streets, two of which were intended for the Staten Island connection.
The Staten Island link might have been built in several different ways. It is likely that a full 4-track subway to Fort Hamilton would only have made sense if it led to a Narrows tunnel. A different plan, which got as far as engineering drawings and even some excavation, would have left the subway just south of 59th St, and you can see tunnel stub headings running straight from the local tracks immediately south of the station. Several different plans were drawn up for the Narrows tunnel, including a two track and a four track option.
Recent discussions of a railroad freight tunnel across New York Harbor from New Jersey via Staten Island may once again bring about discussion of connecting the subway to Staten Island. It is likely that any tunnel built would be designed to tie into the LIRR's Bay Ridge Branch across southern Brooklyn to East New York, Fresh Pond, and via the New York Connecting Railroad to the Hell Gate Bridge.
Route 11-A Broadway-Fourth Avenue Subway
- 1. Ashland Place and Fourth Avenue - Fulton St. to Sackett St.
- 2. Fourth Avenue - Sackett St. to 10th St.
- 3. Fourth Avenue - 10th St. to 27th St.
- 4. Fourth Avenue - 27th St. to 43rd St.
Route 11-B Broadway-Fourth Avenue Subway
- 1. Fourth Avenue - 43rd St. to 61st St.
- 2. Fourth Avenue - 61st St. to 86th St.
- 3. Fourth Avenue - 86th St. to 95th St.
Route 33 Whitehall St., East River, and Montague Street
- 2A. Whitehall St. to Montague and Clinton Sts.
- 3. Montague, Fulton, and Willoughby Sts. - Clinton St. to Flatbush Ave. Extension; Clinton St. to Borough Hall
- MB-Ex 1. Flatbush Avenue Extension - Nassau Street to Willoughby Street
Click through for a separate page of photographs of the construction of the 4th Avenue Subway.
Railfan Perspective
It's a long ride from 95th Street to Pacific Street on the R line, and the rolling stock on the line (a mixture of R-46, R-68, and R-160 types) all have obstructed front windows. It's a shame, too, because the express run from 36th Street to Pacific Street, has some downgrades that allow the train to gather up some excellent speed. So, from a cab view standpoint, there isn't much going for it here.
From a historical perspective, several things make the line interesting. There exists trackways south of 36th Street station that dive under the mainline tracks. There was an abandoned mezzanine somewhere south of the present station which was "stranded" when the present ramps from the West End Line were built and the station was extended northward. Legend has it that 86th St was intended to be used for some unknown purpose, because it has a very wide island platform and a mezzanine, ala the IND. As the original terminal before 95th St was built, it may have been three tracks, and the center platform was built over the center track when the line was extended to 95th St.
Opening/Closing Dates
|DeKalb Avenue
|Pacific Street
|Union Street
|9th Street
|Prospect Avenue
|25th Street
|36th Street
|45th Street
|53rd Street
|59th Street
|Bay Ridge Avenue
|77th Street
|86th Street
|95th Street-Fort Hamilton
Route Map
The BMT 4th Avenue line is served by trains on the D route as far as 36th Street and the N route as far as 59th Street. The R route serves as the local service the whole length of the BMT 4th Avenue Line.
|BMT Broadway Line, IND 6th Avenue Line
|DeKalb Avenue♿BQ
|Pacific Street♿BQ2345
|Union Street
|9th StreetFG
|Prospect Avenue
|25th Street
|36th StreetD
|45th Street
|53rd Street
|59th StreetN
|Bay Ridge Avenue
|77th Street
|86th Street
|95th Street-Fort Hamilton
Station by Station
DeKalb Avenue
See the description on the BMT Brighton Line page.
Pacific Street
Photo by: David Pirmann
Photo by: Roberto C. Tobar
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Express station with four tracks and two island platforms. The station platform area has been renovated and features sea foam green accents on the niches in the center curtain wall. The south ends of the platforms are narrower. The mezzanine is at the north end, 34 steps up from the platform. This end of the platform has a high ceiling. Further renovation including ADA-compliant elevators are planned for the entire Atlantic Ave./Pacific St. complex. Some niches are blocked by equipment and are highlighted by bright yellow tile. The platforms extend further north into the tunnel and afford a glimpse of the old tile. Although renovated, the station is still rather bland.
Some relatives depths of stations in the Atlantic Avenue/Pacific Street complex are as follows (measurements unscientific, +/- 10 feet):
- LIRR Station, 20 feet below street
- IRT Station, 20 feet below street
- BMT (D/Q) Station, 50 feet below street
- BMT (M/N/R) Station, 40 feet below street
Artwork Artwork: MoMA Atlantic-Pacific, various artists, 2009
Union Street
Photo by: John Dooley
Photo by: Robbie Rosenfeld
|More Images: 1-23
A local station with typical 1970s renovation large white wall tiling. This station does not have a color section but rather a strange looking horse design where the color would be. Every other niche is highlighted by mutli-colored diamond pattern tiles. Curtain walls separate all four tracks. The fare control is at the south end of the platforms, and there is no crossover or crossunder present.
Artwork CommUnion, Emmett Wigglesworth, 1994
9th Street
Photo by: Wayne Whitehorne
Photo by: Wilfredo Castillo
|More Images: 1-28
A local station with transfer to the IND Crosstown (F/G) lines at the south end of the platforms. Accent color is golden yellow, and a numeral "9" mosaic is present in the mezzanine and platform area.
Transfer to IND Crosstown Line
Prospect Avenue
Photo by: Roberto C. Tobar
Photo by: John Dooley
|More Images: 1-34
A local station, with blue accent tiling and a small "P" mosaic in the tile near the fare control. There is no crossover or crossunder and the fare control is at platform level in the center. Curtain walls separate all four tracks.
25th Street
Photo by: Michael Hodurski
Photo by: Roberto C. Tobar
|More Images: 1-17
Local station with burnt orange accent color tile. In other respects resembles Prospect Ave.
36th Street
Collection of: Joe Testagrose
Photo by: David-Paul Gerber
|More Images: 1-50 51-59
Express station with two island platforms. Fully renovated.
South of this station are the turnouts from the 4th Avenue Line to the BMT West End Line, which heads to Coney Island. These turnouts have a very interesting history. The original construction was a four track turnout into 40 Street to connect to what was then to be known as the New Utrecht Av Line. The connection was built as far as the southeast corner of 39 St and 4 Av. The northbound local track was to connect at grade but the other three tracks passed under the 4 Avenue Line. The trackways are about 70 feet deep and now are below ground water. With the signing of the Dual Contracts it was decided to make the connection via the "Culver Cut" which was then used for Culver and West End trains to reach the waterfront. To do this the original platforms had to be moved further north and the original south mezzanine was closed off although it is still intact and can be reached by a stairway in the tunnel. Rumor has it that a kind of glass ceiling tile which permitted light from the street to enter the mezzanine enabled one to see into the mezzanine. Part of the closed off area is now used as a signal relay room. Thanks to Mr. W. Boylan, a map of this changed layout is available.
Artwork An Underground Movement: Designers, Builders, Riders, Owen Smith, 1998
Transfer to BMT West End Line
45th Street
Photo by: Wayne Whitehorne
Photo by: John Dooley
|More Images: 1-16
Local station with dark grey accent tile, blue/grey round columns on the platform level, and directional mosaics in the mezzanine (the mosaics seem reversed here; "Uptown" points to the side of the station heading south, and "Downtown" points toward the Manhattan-bound side. I presume that in this case, downtown refers to heading towards downtown Brooklyn and uptown away from downtown Brooklyn). The north exit at 45th St. has a crossover; the south exit at 46th St. is closed.
53rd Street
Photo by: Wayne Whitehorne
Photo by: Roberto C. Tobar
|More Images: 1-50 51-53
Local station. Golden yellow accent tile and the platforms have the same round columns as found at 45th St. The north exit at 52nd St. is an iron maiden exit only, while the south exit at 53rd St. has a mezzanine with crossover. Tile on the stairs at the south end is yellow and gold. Mosaics in the mezzanine indicate "Ft Hamilton and Coney Island" and "Downtown." (As at 45th St., downtown indicates to downtown Brooklyn.) The mezzanine has an odd jog in the passageway leading to the fare control.
59th Street
Photo by: Wayne Whitehorne
Photo by: Michael Hodurski
|More Images: 1-34
Express stop, two island platforms and four tracks. There are exits at both ends, with the south exit at 60th St. open part time. Both ends have crossovers and the uptown/downtown directional mosaics mentioned above. The southbound platform has route selector boxes. The station has a faded/dirty name tablet at platform level. After this station, the BMT Sea Beach Line diverges for Coney Island.
Transfer to BMT Sea Beach Line
Bay Ridge Avenue
Photo by: Robbie Rosenfeld
Photo by: Robbie Rosenfeld
|More Images: 1-44
Just prior to entering Bay Ridge Avenue station, daylight is briefly visible as the tracks pass over the Bay Ridge Branch of the LIRR. The station has two side platforms with blue accent tile. The north exit at 68th St. is an iron maiden exit, and the south exit has a mezzanine and crossover. No mosaics were observed, either in the tile band in the mezzanine or elsewhere.
77th Street
Photo by: Michael Hodurski
Photo by: Roberto C. Tobar
|More Images: 1-18
Local station with burnt orange accent tile and gold-painted columns. The north exit at 76th St. is an iron maiden exit, while the south exit has a mezzanine, crossover, and tiled-over newsstand (a raised sign remains). Stairs feature a red non-slip coating on the treads and risers.
86th Street
Photo by: Wayne Whitehorne
Photo by: Robbie Rosenfeld
|More Images: 1-31
Local stop with two tracks and one island platforms. 86th Street station was planned to be an express station. The plan for conversion had the present platform acting as the downtown local and express and new works to the east would contain the uptown tracks and platform. The trackside walls were once tiled, but went without tile for many years; new tile was installed 2010-2011. There is a closed tower on the extreme north end of the island platform, which is now used for storage.
Exits are at the north end and the center. The 85th St. exit has a part-time token booth and a high exit; while the main exit at 86th St. has a crossover and full-time booth. At the north end there are some closed stairways.
This station served as a temporary terminal from 1916 to 1925.
Exit here for bus service to Staten Island and the main Bay Ridge shopping district.
Artwork Heydays, Amy Bennett, 2011
95th Street-Fort Hamilton
Photo by: Roberto C. Tobar
Photo by: Robbie Rosenfeld
|More Images: 1-32
Final stop. The island platform has exits to 93rd at the north end and 95th at the south end of the full mezzanine with booths at both ends. A passageway outside the fare control allows access, when open, from either end to the main booth at 95th.
Page Credits
By Mark S. Feinman, Peggy Darlington, David Pirmann, and Joe Brennan.


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Wednesday, 24 November 2010
Deep undergound - The Patrick Rosenkranz Interview
Following Kevin's recent review of Patrick Rosenkranz's "Rebel Visions: The Underground Comix Revolution", Patrick got in touch with Exquisite Things to talk about his personal choices in writing the book, and to expand on why he opted to focus on certain key creators within the underground comix scene.
A few emails later, and after a little healthy debate around Vaughn Bode's legacy, it quickly became apparent that Kevin and Patrick shared the same unfettered passion for US underground Comix; so it seemed only natural when Kevin suggested a full interview with Patrick to gain a deeper insight into his research and writings on underground comix.
Kevin seized the opportunity to talk to one of the leading authorities currently working in the field of undergound comix; expounding on its brightest stars and their enduring legacies.
Exquisite Things: What first prompted you to write about the history of the US comix underground?
Patrick Rosenkranz: In 1971 I was a young writer looking for a worthy topic for my first book. The underground comix, with their revolutionary approach to my favorite medium called out to me. I read them, enjoyed them, and even sold them out of my head shop in Portland, Oregon.
I admired what these cartoonists were doing and wanted to know more about them. In 1969 I wrote two articles on Kim Deitch and Skip Williamson for the local underground paper 'The Fountain'. The next year I wrote a longer survey of the comix scene for Bullfrog Information Service. Jay Lynch contacted me and put me in touch with other cartoonists and eventually I met and interviewed most of the major figures in the movement.
Exquisite Things: What was your initial brief for the book, and how did long did it take to complete?
In late 1972 I signed a contract with Crown Publishers to write a book about underground comix and I delivered the manuscript a few months later, as well as a beautiful cover drawn by Dutchman Evert Geradts. Unfortunately, that was the same year that the Supreme Court decided on using community standards to determine pornography, and my publisher got nervous and axed the project.
They had just published The Joy of Sex, so I don't know what the problem was. I was discouraged, but I was determined to get my work into print. I got a call from a Dutch publisher, Paranoia, Inc. who asked if they could produce the book in English in The Netherlands. It came out in 1974 as Artsy Fartsy Funnies. It wasn't what I hoped it would be, but it was something.
Then, in 1998 I got a call from Robert Boyd at Kitchen Sink Press, who said "I have a copy of Artsy Fartsy Funnies in my hand and we want you to write something bigger and better." I agreed to do it and began revisiting all my research materials and contacting the underground cartoonists who were still alive. I spent about three years doing interviews, writing the manuscript, and selecting illustrations. Meanwhile Kitchen Sink went out of business in 1999 and I signed a new contract with Fantagraphics, and it came out in hardcover just before Christmas in 2002. A revised paperback edition was issued in 2008.
Exquisite Things: How did your opinion alter or change regarding the leading figures in underground comix while working on the book?
Patrick Rosenkranz: It was often intimidating for me to approach these well-known artists whose work I admired, but for the most part, I found them to be very enthusiastic about having their lives and work chronicled. I liked the art they were creating and there was a lot of excitement around them. I occasionally met hostility, but remained patient and persistent and things usually worked out well.
It was the lives of the people who made the comix that held the most interest to me. Meeting them added a personality to their creations and allowed me to understand their work better. I also studied the nuts and bolts of their operations. There were some flakes and phonies riding the coattails of the movement, but I concentrated on the best artists and publishers. Rebel Visions includes the names of 175 cartoonists but concentrates on 50 of the most influential.
I still count a number of them among my cultural heroes.
Exquisite Things: In my review I assert that your book emphasizes the role of Rick Griffin as a catalytic force in the comix underground. Would you agree with that particular statement?
Patrick Rosenkranz: Yes, definitely. While he was still a teenager his Murphy cartoons in Surfer Magazine were a popular focal point in the surf subculture of southern California. After high school he went to an art school in LA that promoted abstract painting and criticized his "figurative art" so he left and joined the emerging psychedelic poster phenomenon in San Francisco, where he became a tour de force.
His bold, colorful, organic designs for the Fillmore and Avalon Ballrooms are now among the most collected posters around the world. They also served as recruiting posters for the hordes of hippies who descended on San Francisco in 1967 and 1968.
Robert Crumb saw Griffin's 'Sunday Funnies' poster in a store window in 1968 and looked him up to invite him to join the Zap Comix lineup. Griffin and Victor Moscoso, another prominent poster artist were preparing to make their own comic book when Zap appeared out of the blue and they jumped on board.
Rick Griffin's art continues to influence young people today. His solo book, 'Man From Utopia' was one of the most beautiful comics produced in those days. He only got better with age, until he was killed in a collision between his motorcycle and a van in 1991
Exquisite Things: In re-reading many of the classic underground titles, which stood out to you as the very best – and very worst – examples of underground comix?
Patrick Rosenkranz: 'Zap Comix' definitely set the bar from the beginning. Experimentation, innovation, iconoclasm, and draftsmanship were the criteria by which all the other titles were judged. some of my personal favorites were 'The Furry Freak Brothers', 'Big Ass Comics', 'Bijou Funnies', 'Young Lust', 'Binky Brown', 'Slow Death Funnies', 'Harold Hedd', 'Insect Fear'… the list goes on and on.
There were also some real dogs, including 'Suds', 'Demented Pervert', 'Googiewaumer', 'Baloney Moccasins' and lots more. By 1973 there were more than 200 underground comic titles from San Francisco, New York and Wisconsin, as well as dozens of obscure self-published work from the hinterlands. Eventually a glut of inferior comic books poured into the market and readers rejected them. Of course, due to the fact that they didn't sell well at the time, they have subsequently become more rare and valuable to comic collectors today.
Exquisite Things: For many years, the only book on underground comix available to UK readers was Dez Skinn's 'Comix: The Underground Revolution', a book that proved to be highly contentious to say the least. Can you tell me more about your own personal objections to it?
Patrick Rosenkranz: My book, Rebel Visions was subtitled The Underground Comix Revolution 1963-1975 and came out in 2002. Dez Skinn's book was published in 2004 with the title Comix: The Underground Revolution. A coincidence? I think not. It started there. He also swiped quotes and photos and illustrations from my book. I called him on it and made him pay. The details are probably already known to your readers. I don't know how well his book sold in the UK.
Exquisite Things: You've also penned biographies of notable underground creators Rand Holmes and Greg Irons. What was it that interested you about their lives, and what drove you to write about them?
Patrick Rosenkranz: Greg Irons died way too early, at age 37, struck by a bus in Bangkok. I worked with his younger brother Mark to compile his life's work and write his biography 'You Call This Art?! A Greg Irons Retrospective'.
He was one of the most revolutionary cartoonists in the underground and I didn't want him to be forgotten. His work is just as potent and meaningful today as it was forty years ago. His anti-war, anti-corporate, pro-environmental stories still ring true and point out that not much has improved since he drew them. He was emerging as an innovative tattoo virtuoso in the early 1980s when his new career was cut short by fate.
Rand Holmes was equally revolutionary in his attitude toward art and society, but he was also an introvert who guarded his privacy. Discovering the details of his life was a great challenge and it took me a long time to chase down his ex-wife, old buddies, school chums, and colleagues to ask them a lot of nosy questions.
For the most part they were eager to tell his story, because they recognized him as a great artist and wanted the rest of the world to know it as well. His widow Martha gave me access to his art collection, diaries and sketchbooks and I was able to gradually paint a sprawling portrait of the man and his life, titled 'The Artist Himself: A Rand Holmes Retrospective'. There are some cartoonists who do great work but aren't very interesting people. Rand Holmes was both – a fascinating individual who taught himself to draw, tame birds, play the banjo, and build his own log home.
He was also a serious and talented artist.
Exquisite Things: I understand that you also teach a course in comics history, could you tell me more about what the course entails?
Patrick Rosenkranz: I've been an educator on and off my whole life, teaching for public and private schools and arts organizations in a variety of settings. I recently received a request from the Pacific Northwest College of Art to teach a history of comics and I gladly accepted.
I'm taking a thematic rather than historic approach to the subject, and my lectures include sex in comics, Superheroes from Popeye to Hellboy, American family life, American and Dutch underground comix, bubble gum cards, and proto-comics from cave paintings to European caricaturists. My intent is for my students to better understand and appreciate this visual, verbal, spatial, pictographic language that is the comic medium.
Exquisite Things: To wrap up, what would you cite as the lasting legacies of the US underground comix scene?
Patrick Rosenkranz: To copy David Letterman, the Top Ten Legacies of Underground Comix are... Drum roll please!
1. Creators own the copyrights to their work
2. Artists retain ownership of their original art
3. Cartoonists are paid royalties based on sales
4. The freedom to make unconventional story and character choices
5. Artistic control of the work from beginning to end
6. Autobiographical comics
7. The rise of small press publishers
8. The creation of alternative distribution systems and specialty comic shops
9 Freedom from censorship and editorial interference
10 A broadened horizon for the comics medium
Interview by Kevin McCaighy.
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Mr. Speaker, on Friday, a high court in the United Kingdom handed down a game-changing ruling. Pensioners in that country have been moved to the front of the line of creditors during bankruptcy proceedings. Here at home, Canadian retirees are at the bottom of the list when it comes to claiming the money owed to them.
New Democrat Bill C-501 is at the industry committee right now but the Conservatives have opposed it from the beginning.
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For Immediate Release, September 11, 2012
As Climate Warms, Petition Seeks to Stop Methane Leaks at Drilling Operations on America's Public Lands
SAN FRANCISCO— Companies fracking or drilling for oil and gas on public lands should be required to use pollution controls to cut harmful methane leaks contributing to the global climate crisis, according to a petition filed today to the Bureau of Land Management by the Center for Biological Diversity, Western Environmental Law Center and Clean Air Task Force. About 126 billion cubic feet of gas are unnecessarily vented and flared from federal leases each year.
Methane is a potent greenhouse gas — 105 times more powerful than carbon dioxide in warming the globe over a 20-year period — that plays a major role in climate change. This past January to August were the warmest eight months on record in the contiguous United States, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
"As climate change heats up our planet, many companies still don't bother to control methane emissions from fracking and drilling on public lands," said Kassie Siegel, director of the Center's for Biological Diversity's Climate Law Institute. "The federal government needs to put a lid on this highly destructive form of pollution. Methane's far too powerful at driving global warming to let it leak out this way. We can't sit here fiddling while Rome burns."
Today's petition calls on the BLM to require that oil- and gas-drilling operators install readily available pollution-control measures that would reduce methane gas leaked into the atmosphere during the drilling process. Stopping the leaks would also keep more gas in the pipeline for consumers and add millions of dollars to the federal treasury from royalty payments. The wasted gas is enough to heat 1.7 million homes for a year.
Fracking, a highly controversial drilling technique that involves blasting huge quantities of water and toxic chemicals into the earth, worsens the leakage problem. The oil and gas industry fracks about 90 percent of wells drilled on federal lands, according to the BLM.
Methane emissions also contribute to higher levels of ground-level ozone pollution, which has serious direct public-health impacts, including increasing the incidence of asthma, lost school and workdays, and premature death.
"This isn't about whether oil and gas drilling is good or bad, it's about whether the Bureau of Land Management is going to clean up sloppy drilling practices that damage our climate," said Erik Schlenker-Goodrich of the Western Environmental Law Center. "With win-win solutions at our fingertips that will keep more energy in the pipeline for consumers, there's no reason the agency should not be requiring the industry to use the best proven, available equipment and practices. This is a no-brainer."
Federal law requires the BLM to prevent the waste of gas on federal leases, and evidence suggests that operators can economically capture at least 40 percent of leaked gas from federal lands, reducing greenhouse pollution by the same amount as removing 3.1 million cars from the road and increasing royalty payments by $23 million annually. The BLM is also required to protect the environmental, air, atmospheric, water, and other resource values of public lands and prevent their unnecessary or undue degradation. The agency manages more than 245 million acres of public lands and administers about 700 million acres of subsurface mineral estate.
"Regulating methane from oil and gas production is absolutely essential to protecting both climate and public health in the U.S.," said Ann Weeks, senior counsel for Clean Air Task Force and one of the signatories to the petition. "There are many off-the-shelf techniques available today for controlling methane emissions from wells, pipelines and other sources in the production process. We are therefore demanding that BLM take a leadership role in requiring natural gas lessees to minimize their leakage of methane, an enormously potent short-lived climate pollutant."
Methane emissions greatly accelerate climate change, the consequences of which Americans experienced this summer: record high temperatures and massive droughts leading to higher food prices.
BLM has admitted that its regulations have not kept pace with modern oil- and gas-extraction techniques, and has proposed new rules for fracking on federal lands. The proposed regulations do not address air pollution. The agency has stated it intends to address air pollution at a later time.
The Center for Biological Diversity is a national, nonprofit conservation organization with more than 375,000 members and online activists dedicated to the protection of endangered species and wild places.
The Western Environmental Law Center is a nonprofit public interest law firm that works to protect and restore western wildlands and advocates for healthy environments on behalf of communities throughout the West.
Clean Air Task Force is a non-profit environmental organization with offices throughout the United States and in China that works to protect the earth's atmosphere by improving air quality and reducing global climate change through scientific research, public advocacy, technological innovation and private sector collaboration. For more information please visit www.catf.us.
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Webster walks back into win column vs. Halos
Bradley makes yet another sensational grab; Napoli belts 14th homer
ANAHEIM -- Allen Webster knew that to have a chance at a win Friday night, he'd need to match Angels ace Jered Weaver pitch for pitch. The Red Sox's No. 5 prospect did that and more in a 4-2 victory at Angel Stadium.
The Boston right-hander tossed a career-high 6 2/3 innings, allowing two runs on four hits and two walks for his second win of the season.
It was a far cry from last Saturday's start against the Yankees, in which Webster lasted just 2 2/3 innings, allowing four runs and six walks for the loss.
"He was much more under control and showed the ability to make adjustments more readily than the last time out. I also thought Christian [Vazquez] did a great job with him behind the plate," manager John Farrell said. "A number of times he would double up on the breaking ball when he'd miss with the first one. The feel by Christian and their work together tonight was so efficient."
Webster was able to settle in thanks to some early run support. The Red Sox put runners on the corners with one out in the third inning after a double by Vazquez and a single by Brock Holt. Dustin Pedroia then quickly poked a single into left field to put Boston on the board.
However, Webster was quick to give a few back in the bottom half of the frame. Leadoff batter Efren Navarro walked on four straight pitches and then Chris Iannetta hit a double down the left-field line, which was misplayed by Yoenis Cespedes and allowed Navarro to score. It marked Cespedes' first error of the season.
The other run came on a deep fly ball to center field off the bat of Mike Trout, making it a 3-2 game.
The third inning in his last start against the Yankees is when things went south. Webster said it was difficult not to think about that when the inning started off poorly Friday night.
"I stepped off, got back in it and Vazquez did good about making sure I got extended and out in front of the ball," Webster said. "It just made me get back into line.
"My fastball command was the biggest difference between starts. I just started going after batters. After every pitch, I just told myself to keep going after batters and trust my stuff and let my defense work."
The heart of the lineup was able to tack on a few more runs when cleanup hitter Cespedes belted a two-run double just inside the left-field line, giving the Sox a 3-0 lead.
The right-hander's slider was also another important pitch. He showcased that more against the Angels because of their right-handed heavy lineup.
"It worked very well tonight, so we decided to go with it more," Vazquez said. "He had good command of every pitch and was able to attack the hitters because he got ahead of most of them."
After the Angels came within a run, Mike Napoli made sure things didn't stay that way for too long. With two out in the fifth inning, the first baseman teed off on a 88-mph first-pitch fastball that landed right over the 390-foot sign in left-center field.
While Napoli may have swung early in the count on his solo home run, the Red Sox remained patient against Weaver the entire night. The team's approach had Weaver at 100 pitches through just five innings. In comparison, Webster tossed just 62 pitches through five frames.
While Webster could have gone longer, tossing just 84 pitches, Farrell chose to go to the bullpen. Things went smoothly until the bottom of the ninth, when closer Koji Uehara came in for the save. Jackie Bradley Jr., who came in as a defensive replacement in the eighth inning, made an unbelievable snow-cone grab up against the wall in center field to get the first out of the inning. Had Bradley not made that leaping grab on a ball hit by Howie Kendrick, the whole complexion of the inning would have changed.
"It's a great play. He made two really good plays and you can see why he's a legitimate center fielder," Angels manager Mike Scioscia said. "The ball with Howie, that's probably as much or as quickly that you're going to see a center fielder close distance at any level. That was incredible."
While Uehara didn't have his best stuff, he struck out Kole Calhoun with runners on first and third to end the game and secure a win for Webster in what was the best start of his young Major League career.
"There is no denying his potential, you see it every time you put the ball in his hand," Farrell said. "It is a matter of performance and executing and he did it tonight."


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Snowden's Beloved Tails OS Reaches v1.0 Milestone
May 1, 2014 2:29 PM PT
The volunteers who developed Tails, the open source operating system used by whistleblower Edward Snowden, this week released v1.0.
This is the 36th stable release of the OS since the first public version, then called "Amnesia," was released in June 2009.
Various security and bug fixes have been incorporated into v1.0. They include a Web browser upgrade, a Tor upgrade, and client-side blacklists for all Tor directory authority keys vulnerable to the OpenSSL Heartbleed flaw.
Tails "is a nicely packaged distribution of common security tools like Tor and PGP," Daniel Castro, senior analyst at The Information Technology & Innovation Foundation, told LinuxInsider. "All of this is available today."
In fact, the developers admit Tails 1.0 "does not bring a lot of effective changes for the user."
Future Plans
Tails 1.1 is scheduled for release in June. It will be based on Wheezy, aka Debian 7.
Tails 2.0 will focus on sustainability and maintainability, and Tails 3.0 will focus on making Tails more secure.
Tails is funded by donations collected by the Freedom of the Press Foundation.
Tails vs. the OS World
Like some Linux distros that can be run off USB flash drives, Tails, which is based on Debian GNU, can be run off a DVD, a USB stick or an SD card.
Tails is configured to use only a computer's RAM for storage. That memory should be automatically erased when the computer is shut down.
Tails comes with various security tools, including Linux Unified Key Setup disk encryption, HTTPS Everywhere, OpenPGP to encrypt and sign emails and documents, and Off-the-Record messaging.
Problems With Tails
However, Tails is not a panacea. There is a list of known issues with the OS.
On some hardware, the memory wipe procedure fails to complete, and the computer does not completely shut down or restart, for example.
It's not possible to connect to FTP servers; Tails fails to connect to certain WiFi networks; accessing YouTube videos requires a bit of work; and Tails has very limited support on Macs.
Tails also has problems with some hardware, including the ASUS VivoBook X202E, a number of Dell devices, the Samsung Series 7 Chronos, two Toshiba Satellite models, and USB sticks configured by the manufacturer as a fixed disk, such as the SanDisk Cruzer line and the Staples Relay USB 2.0 16-GB version.
On some systems, Tails does not consistently erase all system memory as it should.
No Cure for the Masses
"Not everybody can use it because it requires some knowledge about its components," Sorin Mustaca, IT security expert at Avira, told LinuxInsider.
Further, the average person does not care overmuch about their privacy, contended Mustaca, because otherwise Facebook wouldn't have so many users.
Still, Tails would be handy for the average user. For example, it would protect against keyloggers installed by cybercriminals in computers in hotel business centers, or malware that hijacks browsers, Castro suggested.
What About the Bad Guys?
Tor has been used by cybercriminals and pedophiles to mask their activities.
The NSA and its UK equivalent, GCHQ, repeatedly have tried to crack the service, as have repressive governments concerned about its use by investigative journalists.
"Masking online activities is a critical capability in locales where political repression is common," said Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT. As for bad actors, "I wouldn't qualify Tails as being any more dangerous than other common devices used by criminals, including cars and guns, or the digital still and video cameras favored by pedophiles."
Tails "is a technology that can be used by almost anyone," said King, and "denigrating it because of the actions of a few criminals is a fool's errand."


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Minnesota drivers are seeing something they haven't seen in a while, and we don't just mean snowy roads: the price of gas in parts of the state has fallen below $3 per gallon for the first time in nearly two years.
Gas prices were reported as low as $2.94 per gallon of unleaded regular at several stations across central Minnesota this morning, according to minnesotagasprices.com.
The statewide average today was $3.12 per gallon, down from $3.23 just last week, $3.24 a month ago and one year ago. Drivers are seeing significant relief since late summer, when gas prices were as high as $3.97 across the Northland.
And there doesn't seem to be any reason gas prices should go up much in the near future, Gail Weinholzer, director of public affairs for AAA Minnesota-Iowa, told the News Tribune.
"There might be a few days where we see prices level off around the Christmas-New Year's holiday, but it's not going to be a big tick up," she said. "We see gas prices continuing to drop into 2013. ... I think they're going to be staying a lot closer to $3 than $4 for the foreseeable future."
Duluth stations showed prices as low as $3.13 per gallon this morning, with the highest prices in the state -- in International Falls, as often is the case -- at $3.39.
If your vehicle gets about 20 miles per gallon, the drop in gas prices since September means an extra $14 in your pocket after a 340-mile round-trip from Duluth to the Twin Cities.
The national average sat at $3.30 early today, the website reported. It's the lowest gas prices have been since early 2011, and the decline in price from October to November was the biggest drop nationally in three years.
Weinholzer said Minnesota's gas-price decline is even more dramatic than the national phenomenon because late-summer prices spiked due to pipeline problems in the Chicago area.
Nationally, oil and gas industry analysts say the steep decline in prices in recent months has been fueled by the annual seasonal decline in miles driven seen each winter combined with a rapid increase in U.S. oil production. U.S. refineries also are running full-bore after summer and fall disruptions due to fires and weather events.
Analysts caution that a drop off the "fiscal cliff" or additional unrest in the Mideast could send gas prices back up.
Cheaper gas actually is helping spur the national economy, driving down wholesale prices in November by 0.8 percent, the U.S. Labor Department reported today. Officials say lower gas prices also may be spurring more jobs.
AAA forecast today that 93.3 million Americans will travel 50 miles or more for the coming holidays. That's up 1.6 percent from 2011. Most of those travelers, 90 percent, will drive to their destination, with 84.4 million people on the road over the holidays. That's up 1.3 percent from last year.


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The man fatally shot by police during a standoff in Fountain on Monday was a Fort Carson soldier who had completed deployments to Iraq, Afghanistan and Kuwait.
Fort Carson's public affairs confirmed Jonathan D. Clark III, 25, had been stationed at the Mountain Post since July 2009, assigned to the 1st Armored Brigade Combat Team with the 4th Infantry Division.
Clark, from Germantown, N.Y., had most recently completed a four-month deployment to Kuwait and had returned to Fort Carson in June.
Clark was shot in the chest and hand during a standoff with two Fountain police officers, and died at a Memorial Hospital Central late Monday night. The officers have been placed on paid administrative leave, which is standard procedure in officer-involved shootings, Fountain Police Chief Todd Evans said.
The 4th Judicial District Attorney's Office is investigating the shooting.
The incident happened just after 5 p.m. Monday by the intersection of Crest Drive and Crest Street, as police were dispatched to a car crash and shots fired call.
Police said Clark was sitting in a vehicle and holding a weapon. The two Fountain police officers tried to talk to Clark but he allegedly pointed the gun at them, at which point shots were fired.
According to a family friend, Clark is survived by his wife and a child.


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MyPyramid Helps Families Find Balanced Nutrition
(NewsUSA) - MyPyramid -- also known as the food pyramid -- is a guide for good eating for healthy people ages two to 102. It serves as the blueprint for better nutrition, focusing on foods to include, rather than exclude, in a diet for you and your family. The pyramid's eating patterns are meant to help you increase your intake of essential nutrients, such as vitamins, minerals, and fiber; minimize saturated fat, trans fats, and cholesterol; and help to promote a healthy weight.
MyPyramid is based on the latest scientific evidence about nutrition reflected in the Dietary Guidelines for Americans. The best part of MyPyramid is that it is easily personalized to fit your needs and food preferences. Under the MyPyramid system, you pick the suggested amount of food from the food groups based on your age, gender, and physical activity level. You can figure out what you need at www.MyPyramid.gov.
Here are some tips for including the nutrient-rich foods MyPyramid recommends from each food group:
Grains: Go With the Whole Grain
* Start the day with a natural, whole grain cereal, like Mom's Best Naturals Sweetened Wheat-fuls, to get nearly all the whole grain you need.
* Prepare sandwiches with whole grain breads.
* Snack on popcorn -- a whole grain -- rather than pretzels and snack chips.
Vegetables: Variety Is Key
* Make vegetables part of soups, casseroles, meatloaf and pasta dishes.
* Serve raw, sliced vegetables with peanut butter or hummus for snacks.
* Choose bean-based soups, such as lentil, and add beans to salads.
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* Stock up on dried fruit. It's portable and versatile. Make trail mix with raisins, Mom's Best Natural's cereal and chopped nuts for a snack with selections from three food groups.
* Keep fruit in plain sight so kids and adults will think to snack on it.
* Puree canned fruits, such as apricots, or berries, and combine with plain yogurt.
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* Work in a serving of fat-free or low-fat milk when you have a bowl of cereal. Microwave oatmeal with milk instead of water.
* Make a smoothie with fruit and milk.
* Sneak a piece of low-fat cheddar into your sandwich.
Meat & Beans: An Array of Animal and Vegetable Choices
* Make chili with half the lean ground beef and twice the beans.
* Sick of chicken? Opt for pork tenderloin. It has less fat than skinless, boneless chicken breast.


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A super soft bed bumper with our Dreamland design – it even matches our fitted sheets !
The ribbon on the sides make it easy to attach the bumper securely to the crib's bars.
Our bumpers are manufactured using 100% organic GOTS certified cotton.
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I don't know about you, but�many of the films I saw growing up left a lasting impression, particularly in my teen years. I don't know why. Where's Sigmund Freud when you need him? I suppose even before I reached my teenage years I had become enamored with film. Big screen, junk food, what's not to love?
The first film I remember seeing was "It's Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad�World" (1963)�when I was 7. I didn't know any of the cast members, with the exception of�Three Stooges. Spencer Tracy, Ethel Merman, Milton Berle and Sid Caesar weren't exactly on my cinematic radar back then. What sticks with me instead�is�the visual of the crossed palm trees, sight of the buried treasure. I remember asking�my parents afterward if they knew of any�palm trees in town.
Just before I hit my teens, I saw "Romeo and Juliet" (1968), a film that opened up my tear ducts back then and still does today. Just start playing�Nina Rota's theme music�and I turn into�blubber boy. I guess the movie resonated me with so�deeply because Romeo and Juliet weren't much older than I was when they became star-crossed lovers, and the actors playing the leads, Leonard Whiting and Olivia Hussey, were near my age, too. What stuck with me here, however, was the power of�words, that they could elicit such a strong reaction. Hey, this Shakespeare fellow can really write. Film may be a visual medium, but when you wed it with glorious words, the combination can become a revelation.
At 15, I began craving more mature material. The first R-rated film I saw was "The French Connection" (1971).�Well, it wasn't�technically my first. That's the film I wanted to see, but back then, double features existed, and the first film on the bill was "Pretty Maids All In a Row" and all I remember about this movie was that it contained�a considerable amount of�nudity. "This is the greatest movie ever!" I thought. "The French Connection," at first, didn't register, basically because it had only one nude scene. Once my hormones stopped raging,�I realized what a superior film "The French Connection" was.�I still don't understand the "pick your feet in Poughkeepsie" line, but I sure remember Gene Hackman's riveting performance as Popeye Doyle, and the visual of Fernando Ray's Alain Charnier�smugly waving goodbye to Doyle on the subway�still boils my blood. What do you mean, the bad guy gets away?
For a little back story, as I didn't have my driver's license yet and since these films�required�parent or guardian accompaniment for the under 17 set, I went to these movies with my father. He liked films, too. He just didn't read a lot of reviews so he didn't know always know what type of film we were seeing. I would, of course, take full advantage of this.�
Case in point, "A Clockwork Orange" (1971). This was rated X�at the time, prohibiting me from seeing it even with a parent and guardian, but my father either convinced the�ticket person to let me in or�the ticket person didn't care. When my father asked me what the movie was about as we were driving to the theater, I told him it was an action film. Not a complete lie, the film had action. It also had enough disturbing scenes in it to�generate a week's worth of nightmares.�The phallic sculpture confrontation was especially unsettling as it had little to do with art appreciation. The film demonstrated rather forcefully the wicked punch an�image could pack.�
Then there was "The Last Picture Show" (1971) - the first movie that sent me out of the theater so depressed that I wanted to ask the concessions person for Prozac with�my popcorn.�While I do remember lusting after�Cybill Shepherd - oh, that swimming pool scene -�leaving a more indelible mark on my psyche was the film's�emotional�roller-coaster run with stops not part of the picture. That the film was shot in black and white only reinforced its�starkness.
For another uplifting movie, so to speak, I had Dad take me to "Last Tango In Paris" (1973). This was rated X, too, but�again I got in somehow. I told my father that this film was a love story. Again, not a complete lie. Two images�got permanently imprinted here.�The first has Maria Schneider and Marlon Brando sitting nude�on the floor in a rather provocative position. Then Schneider's character says something to Brando that can't be printed in a family newspaper. The second image involves butter. Say no more. I would have liked to have been a fly on the wall when my father tried to explain this film to my mother. I'm betting he just told her it was a love story. Here I learned that love really means never having to say you're sorry.
For the record, I didn't just go to R- and X-rated movies when I was a teen. I threw in a few PG-rated ones, too, and one of the best was "Cabaret" (1972). I had been a�fan of movie musicals ever since�Julie Andrews descended from the heavens�in "Mary Poppins" (1964).�I'm still annoyed she didn't get cast as Eliza Doolittle in the film version of "My Fair Lady" (1964), though it all turned out for the best. Andrews won an Oscar for "Poppins" and Marni Nixon got�to dub Audrey Hepburn in "Lady."�But I digress. "Cabaret" made its mark with me because it just didn't showcase great songs and great performances - thank you Liza Minnelli and Joel Grey -�it dealt with serious subject matter in a serious way as Nazis began their infestation into Germany in the early 1930s.�All the songs inside the cabaret�reflect what's going on outside it. They weren't just entertaining filler.�The line that remains lodged in my memory�is spoken after the Nazi propaganda song "Tomorrow Belongs to Me" is sung by an Aryan poster boy and a crowd of Germans join him one by one in a Nazi salute. "You still think you can control them?" asks Michael York's Brian Roberts�to Helmut Griem's Maximilian von Heuned.�
Certainly the film that freaked me out the most in my teens was "The Exorcist" (1973). So many discomforting images. Yet�two lines of�dialogue made an impression, too. One can't be repeated in a family newspaper though it was satirized brilliantly on "Saturday Night Live" when a possessed Laraine Newman says to Richard Pryor's priest, "Your mother sews socks that smell." What really got to me though was when the possessed Regan,�speaking in the voice of Father Karras' mother, asks, "Demi, why you do this to me?" The film forms the�unholy trinity with "Rosemary's Baby" (1968) and "The Omen" (1976).
On the flip side, for the triple play of hilarity,�I submit "Blazing Saddles" (1974), "Young Frankenstein" (1974) and "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" (1975). Too many great lines and memorable scenes to recount here. That said, to this day, I can't say Frau Blucher's name without whinnying afterward. The films also gave me an appreciation for comedies that pushed the�envelope of good taste. They were also exceedingly clever. It's a trait most of today's gross-out comedies lack.
Finally, before I left my teens, I went to see "Jaws" (1975), not once, not twice, not three times. Actually, I lost track of how many times I went to see it, as I took vicarious pleasure in watching my friends react to frightening scenes that I knew were upcoming. Little did I know I was contributing to�the film's monstrous box office receipts. It did make me realize�what a talented director can do to scare�the hell�out�of an audience even when working with a malfunctioning shark. That Steven Spielberg guy might have a career.
Now before readers question if my mind belonged in a teenage wasteland back then, I should�point out that all of these 1970s films, with the exception of "Holy Grail," received Oscar nominations. In retrospect, my prurient sensibilities had taste.�I also think I was fortunate to grow up during a time when directors could make films that didn't just think outside the box. They tore up the box. Those were the days, my friends.�
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I don't know about you, but�many of the films I saw growing up left a lasting impression, particularly in my teen years. I don't know why. Where's Sigmund Freud when you need him? I suppose even before I reached my teenage years I had become enamored with film. Big screen, junk food, what's not to love?


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