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Hostess to Sell Wonder Bread to Tastykake Parent
Wonder Bread will live on after Hostess bankruptcy
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The bankruptcy of Hostess left many Americans convinced that their favorite snacks would be gone forever. Those who were particularly attached to the fluffy white Wonder Bread can rest easy tonight knowing that brand has been saved from extinction by a sale to Thomasville, Ga.-based Flower Foods.
Flower Foods, the maker of Tastykakes, already has its own bread lines, including Nature's Own and Cobblestone Mill. According to the Associated Press, the company offered $360 million for Wonder, Nature's Pride, Butternut, Home Pride, and Merita, and $30 million for Beefsteak. The offer has been accepted as a "stalking horse bid," which means Flower gets to make the first offer, but higher bids can still be made and the final deal will have to be approved by bankruptcy court. According to Forbes, Flower Foods would receive a break-up payment if the brands wound up going to another bidder.
According to Hostess, its bread brands accounted for nearly $1 billion in sales last year. Half of that was thanks to Wonder Bread.
Everyone who is more interested in sugary packaged snacks will just have to sit tight. Those probably aren't going anywhere either. According to AP, Hostess is expected to announce a buyer and/or buyers for its dessert products in the coming weeks.
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Just like other businesses. Hostess shut down production because of the greedy union, but is still their. Somebody else buys the company and name. Then starts production with new employees or at another plant. The union people are screwed.


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I have been dying to try the stuffed recipe, so I thought I bring a little fun in my food blog. I am so excited about this concept of stuffing chicken and cheese inside a potato ball. What do you think? Have you tried it?
This is the first time I've used potato. Well, I'm addicted to fries, but mashing it from scratch and using it as the base dough is a new experiment.
So I can only hope for luck.
Potota Balls stuffed with Chicken and Cheese
3 Pieces of Potatoes
Thinly sliced chicken breast
Salt & Pepper
Cheddar Cheese
Bread crumbs
1. Boil the 3 unpeeled potatoes
2. Boil the chicken breast
3. When the potatoes are soft and cooked, mash them (add salt and pepper)
4. Slice the chicken breast thinly (like shreds)
5. Grate the cheddar cheese
6. Mold the mashed potatoes in your palms to make small balls and stuff it with
thinly sliced chicken and grated cheese
7. Crack the egg, and separate the white from the yolk
8. Coat the potato ball with egg white to have sticky layering,
then roll it in the bread crumbs
9. Fry these babies until golden brown
So I got lucky, when I found the Gravy!
Thank God for the Gravy! These babies tasted excellent!

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Mickey & Manatees
Clearly, it's been a little while since my last post. A LOT has changed since I wrote about my time in Malta. I'll come back to Malta soon in another post….there is a lot to be said for what happened between then and now. This post though is just a little re-cap of what me and Andrew did a couple of weeks ago during a long weekend in Florida…
Andrew's been off in the Bahamas for the last (is it really here already?) year and I've been off doing lots of other things but we found some time to meet up in Florida and visit with my aunts. They were awesome and got us into Disney which was a total blast, especially for Andy since he hadn't been there since he was really little.
(Not too sure what's going on behind me….)
We were tempted to stay in Disney all night because Magic Kingdom had their 24 hour party night but we had to go home because we were scheduled to be out the door at 5 am the next morning to drive west to Crystal River, FL to do a cavern dive and snorkel with manatees.
Yes. Manatees. Look!
These guys were amazing. We spent the morning with them (thanks to American Pro Divers in Crystal River) and loved every second. Visibility was pretty low so I'm pretty sure we all ran into each other, but seeing as they're twice the size of me I don't think they cared too much. (FYI, that picture is the baby! He was huge, but mom was even bigger!)
Disney & the manatees were of course, wonderful, but really the best part of the trip was just hanging out with my aunts, getting them to meet Andy, playing with all their lovable animals, and everybody just being together (especially when the mango martinis came out!).
Can't forget these guys either….(didn't take nearly enough pictures of all the animals but at least I got these two!)
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Quick Breakdown of Barrel Sequence in 'Hobbit: Desolation of Smaug'
We just recently saw a cool featurette showing Benedict Cumberbatch doing motion-capture work to play the titular dragon in The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug. Now another look behind the scenes has popped up looking at the somewhat silly, but impressive dwarf barrel escape sequence from the sequel that feels almost straight out of a Steven Spielberg film. Peter Jackson pops up on set as this featurette shows a combination of the footage shot and the visual effects that came together to make this fun sequence work on the big screen. It's a short featurette, but it shows just how much went into this small part of the film.
› Posted March 6 in Featurette, Hobbit, To Watch | Comments
Watch: Benedict Cumberbatch Does Dragon MoCap for 'The Hobbit'
We have just one more chapter in Peter Jackson's trilogy adaptation of The Hobbit, and if you missed the second installment, The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, you can catch the film on Blu-Ray and DVD on April 8th. But for everyone else who saw the film (and the fun cameo featuring J.R.R. Tolkien fanatic Stephen Colbert), we've got a cool featurette from David Clayton and the rest of the Academy Award nominated visual effects team at Weta Digital showing us how a combination of a motion capture performance from Benedict Cumberbatch and animators brought the dragon Smaug to life. Watch now!
› Posted February 25 in Featurette, Hobbit, To Watch | Comments
Watch: SoundWorks Featurette on 'The Hobbit: Desolation of Smaug'
Fans of The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug already got one cool treat when Stephen Colbert's cameo in the middle of Peter Jackson's trilogy adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien's book was discovered. You might still be lucky enough to catch the film in theaters, but for those who have already seen the superior second installment in the trilogy, we have a cool featurette from SoundWorks Collection looking at the sound design and mixing behind the blockbuster. Composer Howard Shore and producer/co-writer Philippa Boyens pop up in the featurette along with much of the sound crew, and it's very informative.
› Posted January 24 in Featurette, Hobbit, To Watch | Comments
Catch Stephen Colbert's Cameo in 'The Hobbit: Desolation of Smaug'
Last December, when the first film in The Hobbit trilogy was released, late night talk show satirist Stephen Colbert dedicated a whole week to Peter Jackson's new fantasy endeavor. In case you didn't know, Colbert is a massive J.R.R. Tolkien fan, even winning a trivia contest against Jackson, Fran Walsh and Phillipa Boyens when he visited the set in New Zealand with his family. Along with his excitement and hype for the film trilogy, it was discovered that Colbert had a small cameo in the trilogy, and it wasn't in the first film. Well, keen eyes finally caught Colbert in The Desolation of Smaug on the big screen. Look!
› Posted December 30 in Cool Stuff, Hobbit, Photos | Comments
Watch: Peter Jackson's 14th & Final 2013 'The Hobbit' Production Blog
The second installment of The Hobbit trilogy is in theaters now, and The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug certainly stepped up the game from the flawed beginning An Unexpected Journey. And to close out the year, Peter Jackson has revealed his final production video blog for 2013. This last look at the making of The Hobbit sequel takes a look at the powerful score from Howard Shore, composer of the Lord of the Rings trilogy. The Academy Award winning composer talks about the mystery and darkness of this score, and how it shares qualities with The Two Towers. As always, it's a cool look behind the scenes. Watch it!
› Posted December 20 in Hobbit, To Watch, Video Blog | Comments
Two More Stellar 'The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug' Posters Hit
"I am King under the Mountain!" Smaug has arrived. With the worldwide release of Peter Jackson's The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug this weekend, Warner Bros has unveiled two more posters for the movie both featuring Smaug the Dragon. Smaug is the big reveal in the final act of the movie and they've been waiting to show him, with his only other appearance being on the side of an Air New Zealand airplane. That said, these two posters are actually impressive designs, especially the second one with Smaug hiding in all of the gold deep inside the mountain. If they printed it using gold ink it would be a must-have. See below.
Sound Off: 'The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug' - Your Thoughts?
Now that you've seen it, what did you think? Beyond darkness... beyond desolation... In theaters now is the second movie in Peter Jackson's trilogy based on the J.R.R. Tolkien novel, titled The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug. This time we continue the journey of Bilbo and the dwarfs as they make their way to Erebor and encounter the dragon Smaug within. Martin Freeman is Bilbo, Ian McKellen is Gandalf, Richard Armitage is Thorin, Luke Evans is Bard, Orlando Bloom returns as Legolas, and Evangeline Lilly plays Tauriel. Once you've seen it, leave a comment with your thoughts on The Desolation of Smaug.
Review: 'The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug' Entertaining But Empty
The ballad of Bilbo Baggins continues in The Desolation of Smaug, director Peter Jackson's second of three films in his adaptation of The Hobbit. After five films spanning 12 years, Jackson's take on J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-earth is as elaborate as ever, more so given those 12 years in filmmaking technologies and their development. Jackson's world is pretty, vibrant, covered in all the colors imaginable and even a few more. It's enough to enrapture even the most cynical viewer with all the Elvish, Dwarvish, and Hobbitish excitement going on. But a passion has disappeared from revisiting Jackson's take on this world, and when the adventures this time around pass by, the emptiness they leave behind speaks volumes. More below!
Check Out This Incredible 200,000 LEGO Brick Creation of Rivendell
Tonight at midnight, The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug is unleashed on audiences, leaving just one more chapter in Peter Jackson's trilogy left for release next winter. If the epic trailers and the most recent production blogs don't have you on board with the sequel (even if you were underwhelmed by the first film), we recommend you stick around and see how the story unfolds. As we wait for the release tonight, check out this amazing, gigantic homemade LEGO recreation of the elvish land of Rivendell. Made with over 200,000 LEGO bricks, this creation won the People's Choice Award at BrickCon (a convention for LEGO builders). The details are incredible, with nods to both The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings within.
› Posted December 12 in Cool Stuff, Hobbit | Comments
TGB Episode 181: Here There Be Dragons! (Guest: AICN's Eric Vespe)
On this week's episode of The Golden Briefcase, Tim (sans Jeremy) is joined by Eric Vespe (aka the legendary "Quint") from Ain't It Cool News to go through their latest Picks of the Week, the newest DVD & Blu-ray releases and much more. The main topic of the night was a discussion on dragons in movies in honor of Smaug making his appearance in The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug hitting theaters on Friday. The guys talk over some of their favorite and least favorite dragon-related entries in film history, the different ways film has depicted dragons and wrap up by talking about where the dragon sub-genre is today.
› Posted December 12 in Golden Briefcase, Hobbit, Podcasts | Comments
Interview: Lake-town's Bard - Actor Luke Evans Talks 'Hobbit' & More
Bard. Zeus. Aramis. Apollo. Shaw. Welsh actor Luke Evans seems to play characters that often have short names, but powerful voices. He's on the rise recently and will break out big with his latest role as Bard the Bowman in Peter Jackson's The Hobbit trilogy. He didn't even get the job until halfway through shooting the first movie, then went down to New Zealand for a year and a half of filming, now he's about to go down in history as Lake-town's savior. I first met and interviewed Luke back in 2011 discussing Immortals, and I followed up with him for another interview this year about Bard, The Hobbit, Dracula, The Crow and more.
Watch: Production Blog #13 for 'The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug'
"Anddd, roll!" He's back! With the release of The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug just around the corner, Peter Jackson has debuted the latest production video blog, #13, for the cinematic trilogy. This follows the 12th video blog which arrived back in November, showing the process behind shooting pick-up scenes. This time around we find out why Peter says shooting parts of The Hobbit is "just like I used to do in the old days, at home, on Super 8 camera," and explore more of the cast and crew putting finishing touches on The Desolation of Smaug. We also meet Stephen Fry as the Master of Laketown, plus plenty of others.
› Posted December 4 in Hobbit, To Watch, Video Blog | Comments
Watch: Man At Arms Swordsmith Forges Bilbo's Sting from 'The Hobbit'
"And I shall call you Sting!" We're less than two weeks from the release of The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, which means Tolkien mania is kicking back in. While you can purchase prop replicas of the various weapons from shops like United Cutlery and Weta, swordsmith Tony Swatton of the YouTube series "Men At Arms" tackles making a full replica of Bilbo's sword Sting from scratch. While this isn't exactly showing us what it was like when the elves forged the dagger, it is a badass video showing us what it's like to make one of these for real nowadays. Yea, I'd like my own real-life Sting to fend off (Mirkwood) Spiders, too.
› Posted December 3 in Cool Stuff, Hobbit, Hype | Comments
Air New Zealand Reveals Awesome Smaug the Airplane for 'The Hobbit'
He's here! Smaug the Dragon will be landing at LAX. Air New Zealand is hosting a press event at LAX on Monday where their brand new plane, called "Smaug" after the dragon from The Hobbit, will be shown off. This is all part a big promotion for Peter Jackson's The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, the second movie in the trilogy hitting theaters in two weeks. The movie was filmed and made in New Zealand and the country usually goes nuts with promotion during the premiere. This is actually our first real, good look at Smaug in full, as he has yet to be revealed in footage/trailers. Yes, I would really like to fly on this airplane, besides I want to visit New Zealand anyway. Check out photos of the Hobbit-themed Boeing 777-300 below.
› Posted December 1 in Cool Stuff, Hobbit, Hype, Photos | Comments
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Reference spreadsheets
April 16, 2014
For the purpose to document our different posts, such as this one, we use to maintain a couple of spreadsheet related to Translink, which I have updated and put under Google doc
Translink ridership, operations and capital datas
This spreadsheet gathers information usually found in the "Translink Statutory Annual Reports, and other relevant reports, like the APTA ridership reports.
The numbers are not necessarily always matching the Translink reports:
To enable better comparison across different Transit system, the below assumptions are done:
- Operating costs include the consolidated operating costs, but not the depreciation and debt service costs, neither Translink Police cost (a Translink specificity)
- Farebox revenues include all ridership related revenues. In addition of the farebox itself: it includes also advertising revenues (and should include fine recovery revenue too)
- Capital costs include all Capital cost supported by both the taxpayers and Translink
- Number could be sparsely collected, especially for the Expo line
Due to the Canada Line P3 financing arrangement, it is not possible to separate the operating cost of the debt servicing cost: for this reason the farebox recovery (farebox revenue/Operating cost) is computed excluding the Canada line (both cost and revenue).
A 62.5% farebox recovery ratio is good:
Translink service datas
This spreadsheet gathers information coming from the Google GTFS (Translink schedules) and are appended with some other datas such as the Bus service Performance review. They represent an image of the service on first Friday following the Labor day of every year.
- Data are extracted of the Translink gtfs feed (most of the precedent years are available here here
- The Perl script to populate the spreadsheet from the GTFS datas is provided here
- vehicle type used per route (data used to compute the capacity.km) is as seen of our vantage point: we welcome correction
Some fun facts
- Schedule bus service average speed is of 22.65km/h
- Not surprisingly: the slowest service is the #6 (closely followed by #5), at 9.56km/h, the fastest is the #555 at 62.33km/h
- …but the 99B service is schedule at an average speed of 21.56km/h, still much faster than the bus 9 at 14.5km/h
Notice the mileage per route is computed from waypoint as provided by Translink into the GTFS files – and the quality of them varied greatly – the later years being much better than the earlier (but still need some corrections): The mileage is eventually corrected accordingly in the spreadsheet (assuming the average bus service speed is practically constant at 22.65km/h over years).
The numbers are not necessarily always matching Translink report:
The average speed computed from "Translink Statutory Annual Reports is at ~19.5km (see above spreadsheet). The average speed computed from the GTFS is of 22.65km/h. Other numbers could also mismatch significantly (like poor correlation between service hour /km computed from GTFS and the one provided by the annual report. Here is the proposed explanation:
- The "annual service" included in the annual reports, include dead-end trip and lay-over in addition of the customer service: that explain also the discrepancy in the average speed
- The "annual service" is provided on a car basis by Translink: one hour of a 2 cars train service is computed as 2 hour car service by Translink) when it is computed for one hour train service from the GTFS datas
- Not all trips are included in the GTFS: that is especially for the Skytrain, where special event can trigger additional unscheduled service (e.g. the shuttle train operating between Commercial and Waterfront is not rported in the GTFS)
That said, the service hour variation year over year roughly followed what can be obtained form the annual report (minus the 2010 year)
Thought the previous metric is often used by both Translink and local transit advocates, it is basically an irrelevant one when it is time to evaluate the level of Transit service. the provided transit capacity.km is a much more relevant one : That has increased by ~18% between 2007 and 2013:
Some facts worth to note
As a rule of thumb, multiplying a weekday service datas by ~330 provide a good approximation of its annual data (that can be verified on the comparison of a daily route service and the annual operating hour per route as provided by the Translink's BSPR), but we have a rather significant discrepancy -hard to explain by layover and dead-end trip- when come route #96B and #555
|Annual hour service
|Computed from GTFS schedule
|From Annual report [2]
|difference in %
[1] Translink has started to track the capacity.km metric in 2011. but this metric is not provided in a straightforward way in its reports, and number doesn't seems very consistent either: the maximum car capacity, 167, is used for the Canada Line service, but the car caapcity is estimated at ~50pax on the Skytrain (and at ~55 on the bus system). We have used the maximum capacity (not necessarily a realistic one, but a consistent one across the board, see vehicles.txt into the Perl package).
[1] 2013 Statutory annual report, Translink April 2014.
review of the Phase 2 consultation: loop and connectivity issues
This review is eventually done in light of previous ideas exposed in those posts
- Vancouver Downtown Transit network: the local view
- Vancouver Downtown Transit network: the regional and city view
Bus 17 and C23
The new route alignment are the same as the one suggested in our previous posts, so we obviously consider them as good. In order to avoid Cambie (a street targeted for aggressive pedestrianization by the City), a byzantine alternative proposal (B2) is proposed: it induces operating costs 5 time higher than the more straightforward Cambie routing [2].
- That should be enough to rule out this alternative…and the closure of Cambie
Bus 4,7 and 3,8
The improvement is obvious for route 4 and 7. For route 3 and 8, there is an issue. Thought the consolidation of the both service directions on Pender (avoiding the 30km/h Hasting speed limit) improves the legibility of the routes in the DTES, it is done at the expense of the network connectivity:
- lost of direct Transfer with the Hasting buses
- bus 4,7 (and 200's) East Bound, are also 2 block away of Pender, making the transfer poorer than today
We are of the opinion that e Main#Hasting is a major transfer point between bus 3,8 and Hasting buses (#14,#16,#20,#135), and for this reason we have some reservations on the 3 and 8 proposal.
The Robson and Davie loop
About the loop
The loop desire has been expressed in the phase 1 [4]: here is what reads Human Transit on loops [1]:
Loop touch things deep in the human psyche. When community leaders are asked in a meeting to talk about their transit needs. it's not uncommon for one of them to say, usually with circular hand gestures, that they need some kind of loop [...]. Straight lines can seem aggressive, whereas loops offer a sense of closure [...].
If your agenda in life is to to enjoy every moment and never worry about a destination, then the appeal of loops is undeniable [...].
But however much we may savor every moment of life, most of us still have jobs and families. so sometimes we just need to get there. We are at point A and need to be at point B as soon as possible. The shape of that desire is not a loop. It's a straight line.
Loops also creates some operating challenges: a disturbance (delay in Transit) introduced in a loop never disappear unless the loop is opened (think Larsen effect). What is usually done is that loops are either open (London Circle line) or operated in segments (Tram T3 in Paris). Bus loops are much more prone to disturbance that segregated railway loop.
- That is the reason of the lay-over at Davie and Denman, and all Translink loop proposals involve a second layover on Cambie
- Stay in the bus if the operator allows this during his break
- Transfer to a bus ahead in the queue at the layover
Those layovers undermine significantly the attractiveness of a loop for the transit user whose has either the choice to:
The Davie route
All options extend the Davie bus to Yaletown, then loop it back with the Robson bus via Cambie:
This shouldn't be controversial, and respects some good Transit principles:
- We have a single bus route serving the entire Corridor
- And the route is anchored at Yaletown station
The Robson route
The L shape option
It is built up on the existing route 5, but instead to loop on itself via Richard, branches into the Davie bus via Cambie to make a "downtown loop":
As such, beside a greater legibility (bus running both directions on all served street), this route mainly carries the same advantages/drawbacks of the current route:
- The route, is not serving Robson east of Granville, (hence not serving Yaletown when it is natural to extend the Robson route eastward)
- As we have seen before, it doesn't make for a grid oriented network improving legibility and general accessibility
The option avoiding Robson square, is mainly the current seasonal routing. Beside the removal of the hook at Burrard and Robson, it doesn't address most of its current shortcoming already pointed many times [5]:
- The route is disconnected of the Granville bus corridor, and offers a back-ward connection with the Canada line
- The disconnection between Yaletwon and the Robson Strasse is even greater
All trip toward South Vancouver or Yaletwon are penalized
The Rectangular Loop
The drawback of this option? The loop is pretty insulated of the rest of the network:
- No reasonable connection with the Expo line is offered
No reasonable connection is offered with the Hasting buses too
But, the option has its advantages on the L shape loop:
- It covers all Robson street
…and more generally it offers good foundations based on sound Transit principles (a grid oriented network with one bus route per corridor), from which we can elaborate to cover the connectivities weakness of the option: That is what we have done in our previous post:
What we have proposed for routes 5 and 6
See our previous post for further explanations and interaction with other routes
We hook the Rectangular loop to Stadium Station, offering a connection with the Expo line. From there, the question is:
- Where the buses turn back and make their lay-over
As we have seen before, we extend the route up to Hasting#Main (lay over on Gore), to connect the downtown routes with the Hasting and Main route.
A consequence of this proposal, is that it introduces bus services redundancies with the Translink option C1 (routes #3 and #8 on Pender): it provides a reason to short turn those bus at the north end of Main.
Short turning of the bus 3 is something which has been done in 2008, but Translink has reverted this in face of public hostility at a time it was not as actively as now looking for better operation efficiencies. In 2014, the short turning of artics bus #3 and #8
- pay the extension of standard bus #5 and #6 on Pender
- The lost of a direct route between Fraser and Hasting, is also compensated by a better access to the Westend via route #5 and #6
- A short turning at the north end of Main preserves a good connection with the Hasting corridor
- That makes those routes otherwise very short, also more useful by enabling to circulate in an downtown extended to its neck and Chinatown, without the need to transfer [3]
At the exception of the proposal B2 (route #17 avoidng Cambie), the Translink option are generally a step in the good direction. Some ideas discussed in our previous post still fit and could be still valid with whatever option is proposed.
We notice, that in despite of many efforts, not only no good Transit solutions have been found to accommodate a potential closure of Robson square, but all proposed alternatives trying to accommodate such a closure end up to be tremendously expensive ($300k to $400K additional operating expense [2]…that can buy ~2 community shuttle routes).
Who is willing to pay for it?
What the Downtown Transit review has demonstrated is that
- Closure of Cambie should be forgotten
- Closure of Robson square to Transit is simply unreasonable and irresponsible
The city council should accept that a good surface transit is a necessity, and that pedestrianization of streets should be done to complement it and not to impede it, as we have said many times before.
[1] Human Transit: How Clearer Thinking about Public Transit Can Enrich Our Communities and Our Lives, Jarret Walker, Island Press, 2011
[2] Downtown Bus Service Review – Phase 2 Technical Summary City of Vancouver and Translink, 2014
[3] See also Jordan's comment at the buzzer blog
[4] Downtown Bus Service Review – Phase 1 Consultation Summary Report City of Vancouver and Translink, 2013
[5] See also the PriceTag's circling-the-square serie as an example where a critic of the proposed seasonal route is proposed.
Vancouver Downtown Transit network: the local view
March 31, 2014
The below work is built upon our previous post on the regional view. However, more important that the exact route alignments are the principles driving them: Many of those principles have already been spelled [1], among them:
- Direct Routing
(1) Don't divert routes to serve specific needs: Diversion means a less attractive service for most of the travelers
(2) Use secondary services connecting to main ones, to serve "out of the way" area (rather than divert main routes)
Minimize unnecessary transfers
(3) Use the downtown grid for "random schedule" transfers
Minimal walking distance to final destinations
(4) Go Straight thru the "center of gravity" of an area, and not its periphery, which increases the total walking distance by half.
As we have seen before, the most efficient coverage is achieved by 3 bus corridors.
Those bus corridors are Robson (#5), Davie (#6) and Pender (#19).
With the development of Yaletown, and more generally the Eastern side of the Downtown peninsula, it is only natural to extend both routes (5) and (6) on the eastern side of their natural corridor (resp. Robson and Davie).
Connection with the City and regional network: The waterfront station issue
From the above, it appears relatively clearly it is not possible to get both:
- A grid oriented local bus network in downtown
- And a good connection with Waterfront station
Furthermore, especially for the Davie bus, it is not possible to get both
- A good connection with The Canada Line (Yaletown)
- And a good connection with Waterfront station
We also observe that:
- Most of the connecting ridership is generated by the Expo and Canada line
- The actual connection between the Seabus and route 5 and 6 can be considered as poor
- It takes 4 mn to reach Davie by the Canada line, vs ~10mn per bus
The potential Broadway subway will enhance this trend
-360 meters between the bus 5 stop on Hasting and the Seabus deck (versus ~200 meters between thr Expo line and the Seabus)
Due to all of the above, we prefer put emphasis on both:
- A grid oriented local bus network in downtown
- And a good connection with the rail rapid transit
An emphasis on the quality of the Transfer with the Expo line
To improve the connectivity of the bus 5 and 6 with the rest of the network:
- both route 5, and 6 are extended to the north end of Denman, to connect with bus 19, and the North shore buses
- Both route 5 and 6 are extended to Main#Hasting, to connect with the Hasting and Main street buses (bus #3 and #8 being short turned at the North end of Main street).
The bus 19 can preserve a direct connection between the downtown and the Main Corridor.
This proposal has some inconveniences:
- There is dispersion of service on Beatty and Cambie
- There is no good connectivity between the local route 5 and 6 in the Yaletown area
- There is no good connection between bus 17 and bus 6 either (bus 17 is on the Cambie bridge above the Pacific bld)
The one way service on Expo and Pacific is also a drawback, but one can expect some change correcting that in the area with the re purposing of the viaducts
An emphasis on the Routes corridors
Local routes are consolidated (instead to be dispersed).
- Hasting corridor is used for City/Regional transit, while Pender street is used for local service (similarly to georgia vs Robson)
- Eastern connection is done using Cambie preventing bus dispersion, and enhancing the attractiveness of the Cambie bus corridor
- Different stop intervals could be used to speed up city service while still offering good accessibility on the Pender street
To increase the legibility of the bus network, The Pacific Boulevard is served from one end to another by a single bus line (actually served by C21 West of Yaletown, and C23 East of Yaletown)
- Placing ourselves in a "post viaduct world", the natural extension of this route is Prior: For this reason we keep this bus On Keefer (as close as Pacific Boulevevard), bus still allowing it to connect with the Skytrain
The Gastown coverage
Nowadays, it is done by the bus 50. The proposed route doesn't cover gastown anymore, but it could…as well as bus #5 or #6.
Gastown is in fact in the Hasting and Pender bus coverage area. A specific service to increase this coverage can be considered but is not part of the structuring network (as well as any other bus route to provide specific needs.
The bus network, and the Pedestrian street network
The City's goal for its bus network review is to get rid of the buses on many city streets (and especially Robson Square [3]). Instead of taking the City approach; "decide which street to pedestrianize and let the bus find its way more or less clumsily to serve the rest of the city"; we take the opposite approach: "which streets spring as natural candidate for pedestrianization, to complement and enhance the attractiveness of the transit network?"
The Pedestrianization of some Gastown streets, starting with Water street, could be done at no expense of the bus network. It is obviously not the case of Cambie, or Robson. For the later one, a shared space arrangement based on a European model is a natural solution [2]. Streets making good candidate for pedestrianization are
- Beatty street, already routinely closed to traffic for Canada Place event, and offering a much better potential than Cambie street (proposed by the City), and still providing direct access to the future AGO site
- Hamilton and Mainland in Yaletown
- And potentially others street in Westend like Bute
The network of bus lanes
In this probable priority order, regional route, then city corridor where bus traffic is heavy:
- Georgia street (North shore buses) should have all times bus lanes
- Hasting street
- Main street
- Burrard street
- Potentially Cambie street
Routes #5 and #6 (as well as route #19) providing mainly a local service in downtown (short trip distance, often competing with a walk), can be considered as people movers, and as such should have relatively short bus stop interval (~250m): Bus lanes for them could be great but they are not much critical, from a customer perspective:
They could be nevertheless useful to increase the reliability of the routes (in fact one of the principle advantage of a bus lane)
[1] See more especially the the-downtown-bus-review post and the coverage of the 1975 downtown Vancouver bus service vision
[2] Transit as part of the urban fabric
[3] See a recap of the 2012 Oct 15 and 17th events on Robson Square (illustrating an unfortunate contempt of City of Vancouver for surface Transit, as we have noticed here)
Grounded on principle previously exposed, we present here some more concrete ideas of what could look an ideal transit network in downtown. In a top down approach, we naturally ensure that the regional and city transit lines are optimized: that is the main purpose of this post
The regional transit network:
The Hasting buses (named HSB) such as bus 135 are considered as regional bus, as well as all buses heading to the North Shore (named NSB for the one using the Lions gate Bridge).
A major change is with the North shore buses.
All routes coming are extended to Main terminal:
- The actual connection with the Granville station is preserved, but patrons will eventually find that Stadium or Main will provide better transfer: that will reduce crowding pressure at the Georgia#Granville stop
- It resolves North shore bus layover issues in the downtown core: there is ample space at The Main/Terminal
- It provides a direct connection with the Main street bus routes (3,8, and 19)
- it provides a direct connection with the train and intercity buses station.
A potential extension to the future Broadway line station, at Great Northern Way# Fraser, could be doable too
City Bus routes:
A major change on the main street corridor:
Bus #3 and #8 are short-turned at the north end of Main. It is a result of an observation: most of the patron of those routes, transfer onto the Expo line at main terminal, leaving bus #3 and #8 wandering empty in the downtown core. It is also a follow up of a previous Translink recommendation [1].
- The saving in term of operating cost is tremendous, and it helps to address bus congestion (mainly at bus stop) on the hasting corridor
Bus 19 can preserve a direct connection between the downtown and the Main Corridor.
The route 22 toward the Knight street corridor
In the context of the 2013 Bus service optimization consultation, we came up with a "counter proposal" to improve the bus 22 and C23 route (then proposed to be extended to Terminal Avenue) which has been discussed in comment section of the buzzer blog:
The bus is permantly routed thru terminal avenue (instead of Prior and Gore).
- it improves the connection to the expo line (for people using its East branch)
- The actual 22 use Pender street, but Hasting could be a superiori choice (direct connection with hasting bus corridor, and closer to Waterfront):
- to avoid a left turn at Main street(preventing to have a bus stop in direct connection with the Expo line), the route 22 is routed thru Columbia and Quebec street.
- Toward it a section of Columbia (North of Pnder) could need to be reverted as a two-way street.
The Bus 17
It is used to provide a North south service East of Granville from Waterfront (bus termini on Cordova). Due to the street layout, Cambie street is the only reasonnable choice:
- Beatty closer to the Staidum station end up at pender, is often closed to traffic with special event at Canada place.
- Hamilton and all western choice, are to too far away of the Statdium station, and roverlapping too much with the Granville corridor.
The route 50 case.
This aim of this route is to provide some transit service to Granville island and on the South False Creek slope. That said, the routing of this route make it of little value for too many people:
We redesign this route as a peripheral one, linking Broadway#Granville, Granville Island, Olympic station, Main street station and Main#Hasting:
Among other benefits: Such alignment allows to improve the transit offer in the South East Flase Creek area, and remove one diesel bus route of the Granville Mall.
The inconvenience of this design is the eventual lost of a direct connection between Downtown and Granville island: The implementation of an elevator between granville island and the Granville bridge span could be a good solution, which could be part of the Granville Bridge greenway proposal
The route 15 is then prolonged to downtown, following the alignement of route 17, able to provide a more consistent bus service on the peninsula section of Cambie
The Hasting bus corridor
We include the bus serving Powell in this corridor (essentially route #4). Even with the removal of bus #3 and #8, there is lot of bus service redundancy (#7,#14,#16,#20): The rationalization of it should be the object of a study focusing on this corridor rather than a down town study.
The Burrard bus corridor
At this time, it consists only of bus 22 and 44. If the Broadway subway is designed to terminate at Arbutus, it is expected that this corridor will see much more bus traffic, and a revamped route 44 -using Broadway to connect with the subway line- could see a level of service similar to the actual bus 99.
[1] Vancouver/UBC Area Transit Plan , Translink, July 2005.
Subway Capacity: some remarks
March 24, 2014
…and the Vancouver Canada line case. The remarks apply also to LRT unless specified (another post has been dedicated to buses
In a nutshell, the person per hou per direction capacity a subway line can offer, is
(capacity of a train) × (number of train per hour).
Like for buses, the capacity of a train is a function of different parameters, mainly person per square meter occupancy standard, and seat arrangement.
At the difference of low floor buses (and LRT), is little "protuberance" (such wheel room) on high floor train, and technical room present in a train cabin rather under floor or on roof, are often the result of a tradeoff:
train capacity vs easy maintenance
The theorcal capacity of a train, is in fact a direct function of its surface:
(length of the train) × (width of train).
…and train length, is constrained by the station's paltforms length, which are typically very expensive to expand.
Train capacity
below is an example of compared train capacity, expressed in term of surface able to accomodate passengers
|Train consist
|Platform length
|Vancouver Canada Line
|Vancouver Canada Line
|Vancouver Skytrain (Expo line)
|Paris typical subway line
For matter of comparison, the theorical Canada line capacity (with 50meters platform) is just 15% lower than on most of the parisian subway lines, such as its line 2 or 5: those lines carry ~100million riders a year.
Behind the seating layout, a train needs in practice several features to effectively reach its theorical capacity. Among them
- Minimal unusable space between cars (and in cars)
- Allow passenger to "overflow" from a car to another one
Intercirculation between cars, usually allows that, but again, some interciruclation layout can be more efficient than other:
Dwelling time and frequency
homogeneous occupancy of a train is also function of the door disposition, but the door layout affect primarily the dwelling time. Short dwelling time is important for a host of reasons, frequency being one of them, and frequency affcet the line capacity:
interval between train can't be shorter than the station dwelling time
It is hence important to have as much as possible doors, but also have them wide enough, to allow good in/out flow movement. It is also important to avoid that some doors, slow down the boarding/alighting time because they have to handle more traffic flow:
- From a boarding viewpoint, where passengers have no apriori on the location of door on platform, the best way to do that, is to have all the doors equidistant (It make also the best use of the platform space)
- From an alighting perspective, all doors on a car should be equidistant
Track issues
A single track, vs a double track, at the end of a line could be used as a cost saving measure, but obviously it affects the freqeuncy of a train line. That said, if the single track portion is short enough, the impact can be relatively minimal.
- Frequency can be be obtained by using a tail track to store trains
The possible frequency is then:
((time to travel for and back the single track) + (dwelling time × number of train to be stored) ) / (number of train stored).
As an example, at Richmond Brighouse station, on the Vancouver's Canada line
- the tail track past the station can accomodate one stored train [2], and the station another one
- the travel time between Lansdowne and Brighouse is ~90s and a typical station dwelling time ~20s
2 trains can run every 4mn on the Richmond Brighouse branch of the Canada line.
Because one train can run every 4mn on the Airport line, it is possible to get a train every 80s, or 45 trains per hour, on the common trunk (Bridgeport-Waterfront)
Even, with 40meters long train, the Canada line could provides a caapcity of ~15,000pphpd, assuming 330 passengers per train: that is 3 times of the actual capacity. Greater frequency are theorically possible with the introduction of short turn train (avoiding the single track section):
PS The above numbers for the Canada line, assume the availability of rolling stock, power supply, track signalling, and fast operating switch: All those could need to be upgraded, as well as the stations along the line to handle the corresponding increase in ridership, but it could be no need for heavy civil engineering work/track reconfigutation toward a capacity increase of 15,000+ pphd
[1] Materiel roulant MF2000, seance 12/12/2000, Conseil d'administration du STIF
[2] Addressing Canada Line capacity questions, Translink, June 3, 2010.
We have generally welcomed the last 2 rounds of service optimization, since they address bus route network structural deficiencies and this year makes no exception:
Among proposed change the 404 rerouting from Ladner exchange to Riverport is something we have previously called for:
- That said, it was also assuming a B-line type of level fo service on the Hwy 99 between Ladner Exchange and Bridgeport
The bus 49
It is important that TransLink rationalizes its bus network to provide value for both the taxpayer and the transit user, as well as provide a sound foundation for sustainable growth. The most obvious inefficiencies, are the route diversions serving specifc needs- An issue already well identified in the 1975 Downtown Vancouver bus review [2]- since a diversion means a less attractive service for most of the travellers.
A bus route detour may seem benign on a relatively low frequency route but it introduces inefficiencies which compound as transit ridership grows. It is notoriously the case of the bus 49 diversion at Champlain Height, which we have already pointed to the Translink commission
Such a diversion could have been overlooked decades ago, but is an unsustainable in 2014, with UBC, a Canada Line connection and Metrotown as major destinations along this route:
The Champlain Heights detour is an unnecessary inconvenience for 95% of route 49's 20,000 weekday riders. It adds 4 to 5 minutes to each of the approximately 250 daily bus trips, which costs $500,000 annually (more than the cost to operate all the Ladner/South Delta community shuttles routes C84, C86 C87 C88 and C89 combined)[1]. This figure will only get worse over time.
Addressing it, not only improve the Translink financial sheet, but it also dramatically improve the bus service along the 49th avenue:
Understandably, some residents affected by the change have voiced their concerns [3]. Any routing change affects some customers and their concerns need to be considered. In the route 49 case, virtually all Champlain Heights' residents will stay within 500 metres of a bus stop (either rerouted bus 49 or bus 26, both being among the 20% most frequent bus routes).
A reworking of the bus 26 could be also possible along lines below providing better connections to the rest of the network and service/jobs than the actual one:
…But eventually the development of the East Fraser lands area calls for a more drastic review of the bus routes in this area, so it seems wise to not touch the route 26 for the time being (since it is a prime candidate to be extended to the East Fraser Lands)
The saving provided by the ending of the 49 diversion could easily pay for a community shuttle linking champlain mall to Metrotown thru 54th avenue.
- ~40 daily shuttle runs could end up to cost ~$125,000 annually, assuming a $60/h shuttle operating cost [1]
but one could reasonnably question: Is it the best use of the saving Translink can do, when so many other areas are severed of even basic Translink service?
In any case, there is no lack of options to mitigate the lost of a direct 49 access for some people, and potential inconveniences are largely outweighted by the general service improvment.
The Vancouver council position
It is sad, but not overly surprising that the Vancouver council seems to be prepared to pass on March 11th, a motion initiated by Geoff Meggs, disregarding the benefit of the proposed 49 rationalization for the overwhelming majority of transit user, to focus only on a so called "service cut" in the Champlain Height, to oppose to the the improvment of the route 49.
One will notice, that so doing, the Vancouver council is dismissing the transit user value of time, and its contribution for the region's economy (a viewpoint rightfully denounced by Gordon Price)…Do they adopt the same perspective when it is time to argue for a Broadway subway?
In the context of a looming transit funding referendum, it is extremely important that TransLink addresses its network inefficiencies, especially when they impede greater benefits for most of the transit users, and reduce the transit value of our tax dollars… and thought one could expect tthat its efforts could receive full support froom the concerned municipalities, it is also important that Vancouver doesn't receive a favor treatment.
[1] Bus service performance review, Translink 2013
[2] The Downtown Vancouver Bus Service vision in 1975
[3] Bus service cut worries Champlain seniors,Sandra Thomas, Vancouver Courier, February 25th, 2014
The Vancouver Downtown bus service review
February 24, 2014
Since mid 2012, Translink and the city of Vancouver have been working on a Downtown bus service review, with public open houses held on June 2012. Below is our take on it:
It is no secret, that the purpose of the exercise, done under the impulse of the city of Vancouver, is to clear many areas of the city from transit, and more notoriously Robson square. As such the public has been presented with a set of constraints:
The consultation was not presented necessarily in the best terms possible – we could have liked a brief historic of the downtown transit network, and having the staff seeking feedback on a set of considered principles to design the transit network [2].
In light of it, and especially the previous consultation on the Block 51, the Downtown bus service review consultation Summary [6] is a very welcome surprise:
- some geometric principles are spelled
- More importantly, the concern on the impact of street closures to bus, especially Robson square, seems properly recorded, as well as a potential solution
"Routes should be designed to be simple, direct, and easy to understand"
"The Robson closure does nothing to better city culture and is disruptive for bus routes"
"I approve the City's initiatives for public spaces (eg. the 800-block of Robson) but this should not force transit to detour, there can be closures for private cars and trucks but let transit buses/trolley buses through, similar to great plazas in Europe."
Timeless geometric principles as already stated in [2] (as we have seen here, and well worded on the Jarret Walker's blog and book) appear as uncontournable.
Not surprisingly, the summary teach us, that in downtown, trips demand are from everywhere to anywhere…
Trying to single out some destinations to be served, such as a future art gallery, is somewhat self-defeating. The popular destination of today, was not the one of yesterday, and will be not necessarily the one of tomorrow. What is important is to be able to provide a network which is time resilient:
- It is a "mobility" network, around which the city is structuring itself rather than the reverse
That leads to the following issues, from the most important to the least
Bus coverage
One principle in designing an efficient and resilient bus network, is to maximize the coverage while minimizing the number of bus lines, and still obeying to a core geometric principle: direct and consistent routing – that is a straight line (or following the street grid orientation). For the Downtown peninsnula, assuming an accepted ~1/4 mile walk to a bus stop, the probably most optimized configuration can be done using 3 main transit corridors as illustrated below
One will quickly recognize the route 5/6 as structuring the Westend coverage in a very optimal way: It explains the resilience of those routes structuring the Westend since its very early development and still doing it:
Moving one bus route from one street to another one, could seem to be a minor change, but in fact it can affect dramatically the coverage…either by introducing gaps or redundancis in the transit coverage, all severly affecting the network efficiency. In the context of the current Westend development, consequence can be much more dire.
A perfect grid as suggested above should allow to make any local trips with no more than one connection.
Our public transportation network is also a hierarchized one:
- "local bus" routes aiming to provide transportation option in downtown, such as route #5
- "city bus" routes, that is the one connecting the downtown to other part of Vancouver, such as route #14
- "regional transit" routes where lies the skytrain network, sea-bus but also bus route such as #250 or #135
To keep reasonable the number of transfers for people coming from outside Downton, it is particularly important to have all "structuring" downtown network lines connecting to the regional network:
City routes are not represented, but can be considered as part of the "structuring" downtown network (that is particularly obvious in the case of route #19 serving Stanley park)
bus-seat supply
Specific bus route could be overloaded, but in some key downtown corridors (mainly Hasting and Granville), there is an over-all over supply of bus-seat (over-supply on some bus routes is not compensating under supply on others)- a typical problem in urban cores we have already encountered, in a more acute form, in Sydney, Australia
It could be no easy answer to this problem, but one will notice that one rationalization idea not implemented was the the discontinuation of bus route #3 west of Main [8]. A similar conclusion could be draw for bus 8.
The fact that the route #3 and #8 use 60ft artics trolley bus (in short supply), reinforce the case for route shortening, freeing bus capacity where it is more needed
Urban integration
Buses congestion, leading to a bus wall, as seen above on Granville, creates its own urban integration issue:
It obviously affect the pedestrian experience on this mall, by creating both a constant physical and visual barrier.
The issue could be complex to address on Granville Mall. However some other urban issues can be more readily addressed:
The bus lay-over at Denman#Davie creates an uninvitating "pedestrian tunnel" whereas, sidewalk activity could thrive, considering the view, sun exposition, and immediate proximity to the Beaches.
We have already discussed on a relocation of this lay-over, in a critic of Denman street, which is underlining the network issue this lay-over also creates
At the end, a succesful transit network, means a good patronage, which also creates its own issue, as we can regularly witness on Georgia street. Such problem should be addressed.
The additional constraints or Robson square
Cnnsidering the above issues, one can see emerging the rough lines of what could be an ideal transit network…but adding additional constraint in the form of arbitrary "no bus" zone could be wreaking havoc on it.
When come Pedestrian streets, they should be designed as a complement to the city transportation system, not as an impediment to it, and that is also a reason making their success…or failure otherwise [7]. Fortunately some solutions, especially the ones considering transit as part of the urban fabric, achieve exactly that
Note:One will find a summary of a city conversation on the Robson square issue, on the Stephen Rees blog.
[1] Georgia Straight
[2] We mainly think of some geometric principles. on the example of those clearly enounced in a the 1975 Downtown Vancouver Bus Service vision, as seen in a previous post. Translink has some material illustrating the importance of some, as discussed by Jarret Walker
[3] "The TTC page" website
[4] Stephen Rees
[5] Vancouver/UBC Area Transit Plan , Translink, July 2005.
[6] Downtown Vancouver Local Bus Service Review: Phase 1 Consultation Summary, Translink and City of Vancouver, 2013
[7] Jarret Walker uses the "bus as pedestrian fountain" metaphor to convey the importance of transit to the success of a pedestrian area.
[8] See [5]. Note: the shortening of the route #3 has been briefly implemented apparently in 2006-2007 but abandoned in 2008 with the introduction of artics trolley on the route 3.


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It was announced by the Pennsylvania Music Educators Association that Leah Pfister, Kacie Rumbaugh, and Noelle Marousis from Blackhawk High School have been selected to perform in the District 5 Honors Chorus Festival to be held on October 30, 31, and November 1, 2014. This years festival will include 96 of the best high school musicians from 50 school districts. The conductor for the program will be Dr. Ryan Beeker, from Indiana University of Pennsylvania, and the accompanist for the festival choir is Bryan Helsel, choral director from Butler Senior High School. The festival is directed by Dr. Samuel Barbara, Director of Choral Activities at Westminster College. A public concert will be presented on Saturday, November 1 beginning at 2:00 p.m. in Orr Auditorium on the Westminster College Campus in New Wilmington. Tickets will be on sale at the door for $3.
BHS Lip Dub
The BHS Lip Dub survey has closed - results will be announced soon!
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Free and Reduced Price Family Application
Please click here to download the 2014-2015 Free and Reduced Price School Meals/Special Milk Program Family Application. If you have any questions, please contact Sue Lucaks at ext 1016.
School Announcements
Beaver County Chorus
17 students from Blackhawk participated in Beaver County Chorus on October 20-21. They are among students from 13 county schools.
The Blackhawk High School library now offers ebooks to students and faculty. Click the following link or direct your browser to http://bviu.lib.overdrive.com. Choose "Blackhawk High School" and type in your student ID number. See Mrs. Lindemann with any questions.
High School Activity Calendar
Below is the Blackhawk High School Activity Calendar for 2014-2015:
Activity Calendar as Word Doc
Activity Calendar as PDF
Activity Calendar as Word Doc
Activity Calendar as PDF
After School Tutoring
Tutoring is available after school according to the following calendar:
After School Tutoring as Word Doc
After School Tutoring as PDF
Graduation Projects
Attention Seniors:
Your graduation project is due on Friday October 3rd. The first graduation project mentoring session will be September 12th. This will be the only meeting prior to the due date for the project, so please be sure to bring all materials that you need to review with your mentor on September 12th.
Graduation Project Help Sessions will be held after school on the following dates in the library.
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I meet a lot of people in my travels as a Salesman. I have met people that collect the strangest items, some really valuable, some pretty much worthless. After seeing random collections of everything, I have become fascinated with why we collect the things we do. I collect for the history and feel of an item. Price plays a big part into my collecting as I only have limited funds to purchase collectibles. But my main reason is the history and mystique of an item. What has this item seen?, Where has it been?, Who has owned it? How was it used? These are all questions I find I ask myself when I see interesting collectible items. Value of an item plays little into my obtaining an item. I try to buy items based on appeal, as a marble collector this is my only resource. Marbles are a very tough and vague in the identification game, leaving the common collector with lite knowledge no choice but to collect by eye appeal. In marbles it is said "beauty commands premiums". So, I am curious as to why you collect. Please respond and share your thoughts and feelings.
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Lizards of the White Sands
White Sands Institute for Kids
Instructor: Simone DeRoche
Location: White Sands National Monument
Age: 5th-8th grade
Fee: No Charge
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Day: Monday
Date: June 16
Time: 9am-1pm
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Day: Tuesday
Date: June 17
Time: 9am-1pm
The lizards of the White Sands have changed their color and characteristics to adapt to the environment. Learn details about their life-cycles and other amazing attributes from doctoral and post-doctoral researchers! Biologists from the University of California, Berkeley, have been conducting research at White Sands for the past 13 years. Now, with the benefit of a National Science Foundation grant, they are making this one-day class available for NO CHARGE. This one-day class is offered on June 16 and again on June 17 from 9am to 1pm. (1 session)
Supplies: Bring a sack lunch and a water bottle. It is highly suggested that you wear sunglasses, sunscreen, and a hat.


text: The resigning of Steve Johnson did alot more for this franchise than you may think. Aside from the obvious ways this helps the Bills allow me to point out some things that are more under the radar but of equal importance. For one thing it shows future prospects that the organization does respect the effort players put forth to become better. How would you feel about being drafted by a team that despite your showing marked improvement over the first couple of seasons you play for them they don't want to reward you for it.? Lets face it the ideal script for any players story is get drafted, play well (within the first three seasons), and sign a huge contract that'll set them financially-n-retire from that team. Unfortunately this rarely happens in the modern NFL era, this like so many other things in the world just isn't like it used to be. The mutual loyalty between player and organization is nonexistent far to often so any sign that it could be there would be a welcomed sight for a rookie to see. It also keeps the chemistry intact between your number one wr position and your quaterback (Ryan Fitzpatrick). It's good to know that going into next season there's a connection you know you can rely on.


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ACF x Kooples Fedora Hats
My friends Sam Lambert and Shaka Maidoh teamed up with Rule of Three to present a series of short films portraying their interpretations of the sartorial universe.
Known by their unique take on bending and breaking classic menswear rules, each video addresses a specific category of garments and accessories. Watch the full series here.
A look inside Art Comes First London Studio…
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Harvey Nichols: Norwegian Rain x COAL by ACF
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The negative news for Saab continues to spill out, and the latest bit of gossip continues to paint a dark picture for the Swedish automaker. Reuters reports that parts suppliers are looking to collect on "tens of millions of crowns" in unpaid invoices (10M crowns is around $1.58M U.S. dollars).
Work stoppages and missed sales targets have folks speculating that things aren't going as planned for the Spyker-owned company. Now, this news of Saab being unable to pay those supplying parts only adds fuel to the fire and suggests that production at its Trollhättan plant may not resume soon. For its part, The Wall Street Journal is reporting that production probably won't resume until next week – if Saab can come to terms with its suppliers.
The total amount of money that Saab owes has not been verified, but it's apparently enough that suppliers are no longer willing to continue to provide parts until the financial issue has been cleared up. The issue could simply be that a few key suppliers are wary of Saab's slow sales and are increasingly unwilling to extend the automaker credit, or it could be that Saab has fallen well behind on its obligations – or it might be a combination of the two.
Saab had previously repeatedly stated that its business plan is fully financed through 2012. Top tip, Louis!
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An electric snow shovel is also a great addition if you want to keep your deck and small walk ways cleared off but your regular snow blower is just too big for those small jobs.
For medium sized jobs, you may want to consider something like the Greenworks 26032 which is completely electric and reasonably priced. No mixing gas or oil or worrying about if you can crank it, you simply plug it in and let it do its job. It's great for those who are concerned about being eco-friendly and want to protect the environment from gas emissions, spills and oil leaks.
Another mid-sized model at a decent price is the Power Smart DB7659. It offers a compact size with big wheels so it's easy to maneuver and get around in tighter spaces than a big model. This is a two stage unit so it can handle some heavier snow than the lighter models, but it's a great choice if you're not quite physically able to do a lot of snow clearing and just need a good compact snow blower.
For the really big, tough jobs there's the Husqvarna 1830HV. This one is priced quite a bit higher but it will eat through heavy snow like a charm. It features a chain drive transmission for plowing through hardened snow without slippage and features a two stage auger/impeller design that will really throw the snow out of your way. This model is best for areas that gets a lot of deep snow coverage each year.
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