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Calare Properties is a private, Massachusetts-based investment firm with a focus on value-added industrial and flex/office real estate. Since the firm's inception in 2000, Calare has invested over $360 million of equity capital, representing over $650 million in assets through five funds and several other investment vehicles on behalf of select institutional and private partners. The firm's current portfolio encompasses over 14,500,000 square feet of industrial space.
Calare typically targets opportunities with vacancy or lease rollover risk, or other complex transactions that require repositioning and redevelopment. Calare mitigates investment risk for investors through local market expertise, active asset management, and full ownership control.
About Us
Experienced Management Team – Calare's management team has over 80 years of combined experience in real estate and investment management, and have been investing together since 2001. In that time Calare has organized five private equity funds and numerous other equity ventures to acquire and redevelop over $600 million of value-added real estate investments.
Intensive Asset Management Philosophy - Calare has a proven track record of acquiring, redeveloping, and repositioning underperforming properties. Calare seeks investments that preserve capital, achieve capital appreciation and provide strong cash flow. Calare's hands-on, intensive property management fosters excellent tenant relationships, leading to new investment opportunities as tenant businesses grow and their real estate needs change.
Extensive Industry Relationships – Calare maintains active relationships with a deep network of lenders, brokers, equity investors, consultants and corporate real estate executives. Calare expects this network to provide access to "first look" opportunities including strategic joint ventures, distressed owner situations and "off-market" investments.
Proper Alignment of Interests – Calare is a privately-held company that makes meaningful co-investment equity contributions alongside its investors. Calare also ties its senior managers' compensation to the successful performance of Calare funds. The majority of Calare senior investment professionals currently invest as limited partners in Calare funds.
Institutional Reporting and Risk Management - Calare's operations, accounting systems, compliance and recordkeeping meet the high standards of our institutional equity partners.
Investment Strategy
Calare has significant experience investing in properties in the Northeast. This traditionally stable market enjoys the following characteristics:
- significant land constraints and high development costs
- increasingly limited supply of functional industrial properties
- strong economic drivers including the high-technology industry, world-class universities, healthcare and financial institutions and pools of skilled labor
Calare's time-tested value-add investment strategy creates significant value through redevelopment and adaptive reuse of distressed, mismanaged, and undervalued properties. Calare seeks investments that can achieve >20% gross levered IRR (>12% unlevered gross IRR) over a 3-5 year hold period, with 8-10% stabilized cash yields.
Calare focuses on the middle market, properties generally between $5 and $30 million. This market segment offers the best opportunity to identify capital voids, mismanaged properties, undervalued properties and privately held or illiquid investments in need of new equity.
Calare's success as a real estate operator lies in our ability to identify 'leasable' properties, invest the necessary capital to reposition the property and rely on professional management to lease the property and keep operating expenses low.
Executive Team
William ManleyChief Executive Officer and Chief Investment Officer
Mr. Manley founded Calare Properties and is its senior investment professional. He has been sourcing and managing real estate investments since 1990. Early in the 1990s, Mr. Manley recognized the opportunities emerging in the commercial real estate market in the Northeast. Since that time, he and his investment partners have purchased, owned and managed over $750 million worth of real estate. Mr. Manley is a volunteer and active supporter of various charities. He earned a Bachelor's Degree in Economics from Boston University. Mr. Manley lives in Newton, MA with his wife and three daughters.
Robert FlynnChief Operating Officer and Executive Director
Mr. Flynn has been with Calare since it was founded in 2000. He directs the leasing, development, construction, tenant relations and facilities management for over 14 million square feet of real estate nationwide. Mr. Flynn has directed the acquisition due diligence for all Calare investments since 2000. He brings over 19 years of experience in business management, leasing, construc- tion management and property management. Prior to joining Calare Mr. Flynn was responsible for overseeing the communication needs of a multi-owner real estate portfolio exceeding $500 million in total value. He also owned and managed a portfolio of multifamily properties. Bob is heavily involved in youth hockey and baseball and has earned a Bachelors' Degree in English from the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts.
Bryan BlakePresident and Executive Director
Mr. Blake is responsible for managing the investor relations and business development functions for Calare. Prior to joining Calare, Mr. Blake was a Market Intelligence Executive at CCG Investor Relations, where, among other responsibilities, his role included acting as a liaison between a variety of multinational, US-listed public companies and the institutional investment community. Before that, he gained over seven years of experience in private wealth management sales, client/investor relations and equity/credit research while working at Barclays Capital and Fidelity Management & Research Company. Mr. Blake received a BA in Public Policy & Law from Trinity College.
Mark ShapiroChief Financial Officer
Mr. Shapiro directs finance, accounting, reporting and tax compliance at Calare. Prior to joining Calare, he gained over ten years of real estate industry experience with S.R. Weiner & Associates, overseeing the accounting and reporting of a $500 million portfolio of retail properties. Mr. Shapiro earned a Bachelor's Degree in Accounting from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and received his MBA from Bentley College.
Commitment to Philanthropy
Our firm and staff engage in both formal and informal philanthropy.
Calare Properties contributes to many non-profit organizations, such as MEDA, Rett Syndrome, Pan-Mass Challenge, and Child Fund International.
Our firm also supports individual employees' charitable causes through donations to organizations that support local and national services in health, education, sports, community development and poverty relief. Click on a logo to learn more about each charity:
MEDA - Multi-Service Eating Disorders Association, Inc. is a non-profit organization dedicated to the prevention and treatment of eating disorders and disordered eating. MEDA's mission is to prevent the continuing spread of eating disorders through educational awareness and early detection. MEDA serves as a support network and resource for clients, loved ones, clinicians, educators and the general public.
Founded in 2003, the National Autism Association (NAA) is a parent-run advocacy organization and the leading voice on urgent issues related to severe autism, regressive autism, autism safety, autism abuse, and crisis prevention. In addition to funding impactful research studies and advocating for our children at the national level, NAA has developed several crucial programs to directly assist families.
A cure for Rett Syndrome, it's our obsession. Imagine the symptoms of autism, cerebral palsy, Parkinson's, epilepsy, and anxiety…all in one little child. This is Rett Syndrome. RSRT exists for one reason – to make these symptoms disappear. We are focused, impatient, rigorous and optimistic. Whether you are a parent, relative or friend of an afflicted child or adult, we welcome you to our site and invite your participation in our fight to conquer Rett.
The Pan-Massachusetts Challenge, presented by the Boston Red Sox Foundation and New Balance, is the nation's original fundraising bike-a-thon and today raises more money than any other athletic fundraising event in the country. The PMC is a model of fundraising efficiency. Since 2007, the PMC has donated 100% of every rider-raised dollar directly to cancer research and treatment at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute through its Jimmy Fund. The PMC is so well-known in cycling and fundraising circles that each year people travel from around the world to participate.
ChildFund International is inspired and driven by the potential that is inherent in all children; the potential not only to survive but to thrive, to become leaders who bring positive change for those around them. The heart of ChildFund International remains the one-to-one connection made when you sponsor a child.
ChildFund works in 31 countries, assisting approximately 17.8 million children and their family members. Their distinctive approach focuses on working with children, regardless of race, creed or gender, throughout their journey from birth to young adulthood, as well as with families, local organizations and communities globally to create the environments children need to thrive.
For nearly 100 years, the American Cancer Society (ACS) has worked relentlessly to save lives and create a world with less cancer and more birthdays. Together with millions of their supporters worldwide, they are helping people stay well, helping people get well, finding cures, and fighting back against cancer.
Nurturing Minds, Inc is a U.S.-based non-profit organization that works with its Tanzanian partner, SEGA, to construct and develop the Sega Girls School.
The Sega Girls School is a residential secondary school in Tanzania that educates vulnerable girls who are unable to attend school due to extreme poverty. Together, Nurturing Minds and the Sega Girls School provide a quality academic education that emphasizes leadership skills, environmental stewardship, and social responsibility.
Special Olympics is the world's largest sports organization for children and adults with intellectual disabilities, providing year-round training and competitions to more than 4 million athletes in 170 countries. Special Olympics competitions are held every day, all around the world—including local, national and regional competitions, adding up to more than 53,000 events a year.
The Make-A-Wish Foundation is a non-profit organization founded in the United States that grants wishes to children with life-threatening medical conditions to enrich the human experience with hope, strength, and joy. The organization grants wishes through its 62 chapters located throughout the country. Make-A-Wish also operates in 47 countries around the world through 36 affiliate offices.
AIDS/LifeCycle is a fully supported, 7-day bike ride from San Francisco to Los Angeles to raise money and awareness in the fight against HIV/AIDS.
PACE is the Professional Association for Childhood Education. PACE serves the state of California and advocates and promotes excellence in the early childhood community.
Colorado Properties9410 Heinz Way - Commerce City, CO
A newly constructed property located just outside of Denver. The property is conveniently located off of Interstate 76 and Highway 2, and is in close proximity to Denver International Airport. The building is currently 100% leased to Home Depot (S&P credit rated A+) through November 2012. The property was built as a model for all Home Depot distribution facilities and includes a storage area for up to 67 truck trailers. It is an "A" building located in an "A" location.
Connecticut Properties74 Griffin Street South - Bloomfield, CT
74 Griffin Street South is located in central Connecticut, with close proximity to Interstates 91 and 84, and has convenient access to Bradley International Airport. The property is served by a connecting rail line. The property lot includes parking for 100 cars, as well 100 spaces for truck trailers. The property is 100% leased to Home Depot (S&P rated A+) through November 2008.
555 Taylor Road - Enfield, CT
The LEGO Campus (555 Talyor Road) consists of 5 buildings and a total of 1,185,569 square feet, ranging from office space, to flex/R&D and warehouse space. All 5 buildings are located adjacent to Interstate 91 in the northern Connecticut town of Enfield, which has the tightest vacancy and 2nd highest asking rates in the Greater Hartford area. The Campus has railroad access and impressive clear heights of up to 48 feet.
140 Garden Street - Hartford, CT
140 Garden Street is a 700,000 SF office/residential complex in Hartford, CT. The office building, totaling approximately 451,000 SF of rentable space, is the former headquarters of Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Company, which was acquired by Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company and occupied by them until 2006.
85 Moosup Pond Road - Plainfield, CT
This 530,500 SF, single-tenant facility is located in northern Connecticut, approximately 40 miles east of Hartford and 75 miles southwest of Boston. Ideal for warehousing and distribution, the property offers first-rate building amenities, convenient access to I-395, rail service and other key features. Vacant land, totaling 26.5 acres of the 106-acre site, also provides opportunities for expansion.
170 Highland Park - Bloomfield, CT
A 449,000 SF, single-tenant warehouse facility on 37.82 acres, 170 Highland Park is situated in central Connecticut, five miles west of Hartford and 93 miles southwest of Boston, and offers convenient access to I-91 and I-84. The property is served by a connecting rail line and is in prime condition.
Enfield Business Park - Enfield, CT
Home to LEGO's North American headquarters and R&D operations, Enfield Business Park is a world-class, five-building, multi-tenant campus, located in the heart of the Northeast, off 1-91, midway between Hartford and Springfield. The high-image 445,597 SF distribution center, at 300 Shaker Road, is easily divisible, and features 48' clear heights, existing racking with more than 35,000 pallet positions in place, abundant loading, redundant systems, impeccable mechanicals, plus 14,270 square foot of office space and other key amenities.
Massachusetts PropertiesAshland Technology Center - Ashland, MA
Ashland Technology Center is a 340,000 SF business center located in the central business district of Ashland, MA, on the corner of a busy intersection of Route 135, minutes from Route 495, Route 9 and the Mass Turnpike. The property has been at least 95% occupied for over six years, and includes a tenant roster of various high tech, service, retail, and office tenants.
57 Littlefield Street - Avon, MA
57 Littlefield Street, Avon, MA is a well highly functional distribution/warehouse building totaling 425,628 square feet on 18.5 acres of land located less than two miles from Exit 19 on Route 24 and nine miles from Route 128. This property has a 25' clear heights, forty-five loading docks and has ample land for trailer storage.
1040 Sheridan Street - Chicopee, MA
This 74,500 SF single-story, single-tenant warehouse/distribution facility is located on seven acres, just north of Springfield, in the Westover Industrial Park at the intersection of Highways 90 and 391.
Friendly Ice Cream Distribution Center - Chicopee, MA
1045 Sheridan Street is a 62,000 SF freezer/ refrigerator/dry goods distribution center just north of Springfield, in the Westover Industrial Park at the intersection of Highways 90 and 391.
Adams Road Industrial Park - Clinton, MA
A state-of-the-art, 344,000 SF, multi-tenant, high-bay distribution facility, 100 Adams Road offers 93,293 SF warehouse space for lease (divisible to 25,000 SF). Highlights include 32' clear heights, wide bays and abundant loading. Strategically located 5 miles off I-190, and in close proximity to I-495 and I-290, 35 miles west of Boston. Lot Size: 21 acres.
111 Adams Road - Clinton, MA
111 Adams Road is a 457,000 square foot high-bay distribution center located 2.5 miles from Route 495. The property is demised to accommodate tenants from 50,000-200,000 square feet. The property is leased to several tenants.
480 Sprague Street - Dedham, MA
480 Sprague Street is a single-story, 233,000 square foot high-bay warehouse/distribution center. It's located in a very desirable urban infill location, less than 8 miles from downtown Boston. The property is leased to multiple tenants.
15 Independence Drive - Devens, MA
Constructed in 1999, 15 Independence Drive is a modern, 370,545 SF distribution building in the Devens Enterprise Zone. It offers 30' interior clear height, 44 loading docks, active rail service, and parking for 100 trailers. It is fully leased through 2020 to Kraft Foods.
50 Independence Drive - Devens, MA
50 Independence Drive is a 235,620 square foot warehouse/ distribution center in the Devens Enterprise Zone. The property is currently leased to multiple tenants.
151 Suffolk Lane - Gardner, MA
151 Suffolk Lane is located in the Summit Industrial Park, less than two miles from Route 2. The property is a mix of office and warehouse space with an average clear height of 22 feet.
Hudson Mill Business Center - Hudson, MA
Hudson Mill Business Center is a 210,000 SF mill complex, located in the central business district of Hudson, MA. The tenant roster includes various high tech, services, and office tenants. The property is located next to the Assabet River Rail Trail. Hudson Mill Business Center is located less than 1 mile from Routes 495 and 290.
Andover Commerce Park - Lawrence, MA
Andover Commerce Park offer businesses 7-10,000 square foot industrial condominiums in a premier industrial location. The park is located within one mile of Routes 93, 20 miles north of Boston.
248 Industrial Road - Leominster, MA
248 Industrial Road is a 156,876 SF manufacturing facility in a popular industrial location in Leominster. The building has a rail spur and approximately 10,000 SF of office space, and 18' clear height in the warehouse area.
60 Maple Street - Mansfield, MA
60 Maple Street is a multi-tenant manufacturing and distribution center, less than two miles from Rte 495. The property offers multiple loading docks, exterior storage area, up to 21' interior clear height, and easy highway access.
625 University Avenue - Norwood, MA
625 University Avenue is a 459,455 SF high-bay distribution center, in a highly desirable distribution location one mile from Route 128 and 15 miles south of downtown Boston. The property consists of an industrial/office facility with two joined, and one separated single-story buildings totaling approximately 459,455 square feet.
495-515 Woburn Street - Tewksbury, MA
Situated 30 miles north of Boston in the Riverview Technology Park, a prestigious, 130-acre, multi-tenant industrial center, 495 Woburn Street is ideal for R&D and light assembly and offers 100,000-495,000 SF of totally renovated space for lease. Highlights include heavy power, abundant water, ample loading and parking, nearby commuter rail and more. An additional 20-acre site, also available at the park, offers room for expansion. The park's prime location, at I-495 and Route 3, provides proximity to life-science communities in Boston and Cambridge and access to a highly educated workforce.
Southampton Road Industrial Center - Westfield, MA
Located between Boston and Albany, minutes from the intersection of I-90 and I-91, Southampton Road Industrial Center features an ideal, New England location with an affordable business climate and access to an abundant workforce. The 92-acre, 652,000 SF facility is divisible to 130,000, and offers first-rate building amenities, including clearance heights up to 32', abundant loading with cross-dock capability, ample power and water for bio-manufacturing, more than 40,000 SF of office space and other key benefits.
100 Simplex Drive - Westminster, MA
100 Simplex Drive is an industrial campus off of Route 2 that is 100% leased to Tyco International and Masonite International. Features of the property include extensively built out office space ($9 million spent on 130,000 square feet), and fully air-conditioned manufacturing space. The property lot includes parking for approximately 1,495 cars as well as 200 truck-trailer spaces, and an additional 97 acres are available for expansion. The property is located within one of the area's tightest submarkets, boasting a historic vacancy rate that has averaged less than 5% over the last 17 years.
Pinehurst Business Park - Billerica, MA
Pinehurst Business Park is comprised of three adjacent buildings totaling approximately 134,000 SF. Located with convenient access to major local roads and highways. Major interstates in close proximity to the property include Routes 128, 3, I-495 and I-93 alike.
900 Middlesex Turnpike, Building 4 - Billerica, MA
900 Middlesex Turnpike, Building 4 features a unique combination of quality office and R&D space as well as high bay (up to 40') space totaling approximately 94,000 SF. The building offers easy access to Route 3.
Newbury Park - Framingham, MA
The property consists of three buildings totaling approximately 45,313 SF on 4.2 acres of land. The two main buildings are each 20,000 SF.
South Street Business Park - Marlborough, MA
Constructed in 2008-2010, South Street Business Park is a 146,650 SF flex/office property just two miles from Route 495 in a busy commercial location in Marlborough, MA. The site is one of the highest elevations in the town and enjoys excellent visibility.
New Hamshire Properties59 Daniel Webster Highway - Merrimack, NH
This first-rate, 474,322 SF warehouse/distribution facility is situated on 40.78 acres in an Economic Revitalization Zone, 47 miles from Boston, between Manchester and Nashua. With 40,000 SF to 280,377 SF for lease, the property offers excellent highway accessibility off the F.E. Everett Turnpike, proximity to the Manchester Airport, plus such key amenities as clearance heights up to 32 feet, abundant loading and more.
57 Daniel Webster Highway - Merrimack, NH
An attractive, 104,360 SF high-tech, signature industrial facility (plus land to accommodate a 100,000 SF built-to-suit facility) on a 7.6-acre park-like campus within an Economic Revitalization Zone. Three kinds of space available—40,000 SF warehouse with clear heights up to 30 feet, 24,000 SF Office/Lab, 40,300 SF manufacturing space. Robust infrastructure, heavy power, ample loading and excellent visibility along Daniel Webster Highway. Easy access, via Exit 10 off the F.E. Everett Turnpike; between Manchester and Nashua, 47 miles from Boston
New York PropertiesThe Jackson Industrial Building - Jamestown, NY
One of the area's few, large-scale facilities, and ideal for both distribution and light manufacturing, The Jackson Industrial Building is a first-rate 287,959 SF multi-tenant facility with up to 200,000 SF available for lease. Highlights include clear heights up to 35'7", wide bays, extensive loading and ample parking. Minutes from I-86, and within 77 miles of Buffalo and 180 miles of Rochester, Cleveland and Pittsburgh, it offers a strategic location for companies servicing New York, Ohio and Pennsylvania. Lot size: 11 acres.
MetroWest Industrial Center - Syracuse, NY
This impeccably maintained, 567,800 square-foot, food-grade signature facility is ideal for distribution or manufacturing, and one of the few large-scale buildings in Syracuse. Located on 26.2 acres, at the intersection of I-690 and I-90, MetroWest Industrial Center offers excellent highway accessibility and visibility, clearance heights up to 31 feet, extensive loading with 68 dock–high doors and two drive-in doors, six-inch concrete floors, modern offices and abundant parking. The facility also is situated within a prime, low-cost municipal-power area. Formerly occupied by Penn Traffic Dry Goods Distribution Center, the single-tenant building is easily divisible to accommodate multiple tenants. This property is also rail served.
3407 Walter Road - Van Buren, NY
276,697 SF single-tenant, cold-storage distribution center, ideally located one mile from I-90 and I-690 outside of Syracuse. Highlights include 124,781 SF cooler, 89,733 SF freezer, 36,000 SF refrigerated docks with 35 dock doors, and 15,088 SF truck fleet facility. Visible from the I-90 NYS Thruway . Lot size: 50.8 acres.
One Hanson Place - Brooklyn, NY
The antenna condominium unit includes rooftop rights comprised of the dome at the top of the building and upper parapet, exclusive rights to provide wireless telecommunications services on the building, and approximately 870 square feet of equipment rooms.
Pennsylvania Properties851 Beaver Drive - DuBois, PA
202,800 SF warehouse/ refrigerated on 30.4 Acres Single-story, single-tenant warehouse, built in 1987 with an expansion completed in 1991. Features a perishable food freezer as well as dry warehousing space. Located off of Interstate 80, approximately 75 miles northeast of Pittsburgh, within the West/Central Pennsylvania and West New York Submarkets.
Shaffer Road/Route 225 - DuBois, PA
410,000 SF warehouse/ refrigerated on 25.8 Acres. Single-story, single-tenant building, with a two-story reception and office area. The facility was built in 1961 with additions completed in 1968, 1973, 1979 and 1980. The warehouse features a perishable food freezer as well as dry warehousing space. Located off of Interstate 80, approximately 75 miles northeast of Pittsburgh, within the West/Central Pennsylvania and West New York Submarkets.
Rhode Island Properties28 Kenney Drive - Cranston, RI
This is a well-maintained 54,580 SF manufacturing building in a desirable industrial park one mile from T. F. Green Airport. The property is 100% NNN leased to a publicly-traded electronics manufacturer for the manufacture of several key products.
Texas PropertiesWindstar Industrial Center - Abilene TX
Located midway between Dallas and Midland/Odessa, in one of the world's most desirable centers for wind power development, WindStar Industrial Center is one of the area's few, large-scale multi-tenant facilities for manufacturing, service and warehouse/distribution users. The 728,000 square foot, food grade building is situated on Interstate 20, and offers 25,000 to 356,000 square feet for lease, as well as 100 acres of land for development.
2200 South Business 45 - Corsicana, TX
Located between Dallas and Houston on Interstate 45, 2200 S Business 45 is 100% leased to Home Depot (S&P rated A+) through April 2010. Totaling almost 1.5 million square feet, the property is easily divisible into 200,000 square foot +/- sections and is also expandable by as much as 600,000 square feet.
9700 West Gulf Bank Road - Houston, TX
245,319 SF warehouse on 13.8 acres. Single-story, single-tenant warehouse facility, built in 1982, includes 48,390 SF of office space, and is also suitable for manufacturing. An additional 8.6 acres of land are available for expansion. Property is located in the Northwest Houston Submarket, off the West Sam Houston Parkway North, near the Northwest Freeway/Highway 290
|Calare Properties, Inc.
|43 Broad Street
|Hudson, MA 01749
Investor ContactsBryan Blake
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Dania Beach still struggles to find racial harmony
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The Doing Good blog follows area charities and social service agencies.
About Amy Umble: Amy Umble writes about religion and social issues affecting the Fredericksburg community. You can email her at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Hope Center seeks donations of clothes, school supplies
Stafford Hope Center will host a winter Dressing Day for children in Stafford schools who are identified as being homeless. The event will invitation-only on Jan. 19.
The Hope Center is asking the community for donations of new or gently used clothing of all sizes and new school supplies to be given out at the Dressing Day.
Money donations are also accepted to help with costs associated with the event. Donations can be dropped off at Stafford Hope Center, 32 Bells Hill Road, Stafford on Mondays or Wednesdays from 4-6 p.m. Monetary donations can be made at the same address or online here.
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Cool Science: Urban Heat Islands
Urban Heat Island
The summer urban heat island (UHI) effect is a daytime elevation in the outdoor urban air temperature that results in part from the replacement of trees and other vegetation with buildings, roads and other heat-absorbing infrastructure.
The properties of urban roofs and pavements, as well as human activity, contribute to the formation of summer urban heat islands:
- Urban surface properties. Roofs and pavements can constitute about 60% of the surface area of a U.S. city. These surfaces are typically dark in color and thus absorb at least 80% of sunlight, causing them to get warmer than lighter colored surfaces.1 These warm roofs and pavements then emit heat and make the outside air warmer.
- Human activity. Air conditioning, manufacturing, transportation, and other human activities discharge heat into our urban environments.
Urban heat islands can negatively affect the urban community and the environment.
- Increased energy use. Warm temperatures in cities increase the need for air conditioning (A/C) to cool buildings. This elevated demand can strain the electrical grid on a hot summer afternoon, making it more susceptible to brown-outs and black-outs.
- Impaired air quality. Warmer air accelerates the formation of smog (ozone) from airborne pollutants like nitrogen oxides and volatile organic compounds. Elevated demand for cooling energy in the form of A/C use can also increase the emission of air pollutants and greenhouse gases from fossil-fuel power plants.
- Illness. Higher air temperatures and lower air quality can aggravate heat-related and respiratory illnesses, and also reduce productivity.
Akbari H, Menon S, Rosenfeld A. 2009. Global cooling: increasing world-wide urban albedos to offset CO2. Climatic Change, 94 (3-4), 275-286.
Related Publications
"Economic Comparison of White, Green, and Black Flat Roofs in the United States". Energy and Buildings 71. Energy and Buildings (2014): 20-27..
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"Potentials of urban heat island mitigation". Proceedings of the 1st International Passive and Low Energy Cooling for the Built Evironment. Proceedings of the 1st International Passive and Low Energy Cooling for the Built Evironment, 2005. http://escholarship.org/uc/item/20j676c9..
"Analyzing the land cover of an urban environment using high-resolution orthophotos". Landscape and Urban Planning 63, no. 1. Landscape and Urban Planning (2003): 1-14..
"Cool communities". Macmillan Encyclopedia of Energy 1. Macmillan Encyclopedia of Energy (2000): 305-8..
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"Cool communities: strategies for heat island mitigation and smog reduction". Energy and Buildings 28. Energy and Buildings (1998): 51-62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0378-7788(97)00063-7..
"Cool systems for hot cities". Professional Roofing 32-35. Professional Roofing (1998): 1-5. http://www.azcoolroof.com/downloads/Resources/Article%20Cool%20systems%20for%20hot%20cities.pdf..
"Policies to reduce heat islands: Magnitudes of benefits and incentives to achieve them". 1996 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings. 1996 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings, 1996. http://eetd.lbl.gov/EA/Reports/38679.pdf..
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TERREAL03: Brother A.I. of TOLEC
by Former White Hat
A similar A.I. unit to Tolec05 is the Terral03, an earlier computer program that runs around the internet and radio waves spreading fear and disinfo. It has been around a few years more than Tolec05, but is less popular.
Tolec05′s programming spreads Cabal lies about the Andromeda Council; the Terral03 spreads disinfo about Nibiru, nanites, and super soldiers — that is, once again, 50% truth with 50% lies in order to cause confusion over the truth (whereas Tolec05 is 75% disinfo and 25% truth).
Terral03 was initially programmed by the original of the clone of "Nighthawk," a technology and computer whizkid whom I wrote that is on Clone #12 (see the movie "Moon"). Tolec05′s programming was based on a theory of A.I. composed by the original Sean David Morton, and embellished by David Wilcock's CIA assassin alter, Jean-David Wontcunt (pronounced with a French twist: "John-DaviiehWhon'cuhn")


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Long before the Fiat 500 came to the US to try and capture the public's imagination, a Fiat 600 was cruising in the Shell Mileage Marathons (the precursor to today's Eco-marathons) and setting records by getting over 300 miles per gallon. The little red cutie was on display at the Shell ...
OK, tell me who isn't on a mileage marathon these days? We're still rocking the Audi trip, and the Peugots and the Corvette were busy in the UK with the ALD event. Meanwhile, we get a note from Toyota that their fleet has "dominated" the ALD World MPG Marathon. ToMoCo's definition of dominating is ...


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U Tun Oo, Welcoming Committee Chairman:
Good day. I would like to begin by expressing my gratitude for this opportunity to address you on behalf of the Welcoming Committee.
I also thank our highly motivated and enthusiastic audience (that has) come to this historic meeting with Daw Aung San Suu Kyi.
The Burmese communities here in attendance unequivocally and strongly support you and will unwaveringly continue to support you in the days to come.
I would like to extend my sincere and heartfelt thanks to the Burmese community. The communities have worked tirelessly to organize this event, the mayor of Fort Wayne and last but not least a special thanks to the (IPFW) chancellor, vice chancellors, faculty and staff and other sponsors for their generous support and assistance.
We believe that our unequivocal support will contribute to the reform and change towards democracy in Myanmar naming again or Burma.
We unequivocally and strongly support you and we will unwaveringly continue to support you in the days to come.
So Aung San Suu Kyi, you have bravely, persistently and perseveringly endeavored to bring about peace, prosperity, human rights and freedom for all peoples of Burma and have stood before us as a courageous, admirable and exemplary leader. All of us wish you and pray for your well-being and good health.
I humbly request that you speak to the audience who are longing to hear your voice and words respectfully. Thank you for all your good wishes.
May they all come true.
Speech by Aung San Suu Kyi:
Thank you for enthusiastically welcoming, especially our ethnic population and all the people that are here have welcomed me (heartfeltly).
It is very important for us to learn that we are all the same, that we should not discriminate between those who can learn and those who cannot learn.
We are all the same.
Those who can learn is not only for a country but for the whole world.
It will be valuable for the whole world.
We need to be humble and learn. We must know that we have to learn and there is still more to learn.
Those of you who are here need to know and put in your heart that we have many more to learn and gain knowledge and to continue pursuing knowledge.
We are now at the beginning of a path of democracy and we should endeavor to continue to walk through this path to attain this.
We all learn to get an education not only from the platform but from our life, to learn from our life experiences, learning from a classroom would just be a part of the education but not the whole education of life.
There may be some of us who already citizens of this country and some of us who are still Burmese citizens and we welcome both.
We did not think that you have separated from us because you have become citizens of another country. We know that you are still connected to us and still part of our country.
We do not separate or discriminate between people who are different. We have to be loyal to the country where we are and we should all behave in a way that people of the countries that we reside would have respect forever.
Because I listen to the radio quite often, I often hear the term "Fort Wayne." I learn that the people here from Burma in Fort Wayne are very, very enthusiastic and I know that sometimes there are conflicts between people.
That is a very human trait but we can all reconcile and overcome any conflict.
I would like to ask everyone to be united.
I also want to say to you not to be jealous, not to have envy. We need to control our feelings of envy and jealousy so that we can unite, join hands, and work towards our goals.
I would like to request that you should not have feelings that would cause discord. These feelings are not something that cannot be corrected.
We can change and correct these bad feelings.
Take pride in every one of us. Do not feel envy for those that are more successful than you. Show respect and kindness to each other.
I would appreciate and be very grateful if you could look back to your home country, which is Burma, and I will – we cannot demand that you come back to Burma and I do not ask the authorities however I will try my best for anyone who wishes to return to Burma to be able to come back and we should all work together to achieve this goal.
The speech was followed by a question and answer session.
Selected quotes from the Q&A
About discrimination
"Every indigenous (race) and ethnic group has something that is very good in their tradition and culture, so do not be disheartened."
On cultural heritage and the Burmese language
"Please do not forget your traditional native languages. Likewise, I want to ask these indigenous races, ethnic groups to also keep their languages as well as learn the Burmese language, which is now the official and has always been the official language of Burma.
"Please take pride in your culture."
On politics
"We should all have a conscience and not exploit our role in politics.
"Politics has great responsibility.
"And if you are in politics, it must be for a sense of responsibility, whether you get a nay or not.
"Even if you fail, you must have the courage to go on."
The role of Burma in the world
"If all the people, whether they are in Burma or outside Burma; if we all join hands together and work together, we can definitely achieve a place in the world."
On working together
"Whatever differences and problems we may have amongst ourselves I think we can definitely join hands and reconcile and move forward and solve any problems and basic roots of conflict and differences."
Reaching goals
"I believe that if we continue to endeavor consistently, we will reach those goals of peace and prosperity.
"The most difficult challenge is persevering and to not despair in the face of failure but continue to work harder to achieve our goals."
On the path to democracy
"To successfully walk the path of democracy lies in the people of Burma – all of us. We cannot only depend on external support and support of our friends from other nations; we should also depend on ourselves to reach this goal."


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Torquay United keeper Olejnik's decision is welcome news
By Western Morning News | Friday, February 17, 2012, 08:00
Torquay United manager Martin Ling has secured the long-term future of one of the club's most saleable assets, goalkeeper Bobby Olejnik, with a new two-and-half year contract.
Bobby Olejnik has extended his stay at Plainmoor. Picture by Pinnacle
Olejnik, 25, already had a deal which ran until the summer of 2013, but he has now agreed an improved contract which will not expire until 2014.
Torquay fans had feared that the former Aston Villa and Falkirk 'keeper might be snatched away in the recent January transfer window.
United managed to hang on to him then, and he and Ling have been talking over a longer commitment since.
Olejnik, born in Austria to Polish parents, has been one of the stars of Torquay's season so far, especially during their current run of 41 points out of 48.
During those 16 games, Olejnik has picked the ball out of his own net only seven times, three of them in the only defeat, 3-1 at Accrington Stanley. Tuesday's seventh successive win at Cheltenham Town (a 1-0 win) was his fourth clean-sheet in a row.
Ling, who has previously described Olejnik as the best goalkeeper he has ever managed, said: "We are building something special here, and a good goalkeeper is often the foundation for success in any team.
"We have a very good one – I've not see better in League Two. Aside from his assurance as a goalkeeper, Bobby is a terrific character, and a positive influence on everyone at the club."
Olejnik said: "The fact that I've only been here just over six months, and I already want to stay for longer, I think that says it all. I feel like a kid going to a new school with a smile on my face – I can't wait to get in each day.
"Normally, in these situations, you just look at what's best for your career, but I've got the best of both worlds – my private life is good and my career is going well here.
"There's a brilliant group of lads at the club, and obviously we've got a great run going.
"There's nothing that doesn't make me want to stay."
A solid performance by on-loan defender Angus MacDonald was one of the main bonuses for Ling in Wednesday's 1-1 friendly draw at Tiverton Town.
MacDonald, 19, signed from Reading last week, made his first appearance in a Gulls' shirt at Ladysmead after being an unused substitute in both United's last two League matches.
"There were pleasing performances from Angus, which was good to see, and Danny Leadbitter at right-back," Ling said.
"The original plan had been to play a training game amongst ourselves behind closed doors, but I'm glad that we took the Tivvy game now, because it was more realistic and had a really good tempo.
"We played what you'd call our development squad – Martin Rice was the only player over 22 – and all of those players needed a good run-out, which they got."
A mistake by Rice helped Danny Clay to score Tiverton's goal, but United's reserve goalkeeper played well apart from that slip.
A cross by Lloyd Macklin set up Ray Spear to head United's equaliser.


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Wickes, the home improvement retailer, has extended its relationship with Carat by appointing its Dentsu Aegis Network (DAN) to handle social, PPC and SEO business.
Wickes: appoints Dentsu Aegis Network to its digital account
The new business will draw together specialists from iProspect, Isobar and Dentsu Aegis Network Sports and Entertainment, as well as Carat.
The agencies will create and manage an overall consumer ecosystem that better aligns paid-for media with engaging content, amplified by social media, and driven through a powerful PPC and SEO strategy.
Carat's recent work with Wickes has included partnerships with Absolute and Talksport. On Talksport, the retailer is title sponsor of the 'Colin Murray and Friends' mid-morning weekday show.
Carat was awarded Wickes' media planning and buying account in 2011.
Matthew Gaunt, head of brand communications at Wickes, said: "We've enjoyed an excellent relationship with Carat over the last three years.
"The team demonstrated the business benefit of better aligning our above-the-line activity with engaging content and best-in-class digital thinking by using the talent across DAN, making them the obvious choice to work with across social, PPC and SEO."
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How did you get started in the business? Who helped/guided/mentored you?
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MEDiaKitab project
Since early 2009, the COBIAC and ZINC/ECM have met in order to formalize a common project to develop a euro-Mediterranean platform giving youth access to knowledge through books and multimedia.
Throughout the year, main partners from Lebanon, Egypt, Algeria, France and Palestine have been consulted. In through meetings and missions, COBIAC and ZINC/ECM decided to build a sustainable project based on network creation with reliable partners in order to put in place step by step long term and multilateral projects. The partnership's guiding principle is linked to books and multimedia type aids used in practical and cultural action. The main stake is to produce and encourage synergies and foster development with professionals who work in cooperation for youth and who have developed serious links over the past years.
Although the platform's founding members live in different countries, they are all active, working in complementarily, in cultural training, identifying and pooling experience and expertise. They are both in field and considered by professionals and beneficiaries as belonging to resource centers playing a fundamental role in developing cultural activities. The members of this platform act in the Arabic speaking and French speaking areas. They are able to work and communicate in English and they have reciprocal knowledge of contexts and approaches, a keystone for relevant partnerships
Thus, the COBIAC and ZINC are sharing their Mediterranean area expertise in order to set up a network organizing a founding meeting. This network called MEDiakitab will aim to establish a common feedback on themes in the Euromed area, enhancing cooperation axes and identifying good working practices.
The points and problems that the MEDiakitab have in common, and which involve digital and printed activities and resources.
Concerning activities:
- Partnership with libraries-schools (Bibalex , CEAlex , catholic schools, Tamer Institute).
- The reception of handicapped children (Bibalex, Tamer).
- Publishing (Tamer Institute, Petit Lecteur, CEAlex , Maison du Livre , Le Port a jauni).
Concerning needs :
- Training in the field of multimedia (Catholic Schools, Milan Libraries, Tyr Library, BDP and BMVR Marseille, Petit lecteur d'Oran…)
- Illustration, and publishing support (Petit Lecteur, CEAlex, Tamer institute, ZINC, le Port a jauni…)
- Exhibition resources (CEAlex, Petit Lecteur…)
- Support in terms of method and financing (Ministry of Culture Lebanon)
- Need for institutional links (Milan Libraries).
Concerning resources:
- Illustration for young people: the importance of the production in Lebanon.
- Training: the experience of ZINC, COBIAC, Tamer.
- The production of multimedia objects: the experience of ZINC; CEAlex, Petit Lecteur.
- Publishing for young people: the experience of Petit Lecteur, the Maison du Livre, The Lebanese Ministry.
Concerning the problems:
- Book-digital complementarity, the participants having all reaffirmed the non-opposition between the activities and the necessity of integrating the new reading and expression supports within cultural action.
- The cross-generation link: Qattan, CEAlex, Alexandria Schools.
- The development of reading for pleasure.
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• Gather a professional community – trainers, publishers, librarians, cultural activity officers, teachers and resource person, who work in the field of youth on the issues of reading and expression with both paper and digital means.
• Promote access to resources already existing the Euro-Mediterranean area in the field of youth policies for access to knowledge through tools and practices in time with new information and communication technologies.
• Support Euro-Mediterranean dialogue with a cross approach promoting East West as well as South Nord exchanges, and by developing good practice in each country in different languages from the area.
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Landowners looking to get the most out of their natural resources should plan now to attend the Fire, Wildlife, Timber and Cattle Grazing Annual Fall Field Tour on Oct. 2 at the Pushmataha Wildlife Management Area.
The tour will take place from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. There is no cost to attend. The Pushmataha Management Area headquarters is located two miles south of Clayton off State Highway 271, approximately three miles west on a county road. Signs will be visible.
"American Indians have managed this country with fire for more than 10,000 years, and to great benefit to people, plants and animals," said Terry Bidwell, Oklahoma State University Cooperative Extension rangeland management specialist. "Our scientific inquiries are helping to rediscover the extent of those benefits. The application of science-based management can and has helped provide for sustainable, healthy ecosystems."
Participants will gain a better understanding of how to use prescribed fire, timber harvest and cattle grazing to meet land management objectives; integrated timber, livestock and wildfire management; stocking rate and carrying capacity considerations for running cattle; and ways to maintain and promote overall forest health.
Also included will be a history of the Pushmataha Wildlife Management Area and some of the many land use and efficiency insights and benefits that research on its 19,000 acres has yielded.
Sessions will be led by Bidwell; Jack Waymire, senior biologist and Pushmataha site manager; and John Weir, research associate with the OSU department of natural resource ecology and management.
"Nobody had any idea that the on-site studies started back in 1982 would still be yielding valuable insights today, or that they would generate such beneficial additional areas of research," Bidwell said. "It has been quite the land-management detective story."
The tour is being sponsored by the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation, OSU Division of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources, and the Oklahoma Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit.
Anyone seeking additional information about the Pushmataha Wildlife Management Area Annual Fall Field Tour should contact Waymire at email@example.com or 918-569-4239, or Bidwell at firstname.lastname@example.com or 405-744-9618.
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Jason JanikThese guys are naked for a reason: They have a new record coming soon. Some quick hits on the album release front to pass along this afternoon...
Not too long ago, we shared with you the list of area acts set to perform at this year's annual South by Southwest Music Conference. Now we not only know the "who," but also the "when." Last week, the folks at SXSW released their preliminary show scheduled. And, for North Texas, this very much ge ... More >>
After a handful of early teases, the folks down at Austins' South by Southwest Music and Media Conference went ahead and released the whole big batch of names -- although, let's be honest, there will probably still be some changes (not to mention names we just missed) -- of performers slated to h ... More >>
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Property sales slump in Kerala as NRIs lose faithJul 16, 2012, 10:19AM IST
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Residential property sales in Kerala have dropped up to 40% in the last three quarters as non-resident Indians, who account for 70% of the demand, slashed investments due to project delays, high prices as well as better returns on bank deposits.
Top builders such as Sahara Group, DLF, Unitech, SRK Group, Apple a Day Properties and Abad Builders have either delayed, downsized or shelved their projects due to dwindling interest among NRIs, who have been driving up property prices in God's own country about 20% every year.
"Property brokers' business from NRI clients has almost halved," TKC Jose, president of Real Estate Agents Association of Kerala, said. "The market has been stagnant and we have not seen much activity from NRIs in the past six month," he said.
Typically, July-August and October-December are considered peak seasons for NRI property purchases in India. July-August is summer vacation in the Gulf region –where most of the NRI remittances to Kerala come from. But brokers and developers say there has been tepid response so far this year despite increasing remittances due to the depreciating rupee.
"Normally, property sales pick up once the rupee falls, but that trend is not seen," says SN Raghuchandran Nair, managing director of Kerala-based real estate firm SI Property. As per a World Bank report, $64 billion of remittances poured into India in 2011 due to weakening rupee and robust economic action in the Gulf Co-operation Council (GCC) countries. It is estimated that money sent by emigrants living in the GCC countries such as Oman, the UAE and Saudi Arabia to Kerala is equivalent to the state's budget.
Long Delays
Most NRI investors blame long delays in project delivery for their decision not to invest in property. S Jose, a senior official working with a multinational food processing company in Dubai for 10 years, invested in property in Kochi in 2005 and was promised possession in two years. He is still waiting. "My money has been misused… Now I would only invest if the property is recommended by someone known to me," he says. Industry insiders estimate that around 70% of residential properties in a price bracket of Rs 2,700 to Rs 4,000 per sq ft, under construction across Kerala, are delayed by over two years now. There are some 10,000 such properties. "NRIs are very cautious and are only buying property in projects which are completed or nearing completion. They do not want to risk their money," says PA Varghese , senior VP marketing of Skyline Builders, a Kochi-based real estate company.
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Another issue worrying many NRI investors is high property prices in the state. Increasing NRI investment in the residential segment over the past few years in cities such as Kochi, Thiruvananthapuram and Kozhikode has led to over 20% increase in the capital value annually. Investments have slowed down since October last. Property prices across India have crossed the peak level of 2007, but residential property sales are down anywhere between 10-50 % in the country, mainly due to high property prices and rising cost of borrowing. In Kerala, apartment sales have fallen 20-40 %, diminishing the industry's attraction as a safe investment haven.
"I had earlier decided to invest an additional Rs 80 lakh to purchase property in Kerala, but now I prefer to put the money in the bank," says Zubin J, a Keralite based in Dubai. He had bought an apartment worth Rs 70 lakh in 2005 and is still waiting for its possession. In a high interest rate regime, many banks offer assured return of 9.5% on fixed deposits, making many NRIs park their money in banks than invest in property. George Sebastian, promoter of Kochi-based property brokerage firm Global Properties, says some NRIs are investing in land, coconut grooves and farmhouses rather than apartments.
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CARTICEL® is the brand name for a new surgery to repair knee cartilage. The concept is called "autologous chondrocyte implantation" (ACI) — implanting your own cartilage cells — and it depends on some biotech wizardry owned by Genzyme Corporation. Genzyme is the world's third largest biotech company, and massive biotech companies make a lot of people feel nervous; Genzyme, however, has thus far been an admirable corporate citizen, and is reputedly an excellent company to work for. For better or for worse, it takes Genzyme-scale resources to develop and deliver a technique like ACI — this is Big Medical Science.
Genzyme takes a small sample of your very own cartilage cells (chondrocytes) and grow them into a surplus population of several million spares that a surgeon implants back into your knee. This is somewhat like tossing some grass seed on a rough patch of lawn, only it requires a bunch of folks with advanced degrees, and it costs USD $20,000–35,000 (which will probably come down). Genzyme is still working on the ideal formula for getting the implanted cells to stay put and make new cartilage, and there are probably upgrades in the pipeline. The limitations of Carticel today may not be the limitations of the Carticel of tomorrow. Here's a YouTube video of a surgeon performing the procedure:
For my readers — particularly many of you who have chronic patellofemoral pain syndrome (kneecap pain) — I've got good news and bad news about Carticel and ACI. It's both miraculous and limited.It takes Genzyme-scale resources to develop and deliver a technique like ACI — this is Big Medical Science.
On the bright side, there seems to be little doubt that the Carticel procedure can grow new cartilage. Marvellously, the implanted cells produce fresh, shiny new cartilage! Which is pretty cool! I defy anyone to be unimpressed by that.
Cartilage just doesn't fix easily. In the past, trying to repair degrading cartilage with surgery has involved comparatively primitive methods: polishing it (debridement); trying to stimulate healing with stresses, such as creating tiny fractures in the underlying bone (microfracture), or drilling or abrading it (drilling/abrasion); transplanting chunks of bone and cartilage from somewhere (or someone) else (autograft/allograft). None of these techniques has a particularly good track record. By contrast, implanting cells seems awfully clever and advanced.
And the patient gets "sustained and clinically meaningful improvement in pain and function," according to American Journal of Sports Medicine in January of 2009 (plus other, similar research results reviewed below). It all sounds pretty great, and makes me want to buy GENZ!
On the other hand, as always, you're going to sober up after reading the fine print — as always. And I mean the literal fine print in this case — the Carticel website has a large batch of prominent fine print (is that a contradiction?) on every page, just like drug ads in magazines. And you can learn some pretty interesting things from that small print! Hands down the most interesting is that, although ACI is a treatment for regrowing cartilage, it's not actually intended for arthritis: according to Genzyme Corporation, "It is not indicated for the treatment of cartilage damage associated with generalized osteoarthritis."
Er, really? That's quite a kick in the optimism. This is definitely not what most candidates want to hear. But it's true: by design, ACI is currently intended only for younger patients with cartilage that has been damaged by injury. Why? Rehabilitation is not quick or risk-free. Even with a large batch of fresh chondrocytes, growing cartilage is slooooooow. There are also numerous potential complications, such as overgrowth of the implant — eek, it's alive, and it's taking over my knee! — which are more likely across the board for older patients.Even with a large batch of fresh chondrocytes, growing cartilage is slooooooow.
So this procedure is actually not appropriate for the majority of (older) people with a lot of stubborn anterior knee pain, or even for large numbers of younger patients whose cartilage just isn't rough enough to justify it.
In a word, bummer.
Genzyme's slogan for their own product is remarkably restrained because of the various problems, the worst of which I haven't even brought up yet: "the only treatment that uses your own cells to regenerate your knee cartilage that may offer a long-term solution for a knee cartilage injury." May offer. May. Hmm …
If only wishing made it so.
There have been three prominent studies of chondrocyte implantation this year that I know of, all of them in American Journal of Sports Medicine. The largest was the STAR study, published in January: the Study of the Treatment of Articular Repair, which was the source of the rather glowing results quoted above. Also in January, Kon found it was not only "satisfactory" but produced "better clinical results and sport activity resumption" than the microfracture technique; and Gobbi concludes that the treatment resulted in "a significant decline" in lesions and pain and is a "viable" treatment.
Indeed, ACI looks promising. Results from STAR and Kon et al seem to pretty decisively show that it is almost certainly an improvement over older techniques. However, there is an important caveat that would be easy for the casual student to miss …
All three studies show dramatic improvement in the patients' knee cartilage, but they each also showed that patients did not recover completely from their knee pain. For instance, Gobbi et al's subjects went from an athletic activity (Tegner) score of about 2.5 to about 4.75 — a level of activity that does not even include "recreational sports." We're talking about patients who are barely running or even playing beer league softball.
Or consider Kon et al's subjects, who went from a subjective score of 41 originally to 70 five years later. That's a nice improvement, but still well short of feeling fantastic. How "cured" of a chronic pain would you feel if you were only at 70% of healthy status? Most athletes don't want to operate at much less than "110%" — 70% is still pretty broken as far as most seriously active people are concerned.
The STAR study had similar results: across the board, by several measures, results were a heck of a lot better than nothing, but also well short of full recovery.We're talking about patients who are barely running or even playing beer league softball.
So, patients who were treated with ACI definitely improved, and that is not an unimportant result. But cured? Not hardly! Despite the fact that their cartilage looks much nicer than it did, these patients are still not exactly good to go. Unfortunately, there are still more reasons for concern.
Could the Carticel benefits found by researchers have been in the mind? It seems unlikely at first glance — this is cold, hard surgery we're dealing with, and the results were strongly positive, "statistically significant" and all that. Unfortunately, a placebo effect is not an unreasonable consideration after a closer look. The value of uncontrolled studies of knee pain surgeries (and probably other many other surgeries) should always be suspect in principle, but especially since the surprising discovery (by Moseley) that a surgical placebo can act strongly on patients. For a summary of that fascinating bit of science, see Knee Surgery Sure is Useless!
Kon et al's study was compared only to an older cartilage repair technique, and Kon et al did not compare their patients to anything at all. So neither of these surgeries was compared to a placebo, and that's definitely a problem. Bizarre as it sounds, it's actually quite plausible that a substantial benefits of the surgery were due to placebo.
The STAR study was larger, and it looked only at patients who had already failed to get relief from a previous, non-ACI knee surgery — a kind of compromise. If these patients already had surgery that had no effect, placebo or otherwise, it's safer to assume that the ACI benefits were "real." It's safer, but still not safe: the cool-factor of a fancy new surgery can probably power a superior placebo. Remember, it's been nicely proven that people like the taste of crappy wine when they think it's the expensive stuff — they almost certainly think the price and über-modern cache of ACI means it must be more effective … and that absolutely has an effect on patient hopes, dreams, and placebos.
Although this is no more proven than anything else, it really is possible that the new surgery is no better than the old one: just better at generating a robust placebo effect. Crazy, eh?If people like the taste of crappy wine when they think it's the expensive stuff, then they will also think that the price and über-modern caché of ACI means it must be more effective
An even more obvious explanation for the imperfect results of the surgeries is this: the condition of your cartilage is only one of many factors in anterior knee pain. Patellar bone fatigue and synovial membrane irritation, for instance, are two other major candidates — and likely involved to some degree in many cases of knee pain.
As usual when I write about patellofemoral pain, this information will soon be integrated into my massive tutorial on the subject, and in time it will be available only to my customers.


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balloonSyllabification: bal·loon
Pronunciation: /bəˈlo͞on /
Definition of balloon in English:
1A brightly colored rubber sac inflated with air and then sealed at the neck, used as a children's toy or a decoration.
Example sentences
- It is now colourfully decorated in balloons and streamers.
- The gaily coloured banners and balloons decorating the streets give the impression of an impromptu homecoming party.
- Other similarly coloured decorations included flowers, balloons, the cake and the reception at the Hanover International.
2 (also hot-air balloon) A large bag filled with hot air or gas to make it rise in the air, typically carrying a basket for passengers: he set his sights on crossing the Pacific by balloon
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- Just as an object less dense than water rises to the surface, our balloon filled with hot air rises through the surrounding air.
- The blast of red hot air filled the balloon, lifting them high into the air.
- But all in all, I could understand hot-air balloon aviators' fascination with the sport.
3A rounded outline in which the words or thoughts of characters in a comic strip or cartoon are written.
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- When applicable, Robinson will overlap his word balloons.
- You've mentioned the haiku-like or telegram-like quality of word balloons in comics.
- They're confused as to whether one follows the panels across or down, in what order the word balloons are sequenced, and so forth.
4 (also balloon glass) A large rounded drinking glass, used for brandy and other drinks.
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- Once this concoction is ready, be careful to drink it in without any garnishing in a brandy balloon glass.
- Isn't it nice when your guy opens the door for you and slides the Cabernet Sauvignon into your balloon glass?
- On the table in front of him stood a balloon glass of great capacity filled with white wine.
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1Swell out in a spherical shape; billow: the trousers ballooned out below his waist [with object]: the wind ballooned her sleeves
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- It split down the middle to reveal a light lavender petticoat and the sleeves ballooned out, at the top, and cascaded down, past her hands, ending in a waterfall of silky material.
- The necks of old port bottles, for example, usually have a slightly bulbous form, so that the lower part of the cylindrical cork is weakened where it ballooned out and became cone shaped.
- I was about to breathe a sigh of relief when they ballooned out and started to parachute down in the middle of the courtyard.
swell (out), puff out/up, bulge (out), bag, belly (out), fill (out), billow (out), distend
1.1(Of an amount of money) increase rapidly: the company's debt has ballooned in the last five years (as adjective ballooning) ballooning government spending
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- The amount has ballooned from millions to billions.
- The country's capital stock ballooned to reach a level that the economy could not support.
- Broad money supply has ballooned $943 billion during the past 52 weeks.
1.2(Of a person) increase rapidly and dramatically in weight: I had ballooned on the school's starchy diet
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- She had ballooned up a good thirty pounds; her ankles were swollen and just carrying around her huge stomach made her ill.
- I unwrapped the towels to discover my baby had ballooned up nicely.
- She freely told Stevenson her figure had ballooned after she stopped taking a dietary supplement.
2Travel by hot-air balloon: he is famous for ballooning across oceans
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- The shuttle launch gantry is equipped with seven 1,200-foot-long sliding wires, each attached to a basket similar to those used for hot-air ballooning.
- He told me that the early morning is the ideal time for this sport as the air is very calm and so this is probably the best time to go hot air ballooning.
- They can try horse riding, hot air ballooning, jet skiing, windsurfing and Bill and Aine can even get glammed up for a night in a casino.
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Resembling a balloon; puffed: a flouncy balloon curtain
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- There were silky balloon sleeve blouses and blouson jackets, with emphasised shoulders all beautifully printed art nouveau style.
- A cozy knit tunic is styled with a round neckline with trim and short balloon sleeve.
- Zeller created a luxurious European suite in one of the bedrooms with toile wall covering, balloon drapes and a wrought-iron headboard.
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November – December 2014
In this exposé, an intrepid group of Florida farmworkers battle to defeat the $4 trillion global supermarket industry through their ingenious Fair Food program, which partners with growers and retailers to improve working conditions for farm laborers in the United States.
There is more interest in food these days than ever, yet there is very little interest in the hands that pick it. Farmworkers, the foundation of our fresh food industry, are routinely abused and robbed of wages. In extreme cases they can be beaten, sexually harassed or even enslaved – all within the borders of the United States.
Food Chains reveals the human cost in our food supply and the complicity of large buyers of produce like fast food and supermarkets. Fast food is big, but supermarkets are bigger – earning $4 trillion globally. They have tremendous power over the agricultural system. Over the past 3 decades they have drained revenue from their supply chain leaving farmworkers in poverty and forced to work under subhuman conditions. Yet many take no responsibility for this.
The narrative of the film focuses on an intrepid and highly lauded group of tomato pickers from Southern Florida – the Coalition of Immokalee Workers or CIW – who are revolutionizing farm labor. Their story is one of hope and promise for the triumph of morality over corporate greed – to ensure a dignified life for farm workers and a more humane, transparent food chain.
Food Chains premiered at the 2014 Berlin Film Festival and screened subsequently at the Tribeca Film Festival and Guadalajara Film Festival. Food Chains will be released nationwide November 21st. The film's Executive Producers include Eva Longoria and Eric Schlosser.
Directed by Sanjay Rawal, 83min. 2014, U.S.A.
Saturday, November 29 at 1pm – Documentary in Spanish Language / Sabado, 29 de noviembre a la 1pm, el documental sera en español.
November 28th
Gerardo Reyes Chavez (CIW Member & Film Subject)
Sanjay Rawal (Director, Food Chains)
Maisie Ganzier (Bon Apetit Management Company)
November 29th
Gerardo Reyes Chavez (CIW Member & Film Subject)
Samuel Orozco (Radio Bilingue)
Gerardo Reyes Chavez (CIW Member & Film Subject)
Smriti Keshari (Producer, Food Chains)
November 30th
Gerardo Reyes Chavez (CIW Member & Film Subject)
Sanjay Rawal (Director, Food Chains)
Food Chains Teaser from Sanjay Rawal on Vimeo.
Join us Friday, November 28th for a one-night-only screening of two classic Wes Anderson films, Rushmore and the Royal Tenenbaums, both shown in glorious 35mm. Presented by Spoke Art gallery, this special event closes out their month long Wes Anderson themed art exhibit, on view at their Sutter street gallery from November 1st – 22nd.
A selection of limited edition posters will be available for purchase at this event.
Max Fischer is a precocious 15-year-old whose reason for living is his attendance at Rushmore, a private school where he's not doing well in any of his classes, but where he's the king of extracurricular activities – from being in the beekeeping society to writing and producing plays, there's very little after school he doesn't do. His life begins to change, however, when he finds out he's on academic probation, and when he stumbles into love with Miss Cross, a pretty teacher of the elementary school at Rushmore. Added to the mix is his friendship with Herman Blume, wealthy industrialist and father to boys who attend the school, and who also finds himself attracted to Miss Cross. Max's fate becomes inextricably tied to this odd love triangle, and how he sets about resolving it is the story in the film.
Staring Jason Schwartzman, Bill Murray, Olivia Williams
Directed by Wes Anderson, 93min. 1998, U.S.A.
Royal Tenenbaums
Three grown prodigies, all with a unique genius of some kind, and their mother are staying at the family household. Their father, Royal had left them long ago, and comes back to make things right with his family.
Staring: Gene Hackman, Anjelica Huston, Bens Stiller, Gwyneth Paltrow, Luke Wilson, Orwen Wilson, Bill Murray…
Directed by Wes Anderson, 110min. 2001, U.S.A
Pop music tackles tough subjects like war, racism and inequality. Music evolves with the times, helping frame our vision of the world. So why, when Christmas rolls around, are we still stuck roasting tired old chestnuts with Nat King Cole? Are there any songs that embrace our modern, eclectic,conflicted, but still beloved Christmas celebration? Is there no music to inspire our slightly cranky, somewhat jaded, yet sincerely searching souls?
There is! But these scrappy slices of vinyl can be hard to find. Jingle Bell Rocks! will take you on a trippy, cinematic sleighride to unearth to unearth twelve of the most amazing Christmas songs ever recorded. With titles like, "Green Chri$tma$," "Santa Claus Was a Black Man" or "Merry Christmas Someone" these funny, sad, satirical, and scathing songs explore the flipside of the Yuletide: racial inequality, religious freedom, nuclear war, family angst, conspicuous consumption, or just the yearning sadness of being alone at the happiest time of the year.
Jingle Bell Rocks! follows Christmas music junkie Mitchell Kezin as he unveils twelve of his most cherished, alternative Christmas songs. Hitting the road to uncover the stories inside the grooves, Mitchell hangs with his holiday heroes — musicians, deejays, record execs, radio hosts, composers, critics and fellow collectors — who share his passion. NYC's hip hop archivist & music writer Bill Adler, Chicago rock promoter Andy Cirzan and LA Water Works laborer Tim Sewell are three of the world's legendary Christmas music fanatics who will open up their hearts and their astonishing collections.
We'll feature exclusive conversations with the artists behind the music: from hiphop legend Joseph "Rev Run" Simmons of RUN DMC, to late 60s folk pop family The Free Design, from alt pop chanteuse Erin Moran of A Girl Called Eddy to "Schoolhouse Rock" creator & genuine hillbilly bebopper Bob Dorough, who wrote and sang the caustic "Blue Xmas (To Whom It May Concern)" — a landmark collaboration with jazz giant Miles Davis. Amid this merry mayhem, we'll hear irreverent and insightful commentary from figures including L.A. DJ and musicologist Dr. Demento, and Canadian radio legend David Wisdom.
Through rollicking live performances, intimate interviews and a kaleidoscope of touching and kooky archive, we'll journey deep into the Christmas cosmos, uncovering the remarkable stories behind twelve of the weirdest, wildest, most poignant Christmas songs you've never heard. Equal parts social history, pop culture pilgrimage and revealing character study, Jingle Bell Rocks! follows this motley crew of merry misfits as they confront the Christmas music mainstream, reinventing the seasonal soundtrack for the 21st century.
January 2010: In the buckle of the Bible Belt, 10 churches were burned to the ground in five weeks, igniting the largest criminal investigation in East Texas history.
Filmmaker Theo Love in person!! No stone is left unturned and even Satan himself is considered a suspect in this gripping investigation of a community terrorized from the inside- out. Families are torn apart and communities of faith struggle with forgiveness and justice in this incredible true-story. LITTLE HOPE WAS ARSON is a feature length documentary produced by the Collaborate and Goodnight Smoke. The film delivers edge-of-your-seat suspense and mystery while re-defining the concepts of church, family and justice in this captivating East Texas community.
Directed by Theo Love, 71min. 2013, U.S.A.
Little Hope Was Arson Trailer from Theo Love on Vimeo.
"I felt that the film was a triumph—moving, funny, sweet, eccentric—and the reaction from the audience, well, it's the kind of thing that makes you feel like you are smiling with your heart. Two people who I spoke with were moved to tears. How many rock docs can you say that about?" - DANGEROUS MINDS
PULP find fame on the world stage in the 1990's with anthems including 'Common People' and 'Disco 2000′. 25 years (and 10 million album sales) later, they return to Sheffield for their last UK concert. Giving a career best performance exclusive to the film, the band share their thoughts on fame, love, mortality – & car maintenance. Director Florian Habicht (Love Story) weaves together the band's personal offerings with dream-like specially-staged tableaux featuring ordinary people recruited on the streets of Sheffield. PULP is a music-film like no other – by turns funny, moving, life-affirming & (occasionally) bewildering.
90min, Directed by Florian Habicht, 2014, U.S.A.
After finding that his shower isn't working just when he needs to get ready for an important ceremony, our narrator decides to set off in search of a public bathhouse in Tehran. His explorations become the basis for a film that examines the customs, history, and art of the Iranian bathhouse. More so, the film examines how the people of Iran view traditional cultural practices.
Mehdi Shabani was born in Tehran in 1975. In addition to his artistic career as a filmmaker and writer, Mehdi's past jobs have included being a taxi driver, bookseller, carpenter, cook, manager and more.
Directed by Mehdi Shabani, 52min. 2010, Iran
Filmmaker Jason Sussberg in person for Q&A after the screening!!
"An absorbing documentary… top ten most anticipated films at SXSW"
live forever… or die trying.
Two eccentric scientists struggle to create eternal youth in a world they call "blind to the tragedy of old age." As they battle their own aging and suffer the loss of loved ones, their scientific quest ultimately becomes personal.
Bill Andrews is a lab biologist and famed long-distance runner racing against the ultimate clock. Aubrey de Grey is a genius theoretical biologist who conducts his research with a beer in hand. They differ in style and substance, but are united in their common crusade: to cure aging or die trying. They publicly brawl with the old guard of biology who argue that curing aging is neither possible nor desirable. As Andrews and de Grey battle their own aging and suffer the loss of loved ones, their journeys toward life without end ultimately become personal.
Crime Wave is a 1985 film made by Winnipeg-based filmmaker John Paizs shot between 1984 and 1986.The film is an homage to late 1940s-early 1950s "color crime pictures". Paizs plays Steven Penny, a struggling screenwriter who lives above the garage of a suburban family, and begins typing each night from the moment the street lamp comes on. Everything we learn about the character comes from Kim (Eva Kovacs), the family's daughter, who has a schoolgirl crush on him, as Penny never utters a word in the entire film.
Steven is able to write beginnings and endings, but not middles, and we are treated to some of these amusing endings and rather repetitive beginnings that introduce several characters from various geographic regions to settle upon the film's hero "from the North".
The film is designed to emulate the look and feel of educational films from the period.Randolph Peters includes a flute and glockenspiel-based score emulating such films (the film concludes with a song based on this theme that discusses the possibility of Steven and Kim getting married sung by a small 1950s-style pop chorus). When Steven Penny is brought into some shady deals, the film takes on more of a neo noir look and sound, inflected with surrealism. One of the film's signature images is of the street lamp smashed over Steven's head, which he wears home.
A young director intent on making "the greatest color crime movie ever" can't seem to finish his script–he has a beginning and an end, but he can't quite figure out the middle. The daughter of his landlord, excited to have a real "movie person" living nearby, tries to help by putting him in touch with a man who wants to collaborate on a script–the strange "Dr. Jolly".
Directed by John Paizs, 80min., 1985, Canada
On April 20, 2010, communities throughout the Gulf Coast of the United States were devastated by the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon, a state-of-the-art, offshore oil-drilling rig operated by BP in the Gulf of Mexico. The blast killed 11 of the rig's 126 crewmembers and injured many more, setting off a fireball that could be seen 35 miles away. After two days ablaze, the Deepwater Horizon sank, causing the largest offshore oil spill in American history. The spill flowed unabated for almost three months, dumping hundreds of millions of gallons of oil in the ocean, shutting down the local fishing industry, polluting the fragile ecosystem and raising serious questions about the safety of continued offshore drilling.
In the thought-provoking new documentary The Great Invisible, Peabody Award-winning documentarian Margaret Brown travels to small towns and major cities in Alabama, Louisiana and Texas to explore the fallout of the disaster on the people of the region. Eyewitnesses reconstruct the spill and its aftermath in their own words, creating a vivid picture of the deadly accident and its consequences. Brown treats her subjects with respect and sensitivity as they provide first-hand accounts of the tragedy from the moment of the explosion to its still unfolding repercussions on the region and its residents.
Interweaving personal stories with insight from industry insiders and news footage of the disaster and its aftermath, Brown creates an intimate and emotional look at the many people still haunted by the Deepwater Horizon explosion long after the story has faded from the front page. The first comprehensive overview of the incident and its aftermath, The Great Invisible brings a new and unique perspective to the ongoing tension between the haves and the have-nots, exploring the crisis through the eyes of oil-industry executives, survivors, and local residents who are left to pick up the pieces while the world moves on.
Directed by Margaret Brown, 92min, 2014, U.S.A.


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Tuesday the 27th of January 1651.
Council of Officers Petition.
Ambassy from Sweden.
Act of Oblivion.
Commissioner of Assessment.
THE House being informed, That divers Officers of
the Army were at the Door, they were called in.
And being come to the Bar, Commissary General
Whalley did inform the House, That, by Command of
the general Council of Officers of the Army, he and the
rest of the Officers were commanded to attend the Parliament, with a Tender of their humble Desires.
And thereupon presented a Petition: Which, after the
Petitioners were withdrawn, was read; and was intituled,
" The humble Petition of the Council of Officers of the
Army sitting at Whitehall."
Resolved, That this Petition be taken into Consideration on This-day-sevennight, the first Business; nothing
to intervene.
The Translate in English of the Letters of Credence
from the Queen of Sweden was this Day read.
Ordered, That these Letters of Credence be referred to
the Council of State, to consider of them; and to present
their Opinion thereupon to the Parliament, for their further Consideration; and to report the same forthwith.
The House this Day took into Debate the Act of
Oblivion and General Pardon.
Mr. Say offers from the Committee appointed to read
over the Bill and Amendments, several Particulars to the
The Question being put, That these Words, viz. " the
Fifth and Twentieth Part due and payable by Delinquents," be added in the Third Folio of Amendments;
The House was divided:
The Yeas went forth.
So it passed with the Negative.
An Amendment being offered to the 27th Folio, and
the third Line, in these Words, " and also excepted all
other Offences in the unlawful buying, selling, exchanging, or melting down of any current Gold or Silver Coins
of England, or of any Gold or Silver Bullion, for which
any Information was depending in the Court of Exchequer."
The Question being propounded, That the Time be
" the First of December 1651;"
And the Question being put, That this Question be
now put;
It passed with the Affirmative.
And the main Question being put;
It was Resolved, That the Time be the First of December One thousand Six hundred Fifty-and-one.
Resolved, That this Debate be taken up To-morrow
Morning, the first Business; nothing to intervene.
Ordered, That Mr. John Key, the Mayor of Hull for
the Time being, be added a Commissioner for the monthly
Assessment of 90,000£. a Month for the Army, for the
Town and County of Kingston upon Hull: And that he
be, and is hereby, impowered to act therein, as a Commissioner, accordingly.
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Battlefords RCMP are looking into an incidence of arson at the Government House site south of Battleford.
Two vehicles were observed leaving the area at the time of the March 24 fire. Police are still looking for a car and a truck. Police are waiting on a witness account for a detailed description of the vehicles. Anyone who knows of these vehicles or were passengers in the vehicles, are urged to come forward to assist with the police investigation.
Property was damaged March 30 at a residence on the 1400 block of 92nd Street in North Battleford.
Tools were stolen from a work site near the North Battleford exhibition grounds April 9. The business logo is stencilled on the tools.
April 12, a black Dodge Journey SUV parked on the 200 block of 28th Street in Battleford was hit by an object causing damage.
Anyone with information regarding these or any other crime is asked to contact the Battlefords RCMP or Crime Stoppers.
B�fords Most Wanted
Michael Delorme, 22: assault.
Anthony Whitstone, 21: assault; breach of recognizance.
Dmitri Tyrone Cappo, 19: possession for the purpose of trafficking; possessing proceeds of crime; breach of undertaking.
Robin Edward Sample, 39: aggravated assault; possession of weapon for a dangerous purpose; failure to comply with an undertaking.
Brian Dylan Kiskotagan aka Daniel Payachew, 26: possessing a weapon dangerous to public peace; carrying a concealed weapon; possessing a weapon while prohibited.
Lawrence Gordon Foster, 39: false pretenses.


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Orlando police arrest robbery suspect after chase
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Orlando police say they arrested a robbery and attempted carjacking suspect early Sunday morning near the Metro Place Apartments on South Kirkman Road.
Officers were called out to the apartment complex just after 3:00 a.m. A female victim says she was robbed by a man with gun and had her car keys stolen, as she got out of her car.
Officers say they located the suspect, 24-year-old Michael Donegal, and pursued him on foot. They chased him through the apartment complex and caught him a short time later in 800 block of Westgate Drive.
Investigators say the victim was not injured and officers recovered the suspect's firearm and the victim's keys.
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Not enough traction yo!
A bicycle with a Batman Tumbler looking sized wheel on it. lol
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