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Things are buzzing over at the Audubon Conservation Education Center and it's not just the flying insects.
Two new programs are launching next month at the center at 7026 S. Billings Blvd. The Fledgling Nature Preschool starts Sept. 8, the first nature preschool in Billings. And starting Sept. 14, the whole family can visit the center and explore the natural world every Sunday from 2 to 4 p.m.
Funding for both programs will get a boost from the Evening Under the Big Sky fundraiser, set for Sept. 6 from 5:30 to 10 p.m. in the tent on the grounds of the center.
The fundraiser includes dinner prepared by chefs from Billings, a no-host bar, live music from Kemmick and Friends, and live silent auctions, offering up paintings by Nick Lamb, Loren Entz and Sarah Morris and a South African safari.
Center director Darcie Howard has been working with community members, volunteers, and staff and board members to bring new features to the center, which is situated on 54 acres of reclaimed land along the Yellowstone River.
On Sundays, a naturalist will be available to provide information and give tours. And, equipment, including fishing poles, will be available for families to use. Once a month, volunteers and staff will assist families with canoeing on the largest pond at the center. All family events are free and open to all.
Howard is excited about the new Fledgling Nature Preschool, which will start with six children between age 3 and 5. The goal is to get those kids outside experiencing the natural world 80 percent of the time.
"This is a test to see how the community likes it," Howard said. "It is something that I ultimately would like to have where we are doing a full-day preschool option."
The full-day option would require renovations to the existing building so Howard said the launch this fall will help determine public interest before they take that initiative. There are openings for preschool classes, which will meet Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Meanwhile, planning for a natural play area is underway.
"The goal would be to have the community put it together on Earth Day 2015," Howard said.
The natural play area will recreate a walk through a wooded area along the Yellowstone River.
"Having a designated spot for the kids to explore makes people feel safer," Howard said. "Parents feel more comfortable to let them climb that tree or hop on that rock in a natural setting."
Money raised at the Evening Under the Big Sky will benefit all programs and a portion of the live auction will allow patrons to donate money to specific programs.
The center operates with three full-time staff members, including Howard, two permanent part-time staff members who work 20 hours per week, and five part-time teachers.
The center, which offers outdoor classrooms and an experienced staff of naturalists and educators, provides after-school and school programs throughout the year. The building was constructed in 2000 and the surrounding area, once the site of gravel pits, was restored to natural habitats with much of the work accomplished by community volunteers. The center relies on donations to support its education programs and efforts to restore wildlife habitat.
Over the last year, at least 4,400 people visited the center. Ninety percent of those visitors were between the ages of 4 and 12.


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In "Benefactors" which came to the Atkinson last evening, Michael Frayn has attempted nothing less than to show, in dramatic terms, the subtle and unpredictable play of light and dark across people's lives, and all the grays in between.
While the current production staged by the indispensable Michael Blakemore is not quite as fine tuned as last season's London original, Frayn's ever-shifting interplay of high and low spirits remains a fascinating and affecting exercise.
Two couples, David and Jane (Sam Waterston and Glenn Close), and Colin and Sheila (Simon Jones and Mary Beth Hurt) intermingle over the span of a dozen years on Michael Annals' almost bare stage, half warm brown wood and the other dark gray, with a few doorways for hasty entraces and exits.
Jane reflects on the cloud that began to block the sunlight 12 years before, and we return to the time when David, an amgbitious young architect, is excited about a plan for razing a shabby section of South London in order to erect new housing. Because of one thind and another - the high cost, access denials, other obstacles raised by the city council - the project is finally abandoned. But not until the lives of these couples, now grown so much older, have altered in unexected ways.
Colin and Sheila, who seem like close friends of David and Jane since they're always dropping in on and sponging off them, are actually a disorienting pair. As David's project appears headed for success, Colin, a part-time journalist, beguns a cynical effort to destroy it by starting a movement to save the area. He actually moves into one of the old houses as tenants are being evicted, and while he is squatting there, Jane drifts into the employ of a rehabilitation unit operating elsewhere in London, placing her at odds with David.
But these are merely the physical shifts of current. Frayn is more interested in what lies between the actions and spoken words, in the silent changes of attitude that in time make people, even people remaining together in a kind of comfort, different from their former selves.
Close, Waterston and Jones all give efficient and often incisive performances, but it is Hurt, as the seemingly defenseless and incompetent Sheila, who most lifts Frayn's astonishing play to its aching surface.
It is small wonder that Frayn has spent so much time translating and redefining Chekhov (his "Wild Honey," due here next season, is a reshaping of a early unpublished Chekhov work). For Frayn's work - excepting the farce "Noises off" - contains that same intermingling of humor and rue that can (though not in "Benefactors") lead to tragedy. We leave "Benefactors" quite suddenly, relationships changed but not startlingly so unless we look back, say, a dozen years or so.
Not for the first time I find myself wondering what a Michael Frayn play is really about. The wondering this time is occasioned by last night's arrival at the Brooks Atkinson Theater of his London hit Benefactors.
I imagine this four-in-hand study of the shifting and intermingling emotional relationships between two couples may well enjoy the same success in New York as it had in London.
It is, of course, awfully English, so it may even have the added thrill of armchair tourism for this country, and Frayn has pinned down his even carefully named people with seeming accuracy.
David Kitzinger (Sam Waterston) is a rising architect. Jane, his wife (Glenn Close), is an anthropologist, whi helps him secretarially and also on the city-planning, human-resources aspects of his work.
Their friends, Colin Molyneux (Simon Jones), a not very successful journalist, and his wife Sheila (Mary Beth Hurt), a former nurse now simply a mildly incompetent housekeeper, are almost entirely dependent upon the Kitzingers.
The Molyneuxs and their children have become virtually part of a Kitzinger extended family. Yet the relationship is more symbiotic that might seem on the surface.
While the Molyneuxs may be parasites, they repay their hosts, their benefactors, in emotional terms. After all, each couple gives the other something to talk about.
But there are hidden depths lurking beneath out four people, even as they carefully perform roles, specially sepeceted and adopted, for the games they play.
The depths are charged and explode when David gets an assignment from the local housing authority to redevelop a slum site in South London, and decides that the only way he can achieve the desired zoning density of 200 persons per acre is to build up, skywards.
He conceives a plan involving two slab blocks 50 stories high, which would be the tallest housing development ever conceived in Europe.
Colin opposes the plan - largely because he enviously hates his old college chum, and can see that the scheme runs against current popular opinion.
More interestingly, Jane, for purely humanistic reasons, favoring the rehabilitation of old neigborhoods rather than their total rebuilding, finds herself, also, more and more in opposition to her husband.
At the end, the characters - "middle-aged children" someone calls them - have learned more about themselves than we have. Yet they have scarcely changed, merely interreacted predictably with trite circumstances.
At one point Frayn mentions Ibsen's The Master Builder, and it may be that, like Ibsen, in, say, An Enemy of the People, he is trying to contrast private action with public morality. But he doesn't do that.
His customary flair for theatricality here creaks just a little. The Pirandellian asides to the audience, often with the rest of the cast caught in a cinematic freeze-frame, and his characters' Rashomon-like views of differing perceptions of reality, are altogether too contrived.
Contrivance - and mannerism aping style - is also very much at the heart of Michael Blakemore's ceremonious staging, studded with studied performances that might have limped straight out the Masterpiece Theater.
Miss Close is fine, far more spontaneous than the others, and, as a result more vibrant. The other performacne of real note - deliverately and ornately measured - is Mr. Jones as the loathsome, stygian Colin, a fallen Lucifer with no redeeming social value.
His is, by a country mile, Frayn's best observed character - a new-style Elizabethan malcontent for a new Elizabethan age.
Mr. Waterston is quite convinving as the self-duped David. he crinkles both his eyes and his voice remarkably like Alan Bates, until he is almost seems to be providing a lively but puzzling caricature of that distinguished English actor.
Neverthless he is not bad, any more than is Mary Beth Hurt as the State Registered Nurse and best friend who falls silently in love with him. Miss Hurt and Mr.Blackmore are exceptionally good in registering the nurse's social differences with the other three.
The scenery by Michael Annals and the costumes by John Dunn seem the same as in London, as does the play.
Well, it is certainly good to have some kind of social drama on Broadway - but one wonders whether the drama is all the relevant or its characters all that immediate.
But it should be - given a little critical luck - a snob success, or succes d'estime, as they prefer to say in the business.
When last heard from, in the uproarious ''Noises Off,'' the English playwright Michael Frayn was demonstrating how the clockwork machinery of farce falls crazily apart when careless actors lose their props, drink too much and tumble down stairs. ''Benefactors,'' Mr. Frayn's equally dazzling new play at the Atkinson, would seem a complete departure: It's a comedy only in the darkest sense.
Yet the two works are connected -and not only by the extraordinary talent of their author or by the superbly acted productions, both under the unerring direction of Michael Blakemore, that have brought them to New York. As ''Noises Off'' was set within the perfect order of theatrical farce, so ''Benefactors'' unfolds within the idealized order of modern liberal society: the setting is a late-1960's London community of happy families, good neighbors and utopian political credos. But in this world - the real world, not the theater - it's a matter for heartbreak, not laughter, when people get careless. It is, as one character explains, ''like one of those bad dreams when you suddenly realize something has gone wrong.'' What comes crashing down in ''Benefactors'' are marriages, principles and, most unsettling of all, man's plaintive and often sustaining faith in personal and social change.
''People - that's what wrecks all our plans,'' says Mr. Frayn's protagonist, David (Sam Waterston), a well-meaning architect who dreams of ''building the new world we're all going to be living in.'' ''Benefactors'' tells of how David designs a redevelopment project for a South London slum neighborhood known as Basuto Road - only to discover that practicalities breed compromise (''In the end, it's not art, it's mathematics'') and that the beneficiaries of his scheme don't even want the ''New York-style skyscrapers'' he envisions for them.
The play's story also concerns David's marriage to Jane (Glenn Close), a cool and capable anthropologist, and the couple's relationship to their neighbors and presumed best friends, Colin (Simon Jones) and Sheila (Mary Beth Hurt). Colin, a hack journalist who joins with the Basuto Road protesters, may want to destroy his old pal David; Sheila, a former nurse, loves David from a lonely, unacknowledged distance.
Such is Mr. Frayn's prowess as a theatrical architect that ''Benefactors'' has as many levels as David's projected housing towers. This is not a problem play about urban planning, and neither is it a domestic drama about a would-be extramarital love triangle. Told in flashback 10 or 15 years after the events it describes -and narrated, in turn, by each of the four characters - this prismatic work circumscribes the disillusionment of an era, no less American than English, in which grandiose dreams of a universally benevolent democracy died. ''Basuto Road. There's the whole history of human ideas in that one name,'' says David. Basuto Road - which dates back to the 19th-century, when England still had its African empire - eventually stands as a comic graveyard not merely for the vanished imperial West but also for the dashed hopes of the enlightened welfare state that replaced it.
Mr. Frayn dramatizes his dour view of civilization in both public and private configurations. As the title indicates, everyone in ''Benefactors'' wants to help other people. Although on opposite sides of the skyscraper debate, both David and Colin see themselves as helping the city and the poor. As nearly inseparable neighbors, each couple presumes to be helping to prop up the rocky marriage of the other. But Mr. Frayn upholds the principle, as Colin states it, ''that other people's lives are at least as complicated as your own.'' Is David really trying to build a better world in Basuto Road, or is he merely erecting (pun intended by the playwright) a monument to his own ego? In protesting David's plans, is Colin fighting for social good or venting his jealousy at a more successful friend? Which marriage, if either, is really unhappy? Which characters are really the do-gooders, which the destroyers?
The answers to these and other questions keep changing, never to be firmly resolved. The evening's final image - of David overhearing a poor Basuto Road woman laughing, but having no idea of ''what she was laughing about'' - is emblematic of the entire work. Just as the schemes of social reformers can fail because the reformers don't understand the people they want to help, so Mr. Frayn's two couples constantly misjudge each other, naively mistaking evil for good, selfishness for charity. The characters kill with kindness as often as they help, and, for all their daily intimacies, remain strangers. In separate incidents, Sheila and Jane each get a chance to sneak around and examine the private nooks of the other's house; both find their best friends' dwellings as mysterious as if the families had never met.
In favor of benefaction but despairing of its attainment, Mr. Frayn aches for all four characters and for the unseen inhabitants of Basuto Road. The engineering term ''progressive collapse'' - a potential calamity in high-rise structures -carries a sad double meaning throughout the evening. Mr. Frayn doesn't see society or his characters progressing. At the end we do hear much talk about rehabilitation and change - and, indeed, in the plot sense, all four lives (as well as ''public opinion'' about urban development) have been dramatically altered. But the people haven't so much changed as adjusted (with or without psychiatric help).
''Life goes around like a wheel,'' says Colin. ''People don't know what they want until they've got it,'' says Sheila. According to David, even ''new and amazing'' architecture leaves a site looking ''the same as before.'' Its allusions to ''The Master Builder'' notwithstanding, ''Benefactors'' is particularly reminiscent of Chekhov (of whom Mr. Frayn is a foremost translator). The evening's chipper ending, in which survival and wisdom prove to be life's pyrrhic victories, is about as happy as that of ''The Sea Gull.''
The writing in ''Benefactors'' is as meticulously conceived in a witty, poetic vein as the farcical mechanics were in ''Noises Off.'' The imagery of the opening monologue - with its delicate play of clouds and sunlight, present and past - establishes the kaleidoscopic method used throughout. Further enhancement is provided by Martin Aronstein's quicksilver lighting, which conducts its own precise drama of light and dark on the stylized Michael Annals set depicting the two interlocking households. And Mr. Blakemore, as always, brings amazingly modest ingenuity to the text. Although Act I still feels a bit attenuated, the recast New York ''Benefactors'' seems to exceed the London version in speed and warmth.
Miss Close is at her most commanding as the strongest of the four characters, the feet-on-the-ground wife of a head-in-the-clouds architect. Striking just the right balance of heartiness and chill, the actress makes us see the ''blackness'' she shares with the destructive neighbor Colin, whom Mr. Jones plays with immaculately sinister wit. As seemingly the most fragile of the quartet, the lovesick and loveless Sheila, Miss Hurt gives what may be the performance of her stage career: Her mousy, awkward Englishwoman, poised constantly between airy fits of giggles and wrenching sobs, is as wounding a comic creation as the antithetical Southern siren the actress memorably played in ''Crimes of the Heart.''
Mr. Waterston is at first woolly in his Englishness, but his performance reaches a brilliant pitch in Act II as David ceases to be a ''bemused neutral observer'' of the conflicts around him and starts to become their victim. By the end, he is the embodiment of a devastating play: Once a bright-eyed young man fired by magical visions of saving humanity, Mr. Waterston's architect gradually slouches with age and disappointment, his spirit spent by the exhaustion of saving no one but himself.


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Me and my girlfriend recently moved into an apartment. we moved in to the top floor thinking it would be alittle more quiet. We've been here two months now and have allready had to call the police atleast 5 times due to people in our building and around our building getting into actual physical fights. Just tonight there was a brawl outside at 1:30 in the morning consisting of 15-25 people. Unfourtantely our neighbor directly next to us is always some how involved. I have considered trying to find a way to get out of my lease early without having to pay the almost $2000.00 early termination fee. Anyone out there think I have a case here? I mean i just cant take a whole year of being awoke at 1:30am because of a fight and having my girlfriend fearing for her safety when i'm not around. Anyone have any advice?? |
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- Posted by lazygardens (My Page) on Wed, Jul 6, 05 at 9:19
You probably have a case ... if you have been notifying the landlord of the problems. Do not just move out - there are legal ways to bail out. 1. Get a copy of your state (and maybe city) laws about residential landlord and tenant stuff. READ THEM! Make sure you do ALL the notifications correctly, by the correct method, with the correct timing. (that's what kills tenants in small claims court - they just stop paying rent, or bug out - when they actually have a valid complaint). See what the landlord's responsibilities are about keeping tenants under control ... and under what circumstances tenants can be evicted for brawling and out of control "guests". 2. See what the laws say about reasons for breaking a lease. The landlord is usually responsible for "quiet enjoyment", and failure to evict a tenant that is habitually involved in brawls might qualify as failing to provide you with what he promised. 3. Get copies of the police reports (ask the cops) for all these brawls ... if the next door neighbor is involved, etc. Go back to a year or so before you moved in, to see if it's a long-standing pattern. Ask for all calls to the apartment's address. 4. Notify the landlord of all the brawls and calls, in detail with times etc. - in writing, certified, return reciept requested, with a copy kept for your records - that you are not getting the "quiet enjoyment:" or whatever you thought you would get. If you do it calmly, in writing, and can back up the claims with police reports (tape the noise a time or two, too) ... your chances are good that a justice court judge will back you - forcing you to live in unsafe circumstances is not what laws are for. |
- Posted by chinacat_sunflower (My Page) on Wed, Jul 6, 05 at 11:24
garden's totally on the ball with this one... you have legal recourse, and it's a lOT cheaper to jump through a few hoops for the bureaucrats than it is to face charges brought against YOU, eh? in the meantime, while you're taking notes and gathering documentation... adopt the buddy system for your girlfriend, keep the apartment door locked, and check what the legal parameters for pepper spray is in your town- it won't stop a determined psycho, but it will knock most drunken nimrods on their mewling ass... and have a talk with your girlfriend about what is an is not reason to panic- you are in as much danger as she is,from the sound of it- more of a 'caught up in it' danger than a 'targetting' danger... but it's still scary if you're not used to it. |
well it happened again later that night everyone. as soon as i went to bed i heard a very loud BANG BANG BANG on my neighbors door. This was around 3:30 mind you, and then i hear someone doing burnouts in the parking lot and two women screaming and yelling and two guys screaming and yelling and swinging at eachother and so i proceeded to call officer friendly again and of course they got here after the main culprits took off because they heard the sirens blasting. But thankfully since it was the 4th time the cops had been called out here last night the police officers were pissed and were able to catch the guy in my building sitting outside all drunk up and cracked out. So the officers made it clear if they had to return to this place again last night they were making some arrests and they didnt care if he was involved or not, (since he convientely had been around all 4 occurances last night but told police he was simply "breaking things up") So thankfully i was able to fall asleep around ohhhh 4:45am or so. |
Another way to document what is going on, is to call the landlord (or the main office) every time something is happening. Call back to let them know that the police have been notified. Call back to let them know that x hours have passed and it's still happening. Even hold the phone to the window and let him/her hear what's going on outside if there is a fight. Your situation sounds very severe and dangerous, unlike most of us who are just pissed about noise at annoying times. All of the calls to the landlord will be an indication of the persistance of the problem. It may also enlighten and annoy the landlord enough that they might take steps to do something about the crazy neighbor. You might also consider giving the landlord's contact info to the police (if you have to call again), saying that the landlord wanted to be contacted if there were any disturbances from his/building. (I have been kept awake late nights on many thurs-sat, but it has usually been from a neighboring building and not my own, so all I could do was call the cops when 60 underage drinkers were spilling out into the street at 3am.) |
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Bike lanes will be spared but other 'pet projects' will get the axe, Vancouver mayoral candidate, Suzanne Anton, tells the press.
2011 Vancouver Municipal Election: During a rare burst of September sunshine outside Vancouver's highbrow Mink Chocolate Café this morning, 2011 mayoral candidate Suzanne Anton unveiled another peek at her Non-Partisan Alliance (NPA) party's proposed City Hall mandate. Anton, surrounded by fellow NPA candidates, announced that as part of her "common sense platform," her administration would return tax dollars to Vancouverites, cap city spending, reasess the small business tax regime and put an end to Vision Vancouver's "pet projects."
"In 2008, Gregor Robertson inherited a 15 million dollar surplus from the NPA. Current estimates at the second quarter of 2011 project the Vancouver surpluses will exceed seven and a half million dollars. These dollars should go back to you."
The money would be reimbursed by limiting property tax increases, she said, adding that the NPA would keep housing taxes at "inflation or better" and end the "the bottomless ATM of taxpayers" currently sitting in the council lobby.
Vision staffers were quick to respond to today's announcement, challenging Anton's record on city surpluses.
"She's flip flopping on her position," Vision Councillor Raymond Louie said in an interview with the Vancouver Observer. "In 2007, when I made the motion to return 12 million worth of strike savings that came as a result of the NPA, Anton voted against it. She has some explaining to do why now and not then."
In 2007, a multi-month citywide services strike resulted in a huge sum of unpaid wages and service costs.
Louie also added that the 7.5 million-budget surplus Anton mentioned was a mid-year speculation and that any extra dollars the council takes in this year will be put into a fund to cover unexpected expenses. And he defended City Hall's current Vancouver Services Review strategy, which he says has already eliminated hundreds of thousands of dollars of redundancies and is now targeting spending inefficiencies the NPA has made as part of their platform.
Anton, a former crown prosecutor and two-term council veteran, is the sole challenger to incumbent Gregor Robertson whose party all but eliminated the NPA from Vancouver's political memory in 2008. The once leading party has struggled ever since, and yesterday cancelled their $225-per plate Sept 27th fundraiser for undisclosed reasons.
The relationship between the sole NPA rep and the Vision dominated council has grown increasingly sour as the campaign has gotten underway. It started earlier this month with a series of NPA sponsored attack ads and rhetoric challenging the mayor's environmental record, blaming him for the hockey riots in Vancouver and accusing his government of being secretive and awash with frivolous spending.
"We will eliminate wasteful green washing programs that do nothing for the environment and make no common sense," she said. Specific initiatives like Visions' water meter program, the Greenest City plan, chicken coops and city wheat fields would also be on the NPA chopping block.
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"The NPA has been struggling to rebrand its campaign from earlier media follie, saying that the NPA's current attack on progressive environmental initiatives, green-wash or not, is a careless political move in Vancouver's young and green-minded left leaning electorate. On the heals of Ladner's surprise criticism, Anton was pushed by interviewers to publicly endorse the lanes and commit that she wouldn't scrap Vancouver's controversial downtown bike lines."
And that is "heels".
What can make a streetcar better or not.
Just a detail that people need to know about streetcars. If their tracks are shared with cars then they can get stuck in traffic just like a bus can and therefore aren't an alternative. (Look at Toronto.)
What makes a mode of transport a good alternative is when they have their own separated track or lane, not the particular technology of how they move. It could be a streetcar with it's own track not used by cars, it's own dedicated lane, a separate lane for buses only, etc.
An important distinction to recognize when designing where one would go.
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Mr. Louie puts the brakes on a Vancouver Street Car while supporting one of the most expensive and least vehicle reducing urban rail initiatives in North America, the RAV Line (Canada Line).
With only a 6500 person per hour capacity the Canada Line is filled with previous captured transit users made to deboard their suburban buses at Bridgeport Station in Richmond to fill the debt train. Another aspect of filling this train was the implimentation of the U-Pass which deeply subsidizes university, college and other student transit fares by more than 60%.
The traffic flows into the city have not decreased since the opening of the Canada Line. What has increased is the number of Vancouver residents leaving their city for work in the burbs. Seems Vancouver can no longer provide sufficient jobs for its population.
Another one of Louie's "sound" financial decisions was his boosterism of the 2010 Olympic Games and his inability to read the various agreements signed in 2002-3 when he was a councilor which clearly indicated that the City of Vancouver was responsible for financing the Athlete's Village.
Mr. Louie was in complete denial in 2003 regarding the city's financial responsibilities for not only the Athlete's Village but for the other city assets that required alterations for use by the 2010 Games. The City continues to pay for these commitments.
The problem with the NPA and Vision is that all of them supported the Games so you will hear nothing of these fiascos during the 2011 campaign.
The lot of them are mismanagers of the public trust and voters in Vancouver should break from the party system and choose their own leaders from amongst themselves. Folks know who those community leaders are in their neighbourhoods all they have to do is convince them to run for local government.
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We are pleased to read that Ms Anton once again endorses the Hornby bike lane.
We also wonder how much city wheat fields and chicken coops actualy cost the city; in particular, how much our city can expect to save if our chicken coop and wheat bylaws are repealed.
We are also pleased to read that Ms Anton will support and promote the return of streetcars to Vancouver. As an interim, low-cost measure to improve transit infrastructure and reduce our car dependency, we would like to suggest that Ms Anton and other City Council hopefuls investigate the improvements to be gained by doubling the trolley wires on existing east-west bus corridors. This will allow the addition of express trolley lines between SkyTrain/Canada line stations and UBC. Adding new east-west express lines will also help ease the crush loads now being endured on the Broadway B-lines.
The Big Disconnect
Bicycle accidents are up 15% from 2009-2010. But the human carnage is ok because we're reducing GG's? We're not. Vehicle usage is constant and idling and distance travelled has increased. So the bike lanes hurt people, increase pollution, and are a good thing that Vision and the NPA both endorse...
Questioning 'The Big Disconnect'
We have seen nothing in the media to support Mr. McGuire's claim about bicycle accidents. Would he please provide the source of his statistic.


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An analysis of the transient temperature distribution in a semi-infinite solid, irradiated by a moving Gaussian laser beam, is carried out numerically using COMSOL Multiphysics.Variable thermo-physical properties are accounted for. The workpiece is considered semi-infinite along the motion direction. Temperature distributions are evaluated both for different Peclet numbers and surface heat ...
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2Université de Savoie, Le Bourget-du-Lac, France
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