Sentences with phrase «with abandoned lots»

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With an estimated 20 square miles of vacant land, Detroit's abandoned lots are roughly the size of Manhattan according to the Detroit Future City Report.

There's a joint CFTC and Securities and Exchange Commission report that came out a few months after the flash crash that blames it on an effort by Waddell & Reed to sell some E-mini futures with an inept algorithm; lots of people have long had their doubts about that theory, and now the CFTC itself seems to have abandoned it in favor of the new one - guy - in - London theory.

That means abandoning one - size - fits - all attempts to address poverty and looking to the states, where a lot of the creativity in American government resides these days, for approaches that actually empower the poor, because they treat poor people as men and women with potential to be unleashed, not simply as clients to be maintained.

I live in one of the most economically devastated neighborhoods in Philadelphia, in the post-industrial wreckage with hundreds of abandoned factories and houses, and with a lot that is broken in our lives and in our streets... and in our schools.

Fed up with the city «s broken promise to remove abandoned cars from a lakefront parking lot, the president of the Chicago Park District board wants to withdraw an offer to the city to use the lot for holding cars towed under winter parking restrictions now in effect.

With safe haven laws in effect, lots of newborn babies are now being abandoned, both «safely» and unsafely.

There has been a lot of sniping among four of the five Democratic AG contenders, with words like «insider,» «reformer», «Republican» and «progressive» being lobbed about with great abandon.

Veritas is finished and was really pretty much from the beginning, it never had any real raison d'etre other than as the Robert Kilroy Silk Fanclub and now that he has abandoned them what is there left for them, The English Democrats are somewhat lightweight policy wise, UKIP actually despite the Kilroy Fiasco got the second biggest gain in total number of votes for any party after the Liberal Democrats and at 2.5 % are now up to where the Liberal Party was in the 1950's, on the other hand the Liberal Democrats have a lacklustre leadership campaign with a lot of scandals, are divided on economic policy and show every sign of being ready to implode.

In an interview with The Independent on Sunday, the Unison general secretary suggested the Labour leader can no longer count on his union's automatic support when he said he still has «a lot to get right» and should abandon the strategy of only issuing «reasonable statements».»

The Sankofa Park on South Salina Street replaces an abandoned parking lot with greenery, benches, a sandbox, and a stage.

A lot of lecterns are fitted with plenty of drawers and cupboards, but a quick check of the one in our main science theatre last week revealed a jumble of forgotten handouts from a conference, an expensive but chalky calculator, several well chewed pens, some overhead projection transparencies with print so minute that I took one and frightened my students with it, a pair of prescription spectacles (abandoned, perhaps, because their owner couldn't read the words on the screen?)

One day, after struggling for years with ill health, she wandered out to an abandoned parking lot and, as she wrote in her memoir Why Suffer?

I made many mistakes, abandoned my first blog with strong traffic and pagerank of 4 because I built it on a wrong platform and started all over again from scratch, and spent a lot on tools and software that I eventually had to abandon.

Spent my morning in bed with a cup of tea and a book, listening to the pouring rain against the window and let's just say it took a lot of willpower to abandon my cozy pillow fortress to face the soaking wet streets.

In general, a lot of people regard threesome dating as an activities which only for bisexuals, however, as a matter of fact, abandoning traditional notions of sexuality, almost everyone wants to have a fantastic threesome dating with their partners... Read More»

According to researchers, «a man who is a follower might offer stability: He may have fewer resources, but he may be less likely to abandon [her] for another woman or need to share his resources with lots of other women.»

The «Girls With Guns» films featured strong female leads, usually supported by ineffective or soon - to - be-killed male counterparts, and blended martial arts action with heavy gunplay, usually supported by eye - piercing 80s fashion, heavy synth scores, and lots of explosions in empty warehouses and abandoned construction siWith Guns» films featured strong female leads, usually supported by ineffective or soon - to - be-killed male counterparts, and blended martial arts action with heavy gunplay, usually supported by eye - piercing 80s fashion, heavy synth scores, and lots of explosions in empty warehouses and abandoned construction siwith heavy gunplay, usually supported by eye - piercing 80s fashion, heavy synth scores, and lots of explosions in empty warehouses and abandoned construction sites.

OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening November 23, 2007 BIG BUDGET FILMS August Rush (PG for slight violence, mild profanity and mature themes) Freddie Highmore stars as the title character in this escapist fantasy about a promising musical prodigy who runs away from an orphanage to New York City to find his parents (Keri Russell and Jonathan Rhys Myers) only to end up living with a Fagin - like wizard (Robin Williams) and lots of other kids in a makeshift shelter in an abandoned theater which was once the Fillmore East.

They also deliberately abandoned their bourgie black accents for grammar - butchering Ebonics laced with profanity, the N - word and lots of double negatives.

It's hard to separate truth from legend with all of the rumors that swirl around the game's launch, but there are stories about people being mugged for their copies (an exceptionally rare occurrence even in the busiest cities in Japan), offices that were supposed to be packed with workers appearing abandoned, and a whole lot of empty chairs in classrooms.

Moonee, with her ragtag and bobtail buddies find humor and hoopla amidst abandoned homes, derelict fields, ice cream parlor parking lots, and laundromats, and while the grownup world of booze - fuelled fist fights, and fornication is never far off, it's also a star - distance away from the play and pleasures of a spirited childhood's point of view.

They spit at cars, wander abandoned housing developments with misbegotten candy - colored exteriors, and run out into parking lots without looking both ways.

For instance, Nasch acts erratically for a doctor, telling Christine he wants to keep their work private from Ben and only meeting with her in abandoned parking lots and offices after - hours.

What's worse, the movie abandons the franchise's carefully - cultivated trademarks in favor of a lot of nondescript CGI action sequences which feel interchangeable with similar flicks like Transformers and Doomsday.

Under the shadow of the West Virginia hills on the Ohio side of the river lies Steubenville, a hodge - podge of solidly built, well - maintained churches and other buildings; burnt - out brick husks with gaping holes where windows and doors once were; sagging single - family houses and tired public housing projects; warehouses; abandoned businesses; and trash - strewn empty lots — all crammed together in one compact area.

Working with CLOTH, students are planning to convert an abandoned lot across the street into a community garden, complete with a second - story greenhouse for use as a «living classroom» and a source for a «garden - to - cafeteria» menu at CHAH.

In the hours since RIM's fiscal Q4 2012 earnings call with newly - minted CEO Thorsten Heins yesterday, there's been a lot of talk about the company's «focus on the enterprise» — and we've seen a number of headlines flatly saying that RIM is abandoning the consumer market.

The Fed is the leader in tomfoolery, engaging in QE, and creating lots of bank reserves, no telling what they will do if the economy finally heats up and banks want to lend to private parties with abandon.

We could rescue a lot of abandoned cats with that!

The partnership with Jetpets, will see Virgin work with animal welfare groups like PetRescue and help connect surrendered or abandoned dogs with new owners interstate — opening up a lot more options for the animals.

There are restrictions on the types of collar and tethers that can be used, a ban on tethering with other dogs or on vacant lots or in abandoned buildings.

With the bulldog emaciated, Dogs Without Borders was able to provide the abandoned pooch with a warm home, good food, and lots of necessary lWith the bulldog emaciated, Dogs Without Borders was able to provide the abandoned pooch with a warm home, good food, and lots of necessary lwith a warm home, good food, and lots of necessary love.

When the Bill Foundation received a call about a sick stray pit bull, rescuers Annie Hart and Lisa Arturo found him living in an abandoned lot, shaking with nervousness and suffering from a terrible, contagious skin infection that covered his snout with red, scabrous sores.

There were children running and playing along the highway in their bare feet; locals bicycling through the village; thin and sad - looking dogs roaming around and laying in the middle of the road; lots of garbage and litter scattered along the side of the road; abandoned buildings with jungle growth creeping inside them and graffiti on the exterior; open - air handicraft markets selling typical Mexican souvenirs and blankets in a variety of vibrant colours; empty bus stops covered in graffiti; small, open - air and simple restaurants with red Coca Cola signs on the exterior, and matching tables and chairs serving authentic cuisine; locals cooking and serving fresh meat on a barbeque along the road; a small park and square; narrow gravel roads stemming off of the highway to the remainder of the village; and tiny one - room houses with either thatched roofs and wooden panels on the sides or square white painted houses with a flat roof, barred windows and always a satellite dish on top.

They either need to abandon renting completely or they need to negotiate a lot harder with publishers to make the pricing more appealing.

While it can be argued that there isn't a whole lot going on — which is by design — the game's environments never fail to amaze, whether it's admiring the lake through the trees as they gently blow with the breeze, or exploring an abandoned church graveyard that looks so realistic it could easily send chills down your spine.

More than that, Doom abandoned a lot of the storytelling conventions and cutscenes we've come to associate with modern games: about 30 seconds into the first level, the main character physically throws the plot across the room and shoots a demon in the face.

Her four previous books form a permanent record of the temporary habitats that Manhattan's homeless individuals created for themselves in public parks, vacant lots, abandoned buildings, along the waterfronts and beneath the city's streets: The Tunnel: The Underground Homeless of New York City (Yale Press and Schirmer / Mosel, Germany); Fragile Dwelling (Aperture); Transitory Gardens, Uprooted Lives, co-authored with Diana Balmori (Yale Press); and Glass House (Penn State Press).

Margaret Morton's photographs of the dwellings that homeless individuals have assembled in public parks, vacant lots, along the waterfronts, beneath the streets, and in the abandoned buildings of New York City are combined with oral histories in Glass House, her book about thirty - five young squatters who set up a highly structured community in an abandoned glass factory; Fragile Dwelling (Aperture Foundation); The Tunnel: The Underground Homeless of New York City (Yale University Press and Schirmer / Mosel, Germany); and Transitory Gardens, Uprooted Lives (co-authored with Diana Balmori, Yale University Press).

And though it's always run concurrently with Art Basel Miami Beach, NADA Miami Beach has operated out of a number of venues during its run: an abandoned lot off of Lincoln Avenue, the Ice Palace film studios in Wynwood, the Deauville Beach Resort, and the Fontainebleau hotel.

Most of the things one does with fabrics involve the body, too; and I realize that there is a connective tissue here between a lot of your projects — that they never completely abandon the body.

The Los Angeles native often uses found materials imbued with social and political meaning, such as street signs plucked from abandoned lots or the paper implements used in neighborhood hair salons, to create thickly layered paintings in a process he described in a video interview with Art21 as «decollage and collage at the same time.»

«There were a lot of old, abandoned or nearly empty, funky office buildings downtown, which had these smoky glass doors that were straight out of Sam Spade's office in The Maltese Falcon,» recalled art adviser Allan Schwartzman, who was recently named president of Artists Space's board, along with artist Rachel Harrison.

Who cares about 8 % unemployment, the flatlined economy, abandoning Americans to die in Bengahzi, Joe Biden's buffonery, fast & furious, national debt, USA credit downgrade, trillion dollar annual budget deficits, deliberate sabotage of the coal industry, ACORN, failed foreign policy (Iran with nuclear weapons, bowing to China, stiffing U.K and Israel, etc) abysmal people judgement (Biden again, plus H. Clinton, T, Geithner; K. Sebelius; E. Holder, etc), stopping the pipeline for Canadian oil, blocking drilling in US land, secret «kill lists», ObamaCare, attacking religious liberty, you didn't build that, unseemly chest - pounding over bin Laden (GM is dying but bin Laden is coming back to life), 20 years of Jeremiah Wright, failure of crony capitalism deals with Solyndra - NextEra — Ener1 — Solar Trust etc., over 100 rounds of golf in 1st 3 yrs, choom, the Chevy Volt, insisting the Ft Hood massacre was «workplace violence», secret college transcripts, «clearly the Boston police acted stupidly», disregard of the Simpson - Bowles budget recommendations (after commissioning their work), and lots more irrelevant stuff.

Choice 1: How much money do we want to spend today on reducing carbon dioxide emission without having a reasonable idea of: a) how much climate will change under business as usual, b) what the impacts of those changes will be, c) the cost of those impacts, d) how much it will cost to significantly change the future, e) whether that cost will exceed the benefits of reducing climate change, f) whether we can trust the scientists charged with developing answers to these questions, who have abandoned the ethic of telling the truth, the whole truth and nothing but, with all the doubts, caveats, ifs, ands and buts; and who instead seek lots of publicity by telling scary stories, making simplified dramatic statements and making little mention of their doubts, g) whether other countries will negate our efforts, h) the meaning of the word hubris, when we think we are wise enough to predict what society will need a half - century or more in the future?

When central sites don't get used efficiently — vacant lots, parking lots, abandoned buildings, one story where six story would be appropriate — then outlying land gets encumbered with sprawl.

MM have apparently abandoned their initial claims about errors in the data sets (though they still snark about data a lot) and haven't convinced anyone much with their arguments about principal components, so they come up with yet another objection.

We've eliminated 81 % of our effluent pipes, a lot of that having to do with the wet printing process we abandoned.

As DiPeso explains, «Those who wish to use carbon - based energy with abandon would be free to do so — knowing up front that they would pay the environmental and other costs of using lots of carbon - based energy rather than shift those costs onto their fellow citizens.»

So if Apple goes with its plan to abandon Intel's chips from its future Macs, the company will also have to do a lot of redesign to its macOS operating system, which could happen before the rumoured 2020 transition.