One Commerce Plaza 📍

One Commerce Plaza, also known as the Twin Towers, is an office building located at 99 Washington Avenue in downtown Albany, New York.

Tonight at Sunset – July 15, 2021

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Going to be sultry summer evening tonight 🌇

Heading home now on the local bus, 🚍 and then after dinner I’ll take a book 📙 down to the park 🏞.

At sunset, look for partly clear skies 🌄 and temperatures around 80 degrees. The dew point will be 71 degrees. There will be a south breeze at 8 mph.

We will have a Waxing Crescent 🌒 Moon with 33% illuminated. At 5 PM, the moon was in the south-southeast (164°) at an altitude of 49° from the horizon, some 231,086 miles away from where you are looking up from the earth. 🚀 At the state speed limit of 55 mph, you’ll make it there by January 7th. Buckle up for safety! 💺 The moon will set in the west (271°) at 11:58 pm. The Buck 🦌 Moon is on Saturday, July 24. Buck yeah, that’s my summer vacation. Party all night. Just like the horney bucks.

Zoom challenges

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One of the challenges that I have with the online maps is getting the maps to look the same on different screen sizes. The solution is to set the viewport by the bounding box rather than the zoom level but that can still cause problems like leaving the map too zoomed on for a layer or in the case of the comparison layer but not always obvious how to do a scale comparison with modifying the zoom levels.

Billy Redden

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While I can see the resemblance between Joe Biden and Billy Redden, the famous Banjo Player in Deliverance back in 1973, I thin the same can’t be said today. That said, once you see it you can’t go back.

Ventura Highway

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“Chewing on a piece of grass
Walking down the road
Tell me, how long you gonna stay here Joe?
Some people say this town don’t look good in snow
You don’t care, I know”

~ America, Ventura Highway

Public Defenders Allege NYPD Is Inventing A Crime Spike To Kill Bail Reform – Gothamist

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Public Defenders Allege NYPD Is Inventing A Crime Spike To Kill Bail Reform – Gothamist

Defense attorneys, meanwhile, say the reported increase in street crimes doesn't hold up to statistical scrutiny. In a joint statement, the city's public defender services noted that, even as grand theft auto complaints have skyrocketed more than 60 percent, their collective caseloads with that charge have actually decreased 9 percent.

 

"The only way to reconcile this is to conclude that the NYPD's repeated claims of rising crime are a story of their own making," read a statement, attributed to Legal Aid Society, Bronx Defenders, Brooklyn Defenders, NY County Defender Services and the Neighborhood Defender Service of Harlem.

"It's clear proof that the NYPD has been up-charging, and that when these cases make it to a district attorney, prosecutors reject the charges that the NYPD are touting because they know they cannot stand up to even the most cursory legal scrutiny."