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Saturday

Nov172012

Film | NYC Dark on Vimeo by Jared Levy

Seeing lower Manhattan without power was a surreal experience. This is traditionally a city that never sleeps. One in which the lights are always on. One that is always bustling with people. When the lights went out it was wholly different. This piece is meant to capture and relay the feeling of what it was like to walk around the darkened streets of lower Manhattan.

See all of Jared’s photos here: jaredlevy.me/gallery/hurricane-sandy-lower-manhattan/

Timelapse / Music: Michael Marantz michaelmarantz.com
Stills / Voice: Jared Levy jaredlevy.me
Creative Direction: Jason Oppliger jasonoppliger.com

Produced by Already Alive alreadyalive.com

Original Music by Michael Marantz: soundcloud.com/michaelmarantz/nyc-dark

Special Thanks:
Alexandra Setoodeh
Rachel Tierney
Anne Sage

Sat, November 17, 2012 in

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Hurricane Sandy,

Jared Levy,

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Monday

Nov052012

Northeast Braces for New Storms, Snow, Sleet and New Power Outages | Lower Manhattan Buildings Face Massive Cleanup

French Roast News

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Volunteer Fabrizzio Avila, 15, bundles up from the cold as he rests near donated clothing in the Midland Beach neighborhood in the Staten Island borough New York, Nov. 4, 2012, in the wake of Superstorm Sandy. (Craig Ruttle/AP Photo)About 20-40,000 homeless people are bracing for more bad weather as a Nor’easter heads for the battered New York/New Jersey area. Cold air will drop wind chill temperatures to 20 degrees in the areas most severely impacted by Sandy. Wind gusts are expected up to 55 mph by Wednesday.

More than 1.4 million homes remain without power, entering a second week. The coming storm could further delay restoration efforts, while adding new outages. Up to a foot of snow is expected in inland areas throughout the Northeast.

A Powerless New York During Hurricane Sandy New York Magazine

A bit gallingly, downtown’s most foresighted and well-heeled swells had already relocated uptown. Graydon Carter and Anna Wintour, among others, were said to have taken up residence at the Mark; a lot of the younger crowd, led by Emma Watson, were at the Carlyle. Uptown was the new downtown. On Halloween Night, Bemelmans was packed.

Lower Manhattan, rather than the ultimate destination, became a place to go through to get somewhere else, as the enormous traffic jams attested. Downtown was driveover country. At night, it seemed to be a natural landscape, a dark canyonland, gorgeous and lonely. As in all New York disasters, New Yorkers weren’t strangers anymore. Out surveying the damage with flashlights, people stopped to talk in tones of hushed amazement. Neighbors needed food and news.

Future Is in Limbo for the Damaged Buildings Close to the Water’s Edge New York Times

A dark, stark, problematic future faces scores of New YOrk City business and apartment buildings in lower Manhattan. The financial district is in shambles — perhaps worse than on September 11, 2001.

About 100 buildings south of Chambers Street will be opening and have electrical power but no steam. Therefore, there is no heat in the buildings as temperatures plummet.

Other buildings with, or close to, flooded parking garages have a more serious problem, resulting from gasoline, oil and other chemicals that poisoned the waters that flooded these structures.

Now, the buildings themselves must undergo special cleanups before people are allowed in. These cleanups could take weeks with limited services available to do them.

Ruins, Rumors, and Resilience in Rockaway New York Magazine

Mon, November 5, 2012 in

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Friday

Dec302011

Maintaining Weight Loss | New York Leads in Longevity | Great Apes Consciousness | Egypt Police & Virginity Tests

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Weight Loss Regained

NYTimes writer Tara Parker-Pope writes The Fat Trap, an in-depth examination of the latest research on weight gain after significant weight loss. Overweight herself, Parker-Pope takes full responsibility for a lifetime of challenging weight management and an endless cycle of dieting.

New research in small studies that have yet to be replicated in large surveys suggests that dieters who lose 10% of body weight or more fight uphill battles not to regain the weight. Many doctors believe that this altered state of metabolic inefficiency in which the body is actively trying to regain the weight can last for a good six years.

The hunger hormone ghrelin, often called the hunger hormone, was 20% higher in weight losers and levels of leptin, a hormone that suppresses hunger remained lower than expected.

The story visits the National Weight Control Registry that tracks 10,000 people who have successfully kept off the weight. Interviews confirmed what is already known about success. Not only do dieters exercise for at least an hour almost every day, but they weigh themselves every day and keep food journals. Simply stated, maintaining weight loss is a daily job AND not a fair one.

It’s believed that people who diet their weight to a new low of 150 pounds must eat 5-10% fewer calories a day to maintain the weight as a 150 pound person who was never overweight. Read on at NYTimes.

Egyptian Ban on Police Virginity Tests

An Egyptian administrative court ruled that police officials can’t subject female detainees to virginity examinations as part of their arrest and detainment procedures. The case was led by 25-year-old Samira Irbrahim, a marketing manager who was arrested during the March 9 protest, with backing from groups like Amnesty International.

The order doesn’t govern virginity tests routinely given to women who are about to be married. Read on at CNN.

More DFR

Complex Jungle-Based Decisions

Max-Planck-researchers have demonstrated that chimpanzees, orangutans, gorillas and bonobos make more sophisticated decisions than was previously thought. While all four species demonstrated sophisticated decision making strategies, chimpanzees and orangutans were overall more likely to make risky choices relative to gorillas and bonobos. The decision-making study around large and small banana pieces adds to the growing evidence that great apes enjoy a much more complex mental life that is often assumed. Read on at Science Daily

Also, before sounding an alarm, chimps consider information available to their audience, based on a new study of chimpanzees in Uganda. The chimps were more likely to alarm call to a snake “in the presence of unaware than in the presence of aware group members, suggesting that they recognize knowledge and ignorance in others. Read on at Science Daily

New York Life Expectancy Leads US

The latest data from the Bureau of Vital Statistics shows New York City has the highest life expectancy in the country. Babies born in 2009 can expect to live a record 80.6 years. That’s almost three years longer than a decade ago, and more than two years longer than the current national average of 78.2 years. Read on at Good.