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The Boulder Creek Path is an easy 5.5-mile (or 9 kilometer) paved urban walking and biking trail running east to west alongside Boulder Creek through Boulder, Colorado. At its eastern end, Boulder Creek Path starts near 55th and Pearl Parkway, and runs to Boulder Canyon at its western end, with plenty of trail access points on the route. Along the way, the trail passes the CU Boulder Campus, Scott Carpenter Park, Millennium Harvest House hotel, downtown Boulder’s Central Park, and Eben G Fine Park, and ultimately connects to the Boulder Canyon Trail.

Cars are allowed on Lombard Street in San Francisco although the iconic ‘crooked’ section is one-way only, downhill between Hyde and Leavenworth streets. To drive down the famous zigzag section you will need to approach from the west on Lombard Street, or alternatively head north on Hyde Street and turn right at Lombard Street to access the top of the hill. Note that vehicles traveling south on Hyde Street are not allowed to turn left onto Lombard Street. Bear in mind that it is a popular tourist attraction and in summer months, particularly at weekends, there can be long lines of cars backed up on Lombard Street waiting their turn to drive down. Mornings are generally the least busy time.

Stanford University is nicknamed The Farm because it was established by founders Leland and Jane Stanford on the land of their Palo Alto stock farm. When the Stanfords’ only child, Leland Stanford Junior, died of typhoid fever at the age 15 years in 1884, they decided to establish a new university in his memory. The Founding Grant of Endowment from the Stanfords was issued in November 1885 with stipulations that included provision of equal opportunities and facilities for both sexes, and a requirement to maintain a farm on the estate for instruction in agriculture. Leland Stanford Junior University opened in 1891 with 465 students enrolled.

City of Calgary parking tickets can be paid by the following methods: Online at calgaryparking.com using a credit or debit card, parking tag number and licence plate number. By mail with a cheque or money order payable to The City of Calgary, posted with the parking ticket or reminder to: The City of Calgary, PO Box 2580 Station M, Calgary, AB T2P 2W9. In person with cash, debit card (no credit cards), cheque or money order at: The City of Calgary Cashiers, 3rd Floor, Municipal Building, 800 Macleod Trail S. from 8 am to 4:30 pm or with cash, credit card, debit card, cheque or money order at Calgary Parking Authority Head Office, 620 9th Ave SW from 8:30 am to 4 pm. 24-hour drop box outside the East entrance of Calgary Municipal Building at 801 3 Street SE, can be used to deposit a cheque or money order payable to The City of Calgary, along with the parking ticket or reminder. The lowest penalty charge is levied on tickets paid within 10 days of the parking offence. If a parking ticket remains unpaid, it will result in a violation ticket being issued and ultimately a hearing at the provincial traffic court.

Curb colors in Oakland, California, indicate the following parking restrictions: Red curbs: no stopping, standing or parking at any time. Yellow curbs: between 7 am and 6 pm, stopping restricted to loading and unloading of passengers and materials for no more than 3 minutes unless the vehicle has commercial plates. Yellow curb restrictions do not apply on Sundays and parking holidays. White curbs: between 7 am and 6 pm, stopping restricted to loading and unloading of passengers for no more than 3 minutes. Exceptions are in front of a hotel or hospital where white curb parking restrictions are in effect at all times. And in front of a place of public assembly, theater, or hall, white curb parking restrictions are in effect at all times unless the venue is closed. In which case, parking is limited to one hour or less. Green curbs: no standing or parking for longer than 12 minutes between 8 am and 6 pm. Green curb restrictions do not apply on Sundays or parking holidays. Blue curbs: parking for persons with disabilities with vehicles displaying either a valid disability placard or license plate. Parking restrictions at curbs with faded paint are still enforced. Always observe posted signs for any additional restrictions.

Pfeiffer Beach at Big Sur, California, has distinctive areas of purple sand, which are mostly grains of reddish-purple manganese garnet crystals. Garnet is a commonly-found mineral in beach sand, but usually at relatively low quantities. Pfeiffer Beach is notable because of the abundance of garnet minerals in the sand which give it a distinctive purple color. These garnets likely originated in the rocks of the nearby Santa Lucia mountains. Over thousands of years, erosion caused rock fragments to break away and be transported to the ocean by the rivers. Erosion over time will have worn these rock granules down until only tiny grains of the most erosion-resistant hard minerals, such as garnet, remain. Waves and currents wash these garnets onto Pfeiffer Beach, and as it is a relatively heavy mineral it tends to settle in concentrated patches on the beach.

Pensacola Beach has white sand because it is mostly composed of grains of quartz crystals. The fine sugar-white sand at Pensacola is typical of many beaches along Florida’s Gulf. The quartz originated further north in the rocks of the Appalachian Mountains and over many thousands of years, little fragments broke away through erosion and were carried by rivers down to the Atlantic Ocean. Over time, the action of waves, ocean currents and abrasion against other rock granules have worn the fragments down, until only little grains of more erosion-resistant quartz crystals remain. These quartz crystals were carried by ocean currents down to the Gulf of Mexico and deposited along the shoreline, forming the white sandy beaches of Florida’s Gulf Coast.

MTA operates the following subway trains across the Manhattan Bridge: B Sixth Avenue Express on weekdays only, at all times except late nights. D Sixth Avenue Express at all times. N Broadway Express at all times except late nights. Q Second Avenue/Broadway Express/Brighton Local at all times. For B and D trains, the stops on either side of the Manhattan Bridge are Grand Street in Manhattan, and DeKalb Avenue on the Brooklyn side. For N and Q trains crossing the bridge, the first Manhattan stop is Canal Street. On the Brooklyn side, Q trains stop at DeKalb Avenue, while most N trains bypass DeKalb Avenue and stop at Atlantic Avenue-Barclays Center.

You can walk across the Bear Mountain Bridge and there are pedestrian footpaths on both sides of the bridge. The Bear Mountain Bridge carries the Appalachian Trail over the Hudson River and there are interpretive panels at various points on the bridge. There is roadside parking available at the eastern end of the bridge on Route 9D although it can be busy on weekends.

PSV is the abbreviation of the Dutch name of sports club Philips Sport Vereniging, which translates in English to Philips Sports Union. PSV was founded in 1913 as a sports club for employees of Philips, when it was a lamp-making business and before it grew into a multi-national electronics conglomerate. The club is involved in several sports but is probably most well known for its professional football team, recognized internationally as PSV Eindhoven. Although PSV now operates independently of Philips, the company retains links to the club as a sponsor and continues to have the naming rights to PSV’s football ground, the Philips Stadion in Eindhoven.

ABC Broadcast Center is located on Front and Vallejo Streets in North Beach, San Francisco, where the studios of KGO-TV, ABC’s owned and operated local television station, branded as ABC 7, is based. San Francisco channel KRON 4 also leases working and studio space in the same building, but as a competing TV station, their facilities are completely separate from those of KGO TV. KGO-TV’s former sister radio station, KGO-AM, vacated its space in the building in 2011, moving into the broadcast facilities of its new owner Cumulus Media on Battery Street, San Francisco.

The main parking lot for upper Kaaterskill Falls is on Laurel House Road, reached by taking North Lake Road off Route 23A in the village of Haines Falls. From there, a wide, flat trail leads to the upper viewing platform less than half a mile away. The trail continues down to the foot of the upper falls and onwards to the base of the lower falls, although this section is more challenging and includes steps. There is a second parking area further along North Lake Road at Scutt Road, near the entrance to North-South Campground, from where the Escarpment Trail leads to Kaaterskill Falls. Do not park on the road if the lots are full as you are likely to get ticketed or towed, but consider using the daily parking for $10 at the campground when open. A third parking lot, known as Molly Smith’s, off Route 23A can be used for going directly to the trailhead for the lower Kaaterskill Falls via the Bastion Falls. However, reaching that trailhead requires walking along, and crossing, a busy stretch of Route 23A.

Water Light Public Plaza is located behind the Lyric apartments on Locust Street at Bonanza Street in downtown Walnut Creek, California. The courtyard-style parklet was designed by artist Jason Middlebrook and features a large abstract wall mosaic created from hand-cut glass and ceramic tiles, with arcs of mirrored glass. The patterns are emulated in a water feature spraying arcs of water in front of the mosaic. Water Light Plaza is open to the public, with small tables and seating available for use and the space occasionally hosts pop-up events and holiday celebrations.

On the evening of October 30th, 2002, Jason Mizell, better known as Jam Master Jay of the hip hop group Run-DMC, was shot and killed, aged 37, at his recording studio in Jamaica, Queens, New York City. Ronald Washington was identified by prosecutors in April 2007 as an accomplice in the murder, although it was alleged that he was accompanied by another individual who shot and killed Mizell. In 2018, almost sixteen years after the incident, Ronald Washington and Karl Jordan Jr. were indicted for Mizell’s murder, which the indictment alleges was linked to a disagreement over a cocaine deal. Mizell was buried at Ferncliff Cemetery in Hartsdale, New York, following a funeral service at the Greater Allen Cathedral in Queens.

The KEXP radio studios are located on the Seattle Center campus on 1st Avenue North between Harrison and Republican in the Uptown Arts District. The site features the KEXP Gathering Space, a community hub and public hangout where you can listen to music, with performance spaces, an on-site coffee shop and the Light in the Attic record store. Free station tours are offered daily at 2 pm, with additional tours at 10 am during summer months.

A person who is a long-time resident or native of Syracuse, New York is called a Syracusian. It is the commonly used demonym for someone from Syracuse.

Carl Schurz was a native of Cologne, Germany, who emigrated to the United States in 1852 where he became a political statesman and served in the Cabinet of President Rutherford Hayes. In the United States, he qualified as a lawyer, served as a General in the American Civil War, represented Missouri in the United States Senate and was the 13th United States Secretary of the Interior. In 1881, he moved to New York City and was editor of the New York Evening Post for a short time. Carl Schurz Park in Yorkville on Manhattan’s Upper East Side was named in his honor in 1910. The park is home to Gracie Mansion, the official residence of the Mayor of New York City.

The Indianapolis Motor Speedway is nicknamed the Brickyard because the track was once paved with bricks. In 1909, paving bricks were laid on top of the Speedway’s original surface of crushed rock and tar, and was the racing surface for many years. From the 1930s onwards, asphalt was overlaid on certain sections, and by today the entire track surface is asphalt except for a 36-inch strip of the original bricks which remains visible at the start/finish line. A tradition of Indianapolis 500 and Brickyard 400 winners kissing this Yard of Bricks was started by NASCAR champion Dale Jarrett after his Brickyard 400 victory in 1996.

Pennsylvania Station in New York City is owned by the National Railroad Passenger Corporation, also known as Amtrak. Amtrak is a US government-owned corporation operating intercity passenger rail services in the United States and to certain cities in Canada. Ownership of Penn Station passed to Amtrak in 1976 when it assumed control of the 457-mile Northeast Corridor (NEC) railroad linking Boston and Washington DC following the Penn Central Transportation Company bankruptcy.

New York University has the following varsity sports teams, which are nicknamed the NYU Violets: Women's Sports Men's Sports Basketball Baseball Cross country Basketball Fencing Cross country Golf Fencing Soccer Golf Softball Soccer Swimming & diving Swimming & diving Tennis Tennis Track and field Track and field Volleyball Volleyball Wrestling NYU also has 24 club sports, including badminton, rowing, triathlon, squash and water polo.