SJG Properties' West Lane Apartments at 4901 Montgomery Lane in downtown Bethesda is still on-schedule for delivery as promised this spring. That had been in doubt this past fall, but the project appears to have gotten back on track since. A colder-than-average but light-on-snow winter surely helped in that regard.
A seven-story building with 112 units (15% of which will be affordable), it not surprisingly has a walk score of 99, and is within easy walking distance of the Bethesda Metro station. Building features will include a 2-level underground parking garage, a gym, a terrace bar, and the ubiquitous rooftop deck. SK+I is the architecture firm, and Clark Construction is the contractor.
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"A colder-than-average winter"
We've been through this before.
Meteorological Winter = December 1 through February 28.
December 2017 - Slightly below average.
January 2018 - Average. The cold snaps were balanced out by warm periods.
February 2018 - WAY above average. Earliest 80-degree temperature recorded.
March 2018 was colder than average - coldest since March 2014, meaning that it was colder 4 years ago - but it's not part of Meteorological Winter.
Seems like everyday I get up and Robert Dyer is reporting on another new development!
7:17: Previously you admitted the correct trends for each month, but then made the error of claiming that a one-month warm trend somehow negated the 3 months of cooling that surrounded it.
Now you've even started to claim that the far-below-average temperatures of January were "balanced out by warm periods." Total BS. We were all here in January, and can easily tell you are lying.
"Meteorological winter" doesn't matter when you are examining the trends of temperatures throughout the year. Science is empirical and objective; you can't just make up your own facts when you realize you are losing the climate argument.
"Science is empirical and objective; you can't just make up your own facts when you realize you are losing the climate argument."
umm...Robert....
http://www.noaa.gov/news/sorry-groundhog-february-and-winter-2018-were-warmer-than-average-for-us
"Previously you admitted the correct trends for each month, but then made the error of claiming that a one-month warm trend somehow negated the 3 months of cooling that surrounded it."
No, it is you who are trying to claim that one month of slightly below average temperatures, followed by another month of average temperatures, followed by a third month with way above average temperatures, somehow equals "3 months of cooling".
"Now you've even started to claim that the far-below-average temperatures of January were 'balanced out by warm periods.' Total BS. We were all here in January, and can easily tell you are lying."
I pointed this out previously. Just because the warmer periods weren't as memorable as the coldest periods doesn't mean that they didn't happen. Do you understand how to calculate a mean? Do you understand what "mean temperature for the month of January 2018" means?
"Meteorological winter" doesn't matter when you are examining the trends of temperatures throughout the year.
But you said "A colder than average winter." You didn't say "colder than average year", which would be even more ridiculously false, since 2017 was the second warmest year on record in Washington DC. Stop trying to change your terminology retroactively.
"Science is empirical and objective; you can't just make up your own facts when you realize you are losing the climate argument."
Keep on babbling, you innumerate, scientifically-illiterate, completely un-self-aware fool.
That looks pretty empirical and fact to me. Thanks NOAA
9:06: Your problem is that you are trying to convince all of us who lived through the far-below-average temperatures of January that it was equally warm that month. You're also trying to claim that a 1-month trend has more weight than the cold trend of the 3 months around it.
It was indeed a colder than average winter - and a colder than average March, as well. These are simply the facts, which is what science is all about.
Robert, you may want to look up the difference between climate and weather. It's almost as if the area you experience right outside your window is not representative of the Earth's climate as a whole. Crazy concept, I know.
"These are simply the facts, which is what science is all about."
It's so easy to win an argument against Dyer that I almost feel bad about it. It's like beating up on the weak kid in class, or something.
Robert, FACTUALLY this past winter was "above average" for the entire DC area.
https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/sites/default/files/sites/default/files/december-2017-to-february-2018-us-average-temperature-percentiles-map.png
This is a categorical FACT. It is not debatable. NOAA relies upon science, not how chilly your bum feels when creeping around at night to take pictures for this blog.
9:21: Maryland is on Earth, last time I checked. Measuring empirical data understandably may seem a "crazy concept" to those who have already reached a conclusion, before inconvenient facts got in the way.
9:26: But I just beat you up. "Right into the buckle! That's gotta hurt, Gene."
Can you at least respond to the NOAA article?
It works for Trump, which is why Robert emulates it I guess? It's quite sad that this is our political landscape these days.
At least we can all rest easy knowing that Robert will not get elected in our county.
"March 2018 was colder than average - coldest since March 2014, meaning that it was colder 4 years ago..."
And the same with the cold snaps in December and January. Coldest days since...2014.
"Measuring empirical data understandably may seem a "crazy concept" to those who have already reached a conclusion, before inconvenient facts got in the way."
Self-Awareness Meter flatlining again...
Does 9:26 know that Dyer "beat him up"?
"Maryland is on Earth, last time I checked."
Yes, and Earth as a whole experienced record warmth during the past three years. What point were you trying to make, Robbie?
9:29 AM I doubt the county employee who continues to troll here is a Dyer voter. Just sayin...
Can somebody explain why on earth we would elect Dyer to oversee the county’s finances when it’s plainly clear he doesn’t even understand how to average a set of numbers?
Are you saying that NOAA is lying?
Do you plan to "beat them up" next?
10:28 AM No, but I am claiming he has the same angry "anonymous" guy who posts the same comments..for several years now.
@ 10:40 AM - Which comments are you claiming come from "the same angry anonymous guy"?
Remember, we just had a powerful & beautiful vote FOR term limits. That was a vote of no confidence towards the current Council.
@6:12 — It most definitely was not. One can believe that term limits are a good thing while simultaneously holding the incumbents in high esteem. The two are not mutually exclusive.
9:49: Maryland did not experience the warming in recent years, and is on Earth.
7:16: 70% wouldn't vote for term limits if they held the Council in "high esteem."
10:25: You're the idiot who can't average - you said the numbers from one month outweigh the numbers of three months. Even a gorilla could figure that out.
9:28: If the NOAA article is claiming the average winter temperature in the D.C. area was above average this year, then they are BS artists of the highest order. I doubt that's what it says, because NOAA has been a respectable agency in my experience. Let's hope they haven't become politicized.
Saith Reality:
"December 2017 - Slightly below average.
"January 2018 - Average. The cold snaps were balanced out by warm periods.
"February 2018 - WAY above average. Earliest 80-degree temperature recorded."
Saith the Babbling Fool Robert Dyer:
"You're the idiot who can't average - you said the numbers from one month outweigh the numbers of three months. Even a gorilla could figure that out."
9:41: That's you, not "reality." You just claimed far-below-average January was a normal January. You would be laughed out of the room by real scientists. Indeed, a 3 month trend trumps a single month aberration every time. Welcome to reality.
"If the NOAA article is claiming the average winter temperature in the D.C. area was above average this year, then they are BS artists of the highest order. I doubt that's what it says"
The map even has colors for slow folk, Robert. How is this hard for you to understand? How many people have to explain this simple picture to you? The DC area's winter temperature was "above average." It's the peach color on the map. I honestly don't know how to dumb this down further for you.
https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/sites/default/files/sites/default/files/december-2017-to-february-2018-us-average-temperature-percentiles-map.png
11:55: Any article claiming the temperature this winter was above average would be fake news. Thank God Sinclair warned us about this. Even if you drop off March, you still have two months below average, and only one month above average. It's not rocket science, but it's still science, and that means empirical evidence trumps political ideology.
If you believe a fake article over empirical data, you are the one "dumbing this down."
The only one looking dumb here is you, Mr Dyer.
There's no "political ideology" involved in actual scientific data.
And ALL of it says temps ABOVE AVERAGE.
Look at January's temperature graph ups and downs.
Jan 2018
Feb:
Feb 2018t
We could post link after link showing exactly that, but Dyer will continue to disbelieve and insult us.
When the debate is lost, slander becomes the toll of the loser. - Socrates
“Maryland did not experience the warming in recent years”
This is a lie, plain and simple.
This denial of mathematics is one of the lowest lows I’ve ever seen you stoop to, Mr. Dyer. Give it up.
According to Dyer math, the average of 3, 4, and 25 must be lower than five because two of the numbers are lower than five.
Not only did January 2018 have periods of warm weather that cancelled out the cold snaps, the cold snaps had temperatures that fell no lower than they did in 2014.
5:17: The summer of 2016 was the coldest here in over 40 years. This was one of the coldest winters in decades. We're not warming here in Maryland - in fact, it's going to snow on Saturday...in April!!
5:33: You just flunked math. Totally different equation. Temperature trends across 3 months are not trumped by a 1 month trend. Any math or science professor can confirm that for you.
5:20: Nobody can stoop lower than you and Helpless Hans Riemer, using Randolph Hills Civic Association money to mail out a newsletter praising Riemer and attacking Robert Dyer in 2010. Not only illegal (they had no PAC, which is required to endorse, and you can't use civic association funds to send out election mailings), but the then-president of the RHCA didn't even disclose he was a Riemer contributor, endorsee and operator. He was rewarded by Riemer with a $150,000 taxpayer-funded government job for his good work. FBI investigation needed.
6:06: Were you in Florida at the time? All of us who were here and frozen solid are laughing at you right now.
Why won't you read any of the links that have been provided?
Do you think you know so much that there's no more for you to learn?
Are you afraid they will negate your opinion (and it IS just an opinion since you have provided no credible support for your claims)
We all know you don't have a good grasp on mathematics. That's been proved here time and time again.
Why won't you listen to others?
Do you think that's a good attitude to have in your campaign?
When is your next public campaign event?
"The summer of 2016 was the coldest here in over 40 years."
So wrong. What makes you believe this? Do you have your own data to back up your claim?
"This was one of the coldest winters in decades."
Wrong. Even the cold snaps in late December and January didn't even reach temperatures colder than in 2014.
"We're not warming here in Maryland"
Wrong.
"it's going to snow on Saturday...in April!!"
Possibly, but that's not enough to cancel out the above-average temperatures for the winter, let alone the trend for the past 3 years and the past 8 years.
What did the Randolph Hills flyer actually say, and what actual laws did it break? And what does any of this have to do with the West Lane Apartments?
"attacking Robert Dyer in 2010"
Robert, did you forget that you were commenting under your own name when you posted that?
6:23: I have a very good grasp of mathematics. Now look at the Council, who have a $205,000,000 budget shortfall. You think they're good at math? LOL
6:23: LOL - temperatures were below average this winter, not above average. I lived through all of the summers here, unlike your carpetbagging self. That's why 2016 stood out so much - the only August that wasn't miserably muggy and hot in over 40 years.
6:25: I just told you what the newsletter said, and the laws it broke.
6:26: Uh, no, dumbass - I always put my name on my comments, unlike you.
6:26AM OMG! I thought that too! He posts under other names, no matter what he tells you. Once, he posted a comment on a thread under a shill name. On the next article, within the span of a minute, he posted the exact same thing (word for word!) under his own name. I quickly posted "Caught you!" Both my post and the one in his own name were promptly deleted. True story. and y'all know i'm not prone to lying.
Wow, you proved you can read numbers, Dyer.
You still have to grasp of mathematics.
Now what about my questions...
Why won't you read any of the links that have been provided?
Do you think you know so much that there's no more for you to learn?
Are you afraid they will negate your opinion (and it IS just an opinion since you have provided no credible support for your claims)
Why won't you listen to others?
Do you think that's a good attitude to have in your campaign?
When is your next public campaign event?
6:33: You are known for often lying on this website. Now you've just exhibited your projection issues again - describing the time you forgot you had trolled a different website of mine under a different identity, and then accidentally referred to it while posing as "Anna" on here, now describing it as if I had done it. #Oops Paging Dr. Freud. Perhaps while he's here, he can help Helpless Hans Riemer with his pathological lying problem.
You are lying. you know it, I know it and everyone reading knows it.
Now...about those questions...
Why won't you read any of the links that have been provided?
Do you think you know so much that there's no more for you to learn?
Are you afraid they will negate your opinion (and it IS just an opinion since you have provided no credible support for your claims)
Why won't you listen to others?
Do you think that's a good attitude to have in your campaign?
When is your next public campaign event?
I remember that! I wasn't the one who said fractally wrong. I only posted a definition after someone else posted it.
Then,
You went to a website that I do not frequent to assail me.
That's is nuts!
I'm just a commenter on your little blog.
You falsely accuse me of being who I am not.
It was kind of funny, until my husband remarked that he found it disturbing that you went to a website I don't read to lie about me.
Are you under the impression that calling me names nullifies what I said? It actually just raises suspicion about you.
The Randolph Hills campaign dirty tricks by Reimer & Co.
Makes you wonder what else they did where they weren't caught.
"Any article claiming the temperature this winter was above average would be fake news."
It's not an "article" - it's the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's analysis of the season's temperature and its relation to prior annual data sets. You're embarrassing yourself even more than usual, Dyer. Just admit you made a mistake and move on with your life. I don't know why you go so far out of your way to look like the town fool. Learn to cut your losses, kid.
8:31: If it says what you claim it does, they have factually erred. I've gotten more done in the last 8 years than the actual County Council - the last thing anyone is calling me is "town fool," dummy.
8:50: I stand behind my comments in the context they were posted, which you have conveniently deleted. You wrote that you had just "beaten me up," which you don't mention here. Hans Riemer's campaign illegally using RHCA funds for campaign attacks on me in 2010, 2018 debates being canceled, etc. all true. You're the same troll on all three blogs, and YOU are the "imbecile."
And what, pray tell, is the appropriate “context” for calling someone a “girly man”?
Dyer @ 6:15AM: An average means you sum the values of a set and divide by the number of values in the set. So if you're looking at a three month temperature average from Dec-Feb, you sum the temperature values for each day and divide by 90.
I have a graduate degree in physics, but please, try to teach me some math.
Let's review:
December 2017 - slightly below average
January 2018 - average
February 2018 - way above average
An easy way to estimate the 3-month average is to eliminate the "average" month, January 2018, then compare the remaining two months - one slightly below average, the other way above average. So it definitely skews to above average for the 3-month period for meteorological winter, 2017-18.
See how easy math is?
So seriously, if you call the Council President Helpless Hans, what’s that make you. He is everything you aspire to be. He’s a man. He doesn’t have to belittle you because he owns you at the polls. Then little lyin’ bobby makes up stories about gargoyles and zombies voting for Hans. Sad, Robert. Really, really sad, old sport.
There was a powerful vote for term limits. Residents want change.
Indeed, a very powerful vote to term limit this Council!
If County residents don't want Riemer on the Council, how come they allowed him to run again?
5:40: County residents had no say - Riemer has served only two terms, and the limit is three. But first he has to beat 31 other candidates in his own primary before he even faces Robert Dyer in November. He'll need the cemetery precincts to come in strong for him again.
2:46: Nobody in the world aspires to be Helpless Hans Riemer, old sport. Strange you refer to lying when Riemer is known among even his own colleagues for his exaggerations and pathological lying. #Oops
9:02: Look in the mirror, *****.
10:04: Even if you do that, the results would support my assertion that the winter was below average in temperature. Not sure who or what you are critiquing here.
"County residents had no say" in a referendum that they adopted in "a powerful vote"?
Seems to me that running against multiple unknown candidates would increase rather than decrease Riemer's chances of winning the primary.
Please show your actual temperature data for Winter 2017-18, which lasted from December 1, 2017 through February 28, 2018, that you claim refutes the fact that the mean temperature was above average for that season.
Typing "*****" makes you look kinda like a "girly man".
Robbie, if Hans Riemer did not exist, whom would you blame for your lifetime of miserable failure?
3:29: No, it just makes me look smart, *****.
Riemer is unknown himself. He has no base in the County, and zero accomplishments. Ask 10 people on the street in Bethesda who Hans Riemer is, and you will get puzzled looks.
3:42: Considering the MoCo cartel needs to deploy you here 24 hours a day to attack me, I'm clearly not a failure. Only those who are getting things done have enemies. If you don't have enemies, you're not getting anything done.
Robert, you’re so easily triggered. When you lose to Hans, I’d recommend you disable comments. Folks are going to have a field day pointing out how foolish you look...you will seem like a low energy clown.
4:58: If the Washington Post and Sentinel don't write about me, and include my opposing views on County issues throughout the election season, and I am excluded from virtually all debates, how would I look "foolish?"
Do you think the people who lost to Putin looked foolish, too?
Yes, we have a free election, but as far as the local media and candidate forums go (with groups able to exclude in primary, and not hold any at all during the general), it is virtually indistinguishable from a totalitarian dictatorship.
Did you ever notice that people who Karma has caught up with think they are Victims?
"If the Washington Post and Sentinel don't write about me, and include my opposing views on County issues throughout the election season"
I thought everyone knows who you are and that your blog was beating the "Old Legacy Print Media"?
7:08: When did I claim "everyone knows who I am?" Everyone doesn't know who the actual County Council is, much less the challengers. Yes, I'm whipping the legacy media in hyperlocal coverage of Montgomery County, but that doesn't mean I'm a household name in every home.
Do you support totalitarian control of the media by, not just one party, but a very small faction of one party, in Montgomery County? If so, you would be cheered by Hans and George Leventhal, but probably beat up by Bernie Bros.
"Do you support totalitarian control of the media by, not just one party, but a very small faction of one party, in Montgomery County?"
Do you understand what the word "totalitarian" actually means, Robbie? Are you seriously trying to claim that The Washington Post is controlled by a handful of Democrats living in Montgomery County?
8:07: You didn't answer my question. Considering they only report on and support the developer-friendly faction of the Democratic Party, and never investigate them, yes, it's pretty clear they do control coverage of MoCo in the Post.
If you don't answer my question, we'll have to assume you do support it.
It's an idiotic loaded question, based on your personal delusions. If it were asked in court, no judge would allow it.
"they only report on and support the developer-friendly faction of the Democratic Party"
You mean those that our fellow Montgomery County residents elected to represent them?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loaded_question
The Post should include both sides to their MoCo stories. There are certainly Republicans involved in the major issues, like Dyer and Ficker, that could provide balance.
The current Council can't handle scrutiny, so I expect few public debates and no coverage of the opposition.
You are dreaming if you believe that The Party Of Trump has even a ghost of a chance in Montgomery County in 2018 - in general, let alone such lunatics as Ficker and Dyer.
Is it too late to register as a candidate for the At-Large Council seats in the Republican primary? I want to knock Robbie off the ballot.
I have legally changed my name to "Imnot Robert Dyer".
9:02am that's what they said about folks running against Putin
I come for the 3 AM Window-Peeping and stay for the Fractally-Wrong Argle-Bargle.
I recall that Shelley Skolnick (R) received 1.093 more votes than Robert Dyer did in 2014 (although she also lost to the four Democratic candidates).
If she wins in 2018, and Dyer loses yet again, will he blame "the MoCo Cartel" for her win?
3:19pm is Mr. Skolnick transitioning? You broke some news here.
DODGING DYER: BRAVELY DELETING ANY AND ALL REFERENCES TO OBJECTIVE FACTS
How about -- for once -- instead of deleting this comment **again**, perhaps you could explain precisely how it violates the "comment policy" nobody has ever seen?
Dyer: "The summer of 2016 was the coldest here in over 40 years."
Reality: Summer of 2016 was the third-WARMEST summer on record!
Dyer: "That's why 2016 stood out so much - the only August that wasn't miserably muggy and hot in over 40 years."
Reality: August 2016 was one tenth of one degree shy of the hottest August on record!!
DYER -- LIAR -- PANTS ON FIRE
BABA BOOEY, OLD SPORT!
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