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Baybutt foreclosure sales canceled; bank files lawsuit against companyBy JACQUELINE PALOCHKO
THE KEENE SENTINEL | February 02,2013Michael Moore / THE KEENE SENTINEL
Baybutt Construction Corp. headquarters are shown on Avon Street in Keene, N.H.KEENE, N.H. — Three foreclosure auctions scheduled for Friday for properties with ties to Baybutt Construction have been canceled.
Meanwhile, TD Bank has filed suit against the Keene-based company, putting a lien, or attachment, of $1.1 million on the property of Baybutt Construction, company President Frederick L. Baybutt and the Baybutt-affiliated Granite Gorge LLC and Island Bay Investments LLC because Baybutt owes the bank more than $1 million.
TD Bank also says Baybutt's bank account is overdrawn by more than $326,000.
TD Bank says it filed the attachments because it believed Baybutt would not be able to repay a $750,000 loan to the bank by the time it was due, which was Thursday, according to documents filed last week in Cheshire County Superior Court. The bank also said that Baybutt and its affiliates had "made promises ... of payment of this indebtedness."
Further, the bank says, "Recently and unexpectedly (TD Bank) has learned that Baybutt Construction Corporation has closed its doors and is going out of business."
The bank said it believed in November that the company would have money coming in from a bonded job, but learned that the opposite is happening, and the company is actually defending itself against a bonding company, the court documents say. It also learned that multiple suits are pending against Baybutt, alleging the company failed to pay its subcontractors on at least two projects.
Calls to Baybutt's headquarters on Avon Street go to voicemail, and the building is locked. Emails sent to Baybutt officials bounce back.
Baybutt's Keene headquarters at 25 Avon St., another building at 41 Avon St., and the Granite Gorge Ski Area on Route 9 in Roxbury were to be auctioned Friday, but the sale was canceled Wednesday, said attorney Joseph W. Worthen of Boston. Worthen, who represents Massachusetts-based Interstate Electrical Services Corp., which holds the mortgage to the properties, declined to give reasons why the sales were canceled.
The planned foreclosure sales stemmed from a mortgage in which the three properties were used as collateral.
Interstate Electrical Services Corp., one of the major electrical construction and supply companies in New England, was the lender in the mortgage taken out in October for $89,789.11, according to documents at the Cheshire County Registry of Deeds. The mortgage was signed by Frederick Baybutt, who is also manager of Granite Gorge LLC and Island Bay Investments LLC. Island Bay Investments owns 25 and 41 Avon St., according to documents at the registry of deeds.
An Interstate Electrical representative said Wednesday that the "matter had been resolved" and declined to give further details.
It is unclear how or whether the TD Bank suit is related to the cancellation of the sales.
The recent TD Bank suit against Baybutt Construction, Frederick Baybutt, Granite Gorge LLC, Island Bay Investments LLC and Concord-based attorney Frank Spinella says it's owed $1,087,000.
TD Bank claims Baybutt Construction did not pay back a $750,000 loan, plus interest and late fees, according to court documents. In October, Baybutt signed an extension agreement, saying the loan would be fully paid by Thursday. The bank also claims Baybutt's checking account was overdrawn by $326,113.83 because checks were issued to third parties, court documents state.
Attempts to reach TD Bank's attorney, Daniel C. Proctor, were unsuccessful.
Baybutt can file an objection by March 5.
Baybutt Construction, for many years a prominent figure among the region's builders, has been facing heat lately from subcontractors in Keene and Vermont saying they have not been paid for projects.
So far, there are 12 subcontractors who claim they have not been paid by Baybutt for work done on the new Keene fire station, which opened in fall 2012, said Steven Horton, who was hired by the city to act as the project manager. A handful of subcontractors have filed lawsuits.
Horton said because the project's bonding company started an investigation into the claims, he could not say how much money in total the subcontractors are owed.
The settlements take time, Horton said, and those with claims to the most money owed will be first priority.
In Rockingham, Vt., town officials terminated their contract with Baybutt Construction on a $2.9 million renovation project at the Rockingham Free Public Library in Bellows Falls after numerous subcontractors said they had not been paid by Baybutt. Baybutt completed about 40 percent of the project, and town officials have hired Engelberth Construction Inc., which has an office in Keene, to finish some work.
Town officials also found that Baybutt did not secure a required performance and payment bond on the project even though the town paid $21,000 for the bond. The bond ensures a project will be completed, and subcontractors will be paid the money they're due for their work.
Rockingham Municipal Manager Timothy Cullenen said Thursday officials have not heard anything from Baybutt. Cullenen also said the town is not responsible for paying subcontractors for work previously done on the library, since it already paid Baybutt for its work.
Joel Letourneau, owner of Joel Letourneau Drywall LLC in Surry, said he plans on filing suit against the town of Rockingham for failing to make sure the construction company had a bond before doing work. Letourneau says he has not been paid for any work his company did on the library.
The state of Vermont also terminated its contract with Baybutt for the $2.6 million renovation of the state office building in Brattleboro. And last month, Antrim officials ended a contract with Baybutt Construction to build a new police station.
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Rising from the ashes: Help for Vermonters recovering from firesBy Brent Curtis
STAFF WRITER | December 02,2012Albert J. Marro / Staff Photo
Chad Farrell and his wife Nicole Farrell stand inside their new apartment in Rutland City on Saturday afternoon. The couple and their children were forced to move after a fire in their former apartment earlier in the week.On Monday night, Chad and Nicole Farrell lost their familys home and possessions in a fire.
By Saturday afternoon, the Rutland couple and their four children had made surprising strides toward getting their lives back in order.
The fire on the second floor of 105 South St. last week was doused by city firefighters before the building was destroyed.
But the combination of smoke, flames and water left the Farrells apartment uninhabitable. And while Nicole and her three children were present when the fire started, they were able to escape uninjured, with little more than the clothes they wore.
One of the kids didnt even have socks, Nicole Farrell, 28, said. A guy ran out of his house and asked what I needed and I told him socks. He came back with socks and a snowsuit for the baby.
That act of kindness by a neighbor she didnt know was only the first act of generosity that the family would receive from friends, relatives, humanitarian groups and total strangers in the days following the fire.
By Saturday, the six-member family with children ages 12, 11, 2 and 10 months had moved out of a Rutland hotel paid for by the American Red Cross and was preparing to move into an apartment on Williams Street.
A lot of people have been looking for houses for us, Chad Farrell, 39, said as friends and members of the church he and his family attend moved furniture and cleaned the apartment. I feel bad to take or ask for help, but on the other hand I know there are different seasons in life and my family cant be homeless.
The Farrells werent the only Vermonters left homeless last week by house fires.
A day after the Rutland fire, an electrical fire in a three-unit house on Route 4A in Castleton left seven people without lodging and on Wednesday a fast-moving blaze destroyed a Barre Town log cabin that was home to another six-member family.
In every instance, the fire victims found help from multiple quarters starting in most cases with help from the Red Cross which provides food, clothing and emergency lodging at local hotels and motels for people displaced by fires.
We like to say that recovery starts the moment a disaster strikes, said Doug Bishop, a spokesman for the Vermont and New Hampshire Valley chapter of the Red Cross which assisted the victims of the fires in Rutland, Castleton and Barre.
Beyond emergency relief, there are other local organizations, principally local community action agencies like BROC, which provides transitional housing and access to its thrift store and food shelf.
But in the case of the Farrells, and the Barnett family who lost their home in Barre, local business owners and individuals many of them strangers have had the biggest impact on their recovery thus far.
Damian Barnett and Kaysie Breer spent seven months building their contemporary log cabin on Phelps Road in Barre.
Three years after they and their four children moved in, flames demolished the building in hours on Wednesday.
Again, none of the family members was hurt although a beloved family pet perished. But just like the Farrells, the flames left the family with nothing.
One of the most devastating parts was when they were tearing the house down and they tore down a wall exposing a closet that was filled with Christmas gifts, Damian said Saturday.
The presents, like the rest of the home, were ruined.
But since that gut-wrenching scene, Damian and Kaysie said they have received a number of unexpected gifts worth more to them than anything they ever bought in a store.
Starting hours after the fire, the family began receiving everything from clothing and boots to gift certificates and money from people and businesses in the community.
The Cornerstone Pub & Kitchen a Barre establishment that no member of the Barnett family had ever set foot in stepped forward with an offer to collect clothing, toys and gift cards for the family.
Thats just what being a member of a small community is all about, Cornerstone owner Keith Paxman said.
At Granite Hills Credit Union in Barre, an account for financial donations has been established for the family, and the family was outfitted with shoes, boots and other footwear for free at Lennys Shoes & Apparel in Barre.
A high school kid who works at Lennys paid for my boots, Damian said. People making absolute minimum wage have been willing to go without to help perfect strangers its amazing.
On Saturday, the Barnett family moved into three rooms at the Capitol Plaza Hotel & Conference Center in downtown Montpelier ,where their lodging was provided for free and the staff placed stuffed animals on the childrens beds.
Earlier in the day, a man he didnt know called Damian to tell him that he couldnt in good conscience wear the new North Face jacket he just bought.
He said he couldnt wear it knowing I was in the same town as him with nothing to wear outdoors but a sweatshirt, Damian said. You always hear about the bad things in Barre City and Barre Town but after living here all our lives this experience has shown us that Barre isnt a bad place to live at all.
Were going to rebuild on the same spot. That is our goal. Its our home, he added.
In Rutland, the Farrells said they too have been overwhelmed by the outpouring of support.
With the help of friends and the members of the Alliance Community Fellowship Church, along with contributions from a fundraising event at Rutland Intermediate School and clothing donations at the Rutland High School, the parents say theyve finally been able to regain what they want for their family: stability.
Its amazing, Nicole Farrell said. We knew God would provide, but we didnt know how we would end up.
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If only you had come to Acadia National Park in winter when less than one percent of the year's three million park visitors pass through. It would have been colder then, but at least you could have had the illusion that all this beauty was yours alone.
I drove through the deserted streets of Bar Harbor on a Friday night in February, through the snow whipping across the street, out to the Bar Harbor Motor Inn on Frenchman Bay. In season, the hotel is regularly full, but on this coldest weekend of the year, I strode up to the front desk and booked a room on the first floor facing the bay.
In the morning I pulled the drapes back and the room filled with the reflected brilliance of sunrise on an empty bay. A misty fog hung on the water, and above it the Porcupine Islands spread out in a bristling half circle. Behind them, on the mainland, stood Mount Battie. Snow had drifted against the stems of brittle weeds on the shore in scalloped swirls. It takes what the poet Wallace Stevens called "a mind of winter" to appreciate such a sight, but I always have.
It's easy to imagine why French explorer Samuel de Champlain took one look at the bareness of the island's mountaintops while sailing its shores in 1604 and named it l'Isle des Monts-deserts, Mount Desert Island. On a map Mount Desert looks like a brain, the two hemispheres separated by Somes Sound. Somes is the only fjord on the Atlantic coast, and in winter it's a favorite spot of ice climbers from the University of Maine.
Others, who like to hike and ski, flock to the eastern part of the island, where most of the trails and carriage roads lie. The 51 miles of carriage roads, designed by John D. Rockefeller Jr., are wide, gently sloped paths with stunning views of Somes Sound and the Atlantic beyond; of Jordan Pond, Bubble Pond, or Eagle Lake; of Blue Hill Bay; Cadillac Mountain; of frozen creeks, trees, and sky. They pass through the ice-coated poplar and birch that grew up after the great fire of 1947 destroyed much of the spruce and fir forest.
I skied through some of that forest, from Parkman Mountain to Jordan Pond and then back again. It took me most of the morning. In that time I saw only two people, but tracks of deer and fox and snowshoe hare were everywhere, and on the edge of Jordan Pond, I found the cradle of an otter slide. The first stretch of Park Loop Road was plowed, and that night the full moon shone so brightly on the snow-covered roadside that I drove with my headlights off to Sand Beach.
South of Sand Beach on the Loop Road lies Thunder Hole. Stairs lead from the road to an observation deck at sea level. In summer tourists crowd the railing to snap pictures of the ocean spouting from a boulder cave. The spume is biggest during a three-quarter rising tide with a rough sea, but nature offers no guarantees when the big one will be. Last August a high surf shot a 14-foot spray out of Thunder Hole, and tourists from all over stacked the Park Road. Extra staffers were called in to keep people back. "There are so many tourists at Thunder Hole today," said one ranger, "that the island is about to tilt."
In winter, when the seas are even rougher and the waves wash the observation deck out of sight, the Thunder Hole show is even more spectacular, but no one's there to see it. The ocean leaps the rail and sprays the Loop Road with beautiful, lethal ice. Perhaps it's just as well that the tourists have gone, for four-fifths of the park staff have left for the winter as well.
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Top Gear drives the Jaguar D-Type
We pilot the priceless chassis no 1, the prototype of the car that won Le Mans three times…
Posted: 07 Aug 2013
There are two kinds of sweat. Nervous sweat. And hot sweat. I've just learned how it feels to have both kinds multiplied together. Sweat squared.
This boil-in-the-bag experience comes in the notoriously high-temperature cockpit of a Jaguar D-Type, on the hottest day of the year. It's 33 degrees outside before we fire the engine. That done, gales of heat are rejected by the big old racing straight-six, to flow back over the tiny windscreen making a furnace for my face. My left leg is torched by the transmission tunnel.
And the nerves. Oh gosh the nerves. This is such a precious car. The 1954 Jaguar D-Type, chassis number one. The prototype of the car that won Le Mans three times.
We mentioned yesterday that Top Gear had driven in the celebration convoy of historic Jags to the opening of the new Jaguar Gallery at the Coventry Museum of Transport.
So I've been offered the open goal of driving this terrifyingly valuable Jaguar up the chuff of another terrifyingly valuable Jaguar. Hey ho. Park those thoughts and enjoy this utterly intoxicating, wonderful car.
This was the machine that the company's test driver Norman Dewis drove down from the factory to Le Mans test weekend in 1954. Here he is today, a sprightly feller in cowboy boots and bootlace tie, days away from his 93rd birthday. He tells me as he shows me the car that once he'd arrived at the circuit that spring day in '54, he took three seconds off the lap record.
Today in traffic it's a bit of a sod to get rolling, as it's still on its long Le Mans gearing and has a sharp racing clutch. Dewis tells me that if I need to slow down I should just freewheel along, then let the thing bite and shove away again. Don't slip it, he says. Duly noted.
But once you're away, it's just a delight. The 3.4-litre XK twin-cam engine was an advanced thing: all-aluminium for light weight, dry sump to lower the bonnet and avoid oil surge in corners, triple Webers for stout and instant fuelling. It pulls decently even from 1500rpm. But it fluffs a bit if you're too gentle with the throttle. Use more pedal and it co-operates. Then towards 3000rpm the lovely resonant exhaust noise hardens and the forward motion picks up distinctly. The red-line is well beyond 6000rpm, but I don't get there even though it's obviously wanting me to. So we've got heaps of torque and 245 bhp in a car of Elise weight. Tasty.
In the convoy, the going is all frustratingly sedate, despite the fact that our police outriders said we could have a bit of fun. Everyone was following the slow-moving film crew. Never mind. I'd taken the precaution of going for a couple of practice drives beforehand. Get some mph into it, and this car really finds its rhythm.
The steering, unpowered of course, isn't as heavy as you'd expect, even at walking speed. Get a bit of pace under the tyres and it lightens up nicely. It isn't perfectly sharp, but has a lovely organic breathing motion as it goes over the undulations. That's what old cars do. You can place it very accurately, partly because it's rack and pinion. It isn't wandery or vague.
The brakes are not at all like 1954 brakes. They work. They knock off speed sharply, and they pull you up straight too. Jaguar was the first to use discs, on the C-type, and it helped them win Le Mans, not necessarily because braking power was much more than the opposition, but because full-stops were available at each corner they came to. Not like the awful fade of the rival drums. So I know that if this convoy stops, I can stop too. A relief.
Which leaves me plenty of brain-space for gearshifts. The four-speed lever's movements are mechanical and brief, and need a solid shove to ker-lunk home. You've got to have well-ordered timing of throttle and clutch. That learnt, it's just brilliant.
The smell and touch of history is all over this car. The cracked and gnarled leather pads on which you sit. The years of shine on the aluminium gearknob and wooden steering wheel rim. The smell of period oils. The chipped paint of the riveted aluminium and magnesium cockpit - it's like a world war two plane in here.
Literally so, as Dewis explains. The preceding C-type was a solid mechanical package. Its powertrain was durable, and the brakes were an advantage rivals still didn't have. For the new D-type to move things to the next step, it had an aircraft-type shape and construction.
"It was done on aircraft principles by Malcolm Sayer, who'd arrived from the Bristol Aircraft Company. I worked with him in the wind tunnel. We had tufts of wool all over the car - properly arranged mind, not just stuck on anywhere. He'd look at one side and I'd check the other. You could see the turbulence because in those places they'd be blown forwards.
"The whole thing was built like an aircraft, too," he says. The C-type had a steel tube construction with a non-stressed skin. Not the D. "It had a central riveted monocoque, with the engine frame fixed to the front bulkhead. And of course we bolted the front suspension to that. It took the Formula One boys a couple of years to cotton on."
Dewis was the development driver for all the Jaguars from the C-Type to the XJ-S and XJ40-series XJ. He'd been at Armstrong Siddeley before that, and remembers how Coventry was once the greatest motor city in Europe, home to dozens of now-defunct makes. Which is what makes him, locally born and raised, such a supporter of the Coventry Transport Museum.
So can he pick his favourite Jaguar? He recalls the later low-drag series of D-Types, the long-nose cars which also had a wraparound screen and integrated tail fin. He was racing at Le Mans in 1955 and got 192mph on the Mulsanne straight.
He nods to the E-Type too. Remember it was he who drove the first roadster to its sensational Geneva show debut in 1961. That car, registration 77 RW, is also in our convoy. He did it - Coventry to Geneva - in 11 hours including the ferry crossing. Just try that now.
But then he says his true favourite was the XJ13. This was the stillborn mid-engined V12 racer. They only built one, in 1966, and it was stymied by foot-shuffling management in the BMC merger, not to mention the arrival of the Ford GT40 as opposition. But, says Dewis, "It had the lowest drag coefficient of any car."
It was put in storage, but in 1971 Jaguar wanted a publicity film of this V12 machine at speed, to help launch the V12 E-type. Dewis was driving at MIRA's high-speed track when a tyre blew. "I rolled it... in a big way. He he. I was OK. I'd rolled a C-type and a D-type. Always got out and went back to work the next morning."
A drive of the first D-Type, and the man here before us. What an afternoon. We are not worthy.
Words: Paul Horrell


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New for 2014The 2014 Nissan Juke lineup expands with the introduction of the Nismo and Nismo RS performance models. Two new exterior colors, Red Alert and Bordeaux Black, are new additions.
Vehicle OverviewThe Juke is a subcompact crossover slotting under the compact Rogue and Rogue Select in Nissan's lineup. It is sold in S, SV, SL, Nismo, and Nismo RS grades in front- or all-wheel drive configurations. A six-speed manual is available on front-drive Jukes while a continuously variable transmission (CVT) is optional in S, SV, and SL trims. All-wheel drive models are only available with the CVT.
SummaryThe 2014 Nissan Juke is known for its quirky exterior styling and nimble handling particularly in Nismo and Nismo RS guises. It is powered by a 1.6-liter turbocharged I-4 producing 188 hp and 177 lb-ft of torque in S, SV, and SL grades. Nismo Jukes use the same powerplant but make 197 hp and 184 lb-ft while the Nismo RS model is rated at 215 hp and 210 lb-ft with the manual and 211 hp and 184 lb-ft with the CVT. Fuel economy in the 2014 Juke varies based on transmission and drivetrain configurations with front-drive CVT crossovers achieving the best EPA ratings at 27/32 mpg city/highway. Opting for a manual transmission drops those numbers down to 25/31 mpg while all-wheel drive Jukes are rated at 25/30 mpg.
Performance and handling are 2014 Juke strong suits especially the Nismo and Nismo RS grades, which have upgraded suspension, brakes, larger 18-inch wheels with summer-performance tires, and steering to compliment the more powerful engine. All-wheel-drive models have the best handling since they are able to distribute power evenly through its torque vectoring capability, making it ideal as a sporty all-weather crossover with a lot of character.
Interior space is where the 2014 Juke falters because of the lack of useful storage areas and a small cabin, which limits the crossover's practicality. There is technically room for five people but due to the cramped rear seats and limited cargo space, it isn't an ideal vehicle for people who carry a lot of gear or as a family car. The center stack, on the other hand, is unique because of the I-CON system, which cleverly integrates climate and drive mode interface into one set of buttons. Tech features such as a navigation system, rearview camera, a Rockford Fosgate audio system, and a USB port are available in SV and higher trims, which help make the Juke's cabin feel more upscale.
The 2014 Nissan Juke has a four-star safety rating from the NHTSA (out of a possible five stars) and earned a good score in four of five categories in IIHS testing (good is the highest possible score).
What We ThinkThe 2014 Juke is a quirky crossover that prioritizes standing out and driving engagement over practicality. Nismo and Nismo RS models provide the most fun with their performance-tuned chassis and uprated engines. In a 2011 Editor's Notebook review, we said that with all-wheel drive, "the Juke rides better, handles much better, and gets a lot more grip with all-wheel drive," making an excellent all-weather daily driver. We also highlighted in a 2011 Editor's Notebook review the generous list of available features, making it good value for the performance it offers. However, interior space is lacking for a crossover, which makes the Juke less useful for family duties or carrying passengers. In one review, we said that the Juke has rear seats that are "relatively cramped" and a "cargo area that is far from commodious."
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- Good value for money
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- Cramped cabin
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- Format: DVD
- Rating: Not Rated
- Number of Discs: 5
- Run Time: 822 Minutes
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- Studio: Paramount
- DVD Release Date: March 15, 2005
- Audio: ENGLISH: Dolby Digital Mono [CC]
- Cast: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner
- Genre: TV Series
- Color: Black & White / Color
- Release Date: 1965
The 1960s sitcom Hogan's Heroes was wildly popular during its premiere run and continues to remain one of the most classic (not to mention utterly unique) comedy series in television history, despite a historically and morally questionable premise. Hogan's Heroes Season 1, like the other seasons, is set in a Nazi prison camp during World War II. These Hogan's Heroes DVDs follow a group of Allied POWs Englishman Peter Newkirk (a pre-Family Feud Richard Dawson), Frenchman Louis LeBeau (Robert Clary) and Americans Andrew Carter (Larry Hovis) and James Kinchloe (Ivan Dixon, one of the first African-American actors to get equal billing) led by the irrepressible Colonel Robert Hogan (Bob Crane) in their hilarious attempts to sabotage the Nazi war effort. Though these Hogan's Heroes videos are often mischaracterized as a tasteless gloss on the real-life horrors of Nazi Germany (the series was set in a prisoner-of-war camp rather than concentration camp), Hogan's Heroes was intended as parody and certainly pulled no punches in its unflattering depiction of idiotic Nazi officers such as the pompous Colonel Klink (Werner Klemperer), bumbling Sergeant Schultz (John Banner) and irascible General Burkhalter (Leon Askin). In fact, Klemperer, Banner and Askin were all Jewish, and Clary was a Holocaust survivor. This Hogan's Heroes season one collection presents all the episodes of the controversial series' first season.
Don't miss Hogan's Heroes Season 1 for hours of laughter as Hogan and the other heroes work to defeat the Germans from the most unlikely place their POW camp.


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For Joe Ahuna, it's about one word — "ohana."
"Ohana means family," he said. "[We want people] inspired to go home and strengthen their own families."
Standing in the hallway of the former Hazelwood Elementary School in Waynesville, amid old furniture, dusty windows and walls with paint peeling, Karen Babcock only sees potential.
"It all fits beautifully," she smiled. "We hope to bring in local, regional, national and international groups and programs to this facility — we see complete, open opportunities."
The annual Parade of Nations will showcase international folk troupes along Main Street in Waynesville on Saturday, July 26, as part of the annual Folkmoot USA extravaganza.
The free parade will begin at 10:30 a.m. at the historic courthouse and travel up Main Street through the center of downtown Waynesville for three blocks. This year's Folkmoot festival and parade will feature the dance, music and culture of seven countries: Colombia, Turkey, Taiwan, Russia, Trinidad and Tobago, Romania and Hawaii.
Folkmoot USA had a $9.2 million impact on Western North Carolina in 2013, according to an economic impact study conducted by Tom Tveidt of SYNEVA Economics.
The study included the Western North Carolina region but focused on Haywood County, showing that Folkmoot's overnight visitors spent $6.6 million during their visit. Outside day-trippers spent an additional $89,000 in Haywood County.
Only overnight and outside day-trip visitors were included in Folkmoot's study.
With a property deed to their headquarters in hand and more than 30 years of cultural performance already in the history books, Folkmoot USA will also be shifting a handful of its signature events around for this year's festival.
Usually the Folkmoot "Gala Performance & Champagne Reception" private preview event for donors and sponsors was held at the Stompin' Ground in Maggie Valley on a Thursday kicking off the festival, with the public "Grand Opening" at the same spot on Friday. Though the "Grand Opening" will now officially launch Folkmoot on Friday, July 18, the "Gala Performance & Champagne Reception" has been moved to Monday. July 21.
The whirling skirts and clacking heels of Folkmoot USA represent eight different nations spanning the globe, but while the diversity makes for a beautiful spectacle, having all those languages in one place can make verbal communication a little difficult. There's not much similarity between English, Russian and Chinese, but dance is universal.
"Music is an international language," said Concord resident Mary Talbert, who traveled to see the Folkmoot dancers with her daughter Misty Mowrey.
For two weeks every July, the old Hazelwood School in Waynesville becomes a mini United Nations.
Performance groups from around the globe descend on Haywood County and Western North Carolina. They're dancers, singers and musicians, each proudly representing their faraway native land and culture. And with every group comes a language barrier. Though there are obviously difficulties in not being able to understand someone else, the beauty of sharing cultures comes in finding common ground with that person.
When Shirley Finger was younger, she never did too much clogging. Or dancing of any kind, really.
"Back when I was growing up you didn't go to a dance, that was the Devil's place," recalled Finger. "But when I got married my husband was on a dance team and I just fell in love with it."
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text: The largest of the Discworld sculptures made by Mark Ayling this is based on the descriptions in the book Moving Pictures and is clearly influenced by early film cameras in use in Hollywood at the time of the black and white classics. Unlike the normal iconograph there has to be more imps here to deal with the speed at which pictures are being painted to create the illusion of movement. So there are two painters and to go with them 4 blowers to blow the pictures dry before they are rolled up. At the time of the model being made there is obviously a break in production as one of the blowers looks as though he can barely do any more. The imps are all loose figures and the reels are removable for easier packing but all the rest of the model is a single peice.


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With the success of our Modern Mouse series, we decided it was time to recognize the big-bore crowd. Loyal readers of Super Chevy will remember the Modern Mouse series started with a stock 5.3L LM7 that we transformed into a 383 stroker. Along the way, we tested all manner of performance upgrades on the cathedral-port-headed small-block, ranging from simple intake and cam swaps, to strokers and forced induction.
The one limitation of Modern Mouse was use of the 5.3L block. Though we were able to bore and stroke it to 383 inches, the block limited bore size to 3.905 inches. It was possible to step up to the larger 6.0L truck block (LQ4 or LQ9), but even those are limited to 4.030-inch bores. The current LS3 motors (including L92, LSA, LS9 etc.) come factory-equipped with a 4.065-inch bore, so we decided the big-bore guys deserved their own series. After all, a great many performance products were designed specifically for the big-bore LS3 motors. Hence our new series, entitled Monster Mouse.
When GM introduced the LS3/L92 family, the two major changes were an increase in bore size and rectangular-port heads. The change from the LS1-style cathedral-port heads to the new rectangular-ports netted impressive flow gains. How big were the flow gains offered by the new LS3/L92 heads? In a recent flow test against a set of cathedral-port 317 truck heads (that shares the intake port with the 243 LS6), the as-cast rectangular-port LS3 heads offered gains as high as 70 cfm. Just bolting these stock LS3 heads on in place of the cathedral-port heads was worth 40 hp. The flow numbers indicate that a set of stock rectangular-port LS3/L92 heads will support 650 hp. In fact, dyno testing a set of stock LS3 heads on a wild 468 stroker netted almost 700 hp.
The big thing to remember here is that just because the heads offer the potential, doesn't mean they will make 700 hp on your mild LS3. While an extra 40 hp from an LS3 head upgrade might sound enticing, know that they were designed for big-bore motors and will not bolt onto your small-bore 4.8L-5.7L and will only just fit on the 4.0-inch bore 6.0L truck and LS2 combinations. The head swap would naturally require the matching rec-port LS3 intake manifold and offset intake rocker arms.
Given the use of the rectangular-port heads, Monster Mouse required a suitable big-bore-block. Lucky for us, the LS experts at Texas Speed came through with not just an LS3 block, but a complete LS3-based stroker sporting no less than 418 ci. We were excited about testing the new Texas Speed stroker, but needed something to compare it to. As luck would have it, we had access to a stock LS3 crate motor secured through Summit Racing. With the stock engine in hand, we decided that the ideal first test for Monster Mouse would be to run the stock LS3 motor, then modify it with ported heads and a cam, then install the same components on the Texas Speed stroker. This would provide readers with plenty of information on both stock and stroker displacement LS3 applications. We have plenty of future testing in store for the stroker, but for now, let's get this party started.
First up was the stock motor. The LS3 crate piece is essentially a Corvette milled pulled from the assembly line. Displacing 376 ci and rated by the factory at 430 hp and 424 lb-ft of torque, our test method would unearth significantly more power from the impressive small-block. Tested on the engine dyno at Westech, the LS3 was equipped with an electric water pump, long-tube headers and run devoid of any accessories. Also on the missing components list were the induction system ahead of the throttle body, the entire exhaust system and any accessories. Rather than the conservative factory tune, we also optimized the air/fuel and timing using a FAST XFI/XIM management system.


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