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July 2012
Grimac re-elected to CBID board
A few weeks back, the Scope reported that an election for one of the seats on the Central Business Improvement District board had ended in a tie.
The stalemate pitted incumbent board member Kevin Grimac, of VF Corp., against challenger Tim Hill, of Hatcher Hill Properties, but the membership voted again at a meeting last week.
And the winner is ... Kevin Grimac!
Scope readers might recall that Grimac and his wife, Melinda, recently bought the Arcade Building, on Gay Street. (The picture above was taken on the roof.)
Tuesday briefing
Developer's roof goes green. KNS
Stroud Watson: The man behind Chattanooga's downtown revival. Times Free Press
Opening up at work: Chattanooga office spaces becoming more interesting. Times Free Press
311 report shows more Knoxville blight calls. KNS
KNS photo/Michael Patrick
Wanted: Creative ideas for improving Knoxville
A few weeks back, the private philanthropy of New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg offered $9 million in prizes -- including a $5 million grand prize -- to American cities that come up with innovative ideas that can be shared with other cities.
Now, the City of Knoxville is looking for public input as it prepares to take a crack at the "Mayor's Challenge."
According to a news release, the city is soliciting proposals between now and August 10, and ideas can be submitted here.
The city is looking for ideas that:
• address serious social or economic problems;
• improve customer service for residents or businesses;
• enhance accountability to or engagement with the public; and/or
• create efficiencies that make government work better, faster, and cheaper.
Of course if you'd like to receive some informal peer review from Scope readers before officially pitching your idea to the city, feel free to submit it in the comments section below.
For inspiration, Bloomberg Philanthropies has also provided examples of innovation in Tulsa, Chicago and New York.
AP file photo/Jason DeCrow
National Coal building sold ahead of auction
A West Knox County office building won't be auctioned after all.
The former headquarters of National Coal Corp., at 8915 George Williams Road, has been sold for $446,000.
John Lyle, of Coldwell Banker Commercial, said the buyers were Charlie and Suzanne Saah. Lyle said Suzanne Saah plans to open an upscale salon in the property.
The property had been slated for a Tuesday auction by CBRE Auction Services. James Roberson, of NAI Knoxville, was also working on the deal.
Monday briefing
Alvin Nance balances politics, finance to manage KCDC. KNS
While nonprofits spar, former military institute deteriorates. KNS
Knoxville Chamber denies commissioner's request to see private finances. KNS
KNS photo/J. Miles Cary
State Street hearing tonight
Just a reminder: The city will hold a hearing this evening about a proposed expansion of the State Street Garage.
Details here.
KNS photo/J. Miles Cary
Shake-up at Ruby Tuesday
Carly Harrington has a fascinating story in this morning's KNS about big changes at the Ruby Tuesday board, including the withdrawal of Jimmy Haslam as lead director.
Matthew Drapkin, a partner at the investment firm Becker Drapkin Management, which pushed for a position on the board last year, will become lead director and will eventually become chairman once a CEO is named. Steve Becker, also with Becker Drapkin Management, will resign in October.
"He's got a lot of time to focus on this," Beall said of Drapkin, whom he called "a great guy."
KNS file photo/Saul Young
Thursday briefing
South High owner, city continue blight battle. KNS
Giant wheel approved at former Belle site. The Mountain Press
Work moving into gear on VW expansion sites in Chattanooga. Times Free Press
Harpeth River, in Franklin, flows freely for first time since '63 as dam torn down. Tennessean
KNS photo/J. Miles Cary
National Coal building to be auctioned
The former headquarters of a local energy company is being auctioned.
According to a marketing brochure, the 5,000-square foot office property at 8915 George Williams Road, in West Knox County, will be sold July 31 in an online auction. The building was formerly home to National Coal Corporation.
James Roberson, of NAI Knoxville, is working on the deal, along with CBRE Auction Services, which is the auctioneer.
National Coal was acquired in December 2010 by Ranger Energy Investments LLC, a company controlled by West Virginia businessman and coal baron Jim Justice.
Submitted photo
Wednesday briefing
Council approves $1.03 million sidewalk repair contract. KNS
Knoxville Visitors Center, on Gay Street, gets more free parking. KNS
Party City stores reopen. KNS
Texas investment group buys Nashville's Hotel Indigo in foreclosure sale. Tennessean
Dollywood seeks rezoning for 165 acres. The Mountain Press
Cosmetology school buys former Cool Springs car dealer site for $2.2 million. Tennessean
KNS photo/J. Miles Cary
W. Knox office building sold for $31.7M
The local headquarters of the FBI has been sold.
An LLC with ties to Fort Lauderdale, Fl.-based Consilium Investment Management paid $31.7 million for the hilltop property in the Dowell Springs Business Park, off Middlebrook Pike.
Broadway retail building sold to McInturff
The winning bidder was the same but the price dropped dramatically at a Tuesday foreclosure auction for a retail building at the corner of Broadway and Glenwood Avenue.
Local investor Patrick McInturff (above, right) submitted the high bid of $85,000 for the property at 1320 N. Broadway, which is located near the historic Fourth and Gill and Old North Knoxville neighborhoods.
The same building had been offered for sale in September, but at that time its previous owner declined to accept McInturff's bid of $122,650. This morning's sale was part of a foreclosure proceeding by Home Federal Bank whose vice president of the collection department, Joyce Cannon (above, left), also submitted bids at the auction.
After the auction, McInturff said his daughter has considered opening a coffee shop in the building. It also is home to a tienda, and McInturff said he hopes that tenant will stay.
Tuesday briefing
Knoxville clock repairman tends to Tennessee's towering timepieces. KNS
Turley: Turkey Creek Public Market property not for sale. KNS
Pair plead not guilty in Benchmark Capital fraud case. KNS
KNS photo/Michael Patrick
Chickens not leaving Chattanooga's Southside
The TFP has an interesting story about Pilgrim's Pride, a chicken company that has no plans to leave Chattanooga's fast-gentrifying Southside neighborhood, no matter what urban planners might think.
The planners' proposition calls for Pilgrim's Plaza, a hypothetical mixed-use development, to replace the Southside processing plant as part of a larger vision that could cost hundreds of millions of dollars over the next several decades.
A team of urban designers presented the project last week to a group of more than 200 government officials, developers and architects at an urban design challenge sponsored by River City Co.
But Pilgrim's Pride says the nonprofit's planners are counting their chickens before they hatch.
"Pilgrim's has no intention of moving our facility in Chattanooga," said Heath Loyd, the complex manager for Pilgrim's Pride Chattanooga.
The chicken problem is reminiscent of the PSC Metals situation in Nashville, where prime downtown acreage is being used by a gigantic scrap yard.
TFP photo/Dan Henry
Owen takes charge at Rarity Bay board
Former Knoxville police chief Sterling Owen has ousted developer Mike Ross from the HOA at Rarity Bay.
Earlier this year, Owen was appointed as a receiver in connection with a lawsuit filed by Robert Stooksbury against Ross -- his estranged business partner -- and other defendants.
That case focused largely on Rarity Pointe, a waterfront community in Lenoir City which has since been sold at a foreclosure auction. But last week, Owen announced plans to take an active role in leadership at Rarity Bay, which is located in Vonore.
In a letter to Rarity Bay owners and residents that was dated July 19, Owen said he had discharged Ross, his niece, and two other people as directors of Rarity Bay Community Association, Inc.
The former police chief went on to say that he was temporarily assuming the positions of president and chairman of the board until new directors and officers could be installed, and that he would chair a meeting scheduled for Wednesday.
"It is my goal to put the Association under the control of the members as soon as practical," he said. "We request your patience as we transition to a new Board of Directors and method of operations."
Ross could not be reached for comment. An attorney representing Owen, Luis Bustamante, said he doesn't comment on pending litigation.
2008 file photo/Wade Payne
Monday briefing
Turkey Creek Public Market to close. AP
UT classroom upgrade offers new way of teaching. KNS
Dollywood sees a rise in visits. KNS
Utility work to disrupt Westview Towers residents. KNS
Gail Kerr: Nashville mass transit faces big roadblock - our love of cars. Tennessean
KNS photo/Michael Patrick
State buys two properties in East Knoxville
The state of Tennessee has purchased two buildings near Pellissippi State's Magnolia Avenue campus.
According to a deed, the buildings at 1715 Linden (pictured above) and 1716 Magnolia (below) were purchased by the state for $327,000.
Last year, the State Building Commission's executive subcommittee had approved the purchase of the buildings, with the understanding that they would be demolished and the site used for parking by Pellissippi State. (See page 9 of this document.)
Friday briefing
State of Tennessee lost $475,000 on home sold to Apple founder Steve Jobs. Commercial Appeal
Carly Harrington: Knox360 offers Google virtual tours. KNS
Nashville weighs bus rapid transit issues. Tennessean
Suit filed over Belle site
Demolition of a steamboat-shaped building on the former Belle Island is pictured in May, 2012.
A legal snag has popped up on the former Belle Island.
Darby Campbell and his business partner, Bob McManus, are leading the charge to redevelop the property, which is located between the Parkway and Teaster Lane in Pigeon Forge.
In November, a group led by Campbell and McManus paid $10 million for the retail portion of the island and subsequently launched an ambitious rehab project that included the demolition of a steamboat-shaped building that was supposed to house the memorabilia collection of actress Debbie Reynolds.
Last month, though, a bank that owns a portion of the site filed a lawsuit, alleging that it had not approved the demolition of a steamboat-shaped building on the site and that its interest in the island had been "significantly devalued" by the action.
When will the Northshore Target open in Knoxville?
In this 2008 file photo, a shopper leaves a Target store in Irving, Texas.
Target announced Thursday that its new store at Northshore Town Center will open on Wednesday, July 25, with a grand opening set for July 29.
The store is located near the intersection of Pellissippi Parkway and Northshore Drive, at a shopping center that will also be home to Publix. The Florida grocery chain is planning to open its first Knoxville store on August 2.
Knoxville has seen a flurry of national retailers express interest in the market in recent months. In addition to Publix, brands such as Costco, Trader Joe's and Whole Foods have announced plans for local stores.
Last year, Target paid $2.5 million for a 10.74-acre site at Northshore Town Center. A group led by developers Budd Cullom and Jim Harrison had acquired a 134-acre portion of the project at a foreclosure auction in 2009, after a South Carolina development firm was unable to follow through on its plans for the site.
AP file photo/Tony Gutierrez
Thursday briefing
New Southwest Knox school on schedule: Walls going up. KNS
Turtles flee farm in Chattooga County, Ga. Times Free Press
Casual Pint to open Friday. Stuck Inside of Knoxville
Campbell mayor sues Freddie Mac, Fannie Mae. KNS
Trial set for next summer in TVA tree-cutting lawsuit. KNS
Auction scheduled for Broadway building
A property at the corner of Broadway and Glenwood Avenue, north of downtown, has been slated for a foreclosure auction.
According to a sale notice, the building will be auctioned at 11 a.m. on July 24, at the front door of the City County Building.
The 5,100-square foot building was offered for sale in September and drew a winning bid of $122,650, but the owner declined to sell for that price.
The building is located at a prominent corner near the Old North Knoxville and Fourth and Gill neighborhoods, and area residents have taken an interest in the building's future. Lauren Rider, president of Old North Knoxville Inc., said there are a lot of vacancies in the area, adding that "we need to see some turnaround."
"And I think there are ... a lot of families with disposable incomes on both sides of Broadway that would like to see retail come in. It'd be nice if it was vibrant and usable," Rider said.
The winning bidder last year, Patrick McInturff, said he remains interested in the building and plans to attend next week's auction.
Is Knoxville dying?
George Korda has an interesting column in Cityview Magazine that asks if Knoxville is a dead city walking.
That seems like a loaded question, but Korda does raise an interesting point when it comes to population growth.
So why is the county growing so much faster than the city? And, for that matter, why are Chattanooga and Nashville growing faster than Knoxville?
The Scope saw Korda's column on Knoxviews, which asserted that the city isn't growing because it's built out and new development is done in the county. If you have a thought, post it in the comments.
KNS photo/Amy Smotherman Burgess
Wednesday briefing
Southside Chattanooga planners replace chicken plant with arena, light rail. Times Free Press
Nashville farmers allowed to have roadside stands. Tennessean
Downtown Nashville residents weigh in on bus rapid transit. Tennessean
Knoxville designers pitch in for Olympics
If you've got Olympic fever, tomorrow's column is worth a read.
The opening ceremonies are just days away, but Knoxville's ties to the London Olympics aren't limited to the swimming pool or the basketball hardwood.
When it comes to the Olympic venues, a key role has been played by Populous, the Kansas City-based architecture and design firm that has a dozen offices on four continents, including one in West Knoxville.
Populous developed the original plan for Olympic facility locations and designed the 80,000-seat main stadium, one of the architectural showpieces for the event. While the firm has an office in London, its Knoxville operation has specialized expertise for one particular area of the Games -- the equestrian competition.
Continue reading "Knoxville designers pitch in for Olympics"
Lenoir City shopping center sold for $12M
A shopping center and acreage in Lenoir City have been sold for more than $12 million.
An entity called Town Creek at Knoxville, LLC, has purchased the The Market at Town Creek, and is planning to re-launch a marketing campaign for the property. The Market is located at 455 Highway 321 North and is anchored by a Food City grocery store.
The buyer paid $12.1 million for the shopping center, 20 acres of undeveloped land and three outparcels.
Continue reading "Lenoir City shopping center sold for $12M "
Tuesday briefing
Chattanooga's population growth outpacing Knoxville, Nashville. Times Free Press
Hearing and Speech Foundation begins seeing patients in new facility. KNS
Chattanooga's North Shore may get a Publix grocery store. Times Free Press
Landmark redevelopment project The Factory at Franklin sold for $24.2M. Tennessean
Nashville's mass transit ridership soars. Tennessean
TFP graphic/Laura W. McNutt
Former Universe property up for sale in Sevier
More than 500 acres of land in Sevier County have hit the market.
Cornerstone CRES, of Knoxville, is part of a team that is marketing 545 acres located near the Wilderness at the Smokies resort and water park and the Sevierville Events Center.
The property was previously owned by an entity called Universe LLC, but was acquired by Capital Bank -- which itself had acquired GreenBank -- at a foreclosure sale last year.
Dan Adkins, of Cornerstone, said the property is in 9 different tracts with a variety of zoning types. He said it includes five acres directly across from Wilderness and another 34 acres across Old Knoxville Highway from the resort.
"Ideally we would sell it as one large piece, 545 acres," he said. "But realistically we're probably going to sell it to three or four different buyers, because it varies so much by type of development."
The Universe property has a tangled history. For more details, check out Greg Johnson's archived columns here and here.
Photo courtesy of Cornerstone CRES
Monday briefing
Overcrowded animal shelters urge adoptions, spay/neuter operations. KNS
Roadshow highlights downtown renewal. KNS
Harvesting system brings rainwater to the faucet. KNS
Jim Shelby dies at 75. KNS
KNS photo/J. Miles Cary
South High School owner cited by city for code violations
The historic South High School must be repaired and is in violation of the city's demolition by neglect rule, according to an order signed by the head of the Better Building Board today and posted on the property by a city inspector.
"Demolition by neglect has been on the books for seven, eight years," said David Brace, director of public service for Knoxville. "It's never been utilized."
The order would give the city the authority to repair the school itself and bill the owner Bahman Kasraei if he does not have the proper work done.
More details here.
KNS photo/J. Miles Cary
State OKs planning for UT lab near White Avenue
A decision may still be in the future, but the bureaucratic wheels are turning on a trio of 1890s-era Victorian homes on White Avenue.
The Tennessee State Building Commission on Thursday approved a request from the University of Tennessee to move forward with planning for a new science lab facility near the intersection of Cumberland Avenue and 13th Street.
According to an agenda (page 61), the $90 million project includes acquisition of the three homes, although it doesn't say what would happen to them.
UT's plans have sparked strong opposition from preservationists, who are worried the homes could be demolished. UT has previously said it was still trying to determine what size the building will be, and whether it will impact the homes. The university has also raised the possibility of the homes being moved.
In an email this week, UT's vice chancellor for finance and administration, Chris Cimino, said "Nothing has changed. The (SBC) approval is to move forward with planning. The building itself has not been funded by the state. We are still finalizing the program and budget in order to assess the feasibility of the building and site."
Friday briefing
UT unveils solar-powered, free-standing charging station. KNS
Carly Harrington: Founder of Wok Hay opens new restaurant at Northshore Town Center. KNS
MPC approves W. Knox Weigel's with 30-foot sign. KNS
Bob Talbott moves to Nashville, leaves UT board
Knoxville real estate developer and University of Tennessee trustee Robert Talbott has resigned his position on the board after moving to Nashville for business reasons.
Talbott, who had represented the 2nd District on the board since 2007, chaired both the health affairs and the finance and administration committees. He submitted a resignation letter to the governor June 26.
Check out the details here.
2007 file photo/J. Miles Cary
A tiki revival in Knoxville
The Metro Pulse has the low-down about Knoxville's two tiki bars.
It has taken 10 years of collecting authentic Polynesian and tiki artifacts, a year and a half of construction, a couple of different iterations, and endless planning and reshaping--all in an effort to create the perfect tiki bar.
"My tiki bar in my home is the escape pod," (Glazner) says. "At the end of the day, you go in there and you're not anywhere else. It's not necessarily back in time, it's out of time."
Check out the details here.
Photo credit/David Luttrell
Thursday briefing
UT takes steps toward razing Stokely Athletic Center. KNS
Fancy towels, iPod listening stations, spa-style shower heads -- Pilot invests $49M in truck-stop shower upgrade. KNS
East Knoxville market closed in nuisance raid. KNS
Anderson industrial park firms file injunction to block convenience center. KNS
Gatlinburg sports complex moving forward. The Mountain Press
East, West Nashvillians split on bus rapid transit project. Tennessean
Sunspot in the former Old College Inn?
It looks like that might be a possibility.
A building permit issued last month for work at the former OCI space, at 2200 Cumberland Avenue, lists Sunspot Restaurant as the tenant.
Randy Burleson, owner of Sunspot, told the Scope that he does have a lease for the OCI building, but doesn't know what will be done with it. "We are making improvements to the OCI grounds," he said.
Sunspot is currently located just up The Strip, at 1909 Cumberland Avenue.
The Old College Inn last year announced a move to the former Chili's, at 1824 Cumberland. It is now called the Goal Post Tavern.
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Property next to Halls Walmart sold
A South Carolina developer has bought a site in Halls, and plans to develop a retail center with 10 tenants.
An LLC with ties to Greenville-based RealtyLink paid $1.7 million for a 4.4-acre site next to the Walmart on Norris Freeway.
Phil Wilson, a partner with the company, said it will build the shopping center and has tenants identified, although he declined to give details. "I think it's a lot of the tenants you see in Walmart shadow shopping centers," he said.
The seller on the deal was TTC Halls LLC, which has ties to developer Budd Cullom.
At one time, a Home Depot had also been planned nearby. Cullom said his firm still has a ground lease with Home Depot, but that the building products retailer had put the store plans on hold. "I don't know if they're ever going to build or not," he added.
Wednesday briefing
Wet relief: Much-needed rain forecast this week. KNS
State considers fracking regs. KNS
Anderson County mayoral candidates spar over TIFs. KNS
Rezonings on Northshore, Ebenezer draw opposition. KNS
KNS photo/Saul Young
Surprises found in Capitol renovation
The Commercial Appeal has an interesting story about some original design features uncovered during an extensive renovation of the Tennessee Capitol.
On the ground floor -- originally the basement but carved up into offices decades ago -- architects found the structure's original brick groin vaults, arches designed in Roman times and a sturdy staple of construction ever since. The arches were hidden behind false ceilings and plaster walls added over the years.
Architects have decided to leave many of the arches exposed so Capitol employees and visitors can see the original works -- including hooks added into the arches when the first electrical wires were installed in the building more than 100 years ago.
Check out the details here.
AP photo/Erik Schelzig
Tuesday briefing
Redeveloping Cumberland Avenue a matter of balancing competing interests. KNS
Kmart closing oldest remaining Chattanooga store. Times Free Press
H.G. Hill Realty has long-term approach to Nashville development. Nashville Scene
Chattanooga planners approve $9 million mixed-use project in East Brainerd. Times Free Press
Nashvillians speak out on bus rapid transit project. Tennessean
KNS photo/J. Miles Cary
When will Publix open its Knoxville store?
The Scope is getting a lot of visits from people who are interested in the new Publix store, and now the retailer has provided details about the planned opening.
According to a spokeswoman, the Florida-based grocery chain will open in Northshore Town Center on August 2, at 7 a.m.
Publix is also planning to eventually open stores in the Turkey Creek shopping center and near the University of Tennessee, but an opening date for those locations has not been announced.
Northshore Town Center will also be home to a Target store that is expected to open soon.
Knoxville has seen a flurry of national food-sellers express interest in the market in recent months. In addition to Publix, brands such as Costco, Trader Joe's and Whole Foods have announced plans for local stores.
Naples News photo/Tristan Spinski
Jewelry store coming to Gay Street
The Arcade Building, at 618 S. Gay Street, will soon be home to a jewelry store.
The Stuck Inside of Knoxville blog reported Monday that Rick Terry Jewelry Designs will be opening a store in the building in the next month or so. The company already has locations on Kingston Pike and in Lenoir City.
Scope readers will recall that the Arcade Building was purchased by Kevin and Melinda Grimac earlier this year.
Monday briefing
Roane center distributing cool treats during hot times. KNS
Oak Ridge retail plans may go public in August. KNS
Consultant helps landowners get better cell-tower leases. KNS
KNS photo/Bob Fowler
White Avenue homes draw social media support
The possibility that three 1890s-era Victorian homes on White Avenue could be demolished has prompted an online bid to save them.
This petition at Change.org had drawn 896 signatures as of Friday afternoon.
The petition urges UT to seek an alternate site for its proposed building project. "Removing vernacular architecture is detrimental to the city landscape, and also sets a dangerous precedent likely to be emulated by private owners and developers," it says. "If the University of Tennessee endorses the destruction of these houses, it undermines the authority of the city and its establishments which have fought to protect Knoxville from unscrupulous profiteers who disregard the city's history in favor of development."
UT has previously said no decision has been made about demolishing the properties.
TVA to consider retail space in garage
Plans for a new downtown parking garage are moving forward, and it appears that TVA will consider including commercial space at street level.
A few weeks back, the Scope reported that TVA and the city were considering a deal to build a new garage between Locust and Walnut streets, in downtown Knoxville.
According to TVA, the two parties have entered a conditional memorandum of understanding, and the federal agency has begun accepting comments on the proposal. TVA is preparing an environmental assessment and is seeking comments about what factors the review should consider.
A preliminary description of the proposal can be found here and comments can be submitted here. Comments can also be submitted by sending an email to firstname.lastname@example.com with "Attn: Knox Garage" in the subject line.
Holston units re-sold at a loss
In recent years most of the residential development money in downtown Knoxville has gone to apartments rather than condos, and a couple of recent sales show why.
Two high-end condos at the Holston building, at 531 Gay Street, each sold at a loss in recent weeks. A 10th-floor unit that was purchased in 2008 for $531,250 was re-sold this week for only $505,000, according to county records.
Meanwhile, a 12th-floor unit that was purchased for $889,560 in 2008 was re-sold in May for only $831,662, according to county records. (That unit had once been listed for more than $1.1 million.)
The Scope hasn't done a comprehensive study of sales at the Holston, and these deals aren't necessarily a barometer for the broader real estate market. The 10th-floor unit, for example, apparently was originally sold about six weeks before Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy, so the timing could hardly have been worse from a pricing standpoint.
But the sales are a good example that some corners of the downtown condo market may have been a little frothy back in 2008.
Friday briefing
Carly Harrington: Food trucks now serving at Scripps. KNS
Blount County girl grows humongous cabbage. (Picture included.) The Daily Times
Developers eye OR church in center quest. KNS
UT's Ayres Hall now 'greenest' building on campus. KNS
ORNL contractor gives $150,000 to scouts for STEM education at Buck Toms. KNS
Judge tosses bank lawsuit over CDOs. KNS
KNS photo/J. Miles Cary
U of Ark. coach John L. Smith facing bankruptcy over busted land deals
Apparently developers and bankers aren't the only ones facing big financial trouble because of the real estate meltdown.
Per the AP:
John L. Smith always believed real estate development was the safest investment of all, saying "you may not make money, but you won't lose money."
The Arkansas football coach has had to rethink that philosophy in recent years after several of his land deals went bust in Kentucky. Smith told The Associated Press that he is making plans to declare bankruptcy, perhaps during the upcoming season.
"There have been some sleepless nights trying to get this resolved," Smith said. "There comes a point in time where you say 'Enough is enough,' and I want it cleaned up and whatever we have to do, we have to do."
Check out the details here.
AP Photo/Gareth Patterson
Hank Williams movie not getting rave reviews
Knoxville history buffs know that the Andrew Johnson building, on Gay Street, is one of the last places where country-music legend Hank Williams, Sr., was seen alive.
In this week's edition, the Metro Pulse reports that a new movie about the last days of Williams' life is playing in Los Angeles, with a cast that includes former Tennessee Senator Fred Thompson.
But the early reviews aren't promising. Review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes gives The Last Ride a 36 percent score, based on 11 reviews, ranging from the Los Angeles Times ("Dramatically thin, formally uninspired and thematically weak") to Slant ("A typical wax-museum reproduction of the American South in which every detail is Southern in bold all caps, and not a single scene over the course of the film's 102 minutes rings true.")
AP Photo/Rob Carr
Mechanicsville office building under way
Remember that KCDC office building that was planned for the corner of University Avenue and College Street?
It's well under way, as evidenced by the photo above. Scope readers will recall that the two-story project will have about 7,500 square feet on each floor, and the Department of Labor and Workforce Development will occupy the first floor.
Thursday briefing
At age 83, Sevier County Bank executive Bill Brown steps aside. KNS
Marion County judge suspends Jasper Mountain foreclosure sale. Times Free Press
Retired department store executive, UT donor Frank W. Harvey dies. KNS
Cherokee Blvd. homes auctioned at courthouse
It's not unusual to walk past a property auction at the City County Building, but it's less often that the properties being sold are on Cherokee Boulevard, one of the city's classiest residential thoroughfares.
On Friday, homes at 1503 and 2049 Cherokee Boulevard were auctioned by Knox County Clerk and Master Howard Hogan. Both properties attracted numerous bids, but in each case the winning bidder was acting on behalf of Coldwell Banker broker Kasey Meheula.
According to Hogan, certain properties were owned jointly by two individuals, and a lawsuit was filed to divide them. Hogan said the court determined it was in the best interest of both parties to sell the properties and divide the proceeds.
The home at 1503 Cherokee (above) drew a winning bid of $350,000, while the home at 2049 Cherokee (below) drew a winning bid of $525,000. Neither sale is final, though -- Hogan said there is a 10-day period following the sale in which a higher bid could be submitted.
Meheula said Friday that she was working on behalf of one of the former owners, who could not be reached for comment.
Tuesday briefing
County Mayor Tim Burchett subpoenas News Sentinel for visitor records, surveillance videos. KNS
Dead fish stink up neighborhood. KNS
Hutcheson family to get ownership of Peerless Mill, in Rossville. Times Free Press
Photo credit/Chad Greene
Monday briefing
KAT ridership up, thanks largely to Knoxville Station. KNS
Blackberry Farm's panache attracts homebuyers. Greater Knoxville Business Journal
Switch in trash days aims to spruce up Fort Sanders. KNS
Scripps Networks builds 'Quack Shack' for duck. KNS
Republic Plastics to add 200 jobs. KNS
New jobs at old sites: Chattanooga Chamber eyes brownfields for industrial prospects. Times Free Press
Plan for Franklin subdivision on former Brad Paisley property is revived. Tennessean
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Two Stone Bridge High School bands are expected to appear in Cardogan Hall Sunday as part of London's New Year's Day Festival, and Ashburn residents can view the performances online via a live stream.
The school's Wind Symphony and Jazz Ensemble will each appear, starting at 2:30 p.m. Eastern Standard Time. View the appearances here.
In the meantime, check out these YouTube clips of both bands. Additional clips can be found on YouTube for the jazz ensemble here and the wind symphony here.
The marching band will also perform in the New Year's Day parade on Tuesday. Information about that performance will be provided here if/when it becomes available.

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Colorado Prepares for All-Out Gun Fight
New demographics, Democratic majority makes gun fight hotter in Colorado.
President Obama embraces Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper as Sen. Mark Udall (D-CO) and Sen. Michael Bennet (D-CO) look on at the University of Colorado Hospital in Aurora, Colo., July 22, 2012.
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Both sides are preparing for the fight by strengthening their lobbying forces in Colorado.
Mayors Against Illegal Guns, a group launched by New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, has set up shop in the state, hiring two new lobbyists to get their message out at Colorado's state house. And gun industries are hiring lobbyists to protect themselves from restrictive gun bills that could hurt business.
In Colorado guns are not just for sport, they are for safety. Pro-gun groups worry new restrictions will hurt individuals abilities to protect themselves.
"Like many Western states, large numbers of people live long distances from law enforcement. Response times are longer. In some areas, 25 minutes would be a quick response time," Brown says. "What would have stopped the Aurora theater shooting was a person with a gun and a concealed carry permit."
Brown admits "this is shaping up to be a big battle," but says that his Republican allies won't flinch on guns.
Like in the U.S. House of Representatives, Colorado's Republicans are more conservative then they were a decade ago and they are more ready to fight against new gun laws.
"The swing districts are represented by Democrats," says Laura Chapin, a Democratic strategist who is working in the state to pass stronger gun laws. "What you have left are very hardcore conservatives from very conservative districts."
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Chargers add TE depth behind Gates
The Chargers have reached a one-year deal with TE Dante Rosario, creating more depth behind starter Antonio Gates.
Chargers re-sign TE McMichael
The Chargers have re-signed TE Randy McMichael, keeping a valuable run blocker and receiver on their roster.
Chargers add S Bigby
The Chargers, who lost S Steve Gregory in free agency to the Patriots earlier in the week, have compensated for it by signing free-agent S Atari Bigby.
Whitehurst returns to Chargers
After two failed seasons in Seattle, QB Charlie Whitehurst is returning to the team that drafted him in 2006, San Diego, which then cut veteran QB Billy Volek.
Chargers sign WR Royal
The Chargers have added their second receiver since losing Vincent Jackson in free agency, signing Eddie Royal on Thursday evening.
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The Patriots have signed former Chargers free-agent SS Steve Gregory to a three-year contract.
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After losing three Pro Bowl players early in the offseason, the Chargers have turned things around with some signings that improve the roster.
Fantasy spin: LeRon McClain
LeRon McClain is now a Charger, replacing Mike Tolbert but will he be used like Tolbert was the past two seasons? William Del Pilar breaks it down.
Chargers add RB McClain
Le'Ron McClain has signed with the Chargers, giving them a bigger back to presumably replace free agent Mike Tolbert.
Chargers sign OLB Johnson
In an attempt to bolster their linebacking corps, the Chargers have signed OLB Jarret Johnson to a four-year contract.
Chargers keep Gaither with four-year deal
The Chargers have signed OT Jared Gaither to a four-year contract, a major boost to a team that has had a rough offseason thus far on the offensive line.
Fantasy spin: Robert Meachem
The Chargers quickly replaced the loss of WR Vincent Jackson with Robert Meachem but what should fantasy owners expect? William Del Pilar breaks it down.
Chargers add WR Meachem
Hours after losing WR Vincent Jackson to the Buccaneers, the Chargers signed free-agent WR Robert Meachem to a four-year deal.
Bucs gamble on Jackson with division rivals in mind
After staying out of the free-agent melee for the past few offseasons, the Buccaneers took a tremendous risk, albeit one that could pay big dividends, on the first day of free agency.
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The Chargers announced on Tuesday that they have re-signed C Nick Hardwick to a three-year contract.
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By Joyce Rorabaugh
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History is no more than individuals working together toward a common goal. Over the years hundreds of volunteers have put their all toward the goal of making the Cumberland County Playhouse a state landmark. As the Playhouse approaches its 50th anniversary, the Cumberland County Archives and Family Heritage Center is honored to present the Helen Byrd Cumberland County Playhouse Collection, with restoration and preservation in memory of Grace Harrison.
Helen (Cummins) Byrd (1912-2001) was a fixture at the Playhouse almost from its inception, raising the bar on volunteerism to new heights. In fact, the Playhouse features an award in her name for "outstanding volunteer service to the Cumberland County Playhouse and its programs." At one time or another, Byrd ushered, worked on costumes, was house manager, scenery painter and "everything in between." She served on the board of directors and was an active proponent of the children's theater program.
She is most recognized for her characters in several plays, including a long standing roll as Miss Mary, one of the pioneer women in Tennessee, USA! She performed in well over 500 performances during 11 runs of the play. Also to her credit are 63 other plays. Byrd was left a widow with a five-year-old son. So she became involved in the Playhouse as an activity they could do together. Son Jack also performed, did lighting and set work and made his own contributions to the success of the Playhouse.
Byrd was also an elementary teacher and a member of several civic organizations.
"We thank Jack and wife, Vivienne, for contributing this collection to the Archives," said Joyce Rorabaugh, archivist.
To learn more about her and her family ties to Cumberland County, visit the Archives to see her collection of scripts, playbills, photos and other memorabilia.
Grace (Worthington) Harrison (1917-2011) was a native of Pittsburgh, PA. She knew from age eight that she wanted to be an artist. Her early career was in graphic arts, starting in Miami, FL, and finally New York City. She met Cumberland County native Arthur G. Harrison, then a young Lieutenant in the U.S. Navy, and they married in 1943 in New York. From that time to 1960, she followed her husband and the Navy all over the world. Wherever she was, she managed to study and paint.
Along the way she received several awards for her paintings. They returned to Arthur's hometown in 1960. She had barely gotten settled into her new home here when, in 1963, she became involved with Paul and Mary Crabtree putting on their first local play, The Perils of Pinocchio. She designed the Pinocchio puppet doll on her dining room table, bringing him to life in paper mache.
Grace also helped design the Playhouse. Over the years, her sets became treasures of the Playhouse, renowned for technical design and beauty. She continued her artistic painting, expanded to other artistic mediums. Her other interests were broad and varied, including genealogy and an interest in English and Irish history.
Son Rob Harrison also spent a lot of his youth at the Playhouse, most of it on the lighting board. He was greatly missed when he left to attend Vanderbilt University.
"We thank Rob and Lisa Harrison for sponsoring the preservation of this incredible collection," Rorabaugh added.
Mike Boniol also performed at the Playhouse as a teenager and young man. He has been a volunteer at the Archives from its beginning, and since retiring from the Cumberland County School System, has expanded his hours at the Archives. His knowledge of the Playhouse made him the most appropriate preservationist to handle this huge collection.
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Asian elephants are in danger, but not from the poaching that their African cousins are, said Dennis Schmitt.
Instead, he said, it is encounters between wild elephants and people that threaten the elephants, and sometimes also the people.
Schmitt is professor of reproductive biology in the school of agriculture at Missouri State University, Springfield, and is the Ringling Brothers chairman of veterinary care and director of research. His morning talk in Webster Hall's Corley Auditorium at Missouri Southern State University was part of the MSSU Thailand Semester.
Schmitt is responsible for the first Asian elephant calf from artificial insemination, born at Springfield's Dickerson Park Zoo.
"The elephants are critically endangered," Schmitt said of Asian elephants. He said most of his experience has been with the elephants in Sri Lanka.
He said there are no accurate counts of Asian elephants in the wild, but the best estimate is about 45,000. The largest number is in India, with approximately 26,000. Thailand has about 1,000 wild elephants.
"Thailand is unique in one way," Schmitt said. "They probably have the largest or second-largest population of captive elephants."
He said that number is about 2,000. They work in the logging industry.
He said Asian elephants have one form of protection that African elephants don't have.
"In most Asian countries, the elephant is a religious symbol," he said.
The problem elephants face in Asia, Schmitt said, is when they trample or eat fields of rice, sugar cane or other crops. He referred to it as "crop raiding."
"Chronic crop-raiders are targeted by the people and the government," Schmitt said. "That's their livelihoods."
Some elephants become fond of rice beer and destroy houses and kill people to get to it, Schmitt said.
Schmitt discussed some possible ways that have been developed to keep elephants away. Those include electric fencing, trenches, chili peppers and fences with hollow logs containing beehives. He said the smell of chili peppers is usually enough to keep elephants away, and elephants are repelled by the sound of bees.
Some farmers throw half sticks of dynamite toward elephants when they're spotted, he said. He said farmers complain that after some time, it stops working.
"We haven't been able to tell if the elephants are losing their hearing from that, but we know the farmers are," he said.
Schmitt said a potentially promising new method involves placing collars with cellphone technology around the necks of elephants. The elephants can be tracked and used in tandem with Google Maps, park rangers can be notified in real time if an elephant is wandering out of a protected park, or farmers can be notified that an elephant is approaching. He said the method is still in its experimental phase.
"We've just started using these," he said. "We've put four of these on so far."
He said there also is a possibility of using a solar cell on the collar to keep the power charged.
Schmitt said it is called geo fencing. He said if cell phones can be used to track people, they can be used to track elephants.
"We can put cellphones on elephants, and we are," he said.
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Dennis Schmitt, agriculture professor at Missouri State University, Springfield, said protecting Asian elephants is a balancing act.
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By Myra P. Saefong and Victor Reklaitis, MarketWatch
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — Gold futures pared much of their earlier losses by the Comex close on Wednesday, then fell further in electronic trading after the Federal Reserve decided to keep trimming its bond-buying program by $10 billion a month, as expected.
Traders spent the regular trading session assessing a weaker-than-expected report on U.S. first-quarter GDP along with the strongest private-sector jobs growth in five months, waiting for the Fed decision, which came after the Comex close, and looking ahead to Friday's much-anticipated monthly employment report from the government.
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Gold for June delivery fell 40 cents to settle at $1,295.90 an ounce on the Comex division of the New York Mercantile Exchange, ahead of the central bank's policy announcement. Tracking the most-active contracts, prices climbed roughly 1% for the month, with much of the gain attributable to safe-haven demand for the metal in the wake of tensions surrounding Ukraine.
In electronic trading after the FOMC decision, June gold was down at $1,291.60 an ounce.
July silver lost 36 cents, or 1.9%, to $19.17 an ounce in regular Comex trading, with prices down close to 3% for the month, based on the most-active contracts.
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As expected, the U.S. central bank trimmed the size of its bond-buying strategy by $10 billion to $45 billion. This is the fourth straight meeting with an identical, gradual, reduction.
The Fed also kept its forward guidance unchanged, saying that it's appropriate to keep rates at zero "for a considerable time" after the bond buying program ends.
One interesting nugget is the expectation of an extended time period before the FOMC actually raises interest rates, "but no time table to do so," said Jeffrey Wright, managing director at H.C. Wainwright.
"We still believe this implies [the] taper will conclude in October/November at this pace," with approximately six months before an actual change in targeted interest rates, he said. "The implication for gold is unchanged at present; we do think gold could experience some short term weakness but is range bound in $1,250 - $1,325 band at the present time."
Influential data
The Fed decision was announced hours after a report showed the economy barely grew in the first three months of the year. Growth in the U.S. economy slowed to a miserly 0.1% annual pace in the first quarter from 2.6% at the end of 2013, a bout of weakness spurred by one of the worst winters in years. Economists polled by MarketWatch had expected growth of 1%.
But private-sector-employment gains beat economists' expectations in April, as employers added 220,000 jobs. Upbeat economic data tends to dull safe-haven demand for gold, while downbeat data often lifts it.
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The disappointing GDP number would be bullish for gold, but investors look at [it] as old news that can easily be blamed on the weather," said Brien Lundin, editor of the Gold Newsletter, ahead of the FOMC decision. "The ADP jobs number is more timely, and indicative that the economy is rebounding from the winter weakness, so investors are placing more stock in it and selling gold a bit."


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Kidney Theft: Urban Legend No More
It's an urban legend no more. The Washington Post reports that a stolen kidney-for-transplant racket was been broken up in India. To wit:
Three weeks ago, Mohammad Saleem, 33, agreed to work at a construction site in this bustling city near New Delhi. A house painter with an extended family of eight, he was drawn here by the promise of an extra dollar in his daily wage. After a few days of waiting in a blue-and-white bungalow for work to begin, Saleem said, he was forcibly anesthetized by two masked men.
"When I woke up after several hours, I felt a pain in my right side," Saleem recalled, sitting on a metal cot in a city hospital ward. "The men said, 'We have removed your kidney, and you better not breathe a word about it.' My life broke into pieces when I heard that."
I told you so. If legal organ markets with enforceable contracts are not permitted then organ bootlegging is inevitable. To wit:
Until medical science comes up with new ways to ease the growing shortage of transplantable organs, making the current voluntary black market into a white market with legally enforceable contracts could well forestall the development of an involuntary black market in organs. That would be win/win for us all.
reason has long been in favor of transplant organ markets. Why? Among other reasons, because few of us are as generous as former reason editor Virginia Postrel who donated a kidney in 2006.
Whole Post article here.
Addendum: For a nice take on how organ bootlegging might work, check out the superb 2002 movie "Dirty Pretty Things."
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Damn organleggers! Where's Gil "The ARM"?
Something about this story rings false. If a criminal is cold-hearted enough to forcibly remove one kidney for profit, why not take both kidneys, double your profits, and leave no witnesses?
I, for one can't wait until I can vat-grow a new non-rejectable kidney from my own cloned cells. 20 years tops.
Something about this story rings false. If a criminal is cold-hearted enough to forcibly remove one kidney for profit, why not take both kidneys, double your profits, and leave no witnesses?
The potential to hang for it, perhaps?
Although this shouldn't be too surprising, after all those urban legends I have to wonder if the story is false. Like Abdul said, why wouldn't th thieves take both kidneys and quietly dispose of the body? Seems like hiding the corpse of a poor guy away from his family would be easier than keeping a live victim quiet.
FWIW, in the 1990's I remember reading an LA Times printing a story of a scuba diver found in a forest fire....
On the topic of organ markets, I seem to recall that Iran allows kidney sales. Which just guarantees that America will never allow it.
LOL Highway, I thought for sure I would get the first organlegger joke.
Damn, highway beat me to it.
God, what a depressing set of stories they were
FWIW, in the 1990's I remember reading an LA Times printing a story of a scuba diver found in a forest fire....
There's a show called Urban Legends on (I think) the Biography network. They show three in each episode and you're supposed to figure out which one is true. The one you mention was false, IIRC.
When I was a staff writer for Forbes way back in 1990, I wrote an article--"Should I be allowed to buy your kidney?"--that looked at the international market in transplant organs. Here's one situation I found in India:
In the world's poorer countries, hospitals rarely have the equipment or trained staff to save organs for transplant. Nor can most of these countries afford hemodialysis facilities, thus, in effect, sentencing patients with kidney failure to certain death. In the case of kidney failure, the only real solution in many poor countries is to buy a kidney from a living donor, in a straightforward commercial transaction.
Consider the case of A. S. Reddy, a 45-year-old corporate secretary at the publishing house Orient-Longman in Hyderabad, India. His kidneys failed three years ago. None of his siblings was an appropriate donor. Reddy was fortunate to be able to afford private renal dialysis while his doctor, K. C. Reddy (no relation), looked for an appropriate donor. After just three months on dialysis, Reddy was successfully implanted with a kidney from Mrs. Velangani Vitalravi, a 25-year-old garment factory worker and mother of two.
"I had no choice but to pay for a kidney," the recipient says. Surgeon K. C. Reddy phrases his ethical response in this way: "Either I buy, or they die."
What about the lady who parted with one of her two kidneys? Mrs. Vitalravi used her money to buy a piece of land in her home town of Ambattur, just outside Madras, where she plans to build a house one day. Her husband also sold one of his kidneys and used the money to pay off debts and cover his sister's dowry and wedding costs.
Dr. Reddy, who did the operation, was trained in Madras, spent a year at Sinai Hospital in Baltimore, worked for five years in hospitals in England and ultimately returned to India in the early 1980s. His transplant team has performed more than 600 transplants to date -- all of which involved kidneys obtained from living donors, 450 of whom were unrelated. Reddy's clinic also handles the financial arrangements, in order to exclude middlemen who might coerce or blackmail donors to sell a kidney.
A complete operation in Dr. Reddy's clinic, including hospital costs, testing and donated organ, costs $ 5,000 for an Indian recipient, or $ 8,000 for a foreigner. (In the U.S. a kidney transplant operation typically costs $ 51,000 and is covered by Medicare.) Reddy pays kidney donors $ 1,800 -- about six times the average annual wage in India.
Thus are organs literally human capital. According to Reddy, one kidney donor bought a small farm, another set up shop as a shoemaker, a third set up a poultry business. Will Americans seek kidney transplants in India and other places where the organs are available if the supply bottleneck gets much worse?
"I have no doubt that it will occur," says Dallas nephrologist Alan Hull. "As the waiting list grows, I have to say to patients, 'Look, you have a rare blood type and you're a high reactor. The waiting time for you will be five to ten years, which is longer than your life expectancy, so while I'd love to give you a transplant, I don't think I can offer it to you.' If that person has money and there's a kidney in Bombay -- let's say -- you know what will happen. They're going to buy one."
The potential to hang for it, perhaps?
What's the sentence for just taking one kidney in India? A 100 rupee fine and community service?
If they allow legal selling of organs, then they'll have to allow the sale of cunt.
Organ bootlegging? As Highway notes above, the term is organlegging. I guess cosmolibertarians aren't science fiction geeks, either. Egad.
Good movie.
Not, however, "a nice take on how organ bootlegging might work"
Only slightly more realistic than The Island
Of course, some people think of Terminator as a nice take on how robots might take over the world.
I remain skeptical.
Neu Mejican,
Not I. Our robot overlords will enslave and/or exterminate us in a much more subtle way. A third alternative is that they will surpass us so far as to ignore our existence completely.
Our robot overlords will enslave and/or exterminate us in a much more subtle way.
Sure, but the problem is we'll need those robots to protect us from the coming zombie apocalypse.
How's that song go...
Head, shoulders, knees and toes, knees and toes.
Eyes and ears and mouth and nose...
A nice jingle for the emerging market.
The potential to hang for it, perhaps?
Given the chances that the implantee is gonna die anyway, I don't think these guys are squeamish about killing people off for profit.
Who buys a complicated, potentially deadly medical procedure from some guy on the street posing as a doctor?
Gives a whole nuther connotation to opening a body shop...
I would totally buy an Indian kidney before an American one. It's like selling microloans. You can really help people and yourself. And, that feels good.
I guess the kidneynappers didn't care what type Saleem had, there were probably several doctors and patients waiting. Makes you wonder how many kidneys were taken that day.
The anecdote in the initial post takes place in India, right? Then at 10:41 Ron posts quotes from a story he did about several incidents of kidney sales in India, with no mention of their illegality. The two stories, taken together seem to conflict with the assertion: If legal organ markets with enforceable contracts are not permitted then organ bootlegging is inevitable.
I must be missing something, or Bailey is. Pls. explain.
I liked Dirty Pretty Things a lot. Too bad Ms. Tatou is quitting film; she does those angry roles quite well and should do more of them.
I don't get this. I thought one of the reasons you'd never really see organ stealing operations is that the donor has to be so carefully screened.
Here's a kidney
Where'd it come from?
Blood type?
Vulgar, but Al S. wins the thread.
One problem with organlegging is that an organ has to be both (a) prematched to the recipient, and (b) fresh.
Matching donors to recipients requires a fair amount of medical information and analysis. I'm not sure how organleggers do that.
The organ also has to be taken immediately to the recipient, which means the transplant team needs to be in on it as well. Not impossible, but tough. Very tough.
@ Paul
Where'd it come from?
Abby who?
Abby Normal.
Dammit, I did my dissertation on biological property rights. Now I have to amend the damn thing. I'll assume Mr. Bailey posted this because he was envious of Ms. Howley getting more footnotes.
I'm a skeptic. My B/S detector remained silent after reading the article. I noted that names, dates and numbers are provided in the article. I hope they nail the evil bastard(s). A legal organ market would hve prevented this, but somehow I doubt that response will be chosen.
innominate: The kidney sales I described in India in 1990 were not illegal--they were contractually agreed to. Sometime after that, the Indian government made the commercial sale of transplant organs illegal. One result, as we see, is a black market.
I can't tell what the truth is here. I woke up in a strange bathtub one morning to find that my B/S detector had been surgically removed.
One result, as we see, is a black market.
With the associated violence. Who could have forseen that?
No one's answered my question.
Three weeks ago, Mohammad Saleem, 33, agreed to work at a construction site in this bustling city near New Delhi
So I assume that Mr. Saleem had to go through a serious and rigorous medical screening to get this job?
Hmmm... the story raises a lot more questions than it answers. If it wasn't for the fact that it is The Washington Post which I'm sure must have fact checked a story like this to death, I'd have to call BS.
Anyway, even if it somehow did turn out to be a hoax, the picture of Audrey makes it all worth it. :)
hmm... Surprised that no one (Warty?) has yet posted a link to these guys.
Now I'm really confused. The blogpost, titled "Urban Legend No More" suggests that we finally have a documented case. According to the Post article, this has been going on for "more than a decade".
Saleem was the latest in a long list of poor laborers who had come to Gurgaon to work and lost their kidneys as a result. Police say they were victims of a major organ-trafficking racket based in this city for nearly a decade.
According to Snopes:
Still, news accounts from India occasionally surface reporting claims that doctors have been arrested for stealing kidneys (either through trickery or force) from unsuspecting citizens. Such claims are difficult to evaluate given the typical lack of any follow-ups in the Western press, but other sources suggest the usual result is that charges are dropped or reduced when investigations determine that the claimants entered into voluntary agreements to sell their kidneys (and later leveled criminal accusations because they regretted their decisions or were disgruntled with the size of the payments they had received).
I'm inclined to believe the WaPo based on reputation alone, but this story, as some have noted, raises more questions than it answers. I'd severely nick the Post on not answering the fundamental questions: How were these dupes pre-screened for "donation?"
Correction, I meant to write "nearly a decade" in the post above.


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'Wings Over' Possibly Coming to East Arlington: A Wings Over, the franchise known for its airplane-inspired orders, such as the B-17 Bomber (60 wings), could be coming to East Arlington. Robert Savin, who already owns a handful of Wings Over franchises, is looking to open "Wings Over Arlington" at what is now The Wing Place and what was WhattaWing! not too long ago. The requested location is at 218 Massachusetts Ave., just a few doors down from the Capitol Theatre.
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Portland Pie Co. May be Coming to Reading: A company that started as a maker of gourmet pizza pies with flavored pizza dough is considering opening a restaurant on Haven Street, its first in the Commonwealth. Portland Pie Co., which opened in Portland, Maine, in 1997, has expanded its menu with appetizers, salads and sandwiches and full liquor service in five locations, according to its website: in Maine, in Portland, Scarborough and Westbrook and in New Hampshire, in Manchester and Nashua.
Mr. Charlie's Could be on the Move: The City Council opened three public hearings regarding North Woburn projects, but all will need more discussion.In August, some North Woburn residents were upset to learn that a a CVS could be built on the current site of Mr. Charlie's ice cream shop, while that eatery would move across the street into the the old Dunkin' Donuts spot in the shopping plaza.
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Original recipe yields 4 to 6 servings
- In a large skillet place oil, butter and onions and cook until golden brown.
- Add basil, pepper, water and bouillon and cook on low heat for 10 minutes.
- Add onion mixture to cooked pasta, sprinkle with cheese, toss and serve.
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I have debated for months on whether or not to try this...Personally, I liked it but I only used 2 onions - which was plenty for me. Yes, they shrink down plenty but I still want my goodnight kiss!! I did add some minced garlic and like another, a splash of white wine (which I added halfway through carmelizing). My daughter wouldn't touch it and my boyfriend picked out half the onions but my roommate and I really enjoyed it - any onion lover would. Not the best but a quick, easy, and tasty dish indeed!
This recipe has really good flavor--I did add one clove of minced garlic to the onions when they were nearly browned and I served it over spinach linguine. Quite creative too, I would never have thought of using carmelized onions over pasta but it works for me! The only reason I am not giving this recipe a 5-star rating is that in my opinion it has a lot more oil and butter than necessary. It gives it an overly greasy feel. Next time I will cut down on the oil and I am sure it will be more to my taste.
This was great, but I did change some things to suit my own personal preferences. I, like everyone else, only used a small amount of oil. I added about 1 cup of onions and one teaspoon of minced garlic to the oil and butter and cooked over medium heat in a saucepan. Then I added the basil, pepper, and chicken broth to the saucepan. Meanwhile I cooked and drained some angel hair pasta. I decided I wanted the sauce to be creamy, so in a smaller saucepan I made a white sauce with 1 cup of milk, 2 tbsp. of butter, and 2 tbsp. of Wondra flour. Once that had thickened I slowly stirred it into the onion mixture. I let it simmer together for a few minutes, added more salt and pepper, then began to spoon the pasta into the sauce until it was just the right consistency. It was so yummy! It was super creamy and my husband loved it. Thanks for the great recipe, Jackie!
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Amount Per Serving (5 total)
- Calories
- 579 cal
- 29%
- Fat
- 33 g
- 51%
- Carbs
- 60.3 g
- 19%
- Protein
- 11.6 g
- 23%
- Cholesterol
- 91 mg
- 30%
- Sodium
- 113 mg
- 5%
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Moonfish Bay Gallery hosts "Since the World Didn't End" the first show of 2013. We remind you to enjoy those things that make life beautiful, and we have gathered together some extraordinary work for your
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As a counterpoint we are pleased to present the strikingly energized acrylic paintings on canvas of Jamie Lynn Goldenberg. Jamie's insightful works provide a glimpse of what lies beneath the surface of human behavior with a style that is distinctly and boldly her own. We have also just received two new pieces by favorite local artist Lynne Parrish so everyone that has been waiting come by and see the exciting new direction Lynne's work is taking! We have glasswork by Virginia Spalter, works in ceramic by Dianne Caton, Don and Cristina Williams, Thoraine Loyd and Machon Kennedy, along with lots of original works by our regular artists so stop by and see us soon. Open Wed - Fri 11-5, by Appt any other time - just give us a call 727-742-2903.
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The July heat may have wilted ambitions a touch on last First Friday, but a couple of one-night-only exhibitions could be found in the farther reaches of the downtown-centric night, one a multimedia show curated by local sound artist and University of Tennessee professor Seva David Ball at A1 LabArts.
First greeted by paintings hung on pegboard ("Splattering Wasp Tail," $22; "3-legged Bird Lady," $66), the second-most reliable attraction in the Randolph Street warehouse, once the sound was turned up, was a small screening room set up with a long reel of short films, some with title cards, many without. With patience, you'd be treated to some pleasingly hypnotic images pixilated to abstraction in all colors of the 16-bit scheme, and, later, Matthew Rooney's lovely pixilated explosions and repeated shots of working machines, washed out into delicate lines. But it was the (not credited) jerky and saturated shots of raw meat set to jaunty music that took the prize for funny and refreshing before your attention turned to the back of the gallery, where five jumbo screens eventually (after spending the first portion of the evening showing the JVC logo) got around to featuring a repeat performance of Taylor Trumphour's "Panoramic Lapse," also on the short film loop. The short explores daytime activity at the Krutch Park annex, the KAT hub on Main Street, and the southeast end of Market Square through various shots at various times, lined up to create a panoramic effect. The large format was an impressive, immersive setup. Sometimes bigger is better.
But staying to view it again in full wasn't an option, as something threatened to happen in the other room off the entrance. That turned out to be either a practice run or a real why-the-hell-not kind of performance of spoken word and music from a piano getting worked over—both on the keys and its exposed innards—and a laptop. Meanwhile, a seemingly unrelated Mac projected onto the wall, first, a student film of sparkling skies and shimmering seas, then the desktop.
Another exhibition took place at Ironwood Studios off Central Street. Brian Waldschlager played to the mostly seated crowd, but the walls were plastered with vibrant paintings by Kit Hoefer of classic still-life subjects (tablescapes, statues) and landscapes, all made to bend, loop, and quiver in jewel tones. As if that didn't fill up the room, pedestals here and there featured the metal works of Ironwood co-owner Preston Farabow, some home décor-friendly tendrils, others fish skeletons with wings and plastic baby-doll legs. The metal coat rack near the exit neatly tied it all together, but was not credited.
Back in downtown proper, and still available for viewing, two exhibitions opened at the Emporium Gallery on Gay Street. Upstairs you'll find Forms and Figures, bite-size series from each of seven photographers: Alan Finch, Kathy Frankford, Carl Hill, Scott Lee, Ross Mol, Carole Usdan, and Dennis Usdan. Nature, portraits, and canoes are on display, but what unites these artists is their insistence that the photographer be as present as the objects in front of the lens. (That, and being the only show of this lot that can boast a frame around every picture.) From Finch's nature photographs, zoomed and cropped close and printed large (see "Marine Abstraction"), to Carole Usdan's portraits involving various intimate situations, obscured in various ways, ripe for an erotic-thriller movie poster, there's a conceptual bent or stylized streak to every series. But with so many artists involved so briefly, the contrivances feel like both too much and not enough. Like being served a Brandy Alexander as an aperitif.
Downstairs at the Emporium is A Celebration of Color: New Works by Larry S. Cole. Forgoing texture for geometry and having a way with layers and lines, Cole rescues the city streets, the boat docks, and the woman whose face we cannot see from the realm of sickeningly romantic through the jarring brightness of his palette and his ability to paint a lot without ever painting quite the same thing twice. And there is a lot to see. I think it's no coincidence that this show is where I encountered one of the most attentive five-year-old boys I've ever seen. The artist statement on display mentions using color to quickly engage the viewer's senses, and so it was entirely appropriate that in lieu of cheese and crudités, the food offerings on the table were cookies, ice cream, and sprinkles. m
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