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GALLIPOLIS — The administrative offices of the City of Gallipolis will be on the move once again Thursday as they make their way to their new permanent home in the Gallipolis Municipal Building.
The municipal building, located at 333 Third Avenue on a portion of the municipal parking area, will house the city manager's office, city auditor's office, code enforcement, tax office, parks and recreation and the city's water office.
On Thursday, the administrative offices will be closed as the city's administrative employees move their equipment, office furniture and paperwork from their old home in the Gallia County Job and Family Services Building at 848 Third Avenue to their new facility.
According to Gallipolis City Manager Randy Finney, despite last-minute work that needs to be finished, the move will go forward on Thursday.
"I can't stop now. We're in the process of the phones being moved, and we have to move forward," Finney reported during a regular city commission meeting on Tuesday evening. "We are closed on Thursday. Some people are going to have a hard time dealing with that, but we can't work and move at the same time. So far it's going pretty well, but the next three days are going to be trying."
After the Gallipolis Municipal Offices have had the time needed to settle into their new home, the city will hold a ribbon cutting and grand opening ceremony at 6:15 p.m. on Tuesday, March 19 at the new facility at 333 Third Avenue. A special city commission meeting will follow in the new meeting chambers located in the municipal building.
Finney reported to the Gallipolis City Commission on Tuesday that the remaining work needed to be completed is basically all exterior work, including the completion of the curb in the front of the building, filling in holes and fixing the fleur-de-lis design on the outside of the facility.
Finney reported that, although the city will hold final payment on the contractor, Hoon, Inc., of Athens until the remaining work is completed, overall, he is impressed with their work on the facility.
"Hoon has done a very good job on this building," Finney said. "Always getting those last finishing touches seems to be tough for everybody to get done, but they've done an excellent job. They've worked well with us on this project and it really turned out pretty well."
In addition, the city manager reported that the office space used by the city since their move from the old Gallipolis Municipal Building on Second Avenue in July 2010 will need some minor work before it is turned back over to job and family services.
According to Finney, some painting and cleaning work will need to be completed, as well as the removal and replacement of interior walls, as the space was modified to suit the city's needs.
"I don't expect there will be a real big price for this, but they were good enough to let us use that building for a year at no cost, we've paid rent for the past five months, and that's all we've paid," he said.
During Tuesday's meeting, the commissioners also authorized change order number four with Hoon, Inc., for the construction of the facility.
This change order, in the amount of approximately $35,000, is for excavation work, plumbing and electrical service.
Finney explained that some of the funding will go toward lighting, a new drive-through drawer and other electrical and plumbing work inside the facility, while $6,300 of the change order will be utilized for a trench drain to drain water from around the exterior of the building.
"We're going to try to get it done this week," Finney said. "It'll be a 30-foot trench and we'll drain it out toward the road. We're going to put a seven-foot trench out back here and catch that water in the back and drain it toward the storm drain."
The majority of the change order, or approximately $22,000, can be attributed to foundation work on the building, according to Finney.
"The biggest change order we had was related to the foundation work around here, $22,000. We had to cut down further than we thought we had to, build that back up with dirt," Finney said.
The total bid package for the entire project was approximately $795,000, and with the four change orders, the cost for construction of the building totals approximately $848,000. Of the approximately $53,000 in change orders, approximately $40,000 of that was spent on excavation work alone, the city manager reported, while stating that he is pleased that the change orders only totaled a little over $50,000, on a project of that size.
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Hamburg Ballet in New YorkNeumeier's "Nijinsky"
Posted 21 February 2004 - 12:49 PM
Reports, please!
Posted 23 February 2004 - 08:11 AM
Posted 23 February 2004 - 11:11 AM
Posted 23 February 2004 - 08:40 PM
Whether you liked it or not, please weigh in! Neumeier is an important choreographer. With Forsythe, he's a star in Europe, considered a leading choreographer. I think we need to pay attention to him -- what did you think?
Posted 24 February 2004 - 08:55 AM
Neumeier's Nijinsky is intense enough to stun small animals at a distance ... perhaps our New York friends are still recovering?
Seriously, I agree with you that we need to take these companies and directors seriously. It's eye-opening to me how different in expression, ideas, and execution they are compared to American companies, and will show us many worthwhile things that we won't see (or at least haven't yet seen) with our native companies. I can't even begin to imagine an American company trying to fund a staging of a 2+-hour, complicated, intellectually- and emotionally-demanding ballet that doesn't hide its darker undercurrents and subtexts behind a pretty or innocuous facade.
Posted 24 February 2004 - 09:16 AM
I still want to read what New Yorkers thought of this one -- come on, guys! You went to Eifman.......
Posted 24 February 2004 - 09:50 AM
rom yesterday's Links thread:
It is a pity that this engagement, with outstanding casts on both Friday and Saturday nights, ended yesterday at City Center, but there is time to catch "Nijinsky" this week at the Kennedy Center in Washington.
It is not a perfect work, but its flaws are swept away by the phantasmagoria, with just the right music, that soars onstage into highly potent imagery.
People versed in Nijinsky lore will enjoy this ballet most. The uninitiated may be confused, but Neumeier's presentation is so engaging that it will surely prompt them to investigate further, which may be Neumeier's greatest gift to his idol.
From the Associated Press:
'Nijinsky' Painful Portrait of Genius
And that is the ballet's problem, too; it presupposes a knowledge of Nijinsky's life and works. Anyone not familiar with his story or with the characters he danced - the harlequin, the spirit of the rose, the golden slave, the faun - might have a very difficult time understanding the production.
The dancing, though, is first rate, and the choreography is absorbing, although there might be too many fits and twitches, too much frantic rolling around on the floor for some tastes. On Saturday night, in the second of three performances at the City Center, Ukrainian dancer Alexandre Riabko was impressive in his technique and affecting in his acting, providing a moving portrait of a man's descent into insanity.
Gia Kourlas in DanceView Times: (with several photos)
Clichés of Madness
Music, played on City Centers atrocious sound system is a blaring mess; arranged by Neumeier, it shifts, with little ease, from Chopin to movements from Rimsky-Korsakovs Scheherazade and Shostakovichs Symphony No. 11in G-minor, Op. 103. The chosen selections didnt help to glue the action onstage, and an often-overwhelming excess of characters only helped to muddle the effort. A real control freak, an approach I normally admire given all the failed collaborations of late, Neumeier himself presides over the ballets sets and costumes, which are loosely based on original sketches by Leon Bakst and Alexandre Benois. Again, it all seems a bit cheap.
As Nijinsky, Bubenícek is both a cartoon character whose insanity is indicated in clichéd imageshe rubs his chest in agony, he droops to the floor after a failed pirouette and he greets images of his past roles, all portrayed by other dancers, with the delight of a retarded child. Urbans Diaghilev is dashing and blond, in later scenes, he dons a tuxedo jacket and pants but no shirt (as with many of the male characters, Neumeier proves he is fond of the bare chest) and is more contemporary looking than Nijinsky himself. His cocky attitude conjures Coopers seductive Von Rotbart but his pimp act looks like a big put-on. Polikarpovas Romola (most of the female roles in this ballet seem an afterthought) borders on tawdry; with her over-processed blond hair and heavy makeup, she was less the woman who came between Diaghilev and Nijinsky than the sort of lady you typically encounter at the bar at the Russian Samovar on a Saturday night. Twenty-one going on 90.
Eric Taub reviews Hamburg Ballet's "Nijinsky" for Ballet.co's magazine:
Posted 24 February 2004 - 10:42 AM
To clarify, by intellectual, I mean one has to think to make the structural connections, and to understand why they're there, much like any other great art form. The dark human baggage stuff (or indeed any other message) is something that the structure conveys and allows us to grasp, again like any other great art form.
Too often, the great classical ballets (I'm glad you got my implication) are staged and presented just as pretty, shallow spectacles. It's one reason why I appreciate many of Balanchine's works, because they often distill the great classical canon down to their essence.
Posted 24 February 2004 - 11:02 AM
Without having seen this, it isn't fair to lump Eifman and and Neumeier in the same box, but to use Eifman as an example, the great divide is between those who value expressive and theatrical effects above structural ones and those who place structure and form first. What I read about Nijinsky suggests that it's a ballet that expressionists will admire and structuralists won't. The Neumeier I've seen to this point I haven't liked, and found structurally confused, so I ended up passing on it.
Posted 24 February 2004 - 11:12 AM
Andre Yew, on Feb 24 2004, 04:55 PM, said:
Or was this a reference to story ballets only?
Posted 24 February 2004 - 11:32 AM
Ask a large portion of the Paris audience what they thought when they saw Liebeslieder in December. More than one compared it to waltzing in Vienna on New Year's day. If you're looking for effects first, Liebeslieder is going to feel unsatisfactory. If you're looking for form, Tchaikovsky, Red Giselle, or Ivan the Terrible will set your teeth on edge.
Posted 24 February 2004 - 01:01 PM
Looking at Vienna Waltzes, more literally "walzing in Vienna on New Year's Day", you can see the evolution of the waltz in music, from Johann Strauss to Lehar to Richard Strauss, but also the psychic layers of turn-of-the-century Vienna, from the innocence of the young couple in the opening, to the feined innocence of the thespians, to the dandies and trollops of the demimonde on the border of the Vienna woods, to the jaded Merry Widow, to the neurotic woman alone in the Rosenkavalier waltzes. Or you can see a bunch of pretty dancers in a bunch of pretty costumes.
Posted 25 February 2004 - 08:35 AM
inexplicably acclaimed John Neumeier for his Hamburg Ballet, starts off
with visual promise. The production's first scene confronts the audience as it enters: The house curtain is already raised, showing the stage transformed into what looks like one end of a hotel ballroom; it has two levels of clean and crisp architecture, both bright, cold and white. Eventually some dancers enter, costumed to suggest 1919, the year given in the choreographer's program notes. And as the first few characters enter the scene and mill about, the theatrical authority begins to fade.
Mr. Neumeier explains that his ballet "begins with a realistic re-creation" of an event in the life of his eponymous character's much documented tragic career. Specifically the scene recalls a solo dance performance arranged by the already legendary Nijinsky after a considerable hiatus in his performing career. The phony-baloney carryings on, however, of Hamburg's chit-chatting and haughty-acting dancers, who bear scant resemblance to the real men and women who would have gathered to see the great Nijinsky once again take the stage, rings hopelessly false.
The segment climaxes with the grandiose first entrance of Mr. Neumeier's multiple Nijinsky-figures -- the central one wrapped in what looks like a cross between a down comforter and a kimono. From here on it's all downhill: The setting gets increasingly spare, often to trite effect, as the action gets fractured, jumbled and fraught with artificial emotion.
Posted 25 February 2004 - 08:56 AM
I would perhaps have enjoyed Nijinsky more (well, at all) if there had been something below, or beyond, the surface, but there wasn't, and the whole ballet was little more than an animated program note, with little depth, and less subtlety.
When Neumeier re-enacted Le Spectre de la Rose, with Diaghilev as the "girl" in the chair, I had some hopes that Neumeier might be about to ascend to the rarified heights of kitsch which Bejart and Eifman scale so easily (Oh, how I wanted that "chorus" of guys in tuxes to start tap-dancing!), but, alas, it was not to be.
I also wished I'd seen Bejart's Nijinksy, Clown of God. From what little I've read, it must've been a real barn-burner.
Can anyone compare and contrast?
Posted 25 February 2004 - 10:06 AM
I can't answer your question very precisely about how a performance of Sleeping Beauty, etc. isn't shallow --- otherwise I'd be staging them! Examples of dance I've seen that isn't shallow include those that show me some aspect of the music I hadn't heard or thought about before. For example, Balanchine is great to me because he made me better understand Agon, an otherwise prickly piece of music which I now listen to by itself for pleasure. I was really struck by Bourne's Swan Lake because it dug into all these dark crevices of Tchaikovsky's score (played at notated speed, no less) and showed me something new in the music. It doesn't just have to about the music, but both pieces had an interesting point of view and could communicate it.
As for structuralism and expressionism, classifying works as one or the other strikes me in the same way that comments on other surface features like sets and costumes, or technical dance steps do --- it's not necessarily a useful thing to talk about unless you can tie it in something deeper (there's that word again!) in the work.
Some messages are delivered in 40 minutes, while others require 2 hours. Is Mahler's 9th symphony any less profound than one of Bach's piano sonatas?
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By: Shelby Levins
Updated: March 4, 2013
Former First Lady Laura Welch Bush is on a mission, spreading the message of Texas conservation. She was the keynote speaker at the Play Conservation Symposium for Private Landowners Friday afternoon at the Petroleum Club.
"Texans want to be the best; they want to be the best in conservation as well as everything else," Mrs. Bush said.
In April of 2011, Mrs. Bush founded the non-profit Taking Care of Texas. The organization aims to communicate the value of protecting natural resources, connect different conservation efforts and champion stewardship of the land.
"We are about a 94% private property state," Mrs. Bush explained. "We don't have the Federal Lands that a lot of western states have. And that's really good for our economy. But it also means that conservation starts at home."
In Midland, Mrs. Bush's hometown, the I-20 Wildlife Preserve protects more than 86 acres of playa habitat. It's vital to the native wildlife and the community's water supply.
"These playas are what we get our water from," said Nathan Knowles, the Executive Director of the I-20 Wildlife Preserve. "And without those we couldn't be here, we couldn't exist, both from a cultural aspect and from an economical."
The I-20 Wildlife Preserve is a local partner of Taking Care of Texas. Both organizations say their biggest challenge is raising awareness and reaching all Texans.
"It's a big world out there and there's a lot of players in the game out here and to get to everyone it takes time and it takes work and that's why we're starting," Knowles said.
"I think really the challenge is to reach everyone in Texas and for people to know that even if you just have your own back yard there are things you can do," Mrs. Bush stated. "You don't have to be to be a ranch owner or a farm owner."
In addition to inspiring individuals to each do their part, Taking Care of Texas and the I-20 Wildlife Preserve are both committed to promoting the mutual benefits of economics and conservation.
"How business and conservation can go hand in hand and how important they are to each other to be successful," Knowles explained.
And with the oil and gas industry booming in West Texas, Mrs. Bush says West Texans should take this as an opportunity to bolster conservation.
"I say we can do it, especially now, right now, when a lot of people are making money out here in the oil business," Mrs. Bush said. "It's a good time to reinvest in your surface."
While Mrs. Bush wants Taking Care of Texas to ultimately be a big consortium, building partnerships across the state, she says the organization's principles of conservation and preservation already run deep in West Texas.
"When you live out here you know you have to conserve. This can be a very tough landscape to grow up in. West Texans know that, but they're tough too," Mrs. Bush said with a smile.


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Everyone loves a legend – but in Chicago during the roaring twenties, there's only room for one. Roxie Hart murders a faithless lover and convinces her hapless husband Amos to take the rap...until he finds out he's been duped and turns on Roxie. Convicted and sent to death row, Roxie meets up with another "Merry Murderess" Velma Kelly, who is not happy that Roxie is not only stealing her limelight but also her lawyer, Billy Flynn. Roxie and Velma both vie for the spotlight and the headlines, ultimately joining forces in search of the "American Dream": fame, fortune and acquittal.
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A man is still at large after stealing three bank bags from a resident Monday at a McDonald's in Rochester Hills, according to the Oakland County Sheriff's Office.
Deputies came to the restaurant on the 800 block of Rochester Road for a reported armed robbery, officials report.
Preliminary information given by witnesses was that the man stole the green bank bags and fled on foot. After further investigation, officers discovered the man might have gotten into a grey, 4-door Pontiac Grand Prix and fled toward a nearby Lifetime Fitness.
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Deputies describe the suspect as a black man who is around 5 feet, 5 inches tall who was wearing a black hooded sweatshirt and a black hat.
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My husband and two sons try other chocolate chip cookies and tell me there's no comparison with mine. And my husband doesn't even like chocolate! These cookies are nice and crisp, but be sure to not overbake them. —Cindy Utter, Jacksonville, Illinois
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Nutritional Analysis: 2 cookies equals 160 calories, 9 g fat (4 g saturated fat), 20 mg cholesterol, 145 mg sodium, 20 g carbohydrate, 1 g fiber, 2 g protein.
Originally published as Cindy's Chocolate Chip Cookies in Country Extra March 1993, p47
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Reviewed on Mar. 19, 2013 by warrenwoman58
I add another cup of flour as these are quite thin with only 4 1/2 cups of flour. Great recipe except for that.
Reviewed on Jul. 19, 2012 by jcmeduna
This is the chocolate chip cookie recipe I have been looking for!! This truly is the best. I made the recipe as is but instead of butter I used Fleishmann's margarine. I also highly recommend using a silpat baking mat on top of your cookie sheet and under your cookies when baking any cookies, they slide right off! I told my husband that this is the recipe that will keep my 3 little boys coming back to their Mommy as they grow up!!
Reviewed on Nov. 12, 2011 by Trp1118
I don't know what has gone wrong exactly with some of these reviewers but I have consistently made these cookies for the last 3-5 years and it is the ONLY chocolate chip recipe I will use. Everyone who has tried these has said they are the best chocolate chip cookies they've ever had. I follow the recipe exactly and make no adjustments. I use a kitchen aid and always chill the dough. I always have some of this in the freezer and it bakes well every time. The only thing I can think of is the other reviewers weren't chilling their dough long enough. I would give six stars if I could.
Reviewed on Apr. 16, 2011 by henningjr
We give these the highest recommendation. But how interesting that the reviews for this recipe are all over the spectrum... perhaps there are differences in ovens or humidity in different locations that affect the baking and therefore the results. I think the 2 tsp vanilla gives it great flavor. Tried it once with butterscotch chips when out of chocolate. Even better.
Reviewed on Jan. 30, 2011 by Fingland35
They weren't flavorful enough for us. They also did not flatten out themselves during baking so I had to flatten them onto the pan!
Reviewed on Dec. 20, 2010 by bettyw551
I first tried this recipe from my cookbook. I have used many different recipes for chocolate chip cookies, but this one is my favorite. I get rave reviews each time I make them and they don't last long in the cookie jar. They are excellent.
Reviewed on Sep. 18, 2010 by hcdearmore
My husband & sons like this recipe very much. I halve the recipe, and try to take the cookies out of the oven when they are just barely a light brown, otherwise they do get too flat & hard. I also refrigerate the dough for a few minutes (15-20) before cooking it, which seems to keep the cookies from getting too flat. Additional flour, as suggested, sound like a good idea too. I've made this recipe 4 or 5 times now.
Reviewed on Mar. 22, 2010 by J-zel
I found them too sweet, yet quite bland. Sorry...
Reviewed on Mar. 16, 2010 by warrenwoman58
This has become my favorite choc chip cookie recipe. However, I add 3/4 cup of flour as 4 1/2 makes a very thin crispy cookie.I also bake them at 325. They turn out much better with these modifications.It is really good, but if you make as is-not good at all.
This has become my favorite choc chip cookie recipe. However, I add 3/4 cup of flour as 4 1/2 makes a very thin crispy cookie.
I also bake them at 325. They turn out much better with these modifications.It is really good, but if you make as is-not good at all.
Reviewed on Feb. 05, 2010 by crimsonkitten
This was awful. Very crispy cookie with no flavor. You don't even want to eat the cookie dough. Unfortnately it makes a ton of cookies. My husband and kids requested that I don't make it again.
Reviewed on Jan. 31, 2010 by brooksjones7
Quite tasty--makes a softer cookie. Delicious!
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Suns Strokes: Win streak snapped with loss to Trail Blazers
Originally published: Dec 22, 2012 - 11:34 pm
Sure, you could read the box score and know who won, but we all know that won't tell you everything that happened in a basketball game. So, we will give you Suns Strokes, providing you with the analysis, quotes and notes from the Suns' 96-93 loss to the Trail Blazers on December 22.
The Good:
Marcin Gortat led the offensive charge for the Suns with 18 points and nine rebounds. Shannon Brown added 15 points and three rebounds and Jermaine O'Neal scored 13 with five boards.
Phoenix started strong and had a lead as big as 12 points in the first half but couldn't hold on for the win.
The Bad:
The Suns' four-game winning streak was snapped with the loss at Portland.
Michael Beasley was held to just three points in only 10:20 of play Saturday night.
Phoenix shot just 40 percent in the second half and was unable to stage a late comeback.
� The Suns shot 50% from the field and three-point range in the first quarter but missed their last 10 three-pointers of the game.
� Jared Dudley had a career-high 10 assists on the night.
� Phoenix has now dropped seven straight regular season games to Portland on the road.
� The Suns' record on the road is now an abysmal 2-13 for the season.
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Only 48 hours before a record breaking fleet sets sail for the fifth RORC Caribbean 600, weather forecasts are unanimously predicting sensational conditions, ideal for record-breaking pace, and there is every possibility that this will be the fastest RORC Caribbean 600 on record. Twenty knots or more of warm trade winds are anticipated for the start, with the wind and the Caribbean swell building during the course of the race, perhaps piping up to thirty knots on day two.
Mike Slade's canting keel Maxi, ICAP Leopard, is the out-and-out favourite to scorch around the 600-mile course to take the first gun. Navigator Hugh Agnew has been keeping a close eye on the weather forecast for several days. In the meantime, the shore crew have been hard at work, meticulously preparing the boat for the wild ride to come.
'At the moment, the forecasts seem to be quite stable,' commented Agnew. 'We can expect 20-26 knots of easterly wind, maybe slightly to the south of due east for the duration of our race. The longest leg of the course is from St.Barths to Guadeloupe and with this wind direction, coupled with the apparent wind created by Leopard, it will be forward of the beam, so we will be unlikely to fly a spinnaker. This will slow us down, but the other side of the coin is that this wind direction may be beneficial on a crucial part of the course - the south side of Guadeloupe. If we get a one-sided beat, requiring few tacks, this could really work in our favour. It is a long beat between Guadeloupe and Marie-Galante and in my view the race for a record could be won or lost there.'
Leopard held the RORC Caribbean 600 course record for two years, however George David's Rambler 100 eclipsed that in 2011, setting a benchmark of 40 hours 20 minutes and 2 seconds.
Dockside in Antigua, Leopard's skipper Chris Sherlock was keeping his cards close to his chest but he admitted that there was a possibility of winning back the record. Something Leopard's owner, Mike Slade, has set his heart on.
'Our routing software is showing 40 hours at the moment, so there is not much fat on it, but we have a chance,' hinted Sherlock. 'There are three things that will stop us from breaking the record. Firstly if we go the wrong way and get out of big breeze, the other factors are maintaining the yacht and boat handling; just one bad furl on a sail can cost us 15 minutes and breakages can put an end to it totally.'
'In my opinion, our time could be half an hour either side of the record, we will just have to see how it pans out. Record or no record this looks like it will be a fantastic race with awesome conditions. Every time we do this '600, we learn more. Even when we are out on charter, we often sneak a look at a part of the race track, we have a lot of knowledge of what goes on behind those islands. Leopard is in great shape, we have a very capable crew and it would top off a great season if we got our record back.'
The RORC Caribbean 600 programme starts in earnest today with the Skippers' Briefing followed by the official opening party. It will be standing room only for invited guests, jam-packed shoreside at Antigua Yacht Club. Owners and their crew are set to enjoy a Caribbean drinks party and canapés accompanied by a traditional steel band. RORC Commodore, Mike Greville, competing in the race for the second time with CM60, Venomous, will open the proceedings.
The fifth RORC Caribbean 600 will start at 1100 local time (1500 GMT) on Monday 18th February.
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by Trish Jenkins
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