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Club Men's Rowing
Spirit of the Game
The Men's Rowing Club provides student athletes with a college rowing experience that teaches and practices the values of teamwork, dedication, fairness, sportsmanship, excellence and having fun, all while realizing that this mission is supplemental to the student's educational pursuits at the University of Delaware.
Organizational Meeting(s)
We accept any student who would like to participate. We are a men's team, however, we accept women who would like to compete as coxswains.
Practice Information
Practices are at the WYRA boathouse on the Christina in Wilmington during the semesters. There are also indoor erg workouts. Times vary during the week, but expect to practice both mornings and afternoons 6 days a week.
National and/or Regional Affiliation
Our team is affiliated with the Eastern Rowing Association of Colleges (ERAC) and the Dad Vail Rowing Association.
Membership Requirements
Athletes are expected to attend every practice unless they have a class conflict. Rowing is a big commitment that occupies at least 20 hours per week. Rower dues are expensive (about $1,000 a year); however we have fundraising initiatives to reduce the cost if it is a financial burden.
Equipment Required
The club provides every rower with a uniform to row in, called a unisuit. The club owns its own boats and equipment. The club has about 10 eight-man boats.
- President: Joseph Mohnack
- Club Website: UD Men's Crew


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I think that is indeed why 'Lower Decks' worked because we can all relate to being on the bottom rung and wondering what happens when our own bosses go into meetings that we never know the content of in full. It's a very relatable premise.
But then again in Trek we're used to spending time with those that all the action happens to. But it's like the Enterprise problem..............not all the excitement happens on the Enterprise (of any version) at all and other starships must have their own adventures to tell.
You own idea of a freighter series would feature the John and Jane Does of the Federation itself, albiet in a setting we've never seen before. So, I think there are avenues that could be considered, although not all of them would end up good TV shows. I do tend to believe soap opera elements would be unavoidable in the end as Star Trek is itself in my opinion Space Opera anyway and all the shows have soapy elements sooner or later.
But anyway, it would be interesting from an experimental perspective just to see if the 'City on the Edge of Forever' script would play using each subsequent show and each subsequent Captain/Commander just to see if it would have the same effect as the TOS version.
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The master suite is in its own wing, opening to the pool and mountain views, and has a king size bed, seating area with a large sofa, 52" LCD TV with surround sound HD satellite and a DVD player, its own stereo system, a walk-in closet and a custom bathroom with its own television, integrated stereo sound, double Tsunami sinks, Italian fixtures, and a walk-in shower with 3 shower heads and a huge custom window for light and privacy!
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4:41pm Friday 9th November 2012 in News
A SHORT film featuring the talents of youngsters from across Burnley has been bridging the generation gap ahead of the borough's remembrance services.
Students from four schools teamed up with Calico Creative, an arm of the borough housing agency, to pull together 'Memories', a digital animation designed to bring home the sacrifices made during two world wars.
The cartoon features 'cut-out' characters dreamed up by the pupils, based around a young boy's conversation with his grandmother about her wartime recollections.
Now the mini-masterpiece has been made available to primary school teachers across Lancashire and beyond, for use with four to seven-year-olds.
Young people from St Leonard's Primary in Padiham, Cherry Fold Primary, Hameldon Community College and Sir John Thursby Community College all contributed to the finished work, taking turns in fashioning the sound-track and animation seq-uences.
Their efforts were aided by conversations with senior citizens, with assistance from education advisor Kay Lord, BBC scriptwriter John Warburton and broadcaster designer Sarah Rees..
Kelly Fort, of Calico Creative, said: "It's been an amazing experience and has been completely driven by the children taking part.
"The whole idea of remembrance is hard for youngsters to grasp, but the children involved have really brought it to life. Working with Kay Lord, we know we have created something that really makes sense for primary age children."
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A while back I did work for a lady who didn't exactly have the cash to pay for it. Her husband had just passed away the year before and he was a guitar fiend. No, seriously, dude had more than a hundred guitars packed into a double wide trailer. We had an agreement that I would do work on her house in exchange for a guitar, so after I had completed my tasks she let me look around. I searched for nearly an hour until I found an old wreck at the bottom of a pile. I knew that would be my baby. The body was all split to shit, it had been drilled and flipped for a lefty (why is beyond me), a stupid pickgaurd had been screwed to the body, and it was worn out from years of use and neglect.
After sanding the bitch for days and putting the body back together with wood glue and sawdust, it was ready to be finished.
Over the course of the next two days I had stained the body and applied layers of clearcoat to satisfaction.
I still had to figure out what to do with the god awful holes all over the body, so I chose to give the guitar a more classic look and cut pieces of brass as accents and attached them with brass screws. I refinished the fretboard by sanding it down and applying a light coat of stain and left the head of the guitar as it was.
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It's December First and many Tri-Staters spent the day getting ready for the holiday season. In fact, there was some very creative decorating on display at The Centre Saturday.
More than 60 teams gathered early Saturday morning to start construction on some very elaborate gingerbread houses. If you haven't built yours yet for the holiday, maybe these will give you some ideas.
Whether you were a youth team decorating for fun, an amateur trying out a new craft, or a professional who creates works of art for a living, the Aurora Gingerbread House Competition had something for everyone, and it all raised money for a local charity.
"Aurora is a non-profit in Evansville that works to prevent and end homelessness," said Aurora Director of Development Jayme Walters. "We served individuals and families that are near homeless or homeless."
Each team needed a sponsor and some steady hands to participate. Tiffany Switzer's Doctor Seuss themed house was sponsored by an organization close to her heart.
"My son actually loves the Lora, it's his favorite movie, and I had to do the Lora theme because St. Mary's is our sponsor and my son went through St. Mary's feeding program and they're amazing," she said.
Fan favorites included the Egyptian pyramid and 'Santa's Vacation Spot.'
But few houses could rival veteran pastry chef Cameron Tinker's classic take.
"I'm here because I always like a good challenge and this is a good challenge against some great competitors and it's also for a great cause as well in fighting homelessness," Tinker said.
Cameron says the entire process has taken well over 20 hours. Enough to give someone a bit of a sugar high.
If you missed the event Saturday but want to see the creations, you're in luck. The top three houses in each category will be on display at Barnes and Noble on Green River Road through December 31st.
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NEW ORLEANS — This time, New Orleans' late-quarter shooting woes weren't limited to the final eight minutes of a game.
The Hornets were outscored 15-2 in the final 5 ½ minutes of the first half and couldn't bounce back, losing 93-72 to Golden State.
Both teams were playing the second games of back-to-backs, but Golden State's 30-point win over Houston allowed it to rest as Sunday's game ended. The Hornets lost a heart-breaker in Minnesota when Eric Gordon's last-second shot was blocked at the rim in Minneapolis.
New Orleans (22-46) appeared to be the weary ones, too, as the game progressed. After shooting 44 percent in the opening quarter, the Hornets made just 20 of 65 shots in the final three quarters, producing a 14-point and 11-point quarter each.
"We shot 33 percent – that's a tough, tough way to lose a game, especially when those guys (Hornets) compete the way they did," Hornets coach Monty Williams said. "The second and fourth quarter just hurt us."
Meanwhile, Golden State (39-30) couldn't be shut down, shooting an efficient 50 percent, including going 10 of 19 from 3-point range. And it was guard Steph Curry that the Hornets couldn't stop. He scored a game-high 30 points, including going 6-for-9 from long distance, and has scored at least 26 points in four of the past five games.
After losing several games in the final quarter in the past month, including losing an 18-point fourth quarter lead to the Lakers, New Orleans' scoring issues crept up earlier Monday night.
The Hornets kept pace for the open 18 minutes of the game, even leading 22-19 after the first quarter. But the Warriors put the game away with that stretch that ended the first quarter.
After Greivis Vasquez put New Orleans up 34-30 with 5:48 to go on a running jumper, former Hornet Jarrett Jack got Golden State's roll started with a nine-foot jumper.
The Warriors' run ended when David Lee converted a layup with 13 seconds to go in the half.
It's what happened in between that turned the game. New Orleans went 1-for-10 and turned the ball over six times.
"We just didn't hit the shots," said Hornets forward Ryan Anderson, who led the team with 21 points off the bench. "I had some good looks that just didn't fall. They're a veteran team and they have some guys that used to play here and kind of know our system. Maybe that took us out of our rhythm down the stretch. We just missed too many open shots."
Vasquez added 14 points and nine assists and Anthony Davis had 16 points and seven rebounds.
It won't get any easier for New Orleans, either.
While the Hornets have a season-long seven-game home stand, Only one of the remaining six games is against a team not currently in the playoff race and that's the home stand finale.


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Two planes carrying skydivers collided mid-air in Superior, Wis. on Saturday evening – one aircraft was destroyed, one crippled, and there were zero serious injuries reported among the 11 occupants.
"Everybody did what needed to do under the circumstances," said Mike Robinson, one of the lucky nine skydivers, and also an instructor at Skydive Superior.
All nine skydivers and two pilots made it to the ground safely after the collision 12,000 feet above the airport.
"Everybody on both aircrafts were experienced skydivers. Not like we would take on new jumpers. So everyone there was experienced," Robinson said.
Robinson explained that the two planes were filled flying in tandem for a team jump Saturday evening when something went wrong and the trailing plane ran into the aircraft flying in front, both traveling at about 100 mph.
The jumpers prepared to exit anyway as the front aircraft caught on fire and shattered into pieces.
Somehow, the pilot got out -- he was strapped into an emergency parachute.
"He did great job, a wonderful job given the circumstances and damage to his aircraft," Robinson said. "We think the trail plane probably got in the wash of lead plane and caused the collision, but don't know that for sure."
Both planes belong to Skydive Superior owner Mark Androsky, who's thankful everyone walked away somehow unscathed.
"It's definitely a reminder of danger of the sport we love. It is dangerous. It can be dangerous, but usually not. We go through extensive training to be safe. Unfortunately, with an airplane crash, you take what you get. We're lucky this time," Robinson said.
Skydive Superior has been family-owned for years, but with one plane destroyed and the other with extensive damages, don't expect to see any jumpers anytime soon in the area.
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Sisters Lana and Candace Hudson certainly weren't planning to travel from their homes in west St. Louis County to spend an October Saturday evening at the annual Community Banquet in Altamont.
Then they heard who was speaking.
When the sisters heard that Secret Service Agent Clint Hill — an eyewitness to the Kennedy assassination — would be the keynote speaker, the 100-mile plus drive didn't seem that long.
"He (Hill) is a piece of history," Candace said. "He is the only person who could tell this story."
Both sisters have vivid memories of the events surrounding the Kennedy shooting and its aftermath.
"Even though I was only 3 years old, I can still remember it," Candace said. "I remember watching my parents mourning, and how we saw the loss of hope.
"It was devastating."
Big sister Lana said she came home from school that day feeling vulnerable.
"We'd just been through the Cuban missile crisis," she said. "I just wanted to feel safe."
Lana said the assassination brought Americans together, no matter what their politics were.
"We all grieved together," she said. "He was witty and so charming and she (Jacqueline Kennedy) was such a lovely first lady."
A number of people at Saturday's banquet were adults at the time of the events of Nov. 22, 1963.
Marge Denton of rural Effingham was teaching school at St. Anthony Grade School when she heard the news. Compunding the tragedy for her was the fact that two of her students had been killed the previous evening.
"It was a life-changing event," Denton said.
"It put a big empty feeling in our hearts," she added. "It was a scary time."
Denton said she was looking forward to hearing Hill speak. She wasn't the only family member to feel that way.
"I have a sister in Champaign and a sister-in-law in Clinton," she said. "We all just decided to come."
Altamont Chamber board member Jeff Fritchtnitch said he was glad to hear the presentation.
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Here are helpful hints from winter-safety experts that will reduce the risk of falling in slippery conditions:
Wear boots or overshoes with soles. Avoid walking in shoes that have smooth surfaces, which increase the risk of slipping.
Walk consciously. Be alert to the possibility that you could quickly slip on an unseen patch of ice. Avoid the temptation to run to catch a bus or beat traffic when crossing a street.
Walk cautiously. Your arms help keep you balanced, so keep hands out of pockets and avoid carrying heavy loads that may cause you to become off balance.
Walk "small." Avoid an erect, marching posture. When you step on icy areas, take short, shuffling steps, curl your toes under and walk as flatfooted as possible.
Remove snow immediately before it becomes packed or turns to ice. Keep your porch stoops, steps, walks and driveways free of ice by frequently applying ice melter granules. Using a potassium-based melter, such as Safe Step, instead of salt will prevent damage to concrete, grass and other vegetation or to carpets and floors should you track ice inside.
Falling safely
Even when you practice safe walking habits, slipping on ice is sometimes unavoidable. Try the following techniques:
Sit on the floor with your legs out flat in front of you. To simulate a backward fall, slowly begin to lie back toward the floor and quickly tuck your head forward, chin to chest. At the same time, lift your knees to your chest and extend your arms away from your body and "slap" the ground with your palms and forearms. This will help keep your head, wrists and elbows from hitting the ground.
Assume the original position. To practice a sideways fall, begin to roll to one side or the other. As you do so, lay out your arm parallel to your body so that your forearm, not your wrist or shoulder, is first to contact the floor. Also, lift your head toward your shoulder opposite the fall. Next, practice the procedure in the opposite direction.
From a kneeling position, practice for a potential front fall. Begin to lean forward. As you fall, roll to one side, laying out your arm parallel to your body, again so the forearm and not your wrist makes contact with the floor. Lift your head to the opposite shoulder and continue to roll.
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The Titans announced Friday that they have signed veteran S Jordan Babineaux, who has spent seven seasons with the Seahawks.
Re-signing with the Seahawks was considered, but Babineaux decided to go with a change of scenery. He played in 16 games with zero starts in 2010 after starting every game in 2009. He has 10 career interceptions to go with 28 passes defensed.
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Babineaux will have an opportunity to compete with Chris Hope, who didn't have a great 2010. Babineaux does bring depth to the safety position, something the Titans were missing behind Hope and Michael Griffin.


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Last Saturday afternoon, the artist Rob Pruitt, who is known for his glittery paintings of panda bears and his tongue-in-cheek, Golden Globes-style "Art Awards," was signing books, naked, in the Karma bookstore, in the West Village. He sat at the head of a table arrayed with copies of his 2010 volume Pattern and Degradation, each with a custom cover. One was composed of multiple books of matches. One came with a pair of handcuffs. One was sandwiched between copies of the New York Yellow Pages. As a fig leaf he employed a stuffed animal panda bear. Read More


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How Filipino veterans could benefit from stimulus
By Robert Farley
Published on Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009 at 6:51 p.m.
To hear Jon Kyl tell it, the Democratic-backed economic stimulus package is so full of waste and clutter that legislators ought to scrap it and start fresh.
"I mean, there are so many different things that you can make fun of in this bill," Kyl said. "Let me just mention one — millions of dollars to World War II Filipino veterans in the Philippines. Now, that may be a good thing to spend money on, but not in a stimulus bill. It doesn't stimulate anything."
Does the Senate version of the stimulus package really include millions for Filipino vets?
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A veteran designer at the Utah Shakespearean Festival in Cedar City, UT, University of Wisconsin–based LD Linda Essig returned there this past summer to design Ah Wilderness!, as well as Arsenic and Old Lace and Pirates of Penzance, in USF's Randall Jones Theatre. The shows ran in rotating rep from June 30 through Labor Day, with Essig using a basic repertory plot including approximately 400 focusing units and over 425 dimmers on 250 channels of control (see list below). The three productions opened one after the other in the space of three days.
The action in Ah Wilderness! takes place on July 4, 1906, and is a poignant memory of a young man's coming of age. Eugene O'Neill's only comedy, the play reflects fond memories of his childhood. "It is the flip side to Long Day's Journey Into Night," notes Essig, whose lighting complemented the period costumes by Kevin Alberts and stylized sets by Thomas C. Umfrid.
Ah Wilderness!
"For Ah Wilderness!I used a very tight palette of gray-blues and lavenders with layers of textured light to create a sense of remembrance reminiscent of the early 19th–century photographs of Clarence H. White," says Essig, "The graininess and texture of White's black-and-white images was translated into some of the textures on the set."
"The color palette used helped create a sense of memory, and obscure the details of things," says Essig, who admits she experiments with different colors to help create a different look for each of the three shows. Ranging from cornflower blue (Lee 366) and pale lavender (GAM 920, used doubled) to bastard amber (GAM 341), Essig's palette for Ah Wilderness! also included Lee cosmetic filters with frost (including Lee 188/cosmetic highlights) to keep the look as soft as possible.
Ah Wilderness!
"I rarely use bastard amber, but it was appropriate for this production," Essig explains, noting that she used it in fill light for afternoon and sunset scenes, with sepia (GAM 327) coming in through the windows at sunset.
The rep plot hang includes downlight with templates, backlight and diagonal backlight, steep frontlight, straight-on front light with templates, high and mid-side light, and diagonal frontlight. "I had lots of options for each show," says Essig. For example, in Ah Wilderness! sunlight came from a high side position while a soft moonlight in Rosco 78 and Rosco 112 came from the straight backlight position. In contrast, Essig's moonlight for Arsenic and Old Lacecame from the diagonal backlight position.
Arsenic and Old Lace
Essig also changed the palette for each show, which meant a lot of gel changes between shows. "There are no scrollers," she says. "I have three electricians on bridges. Color was changed completely for each show, so even though the lights remained hung in the same position, they could function in completely different ways from show to show."
In terms of lighting instruments, an additional 50 to 75 "extras" were used in each production to add texture to the set, provide uplight, highlight specific areas of the set, or add special effects such as a fireworks silhouette in Ah Wilderness! Many of these specials used templates, such as an Apollo leaf pattern that matched the texture in one of White's photographs. A template of saplings (GAM 351) added additional vertical lines to wallpaper with a vertical pattern, while breakup patterns helped create the look of sand draped on the stage for a scene at the beach, with the Apollo leaf patterns used with what Essig calls "sand colors" (Lee 200 and GAM 330).
Ah Wilderness!
Ah Wilderness! also had a fair number of practicals, including a chandelier accented with backlight. Actors actually put the bulbs into the chandelier, an action called for in the script. In a bar scene, Essig used very steep frontlight as well as practicals with reproduction carbon-filament lamps for a period feel.
"The cueing for Ah Wilderness! was not realistically motivated," notes Essig. The motivation for the cues was more tied into lighting tableaux at the end of scenes, catching the actors in a shaft of light, as well as short vignettes between the scenes, where the action covered the scene changes. The productions in this theatre are performed on a proscenium stage with an apron. There is a curtain, but Essig notes that in the six different seasons she has worked there, it has never been used.
Arsenic and Old Lace
In contrast to the soft layers of texture in Ah Wilderness! Essig used film noir techniques, with uplights and strong shadows as well as strong color contrasts of bright blues and ambers for Arsenic and Old Lace. For Pirates of Penzance , she added Altman MR-16 Zip Strips to "flippers," or flip-up deck sections on the front of the stage to add sparkle to the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta.
Essig is part of the design team that works regularly at the Utah Shakespearean Festival, where the lighting designer roster also includes Donna Ruzika. These designers should be proud that their work contributes to the stellar reputation of a theatre that was honored last year with the Tony Award for outstanding regional theatre.
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NEWBURYPORT -- While there were many success stories in Newburyport's urban renewal program, there was also one conspicuous failure -- the development of the property known as the central waterfront.
Three times the Newburyport Redevelopment Authority tried to get something built on the central waterfront and three times it failed.
The land between Market Square and the Merrimack River continues to stir up controversy to this day.
For years the debate raged over building waterfront hotels, stores and condominiums. Those plans are all gone, defeated one by one. Now the question for the NRA's waterfront is how much of it will be a park and how much will be parking.
Over the course of almost 30 years -- from 1972 to 1999 -- three separate teams of professionals were designated by the redevelopment authority to develop what was originally a 9.2-acre parcel bounded on the north by the Merrimack River, on the south by Merrimac Street, Market Square and Water Street, on the east by the Custom House Maritime Museum and on the west by the Chamber of Commerce building and the Black Cow restaurant.
Secrecy and controversy
Looking back, the first attempt to develop the waterfront was short-lived -- about a year from start to finish -- but the lawsuit it generated took nearly eight years to resolve.
According to news accounts at the time, the NRA put out a request for waterfront proposals in 1971, and in September received four plans.
All four contained mixtures of various uses -- a marina, a small inn, restaurants, shops and housing -- in a variety of different combinations.
The NRA heard from the four candidates in nonpublic -- possibly illegal -- closed sessions, and the board members made a selection behind closed doors as well, according to news accounts.
On May 1, 1972, in what was billed as an "announcement session," the board presented a consortium called Burlington-HDC as its "preliminary choice" to develop the central waterfront. The team consisted of a Vermont-based architectural firm, Burlington Associates, and Hunneman Development Corp., or HDC, a subsidiary of the Hunneman Real Estate company.
Mayor Byron Matthews said the NRA had made its decision on April 28, at what he called a "private NRA board session."
Among the proposals that were rejected was one from the Cambridge architectural firm Benjamin Thompson Associates. Thompson had already been chosen to design the redevelopment of the rundown area of Boston consisting of Faneuil Hall and Quincy Market, but was still several years from bringing that hugely successful project to fruition.
The NRA met on May 4 in the City Council chamber at City Hall, intending to formalize its designation, but 200 people attended -- many of them unhappy -- and the board put off any action.
While the selection process raised a lot of suspicions, then-NRA-member Jack Bradshaw said there was nothing sinister going on behind the scenes. Hunneman was a big developer with previous waterfront experience, Bradshaw said, so it was a logical choice.
"My recollection is that the board made an honest decision based on the facts in front of them, with the help of various consultants who looked at the schematics, the finances," Bradshaw said in a recent interview.
Among those in the audience was a Lime Street lawyer and Harvard Law School professor, William Harris. In selecting Burlington-HDC, he wrote in a memo, the authority was not following the city's urban renewal plan, which prohibited residential development on the waterfront.
The memo was written on behalf of Harris and a group he called the "Friends of the Newburyport Waterfront."
Harris had also been in attendance earlier in April at a party for Ben Thompson at the Byfield home of Richard and Joanne Purinton.
Thompson presented his waterfront plan to the gathering, and received an enthusiastic response to his mix of activities and use of public space, with very little residential development. Thompson's design featured buildings constructed perpendicular to the Merrimack River, following the lines of the city's long-gone 17th-, 18th- and 19th-century wharves, conforming to the ancient "wayes to the waterfront."
In contrast, Burlington-HDC proposed condominiums for 50 percent of the total project (later reduced to 20 percent). And, especially on the easterly side of the embayment, the buildings were situated parallel to the river, blocking the views and pathways from downtown to the water.
The whole issue soon became moot, because, on Oct. 2, Burlington-HDC notified the NRA that it was dropping out as developer of the waterfront.
HDC President Edward Stone said the "timing" of the project wasn't right, that Newburyport hadn't yet shown a record of success that would allow the developer to attract tenants and buyers.
Lengthy lawsuit
The Friends of the Newburyport Waterfront might have gone away at that point, except for one thing: Work was continuing on another new building a few yards away from the waterfront. It was known as urban renewal Parcel 8, across Merrimac Street from what is now the Firehouse Center for the Arts.
For Parcel 8, the NRA had approved a design that called for a 240-foot-long building that cantilevered as it rose to three stories: The first floor was 56 feet deep, the second 70 feet and the third floor 79 feet. The exterior of the top floor was to be made of precast concrete.
The Friends asked the National Advisory Council on Historic Preservation in Washington, D.C., to intervene. The council had oversight responsibilities when new construction might have an impact on properties on the National Register of Historic Places, like Newburyport's Market Square Historic District. Meanwhile, the Friends filed suit in U.S. District Court to halt the work and eventually obtained an order stopping all new construction in the urban renewal district.
The Advisory Council found the building "incompatible" with its historic surroundings, and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development -- which was bankrolling the whole urban renewal project -- directed the NRA to consider the council's comments. Work was stopped and Parcel 8 remained just a cellar hole.
The Friends' suit languished in federal court until early 1977, when the Friends and the NRA agreed to take the case to the state Land Court. The Friends contended that 11 ancient public pathways -- those "wayes to the waterfront" -- were protected and couldn't be extinguished by the authority's eminent domain taking of the waterfront property.
"It wasn't just a set of streets," Harris said. "It was an issue of freedom."
Harris said the earliest English settlers had brought with them the principle that people were guaranteed access to the marketplace, and the "wayes" represented that access. Not coincidentally, preservation of the "wayes" would also guarantee that no one could put up a building that blocked off the river from the public.
Harris said the Friends weren't seeking to thwart development on the waterfront, but rather to keep the public access open and make sure the configuration of buildings would be perpendicular to the river, as in Thompson's proposal.
"If they'd picked his plan there wouldn't have been a fight over 'wayes to the waterfront,'" Harris said.
Settlement comes
The case went to trial in late June 1978 before Land Court Chief Justice William Randall, who in early July traveled to Newburyport to conduct a view of the site. After eight days of testimony, 20 witnesses and 115 exhibits (including 102 by the Friends), Randall issued a 33-page decision on Jan. 30, 1979. In it, he dismissed the Friends' case in its entirety.
A month later, the Friends filed their appeal. A three-judge panel of the state Appeals Court heard oral arguments in November 1979 and, in February 1980, issued a ruling.
The court upheld the bulk of Randall's original decision but found two "wayes" had not been legally abolished. However, the court also ruled that those "wayes" only existed in their original form, that they did not automatically extend to the river when the waterfront was filled over time.
Byron Matthews had decided not to run for a sixth term as mayor in the 1977 municipal election. In January of 1978, he was succeeded by Richard Sullivan, who initially supported the NRA's position in the case, although he was not in principle opposed to public access points to the river. Over time, Sullivan appointed new members to the NRA.
After the Appeals Court ruling, with the Friends contemplating an appeal to the Supreme Judicial Court, Sullivan told the city's attorney, Richard Jones, to explore a settlement with the Friends.
Jones telephoned Harris, who was working and living in California, but who still retained his home on Lime Street -- and his interest in preserving the "wayes."
"My memory is that Bill and I hammered out the framework for an agreement," Jones said last week, quickly adding that there were several other participants in the talks.
At the end of March, a little more than a month after the Appeals Court ruling, they had a deal.
"Timing is everything and the time was right," Jones said.
Six "wayes" would be preserved, but two of them could be partially relocated to accommodate a building. An independent board of trustees would be appointed to oversee and manage the "wayes" and the public waterfront boardwalk, which had been built while the lawsuit wound its way through the courts.
Jones hopped a flight to Los Angeles and on March 26 got Harris' signature on a settlement. He flew right back, and on March 27 the NRA held a special meeting to ratify the agreement.
"There was a sense of urgency," Jones said. "We felt we needed to get it done."
At last, the path seemed clear to bring development to the waterfront.
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CATEGORIES Horror, Independent, Casting, Newsstand, Remakes and Sequels, Cinematical Indie, Movies, CinematicalI don't know if it's genius or pure insanity to direct a remake for your first feature, but that's what Douglas Buck is doing. After helming a couple of shorts (one of them really long -- nearly an hour), he rolled up to Hollywood and said "Hey man, gimme some De Palma." And the decidedly un-glamorous No Remorse Pictures said "Right on, brother! We'll produce that. Let's go to Canada!" Or, you know, something like that. What it comes down to is that Buck is directing a remake of Brian De Palma's 1973 film Sisters, a psychological horror movie about twin sisters. It's not universally loved at all, but the people who like it really, really like it, and are surely contorted with rage right now if this is the first they've heard of Buck's venture.
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by Brad Wall
ST. PETERSBURG, Flo. – The Mariners held an early three run lead, but failed to hold off the Rays as they surged back to defeat the M's 5-4.
In the first inning, after consecutive strikeouts by Chone Figgins and Dustin Ackley, four straight runners got on base. First Ichiro Suzuki walked, and then Jesus Montero hit an infield single to shortstop. Kyle Seager followed that up by belting a homer to right field to give the M's an early 3-0 lead. Alex Liddi walked, but Justin Smoak struck out after that to end the inning.
After pitching two straight 1,2,3 innings to open the game, Blake Beavan was taken yard by Sean Rodriguez in the third scoring Jose Molina and himself.
Luke Scott led off the bottom of the fourth skying a fly ball between second and first base. The ball struck a wire in the catwalk on the ceiling of Tropicana Field and that along with some miscommunication between Liddi and Ackley allowed Scott to reach safely, crediting him with an infield single. After a BJ Upton fly out and a Will Rhymes single, Molina doubled to deep right, scoring Scott and Rhymes and also giving the Rays their first lead of the ballgame, 4-3. Molina reached third on a passed ball by Montero, but Beavan retired the next two batters to hold the deficit at one.
Seager started off the sixth with his second home run of the game, giving him four RBIs on the night and knotting up the score.
Scott responded to Seager in the bottom of the sixth with a deep shot to center field that was in reach of Michael Saunders, but bobbled out of his glove and over the fence making it a home run an putting the Rays back up 5-4.
Ichiro laid down a bunt to get on base in the top of the eighth. After a Montero fly out and a wild pitch that moved Ichiro to second, Seager continued his hot bat with a single to left. Ichiro nearly rounded third but was instructed to hold up. The Rays brought in reliever Joel Peralta, who Liddi worked into a full count up until fouling out behind home plate. Smoak also found himself with a full count and ripped a shot into right field that just didn't carry enough as it was caught in the right field corner for the third out.
Peralta stayed on the hill for the Rays in the ninth and got the save with a 1,2,3 inning
Beavan got the loss as he threw for 5 and 1/3 innings allowing five runs on seven hits. In relief, Erasmo Ramirez gave up one hit and Charlie Furbush gave up none, however, the offense was unable to put any more runs on the board.
James Shields pitched for six innings allowing four runs on five hits and striking out 11, making him 5-0 on the year.
Ichiro had a busy night in right field, making ten putouts, a career high and a club record.
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Its my first time i try to create a ui application for mobile, and also that im trying to use bluetooth
Im trying to create a harmattan application that connects and read from a device over bluetooth rfcomm.
Since all the UI should be done using qtquick, i did that.
I took the scanner.qml page from the declarative-scanner example to scan for my device and choose it.
now here's the catch: i would like to do the communication in Qt, for efficiency reasons, for flexibility, and also because the device sends binary packets, and im not sure how easy/efficient would be to parse them with javascript.
So what i did was taking the chatclient class from the btchat example and integrating it.
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the scanner page returns Qml BluetoothService elements, while Qt needs a QBluetoothServiceInfo object to connect a bluetooth socket to the service.
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- rates (USD) $ 1,800 - $ 3,090 / month
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Newly furnished,uniquely decorated, 2 bed/2bath condo
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It is a first floor unit, so you have no stairs to climb. Great view from the
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Fully furnished, Full kitchen, Master Bath, Phone, Central Air,
39 inch flat screen TV in living room with blu-ray DVD Player,Netflix capable, 20 inch TV in each
bedroom, Micro ,Dishwasher, Ice Maker, Washer,
Dryer,Covered Parking with storage room,Free Wireless Internet
3 beautiful pools within walking distance, clubhouse,fitness center,
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18 hole awarding winning golf course with lighted driving range and pro
shop, resturant,lounge
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Hiking,biking,jogging trails
Shopping,(Miromar Outlet mall, Publix right across the street,CVS
Drugstore just outside main entrance)
Estero 24 hour Urgent Care Medical Center 1 mile west
Gulf Coast Town Center mall with shopping, resturants, and 16
theater cinema complex just 4 miles north
Coconut Point Shopping Mall with resturants and 16 theater cinema
complex just 4 miles south
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2014....May thru October...(April, Nov, Dec are booked)
2015....April thru December (Jan, Feb, Mar are booked)
Currently only accepting minimum 3 month or more rental for 2016
December through March: $3090/month
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May through November: $1800/month
(All fees and taxes included in rate.....No Hidden Additional Costs)
Discounts for rentals of two months or more
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Payment in full required 30 days prior to check-in
Non Smoking Unit. No pets.
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Blogs > Ron Jones > July 2011
Introducing the Better Use of Time and Talent (BUTT) Act Each time I am treated to Congress's latest effort to dumb down the issues in order to satisfy the agenda of this or that special interest group, or to indulge in adolescent temerity strictly for the sake of exercising one's frustration over having to abide by the rules like everyone else, I just can't help thinking of a quote from the man who remains perhaps America's most insightful political observer of all time, Will Rogers, who once suggested: "It's a good thing we don't get all the government we pay for!"
This pearl applies beautifully to the tantrum de jour, H. R. 2417, AKA the infamous "Better Use of Light Bulbs (BULB) Act", a childish, snotty and (frankly) not-so-bright piece of misbehavior which has manifested itself into a proposed congressional act calling for the repeal of light bulb energy standards that are part of the Energy Independence and Security Act (EISA), which was passed by Congress and signed into law by President Bush in 2007.
Egged on by bitter venom dispensers like Limp Dishrag or Rash Lumpskull or whatever their names are, it seems that some in Congress will use any excuse to exercise their egos and indulge in their petty resentment without regard for the time and money they waste, resources that could be put to much better use in constructive efforts toward public service or even perhaps, (do I dare suggest?) acts of leadership.
They prey on the willing ignorance and enthusiastic distrust of those who have been exposed to just enough of the facts to eagerly believe that they will suddenly be forced to use some new and scary product of someone else's choosing, in this case, mercury-laced, expensive compact fluorescents, which actually represent only one of the options available.
What they conveniently decline to mention is that manufacturers are already producing a variety of new energy-saving bulbs for residential and commercial use, including incandescent bulbs, that look, feel and operate just like the ones we've been using for many decades, they just happen to be about 30% more energy efficient.
Oh, and by the way, those energy standards that are set to go into effect in January are expected to save consumers more than $10 billion a year on electric bills. But hey, what does that matter when compared to being told what to do? Rogers is also quoted as having remarked:
"I don't make jokes, I just watch the government and report the facts!"
Unfortunately, distractions like the not-so-bright act are not all that uncommon. Earlier this year, in fact, we were treated to a distasteful and embarrassing outburst from another elected official who mounted the bully pulpit in a shameless show of grandstanding to verbally abuse public servants because he resents having to comply with regulations that restrict how many gallons of water go down the drain each time he flushes his toilets at home.
The benefits from the low-flow regulations, which have been in effect since the 1990's and now take the form of the WaterSense program (which has resulted in saving a cumulative 125 billion gallons of water and more than $2 billion in water and energy bills), are apparently irrelevant to some, even though according to EPA "by the end of 2010, reductions of 16.7 billion kWh of electricity and 6 million metric tons of carbon dioxide were achieved through the use of WaterSense labeled products."
Just goes to show, you don't want to get between a politician's pet peeve and his satisfaction of being above the law, regardless who else benefits. Perhaps this is the kind of behavior Rogers had in mind when he said:
"If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?"
All of these behaviors and detours, like the three ring performance we are witnessing around the looming debt crisis, get in the way of attempting to deal with some pretty important issues and they distract both lawmakers and their constituents from more serious business.
So where do we go from here?
Whoever decided that cats are the best example of critters that are impossible to "herd" apparently never tried rounding up sacred cows. Now there's an exercise that takes wrangling - by every definition of the word - to a whole new art form. I'm not sure that even Rogers could get a rope around this one.
There are a couple of particularly exasperating aspects awaiting anybody foolish enough to attempt to do this. One, there has never been a sacred cow that would voluntarily be the first to go into the corral. And two, those who worship sacred cows are terrified of having any discussion which would suggest the slightest hint of change to the status quo, decrying any such undertaking as guaranteeing a stampede to complete slaughter, an all or nothing proposition.
This is the situation we find ourselves facing when it comes to the ongoing, politically motivated battles in Washington over the 2012 U.S. federal budget and the larger issue of how to get at least an initial loop over the horns of our unbelievable national debt. Sure, all the beltway buckaroos talk a good story around the campfire but it doesn't take long to identify the vast majority of them as dime store cowboys once the ridin', ropin' and brandin' starts.
Of course, there is no way I can employ all these mental images and metaphors of the Wild West without including another quote from Will Rogers. Perhaps the one that best fits the present fiasco goes:
"Alexander Hamilton started the United States Treasury with nothing, and that is the closest our country has ever been to being even!"
While we can point to periods when there have been exceptions to his assertion, the sad truth is we have never been farther from "being even" than we are today. Not ever. And yet, it is almost impossible to find any person or group willing to step up and volunteer to put some skin in the game, even though to do so could open the door for some badly needed cooperation.
A glimmer of hope came in the recent communications from AARP, one of the most powerful forces in American politics, who suggested that they were willing to soften their traditional stand enough to at least discuss changes to retirement age standards and benefits. They know the writing is on the wall for Social Security and the undeniable truth is that we are a rapidly aging society. These and other stark realities have forced us all to look around the corral for some ways to cull the herd.
The real trick is in getting the sacred cow ranchers to shine the light on all the facts, not just the ones that serve their own select purpose and goals. For the real estate industry, this might mean putting all the cards on the table when it comes to the discussion of the mortgage interest deduction (MID), long considered untouchable by many.
Rogers' priceless observation on economists, "an economist's guess is liable to be as good as anybody else's", might lead us to the conclusion that the explanations of the impacts of the MID on the housing industry depend on whose economist you consult. And the answers may take on a bit more clarity, even for those of us who are part of the vast "uninformed and unwashed", when we actually see all of those cards on the table face up.
Industry groups trumpeting the results of homespun "surveys" designed to prove that Americans almost universally demand complete preservation of the MID may actually offer little more than proof that we have to be wary of "lies, damn lies and statistics". In part, the answer is always shaped a great deal by how the question is asked.
I suppose it is entirely reasonable to expect most "likely voters" (I'm uneasy with this label because it makes me wonder whether it then automatically includes a disproportionate percentage of people who have mortgages to pay) to respond that they support the MID when it is served up as one size-fits-all, simplistically crafted as an ominous threat to Mom, apple pie and the American Dream.
But would the results read a little differently if those surveyed were given a set of options that included not only the blanket "assault-on-the-middle-class" version, as posed by industry, but one which broke out the various nuances such as which income levels benefit the most, who does and who doesn't actually employ the MID, and the carefully avoided parts of the policy that allow tax breaks on second homes, including (if you know how to play the game) recreational vehicles and house boats?
I'm suggesting that if you hand pick your subjects and put the right spin on the device to get the results you are seeking, your survey may be about as meaningful as asking a barber if you need a haircut. Seems to me, the outcomes of these conveniently-timed exercises are more than a little predictable. Besides, flirting with the truth seems a poor substitute for taking ownership of it.
The point of all this is that if we have any real hope of beginning to resolve the social, economic and environmental issues facing us, or for finding ways to remove some of the hostility that permeates so many layers of discourse in our society, including the political arena, then somebody is going to have to take a chance, make a leap of faith, and offer to be the first to shoulder an even bigger share of the load, at least to get things started in the right direction.
Rogers may have said it best:
"You've got to go out on a limb sometimes, because that's where the fruit is."
Posted: 7/11/2011 2:34:56 PM by
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Ron Jones, Co-Founder and President of Green Builder® Media, is recognized as one of the fathers of the green building movement. Instrumental in establishing guidelines and programs through NAHB, USGBC and a variety of regional initiatives, he has more recently worked with the International Code Council in the development of both the National Green Building Standard (ICC 700) and the International Green Construction Code.
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