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Board of Directors
Senator J. Bennett Johnston Jr.
Professor Hooshang Amirahmadi
Prof. Amirahmadi is director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies and a professor at the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy. Amirahmadi is the founder and president of the American-Iranian Council, a research and policy think tank devoted to improving understanding between the peoples of Iran and the United States.
He is the author of Revolution and Economic Transition: The Iranian Experience and editor of 10 other books. His latest book is The Political Economy of Iran. National and international print and broadcast media outlets frequently interview him, including CNN and the New York Times. Amirahmadi has served as consultant to the United Nations, the Aga Khan Foundation, the World Bank and several governments, as well as private companies. He has presented at conferences around the world.
Sir Richard Dalton
Sir Richard Dalton, a British career diplomat from 1970 to 2006 had early experience in Lebanon, Jordan and Oman. From 1991-1992 he was a visiting research fellow at Chatham House and published a study on regional security architecture for the Persian Gulf region. He was responsible for dealings with the Palestinian Authority after the Oslo Accords, as Consul General in Jerusalem from 1993-1997. He returned to London as Director of Personnel at the Foreign Office in 1998.
In 1999 he re-established UK diplomatic relations with Libya as the first UK Ambassador to Tripoli for 17 years. In 2002 Sir Dalton was appointed Ambassador to Iran. He played a role in European efforts to negotiate with Iran, including the 2003 - 2006 diplomatic initiatives to prevent the development of an Iranian military nuclear capability.
In late 2008 he co-wrote the Chatham House Middle East Program report, "Iran: Breaking the Nuclear Deadlock". From 2011 to date he has Chaired Chatham House's Round Table on Libya.
Professor Emeritus Marvin Zonis
Prof. Zonis is an American global political economist and expert on Middle Eastern politics and professor emeritus at the University of Chicago. Professor Zonis has written extensively on globalization, digital technologies and emerging markets.
Ambassador Charles W. Freeman Jr.
Mr. Richard H. Matzke
Ambassador William Miller
Mr. Mohsen Movaghar
CEO, West Point Capital
Mr. Movaghar is President and CEO of West Point Capital headquartered in Los Angels, California. He holds a BA in economics and an MA in management and operations research from Northrop University. Mr. Movaghar has written numerous articles on economic matters and has participated in a number of research projects with Tehran and Melli University in Iran. He has been a supporter of many major Persian arts exhibitions and is a founding member of the Friends of Persia organization.
Ambassador Richard B. Murphy
Amb. Murphy has served as US ambassador to Mauritania, Syria, the Philippines and Saudi Arabia. Later he served as US Assistant Secretary of State for Middle East and South Asia.
Mr. Giandomenico Picco
Mr. Picco, an Under Secretary General of the United Nations, is the personal representative of the Secretary General for the United Nations Year of Dialogue among Civilizations. He is also the CEO of GDP Associates, Inc. in New York City, and President of the non-governmental Peace Strategies Project in Geneva, Switzerland.
Ambassador Robert E. Hunter
Ambassador Hunter served as United States Ambassador to NATO (1993-98) and is a Senior Fellow at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. He has served as Director of the Center for Transatlantic Security Studies at the National Defense University, Director of West European and Middle East Affairs on the National Security Council Staff in President Jimmy Carter's administration, and as President of the Atlantic Treaty Association headquartered in Brussels. He is Chairman of the Council for the Community of Democracies, a member of the Secretary of State's International Security Advisory Board, and serves on the Executive Committee of the Board of the American Academy of Diplomacy.
Ambassador Hunter has written more than 900 publications, including journal articles, book chapters, op-eds, and two books: Building Security in the Persian Gulf and Education Never Ends. He has also been a leading speech writer for several U.S. Presidents and Vice Presidents. A Fulbright Scholar, Ambassador Hunter attended Wesleyan University (B.A.) and the London School of Economics (PhD).
Ambassador Charles A. Gargano
Ambassador Gargano is a partner at Greenview Realty Corporation. His vast experience spans both the private and public sector. Ambassador Gargano has spent more than 20 years in public service at the Federal and State level, serving two presidents as well as the administration of Governor Pataki. He was appointed by Governor Pataki and served as Chairman and CEO of the Empire State Development Corporation and Vice-Chairman of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey from 1995 to 2007. Mr. Gargano was a United States Ambassador to the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago from 1988 to 1991, and was also appointed Deputy Administrator of the Federal Urban Mass Transportation Administration in 1981.
Ambassador Gargano, a licensed professional engineer, was a partner in Posillico Construction and Engineering Corporation for 21 years before entering public service. Ambassador Gargano attended Fairleigh Dickinson University and Manhattan College and holds bachelors and masters degree in Civil Engineering and an MBA. Ambassador Charles Gargano also holds four honorary doctorate degrees.
Mr. Pirooz Parvarandeh
Mr. Parvarandeh is currently serving as the Chief Technology Officer at Maxim Integrated, a $2.4 billion high-tech company. As the CTO, he promotes technical innovation and oversees Maxim Labs, which delivers fundamental breakthrough technology. Over the years Pirooz has been an industry leader in developing new technologies. In 2012 he joined the CTO Forum Advisory Board, a nonprofit organization dedicated to addressing industry's most important technical issues.
Beyond his career accomplishments, Mr. Parvarandeh and his wife Violet Parvarandeh have undertaken philanthropic work in support of Iranian students studying in the US who often face financial difficulty due to the sanctions. They have a serious humanitarian interest in the plight of emigrants in the US.
Mr. Parvarandeh holds BSEE and MSEE degrees from the California Institute of Technology.
Mr. Michael Shadman
Mr. Shadman is currently serving as a senior Director at the US Immigration Investment Center and is the principal of Shad Engineers, Inc. His expertise in and passion for renewable energy and green building technology will help bring an industry of the future behind the AIC's mission to normalize US-Iran relations.
Mr. Shadman's political feats have rivaled those of his business successes. With his wife Mahnaz Khazen, they served on the National Democratic Finance Committee for the 2012 Obama campaign, and on the election committee for Hooshang Amirahmadi's 2013 campaign for the Iranian presidency.
Mr. Shadman was born in Iran and moved the U.S. to advance his education in 1978, He received a B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering in 1986 and later, a Master of Science degree in Civil and Structural Engineering from San Jose State University in 1992.
Mr. Michael Caridi
Mr. Caridi is currently Managing Director of Seahawk Capital Partners, which specializes in business development & consulting, mainly in the biotechnology industry. He is also the Chairman of MAJIC Development Group LLC, and has been involved in several significant development projects, as well as construction for many Fortune 500 clients and retailers.
His philanthropic efforts have rivaled those of his business successes. In the past he has served on the Board of Directors of the Coalition of Italian American Associations; the Republican Leadership Council; The Forum Club; The National Ethnic and Charitable Organization; and The Italo American Foundation. He is proud member of the Lumen Institute and supporter of the New York City Police Foundation and C.O.R.E (Congress of Racial Equality).
Michael was born in Brooklyn and raised in Catskill, NY. A graduate of St. John's University, Michael obtained a Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting and Business Administration.
Mr. Daryl Owen
Daryl Owen Associates, Inc. was founded by Daryl Owen in 1991. Following 12 years as a staff member in the United States Senate, culminating in the leadership of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee as Staff Director, Mr. Owen shifted his legislative and regulatory policy expertise to the private sector. He also served as chief of staff for US Senator J. Bennett Johnston, Jr. (D-LA) from 1978 to 1986.
Daryl Owen Associates, Inc. provide their clients with unique governmental experience, political insight, policy expertise, and countless professional relationships forged over decades of government and private sector interaction.
Mr. Owen completed his J.D. from Louisiana State University in 1981 and his B.A. in History in 1978. He serves as the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Discovery Creek Children's Foundation and as the Vice Chair of the J. Bennett Johnston Science Foundation.
Mr. Don King
Mr. Don King's boxing promotion career began in 1972 when he asked heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali to help save a Cleveland hospital serving poor people. Ever since, King has promoted more than 500 world-championship fights, including six world-title fights. They have involved such boxing legends as: Muhammad Ali, Mike Tyson, George Forman, Joe Fraser and Evander Holyfield.
Mr. King has been featured on the covers of Time, Sports Illustrated, Ebony, Jet, and countless other magazines. He was inducted into the Boxing Hall of Fame in 1997 and is the only boxing promoter named to Sports Illustrated list of the "40 Most Influential Sports Figures," and The New York Times included him among 100 African Americans who have helped shape American history.
Mr. King is not merely a boxing promoter. At heart, he is a civil rights activist and a multi-cultural peace promoter. The Don King Foundation has supported many charities: NAACP, UNCF, the Martin Luther King Jr. Foundation and the Simon Wiesenthal Center. He has also been bestowed with many honors, including the Black Achievement Award, the Martin Luther King Jr. Humanitarian Award, The NAACP President Award, and Man of the Year Award.


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June 19, 2013
Rev. Bruce Wright, President's Commission on Ending Homelessness
The much touted, at least by multinational corporations and some governments, Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement, has grave consequences for the so-called poor of the world, including those in the United States. This agreement, clouded in secrecy, has been characterized as something akin to "NAFTA on steroids!" But, what exactly does it mean for the poor and working class of the United States?
Recent statistics released by the Census Bureau of the Federal Government indicate that half of the United States population is now living at or below the poverty line. This is a very serious and startling statement. At no time in the history of the United States has this been true. Add to that the fact that the gap between the rich and poor is also the widest in U.S. history, and that makes this one of the most serious situations of poverty in the so-called "developed nations".
Compounding this serious situation is growing homelessness. We have the highest rate of homelessness or people without homes since the Depression. Our rate of homelessness is the highest in the "developed" world and even higher than in some "developing" nations. In my state, Florida, we have the 2nd highest rate of homelessness in the U.S.. In the Tampa Bay area, where I live, we have 25,000 homeless individuals and families. This is the highest rate per capita in the country! Florida also ranks among the highest in real unemployment and foreclosures, as well as in low wages.
So what has all this got to do with the TPP? The so-called Trans-Pacific 'Partnership' is a trade agreement being brokered by twelve Asian and Pacific Nations. The intent is to remove all 'trade barriers' between nations so that multinational corporations can move goods, services, and 'commodities' between countries more easily. Major multinational corporations such as big drug companies, WalMart, Nike, Chevron, and others support the TPP because these 'trade barriers' prevent them from making the highest profit possible on their goods and services.
Trade barriers include environmental safeguards, fair labor practices, inexpensive and generic drugs, safety regulations, indigenous sovereignty, national borders, regulations on GMO's, and input from the public. If the TPP were passed, it would deeply impact the poor of the United States and the world.
The TPP's implications on the poor and working class of the United States are grave and serious. From information gathered thus far it is known that the TPP would drive down wages even further, would further eliminate safety regulations and would ship more jobs overseas, including those in the service industry which employs many working-class and poor people in electronically-driven and telephone-oriented work. The TPP would also make it difficult to get necessary medications at affordable prices. Particularly, it would diminish significantly the use of generic drugs, which are the most affordable to those with low incomes.
The TPP would make foreign investment in domestic real estate easier which would drive prices up, making affordable housing more difficult to find. In the end, the result of all of this would be a continued and potentially dramatic increase in poverty, unemployment, and homelessness due to decreasing wages, further joblessness, and increased health costs. This may not only be true domestically, but internationally as well. The TPP would accelerate the 'race to the bottom!'
With these very serious issues in mind, we must resist passage of the TPP at all levels! We must be involved in campaigns of resistance! We must inform each other and the general public of the dangers of this agreement. And we must be willing to resist with our voice and actions, including disruption and direct action.
As a member of the Green Shadow Cabinet, I, as with the rest of the cabinet, am committed to a campaign of resistance. To allow the TPP to pass would strengthen the greed and avarice of multinational corporations and wealthy elites. It opens the doors to a TransAtlantic Trade agreement of the same nature.
We must and can resist this evil! We can and will resist this horrific trade agreement.
~ Rev. Bruce Wright serves as chair of the President's Commission on Ending Homelessness in the General Welfare Branch of the Green Shadow Cabinet. This statement is one of over a dozen issued in support of the Green Shadow Cabinet's June 17th call for action against the TPP.
Our Rule… To do no harm. We embrace the way of peace, non-violence, and reconciliation. We preach and practice the unconditional acceptance of all people as children of One God.
Our Spiritual Practices… We encounter the risen Christ in may ways but none more significantly than in the community celebration of the Holy Eucharist. We are pledged to live a life or prayer and service that includes our making daily conscious contact with God.
Our Activism and Politics… Notes on Christian Protest:
Reference Early Church Fathers
Reference Scriptures: Isaiah 58, Isaiah 10: 1-4, Isaiah 61, Amos, Proverbs, Matthew 25, Matthew 5-7, Luke 6, James 2, among others
Reference the Following Books:
God's Politics, The Politics of Jesus, Jesus of the Disinherited, Letters From Prison, Letters From a Birmingham Jail, God's Revolution, Jesus for President, RIch Christians in an Age of Hunger, A Theology of Liberation, Communism in the Bible, Marx and the Bible
Key Points: We must represent Jesus, we must represent Kingdom Values. Our method
is against actions, we cannot judge intent. Nonviolence. We must look at issues and not parties or people. It is not about the constitution but about the Bible, the Church, and the Church Fathers. We come at it as a Eucharistic People, who are united as one, across Racial, Gender, Ethnic, Age, and Class.
Saints that influence us Politically: St. Francis, Theresa of Avila, St. Gemma, Mother Theresa, Dorothy Day, Martin Luther King Jr., Sojourner Truth, Daniel Berrigan, Oscar Romero, Deitrich Bonhoffer, John Brown, Fredrick Douglas, John Dear, Jim Wallis, John Perkins, Thomas Merton, Matthew Fox, and others
]]>Angel and his family have lived and taken care of their home on the 3200 block of Shelbourne Street for the last 11 years–and they are now threatened with eviction. Since moving into the house, Angel has fixed the place up–painting it and installing plumbing and electricity. He has also kicked drug crews out of the house and was shot in one of those confrontations. He has also been a contributing member of the community serving as a block captain. The original owner of the house who gave permission for Angel to live there recently passed away, and another landowner is laying claim to the property–threatening Angel with eviction unless he can pay her $13,000. Angel is willing to pay as much as he can, but cannot afford that pricetag.
The Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign (PPEHRC) is supporting Angel at his request, mobilizing community resources in an effort to both raise $13,000 and help him and his family resist eviction if that goal is not met. Angel has been the caretaker of his home and a valuable asset to his community, and PPEHRC is willing to do everything in its power to ensure that Angel and his family stay in the home that is rightfully theirs.
]]>Glenn Wilder Executive Director 727 244 0427
Rev. Bruce Wright Assistant Director 727 278 1547
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References: Rev.Dr. Don Thompson 941 739 7103, Rev. GW Rolle 727 424 1088, Dave Shepherd 727 420 5324, Atty Jim Grinaker 727 214 8972, Rev. James Swartz at Christ Methodist 727 822 3343
]]>Sincerely, Rev. Bruce Wright
PS. If you are so inclined and wish to help the Refuge in it's work at the last minute with families and to end this year in supporting us, we certainly could use your help. To help immediately, please call me at 727 278 1547 and I will give instructions on how to help by depositing directly in to our account. You can also send gifts to the Refuge, 3301 58th Ave. north, St. Petersburg, Florida 33714. Thanks again!! Please also consider supporting the Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign (www.economichumanrights.org).
Here is the list of Needs of the Refuge Recovery House:
-Furniture needed: Bureaus, silver ware, cups, plates, knifes, forks, spoons, cooking utensils, bed sheets, blankets, furniture (couches, chairs, etc.),4 bunk beds and 10 regular beds, pillows, tvs, vcr/dvd players, Lamps, bookcases, computer, phone, computer desk
Needs of Poor and Homeless Peoples Encampment in TAMPA:
Hello Friends, just to update on our Encampment of the Poor Peoples Economic Human Rights Campaign and the Refuge, we are in need of some immediate help. We need to raise $1200 to cover remaining payment for encampment land use, port-a-lets and camping equipment. If you can help, please call me at 727 278 1547. Donations can be sent via pay pal at www.refugestpete.org. Also, can send via the Refuge by mailing to The Refuge, 3301 58th Ave. North, Lot 102, St. Petersburg, Florida 33714. Thanks for you help, Rev. Bruce
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Chicago: My kind of town? Thousands of protesters marched in a sweltering Chicago today from downtown Chicago to near the site of the NATO summit at McCormick Place to call for an end to the NATO war machine.
The Coalition Against NATO-G8, which has spearheaded the march and protests, calls for an end to NATO's war agenda. The group expected at least 10,000 to join the march.
The final number in the march may well double that, and some protesters report that the police numbers seem to equal the number of protesters.
Veterans have returned their medals at the end of the march, throwing them to the ground, and giving powerful reasons, as @OccupyChicago is documenting:
"I'm giving these medals back to the 1/3rd of women in the military who are sexually assaulted. I'm sorry. " – War Veteran
"I'm sorry to the 30,000 Iraq and Afgani civilians killed." – War Veteran
"These medals are a symbol of control. I will not hold on to these lies of heroism." – War Veterans
Explaining why the veterans were retuning their medals, Iraq Veterans Against the War previously wrote: "We were awarded these medals for serving in the Global War on Terror, a war based on lies and failed polices. This endless war has killed hundreds of thousands, stripped the humanity of all involved, and drained our communities of trillions of dollars, diverting funds from schools, clinics, libraries, and other public goods."
Iraq Veterans Against the War's Aaron Hughes, one of the veterans who will be returning his medals, spoke to Democracy Now! this week and said, "A decade-long war, what have we been doing? … There's a real moral disconnect between the idea that our military can build a democracy and the idea that our military is trained and designed to control, dominate and kill people."
Thousands of peace activists are also in the march. "I'm here to protest NATO, which I feel is the enforcement arm of the ruling 1 per cent — of the capitalist 1 per cent," protester John Schraufnagel told the Associated Press.
The focus of the NATO meet, which began today, will be the forces in Afghanistan.
The official march to McCormick Place has ended. Now @OccupyChicago reports that "chaos" and clashes between police have broken out, with some protesters being beaten with billy clubs, and possible sightings of the LRAD, or sound cannon.
]]>At one recent meeting, we were poring over numbers and assessing the budget's impact. We were also struggling with what kinds of organizing efforts might be effective. As I personally took in a sense of soberness at the tasks before us, I found an old memory stirring: Back in the 1980s, Philadelphia was the scene of an important event in the history of modern homelessness in this country: the formation of the first shelter started and operated by homeless persons. The group that started it called themselves the Committee for Dignity and Fairness for the Homeless (CDFH), and named the facility Dignity Shelter. The group would later launch the Union of the Homeless, a dynamic advocacy group which would eventually form chapters in several cities around the country.
One of the founders of CDFH/Union was Chris Sprowal, a tall and imposing former social worker and union organizer who had experienced the degradation of life on the streets and in shelters. Chris (one of my mentors) turned his own suffering and rage into action, with the realization that persons who were homeless needed to be at the forefront of the struggle for housing and dignity. As he sought to change conditions in Philadelphia, he demonstrated remarkable imagination and audacity in his political actions. He bathed naked in a public fountain to protest the lack of showers in city shelters. On a few occasions he organized dramatic "sleep-outs" to demand funding for shelters and service. And he spent no small amount of time in jail for civil disobedience.
Around 1990, Chris suddenly announced that he would undertake a fast as a response to the increase in street homelessness and the City's decision to cut back on services. He camped outside Council chambers at City Hall for over a month diligent in his nonviolent witness. Obviously he garnered much media coverage, and daily supporters joined him for an ongoing protest and call for urgently needed resources. After over 40 days of fasting, which eventually took Chris and other advocates to the State Building, a major commitment of new State funding was secured – and Chris took to the hospital to recover.
The memory of Chris Sprowal jolted me to a sense that today we need to again consider imaginative and audacious actions to raise the urgent issues of basic justice and compassion in our increasingly polarized society.
A couple days after the meeting, I was speaking with a fellow activist, who was passionately questioning: "Where is the prophetic anger from the religious community? There's all this poverty and suffering, and the United States may be entering yet another war soon!"
A few days later at one of our advocacy committee meetings about the proposed state budget, the same theme struck again. During yet another tough conversation, someone said that maybe we need religious leaders from around Pennsylvania to raise profound moral and spiritual issues about current directions in public policy. Something in me stirred—yes, we need that voice, a powerful, prophetic cry for justice.
The very next day, I spotted a headline in the Philadelphia Inquirer saying that Catholic bishops were calling for a day of fasting to protest,..
Could it be, I thought? Our spiritual leaders calling for action from all the faithful on the urgent issues of our day? A prophetic voice being raised about human suffering, poverty, and injustice?
No—the protest was about contraception. More specifically, it was about the recent White House statement on federal mandates for insurance companies to cover contraception and what the leadership saw as an assault on religious liberty.
One diocesan official stated, "Extreme situations call for extreme responses." I couldn't agree more. Yet, once again, ecclesial leaders focus their moral ire almost exclusively on what we do or don't do with our genitals, while God's precious children are again assaulted by thuggish policy-makers, pushing them into deeper poverty.
But the bishops are too easy a target, and righteous indignation doesn't get us off the hook. Certainly much of the religious community in this country suffers from a myopic vision of social responsibility. Both in the pulpits and the pews, too many Christians, even those of liberal or progressive bent, have become too comfortable, too immune from the suffering of millions of our sisters and brothers. And we are largely impotent in the face of continuing systemic assaults on our most vulnerable citizens, while wealth is being amassed by the few. Even many activists have become content with our tactics and our liberal credentials. The more radical among us sometimes take shelter in our prophetic denunciations of the system, while the system continues to steamroll those already struggling to survive.
Not that I expect much from the Pennsylvania state government. But I am convinced that we need to tap into the holy anger of the prophets and of Jesus when God's children are being neglected, exploited, marginalized, or dehumanized.
And we need elders like Chris Sprowal to remind us that sometimes we just have to take imaginative and audacious risks.

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F'ville eyes possibilities for annexing 1,099 acres
Talks driven by movie-TV production studios coming north of Piedmont Fayette Hospital
It is all in the preliminary stages, but get ready for a flurry of activity in the areas west and northwest of Fayetteville in the coming months.
Potential annexations, sewer service and developing an updated master plan for the area were all topics at the Fayetteville City Council retreat held Feb. 22.
The reason for the discussion is the recent announcement that British-based Pinewood Studios Group wants to establish its first U.S. film and television studio facility in north central Fayette County.
On the topic of potential annexations, City Manager Joe Morton said the city has recently been approached by the owners of the Rivers, Horton and Williams properties just west of Fayetteville about annexing into the city.
So what properties could be potential annexation areas for the city? They can be divided into two basic groups with options in each. The first group would potentially include the 288-acre Rivers property known as Pinewood's Project Stargate and situated along Sandy Creek Road, the Horton property adjacent to the north side of the hospital and the Williams property to the east of Sandy Creek Road and adjacent to Crystal Lake.
The Horton property consists of 97 acres immediately south of Project Stargate and another 42 acres just across the Veterans Parkway and adjacent to the north side of Piedmont Fayette Hospital. The south side of the Horton property also borders portions of Sandy Creek Road south of Veterans Parkway. The Horton property would be needed to extend sewer to the Project Stargate property.
The Williams property consists of 153 acres and is situated immediately to the west of Crystal Lake on Ga. Highway 54 and east of Sandy Creek Road. The property extends northward toward the bypass.
The second group of potential annexation sites were featured on the map for discussion purposes. Though not required for the installation of the main sewer lines, there are a number of other parcels that could potentially tie into sewer if it becomes available.
The Rivers family owns a 45-acre tract adjacent to the north side of Project Stargate, a 126-acre tract immediately to the east of Stargate along Sandy Creek Road and a 136-acre tract to the southwest, a portion of which is adjacent to the Horton property.
City staff noted that the 30-acre Rivers Elementary School at Sandy Creek Road and Veterans Parkway is currently being considered for sale by the Fayette County Board of Education. The site is being considered as a campus for the Savannah College of Arts and Design.
Additional properties that may or may not want to be considered for annexation include the 122-acre Lester property along Hwy. 54 between Veterans Parkway and Tyrone Road and a 60-acre site northeast of the Lester tract owned by the Fayette County School System for a future high school.
Yet another large tract, the Trammell property at more than 350 acres, is located north of the Lester tract and the school system property. It was noted at the retreat that the property owner has not expressed an interest in annexation.
While currently under review to obtain a General Business (GB) zoning in unincorporated Fayette County, annexing into Fayetteville could fall under a zoning category such as Planned Community Development (PCD) for Phase 1 of the studio project and under the R-70 residential zoning for remaining property that would mimic the current county zoning for residential property.
Morton said the property owners could work with the city in parallel with the current effort to have the county rezone the Project Stargate area as GB. Morton said the annexation and rezoning activities could be achieved in 60-90 days.
Pertaining to the updated master plan for the potential development of the area, the joint effort between the city, county, Fayette County Development Authority, large land owners and Peachtree City-based Historical Concepts will begin a series of meetings in the coming days to work out plans for the area that encompasses approximately 2,000 acres to the east, north and west of Piedmont Fayette Hospital.
The updated plan will follow a previous concept plan developed in recent years where the large area was potentially targeted for several hamlets and neighborhoods and would cluster commercial and residential development and leave large areas of land as open space.
There were several options relating to the potential installation of sewer on the various properties. All options and configurations are preliminary and were included in the discussion to provide council members with a way to begin envisioning potential courses the city might take dependent on which property owners might request annexation and how sewer might be provided to those properties if the annexation requests included sewer service.
The options ranged from $350,000 to $1.7 million and will be discussed in greater detail in the coming months once development plans for the area are announced.
In terms of funding options for the installation of sewer, those costs could come from refinancing existing city debt, from requiring the developer to cover the costs or to utilize a proportionate share schedule.
Fayetteville currently has a sewage treatment capacity of 5 millions gallons a day, but utilizes less than half of that capacity.
I'm thinking that many of you are forgetting the title of the article. It is about annexing land, not what or who is responsible for the "Road to Nowhere" or the West Fayette By-Pass. Let's be real here, those of us living here at or very near the "Road to Nowhere" or the West Fayette By-Pass would be very happy to not have the road!! Simple as that. It has caused nothing but trouble for us and obviously will cause even more in the future. Don't get me wrong, our economny is in the tanks and we will benefit greatly from the studio being built (as a county on the whole). But most of you will not be impacted like those of us living here. So, let's get back to the annexation - why does the city want this land? Well, of course it means more money in their coffers and less money in the overall county coffers. Why all of a sudden are we considered "worthy" for the city? We aren't "worthy" now? Come on, people. Get real and talk the truth!
Lee Hearn, sore-loser former commissioner, spoke at this week's meeting and asked several utterly stupid questions, made accusations against the current commissioners, and then bolted for the door without waiting for a response just like he did at a previous meeting.
Those in attendance were visibly annoyed with his insulting demeanor and many commented after the meeting that they wish he would just go away.
I overhead one individual who said "the November vote tally suggests that even his family and neighbors in Brooks didn't vote for him."
AARG! Hearn said he would be coming back.
Didn't he and his pals Maxwell, Smith, Frady, and Horgan get the message that we had had enough of their "good ole boy closed door secret politics" when we soundly kicked them out of office?
Frady did not seek another term because he knew he couldn't possibly win.
Jim Richter
Put on your man pants today or grow thicker skin. Who really cares what the former commissioner says anyway. Obviously, he scares you or you wouldn't give it another thought.
No Hearn fan here, but you need to keep your Tea Party clean. Wow, we all feel included with various prayers. We all feel good about the Steve Brown "good ole boy committees" being formed without transparency. I guess the old jail committee was a real emegency or the Hallelujah commissioner would have said something. Oh yea, the people placed by Brown were all friends of his.
Haven't heard one of your boys even acknowledge that any of the recent good fortune was actually started before they took office and they are just running with it. But giving credit to the old guard wouldn't advance the agenda now would it?
Jim, most of the streets in FC go both ways, you just don't see that.
Now that the Pinewood Studio group has expressed interest in the property on the "Road to Nowhere," it exposes the Lilliputians in the Tea Party and the county commission who so voraciously opposed the West Fayetteville by-pass as small-minded, power-hungry politicians who lack any vision for the county. The deafening silence of these "nattering nabobs of negativism" demonstrates that this insular group will not admit their errors, and commissioner Brown (the most vocal opponent of the roadway) is suddenly a great proponent of the economic boost it brings to the county.
Your choices are the proponents of: "The road to nowhere" vs. "Build it and they will come." Judge for yourself who should lead our county. Just don't expect our current crop of county commissioners or the tea baggers ever to admit how woefully wrong their opposition to the West Fayetteville by-pass turned out to be. That would require integrity. LOL
So you actually believe that if the WFB did not exist that Pinewood Studios would not have considered building there?
Just what are the actions taken by our current Board of Commissioners you disagree with--and why? They deserve specific citizen feedback. And to insinuate that they have an absence of integrity is undeserved sounds like someone who would take/make a cellphone call in the Library!
Supported by the tea baggers, our current commissioners ran for office on a platform that specifically castigated every former commissioner who supported the West Fayetteville by-pass. They derided proponents of the WFB mercilessly and dubbed it the "road to nowhere." They cited support for the WFB as a moral failure of the sitting and former commissioners.
Now that Pinewood Studio group and SCAD are showing interest in the area served by the WFB, our commissioners are having a change of heart. They want to demonstrate how welcoming our county is to new development by the infrastructural improvements they deeply opposed only a few short months ago.
They lack integrity because they will not confess their hopeless short-sightedness to the WFB, and they will undoubtedly attend all the ribbon cuttings acting as if they were instrumental in attracting these new businesses. They can regain some integrity by admitting that their predecessors apparently were not the fools that they constantly portrayed them as. They can give credit where it is due instead of taking a single ounce of credit themselves. For this group of commissioners, I fear that is "a bridge too far."
You do realize, don't you, that 3/5 ths of the Board didn't "deeply opposed" anything several months ago, as they WERE NOT COMMISSIONERS THEN! Sounds like you thought the former Board was just dandy and did lots of smart things--were you a Lee Hearn supporter? I will stand by our current Board until I determine they have done something colossaly stupid--then I will openly criticize. But not over miniscule boo-boos of minor consequence as micro-management usually fails in the final analysis. Try being positive and you may discover it feels pretty good! Finally, for Pete's sake, let's knock off the "who gets the credit" jazz--that's surely part of today's problems--everybody is worried about stroking someone's ego---not important--be glad it's gonna happen and MOVE ON!
Perhaps you slept through the last county commissioner campaign. Fueled by tea party venom for the three ousted commissioners, the newbies conducted the most negative campaign for a local election Fayette County has seen in the last 25 years. Their vitriol for the former commissioners was palpable and all three ran on their unyielding defiance of the WFB. Follow this link:
Your call for comity is a bit late, don't you think. I have no affinity for the previous commissioners, but I view the current group as Steve Brown sycophants who are beholden to the tea baggers (a lethal combination for us residents). In their few short months in office, they've already broken the law and generated ethics complaints. Now they have developed amnesia about their opposition to the WFB. Get real!
No, I didn't sleep through the campaign, did you sleep through the Election? You want to say all those who voted got it wrong? Think you'll lose that one. Maybe you should consider a run when a vacancy comes up--get right in there and clean house and right the ship!
You have asked me specific questions about my perceptions concerning the integrity of the current commissioners. I have answered you thoroughly and clearly exposed their former vehement opposition to the WFB that is deafeningly silent today.
Your answer = We won, so there. Touché. Mr. Obama won as well. I guess your point is that you can always trust the voters to do the right thing. Sleep well with that thought.
I did NOT say "We won, so there"---that's just your twisted interpetation. If you recall, that's the line from POTUS to some members of Congress. Well, I'm outta here-got some preparation to do for Duke/Miami roundball game!
Unless I am misreading the map, all the studio has to do is build a road or a driveway off Sandy Creek Road - and Sandy Creek was there long before the WFB - wasn't it?
New Commission not a factor either.
And I doubt anyone can possibly believe that since this fell out of the sky during the new commission under a new chairman - during their first month in office that the old commissioners had nothing to do with it? The big 3 spent a lot of time freezing out Brown and McCarty from things and rightfully so if there was some secrecy involved in the negotiations with the studio. So, who gets the credit? Brown and company? Or can we expect to see Lee Hearn and (gasp!) Jack Smith up there sharing the big shears at the ribbon cutting? Ginger Gibbs and Matt Forshee did the real work, but some of the old guard helped make it happen.
I have seen several openings and ribbon cuttings where the current mayor or chair invited their predecessor or even a civilian (like Doug Warner) to share in the credit for something big. It is the classy thing to do - just like being respectful by wearing a tie.
Come to think of it, maybe Brown won't even be invited to the ribbon cutting. If the annexation goes through, this becomes a city project. Then we have the new mayor (in a coat and tie) deciding whether or not to invite Ken Steele. We know for a fact Ken was involved in the secret land plan, wasn't he? This could get real interesting.
I see your point and doubt any of the current commissioners will ever admit that the former commissioners did anything positive.
If they were truthful, they would have to admit that the job is not as easy as they thought. Prior to being elected 2-3 of them would stand before the commission and tell them they were not being transparent. They would issue letters to the editor stating the same. Now, 2 months into their term, they have appointed committees without posting the openings, and have altered their powers to allow for direct contact with county employees. Though they state that the committee was needed right away and that they will only ask employees to obtain simple requests, it opens the doors to other problems down the road. If the former commissioners did this, they would have been screaming that the sky was falling.
Though, I do think 4 of the 5 are doing a good job thus far, most intelligent people realize that the good news happening started well before the three amigos took office. They just happened to have this fall in their lap and are more than happy to run with it. After all, we have to do something with this road.
In hindsight, the economy and the way the county took some of the land was the true downfall of the old regime. Had we had a chairman that was not a pompass snob and handled some issues a little better, I don't think we would have had such a massive overhaul on the commission.
If they wanted inclusivity, they would have done something besides the prayer.
Good points Husband and Father. We'll see if any one of the five has the intestinal fortitude to acknowledge their successors' wisdom. Highly unlikely for these tea bagger-backed midgets.
The commissioners really are in a quandary. If they admit that the infrastructure improvements of the WFB assisted this development, they must give credit to the very commissioners they mercilessly vilified in order to gain their office. If they say that the improvements were irrelevant to attracting the new industry, they will be seen as the short-sighted fools that they are. I will guess that they will take all the credit for enticing the new industry and avoid any mention of their former criticisms. They are nothing if not predictable.
One look at the so-called "plan" for that area that Todd Strickland did under the radar for the landowners or maybe the county will reveal that residential subdivisions was all that was envisioned. Bad timing , of course made that dream inoperative. The studio thing was not driven by the road, it was driven by a huge piece of undeveloped land and for once a business-friendly attitude from local government - and probably the state tax credits.
By the time that studio is built, you will see many former opponents taking credit for building that road. And guess who the head cheerleader will be.
$40+ Million sure would have gone a long way to fix those infrastructural issues we have..
But like you said they will be stand up there as they break ground saying see we told you so..


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Captain your country to European glory.
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I found this item on a google search on how to survive an armed robbery. The premise of this site is that you are "unarmed" at the time of the armed robbery. We all at one time or another have not been able to carry our CCW weapons for various reasons.
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I tend to agree with the general theme of how to survive this difficult situation. Of the four robberies I experienced the first one was the worst. Here is why I say this.
The first armed robbery I didn't know how to react at all. I suppose this applies to any given situation. Being the victim of an armed robbery for the first time is an extreme example. Here is how I dealt with the aftermath of my first armed robbery.
The moment the BG was gone I called the local LEO's. My 2nd call was to the general manager of the hotel. The police arrived within 3-4 minutes. When they arrived & I gave one of the officers a clothing description as best as I could recall as well as their mode & direction of travel. The BG was wearing a stocking mask so all I had was a clothing decription, general size (height & weight), etc. Long story short, then never caught the BG.
Now as to the "rest of the story" to borrow from the late Paul Harvey, for the next 2-3 weeks I relived the robbery every night as a bad nightmare. Most of those nights I woke up is a cold sweat. As time passed the bad nightmares became less frequent.
With a bit of help from a friend who also was robbed earlier in his life we talked alot and he helped me thru the stress of being robbed. Talking with this good friend help me come to terms with that first robbery. Talking about this bad situation help me realize that the robbery could have gone much worse. At this time I was just thrilled to be alive.
This first armed robbery made me realize that life is wonderful. We shouldn't let bad experiences make us see only bad. Find at least one good thing in your life EVERY day! I do.


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A Diffusion Approach to Network Localization AbstractThe localization of nodes on a network is a challenging research topic. It naturally arises in a variety of applications such as communications and sensor network analysis. We propose a computational approach to recovering the positions of network nodes given partial and corrupted distance measurements, and the positions of a small subset of anchor nodes. First, we show how to derive geometrically adaptive diffusion bases defined over the entire network, given only partial distance measurements. Second, we propose to utilize several diffusion bases simultaneously to derive multiscale diffusion frames. These provide an additional diffusion scale adaption layer. Last, we utilize these bases to formulate a least squares extension of the anchor points coordinates to the entire network. We experimentally show that under a wide range of conditions our method compares favorably with state-of-the-art approaches.
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Spirit had made it clear that they followed a strict no refund policy before the ticket was purchased. So whatever the reason for anybody - veteran or rapist, to request an exception clearly nested the prerogative on any decision with the airline. I frankly do not think there was any need for media to blow the issue out of proportion. Does the military make exceptions? Very rarely... A soldier of all people is expected to follow rules. And I'm sure the amount was paltry... Has Gulliver mentioned the amount maybe the discussion would have taken a different direction.
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glen a richter wrote:How good exactly is Schneider at the AHL level? I know little to nothing about this guy, but unless he's the second coming of Marty Brodeur, I don't want to lose Backes to get him.
If he's really the guy that he's being made out to be, I'd pony up Berglund + Junland + pick
Obviously Junland will never be a part of this team, and Berglund I think is just never going to hack it.
Schneider is the best goalie in the AHL for whatever that might be worth. He has been both great and terrible when called up, but I think he'll end up being a solid #1.


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Mobile and Wireless Devices
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Music Charts 10th April 1976
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This week the BBC Top of the Pops TV show was introduced by Noel Edmonds and featured Hot chocolate, Abba, Paul Nicholas, 10ss, Linda Lewis, Bay City Rollers, Four Seasons, Sheer Elegance and Eric Carman.
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Love Me Like I Love You by Bay City Rollers
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Don't Stop It Now by Hot Chocolate
Article about Hot Chocolate
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Hey Jude by Beatles
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Take It To The Limit by Eagles
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Concrete And Clay by Randy Edleman
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People Like You And People Like Me by Glitterband
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Girls Girls Girls by Sailor
This group only had two top twenty hits. Girls Girls Girls being the second hit for founding group members Georg Kajanus and Phil Pickett. Phil went on to win two Ivor Nevello Music Awards and wrote Culture Club's Karma Chameleon.
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I Wanna Stay With You by Gallagher And Lyle
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Falling Apart At The Seams by Marmalade
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Theme From Mah0gony (Do You Know Where You,re Going To?) by Diana Ross
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Yesterday by Beatles
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I'm Mandy Fly Me by 10cc
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Love Really Hurts Without You by Billy Ocean
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Fernando by Abba
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Music by John Miles
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You See The Trouble With Me by Barry White
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Another week has come & gone bringing my imminent departure ever closer. I'm not quite ready to leave city life, with a long list of things I never got around to doing this spring or summer while I was moping about. But it's the weekend and I'm ready for a break from work. I'm hoping to get one last SUP session in, take to the streets with my new street photography lens and finish prepping for my trip to Antarctica. A few recent tidbits…
An experiment in creative living.
I want to move to downtown Portland at some point. So many good reasons!
The new Mumford & Sons album Babel is out. And it's fantastic, in my opinion.
They did IT! New Impossible instant film that doesn't have to be shielded when it comes out of the camera. A huge instant film coup!
I'm the kind of person that has to find the perfect pencil to write with, thinks mac & cheese can only be eaten from a bowl and pizza tastes better cut into squares. Something about shape and function, I want them to meld perfectly. Like these triangle notebooks. I think my poetry must certainly be better written on a triangular page.
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DENHAM SPRINGS, LA (FOX44) - Saturday, in the wind ministries teamed up with the faith riders at Hebron Baptist church in Denham Springs for the first annual blessing of the bikes.
Bikers with Faithriders say spring has come to the Baton Rouge area, and more riders are seen on our highways.
They were even seen riding into the gym of Hebron Baptist church for the blessing.
Pastor Terry Lobell of In the Wind Ministries says that's why they held a church service and blessing, they wanted bikers in south Louisiana to get all the help they could
"Our bikes are our pews because so many people love motorcycles and they love Jesus and what we've done is linked the two, and what we're doing here is opening up, making this a church where they can come in, on their motorcycle and enjoy the two loves of their life," said Pastor Lobell.