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April 10, 2014
This summer, the Biological Sciences Library will relocate from Kendall Hall to Dimond Library.
The library in Kendall Hall will close May 30. Materials will be moved to Dimond Library during June and July by a professional company experienced in relocating libraries. During that five-to-six week period, a page system will be used at Dimond to retrieve books for patrons.
The project involves culling resources from both libraries to make room for the combined materials.
There will be a shifting of books currently located on Levels 4 and 5. Additionally, bound periodicals will be integrated with other materials on Levels 4 and 5; journals and magazines that used to be on a separate floor will now be together with the other resources.
Level 2 will house the natural sciences resource center, and include the biological science library and the science materials already located in Dimond Library. The center will have a librarian dedicated to the area, with other services added once that position has been filled. The center will be located in the site of the current periodical room, where a service desk, computers, seating and desks will be added, as will a faculty office.
The entire project is expected to be finished by August, 15th.
April 3, 2014
The Current Periodicals room on Level 2 in Dimond Library will be undergoing construction during the hours or 6:30am-noon on weekdays until April 11. Periodical and newspaper services will be available in the Micromedia room located across the hall. Feel free to continue to use this space but be aware of the disruption in the mornings.
We appreciate your patience while we remodel!
March 18, 2014
Government Information presents its latest featured resource, NOAA's Civil War Coastal Surveys.
In 1807, President Thomas Jefferson established the Survey of the Coast to produce the nautical charts necessary for maritime safety, defense, and the establishment of national boundaries. Within years, the United States Coast Survey was the government's leading scientific agency, charting coastlines and determining land elevations for the nation. In 1861, the agency adjusted quickly to meet the needs of a country at war.
March 18, 2014
The UNH Traditional Jazz Series presents Luciana Souza: Brazilian Duos featuring Romero Lubambo on Monday, March 31 at 8pm in the Johnson Theater at the Paul Creative Arts Center.
Tickets are $8 for general admission and $6 for students and senior citizens. Tickets are available at the PCAC box office, Monday-Friday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., by calling (603) 862-PCAC (7222), by purchasing tickets online, and at the door one hour prior to performance.
Luciana Souza is one of Jazz's leading singers and interpreters. She was born in São Paulo, Brazil into a family of Bossa Nova innovators. Luciana's work as a performer transcends traditional boundaries around musical styles, covering jazz, world music, and venturing into classical repertoire and new music.
Romero Lubambo's guitar playing unites the styles and rhythms of his native Brazilian musical heritage with his fluency in the American jazz tradition to form a distinctive new sound. From the cool, sophisticated rhythms of his native Brazil to hard bop, Romero is a guitarist who's comfortable in any musical setting. He is an uncommonly gifted soloist and musical improviser with a knack for unpredictable and creative musical thoughts.
The Traditional Jazz Concert Series is co-sponsored by the New Hampshire Library of Traditional Jazz. The library, established in 1978 by Dorothy Prescott, comprises books, recordings, and memorabilia and is housed in Dimond Library. Prescott's generous endowment funds its activities including the Traditional Jazz Series concerts.
For more information, call the UNH Music Department at (603) 862-2404.
March 17, 2014
Join humorist Rebecca Rule on Sunday, April 13, 2014 at 2pm in Dimond Library when she interviews poet Sharon Olds.
The program is free and open to the public, but seating is limited. To register, please use our online form.
Sharon Olds is the winner of several prestigious awards including the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 2013 and the National Book Critics Circle Award. She has several published volumes of poetry and is known as "a poet of constant linguistic surprise."
Light refreshments will be served and Olds will be available to sign her books. The event includes an opportunity for questions from the audience and will be recorded by New Hampshire Public Television for broadcast and web streaming.
Three times a year, in the style of Bravo's Inside the Actors Studio, Rebecca Rule serves as host and interviewer for The New Hampshire Authors Series from the Dimond Library at UNH. It features an author who lives, summers, teaches or was born in New Hampshire.
For more information, e-mail firstname.lastname@example.com or call (603) 862-1540.
March 13, 2014
The University will have a delayed opening Thursday, March 13. The UNH Library will be open from 11:00 am to 5:30 pm. Please confirm closing times for all service desks.
For more information, see UNH Emergency and Storm Information
March 6, 2014
The Library is doing a usability test of our space and we need a few participants during March 19-21. It will take about an hour of your time in Dimond Library.
For your participation, you will receive a $15 Dining Services card, good at any Dining location on campus, or a USB flash drive.
If you're interested and available, please contact Kristin Parker.
February 26, 2014
We are pleased to announce a new trial database, Historic Map Works. This trial provides access to over 200,000 high-resolution, full color antique and historic maps that trace the "residential genealogy" of families and locations over time.
If this database is useful to you, please contact our Collection Management Librarian, Jen Carroll, or comment here.
February 18, 2014
Work is now underway to replace lamps and add motion light sensors on Levels 2 and 4 in Dimond Library. This work has been funded by a federal grant and is designed to improve energy efficiency.
The existing motion lights on Levels 1, 4, and 5 will be adjusted so they come in within 2-5 feet of each row entrance. The new motion lights are dual sensing – they sense heat as well as motion – so, no getting up to wave your arms when sitting motionless for more than a few minutes.
February 18, 2014
The University has curtailed operations Tuesday, February 18 effective 12:40 pm. Dimond Library will be open reduced hours from 7:30 am until 6:00 pm and branch library locations will close at 1:00 pm. Be sure to check the library hours to confirm.
For more information, please see UNH Emergency and Storm Information


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Rare Books & Special Collections
The Department of Rare Books and Special Collections is located on the main floor of the Hesburgh Library at the University of Notre Dame in northern Indiana. Holdings include more than 175,000 volumes of printed books and periodicals, manuscript holdings ranging from medieval codices to collections dating from the late twentieth century, and various other format materials including printed ephemera, maps, newspapers, numismatic and philatelic items.
The Department is open to students, faculty, visiting researchers, and members of the community Monday through Friday from 9am-5pm (closed weekends and major holidays).
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Take Part in Salsarita's Taco-Eating ContestEvent Details: 5:30 p.m., October 05, Busch Student Center, 20 N. Grand Blvd., St. Louis, MO, 63103
Billiken Dining Services and Salsarita's will be hosting a taco eating competition, with the first contest taking place at 5:30 p.m. on Wedneday, Oct. 5, at Salsarita's Fresh Cantina in the Busch Student Center.
To enter the competition, sign up with the cashier/associate at the counter of Salsarita's. Make sure to completely fill out the form and turn it back into the associate. Only six are allowed to compete at a time, but contests will be taking place every other Wednesday throughout the semester.
During the contest, the first to finish seven chicken, beef or grilled vegetable tacos wins.
There will be multiple "taco races" this semester and the winners will all return in December for a taco showdown.
The seven soft-shell tacos will contain: meat (chicken or ground beef) or vegetable filling, choice of rice or beans, Salsarita's homemade Pico de Gallo, lettuce, cheese and the participant's choice of hot or medium salsa. If a participant is allergic or otherwise unable to have certain cold items from the list above, they must substitute that item for one of Salsarita's other cold options.
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Makers of Modern Architecture, Volume II (eBook)
Makers of Modern Architecture, Volume II (eBook)
In the first volume of Makers of Modern Architecture (2007), Martin Filler examined the emergence of that revolutionary new form of building and explored its aesthetic, social, and spiritual aspirations through illuminating studies of some of its most important practitioners, from Louis Sullivan and Frank Lloyd Wright to, in our own time, Renzo Piano and Santiago Calatrava.
Now, in Makers of Modern Architecture, Volume II, Filler continues his investigations into the building art, beginning with the historical eclecticism of McKim, Mead, and White, best remembered today for New York City's demolished Pennsylvania Station. He surveys the seemingly inexhaustible flow of new books about Wright and Le Corbusier, and continues his commentaries on Piano's museum buildings with an essay focused on the new Broad Contemporary Art Museum in Los Angeles.
There are less well known subjects here too, from the Frankfurt urban planner Ernst May to Buckminster Fuller, inventor of the geodesic dome. Filler judges Edward Durell Stone—the architect of the U.S. embassy in New Delhi, the Huntington Hartford Museum in New York City, and the Kennedy Center in Washington—to have been "a middling product of his times," however personally interesting he may have been. And he looks back at James Stirling, who in the 1970s and 1980s was "a veritable rock star of the profession," responsible for what Filler considers some of the very few worthwhile postmodernist buildings.
The essays collected here are not entirely historical, however. Filler also focuses on some of the most recent projects to have attracted critical and popular attention both in the United States and abroad, including Rem Koolhaas's CCTV building in Beijing and Bernard Tschumi's Acropolis Museum in Athens. He argues that Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa's New Museum in New York City is "one of those rare, clarifying works of architecture that makes most recent buildings of the same sort look suddenly ridiculous." He calls Tod Williams and Billie Tsien's brilliant reimagining of the Barnes Collection in Philadelphia "a latter-day miracle...a virtually unimprovable setting" for its art. He finds Michael Arad's September 11 Memorial at Ground Zero "a sobering, disturbing, heartbreaking, and overwhelming masterpiece." And he argues that Diller Scofidio + Renfro's Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston and their work revitalizing the High Line and Lincoln Center in New York make them today's "shrewdest yet most sympathetic enhancers of the American metropolis."
Filler remains, in these nineteen essays, a shrewd observer of the pressures on architects and their projects—money, politics, social expectations, even the weight of their own reputations. But his focus is always on the buildings themselves, on their sincerity and directness, on their form and their function, on their capacity to bring delight to the human landscape.
About the Author
Martin Filler was the longtime architecture critic of House & Garden until it ceased publication in 2007. He is the co-author, with Olivier Boissière, of The Vitra Design Museum: Frank Gehry, Architect, and the author of Makers of Modern Architecture, Volume I, based on essays from The New York Review of Books. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Praise for Makers of Modern Architecture, Volume II…
"In this superb follow-up to his first volume of essays on modern building's pioneers and major designers, architecture critic Filler brings his expertise to bear on architects who have been neglected (Carlo Scarpa), those who have fallen out of critical favor (Edward Durell Stone), and others whose standing has been debated (Eero Saarinen), while deftly evaluating the work of contemporaries such as Bernard Tschumi and Snøhetta…. A highlight of the collection is Filler's deeply moving essay in support of Michael Arad's National September 11 Memorial—an unforgettable piece of writing that cuts through the media babel that surrounded the memorial's unveiling….his contribution to both architecture criticism and general readers' understanding is invaluable." — Publishers Weekly, starred review
"Filler writes amazing descriptions of buildings with an ability to maneuver through space with words like a very good perspective drawing: clear, articulate, and very often inspired…Filler's discussions on the method and orchestration of buildings are superb, as is his ability to cite sources and the derivation of architects' work….This brand of criticism is elegant and worldly…." —Oculus, The Center for Architecture
Praise for Makers of Modern Architecture, Volume I:
"Filler's assessments in The New York Review stand apart, eschewing fashion and offering polished, carefully edited and backed-up, though highly personal, assertions.... Filler's razor-sharp mind and sharper tongue set him apart. We gobble up what he thinks, as well as how he serves it up." —Robert Ivy, Architectural Record
"Martin Filler's book is liberating.... For those seeking a brilliant if potted guide to modern architecture, Filler fits the bill. His book bristles with bracing insights, incisive judgments, and wicked lines." —Robert Zaretsky, Houston Chronicle
"Martin Filler's writing demonstrates his lucidity and independence of mind.... Filler is an elegant writer, clearly committed to thinking about his subjects, and working hard to engage his audience. He seeks to place architecture in a wider cultural context rather than leave it trapped in the self-regarding discourse of criticism. He is not afraid to express his opinions." —Deyan Sudjic, The Architect's Newspaper


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Sony Internet Player with Google TV pictures and hands-on
Google TV has a new look, new hardware and is heading to the UK. Set to launch on 16 July on British soil, the Sony Internet Player with Google TV brings with it a newly updated version of the service as well as more powerful hardware.
We first caught a glimpse of the new Sony unit at CES this year but didn't manage to play with it properly. Pocket-lint has now spent some time with the new piece of Sony kit and is fairly impressed. There has been a lot of work done to address the issues previously encountered with Google TV, namely that it was incredibly slow. Better remote hardware and a more logical UI also make for a better GTV experience. So what do you get with the new £200 box?
On the outside the Sony Internet Player has a pair of USB ports, two HDMI ports, optical out, ethernet, Wi-Fi connectivity and an infra-red blaster. The two HDMI ports are particularly important because they mean you can plug any TV source into the internet TV box. The HDMI out can then be connected to your TV and voila, Google TV on top of your Sky service, for example.
The included remote can also control things such as your Sky box and TiVo, which stops you having to switch remotes all the time.
In fact the included remote can do a tonne of other stuff as well. Most importantly it is laid out in a decent enough way to control Google TV. This means there is a nice built-in trackpad to control the on-screen cursor, a full Qwerty keyboard on the back - which even illuminates in the dark - and all the other conventional TV controls. Sony has even built a gyroscope into the remote so it knows which way up it's facing. This stops you making any accidental key presses on the underside when using the keyboard.
What about the actual Google TV experience? Having been disappointed by what was on offer previously with GTV, it's nice to see a genuine effort by Google to make the service better. First up it is a lot less menu heavy. Navigating between apps and using the core apps themselves is hugely streamlined. Most require just a few presses of the d-pad in order for you to get something out of them. Take Chrome, one click to open the app and then you can search straight away. The dual-core chip in the Internet Player even allows you to do picture-in-picture, so you can watch live TV while browsing the web.
The increased power also improved the video experience itself. The YouTube app is now much faster and has access to things like live YouTube content. Browsing playlists and users' videos is lightning fast and can all be done while content is streamed in the background. All in all a much better experience. The Google Play store is also gradually filling up with quality Google TV oriented apps, making it slightly more persuasive for app fans.
Being a Sony product, the Sony Entertainment Network is naturally built-in in app form. Unfortunately this was not yet live with the product we were shown so we didn't get time to play with it. We did manage to get BBC iPlayer running using the Chrome browser, which does open up some windows to on-demand content. Google Play Movies purchased elsewhere were also viewable using the Google TV.
Google told us that the BBC is planning on having some sort of iPlayer app ready in preparation for the product's launch. This means that it is entirely possible that other content providers will follow suit. Right now, however, it looks like anything on demand other than the Google provided is going to need to be done through the browser.
On top of the Internet Player with Google TV or NSZGS7 as it is rather confusingly named, Sony has a 3D Blu-ray player with Google TV planned for October this year. This will feature all the same functionality as the NSZGS7 but throw in 3D Blu-ray playback. It should sell for around £300 when released.
There was no word from Sony on plans to release television sets with built in Google TV in the UK. Currently the US has one and a Sony spokesperson did say, "We're not saying we won't bring one out", so it's very likely. From our play with the box, having Google TV integrated into a set is the only way we can see it being worth the extra cash.
Right now the £200 box offers some exciting features, but feels more like a gimmick than a fully fledged Google experience. The idea of sending a Tweet from your TV is cool, as is watching YouTube so seamlessly, but then we can do that on our Xbox. If however browsing the web on your telly screen is what you are after, then maybe give Sony's new box a go.
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34 of the coolest 3D glasses
3D just isn't going to happen in any convenient way without the glasses, so it's time to embrace the specs. Whether it's the red/cyan anaglyph type, the colourless polarised filters or even the chunky LCD shutters, there's a variation on the norm for everyone.
Take a gander at our gallery of 34 limited editions, sunglasses conversions, clips-ons and even a set for your furry friend, and let us know which tickle your fancy.
The holy grail of glasses-less stereo 3D may be what the developers want but long live the lunettes is what we say.
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Ahlstrom is the global leader in the development, manufacture and marketing of high performance fiber-based materials. Our high performance products for filtration markets contribute to a cleaner and healthier environment. Our filtration products serve transportation applications in air, oil, fuel and cabin air. Advanced filtration products are used for example in water ...
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based in Cincinnati, OHIO (USA)
United Air Specialists, Inc. (UAS), founded in 1966, is an industry-leading manufacturer of high-performance air filtration and air pollution control equipment including industrial cartridge filter dust collectors and electrostatic precipitator mist collectors. For over 45 years, UAS has been designing and manufacturing clean air solutions to the highest quality ...
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Environnement S.A is the leading company in the field of instrumentation for the environment. Ever since its creation in 1978, Environnement S.A has been dedicated to the study, development, manufacture and supply of advanced on-line gas, particulate and water analyzers, using the most recent technologies. Environnement S.A proposes a comprehensive range of continuous ...
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Palas develops and builds fine dust monitoring devices, nanoparticle measurement systems, aerosol spectrometer systems, aerosol generators (for solid and liquid particles, dilution systems and filter (media) test systems. With more than 50 patents filed since 1983, Palas is continuously setting standards in the field of aerosol technology. Palas innovations result in ...
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based in Niagara Falls, NEW YORK (USA)
Manufacturer of portable and permanent gas analyzers for landfill, biogas, syngas, heat treat, power generation, agriculture, flue gas & emissions, on-line process, steel making, indoor air quality, personnel safety, and engine exhaust industries. We can measure Oxygen (O2), Nitrogen Oxide (NO), Hydrocarbons (HCs), Hydrogen Chloride (HCl), Carbon Monoxide (CO), Nitrogen ...
based in Saint-Denis, FRANCE
FLUIDYN is a software company and consultancy group, pioneer in the use of 3D-CFD for environment and industrial risks related simulations. The fluidyn software series is specifically tailored to meet regulatory needs for industrial impact on air and water quality as well as consequence modelling of accidental scenarios. FLUIDYN offices and agents are located worldwide.
Shell Engineering & Associates, INC.
based in Columbia, MISSOURI (USA)
`International Consultants In Air Quality` Shell Engineering & Associates, Inc., celebrates more than 30 years as worldwide environmental management consultants with industrial and institutional facilities. Our success comes from our ability to communicate, our ability to overcome obstacles by exploring alternatives and the use of proven scientific methods and our ability ...
Milestones Building and Design
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Marie Antoinette Davis, 32, passed away on October 9, 2011 in Galveston, Texas. She was the former Office Manager for Templeton Motors.
She is survived by her children, Madison Davis and Daniel Davis, both of Lumberton, Texas; mother, Diana Sorrell and Lonnie of Starkville; father, Jerry Davis of Bakersville, CA; sisters, Deanna Davis of Sturgis, MS and Vanessa Davis of Yukon, OK; brother, Dustin Sorrell of Starkville, MS; two nephews, Harley and Bryson Davis; and niece, Cheyenne Davis.
Visitation is scheduled for Friday, October 14, 2011 from 10:00-11:00 A.M. at Welch Funeral Home, with the funeral service immediately following in the funeral home chapel. Rev. Russell Mord will conduct the service.
You may go online and sign our guest register at www.welchfuneralhomesinc.com.


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The Filthy Nomad
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The Rootbeer Run, Chasing the Sun, and other misadventures
So, I thought I should get this all down in one form or another before my THC-polluted memory bank fizzles away into just a color-filled haze. This has been a journey years in the making, covering well over 30,000 miles. It includes adventure, mishaps, bloodshed, and an un-expected tale of love and loss. I don't know what I really expected to get from all of this. Hell, I barely even had a plan in mind. No final location, no goal at the end of the day or mile marker to aim for. Just get back on and ride. And after all, what's a story if it hasn't been told. It would be a shame to let these experiences and memories remain locked up in my jumble of misfiring neurons known as the mind.
We'll start out with a simple introduction. Here we have our fearless (and a bit clueless) leader.
This handsome Italian fellow goes by many names. Alex at birth, I have been known to reply to anything from Al, to Al-Buns, Exalander, Upstate, Road-rash, and Burnout. Hell, if you can catch me in a brief moment of lucidity as I stumble about my natural environment, I'll answer to damn near anything, with an abundance of Dude and Man being thrown about. But don't let the bad-ass shades fool you, I'm far from intimidating. Quite the opposite, really.
Now, I've always been an adventurous soul. I've had the term free spirit thrown my direction more than once. Growing up in upstate New York in a predominantly lower-middle class household, I really had to get creative to get my fix. There were no amusement parks, and the funding wasn't there for any vacation above an annual trip to one distant relative or another. So I amused myself with what I did have an abundance of, restricted access. If I wasn't supposed to be there, I wanted in. Even at a very young age, barely into my teens, I had a fort which was nothing more than an abandoned warehouse down by the railroad tracks. I'd spend entire summers there, and have the scar tissue to prove it. Re-inventing myself as what would become known as an Urban Explorer, I was able to occupy myself for years creating a rather impressive database of various abandonments, semi-abandonments, and various natural wonders. With a website to feed, and a crew of misfits, I have seen quite a bit. Been everywhere from defunct city armories
to a vast network of drainage tunnels beneath the city
to caves and caverns, both man made and natural
long forgotten subway tunnels and massive railroad terminals
and vacant power plants powerful enough to light a city of 220,000.
These adventures were often fairly well planned out, including recon and security scheduling, but were fairly poorly funded. This often times resulted in a lot of necessary equipment being jimmy-rigged by whatever I had on hand, including a repelling harness fashioned from a length of tow rope
just to figure out what the hell this hole was all about.
These tendencies and my often overpowering curiosity blended well with the art of adventure touring and would manifest themselves numerous times throughout the years.
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The Filthy Nomad
Joined: Dec 2007
Location: That's... a tough one to answer
Oddometer: 1,134
Here I present you with my weapon of choice. I have here a 1998 KLR 650, picked up off of craigslist for 2,000 with just over 10K miles on the clock. My first real bike purchase, and the first bike I could really call my own, it wasn't long before I had it stuck in a cornfield or being thrown clear with the best of them. With progressive springs in the forks, and a stiffer re-sprung stock shock, I've tried to hit the middle of the range when it comes to suspension mods. The engine comes with a 685 Schnitz kit, another first for me as I'd never done any real engine work before. The luggage rack is welded gas line, yet another first for me, and includes the cheapest ammo can panniers I had available. Quite bad ass, I feel, and better yet the bags are narrower than the bars allowing me to slip easily through most doorways. This feature is much more useful than you'd imagine. Other mods include aluminum skid-plate, thermobob, bark busters, electric connections, and tool tubes in abundance. The rubber, a pair of 244 Shinkos. can't beat $70 a pair.
The Filthy Nomad
Joined: Dec 2007
Location: That's... a tough one to answer
Oddometer: 1,134
This journey was originally intended to just be a fuck off, honestly. After an associates was earned in an career I quickly lost interest in, and several years of fairly profitable employment with a local industrial roofing company, I quickly realized that I hadn't built up much of a life. With a history of antisocial behavior and crippling anxiety (for those that know me, this is where the ganja comes in handy), I hadn't experienced nearly as much as I probably should have. Sure I'd seen a lot, but I freely admit that I could count the friends I had on one hand with fingers left over. My history with the ladies has also been less than successful, and the upstate NY lifestyle on the whole left me fairly unsatisfied. And so that's where I've hatched this crazy plan. I figured, hell, I've got nothing to lose. With a fairly decent bankroll and no direction in life, I quickly threw together a plan. I could have either paid off my school loans early, or piss it all away in a road trip. I pretty much went with buy bike, ride till money runs out. I wish I could say I had more thought put into this, but this is the cavalier attitude I've been known for. Plans and schedules only succeed in making me tense. Always with a deadline, a place to be and a time to be there. Fuck it, I'm just gonna wander the earth.
And so the ride was thrown together and the gear was purchased. Having been a self-taught rider with no previous experience, I had the scars and battle wounds that would make the average rider cringe withing the first 5K miles of having my license. Having wrecked my dad's old CB-500, I decided on a KLR 650 that so many people seemed to be happy with. And with all the money I saved over a BMW purchase on something I would surely throw air-borne into the bushes on more than one occasion, it left me with plenty of gas and food money left over to slowly burn through.
Its now early July, 2009. Having just been offered a permanent position in the roofing company as a crane operator, I promptly gave in my two week notice and continued preparing for my departure. Unfortunately, the roof on my mother's house decided to go tits up a week before departure. Being the son that I am, I ordered up a dumpster, borrowed the equipment from my former employers and spent two weeks tearing into four layers of asphalt and cedar shakes. One of the worst, most labor intensive jobs I've ever performed, considering I was the tear off crew, the laborers, cleanup, and installers as well as initial financer for the entire project. I don't come from a well off family, so I did what I had to do to make sure the job got done. It hasn't leaked yet, so I've at least got that to show for it.
Black Gold Beemers
Joined: Mar 2009
Location: Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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Looks like a good start, now we wait for more.
Demons In My Helmet
Joined: Feb 2010
Location: Land of Sun, Sand and Thorns
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I'm in - bring it on!
- Mark
The road to enlightenment is not paved.
The Examiner
Joined: Jul 2005
Location: Clearwater, FL USA
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another fascinating riding adventure is unfolding before us
can't wait for me
thanks for sharing
'11 R1200 GS Adventure with a DMC M72DX Sidecar
'14 R1200 GS & '14 R nineT (march, 2014)
Live life like you mean it... but take your family and friends (and DOGS) along for the "ride"
The Filthy Nomad
Joined: Dec 2007
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You guys really know how to keep a guy motivated. I'm not even into the actual report yet and I'm all psyched about the feedback.
Joined: Mar 2007
Location: redmond wa
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....you had me at "rootbeer"...
Joined: Dec 2008
Location: Vagabond Hippie
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Awesome, Alex. Your writing is exactly the same as the way you talk, I can hear you when I read it.
Are we going to see you out west again this year? Sounds like T_T is going to settle down up around Darby (if he can stand the winters).
Joined: Jan 2009
Oddometer: 85
Where in upstate NY?
2013 Yamaha R6
The Filthy Nomad
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Ahh, back to the road trip. Keep in mind that this is two years ago. I'm pouring over a crudely written journal and hundreds of photos in an attempt to spark some sort of recollection of the events. It won't be easy, so I'm gonna hafta really put some effort into this. Seeing as I'm goin through a rather intense case of the winter blues, I've decided to use this as a distraction and, in the process, actually get some work done.
So last week of July, don't remember the day specifically. In the end, it doesn't really matter anyhow. I spend the morning doing some fine tuning to the old KLR. A quick luggage check, a valve adjustment, and a side-case removal to find a socket dropped during the valve check, and I was good to go by noon. With a wave to my brother and giving my nephew a shove I say my good-byes, bound off the porch, over the curb and out onto the highway. Leaving behind the town of 5,800, Lyons NY. I stopped by my mother's place of employment for one last hug. As I've mentioned, I never really had much of a game plan. West was the goal, with Alaska always kicking around in the back of my mind. I remember simply going south from there to the first westerly route and just following it to see where it ended. As it turns out, Route 20 apparently goes on for.... awhile.
Now I'm gonna go ahead and point out that these first thousand miles don't include many pictures. I'm not as photo-minded as I should be, but I try. And to be honest, I had seen all of this before. Pennsylvania was a lot like New York, and Ohio was pretty similar to Pennsylvania. The goal was just to melt through some miles. I followed Rt. 20 into Buffalo, grabbing a pair of combat boots at a local surplus shop before stopping over at my buddy Bill's place. This is the guy that first got me into the KLR. I remember wandering through an abandoned office building in the outskirts of Buffalo and watching this fool drive down third floor hallways on a KLR.. fun times. A good-bye bake leaves me back on the bike heading south-west towards Erie, before pitching a tent off some old railroad grade. Awoke the next morning to...rain. There's only so long you can go back to sleep before just giving up and packing it up. It's well past noon by this point and I ride in the rain to Erie, PA where the weather picked up to a full on downpour. Taking shelter in a Tim Hortons, coffee was ordered and the GPS updated. With the rain dying off, I fled the scene leaving behind a generous tip and a large puddle of water that enveloped the neighboring two tables.
I got as far as Cleveland that night before exhaustion kicked in and I headed for the nearest green blob on my GPS. Turns out to be some suburban park of decent size. Riding up and under a fairly large covered picnic area with conveniently placed power outlets, I lay out the bed roll on one of the tables. Got a BBQ rolling and lay out my socks and underwear to dry. At one point the local 5-0 come rolling up to inform me that the park closes after dark. I motion to camp and tell him that I just threw my panties on the grill and would leave as soon as they crisped. He was cool with this and rolled on. I stumble back to the concrete table that would be my bed for the night and pass out.
I come to the next morning with a dog smelling around the bike. A long retractable cord leads to an older gentleman with a bewildered look on his face. I roll up my boxers and head out before the early joggers come cruisin through the morning mist. Managed to get a fairly decent amount of miles down today, surely a result of the early start. This won't be the norm. Cruised on along Rt. 20 through Cleveland and Chicago. Just west of Chicago, over the wide open fields, I noticed a deathly black front moving my way. Being the stubborn SOB that I am, I continued onward determined to beat the weather. Didn't work. It wasn't long before I find myself bouncing through a ditch at near-highway speed and aiming for a long semi trailer parked in the middle of the cornfield. No sooner had I hit the kill switch that I dropped the kickstand and in one fluid motion rolled off to the left and under the semi as the rain kicked it into high gear and dumped buckets of rain down for a solid half our. Not much I could do but lay flat on my back under this godforsaken semi-trailer and wait for it to end.
As the rain tapered off, I checked my GPS for the nearest green blob and managed to find some covered picnic areas to once again seek shelter under. I swap out for some dry clothes and cook up a bag of dehydrated chili. With an hour or so of light left I realized this park was way too small to pull off any kind of stealthy camping, I headed out to the next green blob on the GPS. Found an abandoned road cutting through Silver Lake State park and pitched camp on the asphalt. Just before calling it a night, I notice something amiss about the KLR. The luggage, actually. Where the hell is the lid? And half my shit? A quick backtrack a few miles of dirt and asphalt and I find my can lid and my folding saw just off the side of the highway. My new camping stove is AWOL. Awesome. I vaguely remember whipping the remainder of my bag chili into the woods in a fit of anger. I'm pretty sure that's where my super-bad ass space age spork disappeared to as well. I'm off to an awesome start.
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I love road trips with no plans. They always seem to be lot moore fun.
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ESCONDIDO Critics say a proposal to tighten Escondido's cab regulations would destroy small companies, increase rates and make cabs less available.
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The City Council will weigh those different points of view Wednesday when members consider a variety of possible new rules, including a requirement that each company own at least 10 cabs to continue operating.
Council members deadlocked on the issue in November.
Oceanside adopted a similar set of new regulations last fall, and one of the large cab companies that survived the changes recently announced rate increases.
Escondido Councilman Ed Gallo, who sponsored the new legislation, said such rate hikes won't happen in Escondido because he wants to grandfather in the city's smaller cab companies.
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"If they started to require 10 cabs immediately, I would have to look for another job," he said.
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Grandfathering in the smaller companies would allow them to stay in business. But Iannizzotto said it would just delay an inevitable monopoly the new rules would create when those companies stop operating someday.
"If there's only one or two companies, they can do whatever they want to the rates," he said.
Mike Casey, spokesman for Yellow Cab of North County, said, though, that rates have tended to remain stable across San Diego County because so many cab companies are operating in the region.
Casey also said Escondido should adopt tighter regulations because smaller cab companies provide inferior service.
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Casey said a good analogy would be trash collection, which cities typically hire one company to handle.
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But Iannizzotto objected to complaints that small companies "cherry-pick" lucrative fares and stay away from less-appealing assignments.
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"They are self-employed and pay a daily lease, so the owner of the company can't tell them what to do," he said. "They don't sit in residential areas waiting for fares, because no one would do that."
Iannizzotto said smaller companies also typically offer better service because the drivers get many of their fares from repeat customers who call them directly.
But Councilman Gallo said companies with large fleets of cabs are better for the city's image than one-cab companies with names people don't recognize.


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The crystallization of a dream now stands at the end of Field of Dreams Avenue.
That was how U.S. Rep. Steve Southerland described last week's official opening of the North Florida Child Development, Inc. Early Child Development and Family Resource Center in Port St. Joe.
Under a glorious azure cloudless sky, a crowd gathered to cut the ribbon on Gulf County's first new school in more than 40 years.
"It's surreal," said Sharon Gaskin, president and CEO of NFCD and the dynamo behind the crystallization of the dream of her board's some seven years ago. "It's pretty satisfying. This was an accomplishment because this was a struggle at times.
"It is something I am very proud of."
The new $5 million facility replaces the old Highland View Elementary School site used by NFCD and expands on the foundation of services at that facility.
The Early Child Development and Family Resource Center sits on two-and-a-half acres and is 18,000 square feet. It has two additional classrooms – 10 total – with room to add two more, a state-of-the-art kitchen, a multi-purpose community room and will offer an array of medical services in collaboration with the Gulf County Health Department.
The facility brings 10 new jobs to the community. NFCD has a Gulf County payroll of $1.8 million with a $7 million annual impact to the county, Gaskin noted.
"This is a vision that became a reality," said Damon McNair, NFCD board chairman. "It took us several years to get to this point, but we got here."
The facility is also a product of wide ranging public/private partnership.
Funding came from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, the Florida Department of Community Affairs with a major/grant loan package from U.S. Department of Agricultural Rural Development.
The city of Port St. Joe sponsored a Community Development Block Grant for infrastructure such as the road Field of Dreams Avenue.
The Board of County Commissioners and Gulf County School Board were supporters of the project.
"This has been seven years of blood, sweat and tears," said Rural Development state director Richard Machek. "A facility like this is a dream. You have set the bar very, very high for the rest of the state of Florida.
"When the local community gets behind projects like that, they happen."
And that is the private side of the creation of the facility.
The St. Joe Company donated the land. The Kiwanis Club sponsored one classroom and the Early Learning Coalition, Capital City Bank, Centennial Bank and the United Way all provided various levels of funding.
Gulf Correctional Institute and its inmates, along with private citizens built playhouses and other items to be raffled for the new center. A golf tournament raised more funding from the community.
It was all part of Gaskin's mission and pledge on one federal loan – "You get me that $300,000 and I will turn it into $5 million."
"This was a seven-year plan and you do not do a project like this in a small community without the support of the community," Gaskin said. "Locally we had so much support.
"We have been blessed with all-stars from the private sector, the community and local, state and federal governments."
The new center also expands the educational infrastructure of the county.
"This is impressive," said Loretta Costin, director of the Gulf/Franklin campus of Gulf Coast State College. "We are so fortunate to have a facility like this."
Barry Sellers, director of the Economic Development Council, said that when potential clients see the corridor of U.S. 98 in which stands Sacred Heart Hospital on the Gulf, the Gulf/Franklin campus and now the NFCD facility they will come away impressed.
"Not many counties have these kind of facilities to offer," Sellers said. "Education and economic development are one. This is the beginning of economic development, providing the education and medical services young children need."
Southerland, who was present and keynote speaker for the official groundbreaking a little more than a year ago, echoed many of Sellers sentiments. He noted the importance of a facility bringing programs and services to children up to age 5 and their families.
"It is really an honor to see a vision crystallized," Southerland said. "When you have a vision, you grow strong and you will not perish. When that vision grows, good things happen. America is a country where if you dream it it will happen.
"We are going to grow healthy children, we are going to grow healthy parents and we are going to grow the relationship between them. As a family grows so grows the nation. I challenge you not to rest, to not be complacent."
This is no issue with Gaskin.
Firstly, she insured that the transition to one school site to another was smooth. While there was a week or so lag between sites – the new facility opens for school Monday – teachers were kept on the payroll and worked an outreach schedule by going to students' homes.
"The transition was very smooth," Gaskin said. "The biggest thing for me was people needed to keep being paid."
Secondly, while basking in the satisfaction in a job well done, Gaskin was already thinking about possibilities for expanding programs at the new facility.
The kitchen could be used for a culinary class. The community room as a host of potential purposes.
"I am already on the next page," Gaskin said.


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How's this for a Throwback Thursday? These. Are. AMAZING!
This is a whole new level of photoshop. There are tons of photos brought to life with color at the Colorized History section of Reddit. I picked out 15 that I thought were particularly cool. I had to force myself to stop at 15 or this would be the post that never ends.
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It's impossible to not smile at this. What a freakin' cute kid.
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Like with the puns, I like collecting animated gifs that are either really funny or really hard not to stare at, this post is all the latter.
Check out my first collection of animations here.
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I created this little diddy for my online store Culture Correct. If you think it's cool enough to wear check it out here.
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Every year iOwnTheWorld has a contest to determine the best conservative agitprop of the year. Nominating is a total free for all, and then the good people at iOTW sift through the madness and select the best to be voted on round after round until only two are left.
My piece was one of the last two standing:
I had a VERY worthy opponent, in fact I'm such a fan that I actually posted their work recently to this blog (here)
People went to the final and voted on our pieces, and apparently the best man won...
I've been participating in this contest since 2010, and I'm thrilled to share the top honor with BKeyser.
Onward to 2014, being that it's an election year I'm sure we're going to get some really good stuff for next years PUK!Add a comment
You may have noticed the banner at the top with the snarky t-shirts, that's the project that caused me to take a "leave" from TLS for a couple of months. It's also going to be a reason why future posting will be relatively lighter for some time.
CultureCorrect.me aims to be a place to buy creative and humorous stuff with a conservative message. Right now it's only shirts, but I'm working on getting other things into the mix as well.
I'm not just trying to sell stuff, I also have pages on Tumblr (follow me here) and Facebook (like the page here) that post "culturally correct" content that wouldn't be a good fit at TLS.
I'm also using this to focus on original graphics based more on iconography and illustration rather than the Photoshop work and memes normally seen here. I also want to try to create pieces here that will be a bit more timeless conceptually, as most memes tend to be more of a snapshot in time.
Here are some of the original designs that you can find on shirts and elsewhere on the site(s). If you like this stuff you can keep up with me by following CC via the links above.
I hope you will!
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Over the weekend I held a caption contest for the image below, of all the entries I pick the top three I thought were the best with humor and bite.
For the third place finisher I thought of a slightly varied version and decided to go with it over the original entry, and I hope the author doesn't mind :-)
So...here they are!
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Leave your idea in the comments below. Winner gets *drum roll* BRAGGING RIGHTS!!! (this ain't The Price is Right people). I'll post the winner on Monday (so I'll consider anything until midnight Sunday).
So have at it, what does the sign say?!?
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In case you missed it, over the weekend people left comments at this post (which is still getting comments thanks to Linkiest) for what the teleprompter might be saying in the photo below. I was originally going to pick one winner, but I liked so many I picked three instead.
Below are the winners, in no particular order, of *drum roll*........................BRAGGING RIGHTS!!!
This was fun, I'll have to consider doing it again!
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"Nobody at the UFC talked to Gracie or anyone else that reps Nick," White wrote via text message.
In response to a text message asking who the UFC offered Diaz, Gracie told MMAFighting.com Wednesday night, "Can't tell you."


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Posted 23 October 2012 - 03:08
Apparently this is the closest thing we have to an official AC3 forum? Searching via forums and google yielded nothing. Anyways, I am unfamiliar with a 'season pass' with video games in that I have never purchased one. Can someone confirm my understanding? I see it as a "pay once for everything DLC related for this game. period." similar to the "Premium" feature of Battlefield 3. Is this correct? I seem to remember coming across something on IGN stating the season pass would not include all of the games content..
Also, is it possible the season pass won't (ever) include the downloading of 'pre order/special edition' content such as missions (or even more specifically the PS3 exclusive 4 missions-which I think is wrong, timed exclusive is fine, similar to Mt. Fuji in SSX and all COD related DLC /rant). Anyways, thanks in advance, sorry if my post wasn't clear I feel like I was rambling possibilities.
Edit: This is why I ask. I would love extra missions as DLC the cheapest way possible, and if these missions won't be included later via the Season pass then what is the point...
It's 1783. As the revolution comes to a close, a new and most unexpected enemy emerges. Driven by the desire to secure the fate of the colonies, George Washington, the greatest hero of the revolution, succumbs to the temptation of infinite power. The new King is born and his reign leaves no one untouched. To return freedom to the land, our new hero Connor must dethrone a tyrant he once called friend."
Posted 23 October 2012 - 09:00
I ordered the Freedom Edition
So Did anyone order the Collector's Edition?
Posted 23 October 2012 - 12:21
I ordered the Freedom Edition
There are so many editions, it is the only complaint i have for the series. They always ruin it with the multiple collectors editions. Like anyone would buy the game multiple times.
Posted 25 October 2012 - 13:28
It has the statue but no flag, only the one on the statue and the other main collectible is the the George Washington Notebook.
Yeah I kinda agree. But that link just takes me to the shop.. lol. Ah well, is it the one with the statue and the flag? I really want that flag. lol.
So do i, is that the one with the new edition of the encyclopedia?
I really want the UbiShop edition.


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Dear White House, You'll Regret This
The latest dust-up in the descent of Bob Woodward from fearless investigative reporter to manipulative media celebrity began with his contention in a Washington Post column that President Obama, by asking for revenue increases as part of a deal to defer the sequester, was "moving the goal posts" from the 2011 budget deal (in which Obama got thoroughly hosed by the Republicans).
When the White House pushed back and an unnamed "senior official" told Politico that Woodward would "regret" those comments, someone, presumably Woodward, leaked an e-mail between himself and White House top economic strategist Gene Sperling.
Since then, the political class has been abuzz with chatter about Woodward's modus operandi, the ethics of burning a source, his longstanding strategy of trading access for friendly treatment, and so on.
But far more revealing (and appalling) is the content of the e-mails. Here's what Sperling told Woodward:
The idea that the sequester was to force both sides to go back to try at a big or grand bargain with a mix of entitlement [cuts] and revenues (even if there were serious disagreements on composition) was part of the DNA of the thing from the start. It was an accepted part of the understanding — from the start. Really. It was assumed by the Rs on the Supercommittee that came right after: it was assumed in the November-December 2012 negotiations. There may have been big disagreements over rates and ratios — but that it was supposed to be replaced by entitlements and revenues of some form is not controversial. (Indeed, the discretionary savings amount from the Boehner-Obama negotiations were locked in in BCA [2011 Budget Control Act]: the sequester was just designed to force all back to table on entitlements and revenues.) [emphasis added]
The e-mail is pure confirmation that Obama's position, dating back to at least 2011, has been to try to trade cuts in Social Security and Medicare for new revenues. It confirms that Sperling and his boss have been channeling the likes of Robert Rubin, Pete Peterson, the corporate-sponsored Fix the Debt campaign, et al., who have been promoting exactly this grand bargain. Sperling confirms that the sequester was designed to force exactly such a dismal deal.
Woodward is right that the sequester was substantially a White House idea. But he's wrong when he suggests that Obama, by adding revenues to the mix, is "moving the goal posts." Constitutionally, one Congress may not bind another, and in the period since 2011, Obama has been re-elected president. If he wants to put tax hikes on the table, that's his privilege. That's what he did in the New Year's deal to head off the fiscal cliff, and the Republicans obliged.
But what's really scary about the exchange is what it reveals about the tactical naiveté of Sperling and his president. If the White House thought that more than token revenue enhancements were ever going to be conceded by the Republicans, that's a testament to its political miscalculation.
In the New Year's fiscal cliff deal, for example, Obama came in with a lot more cards. But when the Republicans were at their tactically most vulnerable because taxes were about to go up for everybody, he threw them a lifeline by settling for a deal with only $620 billion of tax increases on the top one percent rather than the $1.3 trillion assumed in Obama's budget, no deal to push the sequester beyond March 1, and a huge $1.2 trillion tax hike on wage earners through the payroll tax increase.
Sperling is no more effective at negotiating with Woodward than he is at negotiating with Republicans. It's clear that Woodward is using Sperling far more than the other way around. One can be sure that the Republicans are chortling about the spectacle of reporter who brought down Richard Nixon and Obama's chief man on the economy doing each other in. But I digress.
The Woodward-Sperling exchange is far more interesting for what it reveals about Sperling/Obama's propensity for giving ground on core issues and getting almost nothing in return. I suppose we should be grateful that Sperling is only wrecking the economy, the Democrats, Social Security, and Medicare—and not negotiating nukes with the Ayatollah.
Fri, 2013-03-01 15:54
"It confirms that Sperling and his boss have been channeling the likes of Robert Rubin, Pete Peterson, the corporate-sponsored Fix the Debt campaign, et al., who have been promoting exactly this grand bargain. Sperling confirms that the sequester was designed to force exactly such a dismal deal."
Bingo... So many liberals assume that pols such as Obama, the Clintons etc at their core, one of them. Perhaps Obama being an Af-Am makes liberals even more susceptible to self-delusion.
But these pols are all faithful Wall Street- corporate shills and servants ... they are the best front men for the over class. They're funded because they can ram through the 1% agenda better than the Tea Party loons. But they'll eventually be discarded as economic collapse brings in the hard core fascists ... just like the Social Dems in the Weimar republic.
Fri, 2013-03-01 16:52
Tue, 2013-03-12 19:38
Entitlements were already cut to the bone. The entire welfare system -- both General Assistance and AFDC -- was reformed right out of existence! This seems to have been forgotten entirely. Everything from food banks to homeless shelters, schools to parks, has been slashed or eliminated. Throughout this era of ending vital human needs programs, several trillion taxpayer dollars were redistributed upward. Decades of massive corporate tax cuts, always doled out with the assurance that this was necessary for the creation of a mass of "good, family-supporting jobs," has left us with a fraction of the jobs, at worsening wages. Get something straight -- no matter how much of our money the govt redistributes to the rich, the rich will demand more. If govt were seriously concerned about deficits, they would immediately restore pre-Reagan tax rates on the rich.
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Some local officials are criticizing a state proposal to fold the Mid-Bay Bridge Authority into a new regional tollway agency.
The proposal from the Florida Department of Transportation, which has not been introduced as a bill to the Legislature yet, would "transfer the governance and control" of the Bridge Authority to the Okaloosa-Bay Regional Tollway Authority.
"It's really eliminating the Mid-Bay Bridge Authority," said Jim Vest, executive director of the Bridge Authority. "For the last three years, we've been a target of this kind of consolidation. This looks like it is a continuation of that effort."
Vest said he sees the proposal as a way for the DOT to have "a lot more control" over future road projects in Northwest Florida.
DOT Secretary Ananth Prasad announced the proposal Wednesday at the Emerald Coast Transportation Symposium on Okaloosa Island.
The plan also would create the Northwest Florida Regional Tollway Authority for Escambia and Santa Rosa counties and the Suncoast Regional Tollway Authority for Citrus, Levy, Marion and Alachua counties.
Under the proposal, which would form the Florida Regional Tollway Authority Act, projects would be planned and developed by an authority and built by the DOT. The infrastructure would be operated and maintained by the DOT, which would be reimbursed through toll revenues.
Retired Air Force Gen. Gordon Fornell, chairman of the Mid-Bay Bridge Authority, said he was aware of the proposal but would have liked more information before it was announced.
"There was no collaboration," he said. "I just don't see the advantage. I'm all for regional control, but we have been so successful on the Mid-Bay Bridge and the connector. … We specialize in execution. We get things done."
Fornell added that the Bridge Authority is "a model throughout the country on its financing" of various transportation projects.
Mid-Bay Bridge Authority member Jimmy Nielson said he wouldn't want to see toll revenues from the bridge be used on road projects outside Okaloosa County.
Nielson said it's likely that the Bridge Authority "will mount an opposition" to the proposal in an effort to keep its autonomy.
"I would hope that our local legislative people, Rep. Matt Gaetz and Sen. Don Gaetz, would come to our rescue," he added.
Don Gaetz, the Senate president, has criticized the Bridge Authority in the past for its overhead and administrative expenses. He said he still has to review the DOT's proposal.
He also said he would like to know how the new regional tollway authority would function differently from the Northwest Florida Transportation Corridor Authority, which spans Escambia to Wakulla County.
"It seems there are a lot of questions to be asked and answered before Secretary Prasad's proposal would get all the way through the Senate," Gaetz said.
He said he expects the proposal to get a sponsor, after which he would refer it to the Senate Transportation Committee.
"I think we should look at every opportunity to reduce duplicative government overhead," Gaetz said. "And we should look at every opportunity to use the lowest possible interest rate on transportation bonding so that we can build more roads for the same amount of money."
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