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NAVARRE — Whenever a new telephone book would arrive while he was growing up in the early and mid-1970s, Bart Pullum was able to rip out the one page dedicated to Navarre and hang it up on the wall.
"There wasn't anything out here when I was a kid growing up," Pullum said. "We didn't have a grocery store. We didn't have a middle school or a high school. We didn't have any fast food restaurants. We didn't have many restaurants at all, in fact.
"We would pick a day and that was our go-to-town day," Pullum added. "We would go to (Fort Walton Beach or Pensacola) and always go out to eat and buy groceries for the whole week. If you didn't get it on Thursday, you weren't getting it for a whole week because we weren't driving all the way back in town for anything."
Things have certainly changed for this bedroom community.
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In the past 40 years alone, the population of the Navarre area is estimated to have grown from roughly 1,500 to about 40,000.
"It has been a bedroom community from pretty much its inception and it has finally come of age," said Phil Babiak, co-owner and broker of Century 21 Island View Realty and a Navarre historian. "It is reaching a point now where it is supporting self-sustaining services. We don't have to, unless we want to, travel east or west for almost any daily need. We have our own Wal-Mart. We have our own drug stores. We've' had for a long time our own post office."
Cattle and palmettos
Navarre was founded in early 1920s by Guy Wyman, a World War I veteran, and his wife, Babiak said. They purchased large amounts of land and plotted the first subdivision, which the Wymans named Navarre because the land in south Santa Rosa County was very similar to the northern province in Spain of the same name.
Babiak's family moved to Okaloosa County in 1949. In the 1950s, Babiak's parents would drive to Pensacola about once every three months to go to Sears. Babiak's father made a point of gassing up in Fort Walton Beach or Pensacola when they were driving over because Navarre only had one tiny gas station that regularly ran out of gasoline.
"Passing the Navarre area, it was not uncommon to find long-haired steer on the road or grazing on the side of the road," Babiak said.
"It was palmettos and scrub oaks pretty much from Mary Esther all the way to Gulf Breeze," he added. "There were a few cottages along the sound."
Navarre didn't even get its first grocery store, Dixie Dandy, until about 1983. Dixie Dandy, which was located where Ace Hardware is now, became the center of the community when it opened.
"That was the gathering point, and was the post office at one time of the community," Babiak said. "Especially on payday and Saturday it was sort of the stop and get your groceries and get a special cut of meat because the guy that owned it was a good butcher. It was the gossip center, the place to get a date. It was just everything."
Babiak had been in the real estate business in Fort Walton Beach when he purchased some property in Navarre in 1969 and become a partner with longtime Navarre resident Ira Mae Bruce in what is now Navarre's Century 21 real estate office.
"I always thought it had a great future," Babiak said. "I just loved the area. It was so pristine at the time and still is by comparison. It was convenient to everything. If you wanted to go to Pensacola it was just a short jaunt. If you wanted to go to Fort Walton, back then (U.S. Highway) 98 was not an issue and you could zip over there and back in pretty good time.
"And yet if you wanted to go stroll on the beach and be the sole person out there other than the sea oats and a few sandpipers, you could do that," he said.
Early growth
Several families — the Pullums, the Wells, the Slyes and others — are credited with helping to develop Navarre in its early years.
Bart Pullum's grandfather, E. H. "Al" Pullum, was a real estate broker in Miami who retired to Navarre after visiting the area to look at a piece of land for a potential deal. He didn't stay retired long, however, and ended up buying several thousand acres.
The elder Pullum began building roads and dividing the property into home lots.
He then financed the lots himself. He allowed people to come regardless of their credit rating and finance the lots through him for 1 percent down and 1 percent a month.
"For a lot of folks who in the past weren't able to buy a piece property because they couldn't get financing and couldn't afford it, he made it affordable and people just started to flock here starting in the '70s and into the mid-'80s," Pullum said. "That's what drove the early boom.
"He saw the potential. He had tremendous vision on what this town could look like and he went to work," Pullum added.
As Navarre grew, residents celebrated the community's successes.
For decades, they were charged long-distance fees to call virtually anyone outside Navarre. The Santa Rosa County seat of Milton was long distance even though it was just 25 miles away.
After residents finally were given toll-free calling to Milton, the Navarre Chamber of Commerce celebrated by holding the first Navarre Fun Fest, an event that celebrated its 29th anniversary in April.
"We're still celebrating that today," said Tom Vatter, co-owner of Kool Breeze of Northwest Florida.
Growth in Navarre really started to take off in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Several things have been credited as the catalysts.
Around that time, Hurlburt Field got a huge influx of airmen and equipment.
Pullum said troops would see how beautiful the beaches and the community were and would purchase land before they were stationed elsewhere. Years later when they retired, they returned to Navarre and stayed.
And as strange as it sounds, many believe sewage also had a lot to do with the growth.
Prior to 1990, Navarre had no sewage treatment plant; all of the homes and businesses used septic tanks.
However, the Holley-Navarre Water System began plan for a $2 million wastewater treatment plant. The water system began selling prepaid sewer taps for $800 to help raise money to build the plant. Construction began in 1988.
By the time it was completed and went online in 1990, the plant already had a major commercial project waiting on them.
"(Winn-Dixie) had plans to build there and they were actually waiting on the sewer to come in before they built," said Paul Gardner, assistant manager of the Holley-Navarre Water System. "They were actually our first big commercial customer to come on. We grew all through the '90s."
A bright future
The economic recession hurt Navarre just like every community. Two large projects, Port Navarre on Navarre Beach and The Boardwalk on the mainland — would have featured a mix of residential, retail and restaurants — were announced in 2006 but ultimately fell through.
The Home Depot, which for a time was going to build on the land vacated by The Boardwalk, also canceled its plans.
"When (the economy) fell, it fell fast," Pullum said. "There was a bunch of projects on the drawing board. If they had been a year earlier they would have come to fruition. Because of the economy a lot of these large developers backed out, and not just here but everywhere else in the Southeast.
"I certainly see something like that coming over the next several years," he added. "As soon as investors feel comfortable again in investing in projects like this, and I think they will, you'll see those projects pop up again."
Things have definitely rebounded, however.
Nearly 10 years after the Holiday Inn on Navarre Beach was destroyed by Hurricane Ivan in 2004, there are plans for a 160-room hotel at the site. Developer Holi Corp is targeting construction early next year and hopes to open the hotel before the start of the summer tourist season in 2015.
The real estate market also has bounded back. Babiak said Navarre has outperformed most communities in the area.
"We have builders building and we have some inventory of resales, but we're probably below the six-month inventory level that most economists tell us is the balance between being a buyer's market and a seller's market," Babiak said.
"All in all, the real estate market is good," he added. "It's not exploding like we experienced in '06, but it is certainly healthy, vibrant and growing."
Residents eventually will have to decide whether they want to incorporate as a city. Some of them have felt for years they would be able to control the community's growth better by forming a city government rather than rely on oversight from the county.
Most recently, a committee called Citizens to Incorporate Navarre began investigating that option last year.
"I'm not for it or against it," Vatter said. "I was real for it before and now I question how much is it going to cost. What are we going to get for our money? There are a lot of questions that incorporation is going to have to answer.
"It's probably not a bad thing, but there's a lot of questions that people want answered before they go for it," he added.
Pullum said Navarre is ready for more growth, but some changes are definitely needed.
He said the county should ease regulations to make it easier for people come to Navarre and open a business or build a home. Some utility fees being charged by the county also hinder growth.
Among things that Pullum hears often is that Navarre needs a movie theater, a bowling alley and more restaurants. While that would be great, Pullum thinks Navarre needs more health care options.
Baptist Health Care has an Urgent Care walk-in clinic, but Pullum said the community needs to look at a full-service hospital. And while the Navarre Senior Center does a great job entertaining senior citizens, a senior living facility is sorely needed, he added.
"Positive growth is a good thing," Pullum said. "It's good for our economy. If you're not growing, you're doing just the opposite: You're going backwards. Navarre has seen a little bit of that with the economy, but I think the future is bright.
"I think we're going to see more positive growth in the next 10 years like we haven't even seen in the past 20," Pullum added.
Contact Daily News Business Editor Dusty Ricketts at 850-315-4448 or email@example.com. Follow him on Twitter @DustyRnwfdn.


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2010 News Release Archive
Nursing Students Featured in Town Crier
Lots of smiles and even some foot-stomping took place Dec. 8 at Humility House, 755 Ohltown Road in Austintown. It was a farewell party hosted by Kent State University nursing students who have been in clinical rotation at the facility.
- Posted Dec. 29, 2010
Kent State Salem to Pursue New Bachelor's Degree
Kent State University at Salem is looking to bring a bachelor's degree of insurance and risk management to the area. By engaging corporations and private individuals in an ongoing relationship, Kent State University Salem plans on implementing an insurance program in the spring of 2012.
- Posted Dec. 15, 2010
Members of the PTA and OTA Programs Spread Holiday Cheer
With the holiday season quickly approaching, students from the Physical Therapist Assistant Technology and Occupational Therapy Assistant Technology programs wasted no time spreading holiday cheer.
- Posted Dec. 13, 2010
Rachael Esterly Wins One of President's Excellence Awards
Rachael Esterly, lead IT user support analyst at Kent State University at East Liverpool and Salem received one of only 11 President's Excellence Awards this week.
- Posted Dec. 9, 2010
Kent State Salem Community Choir's Holiday Concert Dec. 19
Free concert December 19 at 3 p.m. at the Kent State Salem City Center, located at 230 N. Lincoln Ave.
- Posted Dec. 9, 2010
Two New Salem Campus Faculty Present Research - Nov. 17th
Kent State University is pleased to announce a program featuring the scholarship of two new Salem Campus faculty: Dr. Sarah Smiley and Dr. Andrew Pfrenger. The event will take place from 1 to 2:15pm on Wednesday, November 17th.
- Posted Nov. 10, 2010
International Music Troupe to Come to East Liverpool
International Music Troupe to Come to East Liverpool
Mauvais Sort, a Quebec City folk-rock ensemble will perform at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 23 at Westgate Auditorium in East Liverpool, Ohio. The troupe, named Best Canadian Folk Ensemble of the year in 2006, has performed more than 600 shows in nine countries. Their fifth album, Droit Devant, has been recently released. Mauvais Sort creates world beat rhythms through the use of accordion, violin, guitar, bass, mandolin, drums, percussion and male and female vocals, producing a toe-tapping exercise in joie de vivre.
Mauvais Sort is being brought to Northeastern Ohio and the East Liverpool area by the Ohio Arts Council's International Music and Performing Arts in Communities Tour (IMPACT) that sponsors these free concerts to expose new audiences to art forms from around the world and to build new audiences for the arts.
The East Liverpool stop is the final one on a tour that will play Columbus, Wilmington, Wapakoneta, and Cambridge during the month of November. In addition to sponsorship from the Ohio Arts Council, the concert is sponsored by the Ohio Alliance for Arts Education, Arts Midwest, and the National Endowment for the Arts. The local performance is also sponsored by Kent State University at East Liverpool; ABLE and Appalachian Cottage Industries; LEEP (Leading Economic and Educational Progress); Shining Reflections; East Liverpool Lions; and the East Liverpool-Wellsville NAACP.
Westgate Middle School is located at 810 Eighth Street, East Liverpool, just off Routes 7 and 11. Tickets for the event are free, and the concert is open to the public. Contact Patti Swartz 330-397-5749 or email@example.com for more information.
- Posted Nov. 10, 2010
Dr. Carole Barbato Honored at Awards Ceremony
Dr. Carole Barbato, professor of communication studies at Kent State University at East Liverpool will be honored at an awards ceremony held by the Ohio Historical Society on Nov. 6.
- Posted Nov. 9, 2010
Dr. Motry Nominated for Distinguished Teaching Award
Kent State University at Salem is proud to announce that Associate Professor Douglas Motry, Department of Chemistry, was one of only nine individuals nominated for Kent State University's Distinguished Teaching Award (DTA).
- Posted Nov. 8, 2010
Professor Named a Finalist for Distinguished Teaching Award
Chemistry and Biochemistry Professor Douglas Motry, of Kent State University at Salem, was named a finalist for the 2010 Distinguished Teaching Award.
- Posted Nov. 1, 2010
Free Health Clinic at Kent State Salem Nov. 4th
Kent State University at Salem will offer a free health clinic on Nov. 4 from 10 a.m. until 6 p.m. in the campus' main lobby. Kent State Salem is located at 2491 St. Rt. 45 S, in Salem. Free screenings include those for the ears, kidneys and blood pressure will be provided.
- Posted Nov. 1, 2010
Intellectual Property Protection Workshop - Register by Nov. 1st
A one-hour, Intellectual Property Protection workshop is being offered by Kent State Salem Workforce Development and Continuing Studies at Kent Salem City Center, 230 North Lincoln Avenue (downtown Salem) in the second floor library on Wednesday, November 10 from 12:00 noon until 1:00 p.m.
- Posted Oct. 21, 2010
KSU at Salem Campus Library Book Sale - Oct. 28th & 29th
Kent State University at Salem is holding a library book sale Thursday, Oct. 28th and Friday, Oct. 29th.
- Posted Oct. 20, 2010
Kent State East Liverpool Holds Video Contest - Editing Workshop
Kent State University at East Liverpool is announcing its first annual video contest, which will run between Oct. 21 and Nov. 11.
- Posted Oct. 13, 2010
Symphonious Sunday Series Starts
Piano Concert Starts Kent State Salem's Symphonious Sunday Series Jaramillo, Chaves-Hernandez and Aguilar play Bach, Berg, Beethoven, Liszt and Schumann.
- Posted Oct. 11, 2010
Kent State at Salem Welcomes Dr. Andrew Pfrenger
Dr. Andrew Pfrenger is the newest member of Kent State Salem's English faculty.
- Posted Oct. 11, 2010
MUSE Group Book Club - Next Discussion Oct. 20th
The MUSE Group book club is gearing up for their fall series. The three books featured are: Little Brother, Then We Came to the End and Unaccustomed Earth.
- Posted Oct. 6, 2010
Kent State at Salem Welcomes Dr. Sarah Smiley
Dr. Sarah Smiley was recently named Kent State University at Salem's newest Assistant Professor of Geography.
- Posted Oct. 6, 2010
Environmental Club is Sponsoring a Movie Night October 11th
Kent State University at East Liverpool's Environmental Club will sponsor a movie night on Monday, Oct. 11th in Room 115 of the main building at 6 p.m.
- Posted Oct. 6, 2010
Kent State at East Liverpool Welcomes Dr. Haiyan Zhu
Assistant Professor Dr. Haiyan Zhu is the newest Biology faculty member to join Kent State University at East Liverpool.
- Posted Sep. 29, 2010
Kent State University OTA Students Attend Conference in D.C.
Kent State Occupational Therapy Assistant students attended the American Occupational Therapy Association's (AOTA) 2010 Capitol Hill Day in Washington, D.C., on Sept. 20.
- Posted Sep. 27, 2010
Sealed Bids due October 4th for New Health and Sciences Wing
Sealed bids are due Oct. 4th for Kent State University at Salem's renovations for its new Health and Sciences Wing.
- Posted Sep. 23, 2010
Kent State Salem Welcomes Melissa Fucci
Melissa Fucci is Kent State University at Salem's new choir director and music instructor.
- Posted Sep. 13, 2010
Kent State Salem Welcomes Caralisa Breidenbaugh
Caralisa Breidenbaugh was recently hired as Kent State University at Salem's newest Biological Sciences faculty.
- Posted Sep. 13, 2010
Crowds Come Out for Country Crush
More than 200 people attended a free screening of Country Crush, a new documentary about the combine demolition derby at the Columbiana County Fair.
- Posted Sep. 13, 2010
Kent State at East Liverpool Nursing Students Volunteer
Nursing students from the Kent State East Liverpool took more than 500 blood pressures in four hours while participating at the Ohio Nurses Association Blood Pressure Screening Booth located at the Canfield Fair.
- Posted Sep. 13, 2010
Corbisello and Santilli Join Kent State Salem's Nursing Faculty
Teresa Santilli, MSN, CCRN and Andrea Dickinson Corbisello, MSN, RN are both Kent State University at Salem's newest nursing faculty members. The two hires increase the campus' strong nursing faculty, which spearheads its competitive and robust nursing program.
- Posted Aug. 23, 2010
McFadden Joins Kent State Columbiana County Campuses
Timothy McFadden has joined the staff of Kent State University's East Liverpool and Salem Campuses as the new academic program director for applied business technologies. In this role McFadden will oversee four associate degree programs: Accounting Technology, Business Technology, Computer Technology and Information Technology for Administrative Professionals. He will also oversee the Bachelor's of Business Administration, which students can pursue in conjunction to one of the aforementioned associate degrees.
- Posted Sep. 1, 2010
Local Kent State Campuses Again See Increase
Kent State University at East Liverpool and Salem's student enrollment climbed 503 students from the first day last year.
- Posted Aug. 31, 2010
Commencement is Family Affair
Terry Hutson, Kent State East Liverpool and Salem's nursing academic advisor, along with her daughter, Liz, graduated together this summer at Kent State University's commencement ceremony.
- Posted Aug. 26, 2010
EGCC and KSU Bring New Opportunities to Eastern Ohio
Eastern Gateway Community College and Kent State University are bringing new opportunities to Eastern Ohio.
- Posted Aug. 26, 2010
PBS Screening of Country Crush Slated for September 1st
A free screening of Country Crush, a new documentary about the combine demolition derby at the Columbiana County Fair, will be held on Wednesday, Sept. 1, at 7 p.m. at Kent State University Salem City Center Campus. Country Crush is the story of the wacky, weird combine demolition derby, a sport where giant old combines face off in a battle of metal-bending prowess.
- Posted Aug. 16, 2010
College for Kids 2010
More than 75 kids attended a variety of classes in this summer's College for Kids, which was put on through the office of workforce development and continuing studies at Kent State East Liverpool and Salem.
- Posted Aug. 9, 2010
First Annual Northern Ohio Insurance Education Summit Held
The Office of Insurance and Financial Development (OIFD) is co-sponsoring an Insurance Education Summit with Kent State University at Salem Wednesday, August 18 from 8:30 to 11:30 a.m. The event will be conveniently located near I-77 at the Kent State University at Stark University Center.
- Posted Aug. 3, 2010
Salem Community Foundation Grant Applications Now Available
Applications are now being accepted for Salem Community Foundation scholarships. All students residing in Salem City or Perry Township who are attending Kent State Salem and are pursuing their first associate or bachelor's degree are eligible for the award.
- Posted Aug. 3, 2010
Kent State Salem Students Beautify Campus, Courthouse
Students at Kent State University at Salem saved tax payers more than $20,000 when reconstructing the front entryway of the campus during their summer classes. Participants of the landscape construction class improved the main entryway aesthetically while also increasing the visibility of entrance and exit, which will improve safety.
- Posted Aug. 2, 2010
Assistant Nursing Professor Focuses on New Mentoring Program
Assistant Nursing Professor Lorene Martin recently won one of Kent State University's Summer Teaching Awards. Martin, who teaches at Kent State University at Salem, is spending the summer developing a student mentoring program known as "Students Helping Students: A Student Nurse Mentoring Program"
- Posted Jul. 20, 2010
CPR Classes Available for $25.00
Kent State University at East Liverpool is offering CPR classes, specifically those students in occupational therapy, physical therapy and nursing. The cost is $25 for the four-hour session. Pre-registration and payment is required. The public is welcome to attend, too, as long as space is available.
- Posted Jul. 19, 2010
KSU at Salem Students Finalists for Mathematical Award
Kent State University at Salem Sophomores Jennifer A. Huzyak and Timothy M. Montgomery were recently selected as finalists for the Kathleen Wolf Award. The annual award is given out by Kent State University's Department of Mathematical Science.
- Posted Jul. 14, 2010
Real-World Experience
Junior Horticulture student Paul Snyder took his classroom knowledge to the next level when creating a landscape design for the new addition at Beaver Creek Wildlife Education Center.
- Posted Jul. 1, 2010
Nursing Excellence
Nursing classes are not known to be easy. However, through determination and a great support system, recent Kent State University at Salem graduate Alana Ward earned the highest grade point average (GPA) in this year's class of nurses earning their bachelor's degree.
- Posted Jun. 22, 2010
Campus Bookstores Closing for Inventory June 24 - July 6th
The Campus Bookstores at East Liverpool and Salem will be closed for inventory Thursday, June 24th - Tuesday July 6th.
- Posted Jun. 21, 2010
Upper Parking Lot will be CLOSED June 16th, 17th, & 18th
Upper Parking Lot (P8) will beCLOSED June 16th, 17th, & 18th at Kent State University at East Liverpool.
- Posted Jun. 14, 2010
Kent State Student Sets Eyes on 2012 Paralympics
Kent State Salem student Chelsi Figley isn't your typical college student. Blonde and sparkly eyed, she is focused not only on receiving her certificate in medical billing and coding this August, but more importantly, achieving a place on the 2012 Paralympic Games in London. To do so, Figley will first need to compete in the International Paralympic Committee's (IPC) Powerlifting World Championships July 25-31 in Kudar Lumpur, Malaysia. Though Figley will try to lift and hold 170 pounds for the event, she is shouldering the cost of the competition herself.
- Posted Jun. 1, 2010
Swimmer Mimi Hughes stopped at Kent State at East Liverpool
On her way through East Liverpool via the Ohio River, internationally known swimmer Mimi Hughes stopped at Kent State East Liverpool to speak with students, staff and area residents about her goal of swimming the length of the Ohio River.
- Posted May. 25, 2010
Kent State at East Liverpool and Salem Graduation Ceremonies
Director and Chairman of the Board of Directors of Consumers Bancorp, Inc. and Consumers National Bank Laurie McClellan charged Friday night's graduates of Kent State at East Liverpool and Kent State at Salem to make a difference during her commencement address.
- Posted May. 17, 2010
Woman Swimming Length of Ohio River to Visit East Liverpool
Mimi Hughes, born in 1956, teaches learning-challenged children in Lynchburg, Tennessee. During the summer of 2010, Mimi will swim the 981 miles of the Ohio River to raise funds and awareness for organizations that support the life skills and academic education of girls.
- Posted May. 10, 2010
Poetry Reading by Jeanne Bryner
Kent State University at East Liverpool Diversity Committee,the KSUEL English Department and Coffee Fusion recently sponsored poetry readings by Jeanne Bryner from her new book No Matter How Many Windows.
- Posted May. 6, 2010
Red Cross Blood Drive at Kent Salem
On Wednesday, April 28th Kent State University at Salem will host a blood drive from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Every person who donates will receive a coupon good for $5 at Chipotle.
- Posted Apr. 27, 2010
Kent Salem Program Features Student Research
More than 20 students will give presentations during Kent State at Salem's Undergraduate Research Conference, held on Wednesday. The conference will feature oral presentations and poster sessions by students about research they completed in for-credit classes at the Salem Campus during the 2009-2010 academic year. This is the campus' fifth annual conference.
- Posted Apr. 27, 2010
Hasenstab Architects for KSU Salem's Health & Sciences Wing
The Kent State University at Salem is pleased to announce the selection of Hasenstab Architects as the design and construction administration firm for the campus' new Health and Sciences Wing, which is scheduled to open for the fall semester of 2011.
- Posted Apr. 19, 2010
Documenting the Kent State Shootings: Forty Years Later
Dr. Carole A. Barbato, professor of communication studies, Kent State University at East Liverpool has been involved in many May 4 initiatives over the years. She was one of the four professors who successfully wrote an application to place the May 4 Shooting Site on the National Register of Historic Places.
- Posted Apr. 12, 2010
Medical Reserve Corps Training Offered
A free, 4-hour training session has been scheduled for local health care professionals who would like to become members of the Mahoning/Columbiana Medical Reserve Corps (MRC).
- Posted Apr. 9, 2010
Out-of-State tuition reduction announced
Students in western PA and WV Can Now Save $6,000 When Attending Kent State Salem and East Liverpool Campuses
- Posted Apr. 9, 2010
Alternative Spring Break - Columbiana County Style
Alternative Spring Break – Columbiana County style – was a lot like the other Alternative Spring Break trips. Lives were touched, communities were changed and friends were made. The difference is Kent State's constant presence in this distressed county through not one, but two Regional Campuses.
- Posted Apr. 6, 2010
Remembering the Holocaust
In keeping with Holocaust Remembrance Day, Kent State at East Liverpool is showing two movies followed by a brief discussion.
- Posted Apr. 6, 2010
Alternative Spring Break Featured on Local News
For Spring Break students from across Kent State University came to Columbiana County to assist local non-profit organizations through Alternative Spring Break.
- Posted Apr. 5, 2010
Earth Day Conference Organizers Seek Essays and Posters
Essays and posters from local high school and college students that focus on environmental justice issues are welcomed for the Fifth Annual Earth Day Environmental Justice Conference planned for the Kent State Columbiana County Campus at East Liverpool on Saturday, April 24.
- Posted Apr. 5, 2010
Alternative Spring Break Comes to Columbiana County
Students from across the Kent State University eight-campus system are coming to Columbiana County as part of the University's "Alternative Spring Break" program. The week-long event pairs teams of college students with area non-profit organizations. Each day, students will head out to a worksite and volunteer doing a range of activities.
- Posted Mar. 25, 2010
Home Savings Charitable Foundation Increases Scholarships
Home Savings Charitable Foundation recently doubled their scholarships awarded at the Kent State at East Liverpool, Salem, Trumbull and Geauga Campuses to $2,000. The Foundation also announced a newly created scholarship for students attending the Kent Campus.
- Posted Mar. 25, 2010
Open House: Discover KSU's Opportunities in OTA/PTA
For those curious about careers in high employment areas such as occupational therapy assistant (OTA) and physical therapist assistant (PTA), Kent State at East Liverpool will hold an open house Thursday April 1 to showcase these occupations. The event is from 4-7 p.m. in the Brown Room of the school's Mary Patterson Building, located at 213 E. Fourth Ave. in downtown East Liverpool.
- Posted Mar. 25, 2010
United Senior Takes Advantage of Free College Tuition
Independent and driven, United High School Senior Brock Horstman was looking for a challenge last year. Having turned 18 at the end of his junior year, he was ready for more exposure than what he'd found.
- Posted Mar. 22, 2010
Kent State's $1.9-Billion Impact: Economic Study Details University's Vital Role In Regional Economy and Quantifies the Value of a Kent State Education
Report includes findings specific to the Columbiana County Campuses, including their $40 million economic impact
To commemorate the university's 2010 Centennial, Kent State University commissioned a comprehensive study to quantify the economic contribution of Kent State and to detail the role that the university plays in promoting economic development, enhancing students' careers and improving quality of life in Northeast Ohio and the individual regions served by its eight-campus system.
- Posted Mar. 3, 2010
Kent State Salem Campus Announces Symphonious Sunday Series
Broadway show tunes sung by budding artists and a choral concert of classical and familiar music will be the features of Kent State at Salem's Symphonious Sunday Series this spring. Both concerts held on March 21 and May 2, will begin at 3 p.m. in the campus' City Center Auditorium, located in downtown Salem.
- Posted Mar. 2, 2010

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Shawn Regan 10/30/2012
That there are moose in Yellowstone today tells us something about nature and our role in it.
Terry Anderson 04/23/2012
Maasai are incresaing their incomes by using a portion of their grazing land for wildlife viewing by tourists.
Juliet Eilperin 01/13/2012
Hoping to defuse a three-decade feud over whale hunting, three academics are making an audacious proposal: The world should put a price on killing whales and allow conservationists and whalers alike to bid on the right to take them.
Richard Conniff 05/12/2011
In Namibia the people own the wildlife. Their system of community-based conservation has providedincome to local people and sharply increased key wildlife populations.
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In light of our recent Annual Parish Meeting, I've been thinking a lot about church growth. If you know me, you'll recognize this isn't anything new — it's one of my passions. But the Annual Meeting always provides that extra opportunity to take a step back, get out of the fray of daily ministry, and examine the broader view.
Out of curiosity, I ran some numbers for the three and a half years that I've been rector at St. John's. Anecdotal evidence aside, I was stunned to see that our Average Sunday Attendance has increased 35%, pledging is up 50%, and we've doubled the size of the staff. That's a lot of growth in a short period of time and, while there are many contributing factors, I do think there are some basic transferable ingredients to church growth.
Of course it all starts with leadership — both lay and ordained. I'm increasingly convinced that, to our mutual detriment, Episcopal Church culture minimizes the importance of strong clergy leadership. No, it's not all about the priest. But show me a growing, vibrant, healthy congregation with poor clergy leadership — it doesn't exist. Granted, strong leadership is all about encouraging, nurturing, and empowering members of the congregation to share the responsibility of leadership. But poor leaders are unwilling or unable to do this; thus stunting the ministry of all the baptized and the potential for growth.
For me, growth comes down to a passion for sharing the Gospel of Christ. We're called to share this Good News with which we've been entrusted not�to hoard�it. And when we share the Gospel — boldly, radically, creatively — the church can't help but grow!
So if sharing the Gospel is the key to church growth, the next logical question is what does it mean to share the Gospel?
It means looking outward, rather than exclusively inward.
It means reaching out to others — the less fortunate and those in need.
It means communicating in creative ways beyond the four walls of the church building.
It means flinging open the doors to welcome people and being intentional about incorporating them into the life of the parish.
It means thinking entrepreneurially about liturgical alternatives to Sunday morning worship that may look and feel and sound different but still reflect the core values of the community.
It means preaching engaging sermons that connect and relate rather than judge and deny.
It means music that uplifts and inspires.
It means listening for the still, small voice within rather than cowing to the anxiety-ridden, strident voice without.
It means leaving room for questions and mystery rather than providing simplistic answers.
It means joyfully inviting people to partake in the peace of Christ that passes all understanding.


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Dec 30, 2009
Updating NXT-G Programming Guide
For those of you who own the first edition, I have a few questions that I'm hoping you'll help me out with...
1. Is there anything you feel should be added to the book?
2. Would exercises be beneficial?
3. Did I cover wires well enough or do they need more discussion?
4. What did you like about the book and want more of...
5. ... and what did you NOT like about the book and want less of... or corrected?
For the original book, I made the test robot (SPOT) available as a downloadable zip file containing photos to build it - for this book, I'm probably going to update SPOT and provide BIs for all three kit versions - 1.0, 2.0, and Education. Not sure if that will be useful or not... thoughts welcome.
I've had requests from teachers and coaches to provide some hands-on activities in the form of Exercises, so please comment on that as well if you can...
It's nice to be able to update a book and fix things you overlooked the first time around... and I welcome your thoughts on improving this book. No promises that Apress will let me do anything too crazy, but if I'm able to use your suggestion or find it useful for correcting or adding something in, I'll try and credit you in the book if you're the first responder for an improvement, fix, or addition.
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- Moritz U. said...
I haven't read the book, but I just tried to load the .lxf file (Lego Digital Designer) on Snow Leopard with version 3.0.something and it says, that the model was saved in an old format. If I try to load it after this warning, it seems to remove some blocks. (one motor, for example)
It's a minor thing, but an update of this file would be cool.
- Dec 30, 2009, 2:31:00 AM
- James Floyd Kelly (Jim) said...
I'll see what I can do... I may not even be able to open it since I don't have any earlier version of LDD on my laptop. Yikes.
It's not a complicated robot, though, as the photos show. I'll see if I can get it redone in LDD in the near future but someone may beat me to it...
- Dec 30, 2009, 2:34:00 AM
- david said...
Hey Jim,
One thought I had was expanded coverage of My Blocks. There's a lot that can be done with My Blocks--especially the complex stuff with the data wires--and I think that might be helpful to explain to readers. I was only able to cover the basics of My Blocks in my book "The Inventor's Guide," but I've realized that there's a lot that could be said on the subject.
Looking forward to your second edition!
- David J. Perdue
- Dec 30, 2009, 2:55:00 AM
- Edmands said...
Hi Jim,
think about how your readers will use the book. For me, it is a reference book which I use to look up information rather than reading it straight through. I assume coaches use the book this way but a teacher would go through the entire book.
1. Add a section on how to debug a robot. This is a very important skill for students to learn and can prevent some of their frustration. Cover checking plugs, viewing sensor information, logic, sensor placement, etc. Sometimes the robot really is only doing what you told it to do.
2. Exercises would be useful but what would be considered out of scope? Your FLL book has some good examples of problems I expect would be good exercises. For example, show how to use each sensor as a toggle switch. Exercises that help teach debugging skills such as using sound to know where you are in a program or displaying output values to the screen.
3. Provide an actual example of using wires and passing information and place it after the imaginary block section.
4. The book is very useful and helps me solve problems and remind me how to complete some tasks.
5. As you noted in the first edition, you did not cover passing values into and out of the My Blocks via wires.
I went through college using books called "Algorithms in (pick your language)" which were useful to understand more advanced concepts. A set of My Blocks to cover common tasks would be useful, but may be a separate publication.
- Dec 30, 2009, 12:07:00 PM
- Aaron said...
I haven't read the book in a long time, but I think it should explain in detail what the "Reset Motor" block does, because I've heard lots of completely different things about it, like "it resets the Rotation and disables Auto-Correction", and "it makes sure the errors of this block don't get added or subtracted in the next block", and yada yada.... Like I can't use it if I don't even know what it does!
Also, maybe the pages about the Bluetooth blocks should be updated with the new 2.0 BT Connection Block.
And that's everything that I think should be updated, without re-reading the book of course!
- Dec 30, 2009, 12:20:00 PM
- Armagon said...
I have not read the first edition, having a reasonably good understanding of the NXT-G language.
One thing I have not figured out is how to make two bricks (or one brick and one computer) send arbitrary messages over bluetooth (or USB). (You may have already covered this -- I don't know).
The other thing I'd really like to see in such a book is a section on how to recover when the NXT-G software decides you did something it didn't like, and, for example, tells you there is internal error -- so far as I can tell, the only thing to do is to carefully recreate the program from scratch. [I've seen this happen on both occasions when I showed someone how to program their bot using a Finite State Machine (a simple, but not super-simple program).]
- Dec 30, 2009, 1:31:00 PM
- jbartig said...
I own your current version of the book. I wasn't able to find anything in it about multi-threading. I think this would be a good addition.
- Dec 31, 2009, 3:55:00 AM
- Armagon said...
I'll second the comment on multi-threading being valuable.
It might also be interesting to briefly go over the blocks made by the community (at http://nxtasy.org/repository/nxt-g-blocks/ )
- Jan 1, 2010, 12:37:00 AM
- marten.johansson said...
I use the first book mainly as a reference book when my creations are not working as I expected them to. I think you shouldn't change the book too much.
It would be nice if the dataplugs were all listed in a similar way because sometimes I don't get the datawires to work as expected. Which can connect with which and examples of when to use them.
Maybe to list some (or all) "third-party-blocks" availible.
I've learned a lot by doing some really simple creations. For example a flashlight where I just put the colorlight/sensor in one port and a touch sensor in another. Now it is possible to make it go on/off in different ways. Another thing I made was a counter going to a preset number before starting over. You can achieve the same result in many different ways. Maybe some examples like that where you talk about the +/- of each way of solving it.
- Jan 1, 2010, 9:13:00 PM
- Brian Davis said...
It's curious. Looking through these comments makes me wonder how many people have read the actual programming sections of the 1st "Idea Book". Not all (but a lot) of this is covered there... not to mention on-line (for free) over at places like NXTasy.
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The Scholastic Store has provided a %20 Off coupon code for a new NXT Retail kit. I'm not sure how long the coupon will last, but if you need an NXT kit here's what you do:
STEP 1) CLICK HERE to open the NXT product page.
STEP 2) Add an NXT to your shopping cart and click "Checkout Now".
STEP 3) On the "Order Review" page (last page of the checkout process), copy and paste this coupon code MOMSVIEW (All Caps!) into the box "Promotion Code" - then click the "Apply Promotion" button.
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The shipping costs are very reasonable. Enjoy! Chris
9 comments:
- Christopher R. Smith (Littlehorn) said...
I was attempting a test purchase, added the coupon code as described in the posting, then also added this coupon code "SSFS67" and when it was applied the shipping costs were removed saving another $7 USD.
I'm not sure this will take when completing the purchase...but it's worth a try.
- Jul 31, 2008, 3:02:00 AM
- Jared said...
CURSES! I just bought one from the local Lego store on Friday! NOOO!... Oh well... at least I got my Lego rewards club stamps...
- Jul 31, 2008, 3:45:00 AM
Thanks for posting this!
- Jul 31, 2008, 11:53:00 AM
That's a great price on the retail kit. However, it does not have the rechargeable battery pack. The pack and charger bundle costs about $55 from the LEGO store. I strongly recommend buying it.
- Aug 1, 2008, 1:01:00 AM
- Christopher R. Smith (Littlehorn) said...
Yep, that NXT Battery/charger bundle price at LEGO Shop at Home IS awesome! The battery is very strong and useful...as well as the disposable battery cost savings and environmental health aspects which sweeten the deal even more.
- Aug 1, 2008, 2:14:00 AM
Plus, you don't have to take apart your robot to change the batteries! Just remember to allow access to the recharge port in your design.
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Thank you. I have been thinking about buying this for my daughters. The expense was holding me back. It is a good deal and I can purchase the additional items we are looking at in the future. Scholastic did say that they were not in stock yet and only expecting 60. I put in my order and am hoping for the best!
- Aug 1, 2008, 11:22:00 AM
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BARROW AFC will try to play their FA Trophy third round tie with Gateshead for a fourth time on Saturday.
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The club will now leave the snow on the surface – which was perfectly playable beneath the white blanket – to protect it from frost ahead of Saturday's rescheduled game.
The weather is forecast to become milder ahead of the weekend, meaning the snow should melt and soak into the pitch.
With comparatively little snow having settled, there is not expected to be any issue with waterlogging should it melt. Keen, whose side last played at Holker Street when they lost 2-0 to Gateshead on Boxing Day, added: "The risk now is whether there is any frost towards the weekend, because we are desperate to get a game in.
"I think we will be fine, it just depends how hard the frost will come. The good thing is, the snow will protect the pitch from the frost, so it shouldn't get too hard into the ground.
"Hopefully with the thaw that is forecast for Friday afternoon and Friday evening, we should be fine."
The match has already been postponed twice at the International Stadium – first two hours before kick-off due to a waterlogged pitch on Saturday, January 12, then due to an exacerbation of the problem three days later.
With Gateshead's home showing no signs of being playable at any point in the near future, the game was switched to Holker Street last week, though the Heed were still classed as the home side.
Any replay of Saturday's Trophy clash would also be played at Furness Building Society Stadium, with next Tuesday the scheduled date.
The winners of the tie face a trip to Blue Square Bet North high-fliers Gainsborough Trinity in the quarter-finals of the competition.
First published at 09:08, Tuesday, 22 January 2013
Published by http://www.nwemail.co.uk
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I also think we should claim the tie.OK it's not the best way to advance,but I think that Gateshead wouldn't have traveled even if our pitch had been perfect.What are they waiting for,have they got injuries they want to buy time for or/.and players suspended waiting to get back in.Claim the tie Dave,let's get this farce behind us.
No , the final will be in May by the time this game is finally played in April!!
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A Fantastic Voyage
Terry Pratchett talks about living and writing with the 'Rolls-Royce of Alzheimer's' – and why he's far from done yet.
TERRY PRATCHETT is trying to catch a mouse.
"Right down there, the bugger!" he urges Rob, his assistant. "Oh!" he yelps, "I'm going to get him chucked out."
We'd been on the phone for most of an hour, and before the rodent scampered into view Pratchett had been explaining why assisted deaths for the terminally ill will eventually become widely accepted.
"It will happen because people die. Generations die. Once upon a time, and well within my lifetime, [some thought] homosexuals, ooh what nasty people. Now they are all over the bloody place." A comic writer's pause. "And jolly good job too!" You're stuffed if you're in the entertainment industry and don't like gays, he says, in his breathy, slightly pinched voice, the pronunciation something like David Bellamy's, in which the "r" in "very" and "round" sometimes approaches a "w".
"When I was a boy, people still got hanged. What happens is the next generation looks down at the stupidity of the last few generations and says, `You're bloody stupid, how can you possibly sit still for that?"'
What we are sitting still for, he says, is prolonging our lives in the face of needless pain, patchy old-age care and being told we have to hang around "because God wants you to". There's a punitive feeling to the whole thing, he says, as if we were atoning for something. "Not really, I just got Alzheimer's."
There we have it.
The author of the 36-strong Discworld fantasy series, as every single reader of the 45 million books produced with his name on knows, made public in 2007 that he had been diagnosed with a rare form of early-onset Alzheimer's disease called posterior cortical atrophy (PCA). Areas at the back of the brain slowly shrivel. In 2011 Pratchett's short-term memory and language skills are unaffected; not once does he lose his train of thought as we talk about his illness, writing, the future of books, climate change and a dozen other things. It does mean, however, that he now has to dictate his stories into a computer, and he can no longer read with ease. "I have to go and find the next line." Things like door knobs must be examined to figure out what they are for. "You have to think about stuff."
Still, he's an optimist. "It's been put to me as the Rolls-Royce of Alzheimer's. It feels more like a Bentley." Then his humorist's brain gives way to his scientist's. "All dementias end up in pretty much the same way. The paths may be different."
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SIR TERENCE David John Pratchett OBE, to address him as the Queen might, was born in April of 1948 in Buckinghamshire, a county immediately northwest of London. The only child of David and Eileen, he became a journalist and then PR man (for a nuclear power plant) before settling into writing fantasy fiction. He and his wife, Lyn, now live in Salisbury in south-west England, home to Stonehenge.
He has written books other than about Discworld, including some sci-fi at the beginning of his career, but he accepts his fantasy label – with resignation. "If I wrote a book set in Tombstone, Arizona, with Doc Holliday, Wyatt Earp, the Clancy Boys – and one lousy dragon – they would call it fantasy."
His reluctance seems to stem from the feeling that – despite his devoted hordes, sales only put into shadow by JK Rowling, his eight honorary doctorates and a fat swag of awards – fantasy is not taken seriously in the literary world.
Discworld, a civilisation populated by witches, dwarves, gnomes and trolls among others, exists on a large disc resting on the backs of four giant elephants supported by a giant turtle called Great A'Tuin as it swims through space. The books are littered with humorous footnotes. Death, a frequent presence who rides a horse called Binky, transmits his thoughts to people telepathically. But the novels tackle the biggest questions in the real world, war, religion, politics, philosophy, the financial world, and satirise their stupid aspects. I ventriloquise the thoughts of one avid fan in wondering if he is driven by anger at the misuse of power.
"Could be. I never really think of it like that. I don't set out with an agenda." He quotes his character Granny Weatherwax, a witch. "Evil begins when you start treating other people as things." Does he get angry with the world? "Every day. It's part of being in your 60s. You look at the paper and think, how can people be so fecking dumb? Actually I was a grumpy young man. Terrifically grumpy." He adds a footnote. "To be a grumpy old man properly you've got to have a sense of humour to the grumpiness."
PRATCHETT HAS some right to be grumpy.
PCA ensures he can no longer write the 400 words a day he used to, and he had to train the dictation software to cope with his wide vocabulary. "An author has everybody's vocabulary," he notes. "The one that was funniest was the word `arsehole', which regrettably wasn't in its vocabulary. One of those little chores that makes the day slightly more interesting."
Once a keen signer, he now finds it too difficult to write dedications when signing books, and will stamp his name during his trip to New Zealand and Australia.
He was also a great reader. As we speak, he walks into his library, admiring his oldest tomes – "ones where two cows had to die to put a lovely leather sheen on to the book" – and his huge collection of dictionaries, including a two-volume set of Victorian slang. "That's where I got half my reference material – little corners of history that you never heard about – that I thought, crikey, I can make a story about this."
He loves everything about books – their heft, their smell – but he also likes e-books. Almanacs would make perfect e-books, he says, and wonders why all newspapers, demanding trees be felled and oil for transportation, aren't electronic.
But he thinks we have to pay attention to how we store words. A lot of books may not be read for years, but they should not be thrown away. "There are skills which are dying out because no one needs that skill any more, but one day someone will need that skill and there is going to be no one to teach it, unless someone has written down, `this is how you can do this'. If the climate changes so much that our entire way of life has to change, possibly going back to a slightly more simpler one, there are a whole lot of techniques that we have lost because generations of farmers and artisans have been displaced by machinery."
Is he optimistic about us pushing back climate change?
"No, I'm not, because we are too fff..., too bloody dumb." He did a series of books with scientists called The Science of Discworld, and came to the conclusion that earth's humanity is not homo sapiens but pan narrans, the storytelling chimpanzee, who tells himself he is homo sapiens. "I know we can't be thinking man, because thinking man wouldn't use the sea as a source of food and as a latrine."
IF HUMANITY is in question, Pratchett's fans are not, though he is staggered "how people think the writer's time is infinitely flexible". Interviews, tours, interviews, awards, fan mail, sorting out travel, negotiating theatrical versions of his work, talking to agents – they all take away from what people really want: the writing.
The nature of fans has changed, he says. "Once upon a time, to judge by the T-shirts, it was all kids and students. Now it's families, led by grannies sometimes."
Discworld has been around now since 1983, and the kids in Discworld families are usually incredibly bright, he says, because it's a family that reads books. "They always remind me of the Midwich Cuckoos [supersmart alien child interlopers from a 1950s sci-fi novel] – bright as buttons. They'll take over the world, I tell you."
His fans have become useful in another way. He occasionally now uses the internet when he can't remember the details of one of his characters. "No problem! Just look him up on Wiki[pedia], and some dedicated fan will have written down everything I have ever said about that character.
"Well done, good lad!"
We move on to the subject of assisted death. He believes attention has focused on him because he gave the Dimbleby lecture last year, in which he talked about what his dad had said to him.
"`If all that's left for me is lying there with pipes and tubes in, I want them to switch me off.' I don't know for whose benefit that artificially extended and crippled life is, if it is not for the benefit of the person who said, `actually I want to die'. There is something rather bad-smelling about it at that point.
"My attitude is that there are some diseases we cannot cure. They can be debilitating and extremely unpleasant. If the person with such a disease wishes to die rather than spend X number of years bed-bound... difficulties, debilitating, uncomfortable, undignified, it seems to me a no-brainer – it's their life."
In Holland, Belgium and Switzerland, the medical profession got behind the right to die lobby, with obvious provisos such as you being compos mentis – no one wants it to be "an excuse to bump off granny".
But still the only game in town for those in other countries is going to Dignitas in Switzerland, Pratchett says. "I'm really talking about death as the ultimate medical procedure."
He is particularly scathing about the journalistic idea of balance around such subjects, the idea that even though the majority in many countries support assisted suicide for the terminally ill, a reporter must get a matching comment from what is called in the UK the Care Not Killing lobby. They say it will mean death squads. How do we get from tribunals to gas chambers in a democracy, he asks.
"It's really very simple 'cause the Dutch have done it." You protect the innocent by having a tribunal of sensible people – judges, coroners, "people who know about people" – and ensure, say, a three-month "cooling off period".
As a married man, he hopes the person would have serious talks with his or her spouse first. Spouses often take the weight of care for dementia sufferers and they are sometimes the lucky ones – the disease can break up families.
"There is a right to life, but the two rights can coexist. I would be very worried if a 25-year-old man who had trouble getting a girlfriend wanted help to commit suicide. You could probably tell him to frequent discos with low lighting and try a new aftershave."
HE IS dismissive of medical Pollyannas. "You still hear idiotic people in America say that people born now need never die. You think really? I don't think it's really going to be as simple as that."
He will write to the end, he says. "I shall go on until I can't write any more. I can't imagine doing anything else."
When the time comes – and he has been told it could be a decade before the full symptoms of dementia appear – he is "going to fight like hell" to have it happen in the UK. "And get some books written. I do other things than be ill."
His tone turns mischief-maker again. "And then I think go on a skiing holiday."
I ask if he is optimistic about treatment and even a cure for those who will suffer Alzheimer's in the future. "I'm not as optimistic as once I was. We met a gentleman called Charles Duffy who's an expert on PCA in Rochester, New York, a couple of years ago. He said he didn't think they could ever cure Alzheimer's. Ultimately, to cure Alzheimer's outright you'd have to actually kill death. To make people immortal," he says.
"There is lots of silliness from the religious lobby and... there's a mouse running around; now I either fetch the cat or I let it go. Sorry, we're talking about the right to die – I'll let this mouse off for the moment."
When he gets to New Zealand he will be 63, he says, and during the tour he will be taking more time for himself and Lyn. For the past three or four decades it has been thus: Write book, UK tour, Australasian tour, US tour, time to write next book.
"Lyn and I used to go to Oz an awful lot." Last time they ended up at Uluru on a fateful day in 2001 – September 11. "Somehow that just put us off holidays."
They are going to take time off after the tour, spend some time with friends in Australia, mainly Queensland. "You can just chill out, and heaven knows I could do with some chilling out."
Then the rodent reappears.
"That bloody mouse is running up and down. I think we'd better get Patch in – is she outside Rob? Look at the bugger! Gaa, gaw, oi! Oh Lord!"


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