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Residents of all ages are invited to take a hike on Trails Day 2014 on June 7, from noon to 3 pm, at Brunot Preserve.
Participants will enjoy a guided, approximately 3½-mile hike at the Newtown Forest Association (NFA) property, walking through forest and meadow areas. Bring water, bug spray, sun protection, and good shoes.
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SIMSBURY — The Farmington Valley Trails Council will hold its 16th annual Trails-in-Motion bicycle tour event on Saturday, June 1, in conjunction with National Trails Day. The event helps to promote public awareness of the rails-to-trails initiative in the Farmington Valley, attracting new and existing fans of the multi-use trail system. Newtown residents are invited to participate free of charge this year.


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Application for a permit to tag shortfin mako sharks (Isurus oxyrinchus) in Commonwealth waters (E2013-0083)
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The Department of the Environment has received an application for a permit to kill, injure, take, trade, keep or move a listed migratory species in a Commonwealth Area under Part 13, section 215 of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (EPBC Act). The application is to tag shortfin mako sharks (Isurus oxyrinchus) in Commonwealth waters. The shortfin mako shark (Isurus oxyrinchus) is a listed migratory species under the EPBC Act.
Please see the documents above for further details on the proposal.
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OK, quiz time. Tell me who said this:
Insurgents are winning the conflict in Iraq and [be] warned that security measures in the West and the United States cannot prevent attacks there.
And tell me who offered up this gem:
The idea that we're going to win the war in Iraq is an idea which is just plain wrong.
But before you answer, consider this one as well:
The U.S. Army is broken, worn out, and living hand-to-mouth from fighting in Iraq. They may not be able to meet future military threats to this country's security. They're barely getting by.
All three quotes come from significant political figures who have in recent days shared a piece of the American psyche via their willing accomplices in the press. It should come as no surprise that one of them is the world's most hunted terrorist, and the other two quotes come from his "useful idiots" in the War On Terror. Yes, one of the people quote above is America's most hated enemy, but the other two, are supposed to be given the benefit of the doubt as to whether or not they love our country.
But look at how closely the messages resemble one another. Is there the smallest amount of daylight between the positions of the three?
The first quote comes from Osama bin Laden's most recent audio tape – which surfaced yesterday. Any guess as to what else popped up on there?
One of the items dealt with Bush's "falling poll numbers." And that was followed up by this dandy:
I am directing my message to the American people after polls showed that an overwhelming majority of you want the withdrawal of American troops from Iraq but [Bush] opposed that desire.
Think he's watching CNN?
The other two people I quoted at the top of this column were Howard Dean, the head of the Democratic Party, and John Murtha a Democrat and a sitting U.S. congressman. Both reflected Osama bin Laden's tone, rhetoric and substance in their messages as well.
So a fair question to ask is: "Do they share the substance of the rest of Osama's message?"
Do they think we should take him up on his ''offer'' of truce?
We do not mind offering you a long-term truce with fair conditions that we adhere to. We are a nation that God has forbidden to lie and cheat. So both sides can enjoy security and stability under this truce so we can build Iraq and Afghanistan, which have been destroyed in this war.
Get that? So that he – Osama – can "build" Iraq and Afghanistan, which have been "destroyed" by the way.
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Installation Profile: HD Distance EducationUniversity of Wisconsin's Pyle Center upgrade keeps its lead in distance education. 9/01/2008 8:00 AM Eastern
Installation Profile: HD Distance Education
Sep 1, 2008 12:00 PM, By Dan Daley
University of Wisconsin's Pyle Center upgrade keeps its lead in distance education.
The concept of distance learning has a contemporary ring to it, but it's rooted less in the high tech of the 21st century than it is in the social revolutions of the 1960s — when higher education became an icon of cultural radicalization in the form of teach-ins, campus protests, and the occasional occupation of an administration building. In the 1960s, the University of Wisconsin (UW) was the first major university in the nation to deploy a televised distance-education program called "Telecon." The program served its largely rural and, in the upper reaches of the state, snowbound constituency. Funded by the Carnegie Foundation from 1964 to 1968, professor Charles Wedemeyer developed and implemented the Articulated Instructional Media (AIM) program at the school's main campus in Madison. The AIM program combined a variety of communications technologies, including voice and videoconferencing, intended to provide learning to an off-campus population.
Fast-forward 40 years, and the successor to Wedemeyer's vision is still arguably the vanguard of remote education at what is now known as the University of Wisconsin-Extension (UWEX) program. This past summer, a systems installation was completed in one of 10 dedicated distance-learning (DL) classrooms at the university's Pyle Center, which has been the home to the distance-learning program since 1998. This multimedia classroom will act as the pilot test bed for the entire program's transition to high definition. This classroom had a high-definition makeover that included replacing a dual 4:3-aspect-ratio rear-projection video system with dual 16:9 rear screens, upgrading to HD and increasing the number of cameras in the room, and replacing two CRT video-confidence monitors with three LCD flatscreens that allow presenters to see their outgoing video and content streams while maintaining eye contact with their remote audience. What transpires in this upgraded classroom over the next several months will be used as a template for the systems redesign of the other nine DL classrooms, as well as 18 other classrooms that are connected to the building's master control room via portable videoconference cameras and monitors.
Jamie Diana Poindexter, technical operations manager for the Pyle Center, says the upgrade was prompted by a number of factors, not the least of which was the fact that analog broadcasting will cease next February.
"It really put the need to update the technology into context," she says.
Installation Profile: HD Distance Education
Sep 1, 2008 12:00 PM, By Dan Daley
University of Wisconsin's Pyle Center upgrade keeps its lead in distance education.
Trying to time a major technology change these days can be tricky. That's one of the main lessons of the project, according to Scott Walker, president of Atlanta-based Waveguide Consulting. Waveguide Consulting did the systems design and programming on the UWEX project, both for the Pyle Center's original iteration a decade ago and for this most recent update.
"In a way, it's good that the five-year plan we crafted for the Pyle Center in 2003 didn't get its funding at the time," Walker says. "The HD codecs, cameras, and projectors just weren't ready at that point. Doing the update when we did it this year gives the Pyle Center the benefit not only of a well-developed technology, but one that's become less expensive."
This pilot project has more riding on it than its estimated $400,000-plus price tag, he says. Refitting an already tech-heavy classroom for HD on a facility-wide scale means more than adding equipment. The new design for the pilot room — classroom 235 — called for replacing the existing two 4:3 XGA projectors with two 5000-lumen Digital Projection Titan 1080p 16:9 digital projectors, a Polycon HDX 9004 codec, and rp Visual Solutions 16:9 glass projection screens. This meant Waveguide needed to tear out the front wall of the classroom not only to accommodate the larger screens, but also to accommodate the greater throw distance of the new projectors. At 6'×10'8", the screens were the same height as the wall, but much wider.
"This isn't just a technology challenge; it's an architectural challenge, too," Walker says. "You have to redesign the wall in order to both fit the screens in, but also to make sure that the entire room has the same line of sight to them as before."
In this case, an existing header above the left screen was extended over both new screens as a platform for program audio loudspeakers and two of the four new Sony EVI-HD1 PTZ cameras the room now has.
Most of the physical changes to the room took place in the instructor's space and in the projector area. The rest of the room, composed of concentric semi-circular tiered desks, remained in place. The changes to the front-of-room spaces are both large and nuanced.
The teacher's desk has been replaced with an adjustable-height podium featuring a variable tilt, a 17in. Crestron TPMC-17-QM touchpanel control screen, and a preview monitor that is linked to a sidecar equipped with a WolfVision VZ-9 document camera. Soffited into the first tier of student seating are three NEC Multeos M40-AV 16:9 LCD flatpanels, which the instructor uses for video-confidence monitoring. These flatpanels replace a pair of 4:3 CRT monitors, and they show dedicated program sources. One displays the outgoing video from the selected Sony HD cameras that are mounted on the first desk tier; the second LCD displays the same content that is being shown on projection screens behind the instructor, so instructors don't have to turn their backs on the classroom; and the third monitor displays the images of the DL students so the instructor can see them. The images of the students can be arrayed in a variety of configurations, ranging from a one-on-one setup to a Hollywood Squares-style setup that shows multiple students via video bridging in the center's main control room.
"The design is intended to keep the interaction between the instructor and the students as high as possible," Walker says. "The quality of the HD allows the instructor to see remote-learning students more clearly. Keeping the instructor facing the class supports a more natural interaction with the local and remote students."
There are more than a couple of projectors behind the rebuilt front wall of the classroom, which also houses video sources such as DVD decks and the audio DSP system. The bulky new RG-59 cabling required for the updated HD video would make the lengthy Cat-5 runs used in the previous installation onerous and expensive.
"We wanted to control the cable lengths of the RG-59 because it's difficult to pull, and we wanted to minimize signal loss," Poindexter says.
Bill Facklam, AV systems project manager for systems integrator Dascom, agrees. "The RG-59 is .5in., plenum-rated, high-bandwidth cable, and it was definitely a challenge to pull it in some places," he says. His crews figured out that placing a third crewman in the center of a long cable run to pull cable made the process significantly easier.
Even though more equipment was designed to stay in the room, cable runs to the central control room for troubleshooting and preview uses were still necessary.
"We also removed several cable runs from the old installation to the control room that weren't being used, and we shortened some of the other runs that were now going only to the projector room," Facklam says.
Installation Profile: HD Distance Education
Sep 1, 2008 12:00 PM, By Dan Daley
University of Wisconsin's Pyle Center upgrade keeps its lead in distance education.
Classroom 235's audio was pretty good to start with. In addition to good acoustics from a band of absorptive material encircling much of the room at ear height, carpeted floors and the lack of parallel surfaces put its background noise level at around NC 25. These features, including the Gentner AP800 conferencing system, were all part of the original 1998 installation. The Gentner AP800 was upgraded with a ClearOne Converge Pro 880T system that features a built-in telephone interface and wide-bandwidth acoustic echo cancellation. Thirty-two Crown PCC-170SWO microphones and their cabling were left in place. Two new Shure UR1 wireless lavalier microphones and a new Audio-Technica U857Q AL gooseneck microphone on the lectern were added. Dascom's crews integrated the microphones with the Converge Pro system. The sound system remains stodgily stereo, mainly because the HDX 9004 codec doesn't have a discrete center-channel component. The revamped header space, however, has room to fit a center loudspeaker that could be placed to create an LCR array in the future.
"What was surprising to me about the audio on this project was the large number of microphones — 32 in all — and the fact that each one's talk switch is also a contact closure used to activate the cameras," Facklam says.
Switching to high-definition video also required a new approach to lighting.
"When you have the opportunity for the instructor to wander around the space — and when you have multiple cameras feeding the video — you're going to have issues with shadows unless you light for them in the first place, and that becomes more so with HD," Walker says.
Existing directional fluorescent lighting for the audience area is augmented by Brightline's broadcast-grade illumination system toward the front of the room. Illumination this bright would have washed out SD video images, but the higher brightness of the new HD projectors mean they can handle it and maintain good contrast. The audience light fixtures have 45-degree louvered slats; the Brightline fixtures are aimable and set at the same 45-degree angle as the others to focus more light on key areas. Based on where the instructor can roam in the room, pre-installation computer modeling determined the fixtures' locations.
Classroom 235 is highly automated in order to lessen reliance on live technicians, but you have to look carefully to spot it. Some of the more apparent manifestations of what turned out to be some very complex code-writing include a Vaddio pressure-sensitive pad at the instructor's lectern. When the instructor is standing on it, the video switcher is programmed to go to the camera aimed at the lectern from the front row of desks. If the instructor steps off the pad, the switcher goes to a wider shot from a ceiling-mounted camera. What students won't experience are dizzying pans as a single camera tries to follow the instructor around the room.
More subtle is how the Crestron e-Control system was programmed so that when a student in the classroom appears on camera, activated by touching the talk button on a microphone, the audio DSP will sense the end of a question or comment from the student and automatically switch the main image back to the camera covering the instructor. Even more understated is the fact that instructors can select one of three timing settings for this function from their own control point at the lectern, letting them determine the pace of each individual class.
"One of the overriding goals of the programming and the design of the room and the systems is to present the classroom as though it was a production, with the kind of basic production values you find in most broadcasts, like switched camera views instead of static or panned ones," Walker says. "It's more like a show than a class, and that helps keep interest levels up."
In a facility pioneering web-based H.323-codec educational videoconferencing when most others were still relying on ISDN lines, the leap to HD for in-class and distance education was intuitive. But like many pioneering propositions, it has roots that go back before the new technology was invented.
"The program here has its roots in public radio, which funded the early applications," Poindexter says. "We have a background in patch bays for routing here, very hands-on. I think that really helped make this upgrade as workable as it is. It's not technology for its own sake, but technology that addresses the practical issues of education in a digital environment."
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Making collages is maybe one of my favorite childhood memories. I remember going through old magazines and newspapers and clipping images, text, quotes, and phrases that were intriguing to me. If I didn't use the clippings in my scrapbooks, I'd layer them onto my notebooks, book covers, and folders. Any school supply I could cover with paper and Mod Podge was bound to have a collage on it.
Since those days of spiral bound notebooks and Trapper Keepers, I can't remember the last time I created a collage. It's not that I thought it was childish, I just never had the motivation to get back into it…that is, not until I read Collage Playground: A Fresh Approach to Creating Mixed-Media Art.
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What's Tackier?
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Have you ever been to the drug store just to pick up tampons, lip gloss or a tabloid magazine and run into one of these things? Billy The Singing Bass or Kung-Fu Hamster? Billy has been known to start singing "Take Me To The River" and "Don't Worry, Be Happy" simply when you walk near him, but the Kung-Fu Hamster will emit the disco classic "Kung-Fu Fighting" only if you push his button. I'm all for kitsch, but I would be embarrassed to own one of these things. What's tackier?
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licia 8 years
When those hamster things first appeared in stores I thought they were adorable.. I even had one! That got old REALLY quickly.
bookgirl 8 years
I was just going to write the same thing, too, computerdiva! My family members jokingly kept trying to regift two of those annoying fish to each other for a couple of years. One year we ended up with two. When no one was home I threw them away.
anaisethenry 8 years
Those remind me of the singing and dancing sunglass wearing daisies... soooo mesmerizing...
ElsaBeK 8 years
I know some guys who think that bass is just great..the hamster is lame..
ElsaBeK 8 years
I know some guys who think that bass is just great..the hamster is lame..
CestLaVie 8 years
I completely agree computerdiva- took my comment out of my... keyboard! :)
mandykw 8 years
The bass for sure, the hamster is awesome
tralalala 8 years
shut up, I own the hamster one!! I also have a mouse version that sings Ice Ice Baby....best christmas presents ever.
krystalmak 8 years
singing bass.
krystalmak 8 years
singing bass.
computerdiva 8 years
The bass is only tackier b/c it has to be displayed. The hampster is a cute little item to sit on your desk or something...I'd play with it if I saw it in someone's office :)
katygirlthing 8 years
i want that hamster! not tacky whatsoever!! the singing bass is!
lorenashley 8 years
my granny used to have one of those singing bass things and it scared the shit out of all us kids. It used to take "take me to the riverrr..dump me in the waterrr.."strange!
lorenashley 8 years
my granny used to have one of those singing bass things and it scared the shit out of all us kids. It used to take "take me to the riverrr..dump me in the waterrr.." strange!
sweetheart_450 8 years
The singing bass!
sweetheart_450 8 years
The singing bass!
warau 8 years
I once got my dad one of those lame singing hamsters. It's sooo annoying!
jhuck 8 years
I think my uncle still has one of those fish. I'm hoping they never make a comeback!
flippy 8 years
hey! those aren't tacky! they are the reason i love going to the drugstore.
Jennifer_2sugar 8 years
The kung fu hamster only because I used to have one of those singing fish when i was three. I would play it over and over again, and let me say it is extremely tacky and it now collects dust in my basement, but i still think it was a funny little thing. :fish:


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Everybody has somewhere they need to go, except me.
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Traveling back and forth, forth and back, to Greenpoint for meetings regarding my beloved Creek occupies a lot of my time. Along the pathway which leads from blessed Astoria to the "garden spot of the universe" one encounters a whole lot of taxi cabs along the way. Their presence causes shame to blossom within my breast, as the urgency which would justify the usage of such conveyance is not something which currently drives my days. I'll get there when I arrive, as no matter where you go, there you are.
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Complaining about my near daily pilgrimage to Brooklyn is usually greeted with "you should buy a bicycle" by the drinkers of expensive coffee who dwell there. Simply put, I have nothing against cycling. In fact, I used to be a avid bicycle enthusiast, when I lived in my native south east Brooklyn. Problem is that you are moving too fast to actually notice anything, as you are effectively a vehicle. Want to see something cool? You need to walk, not ride. Also, cameras and bicycling do not exactly get along.
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I've noticed increasing numbers of these new lime green "Boro Cabs" turning up of late around the neighborhoods in Western Queens, by the way. Another change in the landscape, and alteration of the firmament, here in the Newtown Pentacle. Hopefully, this metered fare will alleviate the whole scale rape which local car services perpetrate upon the populace currently. Recently, a private car service driver quoted me a $30 fare to go from Astoria to Meeker Avenue in Greenpoint- a roughly 15 minute trip.
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In today's post- a vehicle accident in DUPBO, LIC.
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Happily perambulating upon Jackson Avenue in venerable Hunter Point recently, a cacophony of automotive horns heralded my arrival in DUPBO- Down Under the Pulaski Bridge Onramp- at the corner of Vernon and Jackson. I have actually used Vernon Jackson as an alias, in the past, it should be noted. To my ears, Vernon Jackson is an extremely credible sounding name, the sort of handle which a bounty hunter or hard hitting journalist might be blessed with.
At any rate, there was an awful traffic tie up, and even the legendary patience of the Queens driver was wearing thin.
– photo by Mitch Waxman
Motorists in Queens, it should be pointed out, drive angry. The slightest transgression- not immediately hitting the gas at the precise second which a red light turns green, slowing down for any reason, allowing a passenger to debark the automobile- is greeted by an enthusiastic usage of the horn. There is also a societal taboo against going around an obstacle, and one is obliged to sit and honk at an obstruction until it is cleared away. In the case of this particular tie up, it seemed that an "accidental" had occurred.
– photo by Mitch Waxman
Such "accidentals" are common, here in this place where highways and rail systems converge upon and feed into those narrow corridors which allow egress to the Shining City. Literally hundreds of thousands of vehicles cross western Queens on any given day, the odds that collisions wouldn't proliferate would be astronomical. When I say "collision," it is because I presume that both of the unfortunate conveyances found at the center of this scene were in motion.
Were one of them static, it would instead be an "allision."
– photo by Mitch Waxman
The honking continued as I wove my way though tangle, on my way to Greenpoint. During my walk from Astoria, a roughly one and one half mile saunter accomplished in roughly forty minutes, I observed two vehicle accident scenes like this. One wonders if there is some database out there which describes the quantity of vehicular incidents in any given neighborhood?
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– photo by Mitch Waxman
A week of darkness was promised you, lords and ladies, and this Friday posting provides a neat bookend.
Long Island City is one of the most difficult spots in New York City to hail a cab, precisely because so many Cab companies are based here. Drivers don't want to pick you up if they're in the neighborhood, as Cab Drivers are generally heading here to drop off the car and end a shift before they get hit with a penalty for being late.
The reverse of "bringing coal to Newcastle", it would seem, is in effect.
from nytimes.com
Many taxicabs are used by two drivers a day, each working a 12-hour shift. To ensure that each leg is equally attractive, taxi owners schedule the shift change in the middle of the afternoon, so each shift gets a rush hour.
But the switch cannot happen too early, either: a 2 p.m. changeover, for instance, would require a day driver to start his 12-hour shifts in the wee hours of the morning. And cabbies say the midafternoon offers brisk business not evident 12 hours later, when fares mainly consist of late-night revelers.
Hence the 5 p.m. compromise. When the changeover became standard, its timing did not pose a big problem for passengers. Many taxi garages were situated on the Far West Side of Manhattan, requiring cabs to make only a short trip to 11th Avenue before heading back to Midtown with a fresh driver.
But in the 1980s, as commercial rents rose, taxi fleets began migrating across the East River, particularly to Long Island City, Queens. The 5 p.m. shift change now included a journey over the often-packed Queensboro Bridge, not to mention the return slog to the city. Drivers started going off duty between 4 and 4:30 p.m., to ensure that they had enough time to make it to the garage; even today, tardy cabbies can be hit with a $30 fine.
– photo by Mitch Waxman
It is an interesting sight, seeing hundreds of Taxis arrayed about their dispatch and maintenance yards in the wee hours of the morning. Taxi's are not unlike Police cars in this manner, inasmuch as they seem to be in perpetual motion and always in gear.
Drivers have described the system to me, shift work accomplished in long stretches behind the wheel during which they struggle to first pay the day's lease on the car and then the fuel bill. Once this sum has been reached, whatever is left over is theirs to keep. They are functionally without a union, and vulnerable to the whims of politician and businessman alike. The overnight drivers also describe having to deal with cleaning up a lot of bodily fluids, the product of nightlife and its revelry.
from wikipedia
The New York City Taxi and Limousine Commission (TLC) was established in 1971 with jurisdiction over the city's medallion (yellow) taxicabs, livery cabs, "black cars", commuter vans, paratransit vehicles (ambulettes) and some luxury limousines. The TLC was founded to deal with the growing number of drivers and to address issues important to both the taxi and livery industries. Its predecessor was the New York City Hack Bureau, operated under the aegis of the New York City Police Department. TLC Inspectors are New York State peace officers who carry batons, pepper spray, and handcuffs.
In the 1970s and 1980s both the unofficial livery services and the medallion taxicab companies began finding more and more of their drivers in the growing populations of black, Latino, and middle eastern immigrants to the city as the previous generation of cabbies retired and moved out of the city. Crime in New York City had become severe at this point, and cabbies were often the victims of robberies and street crime.
– photo by Mitch Waxman
On a different note, a distinct point of interest is the Court Square Diner, which is a completely different structure at night than during the day. On this particular morning, despite my screaming desire for a cup of joe, the place was passed by and merely photographed. The whole "shooting at night" thing was produced by a bout of insomnia, after all, and the last thing that the sleepless needs is the sort of hot brown jet fuel sold at Court Square.
from courtsquarediner.com
Court Square Diner was built in 1946. Since then it has only had three ownerships.
The current owners, Steve and Nick have been in operation since 1991. When they had first purchased the diner, it was mainly a small diner for breakfast and lunch. In 2009, the Court Square Diner was renovated with an all new retro look. Now it is a full service 24 hour seven day a week successful diner complete with breakfast, lunch, brunch and dinner. The delivery service is 24 hours a day seven days a week. All the baking for the diner is done on the premises.
strange region
– photo by Mitch Waxman
Nearly have I sorted out the various electronic issues caused by the lightning strike which sundered my links with the far flung interwebs, however, the last and greatest hurdle is before me.
The thundering incompetency and bureaucratic nonsense of the Time Warner cable empire awaits. Long has it been since I severed my relationship with them regarding the delivery of televisual and telephonic service, a second rate and badly delivered suite of offerings at best, but they remain the only game in town as far as high speed Internet (at least in my zip code).
Yes, smaller operations exist, but they largely piggy back onto the Time Warner system in Astoria.
Today, I must hie to Manhattan and company headquarters in order to exchange a lightning damaged cable modem. The customer service operator offered me an in home appointment on August 8th, some 14 days from now, so the only way to get this dying elephant to perform its most basic function in a timely fashion is to visit its house and kick it in the trunk.
I would point out that DirecTV was here within 24 hours to assess the situation, and had their replacement equipment up and running within 48 hours of the lightning event.
Hopefully, by tomorrow, the entire system back at Newtown Pentacle HQ will be functionable again- but this is probably vainglorious hope speaking. With luck, I will be able to start doing "my thing" again within a day or two.
– photo by Mitch Waxman
Tonight, however, diversion can be obtained at the Flux Factory in LIC. Kate Zidar of Newtown Creek Alliance will be joining Dr. Eric Sanderson for an interesting presentation.
Flux Factory presents…Newtown Creek: Past, Present, Future – JUL 26
Flux Factory is pleased to present the third workshop in a yearlong initiative, The Future of Your Neighborhood: Who Decides?
Newtown Creek: Past, Present, Future
July 26th, 7 pm – 9 pm
Flux Factory
39-31 29th Street, Long Island City, NY 11101
The July workshop will focus on Newtown Creek: one of the most polluted industrial sites in America, bordering Flux Factory's Long Island City neighborhood. Eric Sanderson of the Mannahatta Project will share historical research he's collected on the Superfund site, with the aim of making information available to artists, designers, city planners, and other interested parties for widespread use in restoring its original splendor. Kate Zidar, Executive Director of Newtown Creek Alliance, will present information on the current state of the creek, including how community members can participate in materializing visions for its future.
Upcoming Walking Tours:
July 28th, 2012- Working Harbor Committee Kill Van Kull walk- This Saturday
– photo by Mitch Waxman
The Kill Van Kull, or tugboat alley as its known to we harbor rats, is a tidal strait that defines the border of Staten Island and New Jersey. A busy and highly industrialized waterfront, Working Harbor's popular "Hidden Harbor – Newark Bay" boat tours provide water access to the Kill, but what is it like on the landward side?
Starting at the St. George Staten Island Ferry terminal, join WHC Steering Committee member Mitch Waxman for a walk up the Kill Van Kull via Staten Islands Richmond Terrace. You'll encounter unrivaled views of the maritime traffic on the Kill itself, as well as the hidden past of the maritime communities which line it's shores. Surprising and historic neighborhoods, an abandoned railway, and tales of prohibition era bootleggers await.
The tour will start at 11, sharp, and you must be on (at least) the 10:30 AM Staten Island Ferry to meet the group at St. George. Again, plan for transportation changes and unexpected weirdness to be revealed to you at MTA.info.
for July 28th tickets, click here for the Working Harbor Committee ticketing page
August 5th, 2012- Newtown Creek Alliance Walking Tour- The Insalubrious Valley
– photo by Mitch Waxman
Newtown Creek Alliance historian Mitch Waxman will be leading a walk through the industrial heartlands of New York City, exploring the insalubrious valley of the Newtown Creek.
The currently undefended border of Brooklyn and Queens, and the place where the Industrial Revolution actually happened, provides a dramatic and picturesque setting for this exploration. We'll be visiting two movable bridges, the still standing remains of an early 19th century highway, and a forgotten tributary of the larger waterway. As we walk along the Newtown Creek and explore the "wrong side of the tracks" – you'll hear tales of the early chemical industry, "Dead Animal and Night Soil Wharfs", colonial era heretics and witches and the coming of the railroad. The tour concludes at the famed Clinton Diner in Maspeth- where scenes from the Martin Scorcese movie "Goodfellas" were shot.
Lunch at Clinton Diner is included with the ticket.
Details/special instructions.
Meetup at the corner of Grand Street and Morgan Avenue in Brooklyn at 11 a.m. on August 5, 2012. The L train serves a station at Bushwick Avenue and Grand Street, and the Q54 and Q59 bus lines stop nearby as well. Check MTA.info as ongoing weekend construction often causes delays and interruptions. Drivers, it would be wise to leave your vehicle in the vicinity of the Clinton Diner in Maspeth, Queens or near the start of the walk at Grand St. and Morgan Avenue (you can pick up the bus to Brooklyn nearby the Clinton Diner).
Be prepared: We'll be encountering broken pavement, sometimes heavy truck traffic as we move through a virtual urban desert. Dress and pack appropriately for hiking, closed-toe shoes are highly recommended.
Clinton Diner Menu:
- Cheese burger deluxe
- Grilled chicken over garden salad
- Turkey BLT triple decker sandwich with fries
- Spaghetti with tomato sauce or butter
- Greek salad medium
- Greek Salad wrap with French fries
- Can of soda or 16oz bottle of Poland Spring
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Exploring Our Values Through Poetry
A Tapestry of Faith Program for Youth High School
Poetry can be an accessible and profound tool in our spiritual practice as we journey toward becoming more conscious as human beings and as Unitarian Universalists. This program utilizes poems that are concerned with elements of the spiritual life: acute observation, conscious and continuous inquiry, the unveiling of reality, hope and hopelessness, the afterlife, and the tenderness of the human condition.
About the Author
Karen Harris has taught poetry in public schools as a high school English teacher for about 16 years. As part of poet Robert Pinsky's Favorite Poems Project, she also trains English teachers interested in learning new ways to incorporate poetry into their curricula. She has also taught beginning teachers at Boston University's School of Education, where she is pursuing a doctoral degree in Education.
Karen is keenly interested in the intersection of literature and spirituality, especially as it regards teenagers' development of compassion toward self and others. She currently teaches at School-Within-a-School, an alternative democratic community of students and teachers that is a part of Brookline High School in Massachusetts.
In addition to literature, Karen is passionate about music; she sings, writes songs, and plays guitar for the Boston-based band Edith. The band has produced two critically acclaimed CDs.
Married to artist Morgan Cohen, Karen also loves being a mom to their two kids, Abby and Emmet. They live outside Boston, where they worship by reading spiritual texts (including poems, of course!) with their kids, going on lots of hikes, and sporadically attending a couple of different Unitarian churches and a Quaker Meeting.
Editors Susan Lawrence and Jessica York enriched this program with their contributions of additional activities. Judith Frediani guided the development throughout the process, and Nancy Burnett copyedited the finished manuscript.
The Program
The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful. And in the end, the poem is not a thing we see—it is, rather, a light by which we may see—and what we see is life.
— Robert Penn Warren
Unitarian Universalism has always embraced poetry as a call to worship.
Poetry can be an accessible and profound tool in our spiritual practice as we journey toward becoming more conscious as human beings and as Unitarian Universalists. This program utilizes poems that are concerned with elements of the spiritual life: acute observation, conscious and continuous inquiry, the unveiling of reality, hope and hopelessness, the afterlife, and the tenderness of the human condition.
Poetry, Czeslaw Milosz asserts, "enables us to look at a thing and identify with it, strengthening in that way its being" (Book of Luminous Things. New York: Harcourt, Brace, and Company, 1996). In this program, that "being" is our being—as individuals, as members of a UU community, as members of the human race, as members of the planet and universe.
As with any curriculum, there is a set of assumptions and beliefs that inform and inspire this one. All of the following are born of the author's experience.
Poetry is a uniting and a connecting force.
Poetry—even very sad poetry—is a good remedy for loneliness, because it reminds us that our experience, no matter how extraordinary, in some way mirrors another's. In this way, we are not solitary beings. The poems featured in this program are from all over the world and represent different cultures, cosmologies, genders, races, and times in history. Yet striking similarities are evident in the poems' emotional terrain. In recognizing this, we recognize our own compassion for others and ourselves. Even discovering that others have some of the same questions as we do can be extraordinarily powerful and comforting.
Poetry asks the best questions. So do teenagers. Most of the things that we can say about poetry, we can also say about teenagers—a fact that makes the idea of doing this program with teens so exciting. Both poetry and teens ask the great, big questions: How do we live? What do we love? What deserves our faith? Who are we, and where do we fit in this universe? How do we keep our hope alive? Both poetry and teenagers are tireless seekers—of sense, justice, meaning, reason, hope, and sometimes just the plain old company of a good laugh.
Reading poems aloud is powerful. Discovering poems together is powerful.
Poetry read aloud is immediate, communitarian, and powerful. Robert Pinsky, poet and two-term national Poet Laureate, says it best:
... poetry is a vocal, which is to say a bodily, art. The medium of poetry is a human body: the column of air inside the chest, shaped into signifying sounds in the larynx and the mouth.... Moreover, there is a special intimacy to poetry because, in this idea of the art, the medium is not an expert's body, as when one goes to the ballet: in poetry, the medium is the audience's body...
From The Sounds of Poetry: A Brief Guide, by Robert Pinsky (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1999)
Reading poetry is like finding our way home. As with all important journeys, it is helpful to have a compassionate and qualified guide (you) who has a map (this program).
Both poetry and workshops can teach us about ourselves, but we need a good guide with a good plan. While poetry is not a trove of secrets locked in a chest to be accessed by a select few, neither is it a blank slate onto which we may project any and all interpretations. As a guide, it is important to read the map, to know the general way but be open to detours, and to keep your group from getting lost on their way. Know the poems. Know yourself. And as much as possible, know your participants.
This program will:
- Lead participants to discover the ways poetry illuminates the human experience.
- Help youth recognize commonalities in our spiritual journey.
- Demonstrate the use of poetry writing as a spiritual practice.
- Provide multigenerational opportunities that will increase youth's sense of belonging to the congregation and the wider UU world.
You do not need to be a poetry expert to facilitate these workshops effectively. You simply need an open mind and a sense of adventure. If, like many of us, you have at some point in your schooling felt daunted by poetry textbooks that feature poems followed by an "answer" section (or by the teaching of poetry "drill and kill" style), we hope you feel liberated by the approach we take here. These workshops envision poems not as entities to "decode" or master, but as a way in—to us, to truth, to others. These poems will be our partners in exploration, not our opponents.
They say that the best way to learn something is to teach it. While facilitating or leading are more apt words for what you will do as you guide participants through these workshops, you will certainly learn. Best of all, once you find a poem that speaks to you, that really sheds light on an essential truth as you have come to know it—that poem becomes a teacher, guide, and friend for life—something to which you can return for inspiration and solace again and again.
We recommend a team of two or more co-leaders. While one facilitates an activity, the second leader can focus on participants who need assistance. Your congregation might have guidelines that stipulate the number of adults needed to facilitate a program.
Exploring Our Values through Poetry is designed for use with high-school-aged youth. You may find it useful to think about the developmental norms for this age group. Not all youth arrive at each developmental stage at the same time, but knowing what to expect overall from fourteen- to eighteen-year-olds can be quite helpful, especially to first-time leaders.
In her book Nurturing Children and Youth: A Developmental Guidebook (Boston: Unitarian Universalist Association, 2005), Tracey L. Hurd discusses developmental characteristics of older youth:
- practices increased cognitive skills
- expresses growing interest in abstract values and moral principles
- engages in moral relativism
- becomes less egocentric and more interested in the larger society
- struggles with gender and sexual identities
- continues to develop ethnic or racial identity
- needs to belong and have a sense of self worth
- demonstrates empathy
- conceptualizes religion as an outside authority that can be questioned
- questions faith, sometimes leading to deeper ownership of personal faith or disillusionment
- deepens or attenuates religious or spiritual identity
- explores sexuality
- navigates greater risks relating to alcohol, drug use, and unsafe sexual activity
- sustains the personal fable that "it couldn't happen to me"
- considers friendships and peers important, with some shifting of alliances
Though this program is written for youth, adults might find it interesting also. Consider offering the program for a mixed group of youth and adults. If using this option, look for leaders who are experienced in working with both groups. During the workshops, you will want to monitor the group to make sure both youth and adults are given the space to contribute and that any personal sharing is appropriate for all ages involved. Safety issues will need to be addressed. Your congregation's religious educator can help with guidelines, as can advice from The Safe Congregation Handbook, edited by Pat Hoertdoerfer and Fredric Muir (Boston: UUA Publications, 2005).
Integrating All Participants
By adapting activities or using alternate activities, you can help ensure that every workshop is inclusive of participants with a range of physical and cognitive abilities and learning styles, food allergies, and other sensitivities or limitations. Below, you will find general guidance on adapting the activities along with some resources for implementing inclusion. Within the workshops, some activities suggest specific adaptations under the heading "Including All Participants."
As you plan your Poetry workshops, be aware of activities that might pose difficulties for youth who are differently-abled. All spaces, indoor and outdoor, need to be accessible to anyone who might be in the group. Check the width of doorways and aisles, the height of tables, and the terrain of outdoor landscapes.
Since many of the activities in this program involve reading and writing, pay particular attention to youth who might have learning disabilities. Be prepared to adjust times allocated for writing activities if some participants consistently need more time. Always seek volunteers to read so no one is forced to read who might not be comfortable doing so.
Find out about participants' medical conditions and their allergies, particularly to food. Adolescence is a time when bodies are busy growing. Consequently, youth will welcome food when it is available. Offering a snack at every workshop is a good idea, but make sure all youth can eat whatever is served.
Each workshop mixes active and quiet, expressive and listening, and whole-group and individual activities, along with alternate activities that you can substitute for core activities if you feel they better suit a group. As you begin to recognize different learning styles among the participants, let this information guide your selection of activities for each workshop.
Some activity descriptions mention specific concerns or suggest adaptations under the heading "Including All Participants." Feel free to devise your own adaptations to meet any special needs you perceive. As the leader, you will know best how to provide a fully inclusive learning experience for the group.
A helpful resource book is Sally Patton's Welcoming Children with Special Needs.
Families are the primary influence on the faith development of their youth. As a program leader, you take on a special role: supporting families in your faith community to shape their youth's Unitarian Universalist faith development. By involving parents in the Poetry program, you help youth take the meaning of the work they do in the workshops into their daily lives.
Each workshop offers Taking It Home resources including conversation topics and other ways for youth and their families to extend the workshop at home; these may include a game, a family ritual, or links to informative and/or interactive websites. Adapt each workshop's Taking It Home section to reflect the activities the group will have engaged in and, if you like, to help youth and families prepare for workshops yet to come. If you have an e-mail address for each family, you may wish to provide Taking It Home as a group e-mail, either before or immediately after the workshop. Or you can print, photocopy, and distribute Taking It Home at the workshop's closing.
The Faith in Action activities for each workshop offer opportunities to engage parents/caregivers and other congregants. Find out who can enrich your long-term Faith in Action activities with their personal interests, professional networks, or simply their time.
The leader/parent relationship is very important and must be both welcoming and reassuring. When parents bring their youth to experience Unitarian Universalist religious education, they need to feel confidence not only in the safety and enjoyment you will provide, but also in your faith leadership. Strong partnerships can foster parents' commitment to becoming strong faith leaders in their own families. As a leader, you can support and inspire parents to bring intentionality and excitement to their role in their youth's faith development.
Downloading the Document
You can download this program, save it on your computer, edit it, and print it. Or, you can download individual sessions or workshops.
- Download the entire program: Regular Version or Paper-Saving Version. Save the file with a name ending with ".doc", readable by most word processors. In Word, add page numbers by choosing Insert > Page Numbers. Narrow the margins by choosing File > Page Setup (try 0.75 inch margins on all sides).
- Instructions for Downloading the Program
- Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) about downloading and printing


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Gov. Steve Beshear made the appointment Monday.
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Beshear chose Stein over Lexington attorneys Carl David Devine and Christian Renau Worth who also were recommended by a judicial nominating committee. That committee was called on to review resumes of people interested in the judgeship and forward three names to Beshear.
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As of the 2010 census, the city has a population of 44,478. It is the eighth-most populated city outside of the Chicago Metropolitan Area and the most populated city south of Springfield in the state of Illinois. The city of Belleville was named by George Blair in 1814. Blair was born in 1760 and his father was born in Scotland. Blair donated an acre of his land for the Town Square and an additional 25 acres (100,000 m) that adjoined the Square for the new County Seat, causing the county seat to be transferred from the village of Cahokia. Belleville was incorporated as a village in 1819, and became a city in 1850. It is said that Blair named the city Belleville (French for beautiful city) because he believed that a French name would attract new residents. Since...
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• The Game Commission is likely going to tweak the boundaries of its elk management zones. The plan is to redraw them by fall to better address nuisance complaints and harvest goals, said Chris Rosenberry, head of the commission's deer and elk section. The commission determines how many elk licenses to allocate based on how many animals it wants to remove from each hunt zone, he said. But there can be several "subpopulations" of elk within any one hunt zone, and subpopulation can wander across as many as three or four hunt zones at any one time, he said. The result is hunters aren't always able to get at the elk biologists would like them to target, Rosenberry said. New boundaries may allow for better precision in applying hunter pressure, he said. It's also likely the commission will make more elk licenses available for this fall than last, he added.
• It appears as though Pennsylvania may have as many bear hunters as it's going to get. The Game Commission sold 160,857 bear licenses last year, said Mark Ternent, its bear biologist. That's about where things have been over the last three years, he said. Sales increased steadily from 1999 through about 2010, with the biggest jumps coming when the commission added more bear hunting opportunities, such as a Saturday opener for the regular season, he said. But things have leveled off. "It's quite likely we might have stabilized interest in bear hunting. We might have hit a plateau," Ternent said.
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• There may be some changes in how Penns Creek in Centre County — a popular destination water for anglers locally and elsewhere — is managed. Fish and Boat Commissioners gave preliminary approval to a proposal that would put a slot limit in effect on 7 miles of water between Elk Creek and Swift Run. That section is currently managed under all-tackle trophy trout regulations. It's open to angling all year, with a daily limit of two fish of at least 14 inches. Starting Jan. 1 of next year, the commission wants to put a slot limit into effect. Anglers would be allowed to keep two fish per day but only if they were between 7 and 12 inches long. Additionally, while fishing would still be allowed year round with any type tackle, fish could be kept only from opening day of trout season through Labor Day. If given final approval later this year, the changes would remain in effect through Dec. 31, 2020. Biologists would monitor the stream in the meantime to see how the changes are working.
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Public invited to attend Hwy 33 pavement replacement, intersection improvement open house
DULUTH, Minn. – The public is invited to attend an open house to learn more about the Highway 33 pavement replacement, intersection improvement project scheduled to begin next month in Cloquet. Minnesota Department of Transportation, Carlton County and city of Cloquet staff will be available to explain project details and answer questions.
This project will completely replace pavement in the project area and will provide many safety and accessibility improvements. The completed project will improve freight movement and mobility to and from north-central Minnesota.
Thursday, May 8, 2014
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Merrill Newman, center, walks beside his wife Lee after arriving at San Francisco International Airport on Saturday, Dec. 7, 2013.
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LAS CRUCES >> The Las Cruces City Council just said "no" Monday.
There wasn't much discussion from the seven-member council during Monday's meeting at City Hall. But their actions spoke loudly as the council unanimously adopted a resolution that opposes proposed state legislation to reclassify a portion of Spaceport America taxes assessed to Doña Ana and Sierra County residents that are used for public education.
The council's 7-0 vote opposing the reclassification mirrors similar actions taken by Doña Ana and Sierra county governments and the Sierra County school district. Lowering the amount of money the Las Cruces Public Schools could receive for math and science studies was the primary reason given for opposing the proposed legislation, which is expected to be introduced and considered by the New Mexico Legislature when it convenes for a 30-day session later this month.
Las Cruces educator Irene Oliver Lewis said the tax reclassification could take away as much as $9,000 in science, math and computer education in the Las Cruces schools.
"It just brings the money down," said Oliver Lewis, of the proposed legislation. "I applaud (the council) for doing this."
The proposed change in state law would broaden the types of locally generated revenue that gets plugged into the state's formula used to determine how much money public schools get from the state.
Residents in Doña Ana and Sierra counties were the only ones to approve a tax increase to help pay for the development of Spaceport America. However, the facility is anticipated to provide an economic boost to the entire state once commercial spaceflights begin there.
"I support this letter of support," said Mayor Pro Tem Greg Smith, of the resolution opposing the tax change. "...It's obviously bearing fruit locally," added Smith, of the spaceport taxes used for local education.
Also at Monday's meeting, the council voted 7-0 to approve a one-year lease, with the option for a second year, that will allow the Las Cruces and Convention Bureau to remain at 211 N. Water St.
The city will pay Jose and Ruben Coronado, owners of the property, $57,696 for the upcoming year, and $59,427 if the CVB stays there a second year.
City Manager Robert Garza said the lease will enable city administrators and staff members time to evaluate locations for a permanent home for the CVB. There are other city-owned buildings in downtown Las Cruces, and with ongoing changes in downtown revitalization city officials anticipate more options will become available.
"The goal is to remain downtown," said Eric Martin, city facilities management administrator. "...We're keeping a fair number of buildings on the table."
Garza added, "Over the next 12 months we can pick a strategy to get them (CVB) out of the renting business."
Mayor Ken Miyagishima hinted a council work session could soon be needed to determine where the CVB will eventually be relocated.
Councilor Miguel Silva, whose council district includes downtown Las Cruces, said he supported a work session to explore all options and is glad the CVB is staying put for now.
In other action
The name: The council formally approved Sage Café as the name of the recently opened multi-generational community center on the city's East Mesa
Grant approval: The council formally accepted a $75,000 state grant that will be used for improvements at Klein Park, in the city's Mesquite Historic District
Coming up: There was council consensus to consider a resolution that could enable La Clinica De Familia to convert a portion of the former City Office Center, at the southeast corner of Alameda Boulevard and Lohman Avenue - which served as Memorial General Hospital from 1949 until 1970 - to be remodeled and reopened as a health clinic. The council will consider adoption of an ordinance at its Jan. 20 meeting.


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Marvin Runyon
Carlos Ghosn should throw a party
brand. It was one of the first transplants, with manufacturing in Smyrna, Tenn. In another coup, Nissan hired Marvin Runyon , head of Ford manufacturing, to run the new Japanese plant. Runyon later was tapped by the government to run the
Marvin Runyon
The picture was one of Marvin Runyon 's favorites. Taken June 16, 1983, it shows workers at Nissan's new Smyrna, Tenn., assembly plant smiling and applauding
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Detroit. Output at his Smyrna, Tenn., plant grew from about 205,000 vehicles a year when he took over the job from Marvin Runyon in 1988 to a peak of 465,786 in 1995. Smyrna routinely was spotlighted as North America's most productive auto
Takashi Ishihara
operations to an American," Hanawa says. But Ishihara overruled the skeptics. He gave his hand-picked manager, Marvin Runyon , two orders: Quality must be the same as that coming out of Japan, and costs must be controlled. "The rest is
Mitsuya "Scape" Goto
their states. Ohio Gov. James Rhodes once met him at the Columbus airport with a car — and a bag of fresh popcorn. Marvin Runyon , the plant manager, wanted to be in the South. The search turned into a race between Tennessee and a site near Atlanta
At Nissan, it's 'Hello, Toyota; goodbye, Ford'
predecessors as Nissan manufacturing boss were ex-Ford plant managers, going back to Nissan's first boss, ex-Ford man Marvin Runyon . Krueger -- who also worked at General Motors -- is not the only Toyota manager tapped to steer Nissan. Nissan
A fond farewell
was one of the first black people to serve on the board of a major American corporation. Marvin Runyon : Worked for both Ford Motor and Nissan Marvin Runyon , 79, died in May. He was Ford Motor's vice president of body and assembly before moving
25 YEARS OF HONDA IN THE U.S.A.: In some practices, Honda still stands alone
America Manufacturing Inc. By contrast, Nissan has handed its equivalent job to Americans. Former Ford executive Marvin Runyon was Nissan's first U.S. manufacturing boss in 1980. The job is now held by Dan Gaudette. But Americans have
COMMENT: Ford man Runyon rewrote the rules at Nissan
NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Marvin Runyon always called it a "rare opportunity" that he and his team of ex-Big 3 managers could slip into the Tennessee countryside to
Memorial service set for former Ford, Nissan factory chief Marvin Runyon
A memorial service for Marvin Runyon will be held Thursday, May 6, at 11 a.m. at St. George's Episcopal Church, 4715 Harding Road, Nashville, Tenn. 37205
A Nissan-Ford partnership - at least for a while
manufacturing prominence: former Ford production executive Marvin Runyon . He would write the operations book for Nissan Motor ..... was doing right and what Ford was doing wrong, was Marvin Runyon . Runyon retired from Nissan in 1988 and was succeeded
From red ink to glory: The '80s story
Ford for the promise of Nissan and Toyota and other Japanese importers. So, too, did some veterans. One of them, Marvin Runyon , waved good-bye after more than 35 years at Ford assembly plants. He then moved to Tennessee to become Nissan
Benefield retiring; Nissan has new U.S. plan
director of finance. Benefield became CEO of the subsidiary in January 1988, following Nissan's first American CEO, Marvin Runyon . Both Runyon and Benefield joined Nissan after careers in production management with Ford Motor Co. During his 12
Big changes in Smyrna will be felt by April 1
having a U.S. chief of its factory operations. The job was first filled in 1980 by former Ford Motor Co. executive Marvin Runyon . The changes revealed last week are intended to cut costs and improve efficiencies among Nissan's North American
1981: Nissan breaks ground amid trade union protests over the lack of union builders. 1983: Production begins; CEO Marvin Runyon says Nissan doesn't need a union. 1989: UAW calls for election; employees soundly reject the union. 1997: Nissan


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Kang Chenggeng stands in the window of his demolished home in Shanghai. The Shanghai district of Xuhui seized this neighborhood -called Maggie Lane- sold it to developers, and a demolition crew intimidated residents to leave, murdering an elderly couple in the process. 40 million Chinese have lost their homes to local governments bent on boosting GDP growth.- Rob Schmitz/Marketplace
Maggie Lane, as seen from above. The neighborhood was once a thriving Shanghai alleyway community of traditional homes. Now it's an abandoned lot surrounded by a wall, left vacant for eight years. Four families continue to live inside their partially demolished homes.- Rob Schmitz/Marketplace
The view outside Kang Chenggeng's window, overlooking what's left of Maggie Lane. After three men working for the developer were sentenced for the murder of an elderly couple who lived here, Shanghai's Xuhui district built a wall around the neighborhood and it's been sitting, vacant, for eight years.- Rob Schmitz/Marketplace
The inside of Kang Chenggeng's home is riddled with broken lumber. In order to force Kang to leave his home eight years ago, the developer waited for a rainy evening to rip off the roof of his home with an excavator while he was inside. He's been homeless ever since.- Rob Schmitz/Marketplace
Maggie Lane resident Chen Zhongdao inside his partially demolished home. Chen and the several other residents who refuse to leave this neighborhood are hopeful that incoming president Xi Jinping will help people like them.- Rob Schmitz/Marketplace
Kang Chenggeng outside his former home on Maggie Lane in central Shanghai.- Rob Schmitz/Marketplace
Seizing homes, seizing lives: The anatomy of a Shanghai land grab
In the middle of Shanghai, there's a secret neighborhood.
It's the size of a city block, and it's surrounded by a 10-foot wall. Inside is a field of weeds where stray cats prowl through the charred corpses of old homes. It's a strange scene -- particularly here, in the middle of Shanghai's old French Concession, which has some of the most expensive real estate in China. But for the past decade, this lot has sat here, undeveloped and oblivious to the most rapid economic boom in modern history going on all around it.
But there are people here. And they're aware. Kang Chenggeng sneaks past a police officer guarding the only entrance to this neighborhood to show what's left of his home. "My home," he says, his voice muffled by a cold gust of wind.
A decade ago, this was a quiet alleyway neighborhood called Maggie Lane. Officials from the Shanghai district of Xuhui had plans to sell the land to a developer to build a luxury condominium complex. Maggie Lane residents say Xuhui officials tricked them into leaving their neighborhood, telling them their homes were of historical importance, the government would rebuild them, and afterwards, residents could move back.
Xuhui government officials refused interview requests from Marketplace.
Kang says as Maggie Lane's residents started to leave, they discovered officials had lied to them. The government changed the legal designation for the land, changed the resettlement terms, and suddenly they weren't able to return to their homes. If they wanted new housing elsewhere, they'd have to forfeit much of their resettlement compensation for it. Kang and a dozen others stayed put. "The demolition crew cut my water and gas, and they took my front door off the hinges," remembers Kang. "I wouldn't leave. Then they broke my windows and poured buckets of raw sewage into my home. I still didn't leave. Then, when it was raining hard, they used an excavator to smash my roof in. Everything got wet, so I left."
Kang's been homeless ever since. Sometimes he comes back here to check on his old home. He looks through the hole in the roof that's still there. Sunlight shines through it onto broken glass, piles of bricks and splintered lumber.
From the shattered window of Kang's old kitchen, you can see what's left of the home of Zhu Shuikang and his wife Li Xingzhi. According to Chinese court documents, on the night of January 9th, 2005, two employees of the developer set fire to the couple's home to try to get them to leave. Another neighbor, Chen Zhongdao, remembers that night. "The fire alarm went off, but we didn't go outside to see what was going on because we were scared of getting beat up by the developer's thugs," recalls Chen.
Zhu Shuikang was an elderly man who had fought and survived the Korean War as a Chinese soldier decades ago, but he was no match for the developer.
He and his wife burned to death in their bed.
Months later, two employees of the developer were given reprieved death sentences, another got life in prison, and the Xuhui government built a wall around the neighborhood, letting it sit as unfinished business for future leaders to take care of. "I believe the new leadership will take a tougher stand on these illegal takings," says Li Ping, an attorney in Beijing for the property rights group Landessa.
He says tackling illegal land seizures will be a priority for incoming president Xi Jinping. Li's confident China's new leaders are ready to increase compensation and give fair resettlement packages to people like the residents of Maggie Lane. He says local governments have taken land from 40 million people in China, and the pace hasn't slowed down. It's beginning to threaten social stability, he says. "According to current pace of land expropriation, they will add three million people every year," says Li. "If compensation is not adequate, you basically add three more million dissidents each and every year."
The challenge, says Li, will be to give local governments more legal options to make money. As it stands, local governments hand over most of their tax revenue to the central government, so taking land from residents and selling it to developers is an irresistible temptation.
Chen Zhongdao still lives inside his half demolished home. He says every year or two, Xuhui officials send a demolition crew to try and force them off the land. "I've told the men in the crews that if they try to take me from my home, I'll strap a gas canister to myself and we'll all die together," says Chen. "I've told them: I'm 60 years old, you guys are only 40. You have your lives ahead of you. I'm not afraid to die."
So far, the Xuhui government hasn't tested Chen's threat. Instead officials have allowed Chen and his neighbors to stay here, living in their partially demolished homes. Officials paid off the developer, losing money for the district, and then re-designated Maggie Lane as land for public use, yet a wall remains around it.
A few weeks ago, the district sent a crew to install new gas lines for Chen and his neighbors. He doesn't know what to make of this, but he's optimistic that change is afoot, China's new leadership may help people like him, and maybe someday his house will again feel like home.