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You climb into bed, turn off the light, and close your eyes, but you can't fall asleep. For most of us, it's just one annoying night, but for people with fatal familial insomnia, or FFI, it's the beginning of the end. An extremely rare genetic disease passed down through generations, FFI's primary symptom is sleeplessness, but with a fatal twist: victims are dead within months. To understand FFI, National Geographic delves into the science of sleepthe most elusive biological function we haveto find out why we need sleep and what happens to us when we don't get it. Witness the pioneering research inside the sleeping brain as well as the mind forbidden to rest for days at a time.
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I really thought it was interesting to know about FFI, so I never regret buying the product. However the DVD has many oroblems that you can not just watch. The whole movie. Sometimes the whole screen becomes gray and no sounds so actually you are missing the information explained in the DVDn I contacted about this problem and god mime replaced with new one, it is still doing the same. The topic is very interesting to know, but the quality of DVD is not some thing you pay to watch. It is sad, I was little more trusting their DVDs and they totally changed the way I think about their DVD. Sone of many I got had the same problem. And you will be charged the full price. The topic was good.
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Lemon Cream Cupcakes RecipeRead Reviews Be the first to add a review
- 1 cup butter, softened
- 2 cups sugar
- 3 eggs
- 2 teaspoons grated lemon peel
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 3-1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 2 cups (16 ounces) sour cream
- 3 tablespoons butter, softened
- 2-1/4 cups confectioners' sugar
- 2 tablespoons lemon juice
- 3/4 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1/4 teaspoon grated lemon peel
- 1 to 2 tablespoons milk
- In a large bowl, cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Beat in lemon peel and vanilla. Combine the flour, baking soda, baking powder and salt; add to creamed mixture alternately with sour cream, beating well after each addition (batter will be thick).
- Fill greased or paper-lined muffin cups with 1/4 cup of batter. Bake at 350° for 25-30 minutes or until a toothpick inserted near the center comes out clean. Cool for 10 minutes before removing from pans to wire racks to cool completely.
- For frosting, cream butter and confectioners' sugar in a small bowl until light and fluffy. Add the lemon juice, vanilla, lemon peel and milk; beat until smooth. Frost cupcakes. Yield: about 2-1/2 dozen.
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Enjoy this recipe with a sweet white wine such as Moscato or a sweet Riesling.
Reviews for Lemon Cream Cupcakes
"This recipe is amazing! So easy to make. I'm using this to make cupcakes for my brother's wedding, I am also making chocolate cupcakes and am wondering if I can use this same recipe for the chocolate cupcakes? How would I do that? Please help... the wedding is august 8th"
"I only did the cake on this one and honestly used what I had. I didn't have fresh lemon so I used 1 1/4 tsp of lemon extract and the lemon taste was just right. I also used 1 cup of sour cream and 1/2 cup heavy whipping cream as that was all I had. And I use 3 tbs to 1 egg of olive oil mayonnaise instead of eggs. They tasted just like those lemon girl scout cookies. I put a butter cream icing on top. I will use this recipe with other flavors in the future!"
"These were not my kind of dessert but came out quite yummy - I thought they had a lot of lemon taste in them and will use this recipe again"
"My husband really enjoyed these 'moist and lemony' muffins. I sprinkled them with yellow colored sugar."
"I loved the texture and moistness to this cake. I actually am going to try using it as my vanilla cake recipe without the lemon and adding some vanilla beans. YUMMY!"

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ZF-4366: Adding missing setObject() to Zend_Soap_Server
SoapServer->setObject($object) is an undocumeneted but very useful method of the SoapServer extension. Its missing in the Zend Soap Server wrapper. The attached patch contains a new method setObject on the Zend_Soap_Server object that registers one object and injects the object into the SoapServer in _getSoap().
I have also added the patch to the ServerTest.php to add one unittest that checks functionality of setObject().
I have made some tests and found out that using both setClass and setObject does not work for SoapServer, but i haven't implemented an Exception yet that warns on usage of both of them. SoapServer just processes the first one of both calls and /dev/null's all the requests to the second. I havent throughly tested this though, so I cant give a final word on this (and left out the exception respectivly).
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A former Laurel-area woman is accused of carrying on a 10-month sexual relationship with a 14-year-old boy.
Katheryn L. Carmean, 35, was arrested at her job in Seaford on Wednesday and charged with 10 counts of third-degree rape, continuous sexual abuse of a child and endangering the welfare of a child, according to Delaware State Police spokesman Master Cpl. Gary Fournier.
Police learned of the alleged abuse on Wednesday after the boy told family members about his relationship with Carmean, recently moved to Berlin, Md..
Fournier said the abuse occurred at Carmean's former home in the unit block of Mt. Zion Road, north of Laurel, from November 2011 and until August 2012.
Carmean is being held at the Delores J. Baylor Women's Correctional Institution in New Castle on a $57,000 secured bail.
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Jeffrey Williamson: Dad arrested after son, 8, skips church to play
BLANCHESTER, Ohio - Residents are debating whether a father should be charged with child endangering after his 8-year-old son skipped church to play.
"It's ridiculous to me that I was arrested for this," Jeffrey Williamson told WCPO.
He said he lost his job when the story appeared in the local paper.
It also could put him in jail for six months.
The trouble started when a bus from the Woodville Baptist Church came to pick up 8-year-old Justin and his siblings, Williamson said.
"My kids run in the house in the living room here and tell me, 'Hey, Dad, the church van's here. We're leaving. We're going on to church,' " Williamson said.
"I said, 'OK.' "
Williamson said he didn't know Justin didn't get on the bus.
"He just wanted to go play in the neighborhood," he said.
UPDATE: Church bus driver takes the blame
Justin ended up at the Family Dollar store on busy Route 28 about a half mile from home.
Blanchester police were called. They say Justin didn't know where he lived, and it was only after talking to a customer that they learned his address.
"That's definitely totally, totally untrue," Justin's father said. "He knows his way around this whole neighborhood right here."
Williamson said Blanchester police showed up at his door with Justin.
"I told the cop he goes out in the neighborhood and plays every day with all the other kids," Williamson said. "There's a million kids around here that play. I know the parents. The parents know me."
The officer was still at the Williamson house when the church van dropped off the other Williamson children.
"The next thing you know, he comes up to me and he says, 'You're under arrest.' My kids start crying their eyes out wondering why I'm getting arrested," Williamson said.
Williamson lost his job at McDonald's after the story was on the front page of the paper.
He has found other work, but the experience left a bad taste in his mouth and gave his kids a lasting impression.
"Every time that we leave in our car or drive down the street or something like that, every time they see a cop in Blanchester, they freak out and say, 'Daddy, Daddy, Daddy, are they going to arrest you?' " he said.
Blanchester police chief Scott Reinbolt is on vacation and wasn't available to talk for this story.
Justin was grounded.
His father is due in Clinton County Municipal Court on July 15.


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Blueberry Coffee Cake with Streussel Topping RecipeRead Reviews Be the first to add a review
- 1/2 cup butter, softened
- 1-3/4 cups sugar
- 2 eggs
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 3-1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- 4 teaspoons baking powder
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1-1/2 cups milk
- 3 cups fresh or frozen blueberries
- 3/4 cup sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1/3 cup cold butter
- In a large bowl, cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in eggs and vanilla until blended. Combine the flour, baking powder and salt; add to creamed mixture alternately with milk, beating well after each addition. Fold in blueberries.
- Pour into a greased 13-in. x 9-in. baking dish. For topping, combine sugar and cinnamon. Cut in butter until mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Sprinkle over batter.
- Bake at 375° for 35-40 minutes or until a toothpick inserted near the comes out clean. Cool on a wire rack. Yield: 12-16 servings.
Reviews for Blueberry Coffee Cake with Streussel Topping
"A bit confused about this recipe, my version from Taste of Home Baking Classics shows 2 Tbls. of baking powder and while the recipe calls for a 13X9 pan the picture sure doesn't look like it. I baked it for 45 minutes and then took it out because the edges were getting very dark. The flavor of the cake is good, but my blueberries all sunk to the bottom and the bottom of the cake isn't fully cooked. Not sure if the temp is too high for the cooking time. May try again."
"I have not made this cake and I am sure it is great. I have a tip I would like to share. Put the frozen blueberries in a bowl with a tablespoon or so of flour and stir to cover all of the berries. Let the bowl sit in the freezer while you are putting the rest of the cake together and put the blueberries in last. This will keep the batter from turning blue. I do this everytime I make muffins and it works like a charm."
"Everybody I have made it for loves it!"
"Extremely easy and great for people who don't care for nuts. Took longer to bake in my oven than recipe stated, but it didn't over-brown. Will definately make it again! ps - best to freeze berries ahead of time so they don't break down during the mixing."
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Sussex County Councilman Michael Vincent will serve a third year as council president, while Councilman Sam Wilson will continue as vice president.
Council voted Jan. 8 to maintain its officers following a swearing in ceremony for Vincent, Wilson and Councilwoman Joan Deaver of Lewes, who were all re-elected to new four-year terms in November.
The reappointments mean Vincent, who hails from Seaford, will serve a third consecutive year as council president, while Wilson, who lives in Georgetown, will serve a second consecutive year as the presiding officer in Vincent's absence.
Council on Tuesday also re-appointed J. Everett Moore Jr. as county attorney. A Georgetown native, Moore is a partner in the law firm Moore & Rutt, which has offices in Georgetown and Milford.
Moore & Rutt also will represent the Sussex County Board of Adjustments, while the Georgetown-based law firm Griffin & Hacket will represent the county planning and zoning commission.
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So You Think You Can Dance premieres tonight, Wednesday, May 28 on Fox. The Emmy award winning show returns for its 11th season of the show with judges Nigel Lythgoe and Mary Murphy hosted auditions for New Orleans and Chicago.
The show also held auditions in Los Angeles, Philadelphia and Atlanta.
Dancers who advance to the next round were invited to a call back session in Pasadena where the Top 20 dancers were selected. The dancers will then be introduced to America, The Top 20 dancers will then be paired with a partner performing for votes. Voting begins on July 2nd.
Once the series is down to the Top 10, each finalist will be joined by a So You Think You Can Dance All Star. Voting for the Top 10 this year will be based solely on America's votes, it will be revealed who keeps dancing and who goes home.This year the show will return to the format of only one winner.
Each week a special guest judge will join resident judges Nigel Lythgoe and Mary Murphy.
Guest judges in the audition cities include Jenna Dewan-Tatum (Atlanta), Charles "Lil Buck" Riley (Atlanta), Billy Porter and Misty Copeland (Philadelphia), Wayne Brady (New Orleans), Jenna Elfman and Fabrice Calmels (Chicago) and Christina Applegate (Los Angeles). Guest judges at the Pasadena callbacks include Adam Shankman, Stephen "tWitch" Boss, Tara Lipinski and Irina Dvorovenko.
A new feature this season, Justin Bieber and his choreographer, Nick DeMoura, will introduce top dance crews from around the country who will be featured in each of the audition city episodes. Each week, Bieber and DeMoura will showcase two dance crews on each of the four audition episodes. After the crews are showcased, hash tags will be revealed that viewers can use to tweet their favorite of the two crews. The tweets will be tallied and the most popular crew overall will be invited to perform on the finale.
LA Music Examiner was on hand at the Los Angeles auditions and spoke with judge Mary Murphy Click on the video link to see what she had to say about auditions and the new season.


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Mitsubishi Electric said Wednesday it has paid the Japanese government about $810 million after it inflated fees for defence and other contracts, the latest in a wider overcharging scandal.
The company, which makes everything from batteries to nuclear plants, had been barred from bidding on government contracts until it paid the defence ministry some 60.28 billion yen ($645 million) in penalties, interest and reimbursements for jacking up its rates.
The whopping figure follows payments last month worth 15.4 billion yen for overcharging Tokyo on various contracts, including its space programme.
Rival industrial giant Sumitomo Heavy Industries also returned 2.3 billion yen to the defence minstry over its overcharging.
The scandal came to light last year, with Mitsubishi Electric admitting that it routinely inflated charges on some of its government contracts stretching back four decades.


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The UCLA men's athletics program will be recognized at the ESPYs tonight for winning the school's first ever Capital One Cup. UCLA Baseball's Cody Regis will serve as the men's representative at the award ceremony.
The Bruin men finished the year with 92 points in the Capital One Cup standings, ahead of second-place Indiana and Texas A&M (88 points), fourth-place Florida (86), and fifth-place Duke (82).
UCLA secured a spot on the Capital One Cup leaderboard at the start of the fall season with a runner-up finish at the NCAA water polo championship and then went on to earn points toward the Cup with strong performances in tennis (runner-up finish) and volleyball (ranked No. 4 in the final coaches' poll). After winning its first NCAA Championship in program history this past June, the UCLA Baseball team earned 60 points for the school to win the cup.
By winning the Capital One Cup, UCLA will be awarded $200,000 toward student-athlete scholarships. The University of North Carolina women's athletics program also won the Capital One Cup and will join UCLA at the ESPY Awards tonight, where both schools will be formally honored.
Schools earn points based on their teams' top-10 finishes in NCAA Division I championships and in final official coaches' polls across 20 women's and 19 men's sports as they compete to win the Capital One Cup trophy and a combined $400,000 in scholarships for student-athletes.


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Archeological investigation in the Land of Israel began in the middle of the 19th century, when biblical scholars surveyed the area in search of remains of places mentioned in the Bible. Toward the end of the 19th century, but mainly since the beginning of the 20th century, many mounds (in Hebrew tel) composed of the remains of ancient settlements were excavated, and the foundations for scientific archeological investigation were laid. Archeological activities expanded during the British Mandate period (1917-1948) and have been increased to a large extent since the establishment of the State of Israel.
The experience gained during the excavations has shaped the methods of stratigraphic research, accompanied by the meticulous study of the development (typology) of the forms of pottery vessels and other artifacts, by which archeological strata and remains may be dated. In recent years, archeological research has been extended to include less-known aspects of the ancient material cultures, such as nutrition, disease, economy, and commerce. These achievements of modern archeological research are being applied in the dozens of sites that are excavated every year.
Archeology in Israel involves the systematic investigation of all the remains of the country's past - from prehistory to the end of Ottoman rule. The profusion of material remains is evidence of the many cultures that have left their imprint on the Land. The unique geographical features influenced the more ancient cultures: tens of thousands of years ago, the Land served as a land bridge, over which bands of hunters crossed from Africa to Europe. Their camps and living quarters have been found along the Jordan Valley and in the caves of the Carmel range and the Galilee.
In biblical times, the Land was the bridge between the prosperous cultures of the Fertile Crescent: Mesopotamia (today, Iraq) and Egypt. Since its occupation by Alexander the Great, the Land of Israel has served as a geographic and cultural link between east and west.
Archeological research in Israel accords much importance to the fact that the country is the home of the spiritual heritage of the great monotheistic religions. Above all it clearly reveals the historical link between the Jewish people, the Bible and the Land of Israel, uncovering the remains of the cultural heritage of the Jewish people in its homeland. These visible remains, buried in the soil, constitute the physical link between the past, the present and the future of the Jewish people in its country.
This unbroken chain of history can be observed at sites all over the country: in the biblical cities of Hatzor, Megiddo, Gezer, Shomron, Be'er Sheva and Dan; in the cities of the Second Temple period - Tiberias, Sepphoris (Tsippori), Gamala - and the fortresses of Masada and Herodion, where the Jews fought for freedom; in the Judean Desert near the Dead Sea, where the remains of the Essenes' spiritual center were uncovered, and the Dead Sea Scrolls, including the earliest copies of books of the Bible, were found. From the same period, sites associated with the life of Jesus were uncovered - Capernaum, Tabgha - where there are also remains of churches from the Byzantine period.
The sites of the great Roman and Byzantine cities of Caesarea, Beit She'an, and Banias have been uncovered, as have the Negev towns of Avdat, Halutza, and Mamshit, which prospered at this time. From the Muslim period, there are the remains of the ancient city of Ramle and the palace of Khirbet al-Mafjar (Hisham's Palace) in Jericho. Remains from the Crusader period include many fortresses and towns - Acre, Caesarea, Belvoir and Qal'at Nimrod.
Jerusalem, the capital of Israel, has been the focus of extensive archeological activity and remains of 5,000 years of history have been revealed: in the City of David, the walls of the Canaanite city and remains of structures from the capital of the United Kingdom of Israel, including sophisticated underground water systems; from the Second Temple period, the remains of public buildings along the retaining walls of the Temple Mount, which stand to this day, the remains of the splendid residences of the Upper City in today's Jewish Quarter of the Old City, the ruins of which remained in situ after the Romans destroyed Jerusalem in the year 70 CE, and hundreds of rock-cut tombs, some lavishly decorated, which testify to the wealth of the city that was destroyed; many churches and religious buildings from the Byzantine period, the most famous among them the Church of the Holy Sepulchre; from the period of Muslim rule, the mosques on the Temple Mount and a government center, the remains of which have been excavated south of the Temple Mount; from the Crusader period, city walls, churches, and covered markets; from the Mamluk and Ottoman periods minarets, which adorn the Old City skyline. The walls of the Old City and the citadel next to the Jaffa Gate were built during the reign of the Ottoman sultan Suleiman the Magnificent (1520-1566).
There are some 20,000 recognized sites of antiquity in Israel that are protected by law. Every year, dozens of sites from every period of history and in all parts of the country are excavated. Licenses to excavate are issued to expeditions - from Israel and abroad - by the Israel Antiquities Authority, which is entrusted with the preservation of the country's antiquities. Israel's Antiquities Law requires every site slated for construction to be examined for archeological remains and a salvage excavation to be conducted if deemed necessary. The state also has the right to preserve finds of public interest; some of the more important of these are exhibited at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem. The museum also houses the Shrine of the Book, where the Dead Sea Scrolls are preserved, and some are on view to the public.
Much effort, as well as resources, are also invested in preserving and restoring ancient sites and dozens of them, from all periods of history, have been opened to the public.


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There's nothing "scary" about this cake. I make it every Halloween for my husband, Mike, and our three children. —Karen Wirth, Tavistock, Ontario
- 1 cup butter, softened
- 2 cups sugar
- 4 eggs
- 3 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 tablespoon baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 cup milk
- 1/4 cup baking cocoa
- 1/4 cup water
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1/2 teaspoon orange extract
- 1 tablespoon grated orange peel
- 10 drops yellow food coloring
- 6 drops red food coloring
- 3 packages (3 ounces each) cream cheese, softened
- 5-3/4 cups confectioners' sugar
- 2 tablespoons milk
- 8 drops yellow food coloring
- 6 drops red food coloring
- 3 ounces semisweet chocolate
- 1/3 cup heavy whipping cream
- Candy corn for garnish
- In a bowl, cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each. Combine flour, baking powder and salt; add alternately with milk to creamed mixture. Mix well. Combine cocoa, water and vanilla; stir in 2 cups cake batter.
- Pour into a greased and floured 9-in. round baking pan. Add orange extract, peel and food coloring to remaining batter. Pour into two greased and floured 9-in. round baking pans. Bake at 350° for 30 minutes or until cake tests done. Cool for 10 minutes before removing from pans to wire racks.
- In a bowl, beat all frosting ingredients until smooth. Place one orange cake layer on a cake plate; spread with 1/2 cup frosting. Top with chocolate layer; spread with 1/2 cup frosting. Top with second orange layer. Frost the sides and top of each.
- Microwave chocolate and cream on high 1-1/2 minutes or, stirring once. Stir until smooth; let cool 2 minutes. Slowly pour over cake, letting glaze drizzle down sides. Garnish with candy corn. Yield: 12-16 servings.
Originally published as Halloween Layer Cake in Taste of Home October/November 1996, p12
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Reviewed Oct. 26, 2014
"Would not make. Almost 6 cups of sugar. So who needs that for your health plus all the cream chees? Crazy to have that much sugar in one cake."
Reviewed Oct. 24, 2014
"this so good you will see all guest say . give the recipe"
Reviewed Oct. 21, 2014
"It's okay but the cake is pretty dry. I used a cream cheese frosting recipe that uses butter and it was delicious. This makes a pretty cake but there are better cake recipes out there. Will not make again."
Reviewed Sep. 3, 2014
"Pretty standard orange chocolate cake. It turned out a little dry, but that might just be me :("
Reviewed Oct. 31, 2013
"Great cake!"


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My next round of fruit snacks come from Hawaiian Punch. I was excited to see they are branching out in regard to their products. The only other candy item of Hawaiian Punch's that I know of is their jelly beans (which I liked). I was never a big drinker of Hawaiian Punch, but I do recall liking the flavor on rare occasions.
Firstly, I want to address the box. Sorry, but the newly rendered drawing of the mascot is just creepy. The original 2D drawing of him with his very abstract beachcomber hat is so fun and iconic to me. I really loved how they almost looked like antlers.
I was impressed with the large flavor variety these snacks had. They managed to take all sorts of flavors and give them trademarked names no less, and all of them are kinda in that tropical themed area. Very fun.
Orange Ocean: Shaped like an orange slice, the color is a deep orange red. Just smells sweet and fruity. The flavor is very bright and orange, with nice tart notes to it.
Green Berry Rush: Looks like a raspberry but it's a light, neon green color. The flavor is strange, it's like a lime/strawberry flavor. Strange tart notes with a jammy sweetness.
Lemon Berry Squeeze: Shaped like a whole lemon, even with dimples! The flavor is more mellow than the others. It tastes like a typical lemon fruit snack, it has lemon flavors but isn't tart at all.
Fruit Juicy Red: This one is the Hawaiian Punch fella in bright, deep red. The taste is very mild, you barely get notes of the Hawaiian punch flavor amongst the sweetness.
Mango Passion Fruit Squeeze: This one is also Hawaiian Punch fella in shape, but is more of a light yellow orange. The taste is very peachy and vibrant. I get some notes of melon in there. By far the most tropical tasting of the bunch.
Berry Blue Typhoon: This is the Hawaiian Punch logo in a teal green color. The taste is sweet and vague. It has berry notes to it but it's forgettable.
I think this is a packet of fruit snacks that kids (and kids at heard) who'd like a lot. They come in a bunch of fun colors and flavors. And even though I found some of the flavors to be unexciting to me, I feel any kid would be totally pumped to get these in their lunchbox. It's more that overall, these taste "fun". So from the angle of a kid, I'd be excited about them. I know at least back in school I would be.
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One of rock and roll's most passionate and influential artists, Janis Joplin was the honoree for the 14th annual American Music Masters® series. Janis Joplin [inducted 1995] has passed into the realm of a legend: an outwardly brash yet inwardly vulnerable and troubled personality who possessed one of the most passionate voices in rock history. Her legacy now reaches beyond her music to include her persona as the embodiment of freedom. Music journalist Ellen Willis asserted that "Joplin belonged to that select group of pop figures who mattered as much for themselves as for their music. Among American rock performers, she was second only to Bob Dylan in importance as a creator-recorder-embodiment of her generation's mythology. She was also the only woman to achieve that kind of stature in what was basically a male club, the only '60s culture hero to make visible and public, women's experience of the quest for liberation, which was very different from men's."
Events celebrating Janis Joplin's life and career included interviews, film screenings, Rockin' the Schools classes, a Teachers Rock session, a conference and performances.
The week's celebrations culminated in a tribute concert on Saturday, November 14 at 8pm and featured:
The night before the Tribute Concert, Ray Benson and Asleep at the Wheel performed at Wilbert's in Cleveland. Benson was joined by Carolyn Wonderland during the encore.
On Saturday, November 14 from 9am until 4pm at Case Western Reserve University's Wolstein Auditorium, scholars, artists, journalists and fans gathered at a conference to reflect on the career of Janis Joplin and her impact on rock and roll music. Participants included Janis' brother and sister, Michael and Laura Joplin, photographer John Byrne Cooke, songwriter Jerry Ragovoy ("Piece of My Heart"), singer-songwriters Country Joe McDonald, Powell St. John and Bob Neuwirth, celebrated authors and journalists Ann Powers (L.A. Times), Holly George Warren, and Lucy O'Brien, former San Francisco and current Sirius Radio disc jockey Dusty Street, and David C. Barnett from Cleveland's WVIZ/PBS Ideastream.
Live interview on Thursday, November 12 with John Byrne Cooke, Janis Joplin's road manager from December 1967 until her death in October 1970.
Live interview on Wednesday, November 11 with Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Inductee Jorma Kaukonen, founding member of two legendary bands, the Jefferson Airplane and the still-touring Hot Tuna.
On Tuesday, November 10, the Rock Hall screened the documentary Festival Express that explores the 1970 Canadian concert tour featuring Joplin, the Band and the Grateful Dead.
On Tuesday, November 10, the professional development series for teachers featured acclaimed documentary Girls Rock!, encouraging discussion among teachers about learning difference and multiple intelligences in k-12 education.
On Monday, November 9, Case Western Reserve Professor of Music Dr. Mary Davis, Rock Hall Vice President of Education and Public Programs, Dr. Lauren Onkey and Rock Hall Director of Education Jason Hanley discussed the life and music of Joplin at the Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities.
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UW's new coach allowed co-captain Hau'oli Kikaha to miss the first months of offseason workouts to pursue his passion: studying the culture and history of the Pacific Islands in French Polynesia. "Certain guys earn certain privileges," Petersen said of the team's top pass rusher and star, 3.53-GPA student.
By Gregg Bell
UW Director of Writing
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SEATTLE – Of all that Hau'oli Kikaha bagged last season, this was his best catch yet.
The Huskies' co-captain was so excited two nights after Christmas he couldn't contain his smile. Kikaha was at his locker inside the clubhouse of Major League Baseball's Giants at AT&T Park in San Francisco. The fast, relentless defensive end had just finished a breakout junior season in the 2013 Fight Hunger Bowl with three more sacks in the victory over Brigham Young. Those were the last of his 13 sacks, the second-most in a season in UW history.
Afterward, outside the locker room, he talked in soft tones and with aw-shucks shrugs about his sacks, his forced fumble and nine total tackles that made him the game's defensive most valuable player. But inside, after he put down his trophy on a table in the middle of the Giants' clubhouse and pulled off his shoulder pads for the final time last season, he got pumped.
"I'm going back to Tahiti!" he told me that night. "I got the OK to pick up where I left off (last summer), to study more about the effects of colonization in Pacific Islanders' culture.
"I leave next week!"
New coach Chris Petersen has gotten the Huskies' and the nation's attention in his first months at Washington by suspending presumed starting quarterback Cyler Miles and formidable wide receiver Damore'ea Stringfellow indefinitely; middle linebacker and two-time captain John Timu for two weeks. Those sanctions were for violating team rules. Others have been sent away from spring practices until their grades improved. The punishments have been swift and eye-opening, the effects of having a new sheriff in town.
Turns out, that sheriff carries far more than just a stick.
Within days of UW hiring him in early December, unknown to most, Petersen gave Kikaha permission to miss two months of the Huskies' winter conditioning program. That was so the team's top pass rusher could join 16 other UW students on a cultural and anthropological study in the islands of French Polynesia, after it looked like he wouldn't be able to go.
"This didn't happen for him until Coach Petersen arrived," said Chris Rothschild, the study abroad director out of UW's Information School who created the course and trip to learn about traditional language systems of Polynesians.
The new coach had done his homework on his way into Washington from eight seasons at Boise State. He already knew Kikaha has a 3.53 grade-point average in a curriculum steeped in anthropology and hands-on sociology abroad. That he was a first-team Pac-12 all-academic selection and academic All-America nominee last year.
This week, the kind-spoken, hard-hitting pass rusher from Laie, Hawai'i is one of 16 male finalists for the esteemed Arthur Ashe Jr. Sports Scholar Award given annually to the minority student-athlete with the nation's best credentials on the field or court, in the classroom and in the community.
Thursday, Kikaha will find out if he has won the Ashe Award. Previous recipients include Seahawks superstar Russell Wilson, in 2011 when he was graduating in three years from North Carolina State, and Marshall Faulk in 1993 when he was excelling at San Diego State before becoming an Hall-of-Fame running back in the NFL.
Even if he doesn't win Kikaha is already in great company. Heisman Trophy-winning quarterback Robert Griffin III was a finalist for the Ashe Award in 2011 while the quarterback, now starting for the Washington Redskins, was graduating in three years from Baylor.
If there was ever a Husky that deserved to miss team workouts from January 5 until the first week of March for what he says became a spiritual calling, it was Kikaha.
Petersen is proving months before his first game with the Huskies he follows a basic tenet of quality leadership: Be unwavering and indiscriminant while enforcing your rules – and reward excellence just as evenly and vigorously.
In December with Kikaha, still weeks before he officially took over the team following the bowl game, Petersen showed the Huskies his high standards come with high rewards. In February and March with Miles, Stringfellow, Timu and others, he showed them his rules also carry tough consequences.
In doing so Petersen is proving months before his first game with the Huskies he follows a basic tenet of quality leadership: Be unwavering and indiscriminant while enforcing your rules – and reward excellence just as evenly and vigorously.
"Hau'oli's a really good student, and I know that's important to him," Petersen told me following Tuesday's latest spring practice at Husky Stadium, which Kikaha and other Huskies missed because their new academic schedule for the new spring quarter has them in class during Tuesday morning practice times.
"He's done a good job football-wise. You know, certain guys earn certain privileges. I hadn't been here, but I did my research on the type of person he is and how important that was to him. And so we just felt like he deserved to go."
The Information School's Rothschild said Kikaha was the ideal candidate to go on the trip. Not only had he already studied in Tahiti but he has leadership and teamwork qualities from football. Those became essential among the 17 college students far from home, smart-phone reception and televisions for 10 weeks.
By deciding to let Kikaha study abroad in the infancy of his new program at Washington, Petersen instantly gained the trust and allegiance of one of the team's most respected leaders. The effect of that bond could last well past this spring and summer, deep into what the Huskies hope will be a run at a Pac-12 championship with a new coach that is a national-best 92-12 over the last eight years.
"First of all, I think it says a lot about him as a person and as a coach," Kikaha said Tuesday of Petersen. "Immediately, as soon as he gets here, he allows a player to leave and pursue his academic goals far away? That is something that is super uncommon in college football.
"It meant a lot to me. I was very shocked. And pleased. I felt like I had a lot of respect for him right off the bat. Him being different, him allowing these kids of pursuits and him being interested in his players for more than just football, that is so huge to me and to our team."
To be considered for the Arthur Ashe Jr. Sports Scholar Award, presented by the publication Diverse: Issues in Higher Education, one must compete in an intercollegiate sport; maintain a cumulative grade point average of at least 3.2; and be active on their campuses and their communities. This year the NCAA Office of Inclusion joined with Diverse to select the 10 finalists from approximately 600 male and female students nominated from across the country.
The significance of being a finalist for the award isn't lost on Kikaha. He knows about the legacy of Arthur Ashe, that he was the world's No. 1-ranked tennis professional in the late 1960s as an African-American fighting discrimination in his white-dominated sport. That he toured the world, to places such as segregated South Africa, to help dismantle barriers of racism and poverty. That he campaigned in the final years of his life to spread worldwide awareness of AIDS, a disease with which he was diagnosed in 1988. Ashe died in 1993 at the age of 49 after complications from AIDS.
Ashe was so impacting and respected, he once spoke on the floor of the United Nations on World AIDS Day. Immediately after Ashe died the governor of his native Virginia had Ashe's body lie in state inside the executive mansion.
"He was a smart guy, a great guy. A great person with great integrity," Kikaha said of Ashe.
It figures Kikaha knows about Ashe, even though he died about the time Kikaha was born in Oahu.
Kikaha also has been exploring his heritage, understands its barriers and works and studies to obliterate them. That's what had him back in the South Pacific this January, 2,700 south of his Hawaiian home, among the archipelago of French Polynesia that include Tahiti in the Society Islands, the Tuamotu Archipelago and the Marquesas Islands.
The Huskies' Student-Athlete Academic Services staff gave Petersen a heads-up upon the coach's arrival in December that Kikaha had been accepted last July as the only intercollegiate athlete among 17 students -- three graduate students and 14 undergrads -- in a UW program for additional study in French Polynesia. That was just after Kikaha, who changed his name from Jamora before last season to honor his mother's side of his family, had returned from an amazing trip with Professor Holly Barker and 10 other Huskies student-athletes studying Tahitian culture and colonization.
"We had done research projects, had gained indigenous knowledge on the different forms of French colonialism that has affected their lives there, learned the language – all these things to prepare to go there," Kikaha said of preparing for his return to French Polynesia. "Then we went into the communities to see first-hand how different languages used create a power structure in society there. We went into each community and lived like they did, lived off the ocean and the land. We learned their sustainability tactics.
"Then we'd go into a classroom setting there and analyze what we were seeing – what we were living—and compare it to what the researchers we had been studying had written."
Kikaha will walk in UW's commencement ceremonies in June but will continue to take credits this fall as he plays a fifth, redshirt season for the Huskies. He and his 16 colleagues used comparative analysis to judge the communication and knowledge systems in the reality of living under modern French colonization. French Polynesia and its 270,000 residents rely upon France for its systems of justice, finance, education, security and defense, as well as for much of its infrastructure.
The students stayed with host families on each of the islands they visited. In Tahiti, Kikaha was reunited with in the town of Puna'auia on the island's west coast with Andrew and Andrea Lependu. They had shared their beachfront home and their five children who ranged from eight to 14 years old with Kikaha and the 10 other Huskies in Hau'oli first trip there last summer. As I wrote last summer, the natives came to adore the Dawgs. During his return trip Kikaha said he saw Huskies purple and gold all over the islands, kids and adults wearing the UW gear the players had handed out last summer.
"I left a lot more of it behind this time, too," he said, chuckling.
Kikaha has been dismayed during his two trips to French Polynesia and his studies to learn that reliance there upon France has come at a steep cost. He's seen the erosion of traditional Pacific Islander customs and culture, as well as environmental destruction. The latter is after decades of nuclear testing – almost 200 atomic explosions in all -- by the French in Tahiti and its neighboring islands in the South Pacific.
"I learned a lot about the culture -- and about myself. I had to represent myself, my language, my culture alone, autonomously, in this special place so far removed from my everyday life. This was a huge, defining experience for me. It made be happy, fulfilled to be around these people who let me into their world."
Kikaha has seen French Polynesian culture struggling to stay alive amid school and government requirements that are almost entirely French, even though a 2007 census showed 87 percent of French Polynesia's population was born there on its islands. He feels this culture – his culture – is being exploited, and he seeks to find an end to it. He says after his football days are done he wants to make a difference in restoring those customs and cultures of Pacific Islanders, in French Polynesia, in his native Hawai'i and throughout the Pacific Ocean region.
Not the stuff of your everyday, 13-sack defensive end in major college football, eh?
His favorite time of his January into March in French Polynesia came when he found himself as the only English speaker among approximately 80 elders meeting in the center of the sacred Maroto Valley between dormant volcanoes in the center of Tahiti. He had befriended an older woman during the trip, and she invited him to Maroto to hear the elders give speeches, songs and dances on their native culture. He went for the 20th-anniversary celebration of natives finding and then restoring ancient remains of the Polynesians that lived in the valley centuries ago.
Alone as the only UW student and person under 40 years old there in the middle of the lush Marato, Kikaha was awed hearing their tales in French and Islander dialects, and the descriptions of the native artifacts the French had forced the Polynesians to mostly destroy because the rulers deemed them Pagan and worthless to the colony. It was the essence of what Rothschild's course had hoped the UW students could experience on the trip, and Kikaha was the only one there.
"It was amazing. Amazing!" Kikaha said Tuesday, sounding as excited as he was that December night in the locker room in San Francisco telling me about his trip.
"I learned a lot about the culture -- and about myself. I had to represent myself, my language, my culture alone, autonomously, in this special place so far removed from my everyday life. This was a huge, defining experience for me. It made be happy, fulfilled to be around these people who let me into their world.
"It was an inner, spiritual awakening for me."
Hey, thanks Coach!
Kikaha's awakening following Petersen's blessing is one, early benefit of the coach's arrival at UW. It's one not easily seen so far behind the scenes, or anywhere in the big-money, win-loss dominated world of college football.
It's also a payoff that will last far beyond the coach's first season – and Kikaha's last – with the Huskies, well into a curious and proud, young man's life beyond football.
Gregg Bell is an award-winning sports writer who joined the University of Washington's staff in September 2010 as the Director of Writing. Previously, Bell served as the senior national sports writer in Seattle for the Associated Press. The native of Steubenville, Ohio, is a 1993 graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y. He received a master's degree in journalism from the University of California, Berkeley in 2000.
Gregg Bell Unleashed can be found on GoHuskies.com each Wednesday.
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They will be faster and smoother come March too........they usually are barring illness or accident.
They will be faster and smoother come March too........they usually are barring illness or accident.
2012 Russian FSO Awards (one of a kind teddy bears, dressed as the skaters who won the awards) for the 2011-2012 season were announced, awarded by Russian fans:
In this thread in The Edge, Alex Rus reports that Russian FSO fans voted for best Foreign dancers, & selected Tessa & Scott.
They received their bears at CoR:
The fans also give out an award for best dance program of the year. Meryl & Charlie won that for Die Fledermaus.
I believe they will get their bears at GPF.
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Nice sendoff interview with Tessa & Scott.
We actually changed all three of our footwork sequences, trying to be creative and hit the levels, Virtue said. We dont want to lose any of that creativity (their theme this season is to try new things) and I think for the best, hopefully, well nail our Level 4s. Were excited about that and focusing on the Yankee Polka (short dance).
And hats off to LFP for choosing the accompanying photo showing Virtue/Moir's reaction to last year's GPF FD marks. Although it's always nice to see them in a performance shot or happy moment, this photo instead powerfully portrays the high stakes of elite competition.
I wish they have picked a photo from Worlds, not that one.
It's kind of unfair to Tessa & Scott.
In hindsight, I should have added, "YMMV," to my previous post.
I do not find the photo at all disrespectful or unflattering to Virtue/Moir. If I did, I never would have called attention to the image (in a fan thread or anywhere else). And I do not think their hometown newspaper would go out of its way to be unfair to them.
The article quotes Moir re their mindset and results at last year's GPF, so to me, choosing the pic makes sense editorially.
The reporter notes that they used last year's GPF as motivation for winning their second world title. For me, the photo captures that pivotal moment of absorbing a setback along the way to reaching their ultimate goal (for that season) -- which is what champions like V/M do (and which I believe they themselves would say is all part of sport).
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Ice dancers are generally good looking and I think V&M are not only one of the current world's best ice dancers, but pretty much the best looking couple too.
Yes, as if their athletic and artistic abilities do not already take our breath away, Virtue and Moir are exceptional eye candy too (separately as well as together).
I forgot to say that V/M are on the CBC ballot for Canada's Athlete of the Year.
"Our poll closes on Friday at 5 p.m. ET" -- not sure, but I think that means Fri Dec 7.
" ... we'll reveal The People's Pick next Saturday during our ISU Figure Skating coverage of the Grand Prix Final from the Iceberg Rink in the Olympic city of Sochi, Russia." http://www.cbc.ca/sports/blogs/scott...ples-pick.html
Virtue and Moir looking forward to London and Sochi
Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir are looking forward to skating near home in London, Ontario.
Dec 1, 2012
5:31 interview video
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Well, I should have added YMMV to mine, too.
Video interview with Tessa & Scott as they head off to the GPF
And there will be a report after the event from a Canadian perspective from www.ice-dance.com, pick the Features Tab, and Northern Lights from the drop down.
There's a bit of a preview there in Blog entry #24.
Per a tweet from Lois Elfman, she has completed an article for which she interviewed Weaver/Poje (among others). It now is in the hands of an editor at Dance International magazine.
[ETA: I see now that the the W/P article is for the Spring 2013 issue, per a subsequent tweet from @LoisElfman.]
Although the W/P article still is forthcoming, when I was on the DI site, I stumbled across its Summer 2010 article re Virtue/Moir, which was new to me. In case anyone else missed it at the time, or would like to re-read it now:
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I had come across that magazine in a bookstore! It has some lovely photos, especially of Tessa en pointe. Thanks for the link. I'm looking forward to rereading it. I'm so glad that dance is important to the two of them.
CBC aired CSOI last night and I really enjoyed the show. Especially the closeups. Although we had excellent on ice tickets in April you cannot see the expression on their faces unless they are really close to you.
To me they are certainly the royalty of ice dance and even figure skating in general.
I always coveted a pair of the Vancouver 2010 mittens, and the 2012 counterparts are eye-catching too. [As are the golden couple from Vancouver serving as models. ]
Chan, Balde, Duhamel/Radford, Osmond also are among the mitten mavens shown here: http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?s...4833263&type=1
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Reconnecting with the Festival of the Creative Arts
Highlights included "Source/ReSource" installation and Family Fun Day
The 2010 Leonard Bernstein Festival of the Creative Arts was held on the Brandeis campus from April 28-May 2. This video includes highlights from some of the events that happened on campus during the festival — from the opening ceremony at Michael Dowling's public art project, "Source/ReSource" outside of the Rose, to the Family Fun Day finale.
Please note: QuickTime 7 is required to view this video. If you do not have the latest version, you may get audio only.
View a slideshow of images from the festival.


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Gardening Articles: Landscaping :: Trees, Shrubs, & Vines
Organic Matters
by Carrie Chalmers
The feel and smell of rich garden soil is unmistakable. How to make it? Organic matter.
While most gardeners understand that organic matter is a "good thing," knowing exactly when and how much to use is elusive. Adding them to clay soils increases aeration and drainage; in sandy soils, it holds moisture and nutrients. Of course, other factors such as pH, soil texture, and cultivation timing greatly affect soil structure and nutrient availability, so you have to consider them also. Specific crops' nutrient requirements may also determine which soil treatments you should use.
However, effective use of organic soil amendments can improve soil texture; produce large, healthy yields; and save you money. Here's an explanation of what they are, how they work, and what you can do to maximize their benefits.
Two Key Stages
The decomposition process begins when microorganisms (bacteria, fungi, and molds) in partially decayed organic residues in the soil and compost feed on the fresh organic matter. Half old material to half new material is a good ratio.
In the first stage, fresh organic residues serve as food for soil microorganisms; when residues are plentiful, biological activity increases quickly. The microorganisms feed on the residues' carbon, nitrogen, and proteins. The kind of residue, the absence or abundance of microorganisms, moisture, temperature, and carbon-to-nitrogen ratio (C:N ratio) all determine the extent and speed of decomposition. The more microorganisms, for example, the faster it happens.
In the second stage, as microorganisms consume the organic material, biological activity slows. Some of them die, and others that can consume any woody plant materials increase in number. Then, the C:N ratio falls, and the organic-matter decomposition slows. At this mature stage, humus results from the residues that microorganisms didn't consume during the first stage. Different microorganisms then digest the stable compounds and excrete the indigestible residues. Nutrients remain but are only available slowly because they've been incorporated into the organic matter.
Make the Most of Soil Conditioning
By allowing some or all of the decomposition phases to occur in your soil (rather than in the compost pile), you'll improve soil structure. As microorganisms digest fresh organic material, they stabilize clumps of minerals and organic matter, called soil aggregates. High rates of biological activity create the good soil structure that allows root penetration, enhances drainage and oxygen flow, and distributes nutrients.
A Surprising Tip From an Expert
Dr. Will Brinton of Woods End Research Laboratory in Mount Vernon, Maine, emphasizes that adding compost that's reached the humus stage won't have the same effect. The interaction and blending of the soil particles, active microorganisms, and partially decayed organic matter help condition your soil. So, if you need to improve soil drainage, texture, and water-retention, introduce immature organic material into your soil. For increasing primarily the nutrient reserves, add humus.


text: Investigation of the roots of trinitarianism, with attention to meanings, truths, and practical implications. Trinitarian practices highlight the social, participatory, dynamic, abundant, temporal, and eternal dimensions of life. How should we confess the Trinity in different cultural contexts with interfaith partners? An historical-theological approach through discussion of texts, argumentation about issues, plus research. Prerequisite: T-300


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On March 4, 2012, the Monday after the weekend-long celebration that opened architect Santiago Calatrava's bone-blanched Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge, the neighborhood that found itself suddenly connected to the snarl of interstates a half-mile off, went back to looking the way it had for the better part of the previous century. West Dallas' corrugated steel warehouses and low-slung brick storefronts that date back to the 1920s and 1930s hardly took notice of the few extra cars that began rolling down a recently widened Singleton Boulevard. The vacant lots that had been quickly laid with decomposed granite and crushed concrete for parking were empty after the brief deluge of traffic. And yet, there the bridge loomed, an indelible ribbon of bent steel in the sky, while West Dallas remained—at least on the surface—the same.
It wasn't. Underneath the neighborhood's seemingly indifferent urban landscape, a tectonic shift was beginning. For eight years, three investors from North Dallas had been working to forever alter the neighborhood, to build their dreams. The trio—Stuart Fitts, Larry "Butch" McGregor, and the famed restaurateur Phil Romano, the culinary visionary behind brands such as Fuddruckers, Macaroni Grill, and Eatzi's—began buying land in West Dallas in 2005. Over the better part of a decade, the three partners sunk more than $45 million into the rundown neighborhood, nabbing upwards of 80 acres of property in an area delineated by the Trinity River on the east, Sylvan Avenue on the west, West Commerce Street on the south, and the residential neighborhood of La Bajada on the north. Today, just a year since the opening of the bridge, signs of change have sprouted: restaurants, a brewery, a home decor shop, a huge culinary event space located in a remodeled warehouse. Dirt is flying on the centerpiece, a former loading dock that by the end of 2013 will boast a mix of new restaurants and shops, a so-called "restaurant incubator."
Yet this development, called Trinity Groves, is only the start of the big plans Romano and company have in store for West Dallas, taking up less than 20 percent of the land the three partners have assembled as part of the investment group West Dallas Investments (WDI). When the bridge opened last year, it not only connected the historically underserved and largely African-American and Hispanic communities of West Dallas to the rest of the city—West Dallas suddenly a two-minute drive from the Convention Center, a five-minute drive from the Lovers Lane exit on Central Expressway. Nor did it merely, as some boosters pronounced, symbolically stitch together the northern and southern sectors of this racially divided city. The Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge connected the city's highway system to one of the largest real estate speculation deals in Dallas history.
"Tom Leppert said to us, 'What happens here will determine what will happen for the next 100 years in Dallas,' " Romano says. "That's a pretty challenging statement to make."
If the former mayor was right, then Phil Romano and his two partners will leave as indelible a mark on the landscape of Dallas as Santiago Calatrava has left in our sky. In the process, they'll become wealthy men—or, in Romano's case, wealthier.
Phil Romano, Stuart Fitts, and Butch McGregor didn't start buying land in West Dallas so they could build a new city there. "It was a hedge," says Fitts, a venture capitalist. They all had children who attended the Episcopal School of Dallas, and they wanted to make a long-term investment that would benefit their children. They looked at a map of Dallas and tried to think of the big picture: where would development happen in the next 50 years? What part of town would present the fewest obstacles for urban expansion?
"With the Ballpark, Cowboys Stadium, the horse track, DFW and Alliance [airports], common sense just said, in order to expand the city of Dallas' tax base, you have to expand west," Fitts says. "So we said, What the hell, we'll just start buying land out there and we'll hold it. It's already at the bottom of the barrel. It had no place to go but up."
In 2005, the Calatrava Bridge was still an unfunded potentiality, the Trinity River Project ensnarled in political wrangling over a toll road. It didn't take long, however, to discover one reason prices were so low in the forgotten enclave.
While West Dallas' urban landscape remained largely unchanged for decades, the underlying status of ownership in the area was tangled and overgrown. Purchasing land was difficult because tracking down who owned the parcels was a nearly impossible task. McGregor was the investment group's man on the ground, hustling door to door, digging through tax records, tracking down absentee landlords, forging relationships with owners, sometimes attending private family functions.
"This is the guy, right here," Romano says, by way of introduction. "Butch has been on the ground doing it, putting on a lot of weight, eating a lot of Mexican tacos, going to funerals—all that kind of stuff." It's the restaurant magnate's self-consciously coarse sense of humor, his way of highlighting, in mock good-ol'-boy fashion, McGregor's efforts to become a part of the West Dallas community, not just bully his way into deals. "We try to get him to push a little harder sometimes," Romano says, laughing. "But he chooses to be lazy, to be sensitive to everyone's needs out there."
"Yeah, I know the people," McGregor says. "I know everyone down there. I talk to them, and it's not always about business. It's this, that, or the other. We're very cognizant of people's lives, and we try to treat people just like we want to be treated."
In some cases, land had been handed down for so many generations that members of the family scarcely had any idea they owned it. In other instances, McGregor found himself standing between the 10 siblings who wanted to sell and the two who didn't. WDI even moved a few owners into houses north of Singleton so they could get their hands on the property that lay within the zone they were purchasing. Assembling the 80 acres took more than 150 transactions.
"It has been a logistics and legal nightmare," Fitts says. "For so many years the city had ignored this side of the Trinity that it got fractionalized and it really fell between the cracks. They would have never allowed this to happen in North Dallas, let's just put it that way. They just weren't paying attention."
As it turns out, the complicated ownership situation on the far side of the proposed bridge was one of a number of things that scared off potential buyers. WDI had virtually no competition. When the bridge was finally funded and construction began and other investors began to take notice of the cheap land in West Dallas, it was too late.
"The real estate people in Dallas had a really bad stigma—it's West Dallas, forget about it," Fitts says. "But then some significant real estate people came out here to see what was going on. By the time they had got out here, we had bought it all up."
To understand how three investors managed to purchase nearly all of the developable land at the foot of the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge, however, it is not enough to blame titles and complicated ownership situations. You have to understand the history of the neighborhood. West Dallas was shaped by the same forces that have left other parts of the city still seemingly teetering on the edge between the 19th and 20th centuries: racism, poverty, neglect, unchecked industrialization, and failed efforts at social renewal. Through the years, cement plants, chemical factories, and oil refiners led to the settlement of company towns. The neighborhood of La Bajada, which sits closest to the WDI landholdings, began to take shape after the workers who helped build the Trinity River levees in 1931 settled in the newly protected area. In 1934, Murphy Metals (later RSR Corporation), opened a lead smelting plant near the corner of Singleton Boulevard and Westmoreland Road, and for more than half a century, it poisoned tens of thousands of people who lived in West Dallas. West Dallas also was the site of one of the nation's largest—and most criticized—housing projects, sitting across from the smelter site, turning dilapidated shacks into monolithic, crime-ridden apartment blocks.
Even though it was incorporated into Dallas in the early 1950s, residents who grew up there remember not having indoor plumbing, running water, or paved streets well into the 1960s. Some also remember stories of the sharecroppers who, choked off their land during the Great Depression, settled in shanty towns that sprung beneath the Commerce Street Bridge. Among those rural transplants was the Barrow family. And when Clyde Barrow fell for a beautiful, puckish young woman named Bonnie Parker, West Dallas became the place the two fabled renegade lovers couldn't wait to blow.
"The western area was always off the radar screen," says John Gosling, a retired urban planner who headed up the creation of a master plan for Dallas' State Thomas District. "No one drove through it on their way to work, and it got neglected."
Even with Babb Bros. BBQ and Hofmann Hots, the first restaurants in Romano and company's new project, now open, West Dallas today doesn't look very different than the shanty village that birthed Bonnie and Clyde. The tumble-down shotgun shacks and dilapidated bungalows are still there. Bonnie Parker's elementary school, a ghostly brick building with a facade marked with faux-castle battlements, sits behind a Walmart-anchored shopping center off Cockrell Hill Road. The little white clapboard Barrow gas station still stands on Singleton. And Clyde Barrow is still here, buried in a tiny cemetery off Fort Worth Avenue. On a cool Sunday in November, Clyde's grave is marked with plastic flowers, an empty bottle of Jameson's, and a spent shotgun shell.
In a way, you could say Phil Romano has always been in the real estate business. In the late 1960s, he was a college student at Florida Atlantic University, owning and operating a couple of karate schools on the side, when the father of one of the students asked the intrepid young business student to partner with him on The Gladiator, an Italian joint in Lake Park, Florida. It was Romano's first foray in the industry that would make him rich and famous, but not long after he began, Romano and his partner clashed.
Even at 72, Romano still has a sturdy build, stocky and barrel chested, with a strong, square jaw. It is not hard to imagine him as the young, hardworking Italian karate teacher from Auburn, New York, with dark skin and a Yankee accent, butting up against his first business partner. His partner was going to buy him out, and Romano didn't have the money to counter the offer. It looked like he was going to exit the restaurant business as quickly as he fell into it, when Romano's father, Sam, stepped in.
"He said, 'I'll get the money to buy you out,' " Romano remembers. "And I said, 'Where are you going to get the money, Dad?' You know, he was a middle-class working Italian guy. Being Italian, I was worrying where he was going to get the money."
Turns out, Sam Romano did find the money, but there was no funny business. He raised the funds the American way, by mortgaging the family home.
"It's not the sweet smell of success that makes you work hard; it is the fear of failure," Romano says, decades later and with enough personal success to back up the homespun aphorism. "If I failed, my mother and father lost their house."
If Romano and company fail in West Dallas, the three investors aren't likely to end up out in the street, but there is still a good deal of money and pride on the line.
"I do things for three reasons," Romano says. "One is to make money. Well, I've made enough. The second thing is you do it for social recognition. Well, enough people know who I am. I can't get drunk in town or I'll get in trouble. And the third thing I do things for is intrinsic value. You do things because it makes you feel good. This whole project for me makes me feel like I am really doing something good for the city."
Off Singleton, in a block-long warehouse that houses the West Dallas Investment offices, a large model shows a vision for the new West Dallas: high-rise hotels and office buildings flocked by four- and five-story apartments. Boulevards cut south from Singleton and under the railroad tracks that run out from Dallas toward Fort Worth. Around the railroad, there's a commuter rail station at the center of a dense cluster of buildings. West Dallas looks like a second downtown.The model isn't West Dallas Investment's plan; it was created by urban design students as a vision for the area. It also isn't the only vision that has been proposed. The West Dallas Urban Structure and Guidelines is a planning document that was created by the CityDesign Studio, a publicly and privately funded urban planning organization that offices in City Hall, over the course of a year with input from neighbors and stakeholders, including West Dallas Investments, and adopted by the City Council in 2011. Like the model, it lays out a vision for the area that includes a mix of high-density commercial uses and urban neighborhoods. It shows development that spans the railroad tracks (a commuter rail connecting Dallas to Fort Worth using the tracks through West Dallas is included in the North Central Texas Council of Governments 2035 Mobility Plan) and spills from the West Dallas Investments' property into the West Commerce corridor continuing all the way to Interstate 30.
On the walls of the office, there's a third vision, West Dallas Investments' own renderings of its future development. Pictures show warehouses retrofitted with restaurants and retail shops, wrapped with four- and five-story apartment buildings, streets and pedestrian corridors teeming with cartoonish renderings of happy visitors to the new West Dallas. "We're going to be the gateway to West Dallas," Romano says.
All of these renderings are still fantasies. When D Magazine went to print in late November, not a single multifamily development deal had been inked. But the trio insists they are close. Romano says developer Robert Shaw, a key figure in the development of State Thomas, is looking at the project. Fitts says a developer is looking to invest heavily in the vision, rolling out 10 phases of 300-unit apartment buildings, the first breaking ground before the end of 2013.
West Dallas Investments isn't your typical land speculator. They want to stay involved in the development of West Dallas long term, not just by flipping their accumulated lots to developers, but staying actively invested in the projects, making sure, as the characteristically self-reliant Romano puts it, "it is done right." Appropriately enough, the first phase of Romano and company's "right" urban development is a restaurant project.
Before bringing in the property developers, West Dallas Investments is trying to make West Dallas attractive, to "add value," by making it a hot dining neighborhood. Romano's idea is a concept he is calling a "restaurant incubator." The biggest obstacle that faces a chef or a budding restaurateur that dreams of opening his own place is often finding capital. There's rent, the cost of equipping a kitchen, funding staff salaries, etc. At Romano's incubator, called Trinity Groves, Romano and a team of investors (separate from WDI) will survey applications for new restaurant concepts. If they like an idea, they will put up the cash to open the concept in West Dallas. They will even forgo rent in exchange for 6 percent of the sales. In return, the investment group will own half the restaurant.
The catch: each restaurant idea must be scalable. If a restaurant concept in the incubator works, then the Trinity Groves investors stand to make a bundle franchising it out across the country. If it doesn't work, then it will be swapped with another fresh idea. Romano calls it a win-win for the investors making a return on their initial investment, for the young chefs who get a shot at opening their own place, and for the neighborhood, which will be continually cycling through the latest trendy eateries.
The idea has already proven attractive to potential restaurant operators. Trinity Groves has about 20 spots to fill, and already more than 200 applications have flooded in. The first two spots, Babbs Bros. BBQ and Hofmann Hots ("Which will do for the hot dog what Fuddruckers did to the burger," Romano says), are open. Romano says a production company in Los Angeles has also reached out to him expressing interest in shooting a food-themed reality TV competition show at the restaurant incubator.
In addition to dining, West Dallas Investments also wants to attract compatible amenities like art and theater. They have already deliberately sought out arts groups, knowing that creative types are often the first to settle an on-the-edge area of a city. Art collectives and avant-garde theater groups have already staged shows and exhibitions in WDI's empty warehouses, and The Dallas Contemporary commissioned the well-known street artist Shepard Fairey to paint murals on some of WDI's buildings featuring two contradictory, ironic commands: "Rise Above" and "Obey."
In a way, Romano and his partners are taking an upside-down approach to the typical development model. Usually restaurant and retail proprietors want to see roof counts before they test the waters in a new neighborhood. Here the amenities are coming in first, with the hope that the people attracted to them will eventually want to move in next door. On the other hand, the model isn't as new as it sounds. Trinity Groves sits on vacant land at the end of a new highway connection. West Dallas Investments has come in, developed parking lots, and finished out spaces for retail storefronts. It's similar to the way countless highway interchanges have spurred adjacent development in North Dallas.
"Now we have money and developers coming out of the woodwork saying, 'Hey, we like this,' " Romano says.
The challenge for West Dallas, then, may be making the other elements of the project, the long-term vision—the apartments and offices that make up the dense, urban, walkable future city—spring from the ground in a way they haven't in nearly every other section of Dallas.
On one of the first cold nights of the fall, just before Thanksgiving, the levee at the edge of the West Dallas neighborhood of La Bajada is lit up with glowing tents, a shipping container repurposed as a gallery, and a floodlight that shines out on a mat of straw stretching down the levee toward the river. Children brandishing thin sheets of plastic throw themselves onto the straw and race down the levee face. Nearby, an old black-and-white photo shows kids in ragged pants and oversize plaid shirts also skidding down the levee on the scattered straw, revealing that this is a sport indigenous to La Bajada.
The event, called POP Dallas: Neighborhood Stories, has been staged by bcWorkshop, an urban design-focused nonprofit that received a National Endowment for the Arts grant to stage six such events highlighting the history of—and fostering a sense of community in—overlooked Dallas neighborhoods. The head of bcWorkshop is Brent Brown, an architect who is also the director of CityDesign Studio. Brown has been intimately involved in West Dallas for more than three years. He helped lead the drafting of the West Dallas Urban Structure and Guidelines, which now directs city policy on the development of West Dallas. He was also engaged in last summer's efforts by La Bajada residents to pass a Neighborhood Stabilization Overlay (NSO) ordinance, which would limit the height and function of structures in the working-class residential neighborhood adjacent to the West Dallas Investments' land holdings.
The NSO passed the City Council in September 2012, but the struggle to adopt it left a lingering distrust between the neighbors and West Dallas Investments. Each war story from the NSO fight has two faces. A job opportunity offered to a La Bajada resident by the investors looks like a bribe to the neighbors; a push to change the proposed NSO boundaries to incorporate more single-family homes by the residents feels like a breach of trust to the investor group. WDI says they never had any intention of building in La Bajada, but words like "bullies" and "liars" circulate through the neighborhood. In a documentary about La Bajada history bcWorkshop produced for the event on the levee, Ysidro Huerta, who has run Huerta's Garage on Singleton Boulevard since the early 1970s, chides the developers. "They asked me to name my price, and I said, $4 million," he says with a defiant chuckle.
Now that the dust has settled on the NSO, most of the La Bajada residents I spoke to say they have confidence it will protect their neighborhood from erosive real estate speculation. But the conflict between West Dallas Investments and La Bajada also highlights how hard it is to quantify the value of a neighborhood, and for some, the experience of living on the street on which you grew up, next to people you have known most of your life, who share the stories of your past, has no price. Fifteen years ago, Eva Elvove, a La Bajada resident who headed up the NSO petition, moved back into a house her father paid $9,000 for in the 1950s. It is the home she grew up in, and it now sits mortgageless, sheltering her two mentally handicapped brothers, in a neighborhood where everyone on the block knows that the brothers can sometimes wander out and get lost—or into trouble.
On the top of the levee, I chat with Ruben Rangel, a middle-aged man who grew up in La Bajada, and he tells me about the two old men he knew in the neighborhood when he was a boy who were said to have ridden with Pancho Villa. He also shared stories about runners who would crouch on the levees listening for the squeal of Bonnie and Clyde's car racing across Commerce Street Bridge, about the bags of money that would fly out the windows of their car to waiting neighbors. As we chat, a woman comes up to Rangel and tells him his brother, who led a Latino gang in the 1970s, once saved a man's life. Rangel later tells me his brother died in a car wreck.
As we talk, Ruben hands me a brochure he has been passing out about the city of Dallas' home repair program. Now that the NSO fight is over, community organizers are turning their attention to fixing up the homes they fought to protect. For all the bitterness of the dispute, it has sparked newfound enthusiasm for preserving the character and history of the neighborhood. In that way, La Bajada is also a reminder that the task of real city building—the forging of neighborhoods with character, texture, and a shared sense of identity—takes generations.
There's a new fight brewing over West Dallas. Late in 2012, West Dallas Investments submitted an application for a Planned Development District, or PDD, a request for a wholesale rezoning of the area. Even though the CityDesign Studio's West Dallas Urban Structure and Guidelines was adopted by the City Council as policy, that plan does not affect zoning. The problem is, WDI's PDD application differs in some key ways from the Structure and Guidelines document.
Speaking with the West Dallas Investment partners, it sounds like some of the key discrepancies between the PDD application and the West Dallas plan—such as the desire to transfer unused building rights between spots on their property, or to waive the requirement to plat—may be intentional. Romano and company want the most permissible zoning possible, because the ability to build big and dense in the long term, they argue, will attract more development interest today.
But CityDesign Studio's Brent Brown says that offering broad zoning entitlements would lead to development in West Dallas that wouldn't fit a proper urban pattern. "Most developers will say, 'Don't tie my hands because I need to have flexibility,' " he says. "You need flexibility over time, but in order to secure performance, you need specificity to make sure it is going to be built."
That specificity, Brown says, is provided by the West Dallas plan, which dictates that zoning permission must be "measured and strategic," so that it doesn't artificially increase expectations of land value, which could prevent incremental and organic growth.
But Romano argues that developers won't bite unless they know they will be able to realize the maximum potential of their investment from day one of the deal. "You take that attitude and nothing is ever going to happen down there," he says of Brown's insistence on incremental zoning. "We can't get big developers money to get funded if you say you can put only four-story buildings down here. And if you want to build more than four-story buildings, then you come to us and we'll decide whether you can build eight-story buildings. They'll say, 'Bullshit. See you later.' And you're going to see the economic impact that is going to be missed by Dallas."
It's a threat familiar to City Hall, and it's also an attitude that cuts to the heart of Dallas' attitude about the role of municipal government in fostering city development. Do we remain "business friendly," removing any and all obstacles to developers so as to entice economic investment, or do we leverage the tools of government to make sure the taxpayer investment in West Dallas—$10 million for a pedestrian bridge, $1.8 million for a gateway, $28 million invested in the bridge, plus millions in potential Tax Increment Financing subsidies—doesn't just produce economic impact, but helps shape Dallas into the city its citizens want it to become?
But perhaps zoning isn't Romano and company's biggest obstacle. While demand for a spot in his restaurant incubator and one-off events like concerts have proven that Dallasites are willing to cross the new bridge to play in West Dallas, convincing the young, urban-minded people Romano's team wants to live there is still an unproven goal.
"One of the things I noticed working in Dallas over the years is no one has a very clear understanding of scale," says State-Thomas planner John Gosling. "They were trying to create intense and exciting urban environments, but they were either in the wrong location or talking about too many acres. West Dallas, by any definition, is not urban. It is almost like rural Mississippi. It is the last thing from urbanity."
When Romano talks in his slurring, en-dearing upstate New York accent about wanting to do it right, about his sense of stewardship of the city, about how they want to wait for the right developer before acting, you can't help but take him at his word. But wanting to do something right and actually getting it right are entirely different things. At this point, the strongest indication that WDI may get things right in West Dallas is the patience it has exhibited during its eight years operating in the area. It's when developers get greedy and antsy that the temptation of an immediate return on investment stains the urban landscape for a generation or more.
Winding through streets like Herbert and Bataan, past smoking barbecues in the front yards of ramshackle bungalows, loitering neighbors chatting on a street corner, wandering stray dogs, or open workshops where carpenters carve custom furniture, a visitor can see that West Dallas is still marked by the development decisions made more than a century ago that turned this area into an industrial ghetto coupled with egregiously underserved working-class neighborhoods. And yet driving through West Dallas, you also feel the pace of the place, an ease, a slowness, and, despite its rough-and-tumble past, a sense of tranquility. It makes Gosling's comparisons to rural Mississippi seem like scant hyperbole.
There is change. I stop in at the new Four Corners Brewery, right across the street from WDI's offices, and the brew master is taking measurements on a resting mash. In the wood-paneled tasting room, I sample a half pint of a malty amber ale and stare out the brewery's garage door, thrown open to the street that runs past a lot of banged-up cars. It is quiet and still, save the occasional banging of the brew master's steel spoon on the hollow mash tun and the soft murmur of cars on Singleton 100 yards away. I can't shake the feeling that as much as this brewery—like those smoking ribs across the street or that pale bow of white steel marking the sky up the road—are harbingers of change in West Dallas, West Dallas seems to be having its own kind of quieting effect on them. Right now West Dallas is a place caught in a moment in time, not the urban vision of the future, and it's still infected with a palpable and lingering sense of the past. Perhaps the secret of its success will be for those two visions to learn, like La Bajada and the West Dallas developers did, to coexist.
Additional reporting by James Williford.


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