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Recent outbreak of journalism in local print media has experts puzzled. No film at 11.
Why the hell is that stupid
Why the hell is that stupid thing still standing? I would love to see it bulldozed and a new amphitheater put up in its place. Then again, maybe the good 'ole boys sitting on top of Mount Pilot like to stare at gigantic phallic symbols and think of how much money they can f%^& the taxpayer for....
Excellent story. This is the
Excellent story. This is the best look at Kinsey Probasco I've seen.
You can't get a Knoxville Voice at a Pilot. Granted, maybe it's because the Voice didn't ask and/or would rather not be there...
Good piece, but, am I
Good piece, but, am I reading this wrong?
"...An 8,000 square foot space at 806 World's Fair Park Drive appraised in the report rents for $7.50 per square foot. Applying the same rate to the Sunsphere's 10,000 square feet puts the fair market rental value at $75,000 annually...
"...KPH will lease the Sunsphere from the city for about a third of the average rate, or about $5 per square foot (or $57,000/year)..."
I assume she meant 2/3s? Or am I mssing something?
This is devastating. You
This is devastating. You will hear deafening silence from the usual city director of giveaways and bad policy on this one. This is a Good Ole Boy scandal for the city that will rival Harborgate.
Nice Piece, That's How You Do It, Ask Questions, Measure Answers
It's not against the law to ask questions and you don't have to have a license to be a journalist.
That's the problem with the ponies over at the News-Sentinel, they have a hard time figure out how to get to Broadway and keep forgetting that Black Oak Ridge is not a racially segregated portion of Oak Ridge at all, it really the boundary between Halls and Fountain City.
That is a well done look into what Kinsey Probasco is and how it is perceived in other places.
I assume she meant 2/3s?
i would also assume she meant 2/3. but aren't CBD retail/office leases above $7.50/s.f. by now?
aren't CBD retail/office
aren't CBD retail/office leases above $7.50/s.f. by now?
Damn that gentrification...
Interesting story. I picked
Interesting story. I picked up a copy of the Knoxville Voice a couple of weeks ago. An obvious liberal slant. I did like the piece on Con Hunley. Con's a good guy.
I don't know who's running the show at KV, but unless they have a lot of cash to prop up the paper, you won't be seeing it for long. I counted two ads (or was it just one?) in the whole thing. I believe Rita's Bakery was one. Ad revenue is the lifeblood of free (and daily) papers, regardless of interesting stories and good writing.
OMG, I guess now the county
OMG, I guess now the county will boycott Rita's Bakery as well.
A very good story that has
A very good story that has up until now only been flushed out on area blogs and blabs. It is sad that KPA was able to rob the local treasury without any questions being asked by the local media. Or for that matter the local government.
I do appreciate the article but does it matter as long as the News Sentinel is controlled by the GOB? What is the paper and Internet circulation of the Knoxville Voice? I would bet more people have read the story because it was linked at KnoxViews than picked up a copy of the paper.
You have to start somewhere. I hope the Knoxville Voice can keep providing investigative reporting. Lord knows there is plenty of material around this town to be reported.
You've gotten better lately,
You've gotten better lately, and this piece is a good summation of the avialable info, but it isn't like this hasn't been covered in other media.
Of course, the Sunsphere has
Of course, the Sunsphere has been reported on. That's the easy part.
Now go find us some commentary on Kinsey Probasco Conley not living up to what was held out to the public (at the time) to be a legal obligation to invest $20 million as the "private" part of the illusionary public/private partnership that was Market Square redevelopment.
Bet you can't.
Never said one could, Bean.
Never said one could, Bean. Just pointing out that the Sunsphere development has been covered by other media outlets, including those maligned.
I'm glad when anyone connects some of the other dots about development deals, which this piece did -- without resorting to hyperbole, generalization, conspiracy theories and/or insinuation. Which is what the digit, in the past 12 months or so it's been active, usually does.
Although it has gotten better in the last - what? two months, maybe? Coaching? Substitution? Revised strategy? Dunno, but it has performed better of late.
Was that the original KPA Market Square deal?
Now go find us some commentary on Kinsey Probasco Conley not living up to what was held out to the public (at the time) to be a legal obligation to invest $20 million as the "private" part of the illusionary public/private partnership that was Market Square redevelopment.
Bill has put forth that development by "team members" counts towards the KPA 20 million dollar figure. Bill says the figure approaches sixty million dollars in the CBID with most of that being the Candy Factory by KPA and many Dewhirst investments. BTW, hey Bill, good to see you back.
Is that kosher? Was that the "original" KPA deal? The CBID is a much larger radius than Market Square and is it really kosher to count the Dewhirst investments?
Not trying to short sell the progress in the CBID which is very good news and something that should be saluted, but was that the original KPA Market Square deal?
Good question #9
Good question #9. Dewhirst was a major part of the development team along with with Conley and Kinsey. The proposal (not the contract negotiated, but lets not get into that again) referenced investment the team would make downtown. We used the CBID, which is the usual stand in for the downtown area, but we can just take specific buildings in the immediate area. There was a change in building ownership so that Brian Conley took over the Burwell in exchange for the AmSouth across the street. Taking just the Burwell and Holston gets you to 21 million. Add the New Union Lofts and you are to 27 million. Forget all the investment in MS and all the rest in the CBID and you still have investment that one could very conservatively characterize as consistent with what was mentioned in the proposal. IMHO this is an amount seriously north of "negligable" such was reported in the Knoxville Voice article. The point is that KPH team promised to invest significant private funds in downtown to accompany the public funds invested and they have done so by any measure.
Bill Lyons
Actually, the proposed $22
Actually, the proposed $22 million private investment contained in the MS proposal was the projected private investment that would be stimulated by the public improvements called for in the KPA plan. And it was not limited to Market Square. So, in fairness, you also should count all the investments made by Leigh Burch, Mast General Store, the Wests, Wayne Blasius, John Craig, Scott Schimmel., Andie Ray, etc., in addition to the investments made by Kinsey, Conley, Dewhirst, etc. since 2002. I'd say it's more like $70 or $80 million.
While some of this investment may have occurred without the city's commitment to renovate MS and build the garage and cinema, certainly the vast majority of it would not have. Mast General is on record saying that their move to downtown was contingent on the cinema, which, as you know, was central to the KPA plan.
Study Scripps Code of Ethics, No Journalists here
This link is to the American Society of Newspaper Editors compilation of vaarious codes of ethics from various news organizations, including Scripps (which owns the daily rag here in Knoxville).
After you review these guidelines, you see why there is so little journalistic excellence at that tired old print shop, as they don't even follow their own ethical guidelines, putting dollars in front of the public trust, time and time again.
never mind
It also seems rather
It also seems rather egregious that the article did not point out that KPA was paying (approximately $1 million) for their own build-out of the Sunsphere space, despite Lyons repeatedly stressing that to the reporter. According to the article, the Sunsphere space is worth $7.50 per square foot (based upon rental rates for comparable space), which would make the annual rental rate for the Sunsphere approximately $75,000.
When adding the $1 million buildout to the $57,000 per year lease commitment for 20 years comes to $2,400,000.
2.4 million divided by 20 years equals $120,000 per year or $12 per square foot ($4.50 per square foot more than what the article says the space is worth).
The KPA commitment on the Sunsphere is approx. $2,140,000, not $2,400,000 as previously posted. Divided by 20 years, that equals $10.70 per square foot, $3.10 higher than the article says the space is worth.
You've gotten better lately,
You've gotten better lately, and this piece is a good summation of the avialable info, but it isn't like this hasn't been covered in other media.
Only one question was asked in those three examples of local reporting. Each was written to support the giveaway of the Sunsphere.
I do not see how those pieces compare to the investigative reporting in the Knoxville Voice.
Those pieces you listed are marketing literature for KPA. I object to that. Can you find anything from the News Sentinel that objectively looked at KPA and its relationship with the City of Knoxville or the performance of KPA with its contractual obligations?
I guess it depends on what you mean when you say it has "been covered". I see it differently.
"Galyon said that in the
"Galyon said that in the best-case scenario the utility bill could drop to $40,000 after improvements.
Yet under the agreement due before City Council, KPH will pay only $21,000 annually toward utilities, leaving the rest to be picked up by taxpayers."
This struck me as highly idiotic. Regardless of how crappy the rest of the deal is for the city, the guy with his hand on the thermostat ought to pay the marginal utility dollar. Doing it this way provides no incentive to get anywhere near a "best-case scenario."
Definition of Development in Knoxville is a little different
that the definition of development in Atlanta, Nashville, Louisville, and Charlotte.
Here, as a precondition for doing anything in the city, the Knoxville taxpayers have to pay a privilege fee, usally starting at $1 million, to "get the ball rolling" or "help the developer offset the initial project costs", which is a buzzword for nothing more than a local subsidy to get the deal done.
Thanks to Randy for the opportunity to respond.
Thanks to Randy for the opportunity to respond. I will start with some general reactions more focused on the Sunsphere proposal and then address some of the assertions made about past projects. I was pleased that the Knoxville Voice was taking an interest in local stories. Ms. Trenda and I had two very nice conversations. I realize that constraints of space do limit what can be in the article.
"The average price for downtown development is roughly $9 per square foot, according to a market appraisal prepared for the city last summer by Property Service Group Southeast. An 8,000 square foot space at 806 World's Fair Park Drive appraised in the report rents for $7.50 per square foot. Applying the same rate to the Sunsphere's 10,000 square feet puts the fair market rental value at $75,000 annually. Such a price tag, however, doesn't account for the Sunsphere's unique cultural identity, an asset that private owners would surely stress in marketing the structure."
Comparing this lease amount to downtown space or even to the space occupied by the Butcher Shop, at ground level, with large amounts of free parking in the immediate vicinity is tenuous at best. At this point we are talking apples to candy bars. The comparison is more like apples to pencil sharpeners when you add the fact that the developer is required to spend $1,000,000 (apprx) to build out the entire interior of the structure including ductwork, wiring etc. including a large sum that they would expend in building out the entire fourth floor observation deck that they would have no use of. I took great pains to explain to Ms. Trenda that her article would be very misleading if she did not stress the tenant obligations.
I also explained that renting the Sunsphere requires a very specialized tenant. There is no parking in the vicinity for customers and we are having a very difficult time identifying spaces for the tenants. There is very little pedestrian traffic. The layout of the floors is very difficult. But taking this at face value their spending $5 a square foot and leasing the finished space at $9 a square foot would yield a profit of $40,000 a year. Twenty years would yield $800,000. Adjusting their investment down and their possible rent upward would pump those numbers up a bit but it is hard for me to see that this proposal is some type of "giveaway" to developers. I don't think it is any kind of a slam dunk that they can recoup their original investment in twenty years yet alone make any money. The businesses would have to be wildly successful in drawing folks to the Sunsphere in order for them to have the ability to raise the rent they charge to the point at which they could make much money. But would not that be a "win" for the citizens of Knoxville?
In exchange the city receives a finished observation deck, two floors with public access, and at less expense than the city would otherwise pay for finishing the observation deck and paying the utility costs, which are such that only limited economies of scale are realized by heating and cooling one floor as opposed to the entire structure. Again, I carefully explained this in our interview and am surprised that there is scant, if any reference to the requirement that the developer build out space they would control as well as the requirement that they build out space which they would have no use of. Suffice it to say that most tenants are not expected to finish space for others' use. More typically it works in reverse in that the rent charged the tenant includes common space in the building that the tenant can use.
There is on other item which, in fairness, I don' think I did mention to Ms. Trenda and was brought up by Mr. or Ms. Hayduke. The city will control the thermostat setting in the structure and keep them set at conservative levels to control any excess consumption. Also, and I don't recall if I mentioned this or not, the city will have to approve any change in uses within the structure to make sure that no energy draining uses will be introduced without adjustments to the rate charged.
Now that fact that there was more to the lease agreement than made it into the final version, I would like to address some specific items, hopefully with a minimum of editorializing.
"Tying anything up for 40 years is kind of scary," Lyons said. "Any more than 20 years is hard for [KPH] to return up-front investment, so 20 [years] is the point of compromise."
Obviously there has to be a long term lease unless the city is going to do the entire build out and just turnkey the space.
"Yet the city's "compromise" doesn't sit well with some council members. "We're giving them such a sweet deal for such a long time," said City Councilman Steve Hall. "To enter into a deal like that for 20 years is a very long time, we just want [the Sunsphere] back open."
One councilperson is usually not referred to as "some." I did have a very long and pleasant discussion with Councilman Hall on this topic. I explained the reasons for the necessity of a lengthy lease when great investment on the front end was required. I want to be very fair to Mr. Hall. He did reference this discussion in his remarks at council. I was not present for his interview with Ms. Trenda but I was not informed of his remarks so that I could respond. In fact during this interview I was not given the opportunity to respond to any of the criticisms that appear in the article by Mr Hall, or any other "facts" gleaned from unnamed "reports."
I didn't like the way [the Candy Factory deal] was handled," Hall said. "I perceived it as a giveaway. The Victorian Houses, in the condition they were in, [the city] could have gotten $100,000 a piece. That was a sweetheart deal and the way the request for proposals (RFP) read, people had the impression they had to bid on the Candy Factory, the houses, the Sunsphere, and the Amphitheater."
Councilman Hall and I have had a long and respectful disagreement on this matter. Councilman Frost and I have had a like disagreement. I fully respect their decision not to support the sale of the Candy Factory and I am sure that both of them, along with Councilman Hultquist, the other person to vote no would agree that our relationships have remained unaffected by that disagreement. That should not be necessary to point out, but in this town that has not always been the case. I am sure that all would characterize our relationship to be a positive one based on a lot of communication. With that in mind I am going to repeat my perspective on the points referenced here by Mr. Hall and Mr. Frost. :"
I have never understood how a "deal" could be that was the product of a lengthy, well publicized "Request for Proposal" (RFP) process which drew in excess of 80 visitors to tour the site and nine proposals could be characterized as "sweetheart. The bid for the Candy Factory was one million dollars higher than that the second highest bidder (TIFs included) and nobody else bid any money at all for the Victorians. Any notion that the price is "ridiculous" must confront the question… "Then why did the dozens of people who toured the structures during the pre bid time period not make a comparable, let alone higher offer. Moreover even the "ex post facto, extralegal "bids" for the seven Victorians by various individuals who neglected to bid during the RFP period never exceeded much over $400,000. These "bids" occurred after we decided to remove the arts restrictions regarding the development of the houses in exchange for KPH spending and extra $200,000. Thus they paid $415,000 for the houses to do with as they wish within the restrictions of H1 zoning but still under the approval of the city. Other strange extralegal bids appeared in my office and not one exceeded this amount. Once again, to repeat much of the verbiage between #9 and me in the SKB days (hey there #9) , this was not a straight "sale" but a request for proposals under which the winning bidder would have to meet conditions set by the city in development the property. We did this because the community has a large interest in the restoration of these historic structures.
"Retired UT architectural professor Gerald Anderson, who actively opposed the sale of the Candy Factory, agrees. "The Candy Factory was a real loss, it was a great resource for all the arts. The classes, the Art Market, the outlets. It was a community resource that should have been built up rather than sold to the lowest bidder," he said. "Losing the Candy Factory to [private enterprise] is unfortunate."
Certainly this, like the rent percentages discussed earlier, is a mistake. The retired professor who was a long time critic is Michael Kaplan. Nobody identifying himself as Gerald Anderson ever appeared as far as I could tell so if there is such a man he was active under a bushel basket somewhere.
Councilman Rob Frost voiced similar opinions about the value of the houses. "I didn't think the price was adequate. The houses were way below value price. The RFP wanted people to respond to the Candy Factory and Victorian houses together. If the houses had been broken out separately it would have opened a whole new universe of people who would have responded," Frost said. "It's easier for someone to redo a house than a multi-story building…What [KPH] offered didn't work for me."
See above, Also, the RFP made it very clear that a bid would be accepted on any or all of the assets and that one could bid on either or both the Candy Factory and the Victorian Houses. Segundo properties bid only on the Victorians. Lee Burch bid only on the Candy Factory. In fairness to Mr. Frost I would willing to bet that his point was that higher bids might have been obtained if the houses could be bid on separately rather than as a group. I will concede that point but only to a minor degree. Of course then the city could be left with only the condemned house, not a particularly good outcome.
"Utilities will run around $60,000 annually when [the Sunsphere] is fully occupied," said Sunsphere project manager Jeff Galyon. "That's the worst case scenario, but we hope to reduce cost on overall utilities, we hope to do a lot of improvements to make it more energy efficient." Galyon said that in the best-case scenario the utility bill could drop to $40,000 after improvements. Yet under the agreement due before City Council, KPH will pay only $21,000 annually toward utilities, leaving the rest to be picked up by taxpayers."
Well, yes, and nobody in town would take on this development if they had the entire utility bill, or even one somehow pro-rated to remove the observation deck. Perhaps that is why not a single other person or group advanced any proposal for the Sunsphere despite ample time for inspection and many, many tours by people who expressed interest at an early stage. At least four people volunteered to me that we would never get anyone to propose leasing that structure. See again above statements about "sweetheart deals."
"For his part, Mayor Haslam has remained positive about KPH. During his mayoral campaign, Bill Haslam singled out KPH proposals as examples for others to follow, which comes as no surprise, given that Haslam and senior director of policy development Bill Lyons served on the KCDC board that approved KPH's 2002 downtown development proposal."
Yes, I did chair the KCDC board when they were chosen. This entire history is preserved on the K2k board if anyone wants to go back that far. I posted over seventy single spaced pages of "stuff" during that time. But I digress. In fact I appointed an advisory group that included administration critics Carlene Malone and Lynn Redmon to consider the proposals. We all agreed that Kinsey's, which included the public space for the square, a parking garage behind Market Square, and a cinema, was the best proposal. In fact (does this sound familiar) they were the only viable proposal. Now I don't want to mislead anyone. Carlene has had reservations regarding the implementation of the plan. I have not heard from Lynn on this so he may or may not. Many of the remaining points reference objections about KHP with which Ms. Malone may well concur.
"A 2005 report commissioned by the city found that a negligible amount of development dollars had been spent in the Market Square Phase I and II projects, despite KPH promises in its proposal that the $20 million in public funds would be matched with $22 million in private investments downtown. Curiously, specific language holding KPH—or anyone else—to this $22 million figure was absent from the actual signed contract. Jon Kinsey told the News Sentinel last year that his firm was only responsible for "some of it." Meanwhile, public funds continue to be poured into the projects on schedule.""
The "report" cited here is one paid for under, well, somewhat questionable conditions. The author never came to Knoxville in his evaluation period and did not consult any building permit records or contact the parties. His methodology was, well, not textbook. Now an enterprising reporter might have asked me about this in the interview, or better yet, might have pursued this through local records. A conservative estimate of investment since the plan was approved in 2002 approaches sixty million dollars in the CBID, or close to triple the figures referenced in the proposal (but not contracted for) This included the following Fire Street Lofts - Dewhirst-$6,400,000, Burwell Building – Cardinal-$7,450,000, Holston Dewhirst- $13,725,000, Candy Factory Kinsey, Probasco, Hays $11,696,000, Victorian Houses-Kinsey, Probasco, Hays -$1,710,580, New Union Lofts -Kinsey, Probasco, Hays $6,000,000, Sunsphere (proposed) Kinsey, Probasco, Hays $1,000,000 I don't have the figures for the Watsons building or the Emporium (Dewhirst) but that, along with the Watson's build out easily are well in excess of $10,000.000. Regardless, these investment amounts can easily be found locally.
"Following the downtown deal, KPH successfully purchased the Candy Factory and Victorian houses last summer on the premise that it would spend $200,000 to finish the first floor of the Emporium Building for artist use, Councilman Hall said. "Originally they were going to finish that space out and make it available to art groups in the Candy Factory to have space to use. Someone came up with the idea to just give $200,000 to the Arts and Culture Alliance, and they'd just finish out a smaller space," Hall said. "But one of the things motivating them was so much time had transpired and nothing had happened." "It was kind of a nasty squabble," Councilman Frost said. "The administration was approached by Lisa Zenni [executive director of the Arts and Culture Alliance] said that KPH hadn't gotten around to the Emporium building…she was wanting to have a check so the Arts and Culture Alliance could take over the project."
"Both councilmen said that after the dispute, Brian Conley of Cardinal Enterprises—one of several prominent local coordinating partners including Dewhirst Properties—wanted KPH out of the Emporium Building deal. But the group's $200,000 pledge to provide an alternate art space was part of the reason the houses weren't split off from the Candy Factory. Both Hall and Frost, among other council members, voted to keep KPH committed. "We voted against letting them out [of the deal]," Frost said."
I stated without equivocation on this blog and elsewhere that I approached Kinsey with this suggestion after talking with Ms. Zenni. I also explained that I did this because KPH had agreed in the contract to replicate specific space and that Ms. Zenni thought that function could be served better if the space was built out differently from that which was contracted for. Mr. Frost and Mr. Hall and I have different perspectives on this but I am the one who tried to broker this and I did so in an abortive attempt to find the best solution. Unfortunately, as we often do, people put the facts into the frame within which they feel comfortable. This was not one of my finer moments but this suggestion came at my request after talking with LIza. KPH was the last party to be aware of its existence.
"Anderson isn't a huge fan of the Sunsphere and points out the economic impact of Knoxville's having to maintain it. "The Sunsphere has been a definite drain on the economy. No one can find a business to work there. It can be an albatross to keep maintained. The gold glass definitely has a life span and as [the 360 individual panes, which cost $1,000 apiece in 1981] start to fail it will be very difficult to maintain. It's a drain on the city's finances."
Anderson? If it is Kaplan, then I guess he is just against the restoration of the Sunsphere with or without going through with the KPH proposal. That is certainly a reasonable position but council already voted 9-0 to proceed with the restoration of the Sunsphere so that at least the observation deck could be opened. Unless they rescind that vote quickly work will begin.
"The Kinsey Probasco Hays deal guarantees that the Sunsphere will continue to drain public funds for the next two decades. As the development deal looms—apparently etched in stone before the public officials hold a vote, with little possibility of a public referendum—the glittering fixture in Knoxville's downtown skyline may come to represent more than just a former World's Fair site; it may ultimately serve as an uncomfortable reminder of the continued gifts bestowed upon private enterprise by elected officials."
Public referendum? I have not heard that anyone is starting a petition drive. Thanks to those of you who waded through this.
Bill Lyons
Victorian Houses
A lot of expensive work had been put in to the Victorian Houses. The new roofs are of very good quality (or at least expensive material). A lot of the siding had been replaced. The problems I noticed stemmed from little things like no caulking where the siding met the trim and downspouts that weren't connected to the flexible drain lines. If those houses had been in 4th and Gill or ONK they could have sold for $100K to $180K+ depending on the size. Of course that is withought the restriction that they be leased to starving artists which adds another wrinkle.
I believe that somewhere in the process someone made the assumption that they would be worth more assembled as a group and that assumption was wrong. By the time this was discovered the RFP process was too far along to make any changes.
As for the sunsphere, didn't someone do a poll that showed that saving the SS was the #1 concern of respondants? I don't mind my city spending a litlle money to save it's #1 icon.
RFP vs. Surplus Property Sale for Victorians
Metulj, OK, now we have moved far beyond the article to revisit the original RFP. I don't mind going back there for a bit. Let's keep one thing in mind though. The theme of the article was "giveaway" to developers and "ridiculous prices for the Victorian Houses." Given the response to the RFP and the post RFP bids I hope that people holding such a perspective would at least reconsider. Moreover, and I should bring this up again, this was not developer driven. Nobody came to us and asked to have a chance to develop these assets. We basically asked for ideas and proposals within an umbrella of constraints. It is not surprising that it was (is) controversial and that there was much debate and discussion and that much of it got very emotional and even a bit nasty. I am not surprised that the framing of this has always gravitated to the major template through which a great deal of local politics is filtered. I think all of this discussion, including the snarkiness, reflects a healthy polity. I am glad that this forum exists to facilitate this discussion.
Your point is that we should have sold the Victorians separately on the open market because we would have gotten more for them. We considered that approach but rejected it. The value guiding our decision was that keeping the city involved in the future of the properties outweighed pure fiscal concerns that would have led to price maximization as the only value. There are only two ways to market assets like the Victorian Houses - (a) surplus property sale and (b) through a Request for Proposals. You suggest that we could have done much better (10x?) following (a). We considered and rejected that because once the bids are unsealed, the high bid must be taken and there is no way to control future use (other than through existing zoning). There is no way to mandate that the properties be improved. There is no way to mandate that they not be kept as is and broken up and run as cash cow rentals as have so many houses that are in the Fort. We chose the option (b) because we could write a contract binding the developer to improve the properties according to terms that would protect the structures and the area. For instance, our contract mandates that a bathroom in one of the buildings be kept open to the public. This is impossible in a property sale. Remember, there is a park right in the middle of this that is being kept open. This was a balance, and I believe we made the right decision in avoiding a surplus property sale of individual units. The only other option would have been to ask for separate RFP's for each structure. That just did not make sense. There could have been no bids on at least one of the houses. The resulting developments almost certainly would have made little sense from a holistic perspective.
Bill Lyons
Bill, thanks for that very
Bill, thanks for that very thorough response to that article. A lot to digest there.
Re: "Also, the RFP made it very clear that a bid would be accepted on any or all of the assets and that one could bid on either or both the Candy Factory and the Victorian Houses."
At the City Council workshop when council members were talking about the Victorian houses and possibly getting new bids, didn't you say that separating them out would not be possible (or maybe practical) because you would have to start the RFP all over again?
And wasn't the winning bidder's agreement to build out the Emporium space contingent on them getting the Victorian houses and dropping the requirement for arts related use also part of the reason given why it would be troublesome.
I may be misremembering, but that's what I seem to recall.
At any rate, from what your are saying it sounds like the Sunsphere is a white elephant and that no matter what the City does other than demolishing it it's going to continue costing the City money, and the City thinks this is the best deal they could get to save it and get it opened back up to the public. Does that about sum it up?
Sunsphere as White Elephant
Randy, you are basically on target here but I think the Sunsphere could work well without draining the city coffers.
"At the City Council workshop when council members were talking about the Victorian houses and possibly getting new bids, didn't you say that separating them out would not be possible (or maybe practical) because you would have to start the RFP all over again?" Yes, I did say that at our four hour marathon workshop. We could have started over but most council did not want to follow that approach.
"And wasn't the winning bidder's agreement to build out the Emporium space contingent on them getting the Victorian houses and dropping the requirement for arts related use also part of the reason given why it would be troublesome." Again that is correct. That was one change that was made in reaction to the very contentious (even a bit funny, in retrospect) meeting of those in the arts community. One of the reasons that the bids were low was that we mandated arts uses in the Victorians. After hearing the reaction and talking further to the arts folks and the leaders of the Arts Alliance it became obvious that relieving the developer of the arts burden in exchange for having them pay for Emporium improvements made better sense all the way around. We approached the developers with that proposal and they agreed.
"At any rate, from what your are saying it sounds like the Sunsphere is a white elephant and that no matter what the City does other than demolishing it it's going to continue costing the City money, and the City thinks this is the best deal they could get to save it and get it opened back up to the public. Does that about sum it up?" Sort of, but I don't know if I would go quite that far. There was and is pretty broad consensus on and off council that the Sunsphere is a community asset, symbol, etc. worth saving and investing in. It is a very special structure. It just was not financially feasible to have the city try to run some commercial enterprise or to get stuck with the kind of operating expenses that did in the Candy Factory and Victorians and doomed them to suffer a gradual deterioration over decades. So we thought that the best plan was to spend the money to fix it and find a way to have it open at minimal burden to the city and with someone else responsible for much of the interior upkeep. Sure it is somewhat of a white elephant from a purely economic standpoint. What is before council now is a way to have a predictable, fairly minimal yearly operating burden that brings life to the whole structure. Right now we anticipate having it be open at no cost. Some on council have suggested that we charge a small fee that would likely make the structure pay for itself. That is definitely worth considering. Such a decision can be made later, of course, and is somewhat independent of going with this proposal or not.
Sort of, but I don't know if
Sort of, but I don't know if I would go quite that far. There was and is pretty broad consensus on and off council that the Sunsphere is a community asset, symbol, etc. worth saving and investing in. It is a very special structure.
Most people would agree with that except for a few who would just as soon see it demolished for whatever reasons.
I hope there is also something in the works to save the Amphitheater. To me, it's an equally valuable asset.
Getting back to the article, I think the other part of the discussion was not just about the financials but also who the city does business with and why. I personally don't want to debate that for reasons that should be obvious (besides the fact that it is a dead horse that ends up going in circles until somebody gets really pissed off), but it's probably a valid discussion for any public-private project regardless of who is involved.
As Bill Lyons points out,
As Bill Lyons points out, the Market Square project was awarded to the only viable proposal (only two were made). The WFP project was awarded to (by far) the highest bidder. To my knowledge, those are the only two projects that have been awarded to Kinsey Probasco. Unless someone has evidence that there were shenanigans involved in the awarding of those projects, it seems more than a tad unfair to keep throwing around inuendos to that effect.
it seems more than a tad
it seems more than a tad unfair to keep throwing around inuendos to that effect.
I was referring to the newspaper article. What are you talking about?
Journalism? Real Journalism?
Journalism? Real Journalism? Take it to any class and have them rate it on sourcing, accuracy, including of relevent information. Critics nobody heard of, leaving out most of the information on the lease to give a total wrong impression, quoting an unnamed apparently inaccurate report when data are clearly available and numbers that do not add up makes for real journalism? Thanks for pointing out such a high standard for reporters. You are right. You will not find reporting like this at any other outlet now that the Knoxville Journal has decided to get halfway serious.
What is before council now
What is before council now is a way to have a predictable, fairly minimal yearly operating burden that brings life to the whole structure. Right now we anticipate having it be open at no cost.
I've been proffering the very unpopular argument for a couple of weeks now that there was no way that we were going to be able to keep the Sunsphere without subsidization. My question has been, and still is, can we not forge a better deal? Would getting an extra fifty cents or a dollar on the square foot utility agreement be a deal breaker? I'd like to better understand how it is anticipated to open it at no cost. I must be missing something.
I begun to wonder just how well the city is in bargaining. The Market Square project was severely compromised between proposal and the execution (and somehow twisted to include development outside of the original development area of the project, and leaving out areas that were). It's often been explained to me that what was proposed vs. what was eventually contracted for was significantly different. And from my perspective, the changes always resulted in less obligation to the developer, and diminished results for the city. I hope this project will not suffer the same evisceration under the reasoning that we were just lucky anyone was willing to bid on it, and that we must always compromise in favor of the default developer.
If I were building a house and contracted with a builder who didn't meet my goals, I'd fire them based on that fact and hire someone else to finish the job. It seems to me the city is always the party that compromises in these deals.
The more the merrier
Thanks for providing so much material for class discussion whenever I get to my "online dialogue, bloggers and print media can be a pro/am collaboration" theme... It's at least encouraging that some "pros" are reading this site and each other. I haven't followed everything the TV stations and KNS have said about the WFPk project, but will be interested to see whether this prompts them to start feeling "competitive" about the story. (I started reporting in a town where the circulation areas of four dailies, two student newspapers, and a feisty local radio station overlapped... very healthy for journalism.) Speaking of KNS, did Hilary Trenda just switch to KnoxVoice or was she only freelancing for KNS on the suffrage memorial story?
PS This was in Connecticut, not Tennessee, but the feisty radio station news director moonlighted as a songwriter and co-wrote Elvis's "Blue Christmas."
Thanks for providing so much
Thanks for providing so much material for class discussion whenever I get to my "online dialogue, bloggers and print media can be a pro/am collaboration" theme... It's at least encouraging that some "pros" are reading this site and each other.
Interesting analysis from Bob Stepno:
bill lyons wrote: "Anderson?
bill lyons wrote:
"Anderson? If it is Kaplan, then I guess he is just against the restoration of the Sunsphere with or without going through with the KPH proposal."
dr. lyons, why have you attached my name to the discussion of this issue?
you know my position, as i handed a typed copy of it to you at the public meeting in 2004: that the sphere be restored and used as the KMA's pavilion of 80s american art and a coffee shop. that probably wouldn't make the city a great deal of money, but it would put the museum and the sphere on some kind of map and likely generate additional traffic to knoxville. and it would be a perfect place to screen the simpson's episode ..
dr. lyons, why have you
dr. lyons, why have you attached my name to the discussion of this issue?
He brought your name into it because the article quotes a retired architecture professor named Gerald Anderson. You are the retired architecture professor who has been vocal on the issues in the article. Do you know this Gerald Anderson person? Was there a retired architecture professor other than yourself who has been involved in public forums?
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I am sorry Michael, I have no knowledge of a Mr. Anderson was "active" in opposing anything about the sale of the Candy Factory or has had anything to say about the Sunsphere. He did not come to our council workshop last week and did not speak at the workshop or any other public meeting regarding the Candy Factory. He did not post on the Internet (I don't think he is #9). He did not write any emails to our office. He has not written a letter to the editor of which I am aware. I was trying to make sense of the quote(s). I was giving Ms. Trenda the benefit of the doubt in her sourcing of this piece. You certainly have been active in a manner consistent with my understanding of the word. I know you handed me some material at the meeting in 2004 but I just do not recall any Sunsphere statement. My memory is not as good as it once was. I am glad you do support renovation of the Sunsphere and again apologize in drawing an incorrect inference. Thanks.
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The origins of the Ancient & Venerable Chinese Oracle known variously as the Yi-jing or Yi King, or I-Ching or Book of Changes are shrouded in the mists of Time, allegedly attributed to the Ancient Shamans of China some 4,000 years ago. Developed by the legendary first emperor of China and later by the venerable philosopher Confucius, it was later evolved into a sophisticated system that has brought wisdom and guidance to generations both in the East and the West. As if any introduction is needed, Aleister Crowley was, if nothing else, an explorer – in mind, body, and spirit – and a seeker after new sensations, new knowledge, and new insights. Unlike many of his illustrious literary and Golden Dawn contemporaries, whose idea of the 'Mystic East' might well have been an opium den-cum-knocking shop behind a Chinese laundry in Whitechapel, the not inconsiderable inheritance that the young Crowley received at the age of 21 enabled him to travel and explore extensively, in the realm of the geographical as much as it did in those of sex, drugs, and occultism. However, it is beyond the brief of this essay to outline either an extensive history of the Chinese Oracle, or for that matter yet another biographical study of "the Wickedest Man in the World". What I propose instead is to attempt an outline of the intersection and overlap between the two. Quite when and how The Great Beast made the acquaintance of the I-Ching (or Yi King as was his preferred usage, and the one I will stick to hereafter unless directly quoting another source) is unsure: despite the almost exhaustive description of his spiritual studies en route to joining the Golden Dawn given in his Confessions, and the (some would say libellous) extent of the descriptions of his investiture into that Order published in The Equinox, nowhere does he make clear when or how he came into contact with the Oracle. The most likely explanation is that his interest dates from a visit to San Francisco's China Town in 1900. However, even though his Confessions enthuses about his visit there, and then goes on to describe in some detail his journey via Honolulu to Yokohama to Shanghai, to eventually catch up with his former Golden Dawnsponsor now turned Buddhist monk Allan Bennett in Ceylon – including much discussion of Buddhism, and his practices of yoga and asana with Bennett – there is still no reference to the Oracle. Then, in 1905-06, he embarked on his "walk across China", an odyssey that that took him from the Burmese border across the Yunnan Province and ending in Shanghai (all the time attempting to complete the perilous Abramelin Working that he had unwisely left unfinished after his start at Boleskine House, overlooking Loch Ness... ) At the end of the following year, December 13th, 1907, Crowley penned Liber Trigrammaton XXVII, synthesizing the Chinese duality of Yin/Yang (represented by the solid and broken lines of the Yi King) with the Tao (represented in this system by a dot), resulting in a series of 27 trigrams for
he considered it on a par with the Stanzas of Dzyan – the supposed sacred received texts upon which Blavatsky's epic The Secret Doctrine. which appeared as part of the Sacred Books of the East series. yet he himself believed that one of his greatest achievements was the identification of the trigrams with the sephiroth of the Qabalistic Tree of Life. and then "finally that Winter" Liber DCCCXIII vel Ararita: in short. but most of his written material that relates specifically to the Yi King was produced during his time at Cefalu in the 1920s. the actual apparatus is simple. Liber Trigrammaton XXVII. Crowley would have relied on the nineteenth century translation made by James Legge. which was read to mean "Cross the water – an uncivilized country. most of the Holy Books of Thelema – and all of them detailing forms of Initiation or Oracle. was a comment. for Crowley the last months of 1907 were a period of heightened creativity & reception of 'inspired' texts: Oct 30th Liber VII. of the judgments and line texts of the Yi. he states: "The Yi King is mathematical and philosophical in form. and five minutes is sufficient to obtain a fairly detailed answer to any but the most obscure question. Indeed. Dec 3rd Liber Arcanorum sub figura CCXXXI. Dec 11th & 12th Liber Porta Lucis.) Indeed. a .which he wrote brief commentary texts. In fact he took a number of crucial decisions in his life based on his interpretation of the Yi's advice. On the title page. including the situating of his infamous Abbey of Thelema at Cefalu in Sicily. during his retirement on Aesopus Island in the Hudson River. he has amended the author's name to read "Wood N' Legge"!) There is no doubting Crowley's personal faith in the Yi: looking at the published editions of his diaries." Until he came up with his own rhymed version. Nov 3rd Liber Cordis Cincti Serpente. Too few people are aware that Crowley produced his own unique version of the Yi King. Ku. Nov 25th Liber LXVI Stellae Rubae. and it is from this that Crowley retained the lifelong habit of referring to the Oracle as the Yi King. and the notes are often more revealing of the Beast's thoughts than the more formal commentary: its limitations occasioned not only Crowley's rhymed version but also notes of exasperation in the margins of his copy. New York in 1918 he produced rhyming versions of the Daodejing (Tao Teh King) and Ge Yuan's Qingjingjing (Khing Kang King). Indeed. Crowley's personal copy of the book survives. in his own surprisingly and perhaps uncharacteristically terse introduction to his edition. or the Yi for short. or 'mnemonic paraphrase'. Dec 13th Liber Tau. Its structure is cognate with that of the Qabalah. (Interestingly. when the local police attempted to evict the members of the 'College of the Holy Ghost' on orders from Mussolini's Fascist regime. Later. such as The Magical Record of the Beast 666 (edited by Symonds & Grant from Crowley's diaries for 1914-1920. it was again the Yi's Hexagram XVIII. he appears to have consulted it almost daily for a period of several years. the cornerstone of her Theosophical Movement. and including the sex-magickal record Rex De Arte Regia). (As a measure of Crowley's assessment of the value of this work.
Nov 8th the name of Marie Therese de Miramar "A creole Cuban-born in Nicaragua to change the luck" appears.. ignoring the Yi's warning of May 13th (Hexagram XX. It is interesting to think about his meeting with the young man Lawrence Miles. but as well as being a natural born magician.mhtml) he describes how he met 'The Magus' at Chancery Lane High Court. the whole thing blown up into the "Black Magic libel case".. The Lord hath given & the Lord hath taken away. he reached a conclusion and advised me to seek more . in which her lurid account of the time spent at Cefalu portrayed Crowley as a monstrous degenerate. and then things got more serious the following year with the publication of Betty May's Tiger Woman.A major concern for much of the year was his relationship with Kasimira Bass. where he was to keep the journals that were published in as The Magical Diaries of Aleister Crowley (Tunisia 1923) edited by Stephen Skinner.org/londinium. but separated in 1930. with particular reference to the Yi King and its baring on Crowley's often tempestuous love-life: '. Raoul Loveday.mahendranath. after the Nina Hamnett case. I not only realized that the much libelled Aleister Crowley was probably the most far out and advanced thinker at the time. huffing to himself "I know that!" They were married in August 1929. who would eventually become known as Shri Gurudev Mahendranath: in his own account. Crowley became ever more absorbed with the Yi King: he sought its advice throughout the Autumn of 1933 about his attempted libel trial over Nina Hamnet's depiction of him in her 'colourful' memoir. and these visits became more and more numerous.country in which the family is more important than the state" that lead Crowley to Tunisia. Blessed be the name of the Lord. Laughing Torso. he possessed a knowledge of both yoga and the I Ching which was superior to that of any other European. of initiating her into various mysteries of his 'magick'. Thus when I had opportunities to meet him. The Londinium Temple Strain (which can be found at: www. Kwan) "a rash act". During our conversations in London. but in July things deteriorated rapidly and on November 3rd he writes: "Kasimira bolted. neither romance nor passion influenced the decision: Crowley had to marry de Miramar to get her into the country.. and that they struck up a kind of friendship: "The Mage invited me to visit him in his Jermyn Street flat...!" At the end of the day. In October 2007." Then. so that I cannot prolong. with many notes of prolonged love-making. but excites me too much. From the start of 1937. so that by June he was consulting the Yi about the possibility of marriage. The affair seems to have gone well for the first half of the year. responsible for the death of her unfortunate young husband. and by the 14th Crowley writes of consecrating their partnership and noting that "She has absolutely the right ideas of Magick & knows some Voudoo.' As the 1930s progressed. Crowley sought diversion by absorbing himself more and more in the study of the Yi King. The press which had slandered him at every opportunity never once expressed any of his ideals or teachings." Nov 19th: "She is marvellous beyond words. and an informant gave me an interesting description of some of its contents. he revealed a vast store of knowledge on a variety of subjects. Crowley's Royal Court Diary for 1928 turned up at a Bloomsbury Book Auction's sale in New York.
he felt. as The Master Therion remarked himself in one of his magical journals: "The Lord hath given & the Lord hath taken away. these.. In relation to higher yoga his judgment was sound.knowledge of yoga and the I Ching. It was the one time I saw him using his I Ching sticks (which I was able to recover from the library after the court order decreeing that his library belonged to the O. [There was a sketch in the original. get a signal and lay it down either right or left. Personally I like this method of taking the Oracle.O.T." Ah well. oversexed. under my conservatorship). They either were mahogany or teak or stained dark to look so. They look like this. on one side of which was a broken line. holding each one upright with his right forefinger (eyes still closed). Edward Cornelius that: "Grady McMurtry always carried Crowley's I-Ching sticks in a small pouched [sic] attached to his belt by leather straps.." and Crowley's library should be under his "conservatorship" – to read in An Epistle on Aleister Crowley's I-Ching Sticks by J. The way Crowley used them was to shuffle them (with his eyes closed) then take them one at a time and.T.] The blank side is the male (Yang. would help people to contact their Guardian Spirit more easily. First stick down is the bottom line.He was in the progress of taking an oracle from the I Ching. which for the main part seemed to consist of reminiscences by Grady McMurtry about being "overpaid. just shove it right or left as indicated. It is with great regret that I learned that the original sticks were accidentally lost one summer night while Grady was partying on a beach near San Francisco. Crowley used six equal strips of tortoise-shell. but did contain the following paragraph that I think warrants quoting in full: ". is that according to Perdurabo by Richard Kaczynski.O. 1920 in The Magical Record of the Beast 666 in which Crowley had remarked "I had invoked Aiwaz to manipulate the Sticks*" – but what had intrigued me the most was the relevant footnote: "*The six lines of the hexagrams of the Yi King. Newsletter. The divided side (looks like red nail polish to me) is the female (Yin. By my ruler they are less than an 8th of an inch in thickness.") As a last word on Crowley's Yi sticks. It gives you a chance for your Angel to communicate directly through your fingertips. receptive) side. You can also get moving lines this way. there is a comment . energy) side. for meditation is undoubtedly an important key." (It is perhaps a sad afterword to this – particularly baring in mind Grady's words about the court-order decreeing that "the O.. If one of the sticks wants to move when you lay it down.. I think.. browsing through Kenneth Grant's touching memoir Remembering Aleister Crowley. on the other an unbroken line. but slightly more than a 16th thick. the position still needs understanding. With the I Ching.T. and over here" during WWII. but I do think it may be there." It would be some years before I would read anything more on the subject: in the early 1980s.O. on June 7th 1937 Crowley recovered his own personal set of Oracle sticks. Now it was this particular matter of "Crowley's IChing sticks" that had first aroused my personal interest: I remembered as a youth reading an entry for January 12th." Another breakthrough with regard to the Yi King.. I was sent a photocopy of an article entitled On Knowing Aleister Crowley Personally from the O.
they were sometimes remarkably accurate. or perhaps 'unconsciousness'. His method was to empty his mind and then to manipulate six flat pieces of tortoise-shell..."Quite adept at the Enochian System and the I-Ching. In his book Soul Flight.even if your average drop-out of drugs... on the other hand." – but again. just as the IChing itself was being rediscovered and the Ancient and Venerable Oracle popularised amidst the heady atmosphere of incense and peppermints. but it was skrying in the Spirit Vision that was her forte. deviancy & diabolism has no more idea now than then of the Divine nature of that "Will" that Crowley championed. . any attempts to try and pin down Crowley's nearest mystical and magical contemporaries with regard to the Oracle were evasive.. the Great Beast's "Do what Thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law" probably didn't seem that different to "Do your own thing. that was fuelled by sex 'n' drugs 'n' rock 'n' roll.. but that is by no means the same as saying that they were actually introduced to the Oracle or such practices by the venerable and Hermetic Order itself. he is of little real help. Madame Blavatsky's Theosophical Society – coincidentally founded the year of Crowley's birth – there seems to be little in her otherwise encyclopaedic works to suggest an interest in or even an awareness of anything further Eastern of origin than India or Tibet. that has gone on unwittingly or not to nurture the 'Occulture' of today. The Omen was derived from the Chinese Book of Changes (Yi King).. Crowley obtained the Word with the help of Sexual Magick. was obtained by opening at random The Book of the Law." Crowley was probably the first modern Westerner to actually regularly divine using the Yi. man" .towards the end where he explains how it was Crowley's practice to 'send out' on the first days of Spring and Autumn the Word. A Golden Dawn website describes the colourful and forceful founder-member Florence Farr as . Donald Tyson states . which Crowley then accepted as the Omen for the coming six months. to say the least. I do not know... approximately 1" by 5" in size. and Omen of the Equinox: "In his earlier years.members of the Golden Dawn [who] employed the I-Ching hexagrams as astral portals". In my researches for this article. As for the nearest other 'fellow traveller'. As the pieces fell they formed a figure."There is little doubt that members of the Golden Dawn employed the IChing hexagrams as astral portals" – I presume in much the same way that we know that they made use of the tattvas. or hexagram. Both Crowley himself and his later student Dr. he may well still have a more important place in the history of the Yi here in the West. As his diaries show. without a date or a source this is of little help. How he received it in his last years. In the popular consciousness. but as he does not indicate which members or when. The Oracle. as much as he fought against it as well all his life. Whether Aleister Crowley was or was not the first contemporary thinker and explorer of comparative religions and key synthesizers of what he would now doubtless shudder to think of as "the New Age" to make use of and explore the IChing. his shaven head scowling down from among the grand and groovy on the cover of The Beatles 'Sgt. The former "Wickedest Man in the World" was rediscovered by the Hippy generation of the 1960s. Pepper's'. Israel Regardie could be described as ".. Oracle.
May they choose their Oracles with care this time.html) 'The Confessions: An Autohagiography' by Aleister CROWLEY (1929. revised 1969) . Edward CORNELIUS (most likely available at the web-address: www.com/EpistleCrowleysICHING. and maybe the Great Cosmic Wheel is ready for just one more turn as the children of the Children of the Sixties decide it's time to choose just whose Love and Will they want to base their Law on.cornelius93. BLAVATSKY (1888) 'The Essential Golden Dawn' by Chic & Sandra Tabatha CICERO (2003) 'An Epistle on Aleister Crowley's I-Ching Sticks' by J.P. Bibliography & Reference: 'A Magic Life: The Life of Aleister Crowley' by Martin BOOTH (2000) 'The Secret Doctrine' by H.Maybe the two aren't so different after all.
'The Equinox' edited by Aleister CROWLEY (1909-1913. online at: www.mhtm) 'On Knowing Aleister Crowley Personally' by Grady McMURTRY (originally published in the O.com/athens/acropolis/1896/knowingac.mahendranath. Berkeley. CA. 1944) 'The Holy Books of Thelema' by Aleister CROWLEY (collected 1983) 'Aleister Crowley & The Hidden God' by Kenneth GRANT (1973) 'Cults of the Shadow' by Kenneth GRANT (1975) 'The Magical Revival' by Kenneth GRANT (1972) 'Remembering Aleister Crowley' by Kenneth GRANT (1991) 'Perdurabo: The Life of Aleister Crowley' by Richard KACZYNSKI (2002) 'The Magical World of Aleister Crowley' by Francis KING (1987) 'The Londinium Temple Strain' by Shri Gurudev MAHENDRANATH (currently available at the web-address: www. by Stephen SKINNER (2003) 'The Great Beast' by John SYMONDS (1952) 'The Magical Record of The Beast 666' ed. 1919.html) 'The Eye in the Triangle' by Israel REGARDIE (1970) 'The Golden Dawn: A Complete Course In Practical Ceremonial Magic' by Israel REGARDIE (1989) 'The Magical Diaries of Aleister Crowley (Tunisia 1923)' ed.org/londinium. Newsletter.geocities. by John SYMONDS & Kenneth GRANT (1972) 'Do What Thou Wilt: A Life of Aleister Crowley' by Lawrence SUTIN (2000) 'Soul Flight' by Donald TYSON (2007) . 1939.O.T.
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We found about about a piece of history that we never knew about. The Japanese ambassador to Austria saved the lives of thousands of Jews by giving them visas to Shanghai. I know that there were Jews in Shanghai in the 1800's but this tour did not cover such. Our tour guide was knowledgeable and spoke and understood English very well.
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This was an excellent tour. The tour leader was very well informed about the history of Jewish settlement in Shanghai and the events which led up to that settlement. His knowledge was outstanding.
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Posted Wed, 8 Jan 2014 in Digestion and Bowels
Answered by Dr. Ratnakar Kini 35 hours later
Brief Answer: Detailed answer given below Detailed Answer: Hi, As mentioned in the previous discussion, the curcumin in turmeric is beneficial in PSC. The link you have provided has not provided any details on why it is contraindicated in biliary obstruction. It is not mentioned in standard textbooks also. So I am not sure whether this information is correct. You can write to the author of that article and ask for more details. Let me know if I can assist you further. Regards, Dr.Ratnakar Kini
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