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Fashion Calgary Portrait Campaign, an initiative spearheaded by Fashion Calgary founders, Ania Basak and Rafal Wegiel, was developed to enhance the recognition of Calgary's burgeoning cultural scene and to bring appreciation to arts and culture in Calgary.
Fashion Calgary collaborates with many different Calgarians in various fields to determine what culture means to them and why Calgary is such a cultural city. Fashion Calgary Portrait Campaign 2013 discovered many exceptional Calgarians and leaders within the community and have selected them to be this year's ambassadors.
One of those ambassadors is Chef Michael Noble, owner of Calgary's NOtaBLE restaurant. Michael was born in Calgary, but spent most of his life in Vancouver where he began his culinary journey at the Pacific Vocational Institute. He worked for many hotels and restaurants, including Earls Restaurants Ltd. where he acted as the Director of Culinary. Michael has represented Canada in three international culinary positions, including an appearance on the ever popular Iron Chef television show competing against Chef Masaharu Morimoto. He has also been named Canada's Chef of the Year and was inducted into the CCFCC Honour Society.
In 2001, Michael returned to Calgary to launch Catch Restaurant and has not looked back since. Currently, Michael owns and operates the restaurant NOtaBLE, which opened in 2010. When Michael describes NOtaBLE, he describes it as a community. Although the restaurant and its meals are high quality, they are not pretentious. He wants customers to be able to walk into the restaurant on the busiest night and be able to have a seat, experience the simple yet exquisite meals made from scratch and want to come back for more.
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Fashion Calgary Portrait Campaign 2013 - Exclusive interview with Michael Noble by Ania Basak from Fashion Calgary on Vimeo.
Fashion Calgary Portrait Campaign is an initiative spearheaded by Fashion Calgary founders, Ania Basak and Rafal Wegiel. Basak and Wegiel are devoted to diligently raising the profile of arts and fashion in Calgary though innovative measures and grass roots methods.
In 2012, the campaign featured "the ambassadors" who represented various fields related to culture by presenting their portraits together with their own expressions about the meaning of culture in their life. The completion of Fashion Calgary Portrait Campaign 2012 was the Gala event, created to celebrate its success in establishing Calgary as a cultural centre.
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Professor Edwards is a national leader in the field of legal writing, having been awarded the 2009 Thomas Blackwell Award for her lifetime achievements in and contributions to the field. She has published a number of articles and four books in the areas of legal writing and property, and she has served in a variety of capacities at the ABA and the American Association of Law Schools. Professor Edwards is a frequent speaker at national conferences, and she serves as a faculty member for the Persuasion Institute's Advanced Training Program in Narrative Construction, which is sponsored by the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts. She is currently working on a series of articles on the intersection of narrative and law, an article about the famous "Brandeis Brief," and a book about the doctrine-skills divide in legal education.
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NEH board discusses their athletic future
At its regular monthly meeting on Feb. 14, the Northeast Hamilton School Board approved contracts for the spring of 2013 and voted to hold a public forum to discuss the future of NEH athletics.
The Board approved contracts for: Deb Larson, Special Education Associate; Chace Pruismann, head baseball; Natalie Ostheimer, head softball; Shannon Muhlenbrook, boys track; and Josh Vanderloop, JH boys track.
Supt. Patrick Hocking reported to the board concerning a meeting held with all the NEH coaching staff to discuss sports participation numbers for 2013-2014. It was reported at the January meeting that with falling enrollment, fewer students are available to participate in the different sports programs.
Supt. Hocking reported that the discussions were positive and that all involved are interested only in "what is best for Northeast Hamilton". The administration also met with high school class officers to get their views.
At the school board meeting, Supt. Hocking recommended that the Board direct the school's AD and administration to conduct a community meeting in order to gather patron feedback. It was noted that no decision would be made at the community meeting.
The proposal was approved and a meeting date will be announced in the future.
It was announced that the total valuation for NEH for the 2013-2014 school year is $190,641,570 compared to last year's valuation of $177,646,865.
Supt. Hocking reported entering into discussions with Piper Jaffrey on possible bond refinancing options on the elementary school building. It is hoped that the investment bank and asset managing firm will conduct a professional development session for the NEH Board in order to provide refinancing strategies.
Supt. Hocking presented possible PPLE fund projects. These projects include: iPads for third-seventh grade students; a new bus; a school vehicle; wireless sound system for the cafeteria for meetings; new microphones for the gymnasium sound system; paving the west parking lot; purchasing a color copier; siding the tractor shed; siding the Weight Room; and/or purchasing a utility tractor.
The Board will prioritize the district's needs on this issue at its March meeting.
Two additional items which will be decided at the March meeting include consolidating or closing out activity accounts which are no longer in use and setting the tuition rate for the summer Driver's Education program. Supt. Hocking recommended charging a fee of $225 per student.
NEH High School Principal Dennis Bahr reported on developments in professional updates with teachers working on the common core on Jan. 25 at Webster City. Again at Webster City, NEH teachers will participate in an iPad workshop on Feb. 25.
The Board approved the entire 700 series of Board policy items.
In Good News Sharing, Supt. Hocking reported to the Board on the exemplary behavior of NEH students and the positive feedback the school has received. Reporting to NEH were staff members from Webster City High School, test administers for the NAEP tests and a substitute bus driver.
It was reported that five student groups attended district speech and with 13 entries for individual speech, two groups continued on to state. Trevor Klaver and Noah Ronnfeldt were selected to perform at the All-State Speech event in Ames on Feb. 16.
The NEH students completed MAP testing and Supt. Hocking reported that a majority of the students improved their test scores.
Supt. Hocking reported that Secondary MASH – Missed Assignment Study Hall has begun and students are adapting well to the new policy.
Elementary school student celebrated the 100th day of school with 100-oriented activities as the theme.
Tammy Massman's third grade students have joined the Mystery Skype group from St. Louis, MO. The students work from maps, iPads and skill books and determine the location of another school by asking two questions.
Twenty-two students participated in the grades K-5 Little Cheerleader Cheer Clinic on Jan. 5.
It was announced that VIP Day will be held on April 17.
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The Bright Shiny Red Heart Shaped Fruits Called Strawberries
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I remember going strawberry picking with my dad, sister and my brother when we were young in New Zealand. It was always a real treat when my dad said to us that we could eat as many as we like while picking the strawberries at the strawberry farm. The most beautiful part for me now is the smell. The smell of strawberries always takes me back to my childhood. It always has a refreshing spring smell and look. Besides these qualities, strawberries have the following benefits:
*Strawberries are bright shiny red heart shaped fruits with a sweet fragrance. There are over 600 varieties of strawberries that belong to the genus Fragaria and family Rosaceae that vary in size, flavor, color and shape.
*The cultivated varieties are large while the wild varieties are generally smaller in size. Wild strawberries have a more intense flavor than cultivated varieties.
*They are soft, plump and succulent with a sweetish sour taste. Ripe strawberries give out a very sweet aroma.
*The size varies from 2 cm to 5 cm in length. Color varies from bright red to deep pink, to deep orange depending on the variety. Shape varies from large heart shaped to elongated and pointy to small roundish to oval shapes.
Some have are sweeter while others are more sour, but overall they are more sour than sweet.
*The bright red shiny outer skin has numerous yellow specks on it, which are actually the seeds, and strawberry is actually a cluster of these tiny fruits. And the edible 'fruit' part of strawberry is a false fruit, meaning it is not grown from the ovaries like the other fruits, but the fleshy part that holds the ovaries.


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JAMESTOWN – Businesses on Jamestown's East Side and in the village of Falconer will now be able to take advantage of new data and voice services offered by DFT Communications as it expands its fiber-optic network in the area.
Through a licensed agreement with Jamestown's Board of Public Utilities and Windstream Communications, the fiber build will cover the areas from Falconer Central School on East Main Street to Buffalo, Tiffany, Hopkins, Allen and on to East Fifth and Second streets in the city of Jamestown.
According to Vice President of Operations, David Pihl, DFT Communications is building 7.2 miles of new fiber optic cable and supported infrastructure in the area at an approximate cost of $200,000, with plans to begin turning up customers by the end of May.
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"DFT is a competitive carrier that is bringing competitive voice and data services to the area," says Pihl. "We know that we can compete and save business customers money; we have a track record of doing that."
Ellen Ditonto, Director of Sales and Business Development adds, "Over the last 10 years, DFT Communications has addressed the growing voice and data needs of businesses in southern Chautauqua County, with particular emphasis on the industrial and business corridors in Jamestown and Falconer."
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Fiber connections, as opposed to copper or hybrid copper and fiber, also provide low latency, which improves high-speed transmittal for voice and data services, another characteristic making the service highly valuable.
In addition, with cloud-based or hosted computing service applications on the rise, customers can now connect to remote servers over fiber from their location, saving money on expensive computer hardware.
Formerly, businesses invested thousands of dollars on phone systems, which required the purchase of expensive hardware, telephones and a large box housing the system in a closet or other secured area. With a hosted service, businesses can simply place new phone sets on a desk and connect them to their data network and run the service over a hosted VoIP (Voice-over Internet Protocol) system.
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U.S. Women's National Team Journal with Joan Powell
July 3, 2008 * Chinese Taipei * FIVB World Grand Prix
The last two days were typical of our training schedule, except the weather is stifling – the humidity is even with the temperature!
Our first practice gym was in a university with no air conditioning. There was some serious floor wiping and drinking of water. To get to the weight room, we had to walk through what appeared to be a table tennis camp for youngsters. Jenny grabbed a paddle and took on an elementary boy who held his own.
Tom challenged one of our guides; Wei Hsin announced that she was on her school team. I think our tables are longer at home as Tom continually hit long. Then his competitive nature kicked in and asked her to play a game. He found the table and was victorious and celebrated like a kid!
Jenny was told that there would only be one training time per team per day. It was reiterated again at our meeting and explained that the teams have been training twice as day for the last two weeks and the organizers decided to reduce the practice time. Of course that settled real well with the team.
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As in Japan, many women walk with umbrellas and wear long gloves or some sort of sleeves to cover their skin from the sun. I have to be cautious of crossing streets, even with the count down clocks for pedestrians, as the scooters maneuver in and out of the people attempting to cross. By the way, we were told that there are 3.1 million people in Taipei County!!
I did some laundry today in the coin operated establishment down the street from out hotel. While waiting I walked around a bit. There are so many businesses, lots of open market stores and people doing their dishes in big bowls right outside their tiny eateries.
I start my run down the street from a beautiful temple and just outside a military police academy. It is guarded and gated. As I ran around it the first day I could see many young people in uniforms – shorts and t-shirts – running, playing basketball or working out.
Of course, I cannot deny that I have gone to get a massage twice now. I went the first night with Jenny and Diane. Tonight Tom Hogan and I went, and then Doctor Ho, our team physician, joined us as we coaxed him to come in as he was walking by the door.
OH MY, I will sleep tonight.
Today we were able to train in the competition hall, Hsinchuang Gymnasium. Tomorrow we will leave for training at 7:45 a.m., as we play Poland at 3 p.m., followed by an Opening Cermony.
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This year it was curtains for many hedge funds
All is not well in the boardrooms of Mayfair and Greenwich. On the face of it, business is booming. Assets in the global hedge fund industry hit a high of $2.2 trillion at the end of the third quarter, and the total number of single manager hedge funds reached a record 7,867 funds, according to data provider Hedge Fund Research.
But scratch beneath the surface and you find that 2012 was characterised by mediocre performance, an increasing attrition rate and the growing sway of institutional clients, for whom lower volatility, de-correlation from equities and an institutional infrastructure are just as important as returns.
Hedge fund liquidations rose to 211 in the third quarter, up from the 192 in the second quarter, bringing total liquidations to 825 in the trailing 12 months, slightly ahead of the 2011 total of 775. Several big names announced their retirement, including Greg Coffey, a former trader at GLG Partners and Moore Capital; Chris Rokos, the "R" in Brevan Howard; and Driss Ben-Brahim, a former Goldman Sachs partner and GLG trader.
Many funds shut down, across a range of strategies. By and large, they had suffered from a steady underperformance, rather than any spectacular blow-up, reflecting a tough macroeconomic environment that wasn't conducive to taking big or concentrated bets.
Closures among European managers this year included Edoma Partners, Ridley Park Capital, OMG Capital and Apson Capital, all in London. Edoma founder, former Goldman Sachs partner Pierre-Henri Flamand, summed up the sentiment of many managers when he said he was shutting down "because I don't think I can make money in this environment".
A managing director in prime brokerage at a large US bank said: "It's death by boredom. Some managers just can't make money in every environment."
Michele Gesualdi, a fund manager at fund of funds firm Kairos Partners, said managers have found it difficult to find the right risk-reward profile in a market distorted by what central banks are doing. "Hedge funds have been among the worst affected by this. This explains why people who have done a great job in the past are doing poorly now," he said.
The average hedge fund is on track to underperform the main equity markets for the fourth consecutive year. On top of this, the correlation of returns between hedge funds and the S&P 500 has ranged between 82% and 97% in the past 12 months, according to an report in October from Bank of America Merrill Lynch. Mary Ann Bartels, head of US technical analysis at the US bank, said in the report that there are "likely too many hedge funds".
Simon Ruddick, chief executive of alternatives research firm Albourne Partners, the biggest pure adviser to investors in hedge funds, said: "The hedge fund industry has not shown itself to be worthy of a lot of love in recent times. If we're not at the peak assets then we're not far off it. Unless the hedge fund industry can produce clear outperformance in the first six months of next year, I don't think it will grow in 2013."
Strategy mismatch
The average hedge fund has gained 4.89% this year to the end of November, according to HFR. Equity hedge and event-driven strategies have outperformed the average, while global macro and managed futures strategies have largely underperformed. A bright spot has been credit: the average relative-value fund is up 9.54% in the first 11 months of this year, and asset-backed funds are up 15.93%. Emerging markets hedge funds are up 6.31% this year.
According to Deutsche Bank's 2011 Alternative Investment Survey, which was published in March and surveyed investors collectively managing $1.35 trillion, global macro, long/short equity and event driven were predicted to be the three best-performing strategies in 2012, while global macro, emerging markets and credit long/short were the most sought-after strategies.
However, many investors have not made the right call on strategy, and that has hurt performance for them. Marc Gilly, global co-head of the capital introduction group at Goldman Sachs, part of the prime brokerage team serving hedge fund managers, said strategy allocation by fund of funds managers has detracted value: "A year ago they reduced equity long/short and increased macro at exactly the wrong time. Though some got it right in increasing their credit allocation."
Richard Watkins, chief executive of Liability Solutions, a third-party marketer, said: "Strategy allocation is the big problem of our industry. A few years ago 90% of investors wouldn't touch credit. It has consistently done well and now investors are piling in."
On a net basis, money that has flowed into hedge funds has gone into relative value, and to a lesser extent, macro strategies. Total assets in relative value strategies now equal those of equity strategies for the first time, and launches in both macro and relative value arbitrage strategies exceeded launches in equity hedge for the first time in the third quarter, according to HFR.
This is expected to continue. Chris Jones, managing director and head of alternatives at consultancy bfinance, said: "Next year we'll see some asset redistribution away from directional equity strategies to less correlated strategies such as relative value, global macro and managed futures, despite the latter two's underperformance. This might be to the short-term detriment of event-driven and equity long/short." The co-founder of a fund of funds manager said: "Global macro and managed futures maintain their assets despite underperformance because they seem like a good diversifer from equities and most investors aren't equipped to access these strategies themselves."
The move to less correlated strategies is partly the function of the growing sway of institutional investors.
The institutions move in
Bob Leonard, global head of capital services at Credit Suisse, said: "We've waited years for pension funds to get more involved. Now my sense is that the overwhelming majority of fresh capital coming in is from pension funds. For these investors, lower volatility, less correlation and a strong infrastructure are as important as returns."
Many of the big managers have transformed their businesses to attract pension funds, which want to see steadier returns. Smaller managers lament the onerous demands of taking institutional money. One said: "The hedge fund industry is now more about running a business and playing the game. The box-ticking is endless."
Gilly said: "Part of the entrepreneurial, risk-taking side of the industry is slowly losing ground to those institutions with the largest assets under management."
This institutionalisation of the hedge fund industry and the drag on returns reflect a fundamental tension at the heart of the sector: the split between hedge funds that are nimble enough to make money and hedge funds that are big enough to take large chunks of institutional capital. There are very few that are set up to do both. The fund of funds manager said: "If a manager decides to manage his portfolio in a way that is attractive to direct investors, he may turn off family offices and endowments, who can live with more volatility and want higher returns." He said that managers need to decide what type of client they're running money for.
Gilly said foundations and endowments are beginning to turn away from managers who run large portfolios and where there is a high proportion of pension fund money. He said: "It is no longer fund of funds bad, institutions good. Foundations and endowments would rather have a bit of funds of funds money to keep managers on their toes." Investors said they expect to see a continued polarisation between large managers who run institutional businesses and the smaller risk-takers who resemble the cottage industry from which the hedge fund industry grew.
Smaller managers and those with poor performance are likely to come under further pressure. The fund of funds manager said: "It's a double pincer movement; fees are coming down and costs are going up. It's an intrinsically less profitable business than it was a few years ago."


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Berkshire Hathaway Operating Earnings Rise 42%
Omaha, Nebraska (TheStreet) -- Berkshire Hathaway
Berkshire reported first-quarter operating earnings of $3.782 billion, or $2,302 per Class A share, increasing from $2.665 billion, or $1,615 billion per Class A share, during the first quarter of 2012.
Factoring in $$326 million in gains on investments and $784 million in gains on derivatives, first-quarter net earnings to Berkshire Hathaway shareholders came in at $4.892 billion, or $2,977 per Class A share, increasing from $3.345 billion, or $1.966 a share, a year earlier. During the first quarter of 2012, the bottom-line results included $70 million in investment losses and $650 million in gains on derivatives.
First-quarter revenue totaled $43.867 billion, increasing from $38.147 billion in the first quarter of 2012.
The consensus among analysts polled by Thomson Reuters was for Berkshire Hathaway to report a first-quarter profit to shareholders of $3.743 billion on revenue of $42.213 billion.
In its Insurance and Other segment, Berkshire saw earned insurance premiums increase 16% year-over-year to $9.377 billion, while sales and services revenue also grew 16%, to $22.418 billion.
Shares of Berkshire Hathaway have returned 21% this year, hitting a new all-time high on Friday, closing at $108.64.
Berkshire Hathaway's earnings come just ahead of the firm's May 4 annual shareholder meeting.
For its combined insurance units, Berkshire reported a pre-tax underwriting profit of $974 million, improving from an underwriting loss of $191 million a year earlier.
Berkshire's underwriting profit improvement came on the heels of similar improvement for American International Group
The company's Railroad, Utilities and Energy segment, which includes MidAmerican Energy and BNSF Railways, saw 6% year-over-year revenue growth, to $8.4 billion in the first quarter.
Shareholders are investing in Berkshire's ownership of operating businesses and the leverage that the company should get from the next five-to-10 years of economic improvement, according to William Smead, chief investment officer of Smead Capital, an investor in Berkshire's B-shares.
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Neurological manifestations of phaeochromocytomas and secretory paragangliomas: a reappraisal
- 1Department of Neurology, Auckland Hospital, Auckland, New Zealand
- 2Department of Endocrinology, Auckland District Health Board, Auckland, New Zealand
- Correspondence to Dr Neil E Anderson, Department of Neurology, Auckland City Hospital, Private Bag 92024, Auckland 1, New Zealand; neila{at}adhb.govt.nz
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- Revised 23 October 2012
- Accepted 2 November 2012
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Objective To determine the frequency and range of neurological manifestations of phaeochromocytomas and secretory paragangliomas.
Methods A retrospective review of case notes of patients admitted to Auckland Hospital from 1985 to 2011 with a discharge diagnosis of phaeochromocytoma or secretory paraganglioma.
Results Ninety-three patients were admitted with a phaeochromocytoma or secretory paraganglioma. Sixty-eight patients (73%) had neurological symptoms, but only 15 patients (16%) received a neurological consultation. Neurological manifestations occurred in three main clinical contexts. First, paroxysmal symptoms occurred in 66 of 93 patients (71%). Neurological symptoms were common features of these attacks and included headache (47 patients), anxiety (24 patients), tremulousness (15 patients) and dizziness (12 patients). The headaches typically had an explosive onset. Delay in diagnosis was common. Second, 28 patients (30%) had an acute crisis, which was associated with neurological symptoms in 11 (39%) of the episodes: headache (10 patients); seizures (five patients); strokes (three patients); delirium (three patients) and subarachnoid haemorrhage (one patient). Third, five of six patients with a head and neck secretory paraganglioma had neurological symptoms related to infiltration of the middle ear or compression of cranial nerves. Reversible cerebral vasoconstriction syndrome (RCVS) was documented in three patients.
Conclusions Neurological manifestations of phaeochromocytomas and secretory paragangliomas were common, and these tumours can present with various neurological manifestations. The paroxysmal symptoms can be incorrectly attributed to other headache syndromes, panic attacks or cerebral vasculitis. RCVS may play a role in the pathogenesis of the neurological symptoms associated with acute crises and paroxysmal attacks.


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In theory, almost everyone supports redeveloping Barrett Middle School, the historic four-story building that has sat like a forlorn hulk in Merion Village since closing in 2009.
In reality, though, neighbors and developers are struggling to find common ground in the plan to convert the building and its 6-acre site into housing.
The ambitious project, which once might have been hailed as a welcome bit of development in a stagnant area, has run head-on into residents' fears that the project could damage the neighborhood's upward momentum.
"They're lowering our property values with this," said Al Willhite, who has lived across the street from the school for a dozen years.
Homeport, the nonprofit housing agency formerly called Columbus Housing Partnership, has an option from the Columbus schools to buy Barrett and its land for $2.6 million.
The organization has proposed converting the original part of the school, a four-story Italianate building that opened in 1900, into 50 apartments and demolishing the 1960s-era addition.
An additional 100 apartments would be built in new duplexes, triplexes and fourplexes on the site, with an eye toward converting the units into condominiums when that market rebounds, said George Tabit, Homeport's vice president for real-estate development.
Tabit stressed that the plan is preliminary and that Homeport is eager to devise a proposal that "everyone will like."
Besides a general distrust of Homeport, nearby residents have several concerns with the project that fall into two main categories: density and design.
"One hundred and fifty homes?" Willhite asked. "That's 100 too many."
Typical blocks in the neighborhood consist of roughly a fourth of the number of homes that Homeport is planning on the site.
Neighbors are also concerned about the proposed design of the buildings, which many describe as "institutional" and not in keeping with the area's mostly brick two-story homes built between 1900 and 1930.
"This looks like a suburban apartment complex set down in the middle of our community," said Buzz Thomas, a real-estate agent who has lived across from the school grounds for 15 years.
Neighbors worry that many residents will be low-income, but Tabit said only 10 percent of the units will be set aside for low-income residents.
Residents also prefer that the homes be sold instead of rented, even though about a third of neighborhood homes are rentals.
"Ultimately we'd like to see those converted to condos," Tabit said, "but, in the near-term, we think the market is focused on rental."
He disputed the notion that the condominiums would eventually sell for less than area homes, which typically yield $150,000 to $200,000.
"I think this is actually great for home values in the neighborhood," he said. "We're looking at new construction that we believe will sell for more than $250,000 a unit and some more than $300,000, creating very positive comps for the neighborhood."
Tabit thinks the homes will attract professionals such as those who work at the nearby Nationwide Children's Hospital, and artists and designers drawn to an urban lifestyle.
At the heart of the debate is whether the development would be good or bad for a neighborhood on the upswing.
"They would never put this in German Village," said Mike Wolf, who has lived across the street from the property for 45 years.
The area around the school serves as a transition zone between affluent German Village to the west and the more troubled area east of Parsons Avenue a few blocks east.
Residents are confident that the neighborhood is rising, pointing to recent appreciation of home prices as proof.
Bob Leighty — the executive director of the Parsons Avenue Merchants Association, who served for 20 years as president of the Merion Village Association — sees the Barrett project as a key part of a neighborhood revitalization that also includes the 20,400-square-foot Columbus Metropolitan Library branch planned a few blocks east on Parsons.
"That's a really important site for our community," Leighty said. "When you think about this and a new library, there is a potential for a lot of good things."
Leighty thinks Homeport has done a good job of working with the community, but he says the project should be tweaked.
"The biggest concern is density — 150 units is a lot more dense than anything around there in the neighborhood," said Leighty, who added that Homeport's designs don't resemble the surrounding buildings.
"We need something that doesn't look so incredibly out of place."
Tony Roell, who recently took over as president of the Merion Village Association, thinks housing is the best re-use of the school site but agrees that 150 apartments are too many and that the renderings look too institutional for the neighborhood.
The Merion association will have a chance to vote on the project when Homeport requests a rezoning. After the association vote, which is purely advisory, the matter would go to the zoning committee of the Southside Area Commission.
Curtis Davis, chairman of that committee, thinks neighbors' fears of a project lowering their property values are unfounded. He likened the project to Victorian Gate, the multifamily complex built on Park Street in Victorian Village that helped revive the neighborhood.
"It's the same scenario with Victorian Gate. Did the property values go down? No, they increased, and traffic increased in the neighborhood. When I look at Victorian Village and Victorian Gate, no one's lost any money. No one's come back to me and said, 'Here's a project that's been done, and property values plummeted.' They don't exist."
Davis also doubts neighbors' claims that the best development for the site is single-family housing.
"If you want single-family housing there, can you bring 20 of your friends and commit $350,000 to a house?" he said. "If you can't, what's the solution?"
Any plan, he said, must make financial sense.
"The problem is these people have an emotional reaction versus a financial or fiscal one."
In addition to the rezoning, Homeport plans to seek historic-rehabilitation tax credits for the renovaton of the 113-year-old school.
Some neighbors are convinced that Homeport would be receiving a special deal on the property, which is in contract for about half of the $5 million value the county auditor placed on it.
Carole Olshavsky, the facilities chief for Columbus schools, said Homeport was the only developer interested in the building after the district's website auction of the property failed to attract any bidders. She is confident, she said, that $2.6 million is as much as the district can get for the property.
"Keep in mind, that building was costing us nearly $100,000 in utilities a year."
Assuming the credits, rezoning and building plans are approved, Tabit hopes construction can begin in the fall.
He thinks Homeport has done a good job of communicating with the neighborhood but understands the concerns.
"There are a lot of folks who are supportive, I think. But, notwithstanding that, this is a huge change, and anytime there's a change in the use of a site of this size — 6 acres in an urban neighborhood — it's right to expect the neighbors will be concerned and they will want to have their voices heard, as they should.
"There's one chance to get this right."


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Reality Check: Candidates Use Contradicting Facts In Governor's Debate
First Debate Was Held Last Friday
MADISON, Wis. - Those who watched Friday's gubernatorial debate saw two candidates with very different views -- and sometimes it seemed like they had very different facts.
At times in the debate, Gov. Jim Doyle and U.S. Rep. Mark Green argued over what should be simple facts, like whether the budget is balanced.
"The reality is we're not in balance and no honest observer believes that we are," Green said.
"The fact is we have balanced the budget. The congressman's just wrong when he tells you that we haven't," Doyle said.
So who is right? Unfortunately for voters, in some ways they are both right.
The reality is that Doyle is right when he said he has balanced the budget every year he has been in office. He inherited a $3.2 billion deficit.
Doyle is required by law to balance the budget -- the state can't run up a debt like the federal government.
But Green is right to point out that the state still has a roughly $1.5 billion hole leading into the next budget. The state has committed to spend more money than it has right now.
Doyle said a stronger economy will grow tax collections to fill that gap.
The candidates also couldn't agree on whether there are more or fewer jobs in Wisconsin under Doyle's watch.
"When I took office we were losing jobs and we have been gaining jobs in Wisconsin," Doyle said.
"The sad reality is we obviously are losing jobs," Green said.
Who's right? Again, it's a mixed bag.
According to the federal government, Wisconsin has gained 177,000 jobs since Doyle took office, and manufacturing jobs are up 7,600 while many other manufacturing states have lost jobs.
Also in Friday's debate, Green threw out a new claim about Doyle's budget maneuvers involving Lambeau Field.
"In fact, he even tried to raid money that was intended for Lambeau Field. Folks, where I come from those are fighting words," Green said.
A WISC-TV analysis found that this claim needs clarification.
In 2000, Brown County voters approved a sales tax hike to fund the renovation of Lambeau Field.
By law, 1.5 percent of the money went to the state Department of Revenue to administer the tax. It turns out, the state didn't need that much and Doyle tried to move the money, about $824,000, into the state's general fund to help fill the budget hole.
Republican lawmakers shifted the money back to the stadium fund to help pay off the renovation sooner.
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