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NONE OF IT might have mattered a decade ago.
The fact that Charles Corle loved his 11-year-old Labrador retriever, DJ, as much as a man would love a child? Tough luck. That DJ had done more to help Corle get past the trauma of service tours in Afghanistan and Iraq than any human being? Sorry, Charlie.
In the eyes of the law, fun-loving DJ, mauled to death by neighbors' pit bulls in his own backyard in Vancouver, Wash., last spring, was simply property. His legal standing was not much different from the duffel bag that Corle carried with him on a business trip to Okinawa, where he got the news about the death of his best friend.
Adam Karp, 40-year-old Bellingham attorney at law — and something of a St. Francis with a briefcase — knows how it would have gone, back in the day, if he had called representatives of the pit bulls' owners and discussed compensation for the loss that shattered Corle's life.
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"I'd get an adjuster on the line saying, 'Well, OK, how old was the animal? What was the breed? Was it papered? Spayed or neutered?" he says. "I'd be like, 'OK, I'll tell you all this, but what does it have to do with anything, really?' And they'd say, 'Well, I'm going to go look and see what it costs to buy one.'
"I'd say: 'OK, you can do that, but it won't get us anywhere.' "
Today, thanks to a series of legal settlements providing ever-greater damage awards to pet owners — many brought by Karp, the region's leading full-time pet attorney — the response would be different. On the other end of that same line, he would hear a heavy sigh, perhaps, then an invitation to work something out.
Which, in this case, they did — leading to a settlement of $11,000. To Karp's ongoing regret, DJ the dog and all others like him still are considered "property" in the eyes of the law. But their replacement value is going up. And Adam Karp has every intention of keeping that value climbing.
TO CORLE, like many of Karp's grateful clients, the money was not the point. It simply made a point: The other dogs' owners were negligent. They harmed him. They didn't seem sorry. And the writing of the check conferred justice when no other part of the law would do so.
"The guy didn't care," Corle said of the neighbor who owned the offending dogs — which the county's Animal Protection and Control department confiscated. They ultimately were returned to the owner, who agreed to move them to another location.
Crushed, and angry, Corle called several local attorneys and found what most people in the same situation find: Zero interest. "Not enough money," he recalls. Someone passed him the name of Karp, who jumped at the chance to bring suit.
Right away, Corle noticed something about the soft-eyed, goateed lawyer: He seemed less concerned about the size of the payoff than a just outcome.
"To find someone who is doing this not for the money but for the love of the animals and what they mean for people was important," he says. "For him it was more than just a paycheck; it was a passion."
A lawsuit was Corle's last resort.
"I wanted my dog back," Corle says, "and that was never going to happen. It really came down to, do I just forget about it, become a vigilante, or try to go through the court system and hurt the guy the most through his pocketbook?"
Most of Karp's clients echo that.
Kendra Vorhies Flores of Olympia endured the horror of seeing her companion since childhood, Mary, a longhair calico cat, suffer and die after being viciously kicked by her then-husband. His penalty — a $1,000 fine and suspended 90-day jail sentence in a plea deal to animal-cruelty charges — wasn't enough.
"Mary was my baby," she says. "There was nothing I wouldn't do for her."
Let down by the justice system, she connected with Karp and sued; an arbitrator awarded her $25,000 in damages, which Karp is still attempting to collect.
She would have preferred to see her ex spend time in jail. But without the award, "It would have been a lot harder for me to move forward," says Vorhies Flores, now 23, remarried and raising a young son. "This was about closure, and justice. It was just something I needed to do."
Karp says his clients, to a person, come seeking to right a painful wrong. And the legal system is finally listening.
"The discourse has changed," he says. Today, courts "recognize that intrinsic value (for a pet) is a real thing, and that they need to think outside that earlier box."
KARP SEES these larger awards as only a small step in what could be a long march to make animals as valued in the eyes of the law as they are in the eyes of their adoring owners.
It's not all about defending victims with tales that pluck the heart strings. He has attacked on multiple legal fronts, including challenges to local animal ordinances, custody disputes (determining the fate of pets whose coupled owners decide to uncouple), and stays of execution for dogs deemed vicious after attacking a person or other animal. Add to all this a growing number of malpractice suits against veterinarians.
His most famous case to date — though probably not his most legally significant — was that of Rosie, a lovable Des Moines Newfoundland, a family pet that wandered off and was shot dead by city cops for the crime of bounding through neighbors' yards. After a yearlong, failed attempt to force the county prosecutor to bring charges against the officers, Karp sued the city, winning a record $51,000 in damages. Rosie's owners, Deirdre and Charles Wright, later were awarded an additional $50,000 in attorney fees and other costs.
The city never admitted wrongdoing, but Karp thinks the point was made about the severity of the family's loss — even if the dog was legally "property."
"Money, for better or worse, is the one way we get them to think twice before they either act negligently or intentionally," he says. "When I started practicing, the law was really underdeveloped in Washington as to the value of an animal and the recoverability of emotional damages. Over the years, Washington courts, and even the 9th Circuit (Court of Appeals), have repeatedly confirmed that people have a deep emotional life with their animals. They're part of the family; it's no big mystery or stretch to assert it."
But courts have still not taken the next step — what Karp calls the "bigger fight" — awarding damages for emotional distress in people who lose pets because of the actions of others. It's the giant, legal leap that would bring a corresponding jump in damage awards.
To simplify the technical legal question, Karp describes a mental "spectrum of culpability" for harming animals, with negligence on the lesser end, outright malice on the other. "The line that is drawn to determine when you can and can't recover emotional distress has moved," he says, sliding one finger away from malice. "My goal is to move that line all the way back to negligence."
WHOA, COWBOY, say some other attorneys, who start to harrumph at this point in the legal conversation.
Animals, despite the way we coo at them and carry them in satchels through airports, are not people, and they never should be in a legal sense, says John Schedler, an attorney who has squared off repeatedly with Karp in courtrooms and believes the long, common-law record of dealing with animals works just fine, as is.
The legal tradition of treating animals as property exists for a reason, he says. State law is clear that emotional distress cannot be claimed for the death of an animal — a principle recently reaffirmed in the state's three district appeals courts in cases brought by Karp, he notes.
Exceptions can legitimately be made in light of "malicious injury" (such as in the "Rosie" case, which Schedler says was handled "within the law"). But lacking evidence of that, "any arbitrator who awards $50,000 (in damages) for a $400 dog is not following the law," Schedler insists.
He goes on: Extending emotional-damage awards to include pets would elevate them to a level not even enjoyed by all humans. If his brother, with whom he is very close, was hit by a car tomorrow, his wife would legally qualify for damages, and perhaps his daughters. "But I don't," Schedler says.
Schedler has a family dog himself and says he understands people's love for animals. But he fears the depth of that emotion can cloud legal judgment — and that some recent cases prove the point.
"Adam wants to substitute feelings for policy," Schedler says. "He makes his money as the contentious lawyer. If you put more feelings out there, his income goes up. But feelings are not a good thinking tool."
All pet owners have a stake in the trend, he warns: Soaring awards in veterinary malpractice cases will translate to soaring costs for vet insurance, to the general detriment of animals everywhere.
"I don't view Adam Karp as a bad person or a bad lawyer," Schedler concludes. "I just think he's profoundly mistaken and has failed to exercise the type of mature judgment I think he's fully capable of."
Karp counters that existing legal double standards also cut the other way, giving those who harm animals protections that those who harm humans — even a person's sibling — do not enjoy. Emotional-distress awards also have been a remedy in Washington courts for many years in cases involving other property, such as a cherished automobile, harmed by others, he says. And he calls the specter of skyrocketing insurance premiums for vets because of a handful of malpractice awards a scare tactic.
Still, some critics are convinced that Karp seeks nothing less than the extension of full human rights to animal species.
Not so, Karp says.
"No one's, of course, saying that we want to give dogs the right to drive or the right to go to a bar — although I'm amazed at the number of bills proposed in Olympia for dogs in bars," he says, chuckling. "I think people have to recognize there are dissimilarities between humans and other species, that only some are legally relevant. But a lot of them aren't. People focus on the ones that aren't."
And what of the slippery-slope argument that all this legal maneuvering will lead at some point to fishermen being arrested for catching fish?
Karp, a strict vegan, is also a realist. He does say he believes any law that inflicts unnecessary pain on an animal is wrong. "If it were up to me, (that) would be illegal," he says. "But it's a democracy."
IN HIS personal life, Karp and his wife of nine years, Kim, walk the talk. They don't eat meat or buy or use products derived from animals. They love dogs, own two cats, and are still mourning the passing of another who died recently at the age of 25.
Raised in a Jewish tradition but now a practicing Buddhist, Karp attended high school in Spokane. With a bachelor's degree from Gonzaga and a law degree from the University of Washington, he began his career as a statistician for a law firm, but quickly saw his passion for animals leading him into his own specialized practice.
For the first few years, it netted him about $10,000. Now, he bills at $300 an hour and has to turn down work.
His cases often unleash his own emotions.
"There are times I'll be looking at the pictures of an animal who's been ripped to pieces or been executed, and I'll just cry," he says.
The victories make those tragedies more bearable, providing a "counterpoint that gives you hope again," Karp says.
When time allows (Karp, who has no paralegal help, says he's usually juggling more than 30 cases), he teaches animal-law classes at the UW and Seattle University. The field will grow, he predicts, and along with it an evolution in the way society's laws not only treat animals but weigh their true emotional value to people. As someone who relates to that attachment, he acknowledges swinging out on a limb at times, in a legal sense. But he believes someone must.
"Am I a crusader? Yeah, I think so. But that's not the only reason I do this. I still have a great reservoir of excitement for what the field can become and where we can develop the law."
The law, he knows, often isn't on his side. But growing public sentiment is — something even loyal opponents such as Schedler acknowledge, rolling their eyes as they do. Few legal cases tend to go viral in media as readily as those involving adorable animals, a fact Karp uses to his distinct advantage.
"It's a phenomenon," Karp says. "I understand that. I'm not a social scientist, but I'm sure there's something to nibble on there."
Judges have recognized it, one telling Karp about a case where a baby was thrown in a garbage can, which drew little public response. An animal-neglect case, meanwhile, often fills a courtroom.
He is as disgusted as the next person about the response to the child. But he'll take the response to the animal — and run with it, win or lose.
"Sometimes," he says, "just having people think about a subject is half the battle."
Ron Judd is a Pacific NW magazine staff writer. Reach him at email@example.com or 206-464-8280. On Twitter: @roncjudd. Alan Berner is a Seattle Times staff photographer.


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KANSAS CITY -- For the sixth straight week, the Cougar men's basketball squad is ranked atop the NAIA Top 25 poll with a perfect record of 28-0 and 14-0 in the American Midwest Conference (AMC). Columbia, the NAIA's last remaining unbeaten team, earned all 11 first-place votes and enters the final week of the regular season just two games away from becoming the first undefeated team in program history. Georgetown (Ky.) College was the last NAIA school to complete an undefeated regular season, finishing 31-0 in 2007-08.
Lee (Tenn.) University checked in behind Columbia at No. 2 for the fifth straight week, followed by John Brown (Ark.) University, Lindsey Wilson (Ky.) College, and Lewis-Clark State (Idaho) College rounding out the top five.
The Cougars went 3-0 last week with wins over Hannibal-LaGrange (Mo.) University, Missouri Baptist University, and Lyon College. Saturday's victory over Lyon clinched Columbia's third consecutive AMC regular season championship. For the year, Columbia leads the NAIA in scoring defense (55.1 ppg), assist/turnover ratio (1.55), scoring margin (+25.0 ppg), and field goal percentage defense (.370).
The Cougars will host Harris-Stowe State (Mo.) University tomorrow night, February 20th, in their final home game of the 2012-13 regular season. Game time is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. at the Arena of Southwell Complex. Columbia will then close out the regular season on Saturday, February 23rd at William Woods (Mo.) University. Tip-off is set for 4:00 p.m. in Fulton, Mo.

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My NY Mets sketchbook. I create an entry after each Mets game or commentary on the crazy stuff going on around the team.
Congratulations to Izzy! He deserves it. Got to see this one in person and it was sweet. Always awesome to go to the ballpark and witness history. Great to finally see some COLOR too!! Great job Joe! L.G.M!!
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We are poised to get a new President. UPA (led by Congress Party) has proposed Pratibha Patil, NDA (led by BJP) has proposed Bhairon Singh Shekawat, while the rest (comprising many regional parties, which formed a new front called UNPA) proposed Kalam once again.
The newspapers and media are having a field day, the blogs and forums are filled with many opinions. What is my take on this?
First, I don't think we need a President. We have had so many presidents. Of what use were they to us? Other than the fact that we remember their names for the sake of answering exam questions and quiz tests, we don't really associate them with anything remarkable. What did KR Narayanan do? Can we name a single worthwhile act? What did illustrious Kalam do?
The worst punishment you can give to a very dynamic and effective individual in
Why do we need this figurehead anyway? It's such a waste of time and resources, time and money. I believe strongly that we don't need a President of India. Instead, the Prime Minister post can be combined with this post, and he/she could be elected directly by the people (instead of intermediaries who seem to hijack the will of the people).
Merit and President of
On one of the forums that I was discussing, one commenter suggested that the contest between Kalam and Pratibha Patil will be a contest of merit and quota politics.
Now if Kalam accepts, then this will be a contest between merit and quota politics.
I don't know what is so meritorious about Kalam? Is being an engineer and heading a missile program a necessary qualification to become a President of India? Or being a bachelor or Muslim a qualification to become a President of India? What is merit got to do with becoming President?
If ever there is any qualification, I would assume that it would be some experience in politics of
Indians grow up NOT knowing what merit is all about. They want to associate it with everything including elected leaders of
Come to think of it, Indians CANNOT have Bill Gates or Steve Jobs EVER because we will always measure a person by his degree, which school he went to in kindergarten, which college he attended, how many certifications he passed, what was his rank in IAS, etc.


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We service the real estate needs throughout Brisbane and nearby areas, but focus mainly on the Brisbane south side. Anyone that owns or occupies Industrial Real estate is our potential client or customer. Inquiry's can originate from the business owner directly, or through subordinates tasked with the role of researching the various property options. Most clients and customers do not have a solid relationship with a Real estate Agent and often respond to signage, internet or brochure marketing.
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I noticed one odd thing and I'm curious to understand it. I typeset my document with
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc} but without loading the Latin Modern fonts as I usually do. This resulting PDF is undistinguishable when viewed on-screen (using Evince on Linux) but when printed on an HP printer the fonts look "thicker". Both using the default font encoding or loading the Latin Modern fonts bring back the usual "thin" look of the CM fonts.
What is the reason for the different rendering? I should say that the slight "thicker" look is not bad (except that the math fonts do not really match). There are other free fonts with superb math companion that I should try?


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I made it home last night after a fifteen hour travel day!
Today in certain parts of East Hawaii we had a weird power outage where we were only getting about 10% of power coming to at least my house and a few others.
The lights would only flicker when you would turn them on and things like the light in the refrigerator were very dim.
When power was finally restored nearly three hours later… The Modem that keeps me connected to the net was obviously fried.
Oceanic isn't open till Monday so this will be my last post to my site for a few days as I hate pecking away on my phone.
On a bright note… I finally had to go to the airport to see if my luggage had made it from Los Angeles after a 5 hour delay because of mechanical issues and a transfer to another plane… and thankfully my luggage was there!
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Well, I've scanned a page here or there to email to someone for reference but scanning the whole book would probably destroy the book binding. The way the book is put together to be able to get really good scans of every image you'd completely wreck the binding. Besides, that's a hell of a lot of scans and a website that would put all those images up would probably run into the same problem the original publisher had in the first place, a cease and desist order from H&B and probably DC as
Great Creepy pages. Interesting combo of the two artists. Leo did incredible work for Warren. I wish his work had caught on more here in the states. He did some freelance storyboarding at ILM, then later did work for Guillermo Del Toro on the first Hellboy movie. A very kind, softspoken old gentleman. Last I'd heard, he'd left L.A. and moved back to Europe. There was one incredible period piece he did for Eerie about two vampire twins. Great stuff! The work here Toth certainly made his
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Lynch Mob wrote:i can't believe they let him get away thats about as dumb as the ravens letting Ellerbe get away but i could'nt be happier that they lost Walker he was a special teams stud, good run blocker, fast, and could catch the ball
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Photovoltaic solar power technology is being pushed to the forefront as a viable alternative source of renewable energy. Addressing the key design challenges involved in the development and implementation of these systems requires simulation tools capable of not only modeling and analyzing the behavior of diverse electronic components, but also the ability to combine them with the associated control algorithms and evaluate the full system performance.
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In her blog post on Saturday Julie wrote "Today is the launch of what is going to be a 15 month project. Each Saturday, at around 12.30am UK time I will release the prompt for that week's Book of Me, Written by You.
As an advocate for creating future family history this activity has great appeal for me. I have created a blog for My Book of Me and I've joined in the conversation at the Facebook Book of Me page. I am impressed and the number of people who are the participating and discussing this project. Many of them have already posted on their blogs responses to the first week's prompt:
"Ask yourself 20 times "Who are you?"
Each time you should give yourself a different answer, and if you can easily go beyond 20 then that is fine too. The last time I did this (December 2012) I came up with 26. This is the sort of prompt that you can re do at various stages of your life, perhaps after some changes or at the start of the New Year.
This prompt is about how YOU see YOU."
This prompt is about how YOU see YOU."
I am still trying to decide on whether I will publish my answers or keep them private. Interestingly one of the descriptors I included is "I am a procrastinator". I am also still evaluating my responses as I like to give due consideration to what I write; another of my descriptors is "I am a thinker".
Just yesterday the benefits of relating my family history was evidenced when a reading of my Father's Day post elicited tears from one of my offspring. It is so important to record our stories for future generations.
Fifteen months is a long time but I am committed to this worthwhile activity. Will you be joining me?


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The Common Council is expected to vote on a new labor contract with city firefighters when it meets in regular session at 2 p.m. Tuesday in Council Chambers.
The 15-year agreement includes raises for firefighters, and changes to health care contributions for new employees and work rule changes that are expected to save the city money.
The city's control board gave their non-binding approval to the agreement last week.
Also this week:
• The Council will hold its pre-meeting caucus at 2 p.m. Monday in Room 1417 of City Hall.
• The Buffalo Urban Development Corp. will meet at noon Tuesday in the Erie County Industrial Development Agency offices at 143 Genesee St.
• The Buffalo Urban Renewal Agency will meet at 9:30 a.m. Thursday in Room 209 of City Hall.
• The Preservation Board will meet at 3 p.m. Thursday in Room 901 of City Hall.
• The Buffalo Board of Education will hold its regular meeting at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday in Room 801 of City Hall. Additional city schools education news is available each week on the School Zone blog at www.buffalonews.com


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The following items listed are potentially on sale items. Some are long term sale prices for the most part, while others are quick hit and miss sales.
The premium price listed for 90% coins represents the amount over the spot price of Silver per ounce in your total purchase, not per Dollar face value. 90% Silver does not represent 90% of an ounce of Silver per Dollar face value, it only represent the total percentage of Silver content in these coins, while the actual content of silver is estimated to be .715 ounces of Silver per Dollar face value. So for example if someone was listing their 90% at $1 over spot, you would actually be paying 71.5¢ per Dollar face value ($1 x .715 = 71.5¢). You may often hear people talk about the face value being $14.50 or $17.00 per Dollar face value, but that is not how it is listed or sold in terms of the premium listed and paid. The logic is so you can always compare the price per ounce of Silver in all products you are buying. Apples and Apples not Apples and Oranges that you would be forced to calculate the difference yourself.
All posted premiums will represent the price over spot per ounce and is for an any quantity. When you see two prices, the first is the premium for a single product and the second is for a 500 count in almost all cases.
Items marked in Green usually represent a sale item, exceptional value or the lowest premium for this item between these dealers. By going to the individual link, you can see the full detail for each item and actual prices and premiums per product.
It's just my opinion but I would beware of investing in any additional Silver from (RMC) Republic Metal Corporation as they have shut down operations and trying to file for chapter 11 with massive debt of some $100M, with a claim for a significant inventory discrepancy found and it appears creditors are again on the hook for the loss except for those with a higher priority that seems to cover just about the amount of all their assets leaving everyone else naked once again. Not that buying RMC products are defective that anyone has claimed, just another product line going by the way of the Dodo bird in our history books. It could be that another corporation could buy them out and keep the operation alive, they are large and apparently rumor has it Valcambi was trying to buy it going into the bankruptcy filing.
APMEX - 9.95 shipping and free at $99.00
1 oz Eagle 2019 $3.79 - $2.59 - https://www.apmex.com/product/171421...rican-eagle-bu PRE SALE
1 oz Maple 2019 $2.89 - $1.89 - https://www.apmex.com/product/171434...-maple-leaf-bu
1 oz Philharmonic 2019 $2.99 - $1.99 https://www.apmex.com/product/171338...hilharmonic-bu
1 oz Krugerrand 2018 $2.99 - $1.99 - https://www.apmex.com/product/170332...-krugerrand-bu
1 oz Silver Round - 2018 Reindeer any qty 99¢ - https://www.apmex.com/product/177528...deer?6679966=5 a tad late for this past Christmas, but if you stash a few of these things each year.
90% $10 roll of quarters any qty 49¢ - https://www.apmex.com/product/16485/...roll?6679966=6
90% $50 face bag mixed any qty 49¢ -https://www.apmex.com/product/68839/...face-value-bag
SD Bullion - $7.77 shipping for all orders
1 oz Eagle 2019 $2.79 - $2.25 - https://sdbullion.com/2019-us-mint-a...ver-eagle-coin
1 oz Maple 2019 $2.39 - $1.75 - https://sdbullion.com/2019-canadian-...aple-leaf-coin
1 oz Krugerrand 2018 $2.29 - $1.79 - https://sdbullion.com/2018-south-afr...rand-coin-1-oz
1 oz Britannia mixed any qty $1.59 - https://sdbullion.com/1-oz-british-b...tes-our-choice Out of stock
10 oz SD Bullion Proclaim Liberty bar any qty 79¢ - https://sdbullion.com/10-oz-sd-bulli...rty-silver-bar OUT OF STOCK
90% $10 face mixed any qty 64¢ - https://sdbullion.com/90-percent-sil...lar-face-value
90% $100 Face Bag any qty 55¢ - https://sdbullion.com/90-percent-sil...face-value-bag
Golden State Mint shipping - only free after $500 order
1 oz Miners Go Deeper Silver Shield round $1.50 - https://www.goldenstatemint.com/1-oz...ver-Round.html NO C.O.A.
GAINESVILLE COINS Shipping charges vary USPS for small orders
1 oz Eagle 2019 $3.10 - $2.70 - https://www.gainesvillecoins.com/pro...ver-eagle-coin Pre order
1 oz Maple 2019 - $2.19 - $1.79 - https://www.gainesvillecoins.com/pro...ver-maple-leaf
1 oz Krugerrand 2018 $2.05 - $1.85 - https://www.gainesvillecoins.com/pro...ver-krugerrand
90% $5 roll of dimes any qty $1.09 - https://www.gainesvillecoins.com/pro...-in-face-value
90% $10 roll of quarters any qty $1.09 - https://www.gainesvillecoins.com/pro...-in-face-value


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As a prerequisite to running Slony-I on PostgreSQL, the slony modules
xxid and slony1_funcs must be present on all servers that have to run a
Slony-I replication node. This is usually done by the Slony-I installation
Setting up Slony-I for the first time can be a daunting task. The
following sections of the pgAdmin helpfile will help guide you through
creation of your first cluster.
Note At this point, the slon daemons (service engines on Windows)
should be started.
To install a Slony-I cluster on the first database, the "New Slony-I
Cluster" dialog is used. It executes the official Slony-I cluster
creation SQL scripts, which are located in the directory configured in
the Options dialog.
pgAdmin III needs to store information how to contact each individual
node in the cluster. To achieve this, pgAdmin III uses the concept of
"Administrative nodes".
After the first node in the Slony-I replication cluster has been
successfully created, all subsequent nodes take their configuration and
procedures from the first nodes. This process is called "Joining a
cluster" in pgAdmin III. Usually, you should also select an existing
node as admin node, to insure later accessibility from pgAdmin III.
After you added a new node to the Slony-I cluster, you need to set up
replication paths between the nodes, to enable
communication between the nodes.
When a cluster is to be upgraded to a new version of the Slony-I
clustering software, the upgrade process has to be run on all nodes of
the cluster. For each node, the slon daemon needs to be stopped, then
the upgrade dialog is started and a node with the new software is
selected (pgAdmin III will extract all software from that node), and
finally the slon daemon is started again.
Currently, pgAdmin III does not support upgrading from slony creation
scripts. Instead, create an intermediate cluster from the creation
scripts, use it as a source for the upgrade dialog, and drop the cluster
after usage. You may also use the slonik tool to upgrade the first node,
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Welcome to the Dallas Chapter of the BYU Management Society! We are a worldwide network of business professionals with a shared vision of moral and ethical leadership and a common code of business conduct and integrity. Chapters worldwide focus on:
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It was Léo Apotheker whose name appeared on the invitation to the opening ceremony of the Cebit trade show -- but his successor, co-CEO Bill McDermott, appeared on stage.
"Every year you have to reinvent yourself just to survive," McDermott said, ostensibly speaking about the IT industry in general, but perhaps also alluding to the recent changes in his company's top management. Apotheker resigned as CEO last month after the company's board signaled that it would not be renewing his contract.
McDermott shared the stage with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Spanish President José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero and other local dignitaries.
He set out three priorities for collaboration between government and industry in order to create a more sustainable world. First, business, research and government must work hand in hand to set a clear road map for the future. Second, government must support innovation by providing a fiscal boost for research. And third, new talent must be trained.
"We must encourage young people to study science, engineering and mathematics," McDermott said.
That was a sentiment echoed by Merkel.
"We are going to invest in education and training," she said. "We have to have the right people, the right graduates from schools."
Given a choice, though, Germany's young people seem uninterested in technical subjects, which they consider too hard.
"It's also important that we trigger more enthusiasm for engineering and mathematics. These are still seen as difficult -- but from my own experience, I can say that it's not all that bad," Merkel said.
If government and industry do not act to make such technical subjects more attractive -- notably by improving employment prospects for graduates -- then the IT industry risks losing a generation of engineers.
"There is a major demographic change ahead of us. If people don't feel it's worth going into engineering and mathematics, that there's no job waiting afterwards, will take years to make changes," she warned.
Spain, at least, has been making efforts to do that, said Zapatero. In the past five years, the country has invested more than €8 billion (US$11 billion) in IT and communications.
The result, he said, is that Spain's IT sector has grown at 11 percent annually in recent years, resisting the blows of the economic crisis, and now employs more than 400,000 people.
As a result of the investment program, fixed-line broadband Internet access is now available to 90 percent of the Spanish population, with Spanish subscribers seeing the fastest average connection speeds of any European country, he said.
Mobile broadband is also widespread. "Eight million Spaniards benefitting from extensions in mobile Internet coverage," Zapatero said.
That's something Merkel said Germany could do better.
"In rural areas there is still much to be done. I'm not talking about watching movies on mobiles, but simple things like making phone calls," she said, prompting applause from the audience.


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A while back I was going through some cemetery tombstone photos that I took a couple of years ago. I had found out the married name of one of the daughters in a family I research and was hoping that I might have a picture of her tombstone in the background of another photo. I guess I should back up here and mention that the first couple of times I photographed tombstones, I zoomed in on the individual stone – but then I learned to stand back and get a bit of the general area so that I could later go back and see the surrounding graves. This way if there were many extended family members in a cemetery, it became easier to figure out who's who when I got back to my computer to look at the photos. I just need to crop and reduce the photos so that just the relevant tombstone is showing for sites like findagrave. I then save the cropped version and also keep the original one for reference.
Anyway, I was going through the original photos, looking at the backgrounds, when I noticed a partly obscured one that related to yet another family I research. Unfortunately, I needed to get back to the cemetery and get another look and another photo because some of the dates weren't visible. Oh how I wish I would have had those original photos geotagged!! (See my previous post about this.) Had it been geotagged, the location (lat-long) of where I was standing when I took the original photo would have been stored and available for me to see. Since it was not geotagged it quite literally took me forever to find the obscured tombstone in the background. This pretty much convinced me I need to start geotagging. Even if the location was off by several feet, it would have gotten me to the right vicinity so much sooner!
I bring this up now because I am hoping to get back out to take some more cemetery photographs soon – as soon as the weather warms up. I am sooo tired of winter!


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Sam Lee, General Motors Company
Model-Based Design has become the preferred approach for developing automotive embedded software. This presentation describes the development of an engine setpoint controller using Model-Based Design and xPC Target™ Turnkey. The engine setpoint controller is designed to monitor engine rotation and other engine parameters and to control fuel, spark, and other engine actuators. The engine setpoint controller also allows control algorithms developed using Model-Based Design to be implemented and executed. Specific topics include the I/O driver designed with Simulink blocks, deployment of our custom VHDL® code to the I/O module of xPC Target, and a human machine interface design for the engine setpoint controller.
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Welcome to Haldimand & Norfolk Social Services
Partners in building a strong community
Haldimand & Norfolk Social Services and its many partners plan and deliver a variety of human services that build and sustain our community. These services are designed to help residents enhance their participation in the community and ultimately improve their quality of life.
Our Mission
Working in partnership within our communities to provide financial, employment and support services.
Our Vision
As a dedicated team, we will be recognized as a progressive and innovative leader delivering financial, employment and support services that enhance quality living within our communities.


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mensletter necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 85 diseños de 32 diseñadores freelance.
MensLetter.com; Relevant Reading for Discerning Men
We built a successful print and online children's directory over the last 16 years and recently sold it. We are starting a new business targeting a completely new market - men 40-65 yrs. We have always been associated with clean, sophisticated design; with the ultimate in customer service; with cutting edge innovation; with meeting the needs of our target in the most user friendly, accessible way possible (see our prev site http://www.helpwevegotkids.com)
pls DO NOT make the logo something to do with letters/envelopes - this is not a letter, it is a newsletter/e-zine
Product: e-newsletter/e-zine – Weekly newsletter encompassing topics such as wealth, health, sports, sex, fashion and lifestyle
Target market: men aged 40-65 who either are or want to be educated, upscale, successful, affluent, (Aspirational) and who feel or want to feel (and look) youthful
Feeling: leather and good scotch/wine in a contemporary, sophisticated sense, not in an old boys club sense. not stodgy/staid. Balance between the contemporary men at the bottom end of the range and the more established men at the upper end of the age range
mobi friendly or 2 versions – desktop or mobile.
The files we will require are:
Print file format - .ai (CMYK)
Web file format - .jpg and layered .psd (RGB)
The logo will be used as the basis not only for printed letterhead/envelopes etc, but will also be used on the newsletter and website as the header (or part of it). We'd like to see something that is easily incorporated into a header that runs the entire width of the page.
Please do not use any stock images or clip art in the logo
Simple and strong image(s)
logo should be legible if faxed or copied
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The autographs on the Maddux Glavine Smoltz litho appear to be legit. It's surprising because they were all signed with the same pen. Getting those three in the same place is VERY hard to do and hasn't happened here in Atlanta for over a decade.
You were right. I will tell you this. It does not look very good.the guy changed his story. said he could not swim and punched and kicked Trent in the face and head trying to stay aflot. Trent is 6 foot and 210 LBS a great swimmer. the lake is small and only 20 foot in the center. 12 foot avg. They still have not found his body. The family thinks it was a drug deal gone bad and Trent was never in the boat. But that is just heresay. how did the guy get Trents truck keys and why drive 5 miles home and shower. there is a ranger station 1/4 mile from the lake. open 24/7. Just is a very bad situation for my friends family. lots of questions. Thanks for your consern.
I am so sorry to have sounded rude in my comment. I pray for a good outcome.
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Erythema nodosum is the name given to tender lumps on the legs and sometimes the arms. They are caused by inflammation of the fat or connective tissue beneath the skin.
Erythema nodosum is thought to be a type of autoimmune reaction. It may be caused by:
from a:
- Virus
- Bacteria, especially strep throat
- Fungus
- Inflammatory conditions:
- Sulfa drugs and some other antibiotics
- Iodides
- Bromides
- Birth control pills
- Leukotriene modifiers
- Proton pump inhibitors
Certain types of cancer:
- Lymphoma
- Leukemia
Sometimes the cause of erythema nodosum is not known.
Risk Factors
This condition is rare. It is more common in females and young adults aged 20-30 years old.
Having any of the causes listed above will only slightly increase your risk of the disorder.
Symptoms include:
Very tender, deep lumps, like bruises,
that change color in the same way, from pink to blue to brown:
- Usually located on your shins
- May also appear on the forearms, trunk, neck, and head
- May be associated joint pain and fever and redness around the eyes
You will be asked about your symptoms and medical history. A physical exam will be done, which may diagnose the problem based on a visual exam. You may be referred to a doctor that focuses on skin problems or infectious diseases.
Your bodily fluids and cells may be tested to look for a cause. This can be done with:
- Blood and urine samples
- Cultures or a throat swab for strep
- PPD skin test for tuberculosis
- Biopsy of a lesion
Images may be taken of your bodily structures. This can be done with a chest x-ray and other imaging tests.
If a cause can be identified, it will be treated. For the nodules themselves, pain relief is all that is needed. They tend to resolve on their own in about 6 weeks. They will not cause scarring. Treatment options include the following:
Pain Relief
Pain relief includes:
- Bed rest and elevation of legs
- Wet compresses
- Aspirin, except in children
- Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs)
- Potassium iodide
Other Treatment
Other medications such as steroids, may be necessary in severe cases.
Some of the infectious causes can be avoided by practicing good hygiene, which includes:
- Washing your hands often
- Not sharing food, drinks, or utensils
Revision Information
- Reviewer: EBSCO Medical Review Board Michael Woods, MD, FAAP
- Review Date: 09/2018 -
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Moving a mountain: How Monticello got Montalto back
"What a view!" says U.S. Senator George Allen, who lived on Brown's Mountain in the 1970s while attending UVA's School of Law. "There's no other place where you can drive down a mountain and say hello to Mr. Jefferson."
But does Mr. Jefferson really want to say hello to more traffic? That proximity had long been bothering Monticello boss Dan Jordan. From any point on the lawn side of Monticello, Brown's Mountain, looming 400 feet higher than TJ's house, is a constant presence. Jordan has spent a large part of his career preserving Jefferson's environs and returning them to their appearance in the 19th century, when the Sage of Monticello held about 5,000 acres.
So imagine Jordan's chagrin in mid-January when he learned that visitors might soon be looking up at 24 "McMansions."
Some quick calls and some high-dollar assurances from top donors mean that the peak Jefferson dubbed "Montalto"– Italian for "high mountain"– is coming back to Monticello. Here's how it happened.
How Montalto went astray
When Jefferson died on July 4, 1826– 50 years after the Declaration of Independencehe left behind a new nation and a new concept of liberty. But historians say that Jefferson also left his relatives about $100,000 in debt. Deeds on file at the Albemarle County courthouse show that after selling Monticello itself, Martha and Thomas Randolph, Jefferson's beloved daughter and son-in-law, sold the 439.5-acre tract that included Montalto in 1832. The sale, for $5,110, helped put a dent in the debt.
The return of the mountain will not be so cheap, and Monticello's current leaders might wish their predecessors hadn't turned down their opportunity to buy the property in the mid-1970s when the price was just a little over $600,000.
By contrast, the deal consummated last month will cost $15 million, and could eventually mean the end of the Charlottesville tradition known as Kite Day, and an end to life on the mountain for an ever-present crew of law students. That's the bad news.
The good news is that Monticello's boss is already lining up eager donors and talking about extending nature trails up the hill. But for now, it's business as usual at this private property, and the signs are clear: Keep out or face arrest.
The harshly worded signs, says Rick Jones, president of Management Services Corporation, are meant to protect the privacy of the people who live there. Interlopers, he says, are a constant problem.
"You would not believe the people who call and want to go up there," says Jones. "They want to get married, they want to take a picture, they want to look at Monticello."
For Jones, the property is more than just an assemblage of rental units his firm has managed since September 1990. "It's unique in the world," he says. "Where else can you actually look down on Monticello?"
Jones particularly likes the names of the converted farm buildings– which definitely rank among the zestier apartment names in town: "The names are what those were when it was a farm. The 'Silo' was the silo. The 'Corn Crib' was the corn crib. The 'Pig Sty' was the pig sty."
"I hope we'll continue," says Jones. "I'm hoping they don't want to be in the business of managing rental income property."
One management headache is the paucity of water. Jones says two wells– one about halfway up the mountain and the other at the base– feed a system of pumps and pipes carrying water to mountain-top tanks that serve the renters.
The mountain-top apartments, which range from $600 to $1,000 a month, are available to anyone, while the "manor house"– renting for just under $3,000– it typically grabbed by law students.
As for the secret of how an ever-changing band of law students is able to rent the manor house year after year, Jones says it's no big conspiracy, but a mutually beneficial relationship.
"They keep it like any other apartment in Charlottesville," he says. "You find out that your friends are graduating, and you get them to renew. It's a convenience for us and for the owner. It's expensive to find new residents."
What's in a name?
The so-called manor house is actually a large stucco bungalow, a summer place built by Philadelphia land baron James A. Patterson shortly after he bought the land in 1904.
A succession of owners, including Martha Jefferson Hospital, held the property for short bursts in the 20th century until the Browns came along.
Lois and Nelson Brown traded their five acres on Watson Avenue in Charlottesville along with $12,500 for this then-230-acre farm in 1950 when their daughter, Susan, was 10 years old. "We are the only family who made it a year-round home," says Susan Brown Craig, now of Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania.
When her parents bought the place, many locals were still calling it "Patterson's Mountain," but Patterson himself had dubbed it "Repose," a name mostly lost to history, unless one counts the brass plaque now tucked away in Craig's house. Her parents, she says, never called it "Brown's Mountain." They named it "Mountain House."
Today, the place is officially known as "Mountaintop Farm," another name that hasn't stuck. An undated Stevens & Company real estate brochure touting the property before the Brown purchase called it "Carter Ridge Farm."
Craig isn't sure how her parents decided to trade away their north downtown property, but she's glad they did.
"For a 10-year-old this was big stuff to move to a place where there were horses," she says. But for all the oohs and aahs over Brown's Mountain today, Craig points out that the horses were workhorses, and the condition of the property was less lofty than its site.
"There was not one electrical switch in the house," she says. "It was all strings hanging down from the middle of the ceiling."
And water, she says, was truly undependable: "If it was a dry summer in Charlottesville, we just didn't have water." That created a big problem when fires struck.
In the summer of 1958, a lightning strike ignited the tallest building on the property, a water tower near the house. "Fortunately," reports Craig, "the wind shifted, and it came back on itself."
That was lucky for the Browns, because word of the fire spread like well– wildfire, and cars were suddenly converging on Route 53. "It could have been put out sooner," says Craig. "People were causing such traffic jams."
That wasn't the first fire to plague the Browns.
Fires downtown
In 1931, the Browns rented a storefront in the 300 block of East Main Street and began what was to become a Charlottesville institution: Brown's Gifts. But not without setbacks. On New Year's Eve 1932, the night they chose to celebrate a year in business, their first store was gutted by fire, and an "incorrectly written" insurance policy– according to a family history by Lois Brown– left them uncompensated.
They reopened just three months later at another location, the southeast corner of Fourth and Main. Now a banking lobby and office building, the structure became a veritable department store, offering picture framing, women's sportswear, a soda fountain, antiques, and bridal gowns. It also featured an atrium that gave it big-city flair.
But around 10pm on February 13, 1954, fire struck again, completely demolishing the building. The catastrophe, however, provided Charlottesville bargain hunters a way to visit Brown's Mountain, as the family decided to sell its salvaged merchandise from the mountain-top barn. The three-day Easter weekend sale was such a hit that they operated the "Barn Gift Shop" from August to December of that year.
In 1960, the Browns came up with another novel way to share their mountain– and create a steady revenue stream: They converted the farm buildings into apartments. "My dad named all the apartments," says Craig, "and my mother made all the drapes."
The artist
Charlottesville artist Andrew Smith considers his year on Brown's Mountain "one of the coolest experiences I ever had." His $630-a-month apartment was in the "Pig Sty."
"You could tell it actually was a pig sty," says Smith, "because it was a series of low stalls. You couldn't smell them, but you could sense that pigs had been there."
Smith was reluctantly forced off the mountain by his ailing ride, a 1964 Comet, which had a tendency to fail on the steep, nearly mile-long driveway. Worst was the time it stopped on one of the blind curves of Route 53, when only a bumper-to-bumper push from a friendly man in an SUV saved Smith from a collision, he believes. His Comet was so feeble that he often commuted on foot, sometimes cutting through the old Blue Ridge Hospital grounds to downtown Charlottesville.
Smith says that when heavy snowstorms closed the serpentine road, he'd find himself "gladly trapped." He even occasionally rode a sled to the bottom. The road's hairpin turns, however, proved more than inconvenient one fall night over 20 years ago.
Fire everyone could see
On September 22, 1982, a fire began in one of the apartments. According to a Daily Progress story, firefighters had the blaze under control when a newly arriving tanker, lumbering uphill, jackknifed, blocking the driveway for 45 precious minutes and allowing the fire to flare up again. Six firefighters were injured, and 20 residents were left homeless in the blaze, which was visible to thousands of Charlottesville residents.
Charlottesville Battalion chief Britt Grimm remembers the night well. He and other top officers had gathered for the monthly meeting of the Jefferson Country Fire and Rescue Association at the East Rivanna Fire Company– then located by the post office in Keswick– when the alarms started coming in.
"That pretty much ended the meeting," says Grimm. Although he was off-duty, Grimm headed up the mountain in his "personal vehicle."
"I didn't want to miss out," he explains.
"It was dominating the skyline," adds Grimm, comparing the scene to a 1968 film starring Richard Burton and Clint Eastwood: "It was like the final scene of Where Eagles Dare."
The senator
The spring of 1975 was a momentous time for George Allen. The son of the head coach of the Washington Redskins and a stand-out UVA quarterback in his own right, young Allen was about to graduate from Mr. Jefferson's University and was weighing a professional sports offer. The World Football League, an upstart trying to compete with the NFL, promised some exciting innovations, such as moving the goal-posts to the back of the end zone. At the height of 1970s fashion zaniness, the League briefly experimented with putting decorations on each player's pants to clarify his position.
But for Allen, a new offer that he says arrived on Mr. Jefferson's birthday, April 13, helped him make up his mind. He was going to UVA Law School. The momentous decision paved his way to becoming Virginia's governor and a U.S. Senator. Moreover, it paved his way to Montalto.
The future politician spent his first year in law school living in a cottage on Route 20 South, but he knew that classmates enjoyed digs on higher grounds. While Brown's Mountain had changed hands a year earlier, Mr. and Mrs. Brown continued to live in the manor house for two more years as renters– and trying to keep out the riff-raff.
"My father wouldn't allow motorcycles," says Susan Brown Craig. "He was kind of picky about who he rented to." Craig says this is how the tradition of law students on the mountain began– with her father's selectivity.
"He only wanted to rent to graduate students because they were a little more mature," she says. And there was another bonus. Because students were only there nine months of the year, says Craig, "My parents got their privacy back in the summer."
Allen recalls putting on a coat and tie to make a good impression on Mr. Brown, "and I passed the audition," the Senator says proudly.
"The actual living quarters were not all that great," recalls Allen. "I was there for the view."
Allen thinks the rent he and his roommate paid for "The Shed" ran just under $200 a month. But the heating bills were a constant worry. "It had that electric baseboard heat, which is inefficient," says Allen, "so we wore sweaters."
Allen says he enjoyed his two years on the mountain, including his dealings with the new owner's representative, John Haskell, who found a place for the hunting enthusiast and future politician to shoot deer. He credits his Ford 150 pickup truck for getting him up and down the mountain and successfully dodging cows.
Allen also dodged a trespassing incident in 1985, when he was serving in the House of Delegates. On New Year's Eve, Allen surreptitiously returned to the mountain top with a female friend– now widely known as Mrs. Allen.
"I got down on my knee and proposed to Susan," says the Senator.
Was he trespassing?
"Yes, I must admit I violated that sign down there that says something like 'Trespassers will be shot or arrested.' But I trust Mr. Haskell would have appreciated and understood."
Tom's viewshed
Like latter-day protectors of Monticello, Thomas Jefferson himself worried about his "viewshed." As early as 1771, according to William Beiswanger, Monticello's director of restoration, Jefferson coveted all of the mountain overlooking his own. He wanted to buy all of his viewshed plus a buffer of 100 yards "beyond the line of sight."
In 1777, he was finally able to consummate a deal with owners Edward and Sally Carter for 483 acres for £190. Edward Carter's father had patented the land, part of a 9,350-acre tract from the king of England, in 1730.
It was in the last days of the 1770s, Beiswanger believes, that Jefferson drew plans for the tower he hoped to build on Montalto.
Beiswanger calls Jefferson's first design a "sham" or "eye-catcher." The 100-foot-tall structure, to be made of stone, was designed merely as something to be seen from Monticello and was undecorated on its sides. "The amount of masonry involved would have been mind-boggling," says Beiswanger. "I don't see how it could have stood, narrow as it was."
Next for Montalto, Jefferson proposed a 120-foot tower consisting of four stacked cubes– diminishing in size as they climb– crowned by a battlemented parapet.
"I don't know what was in his mind," says Beiswanger of this mysterious design that abandons classicism and foreshadows abstract cubism, an artistic fad of the early 20th century. Beiswanger believes it may have simply been a structural approach.
Perhaps the greatest curiosity of the streamlined tower o' cubes was a single room at the top whose vaulting had to support two feet of earth– "the purpose of which," Beiswanger notes wryly, "is never explained."
Neither tower was built, nor was Jefferson's final tall design for Montalto: a giant column.
Beiswanger supposes that in 1786, while he was serving as minister to France, Jefferson probably saw the 115-foot-tall octagonal column designed by Lancelot "Capability" Brown for Lord Cobham in Stowe, England. Built in 1746 (and still standing), Cobham's tower offered the lord of the manor the ability to survey his extensive land-holdings and might be what led Jefferson to conclude that a column "will be preferable to anything else."
Unlike the two distinct towers, Jefferson left no drawing of his proposed column, but he wrote that it should be 200 feet high, should be crowned with a balustrade around the top of the capital (presumably to keep visitors from falling), and should have a five-foot-wide "hollow" in the center to hold the stairs.
"That's quite a tight twisting little stair," notes Beiswanger.
Because none of Jefferson's ever-changing plans advanced to construction, Beiswanger doubts that the Foundation will build any of the imagined structures.
One exception to the Foundation's build-only-what-TJ-built rule is the Foundation's completion in 2002 of Saunders Bridge, which gives Monticello and Montalto much safer entrances from the perilous curves of Route 53.
The bridge was designed to recall the Pont de Neuilly, which Jefferson admired while in Paris. Moreover, Saunders Bridge accomplished one of Jefferson's goals from his circa 1804 "General Ideas for the Improvement of Monticello," a notebook where he jotted plans for his properties and the crossing at Route 53, which he called the Thoroughfare:
"The north side of Monticello below the thoroughfare roundabout quite down to the river and all Montalto above the thoroughfare to be converted into park & riding grounds, connected at the Thoroughfare by a bridge, open, under which the public road may be made to pass so as not to cut off the communication between the upper and lower park grounds."
Once Monticello officials get title to the land, they want to see if they can find the spring Jefferson wrote about in his document about making Montalto a park and riding grounds: "The spring of Montalto either to be brought to Monticello by pipes or to fall over steps of stairs in cascade, made visible at Monticello through a vista."
That will be a fun project.
Kite day
For hundreds of Charlottesvillians, the most coveted invitation in town is a ticket to Kite Day, an annual outdoor celebration on top of the mountain. Admission is free– but an invitation is required.
Susan Brown Craig reveals that the event began in 1963 when a group of law students held a catered breakfast in, of all places, the barn lot. "My mother got the biggest kick out of that," she says. The breakfast, curiously, was originally a black tie affair for the residents and significant others. The kite-flying involved hundreds of guests in the afternoon– in casual attire.
Flying kites might have been fun on Kite Day, but it wasn't an activity to be recommended at other times. Ted Ruml, a UVA graduate student in the '70s and now a professor at UC San Bernardino, recalls the glory of watching storms approach the mountain.
"Thunderstorms were particularly remarkable," he says, "since you could see them advancing bit by bit."
Other residents, including Susan Craig, recall seeing the storm "eye to eye," surely an experience unique to those lucky enough to have called Brown's Mountain home.
How I got that mountain
The impending sale is the biggest land deal in Albemarle County history, save for the 2001 purchase of 1,400-acre Enniscorthy, widely alleged to have been financed by $17 million in "funny money."
Or unfunny money. Enniscorthy is a now court-ordered frozen asset, and the owner– Tyco's former chief financial officer, Mark Swartz– has been on trial in New York City since October on charges that he and company chief Dennis Kozlowski illegally gutted Tyco to the tune of $600 million.
The contract to buy Montalto gives the trustees of Monticello 45 days to study their purchase. As Dan Jordan tells the story, it's a nail-biter. He says the Thomas Jefferson Foundation, which owns Monticello, had made several quiet requests to buy the property in recent years.
"A year ago," begins Jordan, "it came on the market for $20 million, and select brokers were notified. There wasn't a lot of activity.
"We'd been on good terms with the seller," he says, "and were a little surprised we weren't notified."
Then, a month ago, he says, the seller dropped the price to $15 million. Along with the lower price, Monticello saw something new: an appraisal valuing the property at $22 million based on division into building lots. In one scenario, the land could have been divvied into 24 parcels.
"That was the catalyst," says Jordan. "Once we got calls that developers were moving rather rapidly, we knew we had to go for it, and the stars– luckily– were aligned."
On Friday, January 16, Jordan assembled his "dream team": the chair of the Foundation, a corporate attorney with real estate expertise, a donor to lead the fundraising campaign, the Foundation's chief financial officer, the development director, and one of Central Virginia's "best known realtors."
"We called all these people," says Jordan. "Every one of them had a conflict, but every one of them rearranged their schedules."
A lunch-time meeting with the dream team on Monday, January 19 went on for nearly six hours. The next day, Jordan assembled the board's executive committee by conference call and arranged another conference call with a quorum of the full board.
Jordan was giving his annual start-of-the year speech to the tour guides at the visitor's center on the evening of the 20th.
"One of the guides asked, 'Are we going do anything about Brown's Mountain?' All I could say was that it was on the market, and we had a keen interest in it. Ten minutes later, I was pulled out of the meeting to initial the contract."
Robins family
Although the trustee of the land trust selling Brown's Mountain is John C. Haskell Jr. of Richmond, reliable sources say the owner is his ex-wife, Ann Carol Robins Marchant, daughter of the late E. Claiborne Robins Sr., who turned a tiny Richmond pharmacy into a medical giant known for much of its life as A.H. Robins Company.
A.H. Robins gave the world Robitussin, Dimetapp, and Chapstick. Unfortunately, it also gave the women of the world an ill-fated birth-control device, the Dalkon Shield. An inter-uterine device introduced in 1971, the Dalkon Shield allegedly killed 17 and injured about 200,000 women, and brought the company's once flourishing fortunes to bankruptcy in 1985. Four years later, Robins merged with Whitehall; it is now a division of Wyeth, one of the world's largest companies.
Despite the business turmoil, the Robins family managed to hang on to a total fortune estimated by Virginia Business magazine at $450 million.
Is the Browns' daughter upset that her family didn't hold on long enough to reap $15 million? Is she upset that her parents sold their mountain for $601,783?
"Oh, no," answers Craig. "It's none of my business. I think it's worth 100 times that." She notes, though, that shortly before selling the property in 1974, her parents approached the trustees of Monticello.
"They didn't want it," says Craig. Indeed, Monticello director Jordan confirms that the board minutes from the 1970s show Monticello considering and passing on the purchase of Brown's Mountain.
Who is Haskell?
For the seller, John Haskell is the prime mover in the Brown's Mountain deal. He's a Richmond investment advisor and trustee of the Mountaintop Land Trust. He's also the man who located and purchased the property back in 1974, personally managed it until 1990, and negotiated its dramatic sale on January 20.
In the early 1970s, Haskell identified the 330.462 acres on Route 53 across from Jefferson's "little mountain" as a good investment. Although the land wasn't then listed, he engaged a broker and purchased the parcel in 1974 from the Browns. Haskell has bucolic pictures of sheep grazing around the many farm buildings the Browns converted to apartments.
After a disappointing experience with an early hired overseer, Haskell took over and managed the property himself from 1978 until 1990, when the stress of the weekly trip from Richmond began to take its toll. Since 1990, the 20 units on the mountain have been managed by Management Services Corp.
What made him decide that now was the time to sell? "With real estate," he says, "there's a life to the cycle of ownership– it had reached the time."
As for the $15 million sales price, Haskell describes a fairly simple method of calculation. "How do you judge the value of something that's utterly unique? It's such an unusual property that we didn't have a clue what it might be worth. We chose $20 million simply to get the ball rolling."
While circulating that trial price to a few select brokers, Haskell commissioned a professional appraisal to look at the parcel from multiple perspectives.
"A really good appraisal will find comparables, but obviously this is a unique, one-of-a-kind property," he says. He hired Jay B. Call III and Associates of Richmond, who after six months or so, came up with a "modified subdivision analysis."
"You ask, 'What's the highest and best use for this property?' Haskell explains. "We looked at it from a sales perspective that shows what the property would market for and then we used an income approach, which shows what the rents would be if it were developed."
"But of course Albemarle County is not known for being hospitable to developers," he adds somewhat ruefully.
Finally, Call did an expense analysis, figuring the costs of grading the slopes and upgrading water and roads. Haskell calls this "almost a formal preplanning for a subdivision."
"That's when we came up with the real estimate of $15 million, and that," he says, "was the offering price we gave to Monticello and other interested parties."
And that was the price and the prospect of 24 houses looking down on Jefferson's placid enclave that struck terror in the hearts of Dan Jordan and other Monticello bigwigs and sparked the frantic scrambling for consensus that led to the purchase, according to Jordan.
As Monticello officials and history lovers breathe a sigh of relief, what are Ms. Marchant's plans for her trust's $15 million windfall?
"That's something I will handle," Haskell says. "She won't be involved at all. She has all of her own interests and activities in life. She loves the property, but this was just another investment."
The future
"We're fanatical about planning," says Monticello's Jordan, clutching, for emphasis, the 200-plus-page study that guided the Foundation's replacement of the house roof in 1992. "We never go into a project without a plan."
And so specifics about Montalto's future are tough to extract from this scholar-fundraiser-planner. But in an interview in his cramped but convenient office– which, like much of the mountaintop, offers a clear view of Montalto– he lets a few morsels slip.
"The fundamental impulse," says Jordan, "is preservation." And he's not talking about preserving early 20th century farmsteads. Another point he notes is that the property was probably "80 percent" woods, so one gets the hunch that this bald mountain may not be bald forever.
Monticello has spent millions in donor and taxpayer funds to create the Saunders-Monticello Trail. Since its opening in 2002, as part of a $7 million project that included the new stone bridge, the trail has attracted over 35,000 hikers, bikers, and wheelchair-riders along its gentle two-mile climb through the woods. And Jordan wouldn't mind seeing it extended up to Montalto.
As for one burning question of the moment– whether any realtors will reap a commission– Jordan pleads ignorance. "I honestly don't know how those things work," he says. According to The Hook's trusty calculator, a realtor reaching in for just three percent– half of the standard six percent fee– could be looking at a cool $450,000.
"I'm not talking about anything," says Steve McLean, one of the two brokers reportedly involved in the proceedings.
About the Browns
As for the Browns, Lois and Nelson Brown sold Brown's Gifts in 1979, and they died in the mid-1980s. The store bearing their name at the corner of Fourth and Main survived until the early 1990s. "I think," says their daughter, "that they would be so pleased that it's been returned to Mr. Jefferson's hands– to where it started."
As for Monticello– the non-profit that didn't even have an endowment until 1993– Jordan is confident that closing the sale will happen on schedule, even if it requires some financing. Monticello can probably get a loan, as its endowment now stands, Jordan says, at $53 million.
"It's a very expensive approach to viewshed protection," says Jordan. "We're not in the real estate business, but we felt we had to act to save our viewshed and protect a community landmark."
Montalto, more recently Brown's Mountain, looms over Monticello's kitchen garden and Garden Pavilion, the site of the cover photo.
Two of the three designs for tall towers Jefferson wanted to build on Montalto
Monticello's director Daniel P. Jordan says the lowest edge of Montalto may someday house a new "campus" for administrators. (Montalto's peak is at his right index finger.)
This stone dwelling was once a much taller water tower– until the lightning strike of 1958.
Land baron James Addison Patterson lived at 2047 Chestnut Street in Philadelphia and donated $100,000 to move Martha Jefferson Hospital to Locust Avenue. The fate of "Repose," his summer house on Montalto, is unknown.
This stone building was once twice as tall– until the lightning strike of 1958.
The $15 million mountain offers excellent views of Monticello.
This big bridge connects Jefferson's two "parks."
If Brown's Mountain residents get thrown out, fans of high views may throng to nearby Carter Mountain Orchard, located southwest on the same ridge.
This big bridge connects Jefferson's two "parks." One long-running operation, cattle grazing, stopped about a year ago, when the landlord couldn't find a herder willing to maintain the fields and fences in exchange for use of the steep pastureland. "If you're a guy who's gonna run a mower," explains Rick Jones, "it's kind of scary."
This is not the trespassing sign– just the landlord's ID sign.
One can see modern-day models of Jefferson's Montalto tower designs in this Route 20 South visitor center building. (Monticello recently renewed its lease here, but is planning a $60 million center on its own land at the foot Monticello.)
Rosalind Warfield-Brown contributed to this report.


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In every business, the most important elements are its people, its processes and its products. As a side note, the efficiency with which the business operates is also a major determinant of its success. After passing my sixth year as an independent RIA, I find myself with more ideas than time to implement them. In fact, I first need to decide which ideas deserve to live and which do not.
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Michael Bush has asked that I participate in a discussuin on "Wintering Nucs."
I do winter nucs here in the northern Champlain Valley of Vermont and New York. More than 400 this winter. This is sometning that my good friend and sometimes mentor, Kirk Webster, has talked me into. I say talked me into, because at first I was not convinced. I mean, if my production colonies couldn't winter very well, how could 4 frame nucs. Anyway, I did give it a half hearted try...about 15 years ago.
I had a yard to move, one that had dwindled to only 15 colonies. The spot was too windy, and the road too rough, and the neighbors...recently built a house...too angry. Rather than just move them, I split them into 4 frame nucs, installed queens, and walked away. I wintered them on top of other colonies. 90% made it. I thought that was pretty amazing, considering I had done no management.
So, encouraged, I made more the next summer. I had two options. I could remove brood from production colonies, or I could split up weak...non-productive colonies. Since the best time for me to make these nucs is mid-summer, and that's when the crop is on, and would require lots of extra lifting, I chose the latter method.. It has become the foundation of my ability to keep my numbers up, and raise my own stock.
I think the method is simple enough, and what is required of each beekeeper is to get the timing right for each area of the country. Obviously, the time for making up nucs in Vermont will not be the same as for Nebraska where MB lives, or Virginia, or Ohio...etc.
Anyway, here in Vermont, the best time for making up nucs is mid to late July. Non-productive colonies are sacrifised. 1 1/2 frames of brood and bees are place in each nuc box, until all brood from the weak colony is used up. I use 4 frame, double nuc boxes, but the style isn't of much importance. It's what's in the box that counts. Along with the two frames containing brood, I add one comb of honey and pollen, and one empty comb or frame of foundation. This yields 4 - 6 nucs. I find if I make them too strong that they will swarm on the fall flow. So, resist adding extra shakes of bees...as you would with spring made splits. Mid-summer nucs are different. You want them to just build up enough to populate the box with young bees, and then shut down. Remember, when the brood hatches, there will be lots of bees. So, just add enough bees to cover the brood. Also remember...it is mid-summer. The nights are warmer, and chilled brood isn't much of a problem. Swarming is!! So, after making up what nucs you can from the weak hive. I move the nuc boxes to another yard and give each a laying queen or ripe cell.
The split up hive can often be saved, if you find the old queen, as they still have all the field bees. Give the one box on the bottom 4 to 6 combs of honey, and 4 to 5 empty combs, and the old queen. They build up quite quickly. When there is hatching brood, the unit can be requeened with the last round of mated queens...in August, and wintered on top of another colony. If you have a longer season, it can be increased to 1 1/2 stories, and wintewred on a stand that way.
A few weeks after making them up, they must be checked for strength. Those with exceptionally prolific queens will begin swarm preparationa on the fall (late) flows. Don't let this happen. If it does, you lose your bought or raised queen, and they often go into winter with small clusters...although many will still winter. Uf they are getting too strong...cups with eggs, or young cells are started, remove a frame, and add a empty or foundation. As long as there is a flow on, you have to manage them. Some will be so strong that you can remove two frames and give an empty and a foundation, or two empties. The idea is to have them packed with bees at the end of your last flow, with a couple frames of food, and no cells. THis is where the iming comes in. It's just something you will have to experiment with.
For winter...here...I want about 20 pounds of feed for winter. I don't want every cell and nook and cranny filled with honey or syrup. The bees still need clustering space...just like a full sized colony. I remove each frame, and see hoe much additional feed they will need to have 3.5 frames of feed...in a four frame nuc. They are moved in late fall, and winter on top of a production colony's inner cover. No communication hole or screen between the two. This gives them a nice warm dry place to winter. Further south, they can be wintered on a stand, and even stacked on top of each other...wintered in blocks of 6 or 9 double boxes.
Now, another plan is to start them earlier...say mid June here. These will positively swarm. So, after they fill their section, they are again split...say in mid-July. In this way, the original 4 - 6 nucs becomes 8 - 12. So, from your original weak colony, you can get anwhere from 4 to 12 nucs. Some years, the second round of splitting will yield 3 nucs from each original nuc, and will yield 12 - 18 nucs. This of course depends on where you keep bees, how strong your flows are, and how well they build up.
I think the biggest problems you will face are swarming, chalk brood, and poor queens. But if you make enough, you will have some spectacular nucs, some average nucs, and some duds that can be requeened and given brood from nucs that are too strong.
That's it for now. Have to go to Darts, where we're playing a top ranked team. We beat #1 the other night 20-10 I went out with 140 in 301, if you know what that means.
I'm sure I haven't been entirely clear on my procedure, and there will be plenty of questions...so I'll answer them as they come in.