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Village Nonprofit Groups Say They Are Surprised by a Steep Rise in Rents
Piotr Redlinski for The New York Times
Jeffery Corrick, artistic director of the Wings Theater in the Federal Archive Building, said his new annual rent would be $90,000 and his budget is $100,000.
By DAN LEVIN
Published: October 13, 2008
The Federal Archive Building, a sprawling Romanesque Revival structure near the waterfront in the West Village, has played many roles since it was built in 1899. For decades it was a fortress where government documents gathered dust, before becoming a post office and then falling vacant.
Piotr Redlinski for The New York Times
A directory of tenants lists several nonprofit organizations.
In the early 1980s, when the western edge of the Village was rather forlorn, the hulking building was reincarnated as a habitat for the wealthy and a haven for nonprofit cultural groups and social service providers.
Most of the 10-story building, which was transferred to state ownership from the federal government in the 1970s, was converted into 479 luxury apartments, as well as commercial space. Part of three floors and the basement were leased at below-market rents to four small theater groups and to four organizations helping drug addicts, the elderly, small literary publishers and advocating for gay rights.
But now, some of those organizations, which helped revitalize the neighborhood, are facing huge rent increases that could force them not only from the building but from the neighborhood.
The neighborhood is much nicer than when the nonprofit tenants moved into the raw spaces in the archive building, on Christopher Street between Greenwich and Washington Streets. Gleaming high-rise buildings line the once-decayed waterfront, and gentrification has long since pushed out many of the neighborhood's artists, musicians and playwrights.
Celebrities walk tiny pedigreed dogs past the D'Agostino supermarket in the building's southern end, while office workers head to yoga classes at the Crunch gym in the building's northern end.
Some residents complain that the loss of four theater companies would further deplete the West Village's cultural heritage. "We've seen over and over again that the pioneers who made the Village the Village end up being forced out," said Andrew Berman, the executive director of the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation. "There is a certain unease in the neighborhood about our western edge being turned into the condo coast. While it may be great for real estate values, it's not great for making a community."
In the early 1980s, state officials gave the Rockrose Development Corporation permission to convert the vacant red-brick building into luxury apartments, but with a condition: The company would have to set aside 54,000 square feet for local nonprofit groups whose rent would be 80 percent of the market rate .
The lease that those tenants signed with Rockrose was for 25 years, and it expires at the end of this month. During the summer, Rockrose informed the nonprofit tenants that their annual rents would increase by as much as 500 percent, according to a statement by the developer at a recent meeting of the local community board's zoning and housing committee.
The announcement sent many of the tenants into a panic.
"We and Rockrose live in different universes," said Jeffery Corrick, the artistic director of Wings Theater, which has produced new plays on its small basement stage for 18 years. Mr. Corrick said Rockrose told his organization that its monthly rent would increase to $7,500 from $1,500.
That translates to an annual rent of $90,000, while the group's annual budget is $100,000. "What's reasonable to them would, in effect, drive us out of business," Mr. Corrick said.
Other tenants also said they were surprised by the size of the increase. Jeffrey Horowitz, the founder of Theater for a New Audience, which runs a drama program that introduces Shakespeare into city public schools, said Rockrose told the group in July that starting this month, its annual rent would rise to $70,000 from $22,000. "There was no warning," he said. "It takes a year to raise funds for fiscal budgets, and even then it would be impossible. They're doing this in a way that is frankly brutal."
Patricia Dunphy, a vice president of Rockrose, said the nonprofit organizations knew an increase was coming because they were warned that their rents would be raised once the leases expired. "This was not a big surprise," she said.
Local elected officials have become involved in the dispute, hoping to find a way to allow the nonprofits to keep their spaces. The community board is pressuring the Empire State Development Corporation, which owns the property, to work out a compromise.
"These not-for-profits perform a lot of important services, and now they're being priced out of the neighborhood they helped found," said Brad Hoylman, the chairman of Community Board 2, which covers the area.
The development corporation and the City Council speaker, Christine C. Quinn, have said they are meeting with both sides to find a solution. But it is unclear how much state officials can do, because Rockrose signed a 99-year lease with the state on the building in 1982, making the company the effective landlord.
Some of the nonprofit organizations, including Heritage of Pride, a gay advocacy group, and the Village Center for Care, a health services agency that receives government financing, said they had reached a verbal understanding with Rockrose on an increase they could afford.
They are waiting to see what the negotiations might yield. "We're a microcosm of what's happening to nonprofits all across the city: the costs of rent, transportation and health care make it really tough to stay in New York," said Arthur Webb, the chief executive of Village Care. "But Rockrose made it very clear they wanted us as a tenant."
Some of the nonprofits noted that the increase came at an especially inopportune time for fund-raising. "Foundation giving is tied to a foundation's stock portfolio," said Jeffrey Lependorf, the executive director of the Council of Literary Magazines and Presses, a tenant since 1991. "To find new money in this terrible economic climate will make this very difficult. We need time so we aren't forced out and made homeless."
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To kick things off, here's some exclusive footage of Spiritualized live at Glastonbury in 1993, performing the song 'Smiles' shot by the makers of Glastonbury the Movie: In Flashback (see below).
Glastonbury The Movie: In Flashback
In cinemas nationwide on the 29th June 2012 is Glastonbury the Movie: In Flashback, which is a new version of the documentary originally released in the early 90s. In their own words it "is a revealing snapshot of British cultural history drops you right in the middle of the best of the old-school pre TV camera Glastonburys." The doc features live performances from The Verve, Omar, Spiritualized (see above), Stereo MCs, Lemonheads and many more. It was directed by Robin Mahoney, who says it's "From the point of view of festival goers, and not just point our cameras at the bands, we've ended up with a telling picture of British life at that time". For more info visit glastonburythemovie.com. This is the trailer:
Speaking of festivals... you may remember that a few weeks back there was one in Brighton named The Great Escape, and that DiS curated three nights of music, one of which was headlined by the makers of one of the albums of the year so far: Errors. The scots blew our heads off. People danced like robots on acid. It was 'good times' indeed. Thankfully the chaps from BeatCast were there to capture the action, and we can now bring you the whole live set, which is very likely to get you dancing at your desk...
Speaking of awesome Scottish music... Meursault have shared their first single from their new album Something For the Weakened (out via Song, by Toad on 16th July 2012). We loved their previous album (have a read of this) and we like this new tune, and if you do too, pick yourself up the coloured 7".
Lana del Rey
In case you missed this:
Gemma Hayes
Just before the Irish songstress played the DiS stage at The Great Escape, Gemma Hayes sat down with DiS and Beatcast to discuss sanity, how grunge and Bob Dylan inspired her and she shared some thoughts on writing music with a hangover...
...and in case you missed it, here's the session Gemma recorded for us backstage...
Two Gallants
San Francisco duo Two Gallants re-appeared on the radar this week, with news that their fourth LP The Bloom and the Blight will be released on Monday 8th October via Fargo Records. The first tastes sounds more subtle and restrained (some might say refined) than we remember them, but it's a decent tune nonetheless...
They're back and waxing lyrical about blogger thugs, shittin' black blood, groupies with big breasts sending out group texts, first world curses and sturdy purses... WHY?'s 'Sod in The Seed' EP will be released on the 13th of August via City Slang in Europe and Anticon in the US, as a limited edition release of 1000 12" vinyl at their the tour. It will be also available digitally. Tour dates and more over at whywithaquestionmark.com.
La Shark
This came out as a single this week...it's as delightfully delirious as anything these South Londoners have done to date, flying in a Mystery Jet and crashing into Sparks' wardrobe...
This press release is too funny (both peculiar and haha) for me to waste my time writing anything...
Gatekeeper have blessed us with a special edit of "Tree Drum" which includes "Pre-Gen". This is true to the listening experience, which has no gaps in between tracks. New media artist and 2011 Rhizome Grant winner, Tabor Robak, has painstakingly designed a fully explorable virtual environment to featuring music from Exo to complement the LP's release. Additionally he designed the artwork and a special font which can be used to decipher hidden messages within the artwork.
Pineal activation. IMAX phantasy. Drippy acid ecosystems. HD....everything. All contribute to the sentient environment that is Exo, Gatekeeper's debut LP dropping on LA-based label Hippos In Tanks. Demented and celebratory, sinister but pure-hearted, Exo is a cerebral spectacle, a gapless playback rush of digitally-enhanced stimulation. [SNIP!]
Exo will be available worldwide July 17th, 2012 on Hippos In Tanks.
Jimmy Edgar
Here's the video for 'Let Yrself Be', the second single to be taken from Jimmy's recently released album, Majenta on Hotflush Recordings.
Jessie Ware on The Selector radio show
The UK government and its arts funding side of things has been getting a lot of flack, especially over the cultural olympiad, but did you know the British Council does a hugely popular radio show hosted by Goldierocks? This regular two hour selection of new music from the UK is exported worldwide and is well worth a listen, especially as this edition of show features a special interview with Jessie Ware. More info over on selector-radio.com.
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General Fiasco - Bad Habits (Dirty Hit)
Benjamin James Smith - The Source (NuNorthern Soul)
FOE – Frankenstein (CDR)
Arrows Of Love - Honey (Handspun & Superdark Records)
Among Brothers - Keep (Kissability)
Liz Lawrence - Hold On (Young and Lost Club)
Micachu & The Shapes - OK (Rough Trade Records)
Jessie Ware Tea & Tunes
Jessie Ware & SBTRKT – Nervous (Numbers)
Jessie Ware – 110% (PMR Records)
Jessie Ware – Wildest Moments (PMR Records)
Jessie Ware – Running (PMR Records)
Jessie Ware & Sampha – What You Won't Do For Love (Free Download)
Frameworks Feat. Rioghnach Connolly - Dawn (First Word Records)
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Spectrasoul Feat. Tamara Blessa - Away With Me (Shogun Audio)
Deco Child – S & G (Ninja Tune)
Jaymo & Andy George – The Hump (Moda Black)
Datassette - People Without Mouths (Shipwrec)
Two Inch Punch Feat. Mikky Ekko - Paint It Red (PMR Records)
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Julio Bashmore - Battle For Middle You (PMR Records)
Mosca - Bax (Numbers)
Redlight - Get Out My Head (More Than Alot Records)
Baxta - Off The Chain (Cheap Thrills)
DJ Kentaro - Step In Feat. Foreign Beggars (Ninja Tune)
Joker - Lost (Redlight Remix) (4AD)
Foamo - Sherlock (Fat!)
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"John Scofield is an icon in the world of improvised music," said Corey Christiansen, director of the guitar program in the Caine College of the Arts. "He has firmly placed himself among the most important innovators in improvised music and has worked with the most important figures in jazz, including Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock and countless others."
Scofield began playing the guitar at age 11 and is currently an adjunct professor of music at New York University. He has worked with Charles Mingus, Miles Davis, Pet Metheny, Herbie Hancock, Tony Williams and many others. Touring 200 days of the year with his own groups, Scofield works both as a performer and composer.
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Clay County, Texas farmer Tommy Henderson may not know everything about farming, but he's got more than the basics covered—even during a historic drought.
Over the last two years, Henderson's crops have received just half the average annual rainfall.
"Yeah, I need rain," he admits. "But I think my neighbors need it a little worse than I do."
His neighbors are conventional farmers, plowing their fields over many times to prepare a seedbed for their wheat crop. With less than an inch of rain falling since the beginning of October, many wheat crops in the area are beginning to fail.
Not Henderson's. Three years ago he took a leap of faith and made a drastic change in his farming operation. With assistance from USDA's Natural Resource Conservation Service and other sources, he became a no-till farmer.
As farmers know, healthy soil is productive soil. Henderson's three years of no-till management, which leaves the previous crop's plant residue in the field, has already improved the soil structure on even his hardest clay soils. Healthier soils allow plant roots to penetrate deep and find new moisture and nutrient layers to keep them alive.
After researching and attending several workshops on ways to improve soil health, Henderson made an additional change in his farm management program last year when he planted summer cover crops of guar beans and sesame seeds.
Henderson says he chose these particular crops for their ability to add nitrogen to the soil.
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Henderson only considers drought-tolerant varieties for his summer crops. While his crops last summer did use some of the moisture in the soil, Henderson says in the end they helped the soil retain more moisture than it could have without the crop.
"You can't buy rain, so the fact that the cover crop is why my wheat crop has access to moisture in the middle of a drought is a big deal," he says.
Henderson's soil might remain under cover, but his success with cover crops won't. This success will be important as Henderson and other farmers gear up for what is shaping up, according to government forecasts, to be another dry growing season in many parts of the country in 2013.
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We are attempting the same here at DHS.
no-till has been used for a long time in Illinois and Wisconsin for soybeans and wheat...nothing new really
Sean, I'm guessing no-till has been used in Illinois and Wisconsin to prevent soil erosion. In this case we learn that no-till is also a valuable method to beat drought and that is what is new in this case.


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Heidi Klum is no stranger to the fashion world. She was a runway model and Victoria's Secret Angel for years and is the founder and host of Project Runway and Germany's Next Top Model. So it doesn't come as a surprise that the model, designer, and mom of four would be taking in shows during New York Fashion Week. We caught up with Heidi backstage at BCBG Max Azria, where she talked to us about Project Runway's upcoming finale ("we had so many tears on the runway this season") as well as her favorite way to put a spin on a Max Azria original, saying, "Just chop it off!"
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Man Wins $1 Million Lotto – Then Dies of Cyanide Poisoning: Police
Urooj Khan's death is first blamed on natural causes but now may be murder
Urooj Khan won a million dollar lottery, but he lost his life the day after collecting his winnings. Now, the authorities suspect that the Chicago man was the victim of foul play.
Pathologists initially believed Khan died of natural causes, but have since changed their minds after a relative asked them to re-examine his death and they detected lethal amounts of cyanide in his blood.
"We are investigating the incident as a murder and are working closely with the medical examiner," Chicago Police spokeswoman Melissa Stratton tells PEOPLE.
Khan, a 46-year-old hardworking entrepreneur from India, bought the two lottery scratch-off tickets at a convenience store near his home last June.
Moments after scratching off the second ticket, he reportedly jumped into the air and screamed, "I hit a million!" then handed the clerk a hundred-dollar bill out of gratitude.
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Shabana Ansari, 32, his wife of 12 years, telephoned paramedics and he was rushed to nearby St. Francis Hospital where doctors pronounced him dead several hours later.
Khan's blood sample showed no signs of carbon monoxide, opiates or alcohol. And because there were no visible signs of trauma to his body and no evidence of foul play, pathologists didn't believe an autopsy needed to be performed.
His death was attributed to hardening of the arteries and Khan was eventually buried at a local cemetery.
But before a week had passed, an unidentified relative telephoned the Cook County Medical Examiner's office, saying that he suspected foul play. A morgue worker took another look at Khan's blood sample and this time discovered lethal levels of cyanide.
"If a family member has a concern that seems valid, we take those seriously," Cook County Medical Examiner Stephen Cina tells the Chicago Tribune. "We can't [ordinarily] look for every toxin under the sun like a CSI episode."
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M. Night Shyamalan thriller, so there should be a twist at the end that you makes your jaw drop and your head spin and you say out loud, "What?! No way!!" At least there should be that kind of twist.
Dirk Diggler (sans penis), John Leguizamo, Zooey Deschanel (this is her real name), and the wind. The mighty, vengeful, fear-inducing wind...
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A crazy toxin that forces people to kill themselves in the most over-the-top fashion is infecting large cities. People leave the cities trying to get away from it, thinking it's a terrorist event but that doesn't seem to help. The resulting chaos along the northeastern seaboard results in smaller pockets of people running into more rural areas to get away from this killer airborne toxin. Sounds intense, doesn't it?
Well that's what I thought, too. My sister warned me, but did I listen? No way. Because I love M. Night Shyamalan movies. And so do a lot of people. Remember the first time you saw
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and Samuel L. Jackson turned out to be a crazy terrorist obsessed with becoming a comic book style villain. And I remember being so scared when I saw
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, when a lot of people said it sucked. I stood by Night then, and reminded people that you do slightly unorthodox things to stay on top in Hollywood and no one saw that twist coming in the end, did they? But then
Lady In The Water
happened. Unfortunately, I was in Iraq at the time and I committed to just buying this movie sight unseen because I was sure I wouldn't be disappointed. And I watched it by myself and I never spoke another word about it. I filed it in with my other DVD's and forgot about it until I posted it on eBay last year (I got no bids). So, the long-coming revelation is here.
This movie sucked worse than any movie I've seen in a very long time. Without exaggeration, I could watch every scene in this movie and tell you what sucks about it. Let's start with the premise. And I'll tell you right now, I'm gonna give away the whole movie... The premise of the story is that the plants in North America are releasing toxins into crowds of people as a means of defense, sort of like algae do in the ocean sometimes, resulting in the "
red tide
" (I would encourage you to Google it). The released toxin causes people to stop what they were doing and kill themselves as casually as buying milk. Now this is a highly unlikely scenario but so was
The Village
and it was cool because Night showed you how people might truly react in an otherworldly situation, given their circumstances, lending to the weight and sense of reality of the story. In this movie, you get the otherworldly scenario but it's STUPID, for starters, and the individual reactions of the characters aren't at all what any normal person would do. A guy fell off a roof in front of his construction crew and the crew looks back at him and says, very matter of fact, "Jenkins just fell off the roof," then they slowly walk over to his mangled body, and almost whisper into the radio, "We need a medic." And it's not just the character actors, it's the stars of this movie that drop the biggest deuce. John Leguizamo, I can't fault, he's decent, it's just bad writing that made him hand over his only child to a woman he didn't like in the first place so he could find his wife who he probably knew was dead anyway. And Mark Wahlberg, I'm surprised sucked it up so bad in this one. If his acting was the result of over-direction, then maybe I can excuse it. He was so stiff, so monotone, so incompetent, at one point, when the group he wasn't associated with started shooting themselves, he actually told his group to "Give me a minute. I need to think." This gunshot-then-gimme-a-minute banter played out for about 5 or 6 shots, till everyone was dead. So... I guess no need for a few more minutes to think, right? Problem solved!
Then there's the love interest, Alma, played by Zooey Deschanel... I hate her because she survives it. Even though she's still getting phone calls throughout this national epidemic from some unseen tool named Joey who she went on a date with, but didn't screw. And Alma's personality is more expressionless than the wind that's chasing them. She's dry. She's more monotone than tree bark. I wish she'd died in the beginning of the movie in order to notch up the action a little and add some emotion to Wahlberg's character. All in all, the acting in this film is so sub-par, I thought it was a joke. Like a high school production of Curse Of The Pharaoh's Kiss.
Along with the seemingly intentional bad acting, the plot is filled with holes big enough to drive a truckbomb through and where there aren't holes to aggravate you, there's always the incredibly bad writing. Some examples of the awful writing Night has reduced himself to...
- In order to advance the plot, this is how you find out what's killing everyone: One of the survivors happens to run a greenhouse and he gets to utter this gem of a line,
"We're packing hot dogs for the road. You know, hot dogs get a bad rep. They gotta cool shape, they got protein. I think I know what's causing this. It's the plants. They can release chemicals."
This conversation takes place inside a greenhouse. Am I the only person who finds this scenario to be ridiculous? If you know the plants are releasing chemicals, why don't we go hang out in my building full of plants and talk about hot dogs?
- At some point, two middle-school kids join the group. Then the crew happens upon a house, they try to force their way in, and a shotgun barrel comes through the window and kills the kids. I didn't even care. I didn't know these idiots five minutes ago. Did anyone mention their names? Not to mention this scene plays like a bad after-school movie, complete with slow motion yelling, "Noooooooooooooo!"
- As the survivors are driving around the back roads, they come to an intersection where bodies are blocking the road, so it's obvious that the toxin is now in this area. But they continue to drive around with the windows down! How Busch League is that?!
- At one point, Mark Wahlberg, Zooey Deschanel, and a 5-year-old girl are actually running from the wind.
- Don't miss Mark Wahlberg trying to make nice with a houseplant! If you talk like you're buddies, they won't try to kill you! Plants are evil but they're also pretty desperate for affection.
- In the end, there's an old farmhouse inhabited by a creepy, potentially crazy lady. She apparently doesn't like having company but still invites them in for supper. Then during dinner she smacks the hand of the 5-year-old girl (Bing Crosby-hard) when she reaches for a cookie and this action isn't really explained. It just happens. (Gasp!)
- The radio randomly tied to a fencepost? Best scene because it's the worst scene.
- When Mark W and Zooey D decide they can't run anymore and they should just accept their fate, they walk outside into the infected air but nothing happens. They nonchalantly walk back into the house and Mark W's voiceover says, "The event must've ended before we went outside." Are you kidding me?! The old lady just killed herself 10 minutes earlier!
The final comment on the writing is actually going to wrap up my review, since it has to do with the film's explanation of the plants releasing toxins and the cause of it. It's dumb enough to suppose that oak trees can communicate with sawgrass via chemicals they release spread by the wind, or that you can run away from said wind if the grass pasture you're in suddenly becomes "infected." In the end, I was hoping it would all be tied together by the explanation. Why did these plants suddenly decide to release suicide-inducing chemicals? I figured Night would be smarter than to go for the obvious Green angle. The explanation?
It was a random act of nature and we'll probably never fully understand it.
Are. You. Kidding me? I sat through an hour and a half of this steaming pile, hoping for some resolution at the end and this is what I get? It's the single laziest piece of script writing I've ever seen. There was some eluding to environmentalism but that's the overall lesson you get to take home with you: Nobody knows. Probably never will.
This movie was so incredibly awful in every respect, that I sent my sister a text towards the end and I asked her if it was all a big joke, because the acting and story were so bad. She sent back, "Maaaaaaybe..." So I was hopeful! I thought it would all wrap up and my sister was playing an elaborate joke on me and it was all gonna be revealed and my jaw would drop and my head would spin and I'd go, "No way!!" But then the credits rolled and I was only left with anger. Mostly with my sister. Dammit, Rachel. But I guess you couldn't have prepared me for how bad it really was. Nobody should watch this movie ever, unless they've read this blog first and know what they're getting into. Is it possible that, for some unknown reason, this movie was supposed to be this bad? I have to lean towards NO, only because I watched the Making Of featurettes to verify if there was any tongue-in-cheek, winking, or nudging involved in the production. Sadly, there is not. What you see is what you get. A famous Hollywood director with too much free reign who was allowed to make The Happening because nearly everything else he's done has been groundbreaking. But I know I'll think twice from now on about standing behind any movie written, produced, and directed by M. Night Shyamalan.
1 out of 10. It gets a point for the irony of having to watch all these people committing suicide and there I was, wishing I was running myself over with a lawnmower too...
Best Scene:
Ugh. Not because it's any good but because it's the one where I realized this was the worst movie: The final group of 3 people is wandering around the rural countryside and they happen across a radio. Tied to a fencepost. In the middle of nowhere. And it works. And it's tuned to the emergency broadcast station.
What my wife sai
d: Fortunately, I spared Jessi having to watch this movie. I think she would've come at me Chris Brown-style if I made her sit through this one.
Who would enjoy this movie:
I found some people online who were wondering why people hated this movie. Their posted comments usually read like this:
i dont no y evry1 is dissin this move i dint think it was 2 bad sure mark wolberg could of done better but i myself personly enjoyed it maybe u just dont get it
That last quote just made my spellcheck crash. Who would like this movie? Your ficus.
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Lieutenant General[1], AFP; O-4475.
Top junior tennis player in Carcar; high school salutatorian, Carcar Academy 1954; PMA 1960 (no. 10 of 60), Army officer, served in Vietnam; as lieutenant general, the highest rank in the AFP achieved by a Carcaranon as Commanding General of the AFP Southern Command (entire Mindanao); rare achievement of having commanded three of the 8 (then) infantry divisions of the Phil. Army–the 3rd (Western and Central Visayas), 1st (Zamboanga peninsula) and 6th (Central Mindanao); the Northern Luzon Command (1990) and the Southern Command 1991 to 1993; after retirement was class president, PMA Class 1960 for several years; Chairman, PMA Alumni Association, 2009-2010 but was not able to finish his term; buried at the Libingan ng mga Bayani near the grave of another Carcaranon, Brig. Gen. Alfonso Alcoseba.
Married to Dr. Juliet Batisan Aliga from Nueva Ecija with 4 children.
PMA Class of 1960 (GT Yap rightmost, first row. Opposite him leftmost, first row, is Thaval Sawangpungka of Thailand, first foreign graduate of the PMA who also graduated Class Valedictorian. (photo 1960 by Peary G. Aleonar)
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Hottest bus: A Charlottesville Area Transit vehicle bursts into flame June 1 on Water Street when, according to reports, a broken fuel line ignites. Nobody was hurt.
Worst train casualty: A CSX train eastbound in Scottsville strikes a person on the tracks around 2am June 1. Determining it to be a suicide, police release no further information.
Worst dispute between neighbors: Vernon Leroy Shifflett is found guilty of voluntary manslaughter in the shooting of his neighbor, Gifford "Trix" Crawford, and sentenced to six months in jail and a $1,000 fine, the Progress reports. After eight hours of deliberation, the jury decides to reject the prosecution's first-degree murder charge for the August 10 shooting.
Worst friend killing: Richard Allan Smith Jr., 24, is convicted June 2 of voluntary manslaughter for the beating/choking death of his friend, Pierre-Louis Rigaut, 23, at Graves Mountain Lodge last July. Smith claims self defense in the death of Rigaut, who received at least 30 blows to his body and 13 to his head and face, the Culpeper Star-Exponent reports.
Worst driving: Fisherville resident James Odell Johnson, 41, is charged with a DUI and reckless driving after he shuts down I-64 west June 4 by losing control of his motorcycle, the Newsplex reports. Witnesses say he was driving around 100mph and weaving in and out of traffic before losing control around the Crozet exit. He and his wife, both in serious condition, are thrown from the bike before it bursts into flames.
Biggest national loss: Lawrence Eagleburger, 80, who served as secretary of state under President George H.W. Bush, dies June 4 at the UVA Medical Center.
Biggest local loss: Joseph T. Henley Jr., 82, apple grower and elected official, dies May 27 at his home.
Latest Greene County school bus crash: A driver and six elementary school students are injured when a car hits the bus as it crosses U.S. 29 June 1, according to NBC29. Driver Lori Whittmeyer, 62, is charged with failure to yield the right of way and suspended for the rest of the school year. Another bus hit a guardrail on May 20.
Harshest rebuke: The man who spent 41 years (until a dying woman's deathbed confession) as the key suspect in the horrific 1967 High's Ice Cream double-murders, William W. Thomas Jr. gets a response from the City of Staunton to his $200-million wrongful prosecution lawsuit; and it asserts that Thomas filed too late and asks the federal court to force the seemingly broke 68-year-old Spottswood resident to pay the City's legal expenses.
Biggest dump: Several tons of treated human waste are sprayed May 31 on an 88-acre property owned by Jane C. Williamson In Carrsbrook along the South Fork of the Rivanna River, Charlottesville Tomorrow reports. The Virginia Department of Environmental Quality regulates the use of so-called "biosolids," but some neighbors are concerned about health risks.
Biggest pot bust: Staunton man Malik B. Porter, 33, is charged with distribution after he accepts delivery from UPS of two packages containing 50 pounds of marijuana, the News Leader reports.
Most suspicious outage: CenturyLink internet and long-distance services are interrupted for much of Monday, June 6 when two major fiber optic lines– one in Winchester and in Goldsboro, North Carolina, are cut. The downtime lasted from around 8:30am to nearly 3pm.
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Virginia lefty Danny Hultzen is taken second overall by the Mariners in the 2011 baseball draft. This earns dedicated stories in the Washington Post and elsewhere but no mention in the Hook?
No surprise that the MSM would fawn all over a lefty baseball player. I myself am pleased that the Hook staff acted as Real Americans ought and showed some restraint in that regard.
It's pretty lame that many of these blurbs are just cut & paste from other news agencies that actually do the research.
And....how would you suggest The Hook better tackle summarizing what's gone on in a week here in Charlottesville/Albemarle?
What, just because all the local news agencies have covered these stories means The Hook can't summarize what's gone on here this week? What kind of logic is that?
The logic, is laziness you moron. if they're going to cover it then cover it, not copy verbatim from someone who actually did the work. This is typacle charlottesville half-ass-nes.


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Guitarists have always been wild experimenters, using endless configurations of gear and gadgetry to get the sounds we're seeking. Open tunings have long been a mainstay of that process, and recently partial capos have been letting guitarists get that open-tuning feel without actually going to all the trouble of tuning. With so many capo manufacturers offering this option, we decided to take a closer look and see what they have to offer.
A Partial Capo Primer
Before we dig in to the different models, it might be useful to talk a little about the different styles and applications of partial capos. The earliest experimenters, like Harvey Reid (who made himself a partial capo at home before there were any on the market, and helped to develop the Third Hand capo) would put their normal capos on either upside-down to leave the bass string open, or only part of the way across to get some droning treble sounds. Then some folks began to put multiple capos on, terraced down the fretboard, to create additional voices that could add bass or open-string style tension to a song.
If you want a crash course in what can be done with these gadgets, check out some of Harvey Reid's music, or another early user, Ed Supple, who did a lot of session work in Nashville and used partial capos to create sounds that nobody has quite figured out yet. He also introduced Michael Hedges to the partial capo, and of course that opened up entirely new territories.
It takes a little adjusting to get the hang of playing with these capos, because although they do make the guitar sound like it's in these altered tunings, it's really not, and the chord shapes are not the open tuning shapes. With the DADGAD capo (because it's really EBEABE, which is almost as much fun to say) or Open-G capo (which is really just a regular A-chord, and sadly unpronouncable— EAEAC#E), the open voice sounds like the tuning, but all the other chords are the same as in standard. Lead playing in first position is slightly complicated by having some of the strings ringing open differently, so they're not terribly appealing for that purpose, but as a fingerstyle tool or in the hands of a great rhythm guitar player, they can give you a cool opentuning vibe without actually having to learn to play in one. Your guitar stays in whatever tuning it's in, for example standard tuning, so you can play standard tuning chords and riffs above the capo and still have that open-tuning sound when you want. Some capos are low profile, allowing you to reach over to fret those missing bass notes, while others are not.
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There are three broad categories: fixed, adjustable and, for the want of a better word, special. The fixed category contains the capos that block certain strings specifically, either from the bass side, or flipped to the treble side. The adjustable category contains the capos that cover all the strings, but allow you to choose which strings to leave open, basically giving you all the fixed capo options with a single device. The special capos don't fit in either of these categories, and are unique unto themselves. We'll be looking at three parameters in our evaluation: quality, ease of use, and usefulness. For these tests, the guitars stayed in standard tuning.
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Kyser sent us four different configurations to play with: Drop-D, Double Drop-D, Shortcut-to- DADGAD and Open G. The Kysers are sturdy, work exactly like they're supposed to, and have a very nifty addition they call a K-Lever, which lets you catch the low D-string with your index finger should you want to play an F#m chord, which you probably will (though it takes a little planning to make sure you hit it right, and yes, with a little practice you can get a lovely hammer-on/pull-off effect with it). All four models are lightning quick to put on and take off, too.
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Left: Woodie's G-Band and G-Band II Right: Shubb
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Ease of useAdjust for your guitar's neck and snap it into place at the second fret; nice low profile allows for "reaching over" with a little practice.
Usefulness A useful tool that gives you two voices, it has a solid place in a professional setting.
Woodie's G-Band and G-Band II
The G-Band is like a clip that you clench on to either side of the fretboard to cover the bass or treble side only. The G-Band covers one string, and the G-band II covers two. I played with these a bit and didn't really get a whole lot from them, so I surfed around on their web site and watched their video demo, and I got what they're going for. If you want a high drone in the key you're playing in, sort of like a 5-string banjo, then you can set a G-Band up for that kind of feel (depending on your guitar, you may even want to use metal fingerpicks and pick way down toward the bridge for a really twangy banjo-like sound). You can tune your low E and A strings down to D and G and put the G-Band II on the treble side at the third fret for some terrifically funky DGDGDG pickin'.
Quality They seem solid and sturdy enough, but I had a little trouble getting the G-Band II to fret clean on my 1-3/4" wide fingerboard.
Ease of useEasy as pie on a 1-11/16" fretboard.
UsefulnessI could see this come in handy as a flavoring, sprinkled judiciously on a CD or in a set, but I don't see it as a workhorse.


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Chattanooga City Council members are wondering whether it's time to put the brakes on tax breaks for employers and developers.
Council Chairwoman Pam Ladd said the city provides essential services to new and expanding businesses, and "it's time we get some paybacks."
Council members are expected to discuss and vote tonight on moratorium of PILOT, or payment-in-lieu-of-taxes, agreements. These agreements historically have been tools for the city and county to lure developers or job creators by offering them tax breaks on property taxes.
The tax break formula traditionally required new or expanding businesses to pay the portion of property taxes that go to education. But Ladd asserts that is not enough anymore. The city also provides services, such as including fire and police protection, that should be accounted for in the tax break formula.
"We can't afford to just keep giving PILOTS," Ladd said.
The Chattanooga Area Chamber of Commerce helps negotiate deals with businesses and industries looking for tax breaks. Ron Harr, the Chamber's president and CEO, said Monday that incentives must be provided to keep Chattanooga competitive with other cities.
"We understand the city's concerns, and we're researching ways to restructure the program to address their issues," Harr said in a statement. "In the meantime, we hope the City Council will exercise its authority to consider tax incentive applications on a case-by-case basis to avoid the possibility of losing projects that would create large numbers of jobs for Chattanooga's citizens."
Richard Beeland, spokesman for Mayor Ron Littlefield, said slowing job growth is the last thing the city wants to do.
"Moratorium is not the right word," he said. "It should be a temporary suspension."
Many companies in the past have received tax breaks from the city and county. Some of the breaks have been given for newly created jobs, others for facility expansions or equipment.
Backers of two proposed student housing projects want council approval for tax breaks. The council is expected to discuss those projects and tax breaks tonight.
Ladd said there is inequality with the way the current tax break program is set up because the county receives education funds while the city gets nothing.
Hamilton County Commission Chairman Larry Henry said the county gives up its portion of property tax revenue as well. The education money flows to schools in the city and county, he said.
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Councilman Jack Benson, chairman of the economic development committee, said he thinks it's time for a restructuring that is more favorable to the city. He will be talking about the issue this afternoon during his committee meeting.
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Books About Family
This blog chronicles my life as an early literacy teacher. And right now my job as an early literacy teacher is to help my own three kiddos, two of which will be coming home from Ethiopia soon (still don't have a travel date yet. Wah!). I guess this is a disclaimer... or maybe an apology, for all my recent posts. Hopefully there is something to be gleaned by most of you teachers and parents reading these posts. And I've been appreciative of all the help you guys have been giving me in this area!
There are so many, many things I love about picture books. One of the things I love about them is how therapeutic they can be, and how they can open the door to talk about tough topics.
My Ethiopian children are grieving. That I already know. And when they join our family, they will be confused... unsure. Wondering if this new family is permanent. So right now I'm seeking to find some picture books that might help comfort, assure, and allow them to heal.
They aren't likely to speak much/any English when they first come home. But I've been told they pick it up quickly. I'm still not feeling very confident in my abilities to teach two older, non-English speakers, who have just been through a lot of upheaval (understatement), how to speak and read and write English. But that's a whole other post...
I'm trusting in the magic of picture books to help with the English learning while also addressing what they're dealing with emotionally, all while assisting us in the bonding process (as we snuggle and read together).
Here are some books I'm thinking might be good ones. I know this is just the tip of the iceberg, and that there are tons I'm leaving out and unaware of. So please share your book suggestions in the comments!
Rotten Ralph by Jack Gantos - I like the way it assures that love is not conditional of behavior. Sarah loves Ralph not matter what.
Llama Llama Red Pajama - Anna Dewdney - A sweet assurance that Mommy is always nearby.
The Heart and the Bottle - Oliver Jeffers - Might be over their heads, but if not, could potentially address well some of what's going on inside their little hearts.
"More More More," Said the Baby - Vera B. Williams - This is a book Isaac loves, and I do too! I love the sweet rhythm of it, and the comfort of family it communicates. What a great book to bond and attach over... And I also love that it portrays what appears to be a white grandma with her brown grandchild. This book was way ahead of it's time!
The Family Book by Todd Parr- Celebrating the diversity of families and assuring that no one family is better or worse than another.
Welcome Home, Forever Child by Christine Mitchell - This one looks like it will address some of the struggles my children will face as children that were adopted at an older age.
I must add as an end note that when you are preparing to adopt, you begin to read picture books with a different perspective. And I have discovered quite a few pictures books that I will not be reading my Ethiopian children. But that also is perhaps a post for another day!
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