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"Berkeley, A City in History"
by Charles Wollenberg
© 2002
Chapter 9 - Heritage of the Sixties
The mainstream of American politics is moderate-to-conservative, but there is also an important tradition of home-grown radicalism in the United States. Episodic rather than ideological, American radicalism usually appears attached to some great cause such as abolition, women's suffrage, trade union organization or pacifism. Never dominant in these movements, the radical tradition has nevertheless profoundly affected them, and occasionally profoundly affects the society and culture as a whole. Such was the case during "The Sixties," actually a decade stretching from about 1964 to 1974, when the issues of racial justice and the Vietnam War absorbed the nation. It was also an era of social and cultural rebellion against conformity and "the establishment." No place was more affected by the politics and rebellions of these years than Berkeley. The city's image as "the People's Republic of Berzerkeley" derives from this period and probably best expresses the common popular understanding (or misunderstanding) of the experience and heritage of Berkeley in the sixties.
Roots of Protest
By the late 1950s, the concept of mass higher education had been well established, and middle class students were arriving in Berkeley assuming that college education was a right rather than a privilege. Younger and less likely to be burdened with family responsibilities than the World War II veterans, the late 1950s students were virtually assured of a reasonably well-paid job on receipt of a Cal degree. They had more time for fun and games than the veterans, and in Berkeley the biggest single outpouring of student energy and emotion during the decade was a riotous "panty raid" on a hot spring evening in 1956.
But some students also had time for serious political and social concerns. The Civil Rights Movement had begun in 1955, exposing a terrible social evil and setting a heroic example of change achieved through direct action and non-violent civil disobedience. Questions about nuclear weapon development and America's support for right wing dictatorships undermined some students' faith in anti-communism and the Cold War. Professors often criticized the 1950s students for being a "Silent Generation" and urged them to speak out and become more politically involved. Much to the dismay of many of those same professors, some students were about to take that advice with a vengeance.
In 1957 activist students formed TASC, Toward an Active Student Community. The organization campaigned against racial segregation in student housing, opposed compulsory ROTC and supported participatory educational projects that promoted social justice, world peace and international understanding. Later in the year, TASC formed a new student political party, Slate, and ran a ticket of candidates in the Associated Students of the University of California election. In 1959 the party elected the student body president, and several Slate members won seats on the ASUC Executive Committee. The party also began publishing The Slate Supplement to the General Catalog, which contained candid and often highly critical student evaluations of individual courses and professors. In 1962 Slate achieved one of its primary goals when the Board of Regents abolished compulsory ROTC on UC campuses.
At the same time, Berkeley students were becoming involved in off-campus causes. Cal undergrads, particularly residents of the Barrington Hall co-op on Dwight Way, were part of the crowd of demonstrators protesting against the San Francisco meeting of the House Committee on Un-American Activities in 1960. The committee hearings, held in City Hall, were designed to expose the nefarious deeds of alleged Bay Area communists, including two Berkeley public school teachers. KPFA commentator William Mandel was called to testify, and the committee found him something less than a friendly witness. "If you think for one minute, I am going to cooperate with this collection of Judases, of men who sit here in violation of the Constitution," Mandel proclaimed, "if you think I will cooperate with you in any way, you are insane."
When the demonstrators were not allowed into the committee room, they began singing and chanting. San Francisco authorities turned on the fire hoses and washed the protesters down City Hall's marble staircase before arresting them. Although a municipal judge later dismissed the criminal charges, the incident became notorious. Conservatives produced a film, Operation Abolition, which used newsreel footage of the demonstration and Mandel's testimony to show how Berkeley radicals were subverting the committee. Leftists answered with their own film, emphasizing the committee's reckless disregard for civil liberties.
In the early sixties Berkeley activists also participated in demonstrations against employment discrimination in the Bay Area. Huge protest rallies occurred along San Francisco's Auto Row, at Fisherman's Wharf and at the Palace Hotel. In Berkeley demonstrators targeted the Lucky supermarket on Telegraph Avenue for a "shop-in." Protesters filled shopping carts to overflowing, but when clerks rang up the bill, the protesters politely walked away, explaining that they had no money. The tactic brought business to a standstill and helped persuade Lucky officials that it was time to hire minorities.
University President Clark Kerr, who succeeded Robert Gordon Sproul in 1958, attempted to adjust to the new era of increased activism by issuing somewhat liberalized rules governing campus political speech and activity. For example, political candidates were allowed to speak on campus for the first time since the 1930s, and Slate was permitted to sponsor an on-campus speech by Frank Wilkinson, a well-known radical who the House Committee on Un-American Activities had accused of being a communist.
The "Kerr Directives," as the rules were sometimes called, still prohibited most organizational political activity, however. Groups could not raise money, solicit membership or plan demonstrations and other political events on university property. In keeping with tradition, students carried out many of these activities on city sidewalks at the edge of campus. In the 1930s, Sather Gate had been the natural location, but by the 1960s, the campus had moved a block further south. Thus the sidewalk opposite the corner of Bancroft Way and Telegraph Avenue became the site of numerous card tables advocating various causes. In the summer of 1964, Oakland Tribune publisher William Knowland complained that student groups were using the area to organize against Republican presidential candidate Barry Goldwater. Investigating the complaint, university officials discovered that the sidewalk was in fact part of the campus. (The regents had voted to donate the area to the city, but the decision had never been carried out.)
The Free Speech Movement
When the students returned from summer vacation in September of 1964, they were confronted with notices informing them that the "Kerr Directives" would henceforth be enforced on the Bancroft Way sidewalk. Ironically, it was Clark Kerr who had originally recommended the property be transferred to the city, but since the transfer hadn't occurred, Berkeley Chancellor Edward Strong and Vice-Chancellor Alex Sheriff insisted the rules be enforced. In response, a broad coalition of student groups, from Slate to the conservative Young Americans for Freedom, protested what they considered to be a violation of free speech. Leftist activists, including some who had spent the summer working with civil rights groups in the South, decided to use direct action and civil disobedience to oppose the administrative restrictions. They set up recruiting and organizing tables at Sather Gate and in Sproul Plaza, openly violating campus rules. The activists also transformed the structure of the protest from a "united front" of organizations to the Free Speech Movement (FSM), a separate group with its own identity and highly informal governing process.
On October 1, former student Jack Weinberg sat down at an illegal table in front of Sproul Hall. When he refused to move, campus police officers arrested him and placed him in a police car. More than a hundred students then surrounded the car, refusing to let it move unless Weinberg was released. A standoff ensued, Weinberg remaining in the car for thirty-two hours. The vehicle became an impromptu stage for a very extended rally. Late in the evening, students opposing FSM, including some members of the football team, began to heckle the speakers and the non-violent mood was barely maintained. Finally, at about 7:30 p.m. the next day, a settlement was reached between the administration and FSM negotiators. Mario Savio, a philosophy major who had emerged as the leading FSM spokesman, climbed onto the roof of the police car and announced the agreement. He asked demonstrators "to rise quietly and with dignity and go home."
Any hope that the October 2 agreement had ended the conflict was dashed in November when the university began issuing disciplinary suspensions of FSM leaders. Matters steadily deteriorated, and on December 2 the FSM carried out a sit-in at Sproul Hall. "There is a time," Mario Savio told his compatriots, "when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can't take part; you can't tacitly take part, and you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus and you've got to make it stop." With Joan Baez singing "We Shall Overcome," more than a thousand demonstrators filed into the building and prepared to occupy it for what turned out to be fifteen hours. Governor Pat Brown eventually ordered the building cleared, and at 3 a.m. on December 3, a six hundred-man force of campus and Berkeley police, Alameda County deputy sheriffs and Highway Patrolmen began carrying students out of Sproul Hall. It took nearly twelve hours to arrest all the demonstrators and put them in buses bound for Santa Rita County Jail. The remaining FSM leadership called a campus strike, and many professors and teaching assistants, particularly in the humanities and social sciences, canceled classes. Eight hundred faculty members gathered at an ad hoc meeting and called for an end to "the series of provocation and reprisal that has resulted in disaster."
On December 7, President Kerr called a university meeting in the Greek Theater to present a compromise solution crafted by a group of faculty department chairmen. After Kerr finished his presentation, Mario Savio approached the stage to address the crowd but was bodily blocked and hauled away by university policemen. The incident destroyed any good will that had been generated at the meeting, and the FSM rejected the compromise. Finally on December 8, the Academic Senate overwhelmingly passed a resolution that suspended any past university disciplinary measures against the demonstrators and limited campus regulations on political activity to reasonable rules regarding the time, place and manner. The content of events was no longer subject to university control. The FSM had won; the Kerr Directives were dead.
Broadening the Context
The regents' somewhat grudging acceptance of the essence of the faculty resolution ended the Free Speech Movement and its on-campus struggle. (Some poorly attended "filthy speech" rallies received media attention for a few weeks in 1965.) Henceforth, significant Berkeley demonstrations would be linked to broad national and world issues rather than local campus concerns. Even during the fall of 1964, Savio and other FSM orators attempted to put their campus conflict into a broad context. From their perspective, the university's conduct was typical of the great, coercive corporate and public bureaucracies that dominated modern life. Campus radicals called for new participatory institutions that promoted creativity and humane values. These concerns paralleled those outlined in the Students for a Democratic Society's earlier "Port Huron Statement." But while the SDS paper was distributed to a few true believers, the FSM rhetoric, and thus the message of what was going to be called the "New Left," reached millions of TV viewers. The Berkeley activists were members of the first television generation, and they knew how to coin sound bites and time their rallies for maximum exposure on the evening news. Jack Weinberg's line, "Never trust anyone over thirty," was broadcast into living rooms across the country and became a sixties icon.
National and world events seemed to confirm the activists' analysis. 1965 was the year of the Watts Rebellion, the first of the great urban upheavals of the late sixties. It symbolized a shift in the focus of the black protest movement from the rural south to the urban north and west, as well as an end to strict reliance on non-violent methods. In 1966 Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale founded the Black Panther Party. Headquartered in the East Bay, the party remained a source of militant rhetoric and action for the rest of the decade. Seale, in particular, had Berkeley roots, spending part of his childhood in the Codornices Village housing project.
1965 was also the year of the Delano Strike, a walkout of Mexican and Filipino farmworkers in the San Joaquin Valley. Berkeley sympathizers supported grape boycotts and formed auto convoys to transport supplies to the strikers. Delano made Cesar Chavez a national figure and a frequent participant in Berkeley events. The strike also promoted a new level of political activity and militance among young Latinos. It was a sign that the black protest movement was broadening to include other groups and become what the sixties called a "Third World Movement." During the decade, young Asian Americans began the campaign to win monetary reparations for victims of the World War II internment. The American Indian Movement's 1969 occupation of Alcatraz signaled the emergence of a new era of militant Native American protest activity. On the Cal campus, the Third World Liberation Front led militant demonstrations calling for ethnic studies programs and a "Third World College." The campaign failed to win the separate college but did lead to campus affirmative action programs and the establishment of ethnic studies departments.
Above all, 1965 was the year that President Lyndon Johnson decided to send combat troops to Vietnam. The Vietnam conflict divided American society more profoundly than any event since the Civil War. To campus militants and their allies, Vietnam symbolized the "establishment's" militarism and racist imperialism. Male students were painfully aware that they faced the draft and possible combat in Vietnam if they lost their deferments. Poor and minority Americans were usually ineligible for deferments and served in the military in disproportional numbers. Berkeley was the location of one of the nation's first large protests against the war, when the "Vietnam Day Committee" sponsored a "teach-in" that attracted more than 20,000 participants in May of 1965. Oakland police turned back two protest marches to the Oakland Army Base, embarkation point for many of the troops serving in Vietnam. Some of the marchers were accosted by Hell's Angels who yelled "Go back to Russia you fucking communists." Events in Southeast Asia continued to produce protest marches, rallies and even violent demonstrations for the rest of the decade. More than anything else, Vietnam was the glue that held the various parts of the sixties protest movement together.
Cultural Rebellion
Along with political protest came a cultural or lifestyle rebellion. Some people of color rejected what they believed to be white, middle-class values and attempted to construct separate ethnic or third-world identities. Many young whites also sought alternatives to the middle class way of life. For some it was simply a chance for "sex, drugs, and rock and roll," but for others it was a profound search for new forms of ecstatic and spiritual consciousness and new ways of expressing simple, youthful idealism. We have seen that Berkeley had been fertile ground for "alternative lifestyles" since the early twentieth century. During the 1950s, when San Francisco was the unofficial capital of the "Beat Generation," Berkeley was an important outpost of the movement, with poets Allen Ginsberg, Gary Snyder, Robert Duncan and author Jack Kerouac at one time or another living in the city. UC English professor Tom Parkinson was one of the first scholars to take Beat literature seriously. Similarly in the 1960s, when San Francisco's Haight Ashbury was the center of a new counter-culture universe, Berkeley was again a deeply affected satellite.
Perhaps nowhere did the political and cultural rebellions of the sixties come together more completely than in Berkeley. South of the UC campus were neighborhoods where activist students, counter-culture "street people" and black militants shared more or less adjoining turfs. The area was dotted with communal living groups committed both to radical politics and new social and cultural experiments. Telegraph Avenue became contested territory, claimed both by "establishment" merchants and police on the one hand, and the counter culture in all its guises on the other. By the late sixties, the focal point of demonstrations and violent confrontations had moved off campus and onto the Avenue.
The greatest of all of Berkeley's sixties confrontations was over control of an unimpressive lot located just east of Telegraph Avenue between Haste and Dwight, a patch of land that came to be known as People's Park. As part of its massive expansion into the South Campus neighborhood, the university purchased the property in the 1950s and cleared off the existing buildings in 1968. The result was a muddy, trash-filled mess, used as an informal parking lot. In the spring of 1969, activists began discussing the idea of turning the area into a park. In April, one of the era's first and most influential alternative newspapers, The Berkeley Barb , called on people to build "a cultural, political, freak out, and rap center for the Western World." The Barb said "We will police our own park and not allow its occupation by an imperial power."
This was not exactly what the university had in mind for the property, and before dawn on May 15, campus contractors built a chain-link fence around the site. Later in the day, ASUC president Dan Siegel urged spectators at a Sproul Plaza rally to "go down and take over the park." Some did and all hell broke loose. Demonstrators battled Berkeley and campus police and Alameda County deputy sheriffs. One onlooker, James Rector, was killed by a sheriff's shotgun blast, and more than a hundred other people were injured. Governor Ronald Reagan called in the National Guard and placed Berkeley under military curfew. A few days later, a guard helicopter dropped a tear gas bomb on a campus rally and the wind blew the noxious fumes over parts of North Berkeley, forcing the closure of Oxford Elementary School.
Led by Pat and Fred Cody, owners of Cody's Books, some people of good will attempted to intervene between the counter-culture and the establishment and bring about a peaceful conclusion to the May confrontations. The result was a giant Memorial Day march that attracted at least 25,000 participants. The event was more a sixties "love-in" than political protest. Marchers danced, sang, smoked dope, placed flowers in the barrels of guardsmen's rifles and laid sod on Haste Street, symbolically reclaiming the pavement for the earth. The Codys and others also worked on the Telegraph Summer Program, which established a number of "free" institutions and programs to serve the community. (Some of the Avenue habitués were so used to living by their wits that they continued to steal items that were being given away at the Free Store.) One of the program's most important institutions, the Free Clinic, still exits more than thirty years after its founding. But the final status of People's Park remained unsettled. It has been the subject of community conflict and the scene of occasional confrontations ever since the sixties.
Twilight of the Sixties
The U.S. expansion of the war into Cambodia in 1970 produced the last of the great Berkeley protests of the "sixties." While periodic demonstrations and "trashings" occurred on Telegraph Avenue after 1970, none had the energy or large popular base of the great sixties rebellions. By the time that the Symbionese Liberation Army assassinated Oakland school superintendent Marcus Foster and kidnapped Patricia Hearst (Phoebe's great-granddaughter) from her South Campus apartment in 1974, it seemed that some of the surviving elements of the New Left had lost touch with moral and political reality.
Many other former activists had gone on with their lives, raising families, starting careers and, in effect, rejoining the great American middle class. Others left the city for rural communes, and still others burned out on the excesses of the counter-culture lifestyle. Some were the victims of political repression, including the FBI's infamous COINTEL program. The winding down of the war and the end of the draft, as well as the adoption of New Left ideas by establishment politicians like George McGovern, took additional wind out of "The Movement's" sails. Ultimately, the cultural rebellion of the sixties may have had greater social impact than the decade's political radicalism. For better or worse, "sex, drugs, and rock and roll" were well adapted to the realities of the Great American Marketplace and profoundly affected mainstream cultural values and practices.
The most important California political figure produced by the sixties was not a Movement participant like Tom Hayden, but Ronald Reagan, a very conservative Republican. Reagan's role was leader of the "backlash" against the activism and rebellion of the era, including "the mess in Berkeley." This helped propel him into the governor's office in 1966 and eventually the presidency in 1980. In spite of their vehement dislike for each other, Reagan and the Berkeley activists shared at least one common antagonist: liberal UC President Clark Kerr.
Due to the efforts of journalist Seth Rosenfeld, we now know that FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover profoundly influenced Reagan's attitudes toward Kerr. Beginning as a student reporter for the Daily Californian and continuing as a writer for the San Francisco Examiner and San Francisco Chronicle, Rosenfeld waged a seventeen year battle to obtain documents regarding the FBI's activities on and about the UC campus. He found that throughout the Cold War the bureau had informants in Berkeley and kept dossiers on a number of campus personalities.
Hoover disliked Kerr's liberal politics and apparently blamed him for an entering student essay assignment that portrayed the FBI in an unfavorable light. Like most conservatives, Hoover believed Kerr had seriously mishandled the FSM upheavals. Shortly after he took office as governor, FBI agents briefed Ronald Reagan on these matters. Hoover also discussed Kerr with former CIA director John McCone, a Cal alumnus who passed on the FBI's concerns to members of the Board of Regents. On campus the anti-Kerr campaign was promoted by some conservative faculty members, including Psychology Professor Hardin Jones and Vice Chancellor Alex Sheriffs (who subsequently served as Reagan's educational advisor). In 1967 Reagan engineered Kerr's dismissal, ironically on the grounds that the president had "coddled" the very student activists who had fought against the Kerr Directives and condemned the Kerr's concept of a "multiversity." Years later when UC took control of the former School for the Deaf and Blind site on Waring Street, the Board of Regents honored the man they had previously fired by officially naming the complex "The Clark Kerr Campus."
Heritage of the Sixties
The New Left helped promote the growing political influence of people of color and produced important social and cultural spin-offs, including new eras of feminist and environmental activism and the new political and cultural force of gay and disabled "liberation movements." The latter had a particular Berkeley dimension, with the founding of the Center for Independent Living by disabled activists Ed Roberts and Phil Draper in 1972. The center eventually moved into the old Cunha Pontiac building on Telegraph Avenue and became one of the largest and most influential disabled service and advocacy groups in the country. But while the spin-offs of sixties activism were important, the New Left as a whole did not survive as an organized movement and coherent political force. Perhaps its original anti-institutional bias and its reliance on moral indignation rather than pragmatic coalition-building doomed it as an on-going organizational entity.
Except in Berkeley. Berkeley was indeed the exception that proved the rule, for it was in Berkeley that the New Left established an institutionalized presence and became a significant part of the political landscape. Liberal politicians had long urged campus and city radicals to pursue their goals through electoral politics rather than direct action. Much to the liberals' dismay, some activists accepted the suggestion in 1966, running graduate student (and future journalist) Robert Scheer for congress. Scheer's opponent was not some conservative Republican, but incumbent Congressman Jeffrey Cohelan, a liberal Democrat who supported Lyndon Johnson's policy in Vietnam. Although Cohelan survived the challenge, Scheer polled 40 percent of the votes in the Democratic primary, including a majority of the votes cast in the Berkeley portion of the congressional district. Cohelan was clearly vulnerable, as City Council memberr Ron Dellums proved in 1970. Combining the votes of the Berkeley left with solid support from the African American community, Dellums defeated Cohelan in the 1970 primary and went on to win the general election. In 1971 Dellums began a twenty-seven year career as the nation's most radical member of congress.
The Dellums victory encouraged the left to enter city politics with new energy. In 1971 three members of the leftist "April Coalition" slate won city council seats. Although two of them were subsequently recalled, the 1971 election established the left as a force in the local power structure. In 1973 traditional liberals and business conservatives buried the hatchet and formed a unified slate to oppose the left. For the next decade, Berkeley politics were dominated by what amounted to two local parties, almost completely unrelated to national partisan organizations. Each of the local party's support began at the city's liberal center, with "progressives," institutionalized as the Berkeley Citizen's Action, attracting votes to the left of that mark, and "moderates," variously known as the All Berkeley Coalition or the Berkeley Democratic Club, picking up votes on the right. The electorate was fairly evenly split between the factions, with African Americans being the major swing vote. This encouraged both groups to include black candidates on their slates, thus dramatically increasing the clout of black voters. Between 1973 and 1986, no one was elected to local office in Berkeley who was not endorsed by one or the other of the two local parties.
For most of this period, moderates controlled the city council, but progressives set the political agenda with a series of controversial ballot initiatives. In 1973, for example, voters supported a measure that created a strong civilian police review board. In the same year, voters also favored the Neighborhood Preservation Ordinance, which substantially slowed "ticky-tacky" development in residential areas. The new preservationist consciousness expressed by the ordinance was institutionalized in the seventies with the establishment of the Berkeley Architectural Heritage Association and the Berkeley Historical Society. Both groups honored (and sometimes idealized) the city's historic commitment to a special sense of civic consciousness and quality of life.
In the early eighties, the BCA managed to get city elections changed from April of odd-numbered years to November of even-numbered years, coinciding with state and national elections. This increased student voter turnout, and in 1984 leftist mayor Gus Newport and his allies captured eight of the nine council seats. In 1986 the moderates retaliated with a charter amendment that returned the city to district or ward elections for council for the first time since the turn of the century. The effect was to restore the close balance of power between the factions on the council but reduce African American representation on the body. For the next eight years, progressive Loni Hancock served as mayor as part of a narrow leftist majority.
Rent Control
The most controversial issue in these years was rent control. During World War II and the immediate post-war years, Berkeley was covered by federal price controls on rents. Even when the controls expired, substantial apartment construction kept up with the housing demand, and rents remained relatively low. But by the seventies, residential down-zoning and the Neighborhood Preservation Ordinance combined with a poor business climate to slow new housing construction. The city's demography changed, with more single adults and couples and fewer families with children in the population, and this in turn created a greater demand for rental housing. Berkeley was also affected by a rapid rise in regional housing prices that occurred throughout the Bay Area. Finally, the university neglected to build new dormitory space to accommodate the steady increase in students. The result of all these factors was sky-rocketing rents and a growing demand by renters for relief, and rentals made up about 60 percent of the city's individual housing units.
In the late 70's the moderate city council majority, which had substantial landlord support, was unwilling or unable to respond. Housing activists therefore went directly to the electorate, and in 1980 the voters approved a progressive initiative measure establishing rent control. The law was strengthened by subsequent initiatives, especially Measure G in 1982. Since the initiatives were written by rent control advocates like leftist activist Marty Schiffenbauer, it is hardly surprising that each succeeding measure gave greater protection to renters. By the mid-eighties, Berkeley had some of the toughest rent control policies in the nation.
Some landlords advocated civil disobedience, while others withdrew units from the rental market. In the end, property owners went over the city's head, fighting the rent control laws in court and the state legislature. In the 1990s, the courts allowed landlords substantial rent increases and the legislature passed "vacancy de-control," allowing landlords the freedom to reset rates without regard to rent control each time a unit becomes vacant. In a city like Berkeley, with a large, ever-changing student population, vacancy de-control dramatically reduced the clout of rent control.
What was striking about Berkeley's passionate debates over rent control in the 1980s and 90s was the extent to which both sides used arguments based on broad moral principle---the basic right to shelter versus the basic rights of property. It was as if rent control was an issue equivalent in moral weight to free speech, racial justice or the Vietnam War. The transformation of often mundane matters of local administration into issues of high moral principle is surely one of the legacies of the sixties.
In 2000 an attempt by the national Pacifica Foundation board and administration to censor KPFA content and fire some of the station's most popular commentators produced still another episode reminiscent of the sixties. KPFA listeners staged massive protests outside of the station's Martin Luther King Way studios and organized a popular "Save Pacifica" movement. In the end, Pacifica management backed down, many of the offending board members and administrators resigned, and the network's governing processes and structure were substantially changed. Nonviolentt direct action had won the day; the sixties spirit seemed alive and well.
Berkeley's on-going legacy of the sixties has promoted laudable popular involvement in community affairs and a willingness to defend important values and promote useful social experimentation. But it has also led to a self-righteous style of politics that sometimes gives greater weight to passion than wisdom. In either case, it is clear that at least in Berkeley, the sixties are not quite over, the style and substance of that decade not quite old hat.
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A southern Ohio cabinetry factory that closed nearly two years ago, throwing about 1,200 out of work, is poised for a new life under owners who specialize in putting discarded industrial plants to fresh use.
Elected leaders in Pike County, where November's 11.9 percent jobless rate remains the highest in Ohio, are excited about the new owners' plans to refill the factory with a variety of businesses and new jobs.
Real-estate development partners Christopher Semarjian, who runs Industrial Commerce Ltd., in Macedonia near Cleveland, and Stuart Lichter, who heads Industrial Realty Group, in Downey near Los Angeles, and a third partner bought the former Mill's Pride plant in Waverly from Michigan-based Masco Corp. for $5 million this month, Lichter said.
The third partner, Everett Hannah, plans to begin a lumber operation at the Waverly plant in about six weeks that immediately would employ up to 28 workers and then expand, said spokesman David Bailey. Hannah is owner and president of Gilco International Lumber, a company with headquarters in Varney, W.Va., that exports lumber to furniture and flooring manufacturers in Europe and Asia.
Gilco also is negotiating with a Chinese furniture manufacturer to make its products in the Waverly plant, Bailey said.
Lichter said that he couldn't predict how many companies would lease or buy space at the large industrial property or how many jobs they would bring. But based on his experience in adapting other idled factory buildings for reuse, the Waverly project should be successful, he said.
He pointed to the vacant Hoover Co. campus in North Canton that he and Semarjian bought in 2008.
Since then, they have brought in a half-dozen companies that include makers of heaters, vacuums and electrical equipment, a drug company and office tenants, and the total space is probably about 50 percent occupied, Lichter said. They also plan to renovate some of the older buildings into loft apartments, he said.
The longtime partners also have bought other industrial properties around Ohio, including the Ford Motor Co. van assembly plant in Lorain, and the Lockheed Martin Corp. complex and the Goodyear corporate campus, both in Akron.
Pike County Auditor Ted Wheeler said the Waverly plant was valued at $25 million last year but was revalued at $5 million last month after Masco told the county Board of Revision that the property sold for that amount.
The Appalachian county of about 28,600 people has been reeling since the factory closed in early 2011.The 57-acre plant, composed of 11 metal-sided buildings, employed more than 3,000 in the 1990s, said Waverly Mayor Greg Kempton. He was a manager there for nearly 20 years.
Even when the number dwindled to 1,200, it remained Pike County's largest employer. Workers manufactured ready-to-assemble cabinetry sold at home-improvement stores and other retailers.
Kempton said he is excited about the rebirth of the factory and what it could mean for his community, and he likes the developers' plans to lease or sell factory space to different businesses.
"If they fill it, we will have diversification there," Kempton said. "It should be more steady, more evened-out, as far as employment."The job loss from the plant's closure was "devastating" to Waverly's tax base, Kempton said. It meant there was less money generated from the city's 1 percent income tax. That meant fewer services in the community, which has an annual operating budget of $2 million, he said.
While it is impossible to estimate how many jobs the reused factory could bring, "this gives us some momentum," Kempton said.


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Biennale of Art exhibition of textile artist Ruth Adler Schnee includes artist-inspired student work
"Ruth Adler Schnee: a Passion for Color," co-curated by MAPP's Associate Professor Ronit Eisenbach and Italian architect, Caterina Frisone, opened a summer-long exhibition at the Venice Civic Museums Foundation June 4th. The exhibition, in conjunction with the 54th Biennale of Art, features Schnee's breathtaking original hand-printed fabrics, woven textiles and original sketches. The exhibition was brought to Venice in partnership with the Kibel Gallery at the University of Maryland, School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation, where it was originally developed by Eisenbach. An earlier version of the show was previewed at the Kibel gallery in October 2009.
German-American designer Ruth Adler Schnee has devoted her career to the creation of good form, textures and color combinations. Trained in interior architecture at the Rhode Island School of Design and in architecture at the Cranbrook Academy of Art under the direction of Eliel Saarinen, Ms. Adler Schnee brings architectural themes to the textile industry. As a child she and her family escaped Nazi Germany and settled in Detroit, Michigan, where over the years her circle of friends, colleagues, and clients included Charles and Ray Eames, Eero Saarinen, Frank Lloyd Wright, Buckminster Fuller and Minoru Yamasaki. Now 88, Ms. Adler Schnee works with Anzea Textiles to create new designs for woven upholstery cloth as well as reissue, translate and mass-produce her brightly colored hand-printed fabric designs from the '40s and '50s.
Included in the exhibition is a relief reinterpretation by M.ARCH candidate James Han. Inspired by Adler-Schnee's Seedpods, Han's paper relief is accompanied by a book describing his design process. Also complimenting Adler Schnee's fabric work is a glass mosaic screen that she designed in collaboration with Angelo Orsoni Furnace in Venice, which is famous for its library of colored glass. The documentary film, "The Radiant Sun: Designer Ruth Adler Schnee" (directed by filmmaker Terri Sarris and co-produced with Eisenbach) is also on display. The exhibition occupies the ground floor space of Palazzo Mocenigo in Venice and will run through August 28th.


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From tonight's performance there is no consolation (nm)
Wed Aug 8, 2012 01:41
Lease this WebApp and get rid of the ads.
Any consolation?
Thatcham Wanderer,
Wed Aug 8 00:00
Pre-season results before our best-ever league season (1994-95 under M O'N)... Berkhamsted Town (A) D 1-1 Leicester City (H) L 0-1 Yeading (A) D 0-0 Chesham United (A) L 0-1 Chelsea (H) L 1-2 At...
From tonight's performance there is no consolation (nm)
Wed Aug 8 01:41
how about "it's only a friendly"? (nm)
eric plant,
Wed Aug 8 11:15
Very Well Said, Mr Plant
Eddie Monsoon,
Wed Aug 8 18:20
How long have some you been watching football ?
Patrionising (nm)
Thu Aug 9 00:08
Errr----With (Genuine) Respect, Mr DJ. I Don't Think So.
Eddie Monsoon,
Thu Aug 9 08:07
You only have to be attending matches regularly for a very few years to realise that PSFs mean jack-all in terms of a guide to how your forthcoming competative season will play-out. I know that many...
To ignore what happened on Tuesday would be foolish
Thu Aug 9 10:05
were you there? Ok, it was only a friendly so no points were at stake. But if we are going to stick our heads in the sand, and accept that was the effort that the squad were putting in to win their...
fair points all but to be inconsolable
eric plant,
Thu Aug 9 11:39
is ridiculous to the point of laughable
Who needs a consolation?!
Wed Aug 8 08:54
It was a pre-season FRIENDLY, it means NOTHING. Really don't know why anyone would pay to watch a friendly.
Oh it means something all right
Wed Aug 8 09:31
No decent team could play that badly if they tried. People wont pay to watch football that poor. Waddock has taken us backwards yet again and I predict record low attendances this season.
Rubbish (nm)
Wed Aug 8 09:52
He's right
Wed Aug 8 09:57
You obviously weren't there.
I didn't need to be there...
Wed Aug 8 10:07
I'll say for the last time, friendly's mean NOTHING. I made the same mistake when I watched the game below, and thought it meant something. It obviously didn't....
You sad little negative man. (nm)
Wed Aug 8 06:54
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Justin's Choice, Early 2010 (great music, folks!)
I've known Justin Stephenson for almost 10 years, and he's always had great taste in music (He's the handsome guy in the photo on the left). One of my favorite things in life is going over to his place to listen to great music from his ever-increasing collection. These days I just don't have as much time to dedicate to seeking out new music so it's always a treat to hear great new things, especially from such a crate-digging connoisseur. Yesterday he put this mix CD on my desk, and I've listened to it nonstop since then. Not only are there some great tunes on here, but the flow of the tracks is well considered and it's the kind of thing you can listen to on repeat without skipping tracks or getting bored. In short, it's wonderful. I asked him if I could post it on the interwebs, and I strongly recommend grabbing the whole thing in this handy zip file, but you can grab individual tracks below.
Justin's Choice, Early 2010
- For Ex-Lovers Only - Black Tambourine
- Explode a View - Nothing People
- Jolene (Excel Disco Edit) - Dolly Parton
- Breathe the Fire - The Soft Moon
- I Can't Go For That - The Bird and the Bee
- Funeral Song - Minks
- Say Goodbye to What - Bullion
- Daydream - Beach Fossils
- 7 and 7 is - Charlie and the Moonhearts
- Zebra - Beach House
- Fresh Hair - Bitchin Bajas
- Sweatmother - Tobacco
- H-Bomb - Night Beats
- Je Ne Suis Pas Trés Drogue - The Liminanas
- Sleepwalker - Nerve City
- Storm Cloud - Wolf People
- Nazi Gold - Grand Trine
- Burning Mirrors - Lumerians
- Bricks or Coconuts - Jacuzzi Boys
- Wet Cement - Eddy Current Suppression Ring
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Furthermore, the cream addition is IMO something that got into the recipe to make life easier for lazy cooks: no time or too sloppy to get your carbonara properly creamy? What the fuck, just pour some cream in there and hey pronto! problem solved. That makes me particularly angry.
I agree wholeheartedly: cream shouldn't be used, and it's a lazy way of making the dish. I heard an interesting theory as to how cream got mixed up in there. WW II GIs who were fond of the dish, returned to the States and, in order to recreate the creaminess of the sauce, turned to...cream. Don't know if it's true, but it's certianly a colorful idea.
nice of you to join the discussion: the WWII GI role in the history of carbonara is an intriguing one in many aspects. Some even argue that they invented the dish, though that's quite improbable, as we discussed some time ago. I have my doubts about the cream story too.
My suspicion is that the trick started to be used in big hotel kitchens to make the dish more manageable in those conditions. There's even supposed to be a recipe from the early 50's coming from the Accademia della Cucina Italiana calling for some cream. Don't know if it's true, but if it were, the history of the GI going back home and using cream would sound less believable.


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Washington, DC Thursday, October 18, 2012
In mid-November, the Palestinian Authority (PA) will ask the United Nations General Assembly to change its status from "observer state" to "non-member state." PA president Mahmoud Abbas argues that the change would strengthen his hand in negotiations with Israel over a two-state solution. A similar move at the U.N. Security Council failed last year when the U.S. vetoed efforts to recognize Palestinian statehood.
This week, the State Department warned that "unilateral actions," such as seeking a change in the PA's member status, would jeopardize the stalled peace Israeli-Palestinian peace talks.
Noted Palestinian historian Walid Khalidi will speak about these developments in the light of the long conflict between Israel and the Palestinians, as well as other Middle East developments such as the Arab Spring and its aftermath.
An Oxford University-educated historian, Khalidi has taught at Oxford, Harvard and American University, and was co-founder of the Institute of Palestine Studies.
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German Shepherd Dog > Most Hygenic Bedding? (22 replies)
Most Hygenic Bedding? by mikemanu on 19 July 2012 - 09:39 |
Hello, what bedding do you use for your dogs, i've used various bedding including, some i've bought from the local pet shops "sponge padded" they don't last long, i've made my own from old duvet's & lined it with a waterproof sheet that did'nt last long, i've used old blanket's but they tend to smell after a few days i was thinking of using Straw/hay but not sure if any good, How often would i have to change the Straw/Hay if i use that, thanks for any advice |
by SitasMom on 19 July 2012 - 11:40 |
i use anything that can go into what washing machine. old blankets or stuff that is purchased at the pet store. most of the time, my dogs prefer to lay on the floor becasue its cooler. |
by Eldee on 19 July 2012 - 12:05 |
Sheets dried with Bounce on top of a sealy posturpedic pillow top mattress in the master bedroom. Most hygenic for her, not so hygenic for me. |
by Sunsilver on 19 July 2012 - 12:06 |
I buy old quilts and blankets at the thrift store. They are easy to wash, and when they get too many holes chewed in them (I run a boarding kennel, but one of my GSDS is a champion chewer, too!) I just toss 'em! |
by laura271 on 19 July 2012 - 12:53 |
I buy fleece (synthetic) pads from a medical supply store (used to prevent bed sores) for about $15 each. They last forever (going on 1.5 years now), are easy to clean, and come out of the washer almost completely dry (hang outside or put in the dryer for ~10 minutes). However, neither of my GSDs are bed chewers. My mom works in a nursing home and she suggested I buy one originally since Senta was getting calluses on her elbows (calluses disappeared the first month). |
by Sunsilver on 19 July 2012 - 13:50 |
I don't recommend straw or hay, as it's too hard to keep clean. It provides a great place for fleas to breed, too! When my ex-business partner had her puppies here, she used pine shavings for their outdoor bedding. They were absorbent, and really helped to keep down the odour. |
by GK1 on 19 July 2012 - 13:58 |
I have yet to spend a nickel on bedding. Old blankets, quilts and sheets are more than sufficient. Add a capful of bleach to the laundry for sterilization. The other obvious is to keep the dog's coat reasonably clean and parasite free. |
by BoCRon on 19 July 2012 - 14:10 |
I have a few brands that I like. I have 2 or 3 Molly Mutts beds. These are basically a duvet type bed. You buy the cover and you buy an inside nylon type bag. Then you can stuff the inside bag with whatever you want. I use old pillows, towels, clothes, whatever. You can wash the "stuffing" if you need or you can toss it and start again. I like these because the covers are very nice looking (not like the cheesy crap at big box stores which for some reason think all big dogs are hunting lodge dogs and all small dogs need pink leopard print). I also love the Big Shrimpy beds. We have 3 in our house and they have lasted for years. I bought a few extra covers just to change the look and have a back up if I need it. The covers I have are microfiber so don't tend to stain or wear out like most. They are pretty pricey beds, but honestly I've yet to replace one, whereas I've thrown out a dozen of the cheaper ones from Petsmart or Costco over the last couple of years. We have 8 GSDs and one Lancashire Heeler that are in the house regularly, which is why I have so many :). These are just beds we have around the house, I don't put anything in crates. |
by mikemanu on 19 July 2012 - 14:54 |
cheers for that, i have read that straw or hay is good flea prevention, |
by Hundmutter on 19 July 2012 - 15:05 |
With one house dog, who is a chewer - and often swallows what he chews - I did not give any bedding at all for years ; but he started to get elbow sores from lying on floors and the bare plastic in his crates. So a couple of years ago I put a rubberised board into his car crate, and then a friend gave me a 2nd hand 'duvet' style bed for the house, when she upgraded hers. Don't know which petco made it; it comes with two zippered cotton covers, so one on & one in the wash. Much to my surprise he hasn't chewed that up, and seems happy to have a softer surface now he's older (still likes lounging around on my none-too-thick carpet some of the time, though). For outside kennels bedding, if you can get a suitable supply, I have always liked shredded paper. Not always cheap exactly, especially in decent quantities, but dogs seem to like it better than straw or wood shavings; and they can burrow into a pile of paper, unlike a flat bit of vetbed or blanket. You only hoick it all out and replace it every few days or when it gets wet (or soiled if your dogs are not kennel-clean); so the frequency kind of depends on your local weather. While clean & dry, it will 'fluff up' again a bit for re-use. As someone else said above, fleas etc depend more on your pest preventative measures on the dogs. I have not known paper harbour anything particularly - except occasionally the odd beetle that wanders in (& then out again). I have found it 'walks' less than straw - although some bits inevitably stray outside the kennels. IMO Also a good bedding for whelping / raising pups on, though aware not everyone will agree with me on that. Then you have to clean it out more often, obviously. |
by TingiesandTails on 19 July 2012 - 15:12 |
I swear on Kuranda dog beds. Easy to clean, aluminum frame, indoors or outdoors (easy to hose off) and great for larger breeds as weight is taken of joints. Initial price is relatively high but they last forever. |
by Prager on 19 July 2012 - 15:25 |
Where is the bedding going to be used? In the kennel or your house or dog house? |
by fawndallas on 19 July 2012 - 17:23 |
With my lab, anything cheap (love free) that I will not cry when he destroys; usually old blankets. Rose has never been much of a distructo dog, she likes her fluffy dog beds. I usally look around for the cheapest; never pay more than $20. Most of the time, the covers can be washed, so I just have to replace the inside if needed. Puppies really messed up Rose's bed by games of tug of war and who can pee the longest. That one was tossed by week 6. Now they generally prefer the floor over anything else available. When my big male GSD was younger, nothing survived him more than 24 hours, so eventually, his option was floor, floor, or floor. Now that beds can last at least 4 - 5 months with him (even at going on 5 years), I get him the big dog beds (still not pay more than $20). Never really tried shredded paper or wood shavings. I did straw in the dog houses years ago for the winter; all of it was shoved out into the yard by the dogs I had then. Was not worth the effort after that. We generally have very mild winters and the dogs come inside most of the time during the winter anyway. |
by mikemanu on 19 July 2012 - 20:28 |
we're lucky enough to have a cellar which has 3 seperate rooms, in 1 of the rooms (his room) i've built a 8ft by 4ft "kennel/bed", for when we need to go out & leave him for a bit which is hardly more than an hour a day that he's on his own, but long term i want him to sleep there overnight & was just wondering whats the cleanest bedding, i was prepared to put straw or hay in there cuz i've read in various dog books that they are the cleanest and discourage fleas as well, not sure if thats true though never used them before |
by fawndallas on 19 July 2012 - 20:48 |
Since your dogs are indoors: Fleas will only be there if they are brought in. If your dogs gets fleas outside, nothing in their kennel/bed is going to help "scare" them off the dog. If you do find something, let me know. Fleas are a real pain in the rump this year at my house. Unless there is a medical need for a special bed, I think it is really a matter of what you want to do. Dogs are not really that picky. If your dog is a destructo dog, nothing will survive. If your dog eats the stuffing... a regular bed might not be the best choice. ~~~~~~~~ If you really want to pamper him, a futon mattress is the next best thing to sleeping in your bed (according to Rose, my girl). Rose highly recommends your bed though. "Snuggling with your human when you are all muddy and stinky is dog heaven." |
by EddaSG on 19 July 2012 - 21:30 |
I use a Wooly Paws Pet bed from Shepherds Dream. Made out of pure Eco wool, organic cotton and hemp. Nice heavy covering fits over cotton mattress that is easy to take on and off for washing. Raw wool can be used in summer or winter and breaths to keep the dogs cool or warm. My girl loves it. I have recently ordered a duvet cover and stuff sack to put together a bed for my newest fellow gsd. I have lots of raw (washed & corded) wool bits I want to use to stuff the stuff sack. The properties of raw wool are wonderful, even bedding for humans but not always inexpensive. |
by Vom Hundhaus on 19 July 2012 - 22:03 |
coolaroo dog beds..i have 8. buy on amazon fo about $27 and sell replacement covers foe 410. off the gound the material breathes and wash with clorox 1:10 or favoite cleaner. my puppies are on them at 4-5 weeks they love them.. |
by Prager on 19 July 2012 - 22:19 |
Any bed/ matrace/ pillow with cedar shavings in it. |
by EuroShepherd on 19 July 2012 - 22:52 |
another good bed/blanket option is a moving blanket. Very tough, heavy duty blanket that you can find at some storage facilitys/moving van rental places (I bought one at a Public Storage) there are plenty of places to buy them online too. They hold up pretty well to chewers, even if/when a dog chews a hole in it or chews the corners off it's still usable. I bought mine back in 2004 and I still have it, it's the only dog bed/blanket that has ever lasted me more than 2 years. |
by TingiesandTails on 19 July 2012 - 23:19 |
if you have cats they will pee on cedar shaving dog beds... |


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SOE Paintball Day (Details to be announced)
Light It Up Blue 2012
League of Extraordinary Men Basketball Game
STAR Family Game Night
STAR Holiday Card Making for the Troops
KDP Sweeps Indy
Student vs. Faculty Charity Basketball Game News Release - October 12th
Student vs. Faculty Charity Basketball GameVIDEO
Stacey Bess - September 20th
Beyond the Blackboard - Based on a true story of extraodinary teachers: Showing: September 14th, 15th and 19th, sponsored by Kappa Delta Pi - Kappa Eta
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Standard room with two queen beds
- Two Queen Beds
One King Bed, Non-Smoking, Accessible
- One King Bed
King with sofabed
- One King Bed
King Room
- One King Bed
This Lighthouse award-winning Hampton provides free wi-fi, breakfast, and more.
Central Florida Hotel
This Green Certified Leesburg Hotel is near the Leesburg Airport, Beacon College, Lake Sumter College, Leesburg Medical Center, Sleepy Hollow, Lake Square Mall, restaurants, Lake Harris and Griffin State Park.
Free Hot Breakfast Buffet
Amenities at Hampton Inn - Leesburg/Tavares include Deluxe Hot Breakfast, outdoor pool, and fitness center. Business center, Free Wall Street Journal, Free parking, and Free wireless Internet throughout.
Room Features
Our rooms are equipped with 32" LCD Flat Panel televisions with premium HD cable stations, Microwaves, Refrigerators, coffee maker, wireless Internet, premium Bedding. Wall Mounted Thermostats and Computer desk
Hotel Amenities
- General
Our Lighthouse award-winning Hampton provides a complimentary hot and cold buffet breakfast that is served each morning. Breakfast items include a rotating menu with Belgian waffles, fresh fruit, omelets, French toast sticks, bagel toppers, bacon, sausage, pastries, an oatmeal bar, and more.
Our guest rooms all come equipped with complimentary wi-fi, microwaves, mini-fridges, and Serta Perfect Sleeper mattresses. Each room features a 32" flat panel TV with premium HD channels. Our upgraded King Study rooms provide a more spacious option with a large work area, a sofa sleeper, and a coffee table.
Recreational amenities at Hampton Inn - Leesburg/Tavares include an outdoor pool and a fitness facility with Precor Equipment. Business-related amenities at this 2.5-star property include complimentary wireless Internet access throughout the property and a business center.
Meeting facilities include a meeting room that can accommodate 25-30 people. This room is perfect for Chamber of Commerce events, company training, graduation parties, or small wedding receptions. Our versatile meeting room can be arranged in a classroom setup, a boardroom setup, or in a U-shaped arrangement.
This 2.5-star property offers on-site guest laundry facilities as well as the option for valet laundry services. Onsite parking is complimentary. Our helpful staff are eager to help provide directions and information on local attractions such as Renningers Antique Fair, the Mount Dora Craft Festival, Lake Griffin State Park, Lake Harris, Beacon College, Waterman Hospital, Lake Regional Medical Center, Central Florida Pediatric, the Leesburg International Airport and Lake Sumter Community College.
Many dining options are available to our guests. Our hotel is within walking distance of Ruby Tuesday, Red Lobster, Olive Garden, Chili's, Cracker Barrel, and Outback Steakhouse. Ask our friendly front desk about restaurant discounts for hotel guests!
Hampton Inn - Leesburg/Tavares is a smoke-free property.
- 24-hour front desk
- Business services
- Meeting facilities size (feet) - 600
- Meeting facilities size (meters) - 54
- Free outdoor parking
- 24-hour fitness facilities
- Air-conditioned public areas
- Total number of rooms - 82
- Number of floors - 5
- Free breakfast
- Elevator/lift
- Express check-in
- Express check-out
- Free Wi-Fi
- Laundry facilities
- One meeting/conference room
- Multilingual staff
- Free parking
- Safe-deposit box at front desk
- Self parking
- Smoke-free property
- Number of buildings/towers - 1
- Swimming pool - outdoor
- Coffee/tea in lobby
- Television in lobby
- Complimentary newspapers in lobby
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Luggage storage
- 24-hour business center
- Internet
Available in all rooms: Free Wi-Fi
Available in some public areas: Free Wi-Fi
- Parking
Free parking, Free outdoor parking, Self parking
- Room Amenities
- Connecting / adjoining rooms available
- Cribs/infant beds (complimentary)
- Premium TV channels
- Premium bedding
- Climate control
- Complimentary weekday newspaper
- Air conditioning
- Voice mail
- Free local calls
- Refrigerator
- Coffee/tea maker
- Microwave
- Daily housekeeping
- Private bathroom
- Complimentary toiletries
- Hair dryer
- Shower/tub combination
- Electronic/magnetic keys
- Iron/ironing board
- Clock radio
- Desk
- Rollaway/extra beds available
- Hypo-allergenic bedding available
- Free long-distance calls
- Free Wi-Fi
- Speakerphone
- Digital TV service
- Flat-panel TV
- Blackout drapes/curtains
- Wake-up calls
- Sofa bed
- Pillowtop mattress
- Sofa bed size
- Dining
Guests are offered a complimentary hot and cold buffet breakfast which includes rotating items such as scrambled eggs, southwestern omelets, Belgian waffles, yogurt, pastries, muffins, fruits, cereals, an oatmeal bar, bacon, sausages, French toast sticks, bagel toppers, coffee, juices and tea.
Our Hampton Inn is walking distance to Ruby Tuesdays, Outback Steakhouse, Cracker Barrel, Red Lobster, Chillis and Olive Garden. We were within a few miles of Vic's Embers Grill, Hurricane's Dockside Grill, Cedar River Seafood, Lake Square Mall Food Court, and Publix.
Other great dining options in Leesburg/Tavares include Taki's Greek and Italian restaurant, Jasmine Thai and Sushi, Angelo's Italian restaurant, TJ's Pizza, La Yaquecita Mexican Restaurant, Oakwood Smokehouse, and Habaneros Mexican restaurant.
- Recreation
There are many recreational activities available in the Leesburg/Tavares area. Our Hampton is within a few miles of Wooten Park (Splash/Water Park) in Tavares. This family-friendly park is right on Lake Dora and is a great way to spend the afternoon.
Lake Griffin State Park is also a short drive from our hotel and offers scenic trails, canoeing, and kayaking. Admission to the park is $5 per car load and canoe rental is only $4 per hour. The park accesses Lake Griffin via a beautiful canal.
Emeralda Marsh is one of the premier birding destinations in Lake County. Wildlife in the marsh includes cranes, kingfishers, herons, ducks, egrets, mockingbirds, and anhingas, as well as alligators and turtles.
Renningers Antique Fair in Mount Dora is a very popular attraction in Florida. This year-round flea market is open every Friday, Saturday, and Sunday and features both an antique section and a flea market. Treasures are everywhere at Renningers. Here you can buy souvenirs like a taxidermied alligator head, locally made fudge, Star Wars memorabelia, and rare books and records.
North of Leesburg, off of highway 441, is the Florida Carriage Museum at the Grand Oaks Resort. This expansive resort is an equine lover's paradise and features riding arenas, a polo stadium, driving areas, carriage rides in antique carriages, and a magnificent collection of hundreds of historically significant carriages.
Lake County is also know for it's many golf courses. Our Hampton Inn is only a ten minute drive from Howley-In-The-Hills and the associated Mission Inn Golf Club. Other golf courses in the area include the Mount Dora Golf Club and the Deer Island Golf Course.
- Personal motorized watercraft nearby
- Accessibility
To make requests for specific accessibility needs, complete the "Special or Accessibility Requests" section of "Trip Preferences" when you book your hotel.
- Accessibility equipment for the deaf
- Accessible bathroom
- Accessible path of travel
- Braille or raised signage
- Accessible parking
- Roll-in shower
- In-room accessibility
Policies & Fees
- Check-in
Minimum check-in age is 21
Check-in time starts at 3 PM
- Check-out
Check-out time is 11 AM
- Payment types
Accepted at this hotel: Carte Blanche, Diners Club, Discover, MasterCard, Visa, American Express
- Pets
Pets not allowed
- General
Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on hotel policy.
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card or cash deposit are required at check-in for incidental charges.
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges. Special requests cannot be guaranteed.
- Fees
- The following fees and deposits are charged by the property at time of service, check-in, or check-out.
- Rollaway bed fee: USD 10 per night
The above list may not be comprehensive. Fees and deposits may not include tax and are subject to change.
- Additional Details
The property has connecting/adjoining rooms, which are subject to availability and can be requested by contacting the property using the number on the booking confirmation.
Awards & Affiliations
- Details
- A Green / Sustainable Property - First Party CertifiedThis property has performed a self-assessment, also known as First Party certification, of its sustainable tourism practices through Florida Green Lodging Program thus taking steps to understand its impact on one or more of the following: environment, community, cultural-heritage, the local economy. The property's claims have not been independently verified by a second or third party certification program.


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Was a solo traveller for 4 days in Berlin and booked Karlito Apartments, just on review information and they were even better than I expected. A big spacious apartment, bright, airy and V.clean. It was also well equipped. Location was perfect for the city sights. Staff were great and always very pleasant. I would highly recommend Karlito to fellow travellers.
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Tuning the snapper for BEP - some experimentation
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Well, I finally finished installing the snapper pump. I learned a few things along the way and I'll try to give you as unbiased account as I can here.
First thing - I'm going to take a quick tangent here and report some about my personal experience with reeflo quality. I opened up my brand new reeflo pump and found the dart impeller cracked right through the middle upon arrival. It was as if someone had tightened it too much or it was subjected to an extreme temperature difference and the shaft expanded faster than the impeller and split it. Since I didn't want to run with the dart impeller anyway, I turned my attention to the snapper impeller and found that it had been drilled at an angle so that it wobbles a bit when you spin it on the shaft by hand. I can only imagine that this will wear the seal quickly and lead to a reduced lifespan for the pump and possibly some efficiency loss. I wasn't too impressed. I quickly took some pictures and sent them off to customer support at reeflo. Though I did get a quick response after my initial email stating that some replacement impellers would go in the mail immediately via USPS priority mail, they have not shown up more than a week later and I'm no longer getting response from reeflo via email. Ugh.
I put the wobbly snapper on the pump and plumbed it into the system to replace the Gen X 55hp pump I have been using for the past few years. I chose the gen x pump because I used to have my sump in the basement and pump the water back to the main floor. Since, I have finished my basement and moved the aquarium downstairs, so I don't need a high head pump. I used all of my old manifold and added a couple new 1" drops for expansion and my hurricone skimmer. Before disconnecting the old pump (by the way, supposed to be a 1150 gph, 28ft max head, 170W pump), I hooked up the kill-a-watt to find that it was still drawing a healthy 300W! That's a lot of juice! I removed the Gen X and moved it to the side and installed the snapper (2600 gph, max 11' head, rated at avg 94 watts or peak 105 watts). The kill-a-watt measured the snapper running at 153 watts without any tuning. I installed a valve on the business end of the pump and was eager to throttle it back to see the magic. To my disappointment, the wattage dropped from 153 watts to 147 watts with a fairly aggressive throttling. While I was happy to see myself save 150W (about $10 / month where I live), I was expecting a bit more.
So, why do you think I'm getting such a different number than advertised? Why does throttling make such little impact? I've basically got a 1.5" all the way to the delivery points if you consider that I have pipes in parallel. The highest drop is probably 7', but the average drop is probably 4' or less measured from the water line in my sump to where the water dumps out. Like I said, I suspect the wobble in the impeller accounts for some of the efficiency loss, but I can't imagine that it's the largest factor. My gut says that the specs on these pumps aren't regulated by anything but the reflection of the value of the brand and that maybe everyone fudges the numbers to look better than they really are... I'd be interested to hear YOUR take


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There is a popular book that characterizes mice seeking cheese within a maze, and uses them as a metaphor for the need to change. For purposes of illustration, try to view the characters as reprographers and the cheese as AEC, paper, digital processes, or...
What you are afraid of is never as bad as what you imagine. You start to think more about what could go wrong than what could go right. So…Old beliefs do not lead you to new cheese.
Haw hadn't found new cheese but learned: when you change what you believe, you change what you do. It all depends on what you choose to believe: When you see that you can find and enjoy new cheese, you change course.
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Did Hem ever find new cheese? You decide for yourself. Some people never change. They feel as though they're entitled to their cheese and feel like victims when it's taken away from them and blame others.
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March 5, 2010
"Running with Wolves" premieres on Smithsonian Channel
When field biologist Gudrun Pflueger found out, in 2005, that a cancerous tumor the size of a golf ball was growing in her brain, her chances for survival looked bleak. Many might have even said that recovery was impossible. But Pflueger—sweet, and yet tough as nails—fought, and remained hopeful.
"Already once something impossible happened," she says. "Why not a second time?"
The miracle she's referring to happened just prior to her diagnosis. Pflueger, a wolf expert, was on a six-week expedition along the coast of British Columbia, when she experienced a rare wildlife encounter. Seven Canadian coast wolves encircled her, curiously but not aggressively, in a meadow, while she lay prone in the grass. They played in the field for about an hour.
"The situation kind of carefully evolved. It was always their decision to come closer and closer. They didn't rush. They took their time. They tried to smell me. They never showed any sign that they would even remotely consider me as prey," Pflueger told me in an interview two years ago. "They just accepted me."
At that time, the Smithsonian Channel was preparing to air its first program on Pflueger, called "A Woman Among Wolves." (Check out the interview and the accompanying video clip.) Now, cancer-free, Pflueger is the subject of a sequel. The channel's "Running with Wolves" premieres this Sunday at 8pm (et/pt).
"They [the wolves] gave me their will to fight for my life and be determined," says Pflueger in the film, which describes her deep connection to the animals. The biologist says that her battle with cancer really brought her work into focus, and to a great extent her life's, purpose, to fight for wolf conservation.
In "Running with Wolves," she returns to the meadow where her encounter with the wolves happened. She also searches for wolves in other parts of British Columbia, setting up motion sensitive cameras along the way. Months after she installs a camera outside of an empty wolf den, she returns to it and watches the footage. Jackpot! For a second time, she gets a privileged view of wolves. On her laptop, in a cabin in the backcountry, she watches wolf pups coming out of their den for the first time.
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Is it possible to contact either Gunther Bloch or Gudrun Pflueger via email? I have searched many sites through Google and Yahoo but cannot seem to find an email reference.
Ron Hirko -
i was both moved and inspired by your love for wolves and determination to beat cancer.
you are truly an extraordinary woman. keep your faith about natures ability to heal.
dennis neiditch. -
Stirs something inside. Creates a connection to wild things and places that gives birth to respect.
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Rose said aid organizations should boost education in their programs.
"Only 2% of humanitarian aid is spent on education," she said in a disappointed tone.
According to the UNESCO report, an estimated 2 million children around the world were killed in armed conflict during the decade leading up to 2008. Classrooms, children and teachers are often targeted for strategic reasons.
"All too often, armed groups see the destruction of schools and the targeting of schoolchildren and teachers as a legitimate military strategy," it said. "The problem is not just that schools -- and schoolchildren -- are getting caught in the crossfire, but that the very places that should provide a safe haven for learning are viewed as prime targets."
At the deserted school in Jabal Zawiya, Abu Diyaa's video reveals rows of empty desks. The hallway is empty, with the exception of concrete rubble where he says the shelling took place.
His voice echoes loudly off desolate walls as the rubble crunches under his shoes.
"Here we are during the school hours, and there is not a single student here," he says.
Later, in the Syrian cave, the teacher steers his class away from the camera and back to schoolwork. "OK, let's recite what you learned today one more time," he calls out.
Abu Diyaa gets out of his way and then strikes up a conversation with a female teacher in the next room.
He asks her to deliver a message to the government.
"We will be victorious," she said, "and we will raise our children to be the teachers, the doctors and the engineers of tomorrow's Syria."


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