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McCall Ranch's water makes it attractive for North Port, but its auction price and state rules are a big hurdle
City officials won't be bidding on McCall Ranch when the massive property comes up for auction later this week, but that hasn't stopped some commissioners from fretting about the future of the tract — and its potential impact on North Port.
That's because the 5,771-acre tract on Choctaw Boulevard, once envisioned for a mix of 15,000 homes and 4.2 million square feet of retail and office space, could contain enough water to supply North Port for some time.
"Everyone thinks there's a lot of water on that property," North Port Mayor Jim Blucher said Monday. "I was worried another government would buy up the property, and I wanted to make sure we were not behind the eight ball."
North Port commissioners were so concerned last week that they scheduled a special meeting for Monday morning.
"The only reason I supported having this special meeting was water rights," North Port Commissioner Cheryl Cook said. "We're only one-quarter built out in this city, and we really need to be conscious about water."
North Port isn't the only government entity that is concerned. The Southwest Florida Water Management District considers the land a top priority.
"This property has been on the district's Florida Forever priority list for several years," said Terri Behling, a spokeswoman for the district, commonly called Swiftmud. "The acquisition would align with our core mission of water supply, water quality and associated natural systems. The district has been in ongoing discussions with the owner for some time."
But Swiftmud, together with North Port, face budget shortfalls that would make buying the property difficult — even if rules that make governmental land purchases at auctions difficult could be overcome.
The city has about $6 million to spend on the land, far short of the nearly $13 million in debt tied to the property.
The ranch's lender has indicated that if bids at an auction scheduled for 2 p.m. Thursday fail to meet that $13 million threshold, it will remain in its possession, North Port officials said.
After failing to draw a buyer at its $36 million asking price, the land will either be sold in nine individual tracts — each measuring about 600 acres and some lacking any access — or in its entirety.
Not that North Port could have acquired the ranch — even if it had the money.
North Port City Attorney Robert Robinson told the commission that it could not legally bid under Florida law.
"This just isn't how government typically buys property," Robinson said.
To acquire the land, North Port would first need to obtain a pair of appraisals on the ranch, schedule public hearings for community input and formally vote on a proposed contract.
The city's inability to act leaves the door open for a private developer to buy the land and resume plans for a massive residential and retail development.
Previously, the ranch had been slated to become the Isles of Athena, but those plans crumbled when the region's real estate market deteriorated seven years ago.
Today, the owner of the ranch is seeking bankruptcy reorganization.
North Port commissioners inquired about the property fearing another government entity — like Sarasota County, with which the city has had numerous tussles over the years — would pursue buying the land for its coveted ground water supply.
But the county likely would be blocked from bidding, too, especially because North Port annexed McCall Ranch several years ago for economic development purposes.
The Isles of Athena plan, for instance, was among the most grandiose proposals to arise from Southwest Florida's real estate boom.
Developer Brian Tuttle bought the land for $61.5 million in April 2005, court records show, but when he defaulted on roughly $37 million in loans, South Florida Sod Inc. seized the property in 2009.
But South Florida Sod eventually fell into bankruptcy, burdened by as much as $50 million in liabilities, and the company has been ordered to auction the site as part of its Chapter 11 case.
The auctioneer hired by the bankruptcy trust said interest so far has been modest, especially from groups attempting to preserve the land.
At $13 million, the acquisition cost would equate to about $2,253 per acre — double the going rate for most agricultural land in Southwest Florida.
"We have been a little worried about it," said William Bone, president of Gadsden, Ala.-based National Auction Group Inc. "We do these all across the country, and just about anywhere else in America, the environmental conservancies would be jumping and down to buy it.
"I don't know that it will be able to bring more than $13 million. At this point, we need an angel."
The McCall Ranch property has an agricultural land-use designation, and is zoned for very low-density residential.
But before any kind of development could resume there, a new buyer would have to go through local rezoning and a comprehensive state review — known as a "development of regional impact," which could take several years and greatly increase the cost to build.
As of 2009, as many as 2,000 acres of wetlands also needed to be mitigated on McCall Ranch, a cost that could exceed $50 million, court records show.
"There's a lot of interest, but people are realistic," said Cliff Martinez, a commercial real estate agent in North Port. "Either you will see somebody with very deep pockets to develop it, or it just won't be sold."
Still, demand for new homes —- and communities like the envisioned Isles of Athena — are once again picking up momentum in Southwest Florida.
Homebuilders in the region pulled permits for 3,009 single-family homes in unincorporated Sarasota and Manatee counties in 2013, a 42 percent increase over the year and the best performance since the Great Recession, county records show.
But any new development there would have to compete with North Port's thousands of residential lots that are changing hands for as little as $2,000 each, along with an inventory of existing resale homes that remains much higher than the rest of the region.
Even so, developers think the property can emerge as a successful community if the buyer is willing to think long-term and provide the right amenities.
"You have that kind of money at your disposal, you're patient and you don't plan to see your money back in at least five years, it can work out," said Carlos Beruff, an area homebuilder who has developed successful communities in the North Port area. "It's a very large commitment."
EARLIER: City commissioners will not be buying the McCall Ranch property for ground water preservation.
North Port City Attorney Robert Robinson told the board during a special meeting Monday that they could not legally bid on the property at its scheduled bankruptcy auction this week under present Florida law.
Budget constraints also played a role: the city only has about $6 million to spend, and because there is nearly $13 million in debt tied to the land, the winning bid must be greater than those delinquent loans or the site will remain in the lien-holder's possession, Robinson said.
The city's decision reopens the door for a potential bidder to resume plans for a massive residential and retail development on the property.
"This just isn't how government typically buys property," Robinson said. "There's a certain amount of due-diligence and transparency required for a process like this, and we just don't have the time to do that."
The 5,771 acres of pastures on Choctaw Boulevard was once envisioned for a mix of 15,000 homes and 4.2 million square feet of retail and office space during the boom. Dubbed the Isles of Athena, those plans crumbled when Southwest Florida's real estate economy ground to a halt.
The owner of the agricultural property is now facing bankruptcy reorganization.
After failing to draw a buyer with a $36 million asking price, an auction is now scheduled for 2 p.m. on Thursday.
It will either be sold in nine individual tracts — each about 600 acres and some lacking any access — or in its entirety.


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Davy Crockett
"Be sure you're right. Then go ahead."
In 1786, David Stern "Davy" Crockett, the celebrated frontiersman, politician and folk hero was born in a small cabin on the banks of the romantic Nolichucky River in what is now Greene County. He detested the nickname Davy and all his life preferred to be called David.
Descriptions of Crockett vary, but it is generally thought that he was about 5 feet 8 inches high (tall for the period), with brown hair, blue eyes, and rosy cheeks. He was noted for his homespun humor, honesty, and skill as an entertaining public speaker. Tall tales have grown up around Crockett's backwoods exploits and we present some of them in this exhibit.
Crockett purportedly died March 6, 1836, at the Alamo during the Texas war for independence. Because of a Mexican soldier's diary, some scholars--including Michael Lofaro at the University of Tennessee--have questioned whether Crockett actually fell there. They allege that he and a few others survived the battle but were later executed by the Mexicans on the orders of Gen. Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna. Crockett apologists claim the Mexican journal is a fake. Following the battle, Crockett assumed a super hero status of mythical proportion and has been the subject of movies, television shows, plays, and many books.
Davy did not discourage the myths and legends that grew up around him—the taller the tales, the better. The young Republic was eager for stories of common-folk heroes and Crockett filled the bill. His electioneering skills helped get him to Congress. After his death, the legends became more and more fantastical and they tapped into America's obsession with Manifest Destiny.
Davy Crockett March, by George Loesch, 1874, Rose Music Collection
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David was known for his quick wit and soaring tales on the campaign trail and the people sent him to the House of Representatives twice. Politically a populist, he spoke up for land squatters and opposed President Andrew Jackson's plan for Indian removal.
Click here to read the Petition to form Crockett County, 1837, Record Group 60 - Legislative Petitions
Land Record signed by Davy Crockett, 1822, Record Group 50 - Early Tennessee Land Records
The Crockett Almanac was a wildly popular magazine mass-produced between 1835 and 1856. Most of the papers were published AFTER 1836, the year of Crockett's death during the Texas War for Independence.
The Crockett Almanac, 1839, Library Special Collection
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We have offered our customers tremendous savings on furniture since 1984. We specialize in selling both new and used furniture, mattress sets, used appliances and accessories for your home for less.
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ABERDEEN, Idaho — Experiments underway at the University of Idaho's Aberdeen Research & Extension Center aim to identify the least susceptible wheat varieties to barley yellow dwarf virus — a crop disease that posed major problems in 2013 winter grains.
UI Extension cereals pathologist Juliet Marshall and UI Extension entomologist Arash Rashed will test how quality and yield of four common soft white winter wheat varieties are affected by barley yellow dwarf infection at different growth stages.
The researchers hope to obtain funding from the state's grain commissions to repeat the experiments for two or three more years, expanding into winter barley and other winter wheat varieties.
Marshall said barley yellow dwarf, which is spread by aphids, has long been present in Idaho but was never widespread here until this season. She estimates 30 percent of 2013 winter grain crops were affected throughout southern Idaho. The disease, which typically reduces yields by 10-20 percent, cut yields in half in some fields.
Symptoms typically surface in the spring and may include severe stunting of the plant and roots, fewer and smaller kernels and yellow or red flag leaves.
Marshall believes warm fall weather without killing frosts into December enabled aphid populations to grow and infect more emerging winter crops last fall.
"That was the biggest epidemic of barley yellow dwarf I've seen," she said.
She believes cold weather has knocked down aphid populations this fall and anticipates less disease next season. Nonetheless, she fears barley yellow dwarf will pose a long-term threat due to the growth in Idaho's corn acres. Corn is a host plant that supports barley yellow dwarf between wheat crops but shows no symptoms. Some Idaho growers have started spraying their corn for aphids to prevent transmission into winter grain.
Marshall emphasized no winter wheat and barley lines common in the Pacific Northwest have been bred with barley yellow dwarf in mind.
"We are just trying to determine if there's any resistance available in what we do have," Marshall said.
Marshall and Rashed are raising barley plants in indoor growth chambers that mimic temperatures and conditions winter crops experience in the field. Rashed infected some of the plants early and will infect others after they have been moved into greenhouses in the spring. A collaborator in California will test infection levels, and grain quality and yield testing will be done in Aberdeen. A control group of plants will measure damage from uninfected aphids.
The researchers have also infested winter wheat grown outdoors, under screens. Rashed is concerned the outdoor experiment may yield inconclusive results as cold temperatures may have killed aphids before they could transmit the disease.
In addition to chemical controls, Rashed advises growers to delay winter wheat planting until after aphid populations have declined, destroy volunteer grass crops and use cultivation to remove green plant material.
In soft white winter wheat, Marshall said the variety Stephens proved to be highly susceptible in fields this season, while it didn't seem to surface in WB-Junction or SY Ovation. The winter barley variety Charles was also susceptible.


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Josef Frank designed a lampshade for every one of his lamp models. Originally, all of them were in white textile, but Estrid Ericson later had them sewn up in textiles with prints of Josef Frank and other designers. This cotton lampshade is available in several colours, including yellow.
The lampshade goes with Table lamp 2483 and Wall lamp 2143.


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Board of Zoning Appeals Meeting
- Date: 10/20/2020 7:00 PM
- Location: Leesburg Town Hall - Council Chamber
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Leesburg, Virginia 20176
The Board of Zoning Appeals (BZA) hears and decides cases for variance requests, appeals of administrative decisions, and appeals of zoning map interpretations. The BZA is a quasi-judicial body whose members are appointed by the Chief Judge of the Loudoun County Circuit Court for 5-year terms.
As necessary, the BZA meets on the 3rd Tuesday of every month at 7:00pm in the Town Hall Council Chambers, 2nd Floor, 25 West Market Street. All meetings are open to the public as provided for in the Virginia Freedom of Information Act, and may be viewed via Comcast Government Channel 67 or Verizon Channel 35 or through our live webcast.
Assisted Listening System devices are available at the meeting. If you require any type of reasonable accommodation to attend and/or participate in this meeting, please contact Debi Parry at 703-737-7023. Three days advance notice is requested.


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Kony 2012's success shows there's big money attached to white saviors
The Kony 2012 campaign is still taking heat over its portrayal of Africans as victims whose only hope lay in the actions – and wallets – of white saviors. And critics say it's that centuries-old narrative that's in part responsible for the campaign's viral success. The white savior complex isn't just a familiar narrative – it's a lucrative one.


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Hitler's mistress for more than 12 years and, in the end, his wife - was one of the most successfully guarded
secrets of Nazi Germany.
Eva Braun was born the middle of three sisters into a Catholic family on 6
February 1912 - three
lively, pretty girls. She was educated at a lyceum, then for one year at a
business school in a convent where she had average grades and a talent for
had stayed after closing time to straighten up several things and was
standing on the ladder putting something away on the top shelf. Then I
heard the door open and saw the boss come in with a somewhat older man
carrying a felt hat in his hand. I tried to watch them without their
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"Dear Mr. Hitler, I would like to thank you for the pleasant evening at the theater. It was unforgettable. I shall always be grateful for your friendship. I count the hours until the moment when we shall meet again ..."


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Wildlife Checkpoint Planned in Southcentral Kansas
The Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks and Tourism (KDWPT) and local law enforcement officials will conduct a joint checkpoint in southcentral Kansas in early December. The regular firearm deer season starts November 28, and upland game bird seasons are underway. The checkpoint is intended to help enforce state and federal wildlife laws, as well as the state's driver's licensing laws.
Local law enforcement officers will operate the first stage of the checkpoint to be sure drivers are properly licensed to be driving. If a driver does not have a valid license, appropriate enforcement actions will be taken. Travelers should not expect major delays from this portion of the checkpoint.
Occupants of vehicles in the first check lane will be asked if they are hunters or are transporting wildlife. If yes in either case, drivers will be directed to a nearby check lane where KDWPT natural resource officers will check for required licenses and permits, count the game and gather biological, harvest, and hunter success information. This portion of the checkpoint should also cause minimal delay.
Additional wildlife checkpoints will occur around the state during the fall and winter hunting seasons.


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Dermot Mulroney, of Dermot Mulroney fame, is the latest name to be attached to Chan-wook Park's new English language film "Stoker". The movie focuses on a young girl who is mourning the loss of her father and has to deal with a mysterious uncle. Mulroney will play the father. So he may only be in the movie for 10 minutes. Enjoy him while you can.
"The Darkest Hour" is a new film which follows 5 students trapped in Russia during an alien invasion, with sexy results. Alright I don't know about the sexy results part but I do know it's release date has already been pushed. Now before you go getting all worried I should point out that it's only been pushed two days to December 25th, presumably so it doesn't have to face off against "The Adventures of Tintin". So if it sucks they're not messing with Jesus's birthday. Bold move, Hollywood.
Watching porn online is nice and all but there's something really classy about putting in a DVD and watching it on a TV in all it's glory. I assume the same can be said about the web series "Mortal Kombat Legacy" as it will be coming to DVD and Blu-Ray on November 9th. Both versions are full of extra goodness and if you order it online you'll only have to put your pants on when you go get the mail. Or don't. I don't know what kind of agreement you have with your neighbors.
Ridley Scott and his brother Tony have both been confirmed by Activision to be creating exclusive content for their new online juggernaut "Call of Duty: Elite". Details of what they'll be coming up with aren't available yet but if I was a betting man I'd say some sort of storyline. I can't see either of them sitting down and coding or anything. But then again I don't know what kind of hobbies they have. I don't like to assume.
If you're a women and you want to record yourself having sex with six men then by the power invested in me you deserve to do that. But when you start forcing your 6 year old daughter to hold the camera that's when you get on the express train to hell. You're telling me you found 6 guys to be on camera and you couldn't find one more to play director? Just sounds like laziness to me.
And here's a story about a man who accidentally shot his penis off with his girlfriend's pink gun. Because losing your junk isn't embarrassing enough, you need to do it with a pink pea shooter.


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This former Bachelorette contestant keeps getting dumped by guys because she keeps signing them up for shows and appearances they don't want.
She has trouble getting gigs for things on her own.
She has even proposed a show to producers where she will find a random stranger and marry him or a reality show about her debating to make a sex tape or appearing in Playboy.
She is desperate to be famous.
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Meaning of name Clara
Etymology : Feminine form of the Late Latin name Clarus which meant "clear, bright, famous"
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Clara appears to be someone who is determined and original, bursting with vitality and a zest for life. Bold and resourceful, she enjoys taking risks, and is often quick to assume the role of the leader, although she is also particularly feminine and maternal, and enjoys taking care of others. Furthermore, her manner is generally warm and reassuring, because Clara is eager to please other people. This could be expressed through a friendly attitude, or perhaps in taking great care of her appearance... In any case she´s the real thing, uncompromising, frank and direct - and fiercely loyal. She is extremely sensitive and simply can´t tolerate injustice, if she witnesses unfair treatment she usually won´t hesitate to intervene. She is highly energetic and capable of summoning up more motivation for others than for herself, whilst competition doesn´t worry her much at all. Clara is headstrong and active, lives predominantly in the material realm, and knows how to be efficient and practical when needed. Although she is very generous and concerned for others´ wellbeing, she nevertheless appreciates the good things in life, comfort as well as money, and could turn out be an excellent business woman. As a child, she is very expressive and endearing. She is a sociable creature and is happiest when surrounded by friends, who tend to follow in her footsteps. Even so, she can also be rather snobbish, uncompromising, possessive and jealous; but so very devoted! She is likely to have quite a varied leisure timetable: toy car racing with her brothers followed by a tea party with her sisters, with dolls in between, this way she is able to conciliate her craving for action with her maternal instinct... She needs harmony as much as she needs air and water, and the family environment is likely to have a considerable influence on her development, either in a positive or negative sense.
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She likes to feel needed and be surrounded by the people that love her, to whom she shows much love and devotion in return. She´s a fantastic friend who knows how to listen and is happy to give advice as she sees just. While impatience is one of her non-negotiable characteristics, by contrast she can be most accommodating. On the other hand, she is likely to be somewhat less tolerant and more demanding where her partner is concerned, because she can´t excuse weakness in a man. She may be authoritarian, but she is tactful about it and she certainly possesses the know-how, and simply has the same high expectations for the man in her life that she imposes on herself. If he happens to disappoint her she is likely to break things off abruptly and firmly, and there will be no turning back. Even so, when it comes to the crunch there could be some hesitation on her behave, probably due to the fact that it is fundamental - in her eyes - to have a successful relationship and start a family. Likewise, she is extremely sensitive to comfort and once she has finished adding her personal touch, the interior of her home will have been transformed into a snug and comfortable sanctuary.
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Appendix BReview of Recommendations for Termination for Cause of a Tenured Faculty Member or of a Faculty Member Whose Term of Appointment Has Not Expired
Note: For purposes of this appendix, the terms "parties" or "party" refer to persons directly involved in the termination or hearing, normally the faculty member and the administration.
I. Initiation of ProceedingsFormal proceedings for termination for cause are initiated by the Provost's sending to the faculty member, by certified mail, a letter containing a statement of the charge(s) against the faculty member and a statement of intent to terminate based on those charges. Although the faculty member may wish to appeal the termination as a "grievance," once the Provost has decided to terminate, the termination proceeding shall supersede, and shall make void, any grievance hearing on the same issue. The letter from the Provost to the faculty member being terminated shall include the following information:
II. Response
Within 30 calendar days after receipt of the letter of Intent to Terminate from the Provost, the charged faculty member must respond to the Provost, in writing, indicating (1) a response to the charge(s) stated in the Provost's letter, (2) a decision about whether he or she elects to have a formal hearing of the charge(s) before a faculty committee, (3) the names of witnesses who may be called on behalf of the charged faculty member, (4) a brief statement of the nature of the testimony of each witness, and (5) a summary of other evidence believed to have relevance to the charge(s) to be heard. If the faculty member does not respond within 30 calendar days as indicated above or elects not to have a formal hearing of the charge(s) before a faculty committee, the Provost may proceed with a termination recommendation to the President. The decision of the President is final.
III. Suspension
Suspension of the faculty member during the proceedings is justified only if continuance of the faculty member is believed likely to result in (a) risk of harm to the faculty member or others; (b) an immediate health hazard; (c) endangerment of federal funds or equipment; or (d) risk of immediate danger to the interests of person(s) making allegations, the individuals who are the subject of the allegations, or to others. Suspension can be effected only by the Provost, and salary shall continue during the suspension unless legal considerations prohibit.
IV. The Hearing CommitteeThe initial roster for the Hearing Committee shall be appointed by the Provost within thirty days of the faculty member's request for a hearing. The initial roster shall consist of the next seven faculty members of the UAB Grievance and Termination Hearing Panel who do not hold primary appointments in the department, school, college, or UAB Libraries of the charged faculty member.Faculty members who are asked to serve on a Hearing Committee must recuse themselves if they believe that they cannot, for any reason, fairly and impartially consider the facts of the case to be heard. The Provost may strike or excuse any individual who has a demonstrable conflict of interest or bias. Within seven days of receiving the list of committee members, the faculty member affected must request the removal of two members from a final group of seven (without having to show cause) so that the final Hearing Committee consists of the remaining five members. Individuals who are recused, excused, or struck will be replaced by the next in line on the roster. The final Hearing Committee will consist of five faculty members. If the five-member Hearing Committee is unable to carry out its duties in a timely fashion, the Provost must impanel another committee as specified above. The five-member Hearing Committee shall elect its own chair. Deans and department chairs will be expected to ensure that Hearing Committee members from their units are allowed sufficient time to participate in the hearing process. The Provost shall designate a faculty member to serve as a non-voting facilitator to the committee. The Hearing Committee shall be responsible for the conduct of the hearing and shall establish and enforce procedures to be used at the hearing.
V. Procedure
The Hearing Committee shall consider only the formal charge(s), as stated by the Provost to the faculty member in the letter of "Intent to Terminate." The administration shall have the burden of offering to the Hearing Committee such witnesses and/or other evidence that supports the termination for cause.
The Hearing Committee may hold pre-hearing meetings with or without the party(ies) present to (1) simplify the issues; (2) determine the rules of procedure and evidence to be used; (3) provide for the exchange and review of documentary or other information; (4) determine the witnesses to be called; and (5) achieve such other appropriate pre-hearing objectives as will make the hearing fair, effective, and expeditious. Both sides must provide the committee with any evidence that is requested and available.
The Hearing Committee hearing shall be governed by the following rules and regulations:
VI. Committee Decision
After the hearing is concluded, the Hearing Committee shall meet to reach a decision. Within thirty calendar days after the hearing is concluded, the Hearing Committee must report in writing to the Provost whether or not the charge(s) were supported by the evidence in the record and shall recommend termination or retention. Within fifteen working days of receiving the Hearing Committee's report, the Provost must forward to the President the committee's recommendation along with the committee's report. The report from the committee shall remain confidential, except as required by law.
VII. President's Decision
The President may consider the Provost's recommendation, evidence that was presented during the hearing, and the recommendation of the committee. The President must notify the faculty member, with copies to the Provost and the members of the Hearing Committee, of his/her decision within fifteen working days of receiving the committee's report and recommendation as forwarded by the Provost. If the President does not implement the recommendations of the Hearing Committee, the reasons for not doing so must be included in the letter of notification. The decision of the President is final.


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The Harvard-Baghdad School Expedition (American Schools of Oriental Research, A.S.O.R) was sent to Excavate Nuzi near Kirkuk in Iraq. The expedition members consisted of staff from the Fogg Museum of Art, the Harvard Semitic Museum, and A.S.O.R., Baghad. Excavations commenced in 1927-1928. From 1929 to 1931, the University Museum extended financial aid and the services of a helper, C.Bache, in return for his field training. Very few records pertaining to this excavation are available in the Museum's Archives, probably reflecting the Museum's limited participation. Where possible, a chronological order was imposed on the Near East records.


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Mayor's Office
Mayor Chris Beutler and Kevin Wailes, Administrator and CEO of the Lincoln Electric System (LES), today signed a historic agreement to sell the City's landfill gas to LES to generate electricity. LES will pay the City about $300,000 the first year to purchase 300,000 MMBtu (one million British Thermal Units) of landfill gas from the Bluff Road Landfill.
"This natural gas is produced right here in our own backyard, and electricity generated from this source of energy will be directly used in households and business across the City," Mayor Beutler said. "It is already estimated the volume of gas from the landfill will be able to serve the annual energy needs of over 2,400 households – significantly helping to ease long-term costs for energy."
The City has been working on the project since April 2008 when it solicited bids to evaluate the feasibility of capturing landfill gas produced naturally by the decomposition of waste. Drilling for the 54 wells began November 8, 2011, and the gas now travels through a system of pipes to a facility where it is burned off in a "flare" to prevent it from reaching the atmosphere. This phase of the project cost about $2.2 million and was funded through fees paid by landfill users.
LES will invest about $6.4 million for gas cleaning and compressing equipment, a gas pipeline and electric generating equipment. LES is evaluating two locations to determine the most efficient and economical site for the generation facility. The two options being discussed are at the landfill or about one mile east of the landfill at LES's Terry Bundy Generating Station.
"LES is pleased to be a part of this local, renewable resource project," said Wailes. "Taking part in this project will not only reduce the carbon footprint of the entire community, but also expands the portfolio of renewable resources LES uses to meet our customers future needs."
According to the agreement, the price of the landfill gas will increase by 3 percent a year. The term of the agreement is 20 years, with an option to extend the agreement for 15 years.
The Environmental Protection Agency says methane is over 20 times more powerful than carbon dioxide in terms of greenhouse gas emissions. Landfill gas is about 40 to 60 percent methane, with the remainder being mostly carbon dioxide. The landfill gas was previously released through vents. It is estimated that the amount of carbon emissions reduced by capturing the methane and using it for electricity is equivalent to the annual emissions from about 24,000 cars.
Mayor Beutler praised the leadership, vigilance, and creativity of LES and the City Public Works and Utilities Department. "By using landfill gas for electrical power, Lincoln is also joining the ranks of those cities that are proactively working to lower our carbon emissions," he said. "This project is an example of acting to make our environment cleaner without waiting for federal or state mandates."
More information on the City's solid waste operations is available at lincoln.ne.gov (keyword: landfill). More in formation on LES is available at les.com.


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I find when I keep a "beginner's mind" I often gain insight on subjects that I otherwise would assume I "knew" all about. Most of us age our props - or at least sully them. In this video, we see simple techniques for aging that are used to great effect on metal props. In the spirit of keeping a "beginner's mind", I share it.
I don't know why the video feature on the
Apparently someone sells 5.5 pound jars of Red Vines! 4 of these things showed up at work one day. Two of them have been eaten so far, and I expect the other two any day now.
I'm probably going to distress/age the jars more before Halloween, but in case anyone is looking for something like this, I thought I'd post:
Same painting techniques used for these.
Watch out! Its... It's... A MUPPET!
I love this little video on puppet making from Jim Henson himself. I have said before that I see haunters as "makers with a theme". While Mr. Henson is clearly NOT creating Halloween themed puppets here, isn't he demonstrating the very essence of what so many of us do?
In Zen, the concept of "beginner's mind" is central.
I saw an article about some hoax ni England where someone corpsed a small skeleton and tried to pass it off as a Faerie.
Well, that made me think it would be a cool specimen for my lab. Some local haunters came over for a make and take, and saw it and loved it and said I should offer them. As I already had others in the works, I decided to give it a go.
I thought I'd share some of the end
Acrophobia, as I'm sure you know, is the fear of heights.
Previously, I have written about a haunt done completely in the dark, capitalizing on nyctophobia. I was wondering about other common phobias. Who wants to build a "scare" around something 1 person in ten million have?. I know lots of people fear heights.
So, short of building your haunt 100 feet in the air, how do you


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The Shedd's annual August classic Songbook festival, Oregon Festival of American Music features classic musical theatre, cabaret, and standards-based jazz.
The Emerald City Jazz Kings
The Shedd Institute's resident historic jazz & classic American Songbook ensemble is now in its 22nd season, offering 4 all-new programs each year in Eugene, Florence and Corvallis.
Shedd Classical
The Shedd Institute's classical music series, featuring both self-produced local and national artists. Shedd Classical touches on the full extent of the European art music tradition, with a special interest in the Americas and 20th c.
Shedd Theatricals
Shedd Theatricals offers full, live-orchestra productions of the best of classic Broadway from the 1940s-60s and the fun-loving, witty, and totally sparkling musical comedies of the 1920s and '30s.
Mr. Tom's Magical Moombah!
Mr. Tom's Magical Moombah is a musical vaudeville for kids! Filled with skits, songs and contests, the Moombah introduces youngsters to the great songs that everyone should know!
Now Hear This
The Now Hear This presents 35 to 40 concerts each year in a broad variety of genres from jazz and classical to bluegrass, world music and country, and more.
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The Seven Deadly Sins
Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht, 1927-33
Sat, Feb 23, 7:30 - 9:30 pm
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"Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it." – Bertolt Brecht
"I am unable to set the communist party manifesto to music." – Kurt Weill
Siri Vik and colleagues explore the short, fraught, and thoroughly intriguing collaboration of composer Kurt Weill (1900-50) and poet/playwright Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956). In the program's first set, Vik is joined by Robert Ashens and chamber ensemble and vocalists Caitlin Christopher, William Hulings and Dylan Stasack in a selection of songs from
The Threepenny Opera
Happy End
(1929), and
Rise And Fall of the City of Mahogonny
In the second set Vik and performance corps are joined by Ashens and chamber orchestra in a faithfully-researched and staged re-creation of Brecht and Weill's final collaboration,
The Seven Deadly Sins
as premiered by George Balanchine's short-lived dance company, Les Ballets in June 1933 in Paris (as
Les sept péchés capitaux
) and London (as
) with Weill's wife Lotte Lenya and Austrian dancer Tilly Losch together in the role of the protagonist Anna, a young woman from Louisiana sent away by her parents for seven years to earn money for a new family house. Robert Ashens conducts, William Hulings directs, Caitlin Christopher choreographs; the setting is realized by Connie Huston and costumes are executed by Jamie Parker. Sara Stockwell assumes the role of Anna II alongside Vik's Anna I, who are together supported by vocalists William Hulings, Dylan Stasack, Cloud Pemble, Alex Mentzel, and dancers Jim Ballard, Adam Kelly, Kenady Conforth and Abigail Howell. It will be performed in the English translation of W. H. Auden and Chester Kallman.
Mounting a production of Weill's and Brecht's unusual "sung ballet" that is reoriented to the piece's original 1933 intellectual context and philosophical timbre has been a long-standing dream for artistic director Siri Vik, a Weill scholar, and Shedd executive director and producer Jim Ralph, a lifelong admirer of Brecht.
The Seven Deadly Sins
has become a staple of ballet, opera and the classical music world in the sixty years since it was pulled from obscurity by Balanchine in 1958 and set on his New York City Ballet. But while the many re-creations of the 40-minute work over those decades (both as a ballet in the mold of Balanchine's re-visioning and as a concert piece) have made
The Seven Deadly Sins
an oft-performed cultural mainstay, the process served Weill's superb score well but has dulled its essential Brechtian worldview at the base of the original biting critique of capitalism and its capacity to destroy the human spirit, a socio-political morality play which turned the 4th century Christian teaching of the desert fathers on its head in order to expose the soul-draining effects of the modern socio-economic order as it existed for the
petit bourgeoisie
of which the ballet's heroine, Anna, is a part. It is with great pride that The Shedd presents our attempt to restore to the piece, as much as is possible, "the hammer" of its original telling, as re-created with sensitivity and brilliance by Vik and her creative team.
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Siri Vik
artistic director
Robert Ashens
conductor, 7DS music director
Caitlin Christopher
Bill Hulings
stage director
Words by
Bertolt Brecht
- Music by
Kurt Weill
Denn wie man sich bettet, so liegt man
("As You Make Your Bed")
Rise And Fall Of The City of Mahagonny (Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny)
Words by
Bertolt Brecht
- Music by
Kurt Weill
The Threepenny Opera (Die Dreigroschenoper)
Words by
Bertolt Brecht
- Music by
Kurt Weill
("Canon Song")
The Threepenny Opera (Die Dreigroschenoper)
Words by
Bertolt Brecht
- Music by
Kurt Weill
Das Eifersuchtsduett
("Jealosy Duet")
The Threepenny Opera (Die Dreigroschenoper)
Words by
Bertolt Brecht
- Music by
Kurt Weill
("Pimp's Ballad")
The Threepenny Opera (Die Dreigroschenoper)
Words by
Bertolt Brecht
- Music by
Kurt Weill
Bilbao Song
Happy End
Words by
Bertolt Brecht
- Music by
Kurt Weill
Der Song von der Mandelay
("Mandalay Song")
Happy End
Words by
Bertolt Brecht
- Music by
Kurt Weill
Surabaya Johnny
Happy End
Words by
Bertolt Brecht
- Music by
Kurt Weill
-- Intermission --
The Seven Deadly Sins
(Die sieben Todsünden)
Words by
Bertolt Brecht
- Music by
Kurt Weill
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Kurt Weill, 1900-1950
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The Seven Deadly Sins [& the Seven Heavenly Virtues]
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McKenzie River Trust presents Barry Lopez
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Science Knight Out with Robert Guldberg
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Wrong haul? Group wants I-81 truckway derailed
Not too far in the future, in some hotspots, Interstate 81 might swell to eight to ten lanes. And in a few areas, the roadway could widen to 12 lanes– six in each direction, a vast Valley viaduct.
The expansion– at a cost of about $13 billion– would gobble up houses, businesses, and maybe even a Civil War battlefield or two.
And it would have tolls– a powerful incentive for truckers and others to find alternate paths, such as nearby Route 29, the already crowded artery that passes through Charlottesville.
There's another catch– in 30 years, it might have to be expanded again.
"If we allow a huge East Coast bypass to be built into our Mountain Valley topography, the impacts will be tremendous," says critic Rees Shearer.
Not the least of those impacts would be environmental. Additional lanes mean, obviously, more cars and trucks speeding up and down I-81 every day. The indirect effects of the additional traffic include more jobs and more population– which will themselves exert pressure on the interstate highway system in addition to primary and secondary roads, schools, and fire and rescue services.
And then there's the impact on drivers' wallets. Truck tolls would run from nine cents to 37 cents per mile, a cost that could top $120 for a trucker passing through Virginia.
"A toll road," Shearer says, "would divert truck traffic to other highways and put businesses and industries up and down the corridor at risk."
Proposed by Star Solutions, a private consortium that's negotiating with the Virginia Department of Transportation for the lead role in overhauling the highway, the dramatic expansion has plenty of critics. Unlike most critics, however, Shearer believes he has a solution– a rail solution.
Shearer's group is called quite simply Rail Solution, and its strategy would add just one lane of highway in both the northbound and southbound directions of I-81.
The core of the group's plan is a "steel interstate"– created by adding an additional track and myriad overpasses along the existing rail line that already parallels I-81 in the Shenandoah Valley. The idea is to increase capacity, eliminate grade crossings, and bolster train speeds sufficiently to provide a freight-shipping alternative to the long-haul trucks that make up 29 percent of all vehicles traveling on Virginia's stretch of I-81.
"We want to keep I-81 toll free and make it compete against a higher-speed railroad," says Shearer. "That's adding a whole new transportation benefit to the mix. If you just widen the highway and keep rail as a substandard service, it's not adding anything. And you're going to have to do the same thing at some point in the future when congestion becomes an issue again."
The steel interstate would run from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania through Virginia to Knoxville, Tennessee– and possibly on to Memphis and New Orleans. Shearer says that Virginia's portion would cost just over a quarter of the Star Solutions plan– $3.5 billion– while saving the environment and countless quantities of fuel and emissions by diverting about 40 percent of long-haul truck traffic from the roadway to the tracks.
However, VDOT has run some numbers– and what it has come up with doesn't look encouraging for those who support a rail solution.
According to a draft environmental-impact statement released by VDOT last month, the steel interstate would divert fewer than six percent of trucks that currently use the interstate in Virginia– at an actual price tag of not $3.5 billion, but $5 billion.
As rail advocates vociferously doubt the findings– "We find it almost impossible to believe that VDOT is correct," says Shearer– those in state transportation offices stand by them.
"Let's put it bluntly," says VDOT spokesperson Laura Bullock. "If rail would be profitable, private companies would be doing it already."
Indeed, the private sector doesn't appear interested– if Norfolk Southern Corp. is any indication. The railroad has repeatedly indicated that it has no plans to upgrade capacity of its Shenandoah Line.
Yet Shearer wants to persuade the governments as well as the mammoth railroad to see things in a different light.
"In the last five decades-plus we have been spending our federal and state transportation subsidies on the interstate system," Shearer says, "with some significant money going toward airlines and ports authorities, but we have allowed railroads to flounder." And flounder they have.
"Passenger rail was abandoned and left to starve," says Shearer. "Freight rail had more profit all along, so it's been able to survive, but in the meantime, literally thousands of miles of track have been taken up."
Bullock points out that it would take a major shift in public policy for "public money to be used on private transportation, which is basically what rail is."
However, after a bi-partisan move backed by outgoing governor Mark Warner, the state recently began awarding $23 million annually for private railroad improvements– as long as there are 30 percent matching funds from the owners– and a clear public benefit.
To Shearer, such benefits are obvious– and obviously wiser than spending billions on road widening. But VDOT disagrees.
"If you look at the traffic we expect on Interstate 81 in the year 2035, and you took every truck off the interstate, we would still have Thanksgiving weekend conditions every day of the year," says VDOT's Bullock, citing VDOT projections that 90,000 passenger vehicles would travel the I-81 corridor in Virginia.
"There would not be enough room out there for just cars," says Bullock. "And that's if you could take every truck off."
And, obviously, no rail option could remove every truck from the interstate.
"They couldn't," says Bullock. "You still have local deliveries, and deliveries on shorter trips, like between Harrisonburg and Bristol."
Folks at Rail Solution don't disagree. Trains and trucks are already "business partners," according to the group's literature. "Trains excel at long hauls, trucks at point-to-point delivery."
Still, there's that difference over the diversion– six percent vs. 40 percent. One reason for the discrepancy, explains Trip Pollard of the Charlottesville-based Southern Environmental Law Center, is that the VDOT study serving as the basis of ifs impact statement had a design flaw: it studied only in-state traffic.
"What's needed is a look at a multi-state rail solution," says Pollard, who calls for a "corridor-wide" study.
Bullock concedes that the VDOT study didn't contemplate a multi-state solution.
"Our study is under the purview of the Federal Highway Administration," says Bullock, "and they have said this is a Virginia-only study, so we have to comply with the direction they've set for us."
To Pollard, such limitations doom the value of VDOT's research. "This isn't a Virginia problem," says Pollard. "It's a federal problem. It's a multi-state problem. And it's going to require the input of the federal government and states located up and down the I-81 corridor to get to a workable solution."
Already, 37 Virginia cities, towns, and counties along I-81– Pulaski County's the biggest holdout– have supported a comprehensive rail approach in any effort to upgrade I-81.
VDOT says that it has listened to transportation officials from several I-81 states to see what can be done across state borders to take the pressure off the interstate highway.
"The folks in these meetings recognize the benefit of working together," says Fred Altizer, program manager for the I-81 improvement project at VDOT.
Altizer says members of the working group have shared information about what their respective states are doing relative to I-81.
"One common thread that binds us is that 81 is one of those commerce corridors in the United States that feed a large portion of the population in terms of goods and services," says Altizer. "Each state has been more than willing to acknowledge that. We just don't have a mechanism to bring this to life right now."
One thread that binds many drivers is a fear of driving on such a truck-packed roadway. In 1998, a spectacular car-truck collision near Roanoke claimed seven lives– including one set of parents in the infamous UVA baby-switch case. However, a civil suit filed in that case suggests that the car's driver was at fault.
Then there's the narrow width of the road. Designed in late 1950 to the '60s, I-81 is much narrower than newer interstates, with inner shoulders typically only two tire-widths wide, according to Bullock. Yet despite the trucks and the outdated design, I-81 may not foster widespread carnage.
Taking into account fatalities, injuries, and property damage, VDOT gives each of the state's interstates a "weighted crash score." The figure for I-81 is actually 42 percent below Virginia's interstate average. As for trucks, they constitute 29 percent of the vehicles on I-81– and 29 percent of the crashes.
But there's another growing complaint: traffic.
Emmett Hanger, a state senator who represents a wide swath of the Central Shenandoah Valley in the Virginia Senate, thinks the problem needs no further study.
"There's too much traffic out there," says Hanger (R-Mount Solon), "and we have to do something. Obviously, a lot of money has been spent to this point, and almost any armchair observer, given a ride up and down Interstate 81 and about five minutes to think about it, would come to the same conclusions as the report.
"Anyone who has an appreciation for our lifestyle and the sensitive environment in Western Virginia would come to the same conclusion," says Hanger. "You don't want to overbuild, and yet there are places that need immediate attention."
Hanger's solution: one additional lane in most locations on both sides of the interstate.
"A lot of that can be done with very limited environmental impact and study," says Hanger, "because it can be accomplished within existing right-of-way." A further benefit from operating in the existing right-of-way is lower cost.
If things don't happen Hanger's way or with a "steel interstate," things could move in the direction of Star Solutions' asphalting plan.
While Star touts its tolls as funding salvation, business and local-government leaders from Bristol to Winchester say tolls would kill the economy of the western third of the Commonwealth.
And the impact could very well extend into Central Virginia. According to a 2002 report commissioned by the Virginia Trucking Association and the American Trucking Association, a 10-cent per mile increase in the cost of using I-81– from tolls or other means– would be expected to produce a 11 percent decrease in truck miles traveled on I-81, with a 20-cent hike resulting in a 51 percent decrease.
Where will all those trucks go?
"Whatever is done to I-81 is going to have an enormous impact on Charlottesville and Central Virginia," Pollard says. "People have so much to deal with in Charlottesville and Albemarle County that we tend to view 81 as a Western Virginia problem. But there's no question that the tolls being talked about are going to divert a significant amount of truck traffic from 81 to alternate routes, and one of those is 29.
According to a report by ALK Technologies and its principal, Princeton professor Alain Kornhauser, truck traffic would climb 20 percent on U.S. 29 with just a 10-cent per mile increase in the cost of driving on I-81.
"Charlottesville and the 29 corridor have enough congestion issues to worry about," Pollard says, "without having thousands of additional trucks a day heaped on for good measure."
Star Solutions' critics are already starting to see encouraging signs. The federal highway bill that passed Congress last summer contained $142 million for truck lanes in Virginia.
While that sounds like a lot, Shearer says, Star Solutions had been hoping for $1.6 billion. In its proposal posted on VDOT's website, Star brags of finding such funds through Alaska's lone congressman Don Young, an avowed fan of separating cars and trucks.
However, later last year, Young, chairman of the House Transportation Committee, as well as Alaska Senator Ted Stevens, saw their much-derided "bridge to nowhere" stripped from the federal highway bill. The $223 million bridge would have linked a 50-person island to Alaska's mainland with a structure taller than the Brooklyn Bridge and nearly as long as the Golden Gate Bridge.
Then there's Star Solutions. A consortium of big companies, the name stands for Safer Transport and Roadways. Critics, however, can't help but note that the leader is KBR Inc., also known as Kellogg Brown & Root, a subsidiary of the infamous Halliburton Corporation.
As Shearer doesn't hesitate to point out, KBR is under investigation for overcharging the Pentagon for military support operations in Iraq. Another member of Star is McGuire Woods, the Richmond law firm that helped write Virginia's Public-Private Transportation Act, the law that enables a private company to build roads.
"These relationships are too cozy," complains Shearer.
"There are people here who have been involved in state government," says Tyler Bishop, spokesperson for Star. "But that only educates us in what the law does."
Bishop points out that two firms applied to become the I-81 contractor under the Public-Private law, which he calls a "tool to allow the private sector to make projects happen that the state can't afford do on its own."
VDOT and Star acknowledge they still in discussions for Star to handle the road upgrades, but Bullock points out that VDOT is not yet talking about what Star might build.
"We have to pick an idea first," stresses Bullock. Her colleague Altizer says that Virginians will get six or seven public hearings over the next two months with the Commonwealth Transportation Board making a decision later this year.
As for the notion that the $142 million federal appropriation was a rejection of truck lanes, Star's Bishop disagrees. "To the contrary," says Bishop, "it proves the project is alive and viable and that the Congress thinks is worthy of scarce federal dollars."
Nick MacNeil, a Staunton-based member of Rail Solution, is among those calling for a more thorough review of the state's options.
"Experts believe that intermodal freight-rail capacity will inevitably be expanded in the near future to handle demand, whether or not highways are widened," he says. "It would be a tragedy to triple I-81 highway capacity, with all the destruction that would entail locally, only to find that increased freight-rail capacity made that expansion unnecessary."
This is how Star Solutions would make I-81 look, it claimsby adding multiple lanes
This is how Rail Solution would makeover I-81, it claimsby placing tracks alongside the highway
Rail Solution wants more truckers to pull their rigs onto the rails.
Would two freight lines with overpasses boost rail speeds on the Shenandoah line from 20 to 80mph?
COVER SIDEBAR- I-81 fast facts
* In Virginia, I-81 is 325 miles long, the longest interstate in Virginia.
* It has 90 interchanges.
* It closely parallels U.S. Route 11 and railroad lines.
* It stretches from Dandridge, Tennessee, at the intersection of I-40 through New York to the U.S.-Canada border.
* It links 21 Virginia cities and towns and 12 counties and connects I-64, I-66, I-77, I-381 and I-581.
* While designers expected only 8 percent truck traffic, they built the road to handle nearly double that– 15 percent– just to be safe.
* Surprise, surprise– trucks now account for 39 percent of total traffic on I-81, one of America's top eight truck routes.
* I-81's hills provide scenic thrills, but cause trucks to decelerate.
* Unlike I-95, its eastern counterpart, I-81 connects much smaller cities and towns without major "rush hours."
* Not surprisingly, therefore, I-81 has become a through-trucking route for drivers wishing to avoid big-city traffic.
* In 1956, under President Dwight Eisenhower, Congress approved major funding to launch the Interstate system.
*Construction of I-81 started in December 1957 from just north of Buchanan to just south of the Rockbridge County line, creating a stretch called the "Harrisonburg bypass"– only 10 months after Virginia's first public hearing.
* On December 21, 1971, I-81 was completed when a 14.4 mile stretch was opened from Dixie Caverns to Christiansburg.
* Traffic has tripled in the last 20 years, from around 20,000 vehicles per day to nearly 60,000 vehicles per day in the Roanoke Valley and Winchester regions.
* Still, AAA considers I-81 one of the nation's 10 most scenic interstates, the only interstate in the Southeast to earn that designation.
* In 2000, speed limits in the metro areas surrounding Harrisonburg and Roanoke were lowered from 65 mph to 60 mph
* In preparation for widening, concept studies began in 1996 with aerial photography, traffic counts, and traffic computer modeling. A nearly $12 million effort, the studies continue...
–all based from VDOT information


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Soufflés have a reputation for being difficult to make, but that's not why I've never made one before. I've never made soufflés because I never really craved soufflés. But blogging has been a way for me to expand my horizons and try new things in the kitchen. So when Tami at Running with Tweezers announced soufflés as the theme for 2007's first Hay Hay It's Donna Day, I instantly started craving one. It's the power of suggestion. Or maybe it's the power of food blogs?
Gourmet magazine describes this dessert as "a soufflé without fall … delicate and foolproof ". The word that caught my eye was "foolproof". It was as if the recipe was daring me to mess it up. Technically this isn't your traditional soufflé. Salzburger nockerl is more like a meringue dessert. The original recipe calls for lingonberry sauce, but I decided to use a combination of Nutella (chocolate hazelnut spread) and raspberry jam. Because (1) Why not? (2) I can't leave well enough alone and (3) in the spirit of HHDD, I wanted to "turn simple into special". It was a treat to find pockets of creamy Nutella and jam underneath the light and airy meringue. And was it foolproof? Well, I wouldn't go so far as to call it foolproof but it was a pretty easy recipe. Just set your baking dish on a sheet pan to catch any drips and make sure you don't open the oven while it's baking.
I think the hardest part was getting a photograph of the soufflé. My best light at this time of day was about 11 meters away from my oven. The heavenly clouds of my soufflé deflated with every step. I lost about 3 cm before snapping my first shot.
Salzburger Nockerl
(adapted from Feb 2007 Gourmet)
1/4 cup heavy cream
3 tablespoons Nutella or other chocolate hazelnut spread
2 tablespoons raspberry jam or preserves
5 large egg whites
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup granulated sugar
1 tablespoon all-purpose flour
3 large egg yolks
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
confectioner's sugar for dusting
Put oven rack in middle position and preheat oven to 400°F.
Pour cream into a 9-inch pie plate or shallow gratin dish and spoon Nutella and jam into cream in dollops (it will be sparse).
Put egg whites and salt in a bowl, then set bowl in a larger bowl of hot water and stir whites to warm to room temperature, 1 to 2 minutes. Remove from hot water. Beat whites with an electric mixer at high speed until they just form soft peaks, then beat in granulated sugar, 1 tablespoon at a time, beating until whites just form stiff, glossy peaks. Sprinkle flour over meringue and fold in gently but thoroughly. Whisk together egg yolks and vanilla in a small bowl. Whisk in about 1/2 cup whites to the yolks to lighten up the mixture. Then fold yolk mixture into whites gently but thoroughly.
Spoon large dollops of meringue onto cream mixture and bake until golden brown and set, 13 to 15 minutes. If you prefer a less creamy soufflé, bake 5 minutes more. Dust lightly with confectioners sugar and cool 5 minutes before serving.
Makes 4 to 6 (dessert) servings.
Nutella & raspberry jam peeking out


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Korn/Ferry Completes Acquisition of Leading Global Leadership Solutions Firm, PDI Ninth House
Jan 02, 2013, 06:00 ET
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 2, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Korn/Ferry International (NYSE:KFY), a premier global provider of talent management solutions, today announced that it has completed its acquisition of Minneapolis-based PDI Ninth House, a leading, globally-recognized provider of leadership solutions.
"We are pleased to announce the completion of Korn/Ferry's acquisition of PDI Ninth House, a partnership that combines two of the top brands in talent management," said Gary D. Burnison, CEO of Korn/Ferry International. "PDI Ninth House brings to Korn/Ferry strong talent management offerings, rich intellectual property, and world-class people, which we believe will immediately increase Korn/Ferry's depth and scale in being the most relevant leadership organization in the world."
About Korn/Ferry International
Korn/Ferry International is a premier global provider of talent management solutions, with a presence throughout the Americas, Asia Pacific, Europe, the Middle East and Africa. The firm delivers services and solutions that help clients cultivate greatness through the attraction, engagement, development and retention of their talent. Visit www.kornferry.com for more information on Korn/Ferry International, and www.kornferryinstitute.com for thought leadership, intellectual property, and research.
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On Tuesday, Microsoft began selling the latest version of its Office productivity suite. Office 365 Home Premium is aimed at consumers – a business version of the software will be out late next month. But unlike past new releases of Office, this software isn't good forever.
Office 365 Home Premium costs $99 (or $10 a month), and that lets you use its various programs and some associated cloud services – such as online SkyDrive storage – for one year. After that, you'll have to ante up more cash or face the prospect that the software will no longer work as expected.
ZDNet's Mary Jo Foley has the details on what happens when your Office 365 subscription expires:
For users with an Office 365 Home Premium subscription, as the expiration date of that subscription approaches, users will receive notifications inside the Office applications and via e-mail to remind/nag users about the approaching expiration date.
Once the subscription expires, the Office apps will enter a "read-only reduced functionality mode." This means users will be able to view or print documents, but won't be able to create any new documents or edit existing documents.
Users who want to regain their full Office capabilities will be able to purchase a new subscription (via Office.com) or a set of predesignated retailers. Users also will have the choice of simply using older, existing versions of Office or to just use the free Office Web Apps on SkyDrive for basic editing.
To be clear: If you don't keep paying Microsoft its annual fee, you will only be able to read and print documents with the software. You won't be able to create new documents or edit existing ones.
Microsoft has wanted to move to this model for some time. If its consumers go along for the ride, it stands to make a lot of money. (Businesses have been able to buy into this for a while, with licensing that automatically gives them upgrade privileges to newer versions.)
For those who are wary about playing the subscription-software game, there are some upsides.
First, Microsoft plans to introduce new features more rapidly, with updates coming several times a year. Unless you're of the if-it-ain't-broke-don't-fix-it mindset, this is promising, and allows Microsoft to better keep up with advances and trends in computing.
The new version of Office also allows you to install it on up to 5 computers at that price – including Office 2011 for Mac. You can manage the machines that use the software, turning Office 365 off on one so you can use it on another.
There are other perks. You get 20 gigabytes of extra SkyDrive storage, beyond the amount you currently have. And you'll get 60 minutes worth of Skype calls every month while the subscription is in force.
Finally, Office 365 Premium costs less for a year than the non-subscription Office Home & Student 2013, which sells for $139, and comes with more software. Office 365 has Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, Outlook, Publisher and Access. Home & Student only comes with Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote. To get all the programs on a non-subscription basis, you'd have to pay $400 for Office Professional 2013 – and that is a license for just one PC.
In general, Office 365 looks like a good deal. But many folks who are used to having full control of the software they purchase are going to feel like this subscription version puts a sword of Damocles over their heads. For those users, I've got some advice: Keep the install file or media for your previous version of Office handy. A year from now, you may want it.
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Selig's comments suggest retirement is near
But on Wednesday, when he reiterated his plan to retire, he did so more directly, more forcefully, and in all frankness, more seriously than he has in the past.
Selig's current contract expires at the end of 2014. He has been Commissioner since 1992, serving a longer tenure than any other Commissioner but the first one, Kenesaw Mountain Landis, who held the office for 24 years.
The context for Selig's remarks on retirement came in an interview with MLB.com while reviewing the past year in baseball. The Commissioner discussed the successful addition of two Wild Card teams, making the point that rather than diluting the quality of the postseason, the additional Wild Card teams contributed to the drama of the playoff chase.
The additions of the two teams brought the postseason field to 10 teams. There has been some thought that adding another two teams would not be an unreasonable maneuver. At this point in the interview, Selig, without solicitation, spoke of his retirement.
"We're golden at 10 [teams]," the Commissioner said. "We're at 10 for the next two years, and then they can do what they want to do. After that, I'm going back to our alma mater [the University of Wisconsin] to teach history. I'll be 80 years old. That'll be enough."
Selig, as he has often stated, was a history major at Wisconsin. He has endowed the Allan H. Selig Chair in the History of Sport and Society in the United States, as well as a distinguished lecture series in the same field at the university. Selig has remained a prominent presence on the Madison campus. His recent lecture on business ethics at the university's School of Business drew a standing-room-only crowd.
In the past, Selig typically had spoken of retirement only when he had been asked about it. And in the past, while insisting that he was going to retire, he frequently added in a humorous vein that his wife, Sue, did not believe that he was actually going to retire.
There was none of that in these remarks.
Selig had said he planned to retire at the end of his term in 2009, but then received a three-year extension from Major League owners. He later said that he would retire at the end of 2012, but the owners subsequently extended his contract for another two years.
There are valid reasons why the owners continue to extend Selig's tenure as Commissioner. Baseball is in a period of unprecedented prosperity, and not at all coincidentally, unprecedented competitive balance.
These conditions are a direct result of Selig's policies. Coming to the Commissionership as the owner of the Milwaukee Brewers, he knew firsthand about the difficulties of competing as a small-market franchise. So he led the charge in instituting measures -- such as greatly increased revenue sharing -- which served to make parity in competition a possibility, then a reality.
Over the past 12 years, for instance, 27 of the 30 Major League clubs have qualified for the postseason.
"We have more competitive balance now, more parity, whatever you want to call it, than we've had at any time," Selig said Wednesday. "This is exactly what I set out to do back in the '90s. When you think of the abuse that I took initially, this is truly remarkable."
Baseball had gross revenues of $1.2 billion in 1992. This year, Selig said, gross revenues would be about $7.5 billion and could exceed $8 billion in 2013.
MLB recently agreed to national TV rights contracts for $12.4 billion, more than double the amount of the previous contracts.
The economic prospects of the game are so good that escalating rights fees for local TV broadcasts in larger markets seem to hold the possibility for creating a new imbalance in revenues.
"I am concerned about that, I can't tell you that I'm not," Selig said. "But we have enough substantial mechanisms in place that we should be able to work our way around it."
Selig added that revenue sharing was one of the principal mechanisms.
The game, as Selig frequently suggests, is best "when we keep the focus on the field." That is where the primary focus was in 2012, on individual and collective accomplishments.
"The dynamic is so good because of the level of competition," the Commissioner said. "The drama was just incredible. And again, with the Wild Card [additions], it has worked out even better than I envisioned."
The quality of that competition was indisputable. Judged by any reasonable standard -- competitive or financial -- baseball is in a far, far better situation than it was in '92 when Selig took over as Commissioner. From someone who has covered him for more than three decades, this time his retirement remarks sound like a final decision, not just a possibility. The thing I couldn't believe was that in two years he would be 80.


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qbin2001 wrote:dugpa wrote:I asked my friend but he hasn't gotten back to me yet. I suspect he would know and will post once I get word back.
Thank you. Can't wait!
I finished writing last 3 episodes track list (Hurray!).
Now I need to recheck all the episodes, because some of the track I'm not sure are correct (especially Percussion Solo's numbering, Owl Cave tracks, and few other pieces. When I finish updating all the episodes (hopefully next week), I'll make a lists of all the tracks (alphabetically) and all the mixes in the series (marking the best ones). And list of mixed tracks from all 3 soundtracks (Night Life in TP, I'm Hurt Bad, Bookhouse Boys etc.) with names of tracks used in those mixes. This should be great list to compare with released tracks. And then maybe we can make a thread where we'll be voting for our favorite tracks?
AWESOME!!! GREAT JOB Q!!!! Your hard work is always much appreciated!
Here's one that needs to be corrected:
qbin2001 wrote:"Laura Palmer's Theme (Harp)" - only a short piece released as a part of the "Nostalgia Version"
X 30. Laura Palmer's Theme (Harp) 39:26
You mean- Twin Peaks Theme (Harp)
The percussion solos are so hard to distinguish from each other!!!


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On parenting advice from Kim Kardashian: [Kim has advised me on] everything from breastfeeding to how a stroller works." She adds, "You don't know your child until they get here, you don't know their personality. There is a lot of learning to do. I loved that advice. I believe in allowing your child to be who they want to be — as long as they want to be something great."
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Jim wants to scare little children
Discuss this movie. Available on DVD and Blu-ray.
lol............he's not that rich..............lol..........Bill Gates and The sultan of Brunei could buy and sell him.................Trump is so vulgar with his cash though..............and what's with the hair??..........lol..........
He needs to learn humility and compassion........he's a hard B*stard..........
what???..................you mean you don't fancy seeing him with a combover like Donald Trump??............lol................
och clelebs like Jim can get their hair transplanted............lol.........they shift it from one area of the body to the head........lol..
imagine some curly grey chest hair or even hair from further South on his head??............hahahahaah........that would look so funny..........
RE: Olaf.
but to prepare for the role of Olaf, Jim had to shave his head and dye the remaining bits of his hair grey!
yours sincerly, Countess Olafina equalor
RE: Twin cats.
Twin cats? Cool! like Catdog- only without the dog part! But Donald would fire you if you did something wrong. I've got a joke, what did Donald Trump say to the cannonball? You're fired!
yours sincerly, Countess Olafina equalor
RE: Jim under the bed.
my cat's russian.
yours sincerly, Countess Olafina equalor
RE: Jim scares.
my cat's name is Nicolinco but we call him Nico for short.
yours sincerly, Countess Olafina equalor
Jim under the bed
If I saw Jim under the bed, I'd be very delighted, and i'd would invite all my close friends so we could all hang out with Jim all night long.
i would i would go like Jim do you need a bed ? you can sleep with me and i would be like pinch me i must be dreaming
I'm in LOVE with him and I Feel Fine
Scary Jim
If I saw Jim under the bed, I'd be both delighted and curious and as such I would ask him what he is doing there and how he got there in the first place, I'd then spend probably the whole night hanging out with him.
We'd probably have a lot of interesting conversations.
There's a lot of fun we would get up to.
Re: I can see that CablegalL!
i think if ji jumped on my bed he would break it and say um i can fix this
I'm in LOVE with him and I Feel Fine
Jim under the bed
I have a double bed so I don't have to worry about it getting broken or anything.
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The sad passing of the legendary Ian Abercrombie, voice of Clone Wars' Chancellor Palpatine/Darth Sidious, left a great disturbance in the Force. But another giant has stepped up to fill in the Emperor's cloak.
The Huffington Post is reporting that Clone Wars big boss Dave Filoni has cast Tim Curry to finish out the Emperor's rule. Curry will debut this Saturday in the big season finale, so ready your ears, padawans.