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By James M. Triggs
Rolling-Block Rifle
37,501 was granted to Leonard Geiger covering a hinged or 'split-breech' gun action. That this basic action, with many subsequent improvements, remained in production through the 1930's is remarkable.
The first arms made under the Geiger patent were 20,000 carbines chambered for the .56-50 Spencer rim-fire cartridge. Delivered in 1865, these carbines were purchased by the U. S. Government under a contract granted to E. Remington & Sons of Ilion, N. Y. At the time this contract was granted, Remington production facilities were so involved with other government commitments that the carbines were actually manufactured by the Savage Revolving Fire Arms Co., of Middletown, Conn., under Remington license and with Remington-designed machinery.
The original Geiger action was substantially improved by Remington employee Joseph Rider. His initial patent No. 45,123 was granted on Nov. 15,
1864. Rider's influence as co-inventor was so profound in respect to this action that Remington-Rider and Remington Rolling-Block are virtually synonymous to the arms student or collector.
A host of other inventors effected changes and improvements in the basic action during its long production history. It was in effect a workhorse in the Remington line, being used in rifles, shotguns, and single-shot pistols. That it successfully bridged the smokeless powder era is attested by the fact that the Remington Rolling-Block rifle was regularly chambered for such cartridges as the .30-30 Winchester, 8 mm. Lebel, 7 mm. Mauser, and even the ,30-'06. Some of the largest purchases of Remington single-shot rifles were by foreign governments desiring an inexpensive, serviceable, and a simple military weapon. Military rifles with the Remington-Rider action were made at Springfield Armory and by Denmark in the Danish government arsenal in
Copenhagen. Rifles and shotguns with this basic action are still made in Scandinavia.
As to the 'shootability' of these rifles, John R. Lewis, Jr., a patent attorney for Remington Arms Co., Inc., states: . . with certain exceptions in the later models these rifles were designed for blackpowder and most of the foreign military rolling-blocks lately returned to this country are from 50 to 85 years old; during which time they have been more or less indifferently maintained. A particular caution is in order with respect to 7 mm. rolling-block rifles. I have checked head-space on many of the rifles in this caliber and almost without exception they were within limits as defined by the manufacturing gauges, but this does not mean that they are within head-space tolerances for modern ammunition. Apparently these 7 mm. military rolling-block rifles were manufactured to use some now obsolete military cartridge with longer head-to-shoulder
dimensions than the 7 mm. sporting cartridge standardized by SAAMI (Sporting Arms & Ammunition Manufacturers Institute) about 1920.
"Since the modern 7 mm. sporting cartridge requires the same headspace as the .257 Remington-Roberts, either a modern 7 mm. or the .257 Reming-ton-Roberts gauge may be used to check a rifle. It will be found that it is a rare 7 mm. military rolling-block rifle which does not have grossly excessive headspace for modern 7 mm. ammunition. In firing such rifles with suitable precautions I have not encountered any head separations but almost invariably modern cartridges fired in these rifles show on the wall of the case about 3/s" forward of the head the brignt ring or strained brass which is characteristic of an incipient head separation. This condition may be corrected by setting the barrel back one turn on the threads and rechambering, but this operation is difficult because of the nature of the clearance cut required for the extractor.
"Rolling-block rifles are interesting curios but should not be seriously regarded as shooting rifles unless their use is limited strictly to fresh ammunition of characteristics consistent with the period of their original design and manufacture."
James M. Triggs, a gun collector of Mamaroneck, N. Y., is a writer-illustrator.
ITo reploce hammer and breechblock in receiver, keep trigger pulled all the way back while inserting hammer with its nose forward in fired position as shown. Move hammer until its hole lines up with hammer pin holes in receiver. Slip hammer pin (31B) into hole in left of receiver, through hammer, and through hole in right of receiver. Cock hammer and replace breechblock and breechblock pin in like fashion
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2 This shows type of extractor (A) used in Remington Rolling-Block Rifle, U. S. Navy Model of 1869. Extractor is held in place in the slot (C) in the barrel by screw (B) which passes through receiver from the left side. This model also has a firing pin spring and firing pin retaining screw in the hammer nose. Also, in this Navy Remington the mainspring is provided with an anti-friction roller at the hammer end and a different type of ramrod stop is employed. Disassembly procedure for all rolling-block rifles, with the exception of these few variations, remains the same
Loosen button screw (34) and remove button (33) from left side of receiver (1). Cock hammer (32) and push out breechblock pin (31 A) from right to left. Lift out breechblock (27) with extractor (30) attached. Firing pin (28) can be removed from breechblock by drifting out firing pin retaining pin (29). Let hammer down all the way, remove hammer pin (3IB) and lift hammer (32) out of receiver (1).
The wooden fore-end (not shown in exploded view) may be removed by withdrawing ramrod (13) and removing barrel bands (8. 10 & 11).
To remove buttstock (not shown in exploded view), take out tang screw (35) and pull buttstock off to rear. Remove front and rear guard plate screws (16 & 17) and drop guard plate (15) out of receiver (1). All parts and springs contained within the guard plate may be removed if necessary by withdrawing their respective screws and retaining pins.
Interior parts of the rolling-block action are shown here in longitudinal-section to demonstrate their correct relative positions. Part numbers are keyed to part numbers in exploded view drawing
1. Receiver
2. Barrel
3. Rear sight assembly
4. Recoil stud
5. Recoil stud screw
6. Stock tip
7. Stock tip screw
8. Front band
9. Front band screw
10. Middle band & swivel
11. Rear band
12. Rear band screw
13. Ramrod
14. Ramrod stop
15. Guard plate
16. Front guard plate screw
17. Rear guard plate screw
18. Lever spring
19. Lever spring screw
20. Mainspring
21. Mainspring screw
22. Trigger spring
23. Trigger spring screw
24. Locking lever
25. Locking lever screw
26. Trigger 26A. Trigger pin
27. Breechblock
28. Firing pin
28A. Firing pin retractor 28B. Firing pin limit pin
29. Retractor pin
30. Extractor
31 A. Breechblock pin 31B. Hammer pin
32. Hammer
33. Button
34. Button screw
35. Tang screw
36. Buttplate
37. Buttplate screws (2)
38. Stock swivel
39. Stock swivel screws (2)
The Ruger carbine introduced in 1961 by Sturm, Ruger & Co., Inc., was the first factory-made shoulder arm to be chambered for the .44 Remington Magnum cartridge. Designed for hunting deer-class game within relatively short range, this gun is noteworthy for several design features.
It is gas-operated. When fired, powder gas, tapped through a small hole in the barrel, acts upon a floating short-stroke piston which strikes the front end of the slide, driving it to the rear to rotate and unlock the bolt, extract and eject the fired cartridge case, cock the hammer, and initially feed a fresh cartridge from the tubular magazine in the fore-
end. The energy of the compressed slide spring then forces the slide assembly forward to chamber the cartridge and rotate the bolt into locked position. This completes the firing cycle.
The tubular magazine holds 4 cartridges; with a cartridge in the chamber, capacity of the gun is 5 rounds.
The receiver is machined from a solid block of steel and is closed on top. It is drilled and tapped for commercial scope top mounts.
The 1816" barrel is button rifled and has 12 grooves with a twist rate of one turn in 38".
Nominal weight of the Ruger carbine is 5 lbs. 12 ozs.
1. Barrel
2. Rear sight
3. Front scope base hole plug screws (2)
4. Cartridge guide plate screws (2)
5. Rear scope base hole plug screws (2)
6. Cartridge guide plate
7. Ejector
8. Ejector screw
9. Piston
10. Piston block plug
11. Piston block plug retaining pin (inner & outer pins)
12. Front sight
13. Barrel band
14. Barrel band screw
15. Recoil block
16. Recoil block bolt washer
17. Recoil block bolt
18. Receiver cross pin
19. Bolt
20. Extractor
21. Extractor spring
22. Extractor pivot pin
23. Firing pin retaining pin
24. Firing pin retaining spring
25. Firing pin
26. Slide
27. Slide handle
28. Slide spring
29. Magazine tube
30. Magazine follower
31. Magazine spring
32. Magazine plug
33. Magazine plug cross pin
34. Buttplate
35. Buttplate screws (2)
36. Receiver
37. Disconnector plunger
38. Disconnector plunger spring
39. Disconnector plunger spring screw
40. Lifter cam
41. Lifter cam spring
42. Lifter cam pin
43. Hammer spring, left
44. Hammer spring, right
45. Hammer spring retaining pin
46. Safety
47. Safety detent plunger
48. Safety detent plunger spring
49. Trigger
50. Trigger cross pin
51. Sear
52. Sear spring
53. Disconnector
54. Trigger pivot pin
55. Hammer pivot pin
56. Hammer
57. Hammer roller
58. Hammer roller pivot pin
59. Lifter latch
60. Lifter latch pivot pin
61. Lifter latch spring
62. Lifter latch plunger
63. Lifter dog
64. Lifter dog pivot pin
65. Lifter assembly
66. Cartridge stop flat spring
67. Cartridge stop flat spring retaining pin
68. Cartridge stop
69. Flapper spring
70. Cartridge stop coil spring
71. Flapper
72. Cartridge stop pivot pin
73. Trigger guard (trigger mechanism housing)
Note: Parts 37-73 are contained in trigger guard assembly
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EVERY time I walk past a homeless person, either begging or having given up on their luck, I feel guilty. Part of me - the cynical side - thinks that they would misuse any money I might give them: I think everybody has such thoughts from time to time. But the other part of me feels very, truly selfish. It doesn't make the slightest bit of difference what my financial situation is, and it doesn't matter what got that person into the difficult scenario they find themselves in: I can help, and every time I go past and don't help in some way, that makes me a very bad person.
When I was in Boston last year, I got a bit confused with how to use a tram ticket machine and found myself with a pocket full of heavy dollar coins (18 of them, in fact). I ended up giving a lot of them away to homeless people - partly because they were heavy, and partly because Boston is ruddy freezing in December and if in any way I can help somebody survive that, then I was going to try.
Back here though, I became cynical again. Too protective of my loose change. But I still feel guilty, and on Sunday I decided to help a guy I've walked past many times in Birmingham... only to discover that all I had on me was 30 pence.
Instantly I felt guilty for the completely opposite reason. Which is ruder, to ignore a homeless person, or to get their hopes up and then hand them a pile of five pence pieces?
He seemed very friendly, and we had a nice chat about life, London and loneliness. And then I ran away, conscious of the fact that, after all that, I probably hadn't really helped him at all.

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Earlier this year Commodore USA made a grab for your dollars by re-releasing the Commodore 64. The C64x had the same external look as the 1982 original, but the internals had been replaced with a mini-ITX motherboard and an Intel Atom processor.
Prices started at $595, which was a bit steep for the PC being offered, but Commodore probably sold a few off the back of a nostalgia trips alone. The Atom-based hardware could make for a decent first PC or a compact alternative to a tower case if your main use is going to be browsing the web.
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Star Trek takes its first stab at the concepts of parallel universes and other dimensions in this obscure, bizarre episode.
"The Alternative Factor" is an episode of Star Trek that I never watched until more recent years, and it is an unusual entry in the canon that I've rarely seen discussed by fans and critics alike. Like some of the earliest episodes at the beginning of the season, "The Alternative Factor" feels more like The Twilight Zone or Doctor Who, rather than the Trek we are used to.
The Enterprise is on a routine mapping assignment above a deserted planet, one that is nearly as arid as Mars but still has an Earth-type atmosphere. All is normal until the ship experiences an incredible force of distortion, attributed to what Spock describes as a "cosmic winking-out," essentially, a brief cessation of all magnetic and gravitational forces in the area. For a few moments, gravity, magnetism, and radiation cease to exist as we understand it. This startlingly devastating effect is the strongest at the planet Enterprise is orbiting, but it is still felt to varying degrees throughout the rest of the quadrant, which puts Starfleet on the alert.
Captain Kirk is given the unenviable task of investigating this phenomenon on his own, while Starfleet begins evacuating ships and personnel from nearby systems. What he and the landing party discover on the surface of the planet, is a small spacecraft, and one apparently human lifeform, who only appeared after the "winking-out" phenomenon.
Kirk and Spock discover a strange vessel
Any fan of The Jetsons will probably look at this tiny spacecraft and laugh, as it bears an almost uncanny resemblance to George Jetson's iconic mode of transportation. Adding to the zaniness of the situation is the discovery of a man named Lazarus, a seemingly crazy humanoid who talks about being attacked by some kind of monster.
Lazarus (played by Robert Brown)
Moments after meeting Kirk and crew, Lazarus is thrown into a kind of spatial warp, and is seen fighting with another person who looks just like him. This scene, and subsequent ones like it, is shot with some sort of negative filter, which might have been neat, except that the loopy zooming in and out of the camera is very distracting, and the spinning-screen effect that cuts in and out of these fight scenes is so much like Adam West-era Batman that it is hard not to laugh at.
"The Alternative Factor," like its subject of interest, Lazarus, waffles between the intelligent and thoughtful, to the quirky and bizarre. Unbeknownst at first to the Enterprise crew, Lazarus is actually two almost identical men, one from our universe, and another from a parallel universe. One is calm, rational, the other, crazed and manic. They transpose positions at random intervals, and when this transposition takes place, they briefly do battle with one another in some sort of nexus (referred to at least once as a negative energy corridor) between the two universes. It is a fascinating concept, but this idea is handled so sloppily, and it takes so long for the story and the characters to arrive at its major selling point, that it all just falls flat. Intelligent, thought-provoking investigative dialogue between Kirk and Spock about the problems being faced, are undercut by lots of wasted time following the alternating Lazaruses (if I may bend the rules of English and pluralize a proper name) around the ship. There is a lot of double talk from Lazarus; references to "the thing," the monster," his "holy quest," and vague dialogue about how the Enterprise's dilithium crystals might be the key to solving the crisis.
In the middle of all of this is the worst Enterprise security since "Mudd's Women." Lazarus is allowed to just traipse around the ship, as if he is just another passenger. He even hangs around in the mess hall, bandaged, bloodied, his clothes torn and dirty, and everyone looks at him like he is one of the crew. On two separate occasions he was confined in Sickbay, and neither time was a security guard present. And naturally, no security is around while Lazarus casually sabotages Engineering, steals several dilithium crystals, and then beams down to his own ship. If I had popcorn to throw at my TV, this is when I would have tossed it.
What almost but not quite saves this episode, is when Kirk accidentally crosses over into the "anti" universe, and once confronted by the Captain in his home plane of existence, the rational version of Lazarus (the anti-Lazarus) finally stops being cryptic. He at last gives Kirk the truth, and explains his plan to trap his insane counterpart. Apparently, the crazed version of Lazarus, driven mad by the realization that he has a duplicate, plans to cross over into the "anti" universe at the same time as his opponent, which will not only destroy both of them, but will annihilate both universes as well. This scene benefits from an appropriately alien, eerie atmosphere, and it feels very much like a moment from The Twilight Zone.
The other universe is described as one that is just like ours, except all matter in that universe is actually anti-matter. Now, if that were true, and if it is also true that matter and anti-matter, when brought into contact, violently cancel each other out, it would seem that the cosmic jumping around that both Lazaruses have been doing, would already have destroyed both universes. Along those lines, I would think that Kirk's presence in the anti-universe would be disastrous. Perhaps the "winking-out" was in fact that very destruction taking place, albeit not long enough to be permanent. It seems to me, that a more reasonable explanation of what is taking place in this episode, is something more like what Doc Brown describes in Back to the Future: Part II: that is, when two identical beings from alternate timelines (or realities, in this case) meet in the same point in time and space, that a destructive chain reaction can take place which unravels the space-time continuum.
I can't be exact in my examining of the science behind this episode, since many of the ideas surrounding the relationship between matter and anti-matter, alternate realities, and the plausibility of time travel, are still theoretical. We do know that encounters between particles and anti-particles cancel each other out with mutual annihilation, but there is still much we do not know about anti-matter and anti-particles. Also, though I am an appreciator and admirer of modern sciences and physics, I am by no means an expert in those aforementioned fields.
What I can be exact in, is my opinion and critique of the episode itself, as a piece of entertainment. And in that respect, I have to say that "The Alternative Factor" is pretty weak. I am not sure if this, or "Mudd's Women" would qualify as worst episode of the season. "Mudd's Women" at least has a certain charm and entertainment value in its cheesiness, and tried to be socially relevant even if the delivery of the message was extremely clunky. "The Alternative Factor" tries to explore intelligent ideas, and there are a few scenes which are genuinely thought-provoking and engaging. I must also give some props to the ending, which chooses to send the story off on a somber note: The final dialogue has Kirk pondering the fate of Lazarus; two versions of one man, damned for all eternity to fight each other in a nexus between two universes. Their lives and their sanity are sacrificed, in order to save all life as we know it. It's certainly an interesting and disquieting concept to ponder, it's just too bad that the bulk of the episode is so sloppy, plodding, or at times outright laughable. I can't with any sincerity, recommend a viewing of this episode, except to those who want to watch The Original Series in its entirety, or to anyone obsessed with stories about parallel dimensions and alternate realities.
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At Landa, In the 1980s and 90s, over 250 houses were excavated in one of the largest excavation campaigns of Norway. This area was in extensive use from Bronze Age well into the Viking Age. The project "Fortidslandsbyen Landa på Forsand" has three reconstructed houses.
The Bronze Age longhouse from about 1000 BC is divided into two parts and is constructed with wattle and daub walls and a straw roofing.
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Sample Size for Survival Analysis Tests in PASS
PASS contains over 25 tools for sample size estimation and power analysis of survival methods, including logrank tests, non-inferiority, group-sequential, and conditional power, among others. Each procedure is easy-to-use and is carefully validated for accuracy. If you need help on how to use PASS sample size estimation software, use the links below to jump to a survival topic. For each procedure, only a brief summary of the procedure is given. For more details about a particular procedure, we recommend you download and install the free trial to really understand how to use PASS software.
Jump to:
- Introduction
- Technical Details
- An Example Setup and Output
- Logrank Tests for Survival Curve Inequality
- Other Tests for Survival Curve Inequality
- Non-Inferiority Tests for Two Survival Curves
- Equivalence Tests for Two Survival Curves
- Superiority by a Margin Tests for Two Survival Curves
- Group-Sequential Logrank Tests
- Conditional Power of Logrank Tests
- Cox Regression
For most of the sample size procedures in PASS for survival, the user may choose to solve for sample size, power, or the population effect size in some manner. In a typical survival test procedure where the goal is to estimate the sample size, the user enters power, alpha, and the desired population survival parameters. The procedure is run and the output shows a summary of the entries as well as the sample size estimate. A summary statement is given, as well as references to the articles from which the formulas for the result were obtained.
For many of the parameters (e.g., power, alpha, sample size, survival, etc.), multiple values may be entered in a single run. When this is done, estimates are made for every combination of entered values. A numeric summary of these is results is produced as well as easy-to-read sample size or power curve graphs.
Technical Details
This page provides a brief description of the tools that are available in PASS for power and sample size analysis of survival methods. If you would like to examine the formulas and technical details relating to a specific PASS procedure, we recommend you download and install the free trial of the software, open the desired survival procedure, and click on the help button in the top right corner to view the complete documentation of the procedure. There you will find summaries, formulas, references, discussions, technical details, examples, and validation against published articles for the procedure.
An Example Setup and Output
When the PASS software is first opened, the user is presented with the PASS Home window. From this window the desired procedure is selected from the menus, the category tree on the left, or with a procedure search. The procedure opens and the desired entries are made. When you click the Calculate button the results are produced. You can easily navigate to any part of the output with the navigation pane on the left.
PASS Home Window
Logrank Tests Procedure Window
PASS Output Window
Power Curve for the Logrank Tests Procedure
Sample Size for Logrank Tests for Survival Curve Inequality
There are several procedures in PASS for determining sample size or power for inequality tests of two survival curves:
- Logrank Tests (Input Hazard Rates)
- Logrank Tests (Input Median Survival Times)
- Logrank Tests (Input Proportion Surviving)
- Logrank Tests (Input Mortality)
- Tests for Two Survival Curves Using Cox's Proportional Hazards Model
- Tests for the Difference of Two Hazard Rates Assuming an Exponential Model
- Logrank Tests Accounting for Competing Risks
For several of these procedures, you may specify the proportion of individuals in the control and treatment groups, the accrual time, and the total time. In the first four, you can also specify an accrual pattern, and proportions of subjects lost to follow-up or switching groups. Where appropriate, the number of events is also reported.
Sample Size for Other Tests for Survival Curve Inequality using Simulation
A simulation based procedure is used to evaluate sample size and power for each of the following tests for comparing two survival curves:
- Logrank
- Gehan-Wilcoxon
- Taron-Ware
- Peto-Peto
- Modified Peto-Peto
- Fleming-Harrington
Sample Size for Non-Inferiority Tests for Two Survival Curves
The sample size and power analysis procedures in PASS for non-inferiority of two survival curves are:
- Non-Inferiority Logrank Tests
- Non-Inferiority Tests for Two Survival Curves Using Cox's Proportional Hazards Model
- Non-Inferiority Tests for the Difference of Two Hazard Rates Assuming an Exponential Model
The first of the three procedures computes the sample size and power for non-inferiority tests under the assumption of proportional hazards. Accrual time and follow-up time are included among the parameters to be set. The non-inferiority logrank test is the test that is anticipated for data analysis.
The Cox's Proportional Hazards Model procedure is documented in Chow, Shao, and Wang (2008) which summarizes the work of Schoenfeld (1981, 1983).
The exponential model procedure is based on the unconditional method of Chow, Shao, and Wang (2008) which, in turn, is based on the conditional methods of Lachin and Foulkes (1986). The conditional procedure does not extend to non-inferiority, non-zero null, or equivalence tests as easily as the unconditional method does.
Sample Size for Equivalence Tests for Two Survival Curves
There are two survival equivalence procedures in PASS. The first procedure uses the Cox's proportional hazards model and the second assumes an exponential model.
Sample Size Curve for Survival Equivalence with Hazard Ratio on X Axis
Sample Size for Superiority by a Margin Tests for Two Survival Curves
There are two survival procedures for showing superiority by a margin in PASS. The first procedure uses the Cox's proportional hazards model and the second assumes an exponential model.
Sample Size for Group-Sequential Logrank Tests
In PASS, there is an analytic procedure for group-sequential logrank tests as well as four simulation procedures. The simulation procedures differ only in the survival input (hazard rates, median survival times, proportion surviving, or mortality). The following test methods are available in the simulation procedures:
- Logrank
- Gehan-Wilcoxon
- Taron-Ware
- Peto-Peto
- Modified Peto-Peto
- Fleming-Harrington
A variety of spending function options are available in the simulation procedures, including Hwang-Shi-DeCani, O'Brien-Fleming, and Pocock types. Either the T-test or the Mann-Whitney-Wilcoxon test may be examined. For one-sided tests, significance and futility boundaries can be produced. The spacing of the looks can be equal or custom specified. The distributions of each of the groups under the null and alternative hypotheses can be specified directly using over ten distributions including normal, exponential, Gamma, Uniform, Beta, and Cauchy. Boundaries can also be input directly to verify alpha- and/or beta-spending properties. Futility boundaries can be binding or non-binding.
Group-Sequential Logrank Test Boundary Plot with 5 Looks
Sample Size for Conditional Power of Logrank Tests
In sequential designs, one or more intermediate analyses of the emerging data are conducted to evaluate whether the experiment should be continued. This may be done to conserve resources or to allow a data monitoring board to evaluate safety and efficacy when subjects are entered in a staggered fashion over a long period of time. Conditional power (a frequentist concept) is the probability that the final result will be significant, given the data obtained up to the time of the interim look. Predictive power (a Bayesian concept) is the result of averaging the conditional power over the posterior distribution of effect size. Both of these methods fall under the heading of stochastic curtailment techniques.
This procedure computes conditional and predicted power for the case when a logrank test is used to compare the hazard rate of a treatment group to that of a control group.
Sample Size for Cox Regression
Cox proportional hazards regression models the relationship between the hazard function λ(t|X) of survival time and k covariates using the formula
log(λ(t|X) / λ0(t|X)) = β1X1 + β2X2 + … + βkXk
where λ0(t|X) is the baseline hazard. Note that the covariates may be discrete or continuous.
The Cox Regression procedure in PASS calculates power and sample size for testing the hypothesis that β1=0 versus the alternative that β1=B . Note that β1 is the change in log hazard for a one-unit change in X1 when the rest of the covariates are held constant. The procedure assumes that this hypothesis will be tested using the Wald (or score) statistic.
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ICSI researchers Gerald Friedland and Jaeyoung Choi, along with co-authors Martha Larson and Alan Hanjalic, have won the best paper award at the 2019 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Big Data for their work on "From Intra-Modal to Inter-Modal Space: Multi-task Learning of Joint Representation for Cross-Modal Retrieval." The paper will be available to read here once it is published in the coming weeks.
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The Kennebec Journal reports a man was seriously injured after falling from a pub deck.
The incident occurred shortly after midnight on a Sunday at a pub in Rockland. The 30-year-old Old Town man fell from a 17-foot-high deck and struck his head. He was taken to Pen Bay Medical Center in Rockport and then transferred to Portland, where he was listed in critical condition.
It's the second such tragedy at the pub. News Channel 5 reported a 25-year-old Rockland man was killed after falling off the deck in June 2015. The Portland wrongful death lawyers at Peter Thompson & Associates represented that victim's family in a wrongful death settlement. That lawsuit was settled, and additional safety precautions were taken, including the removal of the picnic tables from which the first victim fell.


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Rothschild's Fiddle (Chekhov/Fell)
IT was a tiny town, worse than a village, inhabited chiefly by old people who so seldom died that it was really vexatious. Very few coffins were needed for the hospital and the jail; in a word, business was bad. If Jacob Ivanoff had been a maker of coffins in the county town, he would probably have owned a house of his own by now, and would have been called Mr. Ivanoff, but here in this little place he was simply called Jacob, and for some reason his nickname was Bronze. He lived as poorly as any common peasant in a little old hut of one room, in which he and Martha, and the stove, and a double bed, and the coffins, and his joiner's bench, and all the necessities of housekeeping were stowed away.
The coffins made by Jacob were serviceable and strong. For the peasants and townsfolk he made them to fit himself and never went wrong, for, although he was seventy years old, there was no man, not even in the prison, any taller or stouter than he was. For the gentry and for women he made them to measure, using an iron yardstick for the purpose. He was always very reluctant to take orders for children's coffins, and made them contemptuously without taking any measurements at all, always saying when he was paid for them:
"The fact is, I don't like to be bothered with trifles."
Beside what he received for his work as a joiner, he added a little to his income by playing the violin. There was a Jewish orchestra in the town that played for weddings, led by the tinsmith Moses Shakess, who took more than half of its earnings for himself. As Jacob played the fiddle extremely well, especially Russian songs, Shakess used sometimes to invite him to play in his orchestra for the sum of fifty copecks a day, not including the presents he might receive from the guests. Whenever Bronze took his seat in the orchestra, the first thing that happened to him was that his face grew red, and the perspiration streamed from it, for the air was always hot, and reeking of garlic to the point of suffocation. Then his fiddle would begin to moan, and a double bass would croak hoarsely into his right ear, and a flute would weep into his left. This flute was played by a gaunt, red-bearded Jew with a network of red and blue veins on his face, who bore the name of a famous rich man, Rothschild. This confounded Jew always contrived to play even the merriest tunes sadly. For no obvious reason Jacob little by little began to conceive a feeling of hatred and contempt for all Jews, and especially for Rothschild. He quarrelled with him and abused him in ugly language, and once even tried to beat him, but Rothschild took offence at this, and cried with a fierce look:
"If I had not always respected you for your music, I should have thrown you out of the window long ago!"
Then he burst into tears. So after that Bronze was not often invited to play in the orchestra, and was only called upon in cases of dire necessity, when one of the Jews was missing.
Jacob was never in a good humour, because he always had to endure the most terrible losses. For instance, it was a sin to work on a Sunday or a holiday, and Monday was always a bad day, so in that way there were about two hundred days a year on which he was compelled to sit with his hands folded in his lap. That was a great loss to him. If any one in town had a wedding without music, or if Shakess did not ask him to play, there was another loss. The police inspector had lain ill with consumption for two years while Jacob impatiently waited for him to die, and then had gone to take a cure in the city and had died there, which of course had meant another loss of at least ten roubles, as the coffin would have been an expensive one lined with brocade.
The thought of his losses worried Jacob at night more than at any other time, so he used to lay his fiddle at his side on the bed, and when those worries came trooping into his brain he would touch the strings, and the fiddle would give out a sound in the darkness, and Jacob's heart would feel lighter.
Last year on the sixth of May, Martha suddenly fell ill. The old woman breathed with difficulty, staggered in her walk, and felt terribly thirsty. Nevertheless, she got up that morning, lit the stove, and even went for the water. When evening came she went to bed. Jacob played his fiddle all day. When it grew quite dark, because he had nothing better to do, he took the book in which he kept an account of his losses, and began adding up the total for the year. They amounted to more than a thousand roubles. He was so shaken by this discovery, that he threw the counting board on the floor and trampled it under foot. Then he picked it up again and rattled it once more for a long time, heaving as he did so sighs both deep and long. His face grew purple, and perspiration dripped from his brow. He was thinking that if those thousand roubles he had lost had been in the bank then, he would have had at least forty roubles interest by the end of the year. So those forty roubles were still another loss ! In a word, wherever he turned he found losses and nothing but losses.
"Jacob!" cried Martha unexpectedly, "I am going to die!"
He looked round at his wife. Her face was flushed with fever and looked unusually joyful and bright. Bronze was troubled, for he had been accustomed to seeing her pale and timid and unhappy. It seemed to him that she was actually dead, and glad to have left this hut, and the coffins, and Jacob at last. She was staring at the ceiling, with her lips moving as if she saw her deliverer Death approaching and were whispering with him.
The dawn was just breaking and the eastern sky was glowing with a faint radiance. As he stared at the old woman it somehow seemed to Jacob that he had never once spoken a tender word to her or pitied her; that he had never thought of buying her a kerchief or of bringing her back some sweetmeats from a wedding. On the contrary, he had shouted at her and abused her for his losses, and had shaken his fist at her. It was true he had never beaten her, but he had frightened her no less, and she had been paralysed with fear every time he had scolded her. Yes, and he had not allowed her to drink tea because his losses were heavy enough as it was, so she had had to be content with hot water. Now he understood why her face looked so strangely happy, and horror overwhelmed him.
As soon as it was light he borrowed a horse from a neighbour and took Martha to the hospital. As there were not many patients, he had not to wait very long—only about three hours. To his great satisfaction it was not the doctor who was receiving the sick that day, but his assistant, Maksim Nicolaitch, an old man of whom it was said that although he quarrelled and drank, he knew more than the doctor did.
"Good morning, your Honour," said Jacob leading his old woman into the office. "Excuse us for intruding upon you with our trifling affairs. As you see, this subject has fallen ill. My life's friend, if you will allow me to use the expression—"
Knitting his grey eyebrows and stroking his whiskers, the doctor's assistant fixed his eyes on the old woman. She was sitting all in a heap on a low stool, and with her thin, long-nosed face and her open mouth, she looked like a thirsty bird.
"Well, well—yes—" said the doctor slowly, heaving a sigh. "This is a case of influenza and possibly fever; there is typhoid in town. What's to be done ? The old woman has lived her span of years, thank God. How old is she?"
"She lacks one year of being seventy, your Honour."
"Well, well, she has lived long. There must come an end to everything."
"You are certainly right, your Honour," said Jacob, smiling out of politeness. "And we thank you sincerely for your kindness, but allow me to suggest to you that even an insect dislikes to die !"
"Never mind if it does !" answered the doctor, as if the life or death of the old woman lay in his hands. "I'll tell you what you must do, my good man. Put a cold bandage around her head, and give her two of these powders a day. Now then, good-by ! Bon jour!"
Jacob saw by the expression on the doctor's face that it was too late now for powders. He realised clearly that Martha must die very soon, if not to-day, then to-morrow. He touched the doctor's elbow gently, blinked, and whispered:
"She ought to be cupped, doctor!"
"I haven't time, I haven't time, my good man. Take your old woman, and go in God's name. Goodby."
"Please, please, cup her, doctor!" begged Jacob. "You know yourself that if she had a pain in her stomach, powders and drops would do her good, but she has a cold ! The first thing to do when one catches cold is to let some blood, doctor!"
But the doctor had already sent for the next patient, and a woman leading a little boy came into the room.
"Go along, go along!" he cried to Jacob, frowning. "It's no use making a fuss !"
"Then at least put some leeches on her ! Let me pray to God for you for the rest of my life !"
The doctor's temper flared up and he shouted:
"Don't say another word to me, blockhead !"
Jacob lost his temper, too, and flushed hotly, but he said nothing and, silently taking Martha's arm, led her out of the office. Only when they were once more seated in their wagon did he look fiercely and mockingly at the hospital and say:
"They're a pretty lot in there, they are ! That doctor would have cupped a rich man, but he even begrudged a poor one a leech. The pig!"
When they returned to the hut, Martha stood for nearly ten minutes supporting herself by the stove. She felt that if she lay down Jacob would begin to talk to her about his losses, and would scold her for lying down and not wanting to work. Jacob contemplated her sadly, thinking that to-morrow was St. John the Baptist's day, and day after to-morrow was St. Nicholas the Wonder Worker's day, and that the following day would be Sunday, and the day after that would be Monday, a bad day for work. So he would not be able to work for four days, and as Martha would probably die on one of these days, the coffin would have to be made at once. He took his iron yardstick in hand, went up to the old woman, and measured her. Then she lay down, and he crossed himself and went to work on the coffin.
When the task was completed Bronze put on his spectacles and wrote in his book:
"To 1 coffin for Martha Ivanoff—2 roubles, 40 copecks."
He sighed. All day the old woman lay silent with closed eyes, but toward evening, when the daylight began to fade, she suddenly called the old man to her side.
"Do you remember, Jacob?" she asked. "Do you remember how fifty years ago God gave us a little baby with curly golden hair? Do you remember how you and I used to sit on the bank of the river and sing songs under the willow tree?" Then with a bitter smile she added: "The baby died."
Jacob racked his brains, but for the life of him he could not recall the child or the willow tree.
"You are dreaming," he said.
The priest came and administered the Sacrament and Extreme Unction. Then Martha began muttering unintelligibly, and toward morning she died.
The neighbouring old women washed her and dressed her, and laid her in her coffin. To avoid paying the deacon, Jacob read the psalms over her himself, and her grave cost him nothing, as the watchman of the cemetery was his cousin. Four peasants carried the coffin to the grave, not for money but for love. The old women, the beggars, and two village idiots followed the body, and the people whom they passed on the way crossed themselves devoutly. Jacob was very glad that everything had passed off so nicely and decently and cheaply, without giving offence to any one. As he said farewell to Martha for the last time he touched the coffin with his hand and thought :
"That's a fine job!"
But walking homeward from the cemetery he was seized with great distress. He felt ill, his breath was burning hot, his legs grew weak, and he longed for a drink. Beside this, a thousand thoughts came crowding into his head. He remembered again that he had never once pitied Martha or said a tender word to her. The fifty years of their life together lay stretched far, far behind him, and somehow, during all that time, he had never once thought about her at all or noticed her more than if she had been a dog or a cat. And yet she had lit the stove every day, and had cooked and baked and fetched water and chopped wood, and when he had come home drunk from a wedding she had hung his fiddle reverently on a nail each time, and had silently put him to bed with a timid, anxious look on her face.
But here came Rothschild toward him, bowing and scraping and smiling.
"I have been looking for you, uncle!" he said. "Moses Shakess presents his compliments and wants you to go to him at once."
Jacob did not feel in a mood to do anything. He wanted to cry.
"Leave me alone!" he exclaimed, and walked on.
"Oh, how can you say that?" cried Rothschild, running beside him in alarm. "Moses will be very angry. He wants you to come at once !"
Jacob was disgusted by the panting of the Jew, by his blinking eyes, and by the quantities of reddish freckles on his face. He looked with aversion at his long green coat and at the whole of his frail, delicate figure.
"What do you mean by pestering me, garlic?" he shouted. "Getaway!"
The Jew grew angry and shouted back:
"Don't yell at me like that or I'll send you flying over that fence!"
"Get out of my sight !" bellowed Jacob, shaking his fist at him. "There's no living in the same town with swine like you !"
Rothschild was petrified with terror. He sank to the ground and waved his hands over his head as if to protect himself from falling blows; then he jumped up and ran away as fast as his legs could carry him. As he ran he leaped and waved his arms, and his long, gaunt back could be seen quivering. The little boys were delighted at what had happened, and ran after him screaming: "Sheeny! Sheeny!" The dogs also joined barking in the chase. Somebody laughed and then whistled, at which the dogs barked louder and more vigorously than ever.
Then one of them must have bitten Rothschild, for a piteous, despairing scream rent the air.
Jacob walked across the common to the edge of the town without knowing where he was going, and the little boys shouted after him. "There goes old man Bronze ! There goes old man Bronze ! " He found himself by the river where the snipe were darting about with shrill cries, and the ducks were quacking and swimming to and fro. The sun was shining fiercely and the water was sparkling so brightly that it was painful to look at. Jacob struck into a path that led along the river bank. He came to a stout, red-cheeked woman just leaving a bath-house. "Aha, you otter, you !" he thought. Not far from the bathhouse some little boys were fishing for crabs with pieces of meat. When they saw Jacob they shouted mischievously : " Old man Bronze ! Old man Bronze ! " But there before him stood an ancient, spreading willow tree with a massive trunk, and a crow's nest among its branches. Suddenly there flashed across Jacob's memory with all the vividness of life a little child with golden curls, and the willow of which Martha had spoken. Yes, this was the same tree, so green and peaceful and sad. How old it had grown, poor thing!
He sat down at its foot and thought of the past. On the opposite shore, where that meadow now was, there had stood in those days a wood of tall birch-trees, and that bare hill on the horizon yonder had been covered with the blue bloom of an ancient pine forest. And sailboats had piled the river then, but now all lay smooth and still, and only one little birch-tree was left on the opposite bank, a graceful young thing, like a girl, while on the river there swam only ducks and geese. It was hard to believe that boats had once sailed there. It even seemed to him that there were fewer geese now than there had been. Jacob shut his eyes, and one by one white geese came flying toward him, an endless flock.
He was puzzled to know why he had never once been down to the river during the last forty or fifty years of his life, or, if he had been there, why he had never paid any attention to it. The stream was fine and large; he might have fished in it and sold the fish to the merchants and the government officials and the restaurant keeper at the station, and put the money in the bank. He might have rowed in a boat from farm to farm and played on his fiddle. People of every rank would have paid him money to hear him. He might have tried to run a boat on the river, that would have been better than making coffins. Finally, he might have raised geese, and killed them, and sent them to Moscow in the winter. Why, the down alone would have brought him ten roubles a year ! But he had missed all these chances and had done nothing. What losses were here ! Ah, what terrible losses ! And, oh, if he had only done all these things at the same time ! If he had only fished, and played the fiddle, and sailed a boat, and raised geese, what capital he would have had by now ! But he had not even dreamed of doing all this; his life had gone by without profit or pleasure. It had been lost for a song. Nothing was left ahead; behind lay only losses, and such terrible losses that he shuddered to think of them. But why shouldn't men live so as to avoid all this waste and these losses? Why, oh, why, should those birch and pine forests have been felled ? Why should those meadows be lying so deserted ? Why did people always do exactly what they ought not to do? Why had Jacob scolded and growled and clenched his fists and hurt his wife's feelings all his life? Why, oh why, had he frightened and insulted that Jew just now? Why did people in general always interfere with one another ? What losses resulted from this ! What terrible losses ! If it were not for envy and anger they would get great profit from one another.
All that evening and night Jacob dreamed of the child, of the willow tree, of the fish and the geese, of Martha with her profile like a thirsty bird, and of Rothschild's pale, piteous mien. Queer faces seemed to be moving toward him from all sides, muttering to him about his losses. He tossed from side to side, and got up five times during the night to play his fiddle.
He rose with difficulty next morning, and walked to the hospital. The same doctor's assistant ordered him to put cold bandages on his head, and gave him little powders to take; by his expression and the tone of his voice Jacob knew that the state of affairs was bad, and that no powders could save him now. As he walked home he reflected that one good thing would result from his death: he would no longer have to eat and drink and pay taxes, neither would he offend people any more, and, as a man lies in his grave for hundreds of thousands of years, the sum of his profits would be immense. So, life to a man was a loss—death, a gain. Of course this reasoning was correct, but it was also distressingly sad. Why should the world be so strangely arranged that a man's life which was only given to him once must pass without profit.
He was not sorry then that he was going to die, but when he reached home, and saw his fiddle, his heart ached, and he regretted it deeply. He would not be able to take his fiddle with him into the grave, and now it would be left an orphan, and its fate would be that of the birch grove and the pine forest. Everything in the world had been lost, and would always be lost for ever. Jacob went out and sat on the threshold of his hut, clasping his fiddle to his breast. And as he thought of his life so full of waste and losses he began playing without knowing how piteous and touching his music was, and the tears streamed down his cheeks. And the more he thought the more sorrowfully sang his violin.
The latch clicked and Rothschild came in through the garden-gate, and walked boldly half-way across the garden. Then he suddenly stopped, crouched down, and, probably from fear, began making signs with his hands as if he were trying to show on his fingers what time it was.
"Come on, don't be afraid!" said Jacob gently, beckoning him to advance. "Come on !"
With many mistrustful and fearful glances Rothschild went slowly up to Jacob, and stopped about two yards away.
"Please don't beat me!" he said with a ducking bow, "Moses Shakess has sent me to you again. 'Don't be afraid,' he said, 'go to Jacob,' says he, ' and say that we can't possibly manage without him.' There is a wedding next Thursday. Ye-es, sir. Mr. Shapovaloff is marrying his daughter to a very fine man. It will be an expensive wedding, ai, ai ! " added the Jew with a wink.
"I can't go" said Jacob breathing hard. "I'm ill, brother."
And he began to play again, and the tears gushed out of his eyes over his fiddle. Rothschild listened intently with his head turned away and his arms folded on his breast. The startled, irresolute look on his face gradually gave way to one of suffering and grief. He cast up his eyes as if in an ecstasy of agony and murmured: "Ou—ouch!" And the tears began to trickle slowly down his cheeks, and to drip over his green coat.
All day Jacob lay and suffered. When the priest came in the evening to administer the Sacrament he asked him if he could not think of any particular sin.
Struggling with his fading memories, Jacob recalled once more Martha's sad face, and the despairing cry of the Jew when the dog had bitten him. He murmured almost inaudibly:
"Give my fiddle to Rothschild."
"It shall be done," answered the priest.
So it happened that every one in the little town began asking:
"Where did Rothschild get that good fiddle? Did he buy it or steal it or get it out of a pawnshop ? "
Rothschild has long since abandoned his flute, and now only plays on the violin. The same mournful notes flow from under his bow that used to come from his flute, and when he tries to repeat what Jacob played as he sat on the threshold of his hut, the result is an air so plaintive and sad that every one who hears him weeps, and he himself at last raises his eyes and murmurs: "Ou—ouch!" And this new song has so delighted the town that the merchants and government officials vie with each other in getting Rothschild to come to their houses, and sometimes make him play it ten times in succession.


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Although our property obviously has a lot of sugar maple trees (Acer saccharum), there are other species too. Some trees close to the sugarshack are marked with wooden signs that have a number on them and can be flipped up to see the tree information. We talk about these trees on school tours but these are handy for self-guided tours as well. We have trails of different lengths marked throughout the sugarbush that you are welcome to walk along.
Shortly after the sap stops running is an exciting time to get out in the sugarbush to see the flowers that bloom in early spring. These plants use the short period of time after the snow melts and before all the trees produce their leaves where there's still lots of bright light that reaches the forest floor.
We have a lot of red trilliums, trout lilies and spring beauties. If you look hard enough you can find painted trilliums, pink lady's slippers, jack-in-the-pulpits, dutchman's breetches, soloman's seal, false solomon's seal, rose-twisted stalk and many others
In the summer, the bush is very green from all the tree canopy. We have many kinds of ferns and mosses. Some interesting plants are indian pipe and beech drops, which are both parasitic plants that lack chlorophyll. They get their nutrients through a fungi from other plants.
In the fall of course the bush is beautiful with all the leaves changing colours.
List of Species that can be found at Matthews Maple Sugar Bush
Sugar Maple – Acer saccharum
Balsam Fir – Abies balsamea
White Spruce – Picea glauca
Eastern Hemlock – Tsuga canadensis
Ironwood – Ostrya virginiana
White Ash – Fraxinus americana
Black Cherry – Prunus serotina
Basswood – Tilia americana
White Birch – Betula papyrifera
Yellow Birch – Betula alleghaniensis
Red Maple – Acer rubrum
Beech – Fagus grandifolia
Poplar (Trembling Aspen) – Populus tremuloides
Red Oak – Quercus rubra
Red Pine – Pinus resinosa
White Pine – Pinus strobus
Striped Maple – Acer pensylvanicum
Common Hobblebush – Viburnum alnifolium
Starflower – Trientalis borealis
Bunchberry – Cornus canadensis
Broad-Leaved Toothwort – Cardamine diphylla
Dutchman's Breeches – Dicentra cucullaria
Carolina Spring Beauty – Claytonia caroliniana
Common Blue Eyed Grass – Sisyrinchium montanum
Painted Trillium – Trillium undalatum
Red Trillium – Trillium erectum
Hairy Solomon's Seal – Polygonatum pubescens
White Mandarin – Streptopus amplexifolius
Rose-Twisted Stalk – Streptopus roseus
Canada Mayflower – Maianthemum canadense
False Solomon's Seal – Maianthemum racemosum
Trout Lily – Erythronium americanum
Wild Leek – Allium tricoccum
Small Jack-in-the-Pulpit – Arisaema triphyllum
Beech Drops – Epifagus virginiana
Pink Lady's Slipper – Cypripedium acaule
Indian Pipe – Monotropa uniflora


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Planning Board Minutes - September 19, 2013
Village Hall Council Chambers
10050 NE 2nd Avenue, Miami Shores
September 19, 2013
Steve Zelkowitz, John Busta, Sid Reese, Robert Abramitis, Chairman Richard Fernandez.
In Attendance:
Richard Sarafan; Attorney
David Dacquisto; Planning and Zoning Director
Karen Banda; Clerk
Motion: Approve minutes.
Action: Accept, Moved by John Busta, Seconded by Sid Reese.
Minutes approved unanimously.
"Do you solemnly swear or affirm that the testimony you are about to give will be the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth."
Mr. Dacquisto provided background information, summarized the information on the staff report and read the staff recommendation and conditions of approval into the record. Applicant Sandra Bettine was present and did not have any questions for staff.
Mr. Abramitis asked staff for clarity on signage proposed and if applicant was abandoning sign on tower above roof. Staff stated as per applicant tower signage was not part of application anymore. Mr. Abramitis clarified that board is only looking to approve photo in packet with logo, Miami Vapors, smoke and address. Board discusses address of property and designates the business to be the southernmost bay of 8825 Biscayne Blvd. Applicant states that business sells electronic cigarettes.
Motion: Approve application subject to staff recommendations with the further requirement that application be completed to satisfaction of P&Z Director and approve what has been shown on the door of the picture for 8825A and motion is made in reference to Southernmost bay at address of 8825 Biscayne Boulevard.
Moved by Robert Abramitis, seconded by John Busta.
Board discusses that motion only approves door sign in picture and no flag sign. Wall sign will be discussed separately.
Motion approved unanimously.
Staff clarifies for board that only 45 square feet is allowed for signage allocated to building. If signage will only consist of door and wall than the requirements are met and approval is recommended. Board discusses wall sign and tower sign with applicant. Staff clarifies that tower sign specifically has to be approved by board and had previously denied approval to a different applicant.
Motion: Approve wall sign subject to staff recommendations.
Moved by John Busta, seconded by Sid Reese.
Motion approved unanimously.
Staff addresses tower sign and mentions that there are no permits for existing sign and a previous application made by a different applicant for signage was denied by board. Staff recommends denial.
Motion: Deny tower sign.
Moved by John Busta, seconded by Robert Abramitis.
Motion approved unanimously.
Chairman Fernandez acknowledges Board member Steve Zelkowitz arrival at 7:10 p.m.
Mr. Dacquisto provided background information, summarized the information on the staff report and read the staff recommendation and conditions of approval into the record. Agent Jose Mastache 7400 W. 20th Avenue was present as representative for Dr. Sanon. and asked staff about clarification regarding staff report approval. Attorney Richard Sarafan asks staff if measurements taken are from both bays because it is currently rented for one tenant and if you took measurements for only one bay where the signage appears would it still be in the code. Concern is if in the future, tenant gives up second bay would that give up any sign rights.
Staff mentions that if the measurements are taken from half of the building that would equal about 42 square feet of signage allocation and applicant is requesting approximately 26.7 square feet and with reduction in staff's recommendation they would still be within their limitations.
Motion: Approve application but only in regard to sign shown on picture that on window indicates the business hours Mon-Friday and Saturday by appointments. Motion does not include approval for the other window or the door.
Moved by Robert Abramitis, seconded by John Busta.
Chairman asked staff about repetition and staff stated recommendations already took care of repetition issues.
Motion approved unanimously.
Applicant withdrew application.
Mr. Dacquisto provided background information, summarized the information on the staff report and read the staff recommendation and conditions of approval into the record. Applicant Ian Wildstein and agent Howard Nudell were present and did not have any questions for staff. Chairman addresses staff regarding understanding that under site plan approval process board has the ability to deal with safety issues, directional issues and signage and asks staff about his recommendations. Staff mentioned in staff report about changing two-way lane to one way driving west because it seems like the safest approach but would like input from Tropical Chevrolet Engineer. Mr. Abramitis asked staff if his safety concerns are about potential accidents within the property or on the public right away. Staff mentioned that concern is for onsite property because that is where the changes are taking place. Howard Nudell agent for Tropical Chevrolet gave presentation and agreed with recommendations made by staff and concurs with the one way recommendation. General Motors has created criteria of upgrading all of their facilities all over the country and there is a given elevation and a given interior.
Motion: Approve subject to staff recommendations.
Moved by Robert Abramitis, seconded by Steve Zelkowitz.
Motion approved unanimously.
Mr. Dacquisto provided background information, summarized the information on the staff report and read the staff recommendation and conditions of approval into the record.
Mr. Abramitis asked staff if there were any issues concerning roof since it protrudes away from the main building. Staff mentions details regarding construction will be always be handled with building official at time of permitting. Mr. Abramitis asked if code allows flat roofs on buildings and staff mentioned the zoning code does not prohibit flat roofs but does state if you have a sloped roof you can have a certain percentage or 300 square feet of flat roof. This board has previously turned down flat roofs therefore when meeting with applicants staff does relay that information. Mr. Abramitis asked if the railing on the second floor was an approved material. Staff mentioned railing is solid stainless steel and had been previously approved by this board.
Chairman questions staff about square footage of proposed structure. Expresses concerns on flat roof and historical significance of home. Chairman asked if a sample was made available of the charcoal gray proposed roof and mentioned that color would attract a lot of heat. Mr. Juan Calvo architect shows board layout of home with plans. The house sits on 18,000 square foot of land and foot print is roughly 26 or 2700 square feet and is two stories.
Landscape plan is presented by Matthew Lewis and mentions that landscape will tie home into existing neighborhood. There are live oaks on property and they propose planting native Florida plants that will surround property. Mr. Abramitis asked landscape architect about intent when he designed landscaping and Mr. Lewis mentioned that his design is to make landscaping an integral part of not only the building but neighborhood as well.
Mr. Reese addresses concerns about design being compatible with the neighborhood and asked architect if he feels design is compatible with the neighborhood. Architect mentions he thinks it's compatible in terms of scale and proportions and a lot of modern homes are white boxes and glass but this house is very conservative in that sense. Windows sizes are in proportion to windows in neighborhood. It is not a 1950's home and has a modern angle to it but is compatible to the ways expressed. Mr. Abramitis asked Mr. Calvo if the architecture of this house was compatible with the architecture of the homes surrounding it, and not addressing the scale or the setbacks but the style. Mr. Calvo mentioned it is a stucco house like most in the neighborhood but concurs with Mr. Abramitis that it does not possess any of the architectural features of the homes around neighborhood. Mr. Busta asked about roof materials. Mr. Zelkowitz asked if there was a historic preservation covenant that would prevent the demolition of the existing structure and board and staff were not aware of any existing covenant. Chairman addresses historic designation comment and even though there may not be any local or national designation, there may be significance to the home and would like input from the Historic board regarding property. Chairman asked Mr. Lewis about specific plan and trees that will be planted on property. Mr. Lewis mentioned they are conserving large oak trees, large fern tree and adding palm trees, porto carpus hedges and a possible gumbo limbo tree. Mr. Abramitis asked about height on highest peak from true ground. Mr. Calvo stated it is 31 ft. Mr. Zelkowitz asked about the estimated cost of construction including landscaping. Mr. Calvo mentioned it is roughly between one million and a million two. Mr. Zelkowitz clarifies that his question was raised because after looking at the Miami Dade property records he sees that the existing home is declining in value and the proposed would increase value of homes around it. Chairman asked if property was going to be larger or smaller than existing home and Mr. Calvo did not have an answer because he does not recall the measurement of the existing structure. Mr. Zelkowitz mentioned Dade county records show the existing square footage of the home is 3,887 sq. ft. Proposed structure is 4,700 sq. ft.
Public comment Open.
Lucy Walker owner of property 1273 NE 95 St. stated her home is west immediately next door to home under discussion. Mrs. Walker mentioned as of this summer she will have been living at her home for 50 years and has lived in the shores 56 years. Mrs. Walker mentioned she has spoken to 16 neighbors and they are all concerned and do not believe that the present design is compatible with the block. This street is unique in Miami Shores and putting up this design will break up the entire symmetry and all the harmony of the block. They are all in agreement that if design could be modified especially roof so that it could fit in with the neighborhood that would make everyone happy.
Dr. Leo Walker owner of property 1273 NE 95 St. wanted to know if overhang of the roof would encroach in the setback on the west side.
Staff mentioned a 3 ft. eave is allowed to encroach into the side yard.
Carol Field owner of property 1235 NE 95th St. lives three houses west of the property under discussion. Mrs. Field, her husband and daughter share the same sentiment regarding proposed construction. Mrs. Field listened to the architect and his proposed materials and does not agree with layout to be conforming to existing neighborhood. The neighborhood as per visitors was compared to a Norman Rockwell gem. A charcoal grey roof, modern concrete, stainless steel were materials expressed and she does not see any of those materials used on any home on her block. Her home was built in 1978 and it is the newest house on the block. Even though there have been changes to some homes they all still have a resemblance to each other. There is a rich history on the block and homes do not have to be covered with hedges and trees instead current homes are celebrated with history.
Manny Rivera owner of 1286 NE 95 St. lives directly across from the house under discussion. Mr. Rivera commends architect for design and salutes investment in the neighborhood and is all for progress and innovation but when he looks at display of proposed home he does not see a true picture of the home. He sees a sketch in pencil but if you look at the front with the roof proposed he feels like it is a fairly radical design when you incorporate it into neighborhood. Although he appreciates the modernization it is very important to incorporate design into the neighborhood. It is falling short in that area and believes not much thought went into the design when thinking of the village or neighborhood. This construction will stand out drastically in the neighborhood and would like design to flow within the neighborhood. Mr. Rivera opposes to this design.
Phillip Levaser owner of 1218 NE 95 St. lives across the street and five houses west. Mr. Levaser does not feel design fits as it exists at the moment. He asked architect for an artist rendition of what the house will look like when it's finished with the trees around it. Mr. Levaser would like something to be done with roof because he is not a fan of the metal roofs.
Deborah Frehling owner 1115 NE 97th St. is daughter of applicant and mentioned parents are very concerned with landscape and will not be tearing it down and are going to great lengths to preserve trees. Parents are looking to live in Miami Shores for a long time and have purchased home across the street from this home so they could live on the block while they are building. The block has many different architectures and each of the times there were going to be changes she is sure the neighbors were going to be upset that something new was being done. Change can be scary but the design is beautiful and it deserves to be built. Just because it is not exactly what is there right now is not a bad thing.
Public comment Closed.
Board discusses historic preservation board being addressed. Mr. Abramitis does not find any harm in getting additional input from other board. Mr. Reese does not find design compatible with neighborhood but would like to postpone for more discussion to analyze it a little deeper. Mr. Busta believes it is a great design but does not believe is harmonious with the neighborhood and if the groove design could be changed and adding more windows to design would help he would like to see item tabled. Mr. Zelkowitz would like item to be tabled and have applicant meet with the neighbors in attempt to reconcile some of their concerns.
Motion: Table item till the next meeting.
Moved by Steve Zelkowitz, John Busta.
Motion passed.
Vote 3-2 in favor of table.
Mr. Dacquisto provided background information, summarized the information on the staff report and read the staff recommendation and conditions of approval into the record. Rey Rubio was present as agent on behalf owner. Mr. Rubio clarified with staff that there is single existing one car garage on property and not two as stated in staff's report. Staff concurred and removed condition number three on staff recommendations and sentence in number six that reads "applicant to complete a covenant in the form "Declaration of Use".
Motion: Approve subject to staff recommendations as amended.
Moved by Steve Zelkowitz, seconded by Sid Reese.
Motion approved unanimously.
Mr. Dacquisto provided background information, summarized the information on the staff report and read the staff recommendation and conditions of approval into the record. Owners were present and asked staff if they could make the decision to add circular driveway and staff mentioned board would make final decision because of code requirements. Mr. Abramitis asked staff if recommendations include the 5 foot cut back separating garage from driveway. Staff mentioned recommendations are based on applicant's proposal and proposal shows 5 foot cut back and circular driveway.
Motion: Approve subject to staff recommendations.
Moved by Robert Abramitis, seconded by Sid Reese.
Motion approved unanimously.
Pursuant to Chapter 286.0105, Florida Statutes, if person decides to appeal any matter considered at such meeting or hearing, he may need to ensure that a verbatim record of the proceedings is made, which record includes the testimony and evidence upon which the appeal is based.
Miami Shores Village complies with the provisions of the American with Disability Act. If you are a disabled person requiring any accommodations or assistance, including materials in accessible format, a sign language interpreter (5 days notice required), or information, please notify the Village Clerk's office of such need at least 72 hours (3 days) in advance.


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