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Historic District Commission takes stand against student high-rise proposed on East Huron
Humphreys & Partners Architects
The seven-member commission passed a resolution at its meeting last week objecting to the proposed student high-rise development at 413 E. Huron St., calling it "incompatible in scale and massing" with the adjacent Old Fourth Ward Historic District.
The HDC believes the project would "severely and adversely impact" the district, and it's asking city leaders to keep historic preservation in mind when the project comes up for consideration.
"The viability of our historic districts is affected by changes on the edges of a district as well as within the district," the HDC's resolution states.
"We thereby remind the Planning Commission and City Council of our joint obligation to preserve and protect historic districts and recommend that they take all reasonable measures to ensure that this new development will enhance and improve the Old Fourth Ward Historic District, rather than diminish or weaken the viability of this important district."
Humphreys & Partners Architects
The HDC's resolution is the latest development in the controversy over the proposed 14-story student high-rise on East Huron Street. The developers behind the project have been taking heat from neighboring residents and community leaders for several weeks.
After acquiring several properties on Huron Street near Division, the development team — a mix of out-of-state companies — submitted preliminary design plans to the city in late September.
The 213-unit, 14-story high-rise would replace a vacant 10,300-square-foot building, a former Papa John's pizza store and a house.
Representatives with the team, who did not respond to requests for comment, told the city's Design Review Board in October they're excited about the project.
The goal, which they called philosophic in nature, is to integrate the project into the thread of the community by taking a holistic approach to development. They called the design "brave" and "different," and said the building will hopefully act as a draw to help liven up East Huron Street.
The building materials, black-glazed brick and wood, were chosen because the team tries to use sustainable and organic building materials.
Members of the development team include the property owner, Connecticut-based Greenfield Partners; the developer, Georgia-based Carter; Oregon-based Ace Hotel acting as a design consultant; and Texas-based architect Humphreys & Partners.
Humphreys & Associates Architects
Crockett said context is of paramount importance when designing and constructing a building, and the proposed building at 413 E. Huron jeopardizes the well-being and property values of residents on Ann Street and threatens to diminish their quality of life with a 140-foot, 14-story wall facing north that will create, in her words, "almost permanent shade for much of the year."
"Its sheer scale and massiveness, along with the underground parking going clear to the lot line, also endanger landmark trees on Ann Street and Division by crowding their roots and cutting off sunlight," Crockett said, adding she is concerned the building's size would create such dense shade and occupy so much soil that it would make it nearly impossible for new trees to root and grow where a landscape buffer is required between the building and the Ann Street historic block.
The site is adjacent to Sloan Plaza Condominiums, abuts historic residential homes to the north and is located in the city's East Huron Street character district.
City of Ann Arbor
"The character area includes Harris Hall, the Silas Douglass house, the two Victorian houses on Huron, and the church on the corner of Huron and State," she said, pointing out all of those properties are in the Old Fourth Ward Historic District.
Crockett is referring to the First United Methodist Church at 120 South State St., which dates back to the 1930s. Harris Hall, at 617 E. Huron St., was constructed in 1886 for St Andrew's Episcopal Church to serve as a parish house and student center and remodeled in 1980 for office space.
The Silas Douglass house Crockett referenced was the home of the dean of the University of Michigan's medical school in the 1850s and 1860s. Douglass served as mayor from 1871-1873. He lived in the home at 502 East Huron St. from 1848 until 1902.
Ray Detter, chairman of the Downtown Area Citizens Advisory Council, called the HDC's resolution a "very important and courageous statement."
"On behalf of the Downtown Area CAC, I would simply say that we are very pleased to see the Historic District Commission give support to the stated positions of the DDA's Connecting William Street initiative as well as the Downtown Design Guidelines Review Board," Detter said.
"Consideration of context and impact upon downtown character areas and nearby historical and residential neighborhoods should be an important part of the Historic District Commission, Planning Commission and City Council public approval process."
Wendy Rampson, the city's planning manager, said the project is tentatively scheduled to go before the city's Planning Commission for review on Jan. 15.
Norman Tyler
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Tue, Dec 18, 2012 : 4:33 p.m.
I think that the design is absolutely hideous and will look outdated within a mere 5-10 years. If they should happen to build on that site, which I'm opposed to as a Preservationist, the design should encompass a more Historic feel to fit in with the surrounding Historic District, not to stick out like a sore thumb. I agree with the HDC taking a stand on this issue even though the property is not technically in the Historic District itself. Many HDC ordinances take into account the negative impact that surrounding buildings and new developments could have on an established Historic District, and development could be challenged, as in this case, as not complying with the ordinance. I think we need to preserve our architectural history and keep the historic neighborhood nostalgia in tact - without the construction of this monstrosity!
Tue, Dec 18, 2012 : 5:14 a.m.
I am afraid that this may turn into another City Place. Starting with some ill-conceived zoning, the developer suggests something that is out of style and proportion with the neighborhood. The city fights it all the way, and the developer comes up with an even worse solution that he has the right to do, the city and its people be damned. I hope they learned their lesson and work with the developer to improve this, and not get stuck with something even worse after a losing battle.
Tue, Dec 18, 2012 : 1:43 p.m.
I know! Do you want black brick or ASHLEY TERRACE?!!!! I say keep it modern(ish) and leave the Hampton Inn looking things for Livonia.
pooh bear
Tue, Dec 18, 2012 : 5:14 a.m.
The church referred to by Crockett is not First Methodist but First Baptist which is next to the Douglas house. People have opinions about what is historic but there are legal definitions and historic districts are legal entities approved by the City Council. Whether Jane and Joe Public think nothing historical happened there just shows an ignorance of local history and what amounts to a lot of uninformed opinion, not fact.
Stephen Landes
Tue, Dec 18, 2012 : 3:44 a.m.
At least it isn't 14 stories of brick (again).
Tue, Dec 18, 2012 : 3:29 a.m.
The time to have brought up these concerns were at the time of zoning. The developers will be approved if they meet zoning regulations, otherwise the City risks a lawsuit that they will lose. I must admit that I'm surprised the University didn't buy this land at some point as it is close enough to campus for them to want to develop. With that said, I'm glad they didn't.
Wed, Dec 19, 2012 : 11:35 a.m.
Maybe so, but the zoning is the zoning. What does it matter if the high rise is student housing or office space? In either event it would be a sunblocker. I don't blame the developers for wanting to maximize the value of their property. They seem to be following the rules. The only blame lies with those who made the zoning and that is our problem.
Tom Whitaker
Tue, Dec 18, 2012 : 3:52 a.m.
I recall the concerns WERE raised and rather forcefully, but the majority on council did not support historic districts and wanted to see maximum heights everywhere downtown. I don't think they anticipated that all the high rises would turn out to be private student dorms.
Tue, Dec 18, 2012 : 3:18 a.m.
How many times a week do you drive by the Campus Inn and scream "what an outrage! It's totally out of scale with Harris Hall"? Relax. You'll get over it!
Tue, Dec 18, 2012 : 2:56 a.m.
NO MORE STUDENT HIGH-RISES! Enough already! More housing for actual tax-paying Ann Arborites is great, but the massing of student creep into downtown has to stop.
Wed, Dec 19, 2012 : 5:38 p.m.
There is more than enough room for the students. There is even plenty of luxury room for them. The University is not growing the student population. I am pro-UM, but the student high-rises are over the top, and ENOUGH.
Frank Martin-Buck
Tue, Dec 18, 2012 : 8:41 p.m.
The university employs half the town and it will have a hard time existing if they can't house their students.
Angry Moderate
Tue, Dec 18, 2012 : 4:52 a.m.
Privately-owned buildings pay property taxes whether they're full of students or not. It's U of M buying up the whole town that hurts the tax rolls.
Tue, Dec 18, 2012 : 2:15 a.m.
The whole rest of the city is incompatible in scale and massing with the adjacent Old Fourth Ward Historic District. That's why historic districts have boundaries.
Tue, Dec 18, 2012 : 1:07 a.m.
These districts don't exist in a vacuum, just because he demarcation line is drawn at one street doesn't relieve the developer or the city of considering the impact of any project, anywhere in the city. Many people on these boards speak as though they are experts in planning, and in as much as they are presumed to be city residents, their opinions are welcome. By if city planning and development is your profession, your opinion counts for a little more. I know that Mr. Detter is very knowledgable about planning and history, and the HDC folks know quite a bit, too. So I welcome their input in this case, even if it is " out of their district of concern". My two cents? This thing is too big, too ugly, and too unnecessary to be allowed.
Tue, Dec 18, 2012 : 12:11 a.m.
I really wish this developer would take his ideas down to where the lower town project was supposed to materialize. That's a great location for Hospital and University folks, and they could squash plenty of retail space in there. Maybe the residents on Broadway wouldn't like it, but they wouldn't have the sun blocked out all day either. It could work beautifully there.
mike gatti
Tue, Dec 18, 2012 : 12:11 a.m.
Isn't this a bit like the Strawberry Statement? Nobody involved should care what the Historic commission does or wants. Shouldn't they be stopping Zingerman's from expanding?
Mon, Dec 17, 2012 : 11:40 p.m.
What's wrong with the project? Didn't the people of Ann Arbor vote to buy green space around town & force higher density development in the downtown? What, don't you want it now?
Tom Whitaker
Tue, Dec 18, 2012 : 1 a.m.
Student housing has no impact on sprawl. Those living in sprawl developments are typically families or young working couples. They are not going to give up their lawn, their 2-car garage, and their lower taxes to live in a high rise with a bunch of students. They might, however, want to live in an older home next to the downtown, provided that home is not in the shadow of a giant dorm.
mike gatti
Tue, Dec 18, 2012 : 12:08 a.m.
yeah, good point. What do people want? They don't want sprawl and they don't want development.
Mon, Dec 17, 2012 : 9:54 p.m.
The map showing the Old Fourth Ward Historic District should also show the smaller Division Street Historic District and the Ann Street Historic District. They will be the most affected by the new development, and a number of quite historic residences will be severely impacted.
Ryan J. Stanton
Mon, Dec 17, 2012 : 9:53 p.m.
Thanks for chiming in, everyone. There have been questions raised in the last week about whether development team ever met with the city's planning department before submitting the plans. I received this clarification today from City Planner Alexis DiLeo: "In addition to a few phone calls to clarify/confirm zoning regulations, I had at least one in-person meeting with the development team to again answer zoning questions – setbacks, height, conflicting land use buffers, etc. Staff also met with the developers at the required pre-submittal meeting. The developers did not, however, provide building elevations at these meetings for us to preview or comment upon."
Mon, Dec 17, 2012 : 9:49 p.m.
If ugly buildings are made illegal in Ann Arbor they'll have to tear down half of downtown, starting with City Hall. That said, we live in the United States, where Henry Ford famously famously testified in his libel suit against the Chicago Tribune -- "History is the bunk". He won the suit, sort of. He got one dollar.
Mon, Dec 17, 2012 : 9:42 p.m.
Something of note most certainly did happen here. Neil Young made his solo performance debut in 1968, sharing "Sugar Mountian" for the first time just a few blocks east. I've also heard that the song may have been written while he was at a house on the NE corner ofCatherine and Division, which would be in those northern shadows the HDC is concerned about. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=97253221 I'm also guessing the Campus Inn was built before the HDC.
Elaine F. Owsley
Mon, Dec 17, 2012 : 11:46 p.m.
Who is Neil Young?
Tom Whitaker
Mon, Dec 17, 2012 : 9:32 p.m.
Before the historic district haters get too fired up, I would like to point out that, just like other recent projects that have threatened the integrity of the cherished historical neighborhoods surrounding downtown, the neighbors of this project simply want the developers to make reasonable modifications to make the project less jarring and instrusive. These modifications would make for a better project that caused less harm to the neighboring properties, yet the developers are not willing to make any changes--pretty much ignoring the design review board comments entirely. I'd also like to point out that this is the only downtown edge not abutting UM property that was not given the lower-scale D2 designation. D2 was created precisely for this reason--to buffer the neighborhoods from high rises and create a transition from towers to houses. It's too bad the City can't do a better job of proactively zoning to avoid these kinds of conflicts.
Tue, Dec 18, 2012 : 3:15 a.m.
Cherished is the word You use to descri-ibe La la la la laaaa....
WW II Veteran
Mon, Dec 17, 2012 : 9:25 p.m.
Why did not the Historic Commission or the city osAnn Arborobject to the 7 beautiful old houses that were torn down on 5th ave for those ugly student housing buildings.
Mon, Dec 17, 2012 : 10:02 p.m.
Good question!!!!
Mon, Dec 17, 2012 : 9:22 p.m.
It looks like something out of a Stanley Kubrick film where all of the people are soulless automatons who live in sanitized cubes. Can't imagine it will improve anyone's quality of life or make E. Huron more lively.
Tue, Dec 18, 2012 : 12:05 a.m.
I agree. Buildings that tall, and that's not even very tall except it will appear huge because it's on a high spot, remind me of Towering Inferno.
Mon, Dec 17, 2012 : 9:05 p.m.
Good for them. There's nothing "brave" or "different" about this proposed building--it looks like all the other new apartment/condo high rises in Ann Arbor And it would be way out of place in the neighborhood.
Mon, Dec 17, 2012 : 9:01 p.m.
This is a bit of imperialism on the part of the Commission, muscling in beyond the limits of its territory. The members of the Commission, as individual citizens, have the right to express their opinion. As an entity whose jurisdiction has well-defined boundaries, the Commission is out of order in trying to legislate outside its purview.
Tom Whitaker
Mon, Dec 17, 2012 : 9:17 p.m.
The resolution was advisory in nature so there is no need regurgitate your legal dictionary. As the guardians of our legally-enacted historic districts, the HDC should speak up when these districts are threatened from whatever angle.
Mon, Dec 17, 2012 : 8:58 p.m.
Development: Build whatever you want wherever you want regardless of the existing character of the area. I wonder if the current residents whose view will be ruined by this behemoth will be able to sue because it will diminish their property values. Seems the Fifth Amendment might apply here...something about the taking of property without just compensation...
Mon, Dec 17, 2012 : 8:56 p.m.
I think we should teardown the current structures and have spot for a community garden. Maybe a pot farm.
Mon, Mar 18, 2013 : 2:41 p.m.
Buy the property.
Mon, Dec 17, 2012 : 9:19 p.m.
The best idea yet! What could be better in the character district? It will definitely liven things up.
Paul Wiener
Mon, Dec 17, 2012 : 8:51 p.m.
Nauseating, and perfectly in line with how A2 is developing. Bad for traffic, bad for Kerrytown, bad for the skyline, bad for parking, bad for whatever ambience remains for locals and visitors coming downtown. One more reason for ousting the Mayor and everyone who works for him, when and if anyone ever votes. Hey A2, the dream died a long time ago.
Frank Martin-Buck
Mon, Dec 17, 2012 : 8:49 p.m.
This is really just a silly argument. There is already a fairly tall office/condo building right next door and then there is the very tall Campus Inn right down the street. The buildings it's replacing are old, decrepit, and deserted. That part of town really needs something to give it a bit of life. The auto repair shop across the street, Ahmo's and the old Ann Arbor News building really don't do it. I think the people who are really trying to stop this are the ones in that multi-story office/condo building who don't want to have their view of downtown obstructed. That is no reason to leave that corner with a couple boring, vacant buildings.
Gene Alloway
Mon, Dec 17, 2012 : 9:16 p.m.
I agree with you that the area needs livening up, but yet another huge mega tower is far and away not the only answer to that. Developers smell chum in the water because of the other big projects, and will push and push until city and residents push back. Ann Arbor has been and continues to be a great lively space with out huge towers. These are choices, not needs.
Mon, Dec 17, 2012 : 8:45 p.m.
There is a reason historic districts have boundaries.
Elaine F. Owsley
Mon, Dec 17, 2012 : 11:42 p.m.
And, the HDC is wanting to govern outside those boundaries.
Mon, Dec 17, 2012 : 8:39 p.m.
Yes, lets go ahead and continue to stifly development and watch dollars go elsewhere....and "historic district" here is a bit misleading -- they might be older houses but they are mostly duplexes and subdivided apartments that are mostly student housing. Nothing "historical" has happened there.
Mon, Dec 17, 2012 : 8:49 p.m.
Right, they can build their student housing for U of M in... um, Chelsea? No, Jackson. How abut Belleville. These developed paid millions just to acquire and demolish the exisiting properties on these parcels. The demand is to BE in Ann Arbor. We only get the chance to regulate their construction once, so let's do it right.
Mon, Dec 17, 2012 : 8:34 p.m.
Finally some sanity in A2 re: these monster projects.
Mon, Mar 18, 2013 : 2:40 p.m.
I would say "does nothing" is a little strong and not very optimistic. As the kids move in to these luxury digs the lovely old homes that were converted to student housing may revert to single family homes once again. It seems this would do something to fight suburban sprawl. It is great that there are some lucky folks that can purchase a house close to downtown. Let's hope more folks are given the chance to do the same.
Tom Whitaker
Mon, Dec 17, 2012 : 10:11 p.m.
Gene is right. Student housing does nothing to curb suburban sprawl. It might, however, if the City were to actively pursue policies and programs that incentivized families, retirees, and working adults to move in and fix up the older houses in neighborhoods that have been dominated by students. In this case, and also with Landmark on South U., houses that might be desirable urban alternatives to families considering living in the townships, are being made less desirable due to their proximity to these high rise dorms.
Gene Alloway
Mon, Dec 17, 2012 : 9:09 p.m.
This is not to combat sprawl - this is to grab student dollars. Those apartments are not for families to own, and the retail in the lower floor will not stop one sprawl project. Fighting sprawl is a different kind of approach. There are numerous sites to find out more.
Mon, Dec 17, 2012 : 8:48 p.m.
We have been fighting against urban sprawl for decades Now that the City of A2 is going UP to alleviate the sprawl issue, we have faux historians waging battle against the very thing that helps.
Mon, Dec 17, 2012 : 8:33 p.m.
It over powers the area and I would hate to be in its shadow but if it meets the code requirements there is little the city can do to stop it.
Elaine F. Owsley
Mon, Dec 17, 2012 : 8:20 p.m.
Oh dear! Here we have the tail wanting to wag the dog again. Historic District is a group of old houses. Being "historic" implies something of note happened there.
Mon, Mar 18, 2013 : 2:35 p.m.
What "Historic" home is being wiped out Ross?
Mon, Dec 17, 2012 : 8:48 p.m.
Well, the people that FOUNDED THIS TOWN lived there. That seems pretty cool to me. Wipe out all our oldest homes/buildings and it's too easy to forget where we came from.
Mon, Dec 17, 2012 : 8:15 p.m.
While I think it is in the D1 area so the developer is not in violation, I think it could be made to look more historic in nature and not so 60's esk. The historic commission should suggest design cues to the developer to compromise, as they probably will get further than just trying to fight, as it's outside their jurisdiction.
Tue, Dec 18, 2012 : 1:10 a.m.
I don't want any more new stuff made to "look more historic". Let new stuff look new.


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Tell us about the "Enter" stage you're presenting Saturday night at the Speedway.
We want to get away from just having a stage and projecting music. We want it more surrounding, more inviting. Sometimes a great club experience is when you feel like you're surrounded by sound and surrounded by lights, and a rock 'n' roll experience is a little bit different. …
Instead of using the normal EDC lighting and sound guys, we're bringing our own guys from Europe, people that I've been working with for six, seven years. How do I describe it? It's a more minimalistic approach. We'll have visuals that work with the music. … A lot of what you see at other stages, it's like flash flash bling bling, and it's about a sensory overload for that split second. We have a slow burn. We want people to get into our stage and stay there for three, four, five, six, seven hours … We're not about that quick burst. It's about immersing yourself in the experience, immersing yourself in the music and immersing yourself in this kind of scene. If you just got into Calvin Harris or you just got into Afrojack, great. You've stepped through the door, but there's so much more to learn. ...
I'm 42. I've been doing this music for a long time. I was with Deadmau5 last week, and his mom was at the house, and she's like, "Is this the guy you used to talk about when you were a kid?" We want to give people that entrance into where this music has come from but also where this music is going. I think that those are the people we have on our stage. We have people who are really key to the foundation, to the history and to the future development of this sound.
You played two sets at EDC last year, one under your Plastikman alias. Why aren't you bringing Plastikman back this year?
Plastikman right now is on hiatus. We were touring for two years, and I felt that during those two years we had a show that was very progressive, totally different than what everybody else was doing. We thought it was time to go back to the drawing board and come up with something new. It's just the attitude. I don't think every project should go on forever. You need pauses, you can't milk something. You also need to take things away from people and then bring it back later. So Plastikman will probably come back next year, and this year the focus is DJing, bringing some other artists here, doing the Enter stage and trying to help the US market develop in the best way possible.
Your name is pretty rare in Las Vegas compared to a lot of the other acts playing EDC. Do you have an aversion to the city?
I don't have an aversion for Vegas; I think maybe Vegas has an aversion for me. I don't mean that in a nasty way. I can see Vegas is becoming an important market for electronic music in America. Would I like to be here more? Yes. Do I think it's the right time for me? Probably not. What's being played in Vegas is commercial electronic music. You really don't have anyone in the big clubs who is playing underground, let's be honest about that. This Thursday I get to play at Drai's. From what I know, that's a great stepping point for me to come and do my thing.
What do you think about what happened with Mark Farina last weekend at Marquee Dayclub? [Farina tweeted that he was bounced off the decks after the club received complaints from its bottle-service crowd.]
As a DJ, you have to understand where you're being booked and understand the situation. And that's exactly why, if I came here now and played my set, there's going to be someone in bottle service who is like, "I don't care who the f*ck this Hawtin guy thinks he is, take him the f*ck off." … I'll wait for the right time to come, when there's enough people freaking out on the dancefloor where, even if one or two people do complain, enough of the crowd will be like, "No, f*ck you. We want this guy because he's doing something different, we respect him and we're having a f*cking blast right now."
What can fans look forward to with your Drai's and EDC sets?
Both the sets hopefully will be different. The sets at EDC are one and a half hours, or one hour and 15 minutes, so it's going to be full-on, a lot of energy. And what's also going to be fun at EDC is that you're going to see a lot of friends. … Right now, the Enter stage is a bunch of DJ friends, and we're like, "You know what? We want as many people onstage as possible. We're here to celebrate together, to celebrate playing our music. And the more we're onstage celebrating and having fun, the more people are going to get into it." It's that energy back and forth, I think, that you're going to see at EDC. You're going to see a bunch of friends together who really want to party and celebrate with the new and old fans here.
At Drai's you're going to see me, with a longer set, being able to maybe go a bit little more left and right, deeper up and down, and get a longer story there.
It seems like Europe is constantly ahead of the U.S. when it comes to electronic dance music. Why do you think that is?
I think it's just a cultural thing. Is Europe ahead of America in all music? No. Take hip-hop. Hip-hop has been way ahead in America than anywhere else in the world, because it culturally made sense here. ... I was never a big hip-hop fan, I don't understand exactly where it came from, but it was bred from an American situation. And electronic music has its origins, a long time ago, in Germany with Kraftwerk and Tangerine Dream. It has its '90s origins in America. You know, Chicago, Detroit and New York. But Europe took the lead of electronic dance music, because there's a culture there of going out late at night.
Club culture has just been there for years and years, since the '70s. America, it's bar culture, concert culture. Go out till 2 a.m., go home. Pick up a girl, pick up a boy, whatever. People in Spain and Italy and Germany, they go out at midnight. Or they start partying at 3 or 4 a.m. and they want to hear music and just dance and freak out. So that's why they've been ahead, it just made sense there. It's made sense for a long, long, long time, and it's just taken America a while to catch up.
I think music in America, and this emanates across the world, everybody wants to be a superstar. Everybody wants to actually cut themselves off from people. Everybody wants to be on a pedestal. And one of the reasons why electronic music is so f*cking great, and why it's seen 25 years of success, is that ... for the longest time the industry—the people in the industry, the people running the labels, the people running the booking agencies—they're really down to earth. People were accessible. You go to a great club with a great DJ, traditionally the DJ is right there with the people. The best place for me to place is as close to the people as possible. So there wasn't this big disconnect between fan and audience.
It's a little bit disappointing how that's happened in America. It's really like the whole rock star, hip-hop mentality. You know, these unreachable people. ... It's not a rock concert where you just make a bunch of visuals and have a bunch of people onstage and project to the audience, doing your songs. Electronic music, and clubbing, is about an energy transfer. You send some frequencies and energy to the people, they send it back to you, and then you actually change and modify. That's why a great DJ can play totally different every night. It's not a setlist. It's a feeling.


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The Institute for Experimental Freedom is proud to announce the release of "Enemies We Know." This project was originally intended to be a 4-part poster series, and will be released in this medium as well. However, after careful consideration and reflection, these short texts are currently being released as an easily reproducible pamphlet—designed with high contrast black and whites, easy readability, and succinct critical messaging. This pamphlet serves the purpose of an "instead of an introduction," and because it is not designed to spread ideology, it focuses on clarifying who and what are our enemies, rather than what is our program. The three known enemies that are the subjects of this pamphlet are "Police," "Bosses," and "Rapists." Each is examined from their functional role within the environment they serve and exposed as an amorphous set of practices rather than a substance. Our intention is not to merely name the enemy—who doesn't know know the name of that occupying force in blue? Rather, our intention is to elaborate an analysis of what function each realizes, and how they can be disarmed, undermined and neutralized. In a world of such confusion, it's nice to know certain truths.
If you don't like the "IEF" brand and contact on the back or you wish to add your own, use Adobe Acrobat or another PDF editing program to digitally edit it (for Acrobat: tools, advanced editing, touch up object tool), or simply white it out during production. Even though, it would be more satisfying to leave anonymous letters to potential comrades, we concluded its more beneficial at this time—a time without clear escape routes—to direct a reader toward some signal that they are not alone.
After considering the social and political environment you occupy, leave this pamphlet anonymously at potential points of encounter (the cliché and historical points: cafés, bookshops, colleges, record stores, and bars).
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Another Cold Year for the Warmth
Death and Redemption
"Theres a man goin' round taking names and he decides who to free and who to blame. Everybody won't be treated all the same."
The fold of our history is either death or redemption. The history of the vanquished and the history of preemptive alienating and policing apparatuses yearn to conclude. We all have a door and a rotting carpet; a family and a dynasty of fuck ups; advanced social dissolution from worlds and senses to answer for. They say men make history, but not in conditions of their choosing. If it is our sensuous activity within a world, a praxis, which generates a world, then by what means do we confront the millions of potentialities which are taken from history? Those souls who are irrevocably lost, or worse yet, rendered bare life through processes of subjectivation, are prepared to be judged, not by history, but by the police. Each death is a tragedy because in "each" there is a shame of separation. The private life only becomes public in death. But this public death is itself a technique of exposure, which links the family and society to the church, to the school, to the prison. The tragedy which the living are constantly exposed to is not merely their own telos but capitalism's continuous merciless holiday. In this society, no one dies. Everyone is murdered.
What is pathetic in death is not the loss of a container of memories and affects or the fleeting away of another productive member of the family, of society, but the loss of the capacity to speak. Death acts like a nightmare on the living. Conjuring images of "once upon a time," the living attempt to answer for the horror of a brisk wind which extinguishes light in one subtle swoop. But the sad conclusive cough of a body judged guilty of living in capitalism is repeated and shared. Each voice is rendered mute. Each potentiality perfectly aware of what strangles it daily. The tears of the living for the dead, while representing a real sadness, never conjoin to form the flood which will redeem the past. Instead, the mouth opens, limbs shake with anxiety; our small, light-colored hairs stand up searching for a warmth which is not in this world. And in the end, what could be communicated—the single gesture of communicability itself—is once again lost, irretrievable, amidst blinking lights and the flow of commodities which live so much longer than any of us.
What is redemption in such circumstances? Is it forgiving our trespasses, and forgiving those who trespass against us? By what means do we admit a presence which annuls memories, scars, blood?
My family is connected through Facebook. The eulogy for my grandmother stumbled on her truth. She took on a predictable position of women married to husbands in the twentieth century. She mothered many children and formed the foundation to a family whose care was held by a second-generation Italian pater. She, and all the other shes of the family, suffered only the absence of en-courage-ment. It is not surprising: they all left. My grandmother quietly lived as if she had been redeemed, doing the books to my grandfathers photography business, never once elaborating her own passions for paint on canvas. The eulogy concluded, as my grandmother often would, that if anyone felt despondent, the eulogist would happily go shopping with them. The analogy to government orders following the events of September eleventh to go shopping is not lost on me. There were some really good sales at Macy's
On the other side of the family, between drinks, and with far too many teenage mothers, I learned cousin Ian had been sentenced in 'Oh-four. My absence from Facebook excluded me from hearing this bullshit earlier. Was it three-strikes you're out? Did he have guns too? How long is a life-sentence? The silence of social death touches even the Midwestern Irish working class. My other cousin, who used hockey like how the black body uses football or basketball, or how southern whites use the military, received a terrible back injury and was sentenced to a fancy new oxycodone addiction. Again, if only I had Facebook... One of my sisters still clings to the myth that we're different because we didn't grow up in these fucked up conditions, but she conveniently forgot about all the suicides and boredom; the drive-by's and the addictions, even the empty refrigerators, which painfully illustrate our miserable upbringing. We all ran too, and we ran for a reason.
The fold of this history is uncertain. On the one hand, everything about today, and even yesterday, just points toward the production of death. Enduring high school, when anarchy was merely a secret which Propagandhi attempted to whisper to me through power chords; or when struggle was just some band that that dude from the Locust was in, Columbine seemed perfectly reasonable. We sketched pictures of it all the time. We searched our history books, attempting to discover any time when the underdog wreaked its vengeance. We had no voice then, no words to call our own, and no world which affected us. We had only the conditions of all of that dissolving. In that time, many of us were quite literally unwanted children; and judging by the fields we set on fire, the plots to blow up schools, the churches we vandalized, and unfortunately, the animals which we tortured, we were capable of some fucked up shit. The youth of today are even worse.
On the other hand, maybe we can once more be affected by "Death to death!" Which is not to say, "peace." But more specifically, our time, capitalist time, is a time of living-dead. Techniques of government expose life's limits to itself and generate bare life. No one knows sovereignty better than the life which is judged not worth living by the police or the life which is let to live by its manager. And because of Biopower and the Spectacle, it's increasingly difficult to separate any of these figures. Redemption in this world is not repaying a debt, atoning for guilt which we owe society. Capitalism is guilt. We owe them nothing. Redemption is giving them just that.
Walter Benjamin writes: "For we have been expected upon this earth. For it has been given us to know, just like every generation before us, a weak messianic power, on which the past has a claim. This claim is not to be settled lightly." The day after my grandmother died, I set off for New York to do a panel about the messianic analogy within the proletariat. The day before my grandmother's funeral, I spoke of becoming sensitive to the imperceptible civil war which has taken place as class struggle and now takes place as social war. In the conditions of social war, this civil war can be felt as a war between normality and its cracks. The proletariat within this civil war is a force who is contingent on history but whose possibility lies outside of it. The proletariat cancels and fulfills history through its own self-negation. At one time, in the conditions of industrialization, classical politics, and a strategically positioned portion of the oppressed, the proletariat took form in the messianic-gesture, what Benjamin called the "divine violence" of the general strike. The proletariat, who was contingent on "a class of civil society but not of civil society," was expressed as the industrial working class using their own labor-power—what produced value—to negate value and class society itself: redemption.
Benjamin continues, "nothing that has ever happened should be regarded as lost for history. Only a redeemed humankind receives the fullness of its past. Which is to say, only for a redeemed humankind has its past become citable in all moments. Each moment it has lived becomes a citation a l'ordre du jour [order of the day]—and that day is Judgement Day."
"The hairs on your arm will stand up. At the terror in each sip and in each sup. For you partake of that last offered cup, Or disappear into the potter's ground. When the man comes around.
Hear the trumpets, hear the pipers. One hundred million angels singin'. Multitudes are marching to the big kettle drum. Voices callin', voices cryin'. Some are born an' some are dyin'. It's Alpha's and Omega's Kingdom come...
Whoever is unjust, let him be unjust still. Whoever is righteous, let him be righteous still. Whoever is filthy, let him be filthy still."
The horror of death in capitalism must be met with a greater horror. Hollywood produced this a representation of this horror some forty-two years ago. How appropriate that in a world, where all death is murder and all life is bare life, the dead would come to life to feed on the living. The death which the proletariat brings with it is the reversal of the operation which lets bare life live or die. The violence of redemption fulfills all past antagonisms. Its operation returns everything to use, especially our fragile bodes, especially the rot of the world. The proletariat—who perhaps takes us, affects bare life—strikes against being human when human progress is analogous to capitalist development. It turns all things which have been given value above life to toys to be ruined. It makes common everything, and like the Spanish militias who danced with the corpses of nuns, it brings our dead grandmothers to share in the collective arson of beauty salons.
The insurrection which comes is not generated from the desire for a better world: there is none. It is not even the accomplishment of democracy. It is the nightmare of the past holding the future hostage, and publicly killing and feasting on it on youtube, over and over again. In our conditions, that of an absolute social war, insurrection and its total extension is the rhythm we must collectively write and impose on capitalist society. Through these experiments and repeated gestures we develop a new sentimental intelligence and different sensuous praxis which no longer accepts our shameful conditions. We impose different collectivities beyond family, nation, and society exactly at the point of their negation. We find we are not alone, exactly at the point we lose our selves. We share exactly at the point when we begin to seize. When each funeral loses what was attempting to kept it a private affair—when newspapers are terrified to write a single obituary because the will of the dead keeps leaving ruin in its wake—then we will begin to know what redemption entails.
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This shows the percentage EPS upgrade of consensus broker forecasts for FY2 over the past month.
FY2 means the next forecast year after this one. If we are in March, it would usually be the year ended the December after next December. It does however depends when the company's year-end is, i.e. they do not always end in December (this is not the case with a rolling ratio which is normalised for different year-ends).
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There was a time when I thought the old saw, "The way to a man's heart is through his stomach" was sexist and degrading.
Then I met Tom Ten Broeck.
If there's one thing you can mark down as fact about my husband is he likes to eat.
He also doesn't mind paying quality prices for quality food.
Whenever we dine out at better quality Italian restaurants, he more often than not orders something with mushrooms–since I don't like them. Sometimes it's pizza. Sometimes it's something with portabella. One of his favorites is Chicken Marsala.
A couple weeks ago, I was ambling through the grocery store making my usual purchases when it hit me–why don't I make him one of his favorites as a special treat. Why? Because he's worth it and I love him enough to sacrifice my own taste for his–occasionally.
The result was a Chicken Marsala that was not only easy to make, but extremely tasty. And because I was making it from scratch, I could control the mushrooms to ensure none crossed my plate.
Served with garlic mashed potatoes, salad and fresh bread, it was a meal that rivaled any we've had in restaurants–and a lot cheaper to boot.
1 tsp. minced garlic
1 tsp. marjoram
1 tsp. minced onions
1/2 tsp. course ground black pepper
1 tsp. basil leaves
1/2 tsp. parsley flakes
1/3 C flour
1 tsp. salt
6 thinly sliced boneless skinless chicken breasts (about 1 1/4 pound)
3 T butter, divided
2 T olive oil
8 oz. sliced mushrooms
1/2 C chicken broth
3/4 C Marsala wine
Mix flour, garlic, marjoram, onions, salt and pepper in a shallow dish. Reserve 1 T flour mixture. Coat chicken with remaining flour mixture.
Heat 2 T butter and oil in a large nonstick skillet on medium high heat. Cook several of the chicken pieces 3 minutes on each side or until golden brown. Remove from the skillet and keep warm (oven set at 200 degrees is perfect). Repeat with remaining chicken. Add mushrooms to skillet, cook and stir 5 minutes or until tender.
Mix broth and reserved flour mixture. Add to the skillet along with the wine. Bring to a boil, stirring to release the browned bits in the bottom of the skillet.
Stir in remaining 1 T butter and basil, cook 2 minutes or until sauce is slightly thickened. Spoon sauce over warm chicken. Garnish with the parsley.
Prep Time: 10 minutes
Cook Time: 20 minutes
Serves: 6 (or 3 if you really like it!)
FYI: Marsala is a wine produced in the region surrounding the Italian city of Marsala in Sicily. Marsala contains about 15-20 percent alcohol. Not only is it used in chicken and veal dishes, it can also be used in desserts such as zabaglione, tiramisu and shortcake.
Local grocery stores sell a cooking variety for less than $5 per bottle or you can use the real-deal, which costs, on average, $15-$22 per bottle.
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The Felt Ötztal X-Bionic team had a successful outing at Round 3 of the World Cup Cross-Country Series in Nove Mesto, Czech Republic, scoring podium finishes in the Men's Eliminator Sprint race and the Women's XC race.
Australian Paul van der Ploeg got things off to a strong start, posting the fastest qualifying time among pro men in the Eliminator event. He advanced to the finals and finished second behind Swiss rider Sepp Freiburghaus. It was the second podium appearance in as many races for "The Thunder from Down Under."
A huge crowd turned out for the XC events, and Slovenian rider Blaza Klemencic rose to the occasion for the Felt Ötztal X-Bionic team, finishing fifth to score her second World Cup podium of the season.
The technical course at Nove Mesto produced lots of shuffling among the top-10 riders during the race, and Klemencic did well to hold her ground in the top-five. She put in an aggressive final lap on her Felt Six hardtail to score the podium, a repeat of her performance at Round 2 in Houffalize, Belgium. Klemencic is now ninth overall in the World Cup.


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Goals: 5 vs. Connecticut College (10/15/11)
Assists: 3 (4x) vs. George Washington (9/16/12)
Steals: 5 at Fordham (9/24/11)
2012 (Sophomore)
Notched 13 goals, 11 assists and 18 steals in 2012 ... Contributed two goals, two assists and three steals against Diablo Valley College and one assist against Yale at the Labor Day Invite Sept. 1 ... Scored one goal and had one assist with two steals against California Lutheran Sept. 7 … Tallied one goal and two steals against Princeton Sept. 8 … Recorded two steals against Johns Hopkins Sept. 9 ... Recorded one assist against Bucknell and also two goals and one steal against Mercyhurst Sept. 15 … Tallied one goal, three assists and four steals in a 15-13 victory over George Washington Sept. 16 ... Tallied one goal and one assist against Pomona-Pitzer Oct. 5 … Scored two goals against Loyola-Marymount and also recorded three goals, one assist and two steals against Claremont-M-S Oct. 6 ... Contributed one assist and two steals against Brown Oct. 11.
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Earned ACWPC and CWPA "Excellent" Scholar-Athlete honors ... Led the Crimson with 55 steals and was third with 20 assists in his first season with the Crimson ... Named second-team All-CWPA Northern Division ... Selected as the CWPA Northern Division Rookie of the Week Oct. 17, while also being picked to the CWPA Northern Division Player of the Week Honor Roll ... Named Harvard COOP Athlete of the Week Oct. 17 ... Named to the CWPA Northern Divison Defensive Player of the Week Honor Roll Oct. 31 ... Had multiple steals in five consecutive games Sept. 10-17 ... Registered a goal and four steals against Navy Sept. 18 ... Contributed five steals at Fordham Sept. 24 ... Scored a season-high five goals and added three assists and two steals against Connecticut College Oct. 15 ... Netted the game winner with 25 seconds left in a 10-9 victory over Mercyhurst Oct. 16 ... Had three goals, two assists and 10 steals in three games to secure third place at the Ivy Championship Oct. 29-30 ... Scored twice in the season finale against Iona (W, 13-10) to help the Crimson finish seventh at the CWPA Eastern Championship Nov. 20.
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CLEARWATER, Fla. -- Pitching coach Rich Dubee is not ready to announce the Phillies' opening-day starter in Atlanta, but read between the lines of what he's saying and you can conclude that the decision is down to Cole Hamels and Cliff Lee.
That means someone other than Roy Halladay would be the opening-day starter for the Phillies for the first time since the team acquired the two-time Cy Young Award winner from Toronto before the 2010 season.
"I think it's how we line up best," Dubee said. "Realistically, we could pitch anybody the first day as far as Doc, Cole and Cliff. On most staffs, they are No. 1 starters, so they all could pitch opening day. But part of what we're thinking is trying to split those two lefties. Last year we started with two lefties (after Halladay) and I'd just like to split them up."
That scenario would probably place Halladay on the mound for the second game of the season-opening series against the Braves. It would mark the first time since 2002 that he did not make an opening-day start. His first opening-day assignment was in 2003 with Toronto against Roger Clemens and the New York Yankees.
The Phillies are 3-0 in Halladay's opening-day starts and he won two of those games, including last year when he pitched eight shutout innings in a 1-0 win at Pittsburgh.
Dubee does not believe Halladay will have any objection to the end of his 10-year streak as an opening-day starter.
"I think those three guys we're talking about, they just want to pitch," Dubee said. "It's an honor to pitch opening day, but I think they've all done it in the pas ... so it's not like it would be their first time."
Actually, if Hamels ends up being the opening-day starter, it would be his first time. Based on overall performance from last season, Hamels is the most deserving candidate to make the opening-day start against the Braves, but you could make a case for Lee, too.
Hamels has a career record of 12-7 with a 3.58 ERA against Atlanta and was 1-1 with a 2.77 ERA last season. Lee is 4-4 with a 3.08 ERA against the Braves and was 1-1 with a 0.60 ERA last season.
Halladay, on the other hand, had a miserable time against the Braves last season, going 0-2 with an 11.21 ERA in four starts.
If the Phillies wanted to give Halladay some sort of distinction, they could allow him to start the home opener against the Kansas City Royals, a team he dominated when he was in the American League. That would mean Kyle Kendrick would pitch the second game of the season.
Dubee said he was not inclined to make that move at this point.
"We're probably going to run our first three guys out there in Atlanta," he said.


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1. a male bovine animal of breeding age, usually over one year of age. Until recent times the use classification for such an animal would be breeding. The present acceptance of bull beef by consumers adds this use to what was previously a limited range of life styles. See also breeder bull. See Table 20.
2. adult male of most wild ruminants except for small deer in which the male is called buck. Includes wapiti, moose, elk, reindeer.
3. adult male cetaceans and pinnipeds. See Table 20.
bull battery
rarely used term for the total serving capacity of the bulls in a herd. Is the number of bulls multiplied by the length of the breeding season.
bull beef
from entire males instead of the fatter steer or bullock.
bull calf
male young entire bovine animal up to stage of yearling.
catch-up bull
in dairy herds that use artificial insemination (AI), one that is run with cows in mid-lactation to breed those cattle that have not held to AI or that have early embryonic death.
bull-cow ratio
usually refers to paddock mating of beef cattle and reflects the desire of the farmer to achieve high fertility and over what period the breeding program can be allowed to continue. The proportion of bulls needed will also depend on their age, testicular size and serving capacity.
bull leader
a pole about 6 ft (2 m) long with a spring clip on the end to snare the bull's nose ring. Enables the handler to keep the bull moving forward without any risk that the bull can come too close.
proven bull
one whose progeny have achieved the production target set as desirable by the registering breed authority.
bull rotation
changing the bull out of a group of cows and replacing him with a different bull at short intervals. The objective is to ensure a high mating rate or to mark the calves by using a bull of a different breed.
bull test station
an establishment run by government or cooperative farmer organization which houses young bulls and measures rate of body weight gain under standard conditions of feeding and housing. A good rate of gain under these conditions does not guarantee a similar performance at pasture.


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OCEAN CITY – Thanks to a tip from alert citizens, Ocean City Police early Monday morning arrested a local man on burglary charges at an unoccupied residence on Robin Drive and have linked to suspect to several other burglaries in the area.
Early Monday morning, resort police got a call from concerned residents on Robin Drive about a suspicious man believed to have kicked in a door of an unoccupied apartment. Based on the information provided by witnesses as well as the physical evidence observed by the officers who first arrived on the scene, the OCPD quickly established a perimeter around the location to contain the suspect.
One witness reported as many as eight OCPD cars around the building with officers behind them with weapons drawn. The OCPD utilized a bull horn to communicate with the suspect, later identified as Edward Lee Robbins, 34, of Ocean City, who initially refused a request from police to surrender. OCPD K-9 officer Pfc. Kevin Flower and his K-9 dog "Tacko" were also on the scene, and while officers were instructing Robbins to come out of the apartment, Flower and "Tacko" were preparing to enter the unit to apprehend the non-compliant suspect.
When Robbins realized the K-9 unit's entry was imminent, he immediately surrendered and was taken into custody without incident. Police discovered Robbins is also a registered sex offender living in Ocean City. The investigation revealed Robbins was seen by an alert citizen kicking in the rear door of the residence at 311 Robin Drive.
After Robbins was arrested, OCPD detectives discovered he may be linked to several other recent thefts in Ocean City, particularly thefts from automobiles. OCPD detectives recovered approximately 75 items reported stolen from several previously reported thefts as well as some unreported thefts. The items included tools, CDs, musical equipment, and personal electronics among others.
Robbins was initially charged with first-, third-, and fourth-degree burglary and malicious destruction of property and is currently being held at the Worcester County Jail on a $25,000 bond. OCPD is asking anyone who may have been a victim of theft from their automobile and who has not reported it to the police to contact Detective Todd Spiegle at 410-723-6604.


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You can upload the video to
And you shouldn't have any copywrite issues.
But it does suck if they deleted your entire account for something like that with no warnings (there is a warning system)
|2009-04-15, 10:46
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Sorry mods for going out of topic. This'll be my last post about it.
|2009-04-15, 17:09
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I'll hold off on listening to the leaks, since it'll be much more satisfying when the actual CDs are out. Plus, the CDs will have B-sides that might be worth a listen.
"Happy!? Sorry!!" on the OP single, and "Sweet Bitter Beauty Song" on the ED.
|2009-04-18, 00:16
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.... doesn't leave Mugi with much to do now, does it? Poor gal.
Anyway, the ED is nothing to me without the actual animation and that leaked full still makes it seem like it's just the TV edit times two with that odd breakdown at the end. OP gets bonus points for me being able to listen to it without having to look at anything. And it gets more bonus points for having mini-solos. Mio's "RI~TSU!" was also way too cute.
Interested in hearing the B sides as I tend to like those more when it comes to most anime singles.
|2009-04-18, 01:55
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Join Date: Apr 2009
When they are showing the names, around 0:26 in this video
I suppose if they are going for consistency (and it appears they do, if I am correct that would be the only overdub in the entire song), that would actually be the keyboard playing.
The bass is playing a very low "2 0 0" type pattern, while the guitar is playing two consecutive chords followed by two mute picks (creating a chk-chk sound).
The problem with the consistency is that at the very end there is a keyboard "sweep" which would make it impossible for the effect we are hearing to be played by the keyboard (as it is obviously doing something else).
In summary, it's either the keyboard or guitar, but whichever it is, there is inconsistency as it creates the need for one of the instruments to play two things at once. This does surprise me, as the ED video does trick you into thinking that it is totally inaccurate, as it appears Mio isn't playing anything and has her hand off of the neck while the bass is still actually playing. However, upon a few more second of observation, you can see they are cleverly hiding her picking hand, and since the bass is only playing open notes, her hand doesn't need to be anywhere near the neck. The biggest problem I have is when Mio seems to have a deathgrip on the neck of her guitar. I suppose it is possible to have your hand located correctly that low on the neck so that you could play those high notes in the correct order and all that without moving it, but I find it highly unlikely. I'll find out tomorrow when I tab out the song for myself.
Of course, none of this matters anyway XD
As a final thought, let me just say that they seem to be very good at hiding the guitar in the final mix of the song, only having it apparent when they want it to be, yet letting be played through out the entirety of both the OP and the ED. It's very easy to lose track of if you don't have a keen ear for instruments like that.
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Yui Hirasawa
Her surname is taken from P-Model guitarist Susumu Hirasawa.
Mio Akiyama
Her surname is taken from former P-Model bassist and keyboardist Katsuhiko Akiyama.
Ritsu Tainaka
Her surname is taken from former P-Model drummer Sadatoshi Tainaka.
Tsumugi Kotobuki
Her surname is taken from former P-Model keyboardist Hikaru Kotobuki.
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Join Date: May 2007
Taken from the K-On! article on Wikipedia (contains some spoilers so don't click if you want to avoid them: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K-on):
Yui Hirasawa = P-Model guitarist and founder Susumu Hirasawa
Mio Akiyama = former P-Model bassist Katsuhiko Akiyama
Ritsu Tainaka = former P-Model drummer Sadatoshi Tainaka
Tsumugi Kotobuki = former P-Model keyboardist Hikaru Kotobuki
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A recent legislative change to the taxation of jet fuel is creating significant concerns for commercial and private aircraft operators as well as fuel vendors. The National Air Transportation Association (NATA) and National Business Aviation Association (NBAA), along with tax experts, FBOs, air charter operators and private aircraft owner-operators are now working on developing industry guidance to aid in the transition to this new process for taxes and refunds related to jet fuel. The group is also working on strategies to mitigate the effects of this change.
The working group was working to have guidance available in sufficient time for operators to review and implement any new procedures prior to the October 1, 2005 change. Recently, the group learned that officials from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and the U.S. Treasury Department were meeting to discuss the taxation process and identify where in the fuel delivery chain special IRS registration would be available or required and which parties in the transaction would be eligible to apply for a refund of excess taxes. However, because the process and guidance have yet to be clearly explained by the IRS, NATA and NBAA, joined by the General Aviation Manufacturers Association, are formally requesting that the IRS delay implementing the tax changes.
The change is part of the recently enacted Highway Bill and requires aviation jet fuel (commonly known as Jet A or aviation-grade kerosene) to be taxed at a new, higher rate of 24.4 cents/gallon except under very controlled circumstances. Application can be made to the IRS for a refund of the difference between the 24.4 cents/gallon paid and the amount actually owed when the fuel is used as an aircraft fuel, although it is not yet clear whether fuel wholesalers, FBOs or end users will be eligible to apply for that refund.
The higher rate of 24.4 cents/gallon is applied to highway diesel fuel. The authors of this provision believed that a significant amount of aviation fuel is being fraudulently diverted to highway truck use. Although there is little evidence of such diversion, this change to how aviation jet fuel is taxed is intended to cut down on the alleged fraud by taxing all kerosene fuels at the same tax rate, the highway rate.
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text: Lead manager Jeffrey Gundlach's "secret sauce" seeks to increase returns while lowering risk. By Nellie S. Huang, Senior Associate Editor January 10, 2013 The managers of DoubleLine Total Return Bond (symbol DLTNX), led by Jeffrey Gundlach, were loading up on government-backed mortgage securities months before the Federal Reserve began buying the bonds last September. "We saw the writing on the wall," says Vitaliy Liberman, a DoubleLine analyst who specializes in mortgage securities. "So we changed the allocation of the fund a bit in anticipation" of the Fed's purchases. As cash flowed into the fund, the managers allotted the lion's share of it to those high-quality debt instruments and devoted less to non-agency mortgage-backed bonds.KIPLINGER 25: Our Favorite No-Load Mutual Funds It was a good move. Over the past 12 months, Total Return, a member of the Kiplinger 25, gained 9.4%, outpacing the Barclays Capital Aggregate Bond index by 5.3 percentage points. It also outdid the average fund in its category -- medium-maturity bond funds -- by 2.5 percentage points. (All results are through January 9, unless otherwise noted.) Mortgage-backed securities are Total Return's bread-and-butter investments. Gundlach and his co-manager, Philip Barach, have been honing their approach to this subset of bonds since they ran TCW Total Return from 1993 to 2009. The fund's 7.2% annualized return over that time beat the Aggregate Bond index, considered a proxy for the high-quality part of the U.S. bond market, by an average of one percentage point per year. They left TCW in 2009 to found DoubleLine Capital, which now runs six mutual funds -- five open-end and one closed-end (closed-end funds trade on exchanges just like stocks). Advertisement By blending two kinds of real estate debt securities, the managers lower the fund's overall risk. It's a combination that Gundlach likes to call the "secret sauce." On the one side, the managers own government-agency mortgage-backed securities, such as those backed by the Government National Mortgage Association, which carry no default risk but a fair amount of interest-rate risk (bond prices typically move in the opposite direction of interest rates). The managers balance the government-backed bonds with non-agency mortgage securities, which have less interest-rate risk but high default risk. The risks offset each other, as does the typical performance of the bonds themselves: When the economy suffers, the agency bonds do well; when the economy does well, typically causing interest rates to rise, the non-agency securities do better. "So we have this zigging and zagging," says Gundlach. The zigging and zagging has worked well for Total Return. And the fund has done especially well over the past year in comparison with funds that invest only in GNMAs. Over that period, for example, Total Return beat Vanguard GNMA by 7.3 points. Of course, the fund isn't always partial to GNMAs. In mid 2011, for instance, concerns about Europe and the U.S. debt ceiling resulted in a big sell-off in non-agency securities, which are pools of mortgage bonds, issued by banks or other lenders, that are not guaranteed by a government agency and are sold to institutional investors. So Gundlach and Barach bought them aggressively, to the point that they accounted for half the fund's assets. These days, with the Federal Reserve engaged in its third quantitative-easing program, which involves the buying of government-backed mortgage securities, the fund tilts more toward GNMAs (about 49% of assets) than non-agency bonds (about 34%). "We're still buying non-agency bonds, but we'd like to see the price come down to make a significant purchase," says Liberman. Meanwhile, the Fed's purchases have pushed GNMA prices up and their yields down. So the fund, which yielded a rich 8% a year ago, now yields 4.3% -- decent by today's standards but not extraordinary. The rest of the fund -- about 17% -- is sitting in cash. Assets have more than doubled, to $37.5 billion, over the past 12 months, so the fund holds about $6.5 billion earning zilch. Big cash stashes are typical for Total Return. A year ago, it had 15% of its assets in cash. Gundlach and Barach like to have a lot of ammunition with which to buy bonds when they go on sale. "It's a volatile environment," says Liberman. "We may have a pivotal event -- say, rising rates -- so it will be very important to be able to maneuver in the unfolding scenario." Kiplinger's Investing for Income will help you maximize your cash yield under any economic conditions. Subscribe now!


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Are you tired of buying a special dessert every Thanksgiving, only to have your friends and family snarf it all down before you get a piece?
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The Cornucrapia
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The Purge
The Litter of Runts
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Find yours at a local wreckery today!
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Shortbread Cookies Recipes
Fig Sablé Cookie Recipe
Sablé cookies are French-style shortbread sweet treats that are very popular in Bretagne (Northwest part of France). Ideally, I make them with good quality yellow butter from Normandy and a hint of sea salt.
This time, I had a large bag of dried Calimyrna figs and flavored the sandy cookie dough with them. You could use whatever dried fruit you prefer. The cookies are mildly sweet and go wonderful with tea.
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Raspberry Thumbprint Cookie Recipe
We're a large family and we often have surprised guests. I'm always prepared for this possibility and have uncooked cookie dough or individual dessert cups ready in the freezer. Today was no exception. I used already-rolled almond cookie dough that I simply popped in the oven for 10 minutes, rotated the tray, pressed them to create a cavity and continue baking them for exactly 8 more minutes. Then, I filled the formed thumbprint cookies with hot vanilla raspberry preserves.
I served the cookies with masala chai and a tray of fresh raspberries and freshly cut pineapples. Voilà: tea time is served!
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Mocha Thumbprint Cookie Recipe
Baby Aria is very similar to my husband Lulu when it comes to her favorite foods. She loves vegetables and she adores sweets. Today I experimented with a batch of cookies I usually make when we have guests over for tea: thumbprint cookies. They're so pretty, especially with the crackle effect on the shortbread cookie dough and the whimsical design in the center indentation that almost resembles a crazy eye.
I flavored the cookie dough with cocoa powder and mocha paste. I filled them with vanilla chips and a drizzle of bittersweet chocolate, which came out just as great. Have a wonderful weekend and I look forward to sharing recipes next week in anticipation of Cinco de Mayo!
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Sandwich Cookie Recipe
Yesterday, we had 12 guests over for dinner. I prepared the entire meal but wasn't planning to make a dessert, except for a large platter of fresh fruit. When everyone had finished their plate, my father-in-law, Daddy, said: "now let's head to the other room and have the desserts Jackie made!" I tried to whisper to him that there were none, but it was too late.
So I ran into the kitchen and whipped up with these sandwich cookies. I only needed 12 minutes to bake them and used fresh strawberries I luckily had in the refrigerator for the filling. Everyone was still enjoying their coffee and tea when my dessert was ready to be served. I could have waited a bit more for the cookies to cool and get firm but I think they were still enjoyable. Mission accomplished!
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Tubeless MTB tyres have been around for a while and while they're still niche there's plenty of people who swear by them. I suspect road tubeless will go the same way: the hassle of fitting them will put many people off but those who do try these Fusion 2 tubeless tyres will be rewarded with excellent feel and low rolling resistance.
To fit tubeless road tyres you'll need a few bits and bobs: sealing rim tape, a valve, some latex solution and, of course, the tyres themselves. I've seen kits with all the stuff you need retailing for as much as £200 but this is a nonsense; you can pick up everything for two wheels for about £85 if you shop around, which is about the same as the RRP on two of these tyres.
Fitting the tyres is fiddly, you can read my experiences here but basically I'd budget for a wedge of time and a CO2 inflator to make the job a whole lot easier. Once they're on the 'tubeless' moniker on the side is the only thing to give them away, and although they need topping up a little more than a tyre and tube they don't require any special treatment.
So if it's a fiddle, then why switch? MTBers make great sway by a tubeless tyre's ability to resit pinch flats, meaning you can run lower pressures for better grip. That's not so much of an issue on tarmac, but there is a good reason to try them, and that's the ride quality.
Rolling resistance is noticeably lower, and the tyres feel very supple and sure footed on all surfaces. I've used (and liked) Fusion 2s before although I've never found them to be the grippiest, but the tubeless version is a notch above the standard tyre. I still found its limits on wet shiny downhill tarmac, but on climbs they were superb. For most of the test I ran them at 100psi; I had a few runs at lower pressure to see if the tyres performed better but to be honest I preferred them harder and it didn't seem to affect the rolling resistance at all.
It's only fair to report that I completely wrecked one of the test tyres: I hit a sharp rock that dented the rim and put a one-inch gash in the carcass of the tyre. Obviously the latex didn't seal that but with an improvised tyre boot and spare tube I was able to complete my ride, and the damage to the tyre didn't spread. I'm convinced that any other tyre would have suffered a similar fate given the circumstances, so it doesn't reflect badly on the Fusion 2. Fitting a tube was straightforward, if a little messy due to all the latex solution. I've seen reports that these tyres are hard to fit by hand but I didn't have had any problems in testing.
Apart from that incident I've had no punctures on the Fusion 2s. Whether small holes have in fact been sealed by the latex when out riding it's difficult to say, but having prodded the tyres with various sharp implements in the workshop I can reliably say that the liquid does its job when there is an intrusion, sometimes instantaneously and sometimes with a bit of pressure loss.
Overall these are good quality tyres with a great ride feel and superbly low rolling resistance. Some of the benefits of running tubeless translate well to the road and others are less applicable, but overall the ride quality is the main benefit. If you're up to the job of fitting them, they're certainly worth a try.
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road.cc test report
Make and model: Hutchinson Fusion 2 tubeless 700x23c tyre
Size tested: 23mm
Tell us what the product is for, and who it's aimed at. What do the manufacturers say about it? How does that compare to your own feelings about it?
The Fusion 2 is a competition tubeless tyre for everything up to competition riding
Tell us some more about the technical aspects of the product?
Competition type slick profile
Ultra light 127 tpi casing
Carbon bead technology provided ride flat safety
Well built tyres, not over light but then you're not running a tube.
Really good feel and low rolling resistance. Small punctures do seal in workshop conditions, difficult to know whether any happened on the road.
Solidly constructed with a 3-compound system giving a harder wearing central section
Other tubeless tyres are lighter, though the system as a whole doesn't weigh more than a good tyre and tube
Excellent ride feel and rolling resistance
The system's not a lot more than two decent tyres, so it's not bad value if you're prepared for the faff of fitting
Tell us how the product performed overall when used for its designed purpose
Very well
Tell us what you particularly liked about the product
Low rolling resistance and great ride feel
Tell us what you particularly disliked about the product
fitting them!
Did you enjoy using the product? yes
Would you consider buying the product? yes
Would you recommend the product to a friend? yes
About the tester
Age: 36 Height: 190cm Weight: 98kg
I usually ride: Schwinn Moab, urbanised with 700cs My best bike is: Trek 1.5 with upgrades
I've been riding for: 10-20 years I ride: Every day I would class myself as: Experienced
I regularly do the following types of riding: time trialling, commuting, sportives, general fitness riding, fixed/singlespeed, mtb, Mountain Bike Bog Snorkelling, track
Dave is a founding father of road.cc and responsible for kicking the server when it breaks. In a previous life he was a graphic designer but he's also a three-time Mountain Bike Bog Snorkelling world champion, and remains unbeaten through the bog. Dave rides all sorts of bikes but tends to prefer metal ones. He's getting old is why.


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Kareen Labeau From Paris
"The most important thing that I've learn from my family is that confidence is the key that will enable you to reach your goals,� she tells The Black Star News.
Our Model Of The Day
Where She's From: Model and super dancer Kareen Labeau was born in Paris, France and grew up with a sister and two brothers. "The most important thing that I've learn from my family is that confidence is the key that will enable you to reach your goals," she tells The Black Star News.
Where She's At: Labeau attended college in Paris and is fluent in English, Spanish and Italian. She launched her career as a model and dancer –including hip hop- seven months ago. "I spent one month and a half at the Millennium Dance Complex in Los Angeles, California," she says. "I'd like to do some fashion photo-shoots in magazines, hip hop magazines such as Vibe Vixen and do some catalogues or streetwear collections such as Baby Phat or Rocawear. I know that being a model is a very difficult thing but I'm ready to do everything that is possible to achieve my goals despite the
Labeau's Words Of Wisdom: "Seize the day; make the most of it."
Labeau's Secret Of Success: "Be confident."
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