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The mechanic was a scruffy character. He rolled his eyes and started walking toward me as he took one last drag off his cigarette and doused the burning foam filter in a greasy cup of coffee. In a raspy voice, he mumbled, "What do you want?" My first thought was, This guy is incredibly in tune with his customer service skills. Immediately on the defensive, I shot back, "A smog check. How much?" With great emphasis, he injected as much surliness in his limited response: "I charge 39 bucks." I could tell this was going to be tough, and obviously I needed more information. "Is the test pass or don't pay?" I asked. The worldly mechanic fired back, "Do I look like a charity?"
When smog emissions' testing was first mandated in the early '80s, scenarios like this were commonplace. The state forced car owners to test their vehicles, and sometimes-unscrupulous mechanics took advantage of them. There was some oversight and enforcement of regulations by a state Bureau of Automotive Repair, but abuses were still rampant. Today, vehicle emissions test facilities are heavily monitored, and the punishment for abuse outweighs the benefit of cheating and rip-offs. My previous trip to a test station was quick and simple, and I didn't leave feeling violated.
Here in California, emissions laws can be confusing and are amongst the most stringent in the nation. You can bet most other states will follow. Even if we don't all agree with emissions standards and laws, it's important that we all do our part to keep our blue skies blue. Keeping our rigs in tip-top shape so they pass emissions tests isn't difficult. Most late-model vehicles don't require much maintenance beyond keeping the air filter clean, changing the oil regularly, and checking the spark plugs periodically. Older vehicles need to be tuned. If you sense that there's a problem and can't figure it out, take the vehicle to a qualified mechanic and have a full diagnostic test run.
If your vehicle doesn't pass smog, it could be flagged as a gross polluter. The problem might be something minor, but if it's major, you could be in for a roller-coaster ride of headaches, expensive repairs, applying for a waiver, and making a trip to a referee station. That's why it is more than worthwhile to keep up your vehicle's maintenance.
More importantly for enthusiasts like us, before you modify your engine, check state and local regulations, and make sure the new parts are smog-compliant. They should come with a sticker or be permanently stamped, indicating they meet state and federal emissions standards. Spending hundreds, even thousands on aftermarket performance parts only to have them removed by order of the Smog Police is disconcerting.
Engine swaps are legal. However, the new engine must not pollute more than the older engine, must be the same year or newer, and must be from a similar weight class vehicle (though not necessarily the same manufacturer). Also, all smog-related components must be installed and functional. An engine swap will also require a visit to a state referee station for inspection. If you are unsure of your state's regulations, check with the DMV and they can point you in the right direction. Those who live in rural areas might luck out by having emissions standards that are not as stringent.
In some states, smog test equipment is networked directly to the DMV. Vehicle registration is found before the test. After the test, the smog certificate is transmitted to the DMV. It's easy to find a legitimate smog station, and you can always check with the Better Business Bureau to find out more information on a company or to report a problem. Good luck.


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What a week for Britney Spears. First the news that she's leaving X Factor, and now she and fiance Jason Trawick are calling it quits? It was starting to sound like Brit was headed back down the all-too-familiar path to destruction. That is until we found out why the couple is dunzo.
Britney fans, take heart. It sound like our girl is finally putting herself first! Any guesses?
Sources tell TMZ the Britney breakup comes down to kids. Britney is 31 and a mother of two, but she's not done with her childbearing years. Jason, on the other hand, is 41, and he's not keen on going through diaper blow outs, middle of the night wake-ups, and baby barf.
Hello irreconcible differences!
You can't blame Brit or Jason here. This isn't like being annoyed that he leaves his socks on the living room floor and it's not one of those couple fights that magically goes away after you tie the knot. They're at separate places in their lives, and creating a child isn't a matter to be taken lightly.
Either someone wants kids or they don't. And the consequence of pushing one side or the other can be seriously damaging -- especially if a child is born into a marriage where one spouse ends up resentful. Not only are the adults damaged, but that can be one hell of a life for a child!
Splitting was the only option here.
What's important here is that Britney didn't cave. She knows what she wants, and she's finally decided that she matters enough not to compromise. That doesn't sound like a woman who is going to shave her head and go wild; it sounds like a lady who has her head on straight!
I'm even going to dare to say it: more women need to be like Britney. You need to be strong enough to say "no way" when a relationship just isn't working out. It's bound to hurt right now, but Britney just saved herself a lot of heartache down the road.
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I had never heard of director/novelist/playwright Mario Mercier before I came across a copy of his 1974 movie La Papesse (aka A Woman Possessed), but what I saw in my initial viewing of this extraordinary film was enough to make me curious enough to go digging. A writer whose work was censored mightily in France upon its publication, Mercier was a spiritualist and eroticist whose tales of witchcraft, necrophilia, and sexual cruelty earned it comparisons to the work of the Marquis de Sade, specifically his infamous magnum opus 120 Days of Sodom (the inspiration for the just-as-infamous film adaptation Salò by Pier Paolo Pasolini). According to this excellent article on Esotika Film's website, the Censure Française thought just as little of Mercier's work in filmmaking, banning La Papesse from the start and calling it "nothing but an uninterrupted succession of scenes of sadism, torture and violence, and a total and permanent disregard for humanity, displayed in a crude and revolting fashion."
Looking back from our perch on the apex of filmic cruelty here in 2010 such a pronouncement might seem a little quaint--the violence and torture on display is nothing compared to what goes on today, or even in American films of the same era (*cough*Texas Chain Saw Massacre*cough*). What the censorial board missed--and what Mad Movie Fans will appreciate, I hope--is that Mercier's film is a sexy, surrealism-tinged journey into a dark fairy tale that kept me fascinated and thinking about it long after the end credits.
Also: lots of boobs.
Laurent (Jean-François Delacour) is a frustrated artist, and like many artists in the 70s is not averse to wandering off the beaten path in search of inspiration. As it turns out these searchings--as they so often do in cases like this--lead directly to the hairy feet of SATAN. "Somewhere in the world," the narrator tells us, Laurent discovers "a cult whose ancient origins spawned in night." In the opening scene he is being initiated to this cult by Iltra (the gorgeous and enigmatic Geziale) and her henchmen Borg and Steve. The ceremony involves being buried up to his neck in a fire-ringed pit and having a bucket of snakes dumped on his head! Laurent screams like a little girl, which apparently does little to cement his cult-member status.
Back home, Larent gets into a dinnertime squabble with his fed-up red-haired wife Aline (Lisa Livane, I think), who's had it up to here with his pretentions to a "life of magic and spectacle!" Laurent thinks marriage should be "a rubber band, not a chain," a view Aline surprisingly doesn't share. Perhaps still smarting from his serpentine sissiness, Laurent decidees to man up and lay down the law: "Either enter my world, or I'll eliminate you!" Realizing too late that statements of this nature are likely to result in neither sex nor sammiches, Laurent storms off for his next cultish ordeal.
It's here we get our first taste of Mercier's transgressive sexual ideas: in an eerie, dreamlike wastescape, Laurent is strapped to a cross and brutally whipped by Borg till he passes out from the pain. At the same time Aline is plagued by BDSM nightmares, seeing herself similarly crucified (nude, naturally) and flogged by a group of gray-robed Inquisitors. Through the aura of a vaseline-smeared lens, Aline is taunted by her torturers--"Look, doggie, at the exit that awaits you!"--and then inexplicably aged 50 years before she wakes up in a sexy sweat, thankful it was all a horrible (?) dream. The whip-stripes on her back, however, tell a different story.
Witch Queen equal parts Rollin vamp and Meyer babe. "You have a nervous woman--she will make an excellent subject!" the queen tells Laurent, and just like that we've shifted our focus from the crybaby painter to his reserved but much more interesting life partner.
Back home, Aline wanders into the woods and is beseiged by visions of malicious nature spirits and then chased by a couple of mysterious thieves, in a scene that reminded me strongly of the dreamlike imagery in Lemora: a Child's Tale of the Supernatural and Valerie and Her Week of Wonders. She stumbles back to the house where Laurent and Iltra are waiting for her. "I can't stay alone here, in this shack of misfortune!" she cries, and it just so happens Iltra knows a place where she can stay instead...
Aline is installed in the cult's communal living space/haunted curio shop, where heads hang from hooks and random cultists tear strips of raw meat off suspiciously-shaped hams. Iltra and the Witch Queen offer Laurent a bargain--let them have his woman, and he can be one of the gang. The painter is all to happy to take that deal, and so begin Aline's trials. First she's turned out into the woods again, nearly nude, while Borg attacks her clad in gladiatorial armor! She gets the best of the skinhead, whipping him into submission with a cat o'nine tails in a scene to titillate tops and bottoms alike. Steve gets similar treatment, cementing the movie's status as a BDSM-stravaganza.
I've mentioned the dreamlike atmosphere of the piece a couple of times, but it really bears emphasizing again. Mercier expertly creates a world that starts out weird but recognizable, then slowly, inexorably spirals into the the darkest realm of fantasy and fairy tale. The weird craggy landscapes, shadowy forests, and stylized acting all combine to nudge us further and further into the dream/nightmare world in which Aline is trapped, so that by the time the REALLY weird shit starts to happen, we're more or less ready to go along for the ride.
Things go even further into BDSM Fantasy Land in the days that follow, as Aline is kept in the stable like a hog and forced to eat slop from a trough--which one of the male cultists had already pissed in for flavor. To add humiliation to...well...all that previous humiliation, Aline is then tied down, spanked viciously, and branded on the ass with a hot iron! Laurent, showing his first iota of human compassion for another person EVER, starts to feel bad about Aline's treatment, but is reassured by his Culty Mistresses: "Don't worry--she's being reformed!" Holy Story of O, Batman!
I don't know if Mercier was influenced by Vicar-fave director Jean Rollin's visual style, or their both being sex-and-fantastique-centric French directors in the 70s just meant they shared a lot of the same zeitgeist, but the cult ceremony scenes that follow reminded me very much of similar scenes in Rollin movies, specifically The Nude Vampire and Requiem for a Vampire. The cultists come down the rocky terrain bearing torches, all dressed in primary-colored robes (not as diaphanous as those Rollin favors, but still), and then cast Aline into an open grave. "In spite of you, you are our wife now!" the Witch Queen tells her, then sics the Charles Manson-esque Steve on her to consummate their "marriage." While the grave rape goes on, the cultists sacrifice a rooster (WARNING: ACTUAL CHICKEN SNUFF), and squeeze its blood into a golden chalice. Then, on cue, Steve interruptuses his coitus in order to add another kind of cock juice to the brew!
Okay, so maybe the Censure Française had a point after all.
The Witch Queen's plan becomes clear when she preaches to the group: "I have a mission to prepare the women of all races"--to be sexy, sexy overlords, apparently. (And I, for one, welcome them!) Invited to give the Witch Queen "the kiss of submission," Aline instead bites her and runs off, chased by Borg and his dog. Making lemonade out of bloody lips, the Queen orders the Wild Rumpus to start--where "rumpus" here means "Nude Epileptic Seizures and Group Sex!"--and takes Laurent to her altar to impregnate her with the devil's child, or something.
Meanwhile Aline runs through another dreamscape to a dark cave, where Borg walls her in. Lost in the dark, she's visited by a green-winged, Nosferatu-fingered spirit "that eats sexual things"--luckily (?) for her, "eat" here is a euphemism.
After this ordeal we come to an even wilder finishing quarter hour in which Laurent, feeling protective of his former love or else pissy about being left out of all the lesbonic fun, turns on the cult and tries to save Aline at last. But is the Witch Queen too powerful? Will virtue triumph over vice? If you were paying attention to Mercier's literary influences above, you might have an inkling as to the answer.
Also, you get to see the Witch Queen in a gold belt and silver finger extensions--and nothing else--being whipped by her cult as part of a final ceremony to bring about whatever prophecy they've been waiting for the whole time. Or else just because she's into it, which seems a lot more likely.
This is a wild, WILD movie that came out of nowhere and knocked me over. Satanism, witchcraft, BDSM, fairy tale demons and wood sprites, hippie orgies and improbably ornate ceremonial gear (including Iltra's amazing breast-baring gown, complete with black-ringed fuchsia pasties)--this movie just really has it all. Add to that some gorgeous cinematography and even more gorgeous women, and bestowing the 3+ thumb rating on this one is a no-brainer.
If you get a chance to see this one, definitely take it. The version I had sported some occasionally clumsy subtitles (lots of male/female pronoun confusion, and occasional untranslated exchanges) but I could pick most of it up from context, and the visuals were the important thing anyway. Now I'm definitely interested in finding a translation of some of Mercier's novels, if they exist, and seeking out his other two films. If any parishioners have info on Mercier and his work, please let me know!
Some more great images from La Papesse (1974):
"..but then I know you to be a Demonic Priestess bent on sexual domination, so clearly I cannot choose the wine in front of me!"
Thursday, June 24, 2010
La Papesse (1974): or, Dreams in the Whip-House
Posted by The Vicar of VHS at 6:00 AM
Labels: '70s, 3+ Thumbs, Devil Worship, Fairy Tale, Monsters Amok, Naked Hippie Sex, Sexploitation, Whipping, Witchcraft
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- The Duke of DVD said...
My heavens, what a movie! This movie is shooting straight to the top of my must-watch list. Fantastic review, Vicar, as always! Once again you shove us face-first into the quivering mass that is BDSM, Satan-fueled cinema.
Note: This review reads way better if you put the words "the" or "a" before every mention of Borg. *wink*
- June 24, 2010 at 12:35 PM
- Joe Monster said...
This flick seems pretty darn groovy. I've previously seen Lemora and, though at first it took me a while to warm up to it, I think the dreamy, surreal mood is something I can grow to love in film. It looks like this would be a good place to head to next. Thanks for the review! It seems like quite the titillating good time.
Borg and Steve? Not Luther? Or Ghengis? Or Balthazar? Just... Steve?
- July 1, 2010 at 8:12 PM
- The Vicar of VHS said...
@Joe Monster--even better, because it's in French "Steve" doesn't rhyme with "leave" or "sleeve," but with "Bev" or "Heav" as in "heaven."
It is to laugh!
If you can find a copy of this, give it a look, by hook or by crook!
(I'm a poet, in case...you weren't aware of that fact.)
- July 2, 2010 at 4:51 PM
- Soukesian said...
Saw this last night. Words fail me, though your review certainly didn't! Thanks for the tip. I dragged out my old copy of Tombs and Tohill's "Immoral Tales" for the piece on the director, and was stunned to read that Witch Queen Geziale and her followers were an authentic coven! Publicity nonsense perhaps, but I want to believe. Not much on the web about this in English- the cult don't have a website - any Francophone readers able to confirm?
- August 3, 2010 at 12:10 PM
- db said...
Just saw this and it is AMAZING -- I'm tempted to call it a LSD and bondage fueled decadent retelling of the Gospels, tho that sounds like I'm being tongue in cheek, but no! Seriously! Beautifully shot, great score, amazing performances, like an old-country Lucifer Rising. Excellent review!
- April 27, 2011 at 2:09 AM
- The Vicar of VHS said...
@Soukesian--sorry it's taken so long to respond, but that's interesting stuff indeed! Sorry to hear there wasn't more info--don't most cults have websites nowadays?
@db--it's definitely all that and unclassifiably more besides, isn't it? :) Glad you liked it--and thanks for the kind words!
- April 27, 2011 at 3:22 PM
- corisco said...
In fact...the blonde girl, Iltra, on the movie is the actress Erika Maaz, not Geziale, that is the priestess.
- August 16, 2011 at 4:13 PM
- The Vicar of VHS said...
Thanks for the correction, corsico! Sorry for the mistake.
- August 24, 2011 at 12:41 PM


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The overall plan included many elements for this playground. The complex play structure will be built of composite wood products featuring a fantasy riverboat, trolley car and locomotive. Other play elements include a musical instrument wall, playhouses, game areas, a fire pole, slides, swings, quad pods, climbing boulders and rocks. The entrance to the playground will be reminiscent of the original Alhambra theater and the original "lion fish" sculptures will be kept.
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STATE – Beginning Aug. 1, biennial passenger vehicle inspections will entail only an emissions check and the exemption for new and used vehicles four years old or newer will be extended to five years under program changes announced Friday by New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission (MVC) Chief Administrator Raymond P. Martinez.
The changes, which will produce an approximate annual savings of $17 million, will take effect as the MVC continues its efforts to encourage vehicle owner responsibility and regular maintenance through its NJ Inspections public education campaign.
While announcing the changes to the state's Enhanced Motor Vehicle Inspection and Maintenance (I/M) Program, Martinez also stressed the need for vehicle owners to take proper care of their cars and trucks with regular maintenance, including oil changes, tire pressure checks and replacement, brake repairs and general tune ups. In 2009, the MVC, along with DEP, launched the NJ Inspections campaign aimed at educating vehicle owners about the importance of vehicle maintenance and servicing vehicles in between inspection visits.
"Owning a vehicle is just as much of a responsibility as driving one," said Martinez. "Not only must a driver act responsibly behind the wheel, but keeping the vehicle well maintained and road ready is equally important. This is why our local service stations and auto dealerships play such a critical role in helping to keep our cars and trucks in excellent working shape with regular servicing."
Soon to join 29 other jurisdictions, including California, Connecticut and Illinois, New Jersey-registered passenger vehicles required to submit for an inspection every two years will no longer be reviewed for mechanical-related defects. Inspectors will only conduct an emissions test. Of the 1.9 million initial vehicle inspections conducted annually at centralized lanes, only six percent are rejected for more serious mechanical defects related to brakes, steering, suspension or tires.
Despite this elimination of mechanical inspections, law enforcement may still cite a motorist for equipment out of compliance or failure to make repairs. MVC Mobile Inspection Teams will continue to regularly assist state and local law enforcement in conducting random vehicle inspections statewide. Vehicles that fail an inspection for mechanical defects prior to the start of the August 1 changes will still require repair and a re-inspection in order to obtain a valid inspection sticker.
Additionally, the exemption for new and used vehicles four model years old and newer will expand to five years. Presently, these vehicles are not required to be inspected until they are four years old from the date of registration, followed by regular inspections every two years. Vehicles will be provided with five-year stickers at the time of purchase, but those already on the road will receive a "1-Year Extension" sticker in the mail. Owners will be required to attach the extension sticker to the inspection decal already on the vehicle's windshield.
"Cars are now made cleaner, more efficient, and with less than six percent of newer vehicles failing emissions testing, this was a common sense decision for the MVC," added Martinez. "The extension allows New Jersey to maintain its stringent emissions testing while MVC customers gain the convenience of one additional year before they have to visit the inspection lanes."
Changes to the I/M program will be implemented as a part of the MVC's fiscal year 2011 budget. The changes, specifically the elimination of mechanical defect inspections, were proposed after a careful review of data, reports and studies related to vehicle inspections. States, educational institutions and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) have all studied the issue of vehicle inspections with data inconclusive as to their effectiveness.
"If we're going to invest millions of taxpayer dollars year after year in a program, then it is essential that we be able to justify the expense and effectiveness of said program," said Martinez. "With a lack of conclusive data, and the current fiscal crisis, we cannot justify this expense."
Along with the change to the inspection of passenger vehicles, motorcycles and certain diesel-powered vehicles will no longer be required to submit for an inspection every two years. None of these vehicles presently undergo an emissions test. It should be noted that school buses, limousines, jitneys, taxis and other commercial-plated vehicles will still be inspected regularly for emissions and mechanical defects as outlined in state law.
Each year, the state's 29 centralized inspection lanes conduct 2.4 million inspections/re-inspections, while an additional 578,000 are done for a fee by more than 1,100 licensed, private facilities. More information about New Jersey's vehicle inspection program is available at www.njinspections.com.
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In the award-winning documentary Children Full of Life, a fourth-grade class in a primary school in Kanazawa, northwest of Tokyo, learn lessons about compassion from their homeroom teacher, Toshiro Kanamori. He instructs each to write their true inner feelings in a letter, and read it aloud in front of the class. By sharing their lives, the children begin to realize the importance of caring for their classmates.
Toshiro is an amazing example of what all teachers across the world should be like. He truly understands what teaching children is all about and certainly made a positive difference in the lives of these 10 year olds."


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In a new financial report, Gamesa reveals it is on track to reach the upper end of its objectives for profitability and sales this year.
Gamesa says that despite economic difficulties and the complex situation in the industry, the company recorded EUR 31 million in net profit in the first nine months of 2013, contrasting with a loss of EUR 67 million in the same period last year. The company says the positive results show that its profitability-improvement plan, commenced in the first quarter, is proving successful.
Sales were down during the period, but Gamesa says the lower volume of activity is in line with its strategy of controlling working capital and aligning manufacturing to deliveries, plus the lower contribution from the wind farm business. Gamesa attained EUR 1.65 billion in revenues between January and September – down 20% year-over-year. Sales amounted to 1,402 MW, a 14% decline.
Nonetheless, company adds that sales are surging in the fourth quarter, with 470 MW of new firm orders signed in October, on the basis of the new product portfolio and the company's positioning in emerging markets. Operating and maintenance services contributed 16% of total revenues.
Gamesa obtained EUR 90 million in EBIT in the first nine months of 2013, providing an EBIT margin of 5.4%, which exceeds the 0.2% margin attained in 2012 and is above the guidance range for the year (3%-5%).
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How Justin Bieber Can Avoid Getting Arrested — Says Top Law Attorney
HollywoodLife.com spoke to Los Angeles attorney Mychal Wilson, who gave us the rundown on what Justin's team needs to do to keep him from behind bars — read on to find out what!
It's no secret that Justin Bieber's been having an interesting couple of days, following the May 26 incident in which he allegedly attacked a photographer while on a date with girlfriend Selena Gomez. While it's certain that he will have to speak with police regarding the night, is there a real chance that the 18-year-old singer will actually be arrested?
Mychal Wilson spoke with HollywoodLife.com exclusively and said, "The alleged misdemeanor battery charges against Justin Bieber may vary depending if there were any aggravating or mitigating circumstances. For example, did the photographer initiate any shoving? Was Justin acting in self-defense? Did the photographer falsely imprison Justin by blocking [Justin's] car with his car?"
Mychal goes on to explain that "California Penal Code Section 236 defines False Imprisonment as 'the unlawful violation of the personal liberty of another.' Accordingly, [his] defense team may argue the paparazzo falsely imprisoned [Justin] when he allegedly blocked [Justin's] car to obtain photographs of the music star. Consequently, Justin was acting in self defense."
But what would happen to the "Boyfriend" singer should he be arrested and found guilty?
Mychal says, "The maximum jail time would be six months in county jail. California Penal Code Section 243(a) states 'a battery is punishable by a fine not exceeding two thousand dollars, or by imprisonment in a county jail not exceeding six months, or by both that fine and imprisonment."
He continued, "Justin has no priors, so he would probably be placed on probation in a worse case scenario. And, as we have seen with other celebrities, presumably, it is safe to speculate that, due to overcrowding in the LA county jail, [he] would not spend a single day" behind bars.
And when asked, what did Mychal see as the end result of this whole debacle?
"End Result: This case will probably disappear, and of course, Justin Bieber's record sales will probably skyrocket."
We can only hope so.
But what do you think, HollywoodLifers? Is Justin looking at serious jail time? Or will he be back on the stage in no time? Let us know!
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Paul McCartney refuses to kill ageing sheep
The Beatles legend, a staunch vegetarian, admits he is a little embarrassed to have the old creatures on his farm, but would never consider having them killed.
In an interview with Radio 4, he says, "I live on a sheep farm and we shear the sheep, but they die of old age.
"But it can be embarrassing. People say, 'Look at the state of your sheep!' And I say, 'Yes, they're very old. There's only one alternative - to send them off to the knacker's yard (slaughterhouse).'
"They just die like we do. It's life, it's death, it's what happens. We just give them a good life and I take the wool from them."


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Phyllis Green, 41, businesswoman and writer
Phyllis Green was more than a dreamer. Though she was "strictly an Amityville girl," according to her mother Olga Kipping, her experiences and accomplishments went far beyond her hometown. Ms. Green died on May 18, 2002. She was 41 years old.
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Ole and Mari Finnestad's great grandson, Lawrence Alvin Sanderson was born to Ellen Marie (Vallem) and Seward Sanderson on November 21, 1896 in DeKalb county, Illinois (most likely Milan township).
Lawrence was married to Nora Elma Peterson, though I do not know the date of their marriage, probably late 1916. Nora was born August 25, 1897 and died in December, 1981.
Lawrence passed away in August 1976 in DeKalb, DeKalb county, Illinois and is buried at the Fairview Cemetery.
Here is a closeup of Nora's inscription.
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Lawrence's grandparents were Rachel (Finnestad) and Lewis P Vallem
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Murray Phillips doesn't get bored. His diverse Frio County, Texas, farm offers plenty of activity year-round with corn (sweet, white and yellow), cotton, wheat (irrigated and dryland) green beans, spinach, carrots and, his favorite, peanuts.
"We are peanut farmers," Phillips says. "It's the most acreage I grow and my favorite crop." That's about 2,000 acres this year on which he expects to average 5,000 pounds per acre if all goes well. "Sometimes we'll make 6,000 pounds on some areas," he says.
Consistent yields and attention to production detail earned Phillips the 2013 Farm Press Peanut Profitability Award for the Southwest region.
He farms near Pearsall, Texas, about 50 miles south of San Antonio.
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By Trevor Curwin, Special to CNBC.com
With the solar energy industry booming, companies large and small continue to look for ways to squeeze efficiencies out of decades-old technology. So why not 3D technology?
Santa Barbara-based startup Solar3D wants to harness concepts found elsewhere in high tech to increase the capture of more of the sun's energy hitting solar panels and turning it into electricity.
"Our inspiration comes from fiber optics," says Solar3D CEO Jim Nelson. "They manage the light to make it do what they want it to do, versus [flat] solar [panels] that just takes it as it comes."
Though the first solar photovoltaic PV panels were installed in the U.S. in 1970s, the majority of systems installed today don't look that much different: flat-glass panels pointed at the best possible angle toward the sun.
That surface, however, means sunlight photons can pass through only once — and either hit an energy-generating cell or miss it, thus passing though unused.
Nelson says his firm's technology uses 3D microcells that trap sunlight, allowing those photons to "bounce around" until they are all converted into electricity.
"We're plugging the leak in [solar-panel] efficiency through absorption," he says, "We believe our Solar3D cell can deliver an unprecedented level of cost and conversion efficiency."
The firm's idea has some admirers and potential customers.
"I find the concept intriguing," says Bill Mazotti, solar technology business unit director for National Semiconductor, adding that the "tremendous pressures on costs" of solar energy make any potential increase in efficiency welcome.
Various industry estimates show that about a third of the sunlight is lost to reflection. Nelson claims Solar3D's technology could collect nearly 100 percent of that sunlight and convert it to power.
But even with that potential level of efficiency, sector analysts point out that solar power innovation is happening on a lot of fronts, meaning any startup will face headwinds.
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Established solar technology firms like SunTech, Kyocera, and Canadian Solar are also working to make solar PV systems more efficient — by tackling the panels themselves or by improving the non-energy producing "balance of system" components — and that makes life tough for single-idea firms like Solar3D, says Matt Feinstein, solar analyst at research firm Lux Research.
"First-mover advantage has already happened," he says. "They've got the burden of proving themselves against the incumbents."
Feinstein points out that while technologies like Nelson's can be game changers, "disruptive technologies can be good but they go both ways."
For example, while solar PV technology is still dominant in the industry currently, new "thin film" power generation technologies from firms like First Solar could be the true disruptive force, making any PV innovations, like Nelson's, moot.
Good Year For Solar
The good news for startups is that the U.S. solar industry is coming off a great year.
According to a March 2011 report by trade group Solar Energy Industries Association and research firm GTM Research, the U.S. solar industry has continued to thrive despite overall economic conditions, with the industry's market value jumping from $3.6 billion in 2009 to $6 billion in 2010.
While the report credits this 67 percent increase in part to federal and state funding initiatives and to the completion of several large utility-scale projects, it also cited the solar sector's push to reduce technology costs as a big factor.
In some applications, installed PV system costs declined 8 to 11 percent.
"The U.S. PV market saw a breakthrough in 2010," says Shayle Kann, managing director of solar for GTM Research. "It's emerging as a global demand center for both suppliers and project developers."
National Semiconductor's Mazotti points out this increase in production scale will inevitably push all solar component pricing lower.
"For every doubling of volume, costs come down about 22 percent," he says, but he adds that even that figure may not be enough for some in the industry.
"As much as [cost-cutting] hasn't increased as much as some people expected, overall quality of the system has increased," he says, ensuring better system reliability and life spans.
In addition to concepts like those of Solar3D, he agrees with Lux's Feinstein that there are many ways to squeeze further efficiency out of solar PV technology.
He says his current focus has been on electronic systems that make each solar panel in a multi-panel array more reliable.
But he adds any improvement is still critical to keeping the industry's momentum going and making solar-derived electricity cheaper.
"You don't have to go far to see how the technology has expanded, and that will keep driving solar toward grid parity," he says.
Solar power costs are estimated at 0.15/kwh, and as low as 0.10/kwh in the sunniest places, bringing it in line with the average cost of residential electricity of just under .10/kwh in the US.
While industrial and commercial electricity consumers pay less for their power, GE's renewable energy unit predicts grid parity for solar power for all electricity consumers in the sunnier parts of the US by 2015.
Solar3D's Nelson says it's that grid parity goal that keeps him going, despite the challenges that Lux's Feinstein points out.
"The old-timers have an air of desperation," he says, referring to both the incumbents in the solar industry and elsewhere in the energy arena. "The only way we're going to be competitive is if we innovate. The innovators are the ones who are going to win the future."
"We want to change the world, and one of the ways to do that is to make solar economically viable," he adds.


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Comments on Take Control of Your Maps
by Paul Smith
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This is a great read! I always hated having to embed that awful Google iframe in my sites. You'd think that with Google's great development they would be able to clean up their front end and use some more semantic code
Good stuff, thanks Paul.
It's good to read forward thinking articles like this on ALA.
Hearing requests for embedded maps in sites we develop is more and more common, and while I'm no Google fanboi it's difficult to argue with how advanced and useful the maps API is.
The look of the Google map tiles never seems to fit in easily with the look and feel of the sites we try and embed it into, so there's a lot for us to take away from this article.
This is a great area of web development to publicise, the integration of information between services - it's where the web can really excel at providing more information, more usefully.
Thanks very much for this well-written primer on shifting dependence from external services. I've used Google and Yahoo! maps for quite some time, and never felt comfortable with that relationship.
I've also had non-profit organizations who had qualms with the idea of tying themselves into corporations, but never had a clear idea of how to avoid it.
Now, I have a much better understanding of the architecture involved, and will absolutely try to utilize opensource map-rendering tools in future projects. Thanks much!
Thank you - for both pointing the way toward full independence, but also providing links to tools that ease the transition. Mapstraction, in particular, will be worth its weight in gold for two of my clients. Much obliged, good sir.
Great article.
I'm interested in thoughts about Google's refusal to allow 3rd-party Flash-based toolkits to access their service.
You can read more about this on my "blog":http://pelz-sherman.net/blog/?p=64 .
Excellent work, Paul. This is an area of great interest to many of our clients, but one we haven't explored much outside of Google/Yahoo APIs. You've offered a nice array of alternatives to the lot.
I use this same mapping stack on my site:
"By Land and Sea":http://www.bylandandsea.org/map/
I've submitted some patches back to Mapnik, OpenLayers, and TileCache (mostly to do with FreeBSD support). I've been trying to figure out a better ingest/update process as my dataset grows as I travel; I'm keeping track of my routes as I motorcycle the world. Great article and well-researched.
Oops, apparently the textile support doesn't work as advertised. The link is:
Although I'm anxious to tackle a custom mapping application for a new project, I'm not sure whether or not I've crossed the line of actually needing to do it. My intentions would be purely visual, but I don't think that's enough reason to toss out Google Maps and go it alone.
EveryBlock's maps are great. And they're obviously necessary seeing the different ways you visually represent certain data. I have a sneaking suspicion that we are going to see more custom maps across the Internet, and maybe only 5% will be necessary, or worth the effort.
I think someone, somewhere, sometime soon, is going to provide this Mapping Stack out of the box, with hooks to easily set up scales, colors, layers, sources, etc. It might even come hosted, like Google Maps. Until then, I think I'm going to settle with Google Maps and wait for the day when it is more practical, affordable, and accessible to go the custom route for front-end, designer types like myself.
.. although, now that I've played around a bit more, it doesn't seem too difficult to get going. The open source tools are really quite excellent. I might take it on, if only for the experience.
Just wondering if you're aware of a good source of mapnik documentation. I've been attempting to user it recently, however beyond a really basic tutorial their website seems to lack any guidance.
Good article, although I would say that "Google Map fatigue" is really a designer/developer issue, not so much a user issue. Your average user will see way fewer Google maps then your average designer/developer/web geek. Users don't mind getting a familiar map, well layed-out, readable, and easy to use because they can manipulate it in the same way as those maps they've used on other sites. How bad can that be, really?
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Hey Paul - nice article outling some of the best open source options. For another commercial option, both hosted and self hosting - you should look at deCarta. We have both a javascript and XML over HTTP api. Our devZone, with free transactions, is available from developer.decarta.com. You might see us powering sites such as Zillow, hotels.com, loopt, telenav, and Ask maps. We used to be Yahoo and Google until they decided to bring it in house. For those of you without the engineering staff or market cap of those tiny little internet players - you might want to use the same technology they got popular using.
Not right for everyone but I just thought your readers should know about it.
Steve Citron-Pousty
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The deCarta service sounded promising, until I spent about 2 minutes on the Web site. It's a bit—no, it is totally—unclear as to how to use the service, or even how to get started. And, no, the "Getting Started" section was actually quite useless.
I still feel a more plug-n-play, a la Google Maps, is right around the corner, built atop these open-source tools. Like, I'm thinking: Drop this into a cgi-bin, include this JS file, update this config file, and your up and running. The rest is a bit of CSS and some JS tweaking. These services are close, but not quite there, at least not as a whole package.
Hey Colin - thanks for the feedback - if you have a sec can you please drop me a line @ scitronpousty email decarta dot com.
Are you suggesting something like a guide for the impatient.
1. Sign up for the developer zone
2. Go to the javascript api page and look at the live examples
3. Download the JS package
4. update the CONFIG.JS with your username and password
5. Write a web page with the JS calls
6. Become rich and famous
I don't want to keep going here with more discussion - I will write a quick blog post (linked from my name) so discussion can move away from here (if more people want to comment). Thanks…
Good article, thanks for it. I must admit that when I wanted to use a map in the past, I never thought about using a different solution than Google Maps. But you are right. There are other possibilities available, and some are even better to handle.
I have always been one of those that just accepted what Google gave me, I had no idea you could change the maps around so much for a better look for our own websites. Thanks for all the great tips and ideas and I look forward to reading more of them in coming posts.
My company has successfully been using GeoServer - with styled layer descriptors for thematic mapping (i.e. coloring area polygons according to a value - e.g. average income).
A demo can be found here:http://preview.tinyurl.com/6zayys (the Norwegian Public Health Institute statistics site).
While this article - and the discussed solutions/APIs - seem to focus on streets/navigation/point data, I haven't found much information on thematic mapping via Javascript.
If anyone have any insight in using Javascript or other lightweight solutions for thematic mapping - please share, because even though we are highly satisfied with the GeoServer wms/sld-solution, we would like to consider even more lightweight solutions for this functionality.
My friend and I want to make our own online map. But we have a problem about getting the background image for our map.
We use GeoServer as our third stack defined in your article. And we also use shapefile as our geospatial data.
But, is it already include the background image? Or do we need to use google or yahoo service to provide us with the image map?
Please help us.
Thank you
Thanks for a well-written article. Very informative and easy to read. We are conceptualizing an application that will involve map and spatial data. This is a great read. We might be tied with the maps API at the beginning, but it's good to know alternatives.
I started playing with Mapstraction (http://www.mapstraction.com/) a couple of weeks ago. Basically, it's a library that provides you with the ability to shift mapping providers by abstracting common calls within the various mapping javascript libraries. It supports a wide array of map providers, including google maps, but it does have a ways to go in order to support some of the more robust features.
I also recently downloaded Processing (http://processing.org/). While it's more of a data visualization tool than a mapping library, it does provide a fairly quick turnaround time from concept to prototype.
I've looked at other solutions over the years, including pulling data from Tiger, but the one fundamental issue that seems to creep up is that you have to use the right tool for the job. Sometimes development speed is the primary issue. Sometimes it's look and feel. Sometimes it's compatibility with a data set. Sometimes a desired end user interaction is the most important thing.
The more webmasters support a variety of solutions, and the more they support OSS, the better all of the solutions (commercial and open source) will become. If you can't contribute code to open source, you can certainly contribute ideas, bug reports, enhancement requests, money, or resources. Or at the very least a mention of the project and a link for your audience to follow.
I just want to say thanks!
I've played around with Google Maps, but never done any serious map based development - but have plans for some in the future. I was planning to just use Google Maps for that, but now you've given me something to think about.
I'm a big supporter of open source, but didn't know there were any open source options for maps. Thanks.
I think this is a well written article and give to people a good idea about how things at the geographic information domain works but I also think that something very important like the role of OGC standards was missed. With those standards million people can now share geographic information and also can integrate their own applications and data with others complete different applications and sources of information in a consistent way. The OGC standards are easy to implement and anybody can develop for a very simple to very complex applications. I also think this article have to be completed with the description of the role of geographic searching engines based on metadata or geographic feature names systems (gazetteer).
Another great mapping resource is "Geocommons":http://geocommons.com It has a lot of public geographic data that you can export as kml, or shapefiles.
I would love some advice about creating a funky yet user friendly map for my neighborhood business owners website www.gocebo.com, any one interested in a free ad for trade?
Your article has helped me get my head around GIS map stack.


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According to government regulators, the number of registered domain names containing the word "crowdfunding" has increased from 900 to 9001 since January 2012. Many of these are just harmless parked domains, but the SEC is worried that many are opportunistic scams targeting your money.
The WSJ reports that the rapid increase in crowdfunding websites comes from the Jumpstart Our Business Startups ("JOBS") Act signed into law last spring. The law changes existing rules so that private startups can raise up to $1 million a year from ordinary folks like you and me. So of course, an army of entrepreneurs have set up shop online to try to shake the new pool of unwitting investors down for their cash.
Thus, Getrichcrowdfunding, crowdfundgirl, and 8999 more.
Worse, the SEC missed its January 1st deadline to set rules for crowdfunding, and some common sense rules would be all it takes to set this all right. The idea to let regular people invest in startups is a good one, but scams are part of the reason the securities law has prohibited such investment before. Lets hope they hop to it soon. [WSJ]
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Much of the problem has been with what was supposed to be two of the more consistent pitchers, R.A. Dickey and Mike Pelfrey.
Chris Capuano, a low-risk gamble signing like Chris Young, is 2-4, but has worked into the seventh inning in three of his last four starts.
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Think of how sleepy you become after Thanksgiving dinner and you'll know the effect of "Free Birds," a 3-D comedy-adventure that reinforces the dire state of animation in depressing fashion. Even a movie that doesn't follow the identical plotline as everything else—fortunately, "Free Birds" isn't about a baby turkey who wants to grow up to be something more—suffers from a near-total lack of cleverness.
It's not for lack of trying. "Free Birds" is absolutely manic, favoring quantity over quality, and racing past jokes that might have been a little funny with extra time to breathe. Hey, director/co-writer Jimmy Hayward ("Horton Hears a Who!," "Jonah Hex"): Three strikes and you're out.
A bizarre effort to capitalize on Thanksgiving, the film's about Reggie (voiced by Owen Wilson), who lives a cushy life in the White House after the President (voiced by Hayward) designates him as the pardoned turkey, the lone bird to avoid the holiday genocide. Lacking any survivor's guilt, Reggie indulges in the lazy simplicity of pizza, TV and a comfy bed—a lifestyle anyone can appreciate. Alas, along comes Jake (Woody Harrelson), a turkey insistent that Reggie join his mission to go back in time and prevent their species from inclusion on the first Thanksgiving menu in 1621.
Save the ancestors, save the turkey world.
Inevitably, Reggie meets a romantic prospect in Jenny (Amy Poehler), the daughter of Chief Broadbeak (Keith David) and blah blah blah. While I appreciate "Free Birds" passing on a "Jenny from the flock" gag, predictable nods to "Angry Birds" and, because this is a time travel story, "Back to the Future" and "Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure" should earn no better than nods of recognition, if not groans. Only Harrelson sounds like he read the script in advance.
To be fair, "Free Birds" starts off with a few inspired bits, including a disclaimer about the film's intentional lack of historical accuracy. A lovely scene of mourning a fallen comrade creates a proud tradition among the feathered community. Yet the majority of jokes—other than those involving Jenny's lazy eye—monotonously reference turkeys' stupidity and ditch themes about independent thinking for a standard-issue message about the value of family. Parents are better off ditching the kids and seeing the week's other time travel movie "About Time," which contains actual laughs and far fewer depictions of turkey butt muscles.
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Roberto Matta
Rodolfo Morales
Kenneth Noland
Jules Olitski
Nathan Oliveira
Paul Pletka
Elias Rivera
Jesús Soto
Frank Stella
Esteban Vicente
Jim Waid
Gallery Inventory
Richard Anuszkiewicz
Armand Arman
Milton Avery
Fletcher Benton
Fernando Botero
Byron Browne
Johan Creten
Philip C. Curtis
James G. Davis
Lew Davis
Turner G. Davis
Rico Eastman
Helen Frankenthaler
Dorothy Fratt
Joseph Goldyne
Adolph Gottlieb
Robert Graham
Hans Hofmann
Morris Louis
Conrad Marca-Relli
Carlo Maria Mariani
Roberto Márquez
Roberto Matta
Joan Mitchell
Rodolfo Morales
Robert Motherwell
Manuel Neri
Kenneth Noland
Jules Olitski
Nathan Oliveria
Paul Pletka
Elias Rivera
Jesús Soto
Frank Stella
Bernar Venet
Esteban Vicente
Jim Waid
Tom Wesselmann
William T. Wiley
Byron Browne 'Drawings of Abstraction' (Santa Fe) Sep 6 - Sep 30, 2002
Alice Neel 'Black and White - Drawings from the 1930's to the 1980's' (Santa Fe) Aug 9 - Sep 30, 2002
Esteban Vicente 'A Retrospective View' (Santa Fe) Jul 5 - Aug 5, 2002
Robert Marquez 'Sins From an Imaginary Bible' (Santa Fe) Jun 7 - Jul 1, 2002
Milton Avery 'The Nude and Other Subjects' Feb 2 - Mar 11, 2002
Morris Louis 'Major Paintings 1953-1962' Aug 17 - Sep 21, 2001
Roberto Matta 'Turbulence des Collisions' Jun 8 - Jul 2, 2001
Riva Yares 2000: The First 35 Years Aug 1 - Sep 1, 2000
Adolph Gottlieb 'Major Paintings' Jun 30 - Jul 31, 2000
Hans Hofmann 'Major Paintings 1935-1964' Jul 9 - Aug 9, 1999
Inventory Catalogues
Inventory Catalogue
Milton Avery: 'The Nude and Other Subjects', 64-page catalogue with 50 color plates, $35
Riva Yares 2000: 'The First 35 Years', 64-page catalogue with 50 color plates, $35
Morris Louis: 'Major Paintings 1953-1962', 32-page catalogue with 12 color plates, $20
Roberto Matta: 'Turbulence des Collisions', 32-page catalogue with 22 color plates, $20
Adolph Gottlieb: 'Major Paintings', 32-page catalogue with 10 color plates, $20
Hans Hofmann: 'Major Paintings 1935-1964', 32-page catalogue with 27 color plates, $20
Esteban Vicente: 'A Retrospective View', 72-page catalogue with 48 color plates, $35
Roberto Marquez: Monograph by Edward Lucie-Smith, 168-page book with 120 color plates, $45
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The Riva Yares Gallery, founded in 1964, with locations in Scottsdale, Arizona and Santa Fe, New Mexico, offers two of the primary art spaces in the country for the exhibition of museum-level modern and contemporary art.
As the longest established contemporary gallery in the region, with over 15,000 square feet of gallery space, Riva Yares has orchestrated exhibitions for some of the most important modern and contemporary painters including Milton Avery, Helen Frankenthaler, Adolph Gottlieb, Hans Hofmann, Alex Katz, Yves Klein, Morris Louis, Kenneth Noland, Jules Olitski, George Segal, Esteban Vicente, Tom Wesselmann, among others.
Of the over fifty artists represented by Riva Yares at some juncture over the past thirty-eight years, more than a dozen have international roots and include Armand Arman, Fernando Botero, Carlo Maria Mariani, Roberto Márquez, Roberto Matta, and Jesús Soto.
Several well-known sculptors showing at both locations are Fletcher Benton, Johan Creten, Rico Eastman, Robert Graham, and Manuel Neri.
The gallery publishes select catalogues and books that document the scope of solo-exhibitions inclusive of critical essays, expansive color reproductions, and concise biographies. Recent books include: Milton Avery: The Nude and Other Subjects: 1929-1963 (64 pages with 50 color illustrations) and Esteban Vicente: A Retrospective View: 1951-2000 (72 pages with 48 color illustrations).
The Riva Yares Gallery has been profiled in virutally every major art publication including Art in America, ArtNews, Art & Auction, as well as Architectural Digest.
The Riva Yares Gallery has been a member of the ADAA (Art Dealers Association of America) for the past ten years. Founder and Director Riva Yares sits on the board of many arts-related entities and is active within the full continuum of cultural affairs both in Santa Fe and in Scottsdale. The Riva Yares Foundation has recently underwritten in part, the current traveling Milton Avery Retrospective (Milwaukee Art Museum, The Norton, Palm Beach, FL, UCLA's Hammer Museum, CA) and the educational programs for the forthcoming Hans Hofmann exhibit at the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art featuring selections from the UC-Berkeley Museum collection.
Scottsdale, Arizona and the Phoenix metropolitan area in general have grown in population by over 40% over the past decade. Scottsdale, with more resorts per capital than any other city in the country, offers a vast array of recreational activities with clear skies and sunny days prevalent 95% of the year.
After having entered its fifth decade, The Riva Yares Gallery
is committed in continuing to present the highest level of modern and
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No plan shall be finally approved unless the streets shown on such plan have been improved to a mud-free or otherwise permanently passable condition, or improved as may be required by this chapter, and any walkways, curbs, gutters, streetlights, fire hydrants, shade trees, water mains, sanitary sewers, storm sewers and other improvements as required by this chapter have been installed in accordance with this chapter. In lieu of the completion of any improvements required as a condition for the final approval of a plan, the applicant shall provide, for deposit with the Township, financial security in an amount sufficient to cover the costs of such improvements or common amenities, including, but not limited to, roads, stormwater detention and/or retention basins and other related drainage facilities, recreational facilities, open space improvements, or buffer or screen plantings which may be required.
When requested by the applicant, in order to facilitate financing, the Township Board of Supervisors shall furnish the applicant with a signed copy of a resolution indicating approval of the final plan contingent upon the developer obtaining a satisfactory financial security. The final plan or record plan shall not be signed nor recorded until the financial improvements agreement is executed. The resolution or letter of contingent approval shall expire and be deemed to be revoked if the financial security agreement is not executed within 90 days unless a written extension is granted by the Township Board of Supervisors; such extension shall not be unreasonably withheld and shall be placed in writing at the request of the developer.
Without limitation as to other types of financial security which the Township may approve, which approval shall not be unreasonably withheld, federal or commonwealth chartered lending institution irrevocable letters of credit and restrictive or escrow accounts in such lending institutions shall be deemed acceptable financial security for the purposes of this section.
Such financial security shall be posted with a bonding company or federal- or commonwealth-chartered lending institution chosen by the party posting the financial security, provided said bonding company or lending institution is authorized to conduct such business within the commonwealth.
Such bond or other security shall provide for, and secure to the public, the completion of any improvements which may be required on or before the date fixed in the formal action of approval or accompanying agreement for completion of the improvements.
The amount of financial security to be posted for the completion of the required improvements shall be equal to 110% of the cost of completion estimated as of 90 days following the date scheduled for completion by the developer. Annually, the Township may adjust the amount of financial security by comparing the actual cost of the improvements which have been completed and the estimated cost for completion of the remaining improvements as of the expiration of the 90th day after either the original date scheduled for completion or a rescheduled date of completion. Subsequent to said adjustment, the Township may require the developer to post additional security in order to assure that the financial security equals said 110%.
The amount of financial security shall be based upon an estimate of the cost of completion (including quantities and unit cost) of the required improvements, submitted by an applicant or developer and prepared by a professional engineer licensed as such by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. The engineer shall certify the amount of security to be a fair and reasonable estimate of such cost. The Township Board of Supervisors, upon the recommendation of the Township Engineer, may refuse to accept such estimate for good cause shown. If the applicant or developer and the Township are unable to agree upon an estimate, then the estimate shall be recalculated and recertified by another professional engineer licensed as such in the commonwealth and chosen mutually by the Township and the applicant or developer. The estimate certified by the third engineer shall be presumed fair and reasonable, and shall be the final estimate. In the event a third engineer is so chosen, fees for the services of said engineer shall be paid equally by the Township and the applicant or developer.
If the party posting the financial security requires more than one year from the date of posting of the financial security to complete the required improvements, the amount of financial security may be increased by an additional 10% for each one-year period beyond the first anniversary date from posting of financial security or to an amount not exceeding 110% of the cost of completing the required improvements as reestablished on or about the expiration of the preceding one-year period by using the above procedure.
In the case where development is projected over a period of years, the Township Board of Supervisors may authorize submission of final plans by section or stages of development subject to such requirements or guarantees as to improvements in future sections or stages of development as it finds essential for the protection of any finally approved section of the development.
As the work of installing the required improvements proceeds, the party posting the financial security may request the Township Board of Supervisors to release or authorize the release, from time to time, of such portions of the financial security necessary for payment to the contractor or contractors performing the work. Any such requests shall be in writing addressed to the Township Board of Supervisors, and the Township Board of Supervisors shall have 45 days from receipt of such request within which to allow the Township Engineer to certify, in writing, to the Township Board of Supervisors that such portion of the work upon the improvements has been completed in accordance with the approved plan. Upon receipt of such certification, the Township Board of Supervisors shall authorize release by the bonding company or lending institution of an amount, as estimated by the Township Engineer, fairly representing the value of the improvements completed or, if the Township Board of Supervisors fails to act within said forty-five-day period, the Township Board of Supervisors shall be deemed to have approved the release of funds as requested.
The Township Board of Supervisors may, prior to final release at the time of completion and certification by its Engineer, retain 10% of the original amount of the posted financial security for the aforesaid improvements.[1]
Where the Township Board of Supervisors accepts dedication of all or some of the requirements following completion, the Township Board of Supervisors may require the posting of financial security to secure structural integrity of said improvements as well as the functioning of said improvements in accordance with the design and specifications as depicted on the final plan for a term not to exceed 18 months from the date of acceptance of dedication. Said financial security shall be of the same type as otherwise required in this section with regard to installation of such improvements, and the amount of the financial security shall not exceed 15% of the actual cost of installation of said improvements.
If financial security has been provided in lieu of the completion of improvements required as a condition for the final approval of a plan as set forth in this section, the Township shall not condition the issuance of building, grading, or other permits relating to the erection or placement of improvements, including buildings, upon the lots or land as depicted on the final plan upon actual completion of the improvements depicted upon the approved final plan. Moreover, if financial security has been provided, occupancy permits for any building or buildings to be erected shall not be withheld following the improvement of the streets providing access to and from existing public roads to such building or buildings to a mud-free or otherwise permanently passable condition, as well as the completion of all other improvements as depicted upon the approved plan, either upon the lot or lots or beyond the lot or lots in question if such improvements are necessary for the reasonable use of or occupancy of the building or buildings.
The Township Board of Supervisors shall authorize and direct the Township Engineer to cooperate with the applicant in arranging for the Engineer's periodic presence at the site of the work and construction of the required facilities and improvements during such phases thereof as in the judgment of the Engineer will enable him to determine whether or not such construction is in general conformity with the final plan and all Township requirements.
No construction shall begin until after the preconstruction meeting between the developer, the contractor, the Township Engineer/inspector, and others as may be requested to attend. The preconstruction meeting will be scheduled upon request of the developer, and will only be held if all of the above-named participants are represented.
Notice shall be given to the Township at least 48 hours in advance of commencement of any construction operation to provide for required inspection. If construction is intermittent, separate notice will be required each time the contractor restarts work. If scheduled work is not canceled 24 hours prior to the scheduled time or if the work is otherwise not performed, the Engineer will be compensated for four hours' time at the developer's expense.
There will be full-time inspection for the installation of sanitary sewer, water, storm sewer, and roadway paving. General site work will be inspected on a part-time basis.
No underground pipes, structures, subgrades, binders or base courses shall be covered until inspected and approved by the duly authorized official of the Township. Failure in compliance with this regulation shall provide cause for uncovering of such work, at the developer's expense, to permit the required inspection.
In those cases where the Township Engineer deems necessary, the developer, through his contractor, shall retain the services of a certified soils engineer to perform moisture and density testing in order to determine compaction or the extent thereof as related to the requirements of such Township construction and materials specifications as have been or may be adopted by the Township Board of Supervisors.[1]
The wearing course on all streets proposed to be dedicated to the Township shall not be placed until at least 75% of the lots within the development or a phase of the development have been built upon, or upon the expressed desire of the Township Board of Supervisors.
Whenever any work or materials are found not to comply with the final plan and/or applicable Township requirements, the Township Engineer or any other duly authorized Township representative will immediately notify the contractor. If the work in question is not corrected, a written noncompliance report will be issued to the contractor and the developer. A noncompliance report will serve as official notice that the work in question will not be accepted by the Township. Upon correction of the noncomplying work, a compliance report will be issued to the contractor and the developer.
When a contractor or developer wishes to make a change to the approved drawings, a request shall be submitted in writing to the Township Engineer. The Township Engineer will review the request and submit their recommendation to the Township. The Township Supervisors will act on the request and determine whether or not a plan revision is necessary.
Whether or not such construction or work shall have been accomplished in accordance with Township requirements shall be determined by the Township Engineer upon the basis of his on-site inspections during such phases thereof as in his judgment will enable him to make such determination. The Engineer shall submit a written report to the Township Board of Supervisors in regard thereto.
After final plan approval, upon the completion of all required improvements and prior to final inspection of improvements, the applicant shall submit a plan labeled "as-built plan" prepared by a professional engineer or professional land surveyor. This plan shall indicate that the constructed improvements are in conformance with the previously approved drawings and specifications and shall also note any and all deviations from the previously approved drawings and specifications. The plans, if prepared electronically, shall be so developed to be transmittable in an AUTOCAD format compatible with the Township GIS system. Also, two Mylar copies of the as-built plan shall be filed with the Township.
The as-built plan shall be drawn to the same scale as the final plan, certified by the designer of the plan, and approved by the Township Engineer. This plan shall indicate the actual location, dimensions, and/or elevations of all completed improvements, including, but not limited to:
Concrete monuments and other survey markers.
The edge of the cartway and top of the curb for both sides of each street.
Sanitary sewer mains, manholes and laterals (manhole inlet, outlet and top elevations).
Storm sewers, inlets and culverts.
Water mains, valves, fire hydrants and appurtenances.
Landscaping and screen planting.
Permanent sedimentation, erosion control and stormwater management structures.
All casements.
When the developer has completed all of the required and necessary improvements and submitted the required as-built plan, the developer shall notify the Township Board of Supervisors, in writing, by certified or registered mail, of the completion of the aforesaid improvements and shall send a copy thereof to the Township Engineer.
The Township Board of Supervisors shall, within 10 days after receipt of such notice, direct and authorize the Township Engineer to inspect all of the required improvements.
The Township Engineer shall, thereupon, file a report, in writing, with the Township Board of Supervisors, and shall promptly mail a copy of the same to the developer by certified or registered mail. The report shall be made and mailed within 30 days after receipt by the Township Engineer of the authorization for inspection by the Township Board of Supervisors.
The report shall be detailed and shall indicate approval or rejection of said improvements, either in whole or in part, and if said improvements, or any portion thereof, shall not be approved or shall be rejected by the Township Engineer, said report shall contain a statement of reason for nonapproval or rejection.
The Township Board of Supervisors shall notify the developer, within 15 days of receipt of the Township Engineer's report, in writing by certified mail or registered mail, of the action of the Board with relation thereto.
If the Township Board of Supervisors or the Township Engineer fails to comply with the time limitation provisions contained herein, all improvements will be deemed to have been approved and the developer shall be released of all liability, pursuant to its performance guaranty bond or other security agreement.
If any portion of the said improvement shall not be approved or shall be rejected by the Township Board of Supervisors, the developer shall proceed to complete the same, and upon completion, the same procedure of notification as listed above shall be followed.
Nothing herein, however, shall be construed in limitation of the developer's right to contest or question, by legal proceedings or otherwise, any determination of the Township Board of Supervisors or the Township Engineer.
All improvements shall be deemed to be private improvements and only for the benefit of the specific proposal until such time as the same have been offered for dedication and formally accepted by the Board of Supervisors. No responsibility of any kind with respect to improvements shown on the final plan shall be transferred until the improvements have been formally accepted. All requests for dedication shall be made in accordance with Township rules and regulations, shall include all information required by the Township for processing such a request, and shall be accompanied by any required filing fee. If a developer requests that the Township accept dedication of streets, the developer shall prepare traffic studies meeting all PennDOT requirements to support the establishment of stop intersection, speed limits, and other traffic controls and shall reimburse the Township for all costs associated with the enactment of ordinances and installation of signs and traffic control devices.
In the event that any improvements which may be required have not been installed as provided in this chapter or in accordance with the approved final plan, the Township Board of Supervisors shall have the power to enforce any corporate bond, or other security by appropriate legal and equitable remedies. If proceeds of such bond, or other security are insufficient to pay the cost of installing or making repairs or corrections to all the improvements covered by said security, the Township Board of Supervisors may, at its option, install part of such improvements in all or part of the subdivision or land development and may institute appropriate legal or equitable action to recover the moneys necessary to complete the remainder of the improvements. All of the proceeds, whether resulting from the security or from any legal or equitable action brought against the developer or both, shall be used solely for the installation of the improvements covered by such security, and not for any other Township purpose.
The Township Board of Supervisors shall prescribe that the applicant shall reimburse the Township for the reasonable and necessary expense incurred in connection with the inspection of improvements. The applicant shall not be required to reimburse the Board of Supervisors for any inspection which is duplicative of inspections conducted by other governmental agencies or public utilities. The burden of proving that any inspection is duplicative shall be upon the objecting applicant. Such reimbursement shall be based upon a schedule adopted by resolution of the Township Board of Supervisors upon enactment of this chapter, or as such schedule may be amended. A copy of this fee schedule shall be available for review at the Township office. Such expense shall be reasonable and in accordance with the ordinary and customary fees charged by the Township's professional consultant for work performed for similar services in the community, but in no event shall the fees exceed the rate or cost charged by the professional consultant to the Township for comparable services when fees are not reimbursed or otherwise imposed on applicants.
If the applicant disputes the amount of any such expense in connection with the inspection of improvements, it shall be done in accordance with § 235-26 of this chapter.


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2000s: From the opening of the new S-Bahn line to the start of work to expand Hannover Airport as a cargo location
Work to expand Hannover Airport's cargo site begins: The first phase involves linking the western area via a tunnel under the apron
Make your dream of flying come true! The first aviation experience exhibition in Germany opens at Hannover Airport
A new study once again confirms the airport as an economic motor and key site for the region.
More than 8,000 people are employed full time at the site.
The new services level and the Hannover Airport Plaza opens as part of AirportPlus
hajReisen by Hannover Airport goes online with the new travel portal www.haj.de
The FHG environmental management system of the FHG is validated for the first time in accordance with EMAS (Eco-Management and Audit Scheme) and certified in accordance with DIN EN ISO 14001
With "AirportPlus", Hannover Airport starts an ambitious investment program
The new regulations allowing night flights at Hannover Airport from 1 January 2005 further consolidates the airport's role as an economic motor for Lower Saxony and helps to protect jobs at the airport and in the surrounding area
Passenger volumes increase by 4.1 percent to 5,249,176 passengers
100th anniversary of Karl Jatho's motorized flight: "We were the first!"
Hannover Airport celebrates its 50th birthday
The 100 millionth passenger since the airport went into operation
The new S-Bahn line from Hannover Airport to the trade fair site via the Main Train Station goes into operation
1990s: From the inauguration of the fire station to the opening of the new control tower
The number of passengers exceeds the record five million mark for the first time
The new control tower goes into operation
Terminal C opens
Work to construct Terminal C begins
Work to construct the S-Bahn link begins
The noise reduction system goes into operation
The Maritim Airport Hotel opens
The new fire station is inaugurated
Multi-story car park 2 opens
The extended northern runway (3500 m) goes into operation
1980s: From the start of IIIb level operations to the opening of the new air cargo center
1970s: From the laying of the foundation stone to the approval of the northern runway
The new radar tower goes into operation
The northern runway is approved for landings in accordance with ICAO CAT III a
The new passenger building goes into operation
Hapag-Lloyd Flug GmbH sets up its technical base
Laying of the foundation stone for the new passenger building
The new multi-story car park P1 goes into operation
1960s: From the short runway to the development of the northern runway
1950s: From the general expansion plan to the commencement of work on the southern runway
The southern runway is extended to 2,340 m
The first "Special Air Show" organized by BDLI and Deutsche Messe- und Ausstellungs AG takes place
The first tourist flights with Hummel to Majorca and the Costa Brava and with Aeropa to Majorca take place
The first Lufthansa aircraft (Convair 340) lands at Hannover-Langenhagen
Hannover-Langenhagen Commercial Airport goes into operation
"Flughafen-Baugesellschaft", the forerunner of Flughafen-Langenhagen GmbH, is founded
A license to "expand the airport near Hannover" is issued by the allied civil aviation authority
Construction of the southern runway (1,680 m) begins
Preparation work for the general expansion plan begins


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