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The New York State Court of Appeals is located in the 139-year-old Court of Appeals Hall in Albany. This building was originally constructed in 1842 as a State Office Building and converted in 1916 to the Court of Appeals Hall. In 1959 it underwent a complete renovation and restoration and it is currently undergoing additional renovation expected to be completed in 2003.
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Current director of Undergraduate Business Career Center will begin new role May 17
Morgan Kinross-Wright has been named Executive Director of Corporate and Alumni Relations at the Carlson School, effective May 17.
"Morgan's leadership strengths, her marked accomplishments, and her obvious love of the Carlson School provide impressive credentials for such an important, highly visible function," says Dean Sri Zaheer.
Kinross-Wright has been the director of the Undergraduate Business Career Center (UBCC) for the past eight years. Under her leadership, UBCC has been consistently ranked A/A+ by students in the BusinessWeek rankings and named to the top 10 schools in the country for student placement services. Previously, she served as associate director of the school's corporate services function from 2003 to 2005.
Prior to joining the Carlson School, she was a counselor for the Life-Work Planning Center and an adjunct faculty member for Minnesota State University. She received her BA degree in political science from the University of Montana, her MS degree in community counseling from Minnesota State University, and her MBA from the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan.

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Start developing widgets: The Maemo 5 Beta SDK is out
Nokia has released the Maemo 5 Beta SDK today enabling now also the development of widgets for the Maemo 5 Desktop. The Maemo 5 Beta SDK includes now also a first draft of the Development Manual. A new version of the Modest email client has been released both as open source project and as example of an application optimized for the Maemo 5 UI. The Beta SDK offers a frozen API and contains the basic information and tools developers need to get their applications ready.
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OMAP3 support.
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The SDK still includes a simplified UI implementation of the Desktop and the Application Menu. The Desktop Edit Mode is now enabled in order to ease the development and testing of desktop widgets.
The APIs published with the Alpha release included novelties like the location API, City Information, Time management, Vibra service and Device orientation. These APIs are frozen now and application developers are encouraged to use them.
This release comes with the first draft of the Development Manual. Also a new example application and desktop widget are provided to help developers getting familiar with the new UI style driven by finger touch interfaces.
The developer documentation, including new code examples, will be updated regularly independently of new SDK releases. Even if the current SDK resembles a single-application environment, the final Maemo 5 release will be a multitasking platform as usual.
Since the Alpha SDK was released on March there have been about 50 applications developed by community developers and available in the Fremantle extras-devel repository. This is the recommended location for unstable software targeting Maemo 5. Developers are encouraged to use this repository to expose their work and gather early feedback. eCoach, OMWeather and OSM2Go can be found among the remarkable community projects reaching the alpha stage.
Mozilla/Maemo Danish Weekend
All developers interested in Maemo 5 are invited to join the Mozilla/Maemo Danish Weekend in Copenhagen on May 30-31. This hands-on developer meeting is all about getting software ready for end users. Both Fennec and Maemo 5 will be in a solid beta stage by that time. Sponsorship opportunities are offered to cool community projects with Maemo 5 proof points willing to get together for a sprint.
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In addition to my other questions:
"A new version of the Modest email client has been released"
This doesn't actually seem to be true. At the most, you can build it (and its tinymail dependency) from source from the git repository. But there doesn't seem to be any way to "apt-get install" it from inside the SDK.
Quim, thanks, but I hope that the next announcement is more precise.
AMD64 IS supported, but doesn't install if you follow the instructions at http://maemo.org/development/sdks/maemo_5-0_installation/ - see https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4422 It can be done though, if you change the command to what I mention in the bug report.
Midgard seems to have removed my formatting so you can't see what is a quote and what is a reply in my last message. How annoying.
The Desktop Edit Mode is now enabled in order to ease the development and testing of desktop widgets.
Note that this won't be visible or meaningful in the API until you install at least one desktop widget, and do "af-sb-init.sh restart" to make it show up on the desktop. (The need to restart seems to be a temporary bug.)
Unfortunately, even then you won't see any "Desktop menu" button to add desktop widgets. I think this is a bug: https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4439
Also a new example application and desktop widget are provided to help developers getting familiar with the new UI style driven by finger touch interfaces.
For the example application, I guess you mean the Modest email client.
But for the example desktop application, I've looked through all the linked documents, and looked at the installed SDK, but I don't see what you mean. I ask because you maybe mean the one I've been working on: https://garage.maemo.org/svn/maemoexamples/branches/fremantle-standalone-examples/example_desktop_widget/
Qt 4.5 packages are available for fremantle. Please check qt4.garage.maemo.org for more info.
amd64 might actually work with a couple of tweaks, see
Development environment should support x86_64 and other non-x86 platforms https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2043
I'm waiting for Beta for a long time, the only pity is amd64 is not supported.
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In what has become a one-two punch today for the Florida Democrats' attempt to put a stop to the redistricting maps drawn by the Republican-led Legislature, a trial court judge on Monday refused their request for an injunction on the Congressional map pending a court review.
Democrats have filed a suit claiming that the Congressional map not only violates the contitutional ban against protecting incumbents and political parties but also unfairly packs black and Hispanic voters into districts to give Republicans an electoral advantage. They asked the court to stop the maps from taking effect this election cycle.
Second Circuit Court Judge Terry Lewis wrote in a 20-page opinion released today that while he understands their concern "that if elections go forward under what is later determined to be an unconstitutional redistricting plan, Florida citizens will have been denied their righto to have meaningful participation in the election of their representatives. I do not find, however, that they have established a right to an injunctions."
He said that absent a determination that the map is unconstitutional "I do not have the authority to replace it with another map while the case is pending." Absent that, he said the result would be that the 2002 map would remain in effect -- a map, he said "was admittedly drawn to favor the Republican Party and incumbents."
Earlier today, the U.S. Department of Justice ruled that the maps as submitted do not violate the federal Voting Rights Act and may take effect for the 2010 elections.


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"Google plans to give multiple mobile-device makers early access to new releases of Android and to sell those devices directly to consumers, said people familiar with the matter. [...] The expansion of direct sales marks a bid to exert more control over key features and apps that run on Android-powered phones and tablets, thus reducing the influence of wireless carriers over such devices, these people said. Wireless carriers typically handle marketing and sales of devices and thus can exert some control over the services that run on them." So, an expanded Nexus program that includes several smartphones and tablets without crapware. Sounds good.
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If this will allow us to buy a completely virgin Android phone, meaning without ANY bloat- or crap-ware on it, like my Nexus One was, then bring it on, this is great news!
Agreed. It's time to put the carrier aside and get people accustomed to buying their phones outside the carrier and realizing their rights in the process.
Then perhaps we'll get some downward pressure on the carriers to also charge those people less since they don't have a phone to payoff.
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Many livestock producers with confinement operations handle their animal waste as a liquid because of the laborsaving advantages. Anaerobic lagoons are an integral part of many liquid-handling systems. Lagoons are pondlike earthen basins sized to provide biological treatment and long-term storage of animal waste. A livestock lagoon is a small-scale waste treatment plant containing manure that is usually diluted with building wash water, water wasted at animal waterers, and rainfall. In a lagoon, the manure becomes partially liquefied and stabilized by bacterial action before eventual land application. Lagoons may contain one of three types of waste-stabilizing bacteria — anaerobic (inhibited by oxygen), aerobic (requiring oxygen) or facultative (maintained with or without oxygen). Lagoons are larger than manure storage basins, which do not provide significant biological treatment and, frequently, are designed for shorter storage periods. On the other hand, anaerobic lagoons are considerably smaller than aerobic lagoons, which are designed to provide a higher degree of treatment with less odor production. Anaerobic lagoons also decompose more organic matter per unit volume than aerobic ones. Due to the tremendous area required for aerobic lagoons to treat livestock waste, almost all livestock lagoons are anaerobic.
Anaerobic lagoons are a useful size and cost compromise between storage basins and aerobic lagoons. This guide will discuss anaerobic lagoon designs approved by the Missouri Department of Natural Resources (Missouri DNR) for livestock manure storage and treatment.
Anaerobic processes, which occur without free oxygen, liquefy or degrade organic wastes with high biochemical oxygen demand (BOD). Well-designed and well-managed lagoons have a musty odor. Foul odors may indicate a malfunction. Even properly functioning lagoons may cause nuisance odors because of their size or location or because of topography, weather conditions, distance to other lagoons and separation distance from residences.
Do not use anaerobic lagoons where odors may be a nuisance
Ideally, lagoons should be located lower than the waste source so that liquids can drain by gravity to the lagoon and manure can be flushed to the lagoon by gravity. If wastes are scraped into the lagoon, proximity to the source is especially important. If wastes are drained or flushed to the lagoon, proximity for economical operation is not as crucial.
Since June 30, 1996, Missouri DNR requires new water wells to be at least 300 feet from a livestock manure lagoon. For wells constructed between Nov. 1, 1987, and June 30, 1996, Missouri DNR rules recommend 300 feet separation from a well to a lagoon and require a minimum of 100 feet. If a permit or letter of approval is sought from Missouri DNR for an operation where a lagoon existed within 100 to 300 feet from a water supply before Nov. 1, 1987, a favorable report must be obtained from the Missouri Division of Geology and Land Survey. (A geologic report should be made for all lagoons regardless of proximity to wells.) Special circumstances may dictate separation distances greater than the requirement; these circumstances are evaluated on a case-by-case basis.
Location of lagoons with respect to "non-owned residences" (residences not owned by the animal feeding operation) and public buildings is an important consideration. Minimum distances of 1/4 to 1/2 mile from property lines and non-owned residences have been suggested. For Class I concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs), the separation or buffer distances required by legislation of the 1996 Missouri General Assembly are shown in Table 1. The distances depend on the operation size (number of animal units) and are measured from the lagoon or the manure storage or confinement building to the nearest public building or occupied residence not owned by the animal production operation. Also check for county ordinances concerning CAFOs.
Table 1
Separation or buffer distance required for various sizes of animal feeding operations.
Exceptions to the above buffer/separation distance requirements are as follows.
Maintaining minimum buffer distances is no guarantee of avoiding odor complaints from neighbors, even if lagoons are properly designed and operated. Odors are a subjective sensation, and the intensity may depend on the size of the lagoon, distance from the lagoon, topography, and wind as well as other weather conditions. Most livestock-related odors are heavier than air and will travel down valleys and other low areas for great distances without being diluted, especially during atmospheric temperature inversions, which occur most often during the evening and early morning hours when neighbors are likely to be outdoors.
In some situations, especially in south Missouri, location may be dictated by soil and geological considerations, in addition to other factors, such as odors. Also, check for possible county ordinances concerning animal feeding operations.
To construct a lagoon economically (without soil amendments, artificial liners or additional "hauled-in" clay soil), a suitable on-site clay soil is required. The ideal soil would have at least 30 percent fines content. Southwest Missouri block-structured red clay may not seal a lagoon, and a soil amendment, such as bentonite or soda ash, may be required to provide an acceptable seal. Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) County Soil Surveys are a source of information during the preliminary screening for suitable sites. A soils investigation at a proposed lagoon site, done with a backhoe excavation or soil borings, is standard procedure in verifying a suitable location. For a cost-shared lagoon, a soils investigation performed by NRCS personnel or a soils consultant is required.
A geological report on the proposed lagoon site from Missouri DNR's Division of Geology and Land Survey is required. If the site is in an area with karst terrain and is rated as having a severe collapse potential, an earthen lagoon will not be approved.
Sites having severe geological limitations but a moderate or slight collapse rating may be reviewed on a case by case basis. Lagoons with artificial liners may be allowed at these sites. For sites having moderate geological limitations, a detailed soils investigation is required to determine the quantity and quality of the liner materials, the depth to bedrock and the depth to the seasonal high water table.
If the site evaluation indicates slight geological limitations, the above requirements may be waived. DNR may require density tests (permeability) be taken on the finished liner before approval for operation. Barrel tests are required for Class IA operations; tests for other size classes are determined on a case-by-case basis.
Additional soils specifications for lagoon liners are available in Missouri DNR's publication 10 CSR 20-8.020, Design of Small Sewage Works.
Anaerobic lagoons are sized by volume. Proper design or sizing of a lagoon ensures that sufficient volume is available for treatment and the required storage period. The recommended storage period, before the lagoon must be pumped down, is 365 days. The total volume of a lagoon consists of several volume fractions:
Figure 1
Schematic of volume fractions in lagoon design.
Figure 1 shows the volumes considered in lagoon design throughout Missouri. Surface area will vary with depth.
Table 2 shows typical lagoon sizes for various species of animals.These values are for reference only and should not be used in lieu of a specific design. For more details on lagoon design, refer to ASAE Engineering Practice: ASAE EP403.3.
Table 2
Typical sizes of livestock and poultry lagoons in Missouri (365-day storage).
Circular or square lagoons facilitate mixing and are usually more economical to construct. Rectangular lagoons may be used, but length-to-width ratios of 3:1 or less are recommended. Avoid narrow appendages isolated from the main body of water; they contribute little volume and may be a source of nuisance conditions.
Minimum depth should be 8 feet, although 8- to 20-foot depths are typical depending on animal numbers, runoff area, slope and underground geology. Deeper lagoons offer these advantages:
Earthen dike and bank slopes usually range from 2:1 to 3:1. A slope of 3:1 or less is recommended for the establishment of vegetative cover and for safe mowing. A minimum 10-foot top width is recommended; however, greater widths may be desirable for operation of tractors with agitators.
An emergency spillway should be provided at a minimum of one foot below the top of the berm after allowance is made for settlement. It should be located as close to natural ground as possible. The spillway is intended for dam protection only in the case of extreme flooding and is not to be used as a spillway in lieu of pumping down the lagoon.
Proper lagoon construction will ensure groundwater resources are protected and the lagoon will perform as required during its useful life. The following steps are included in most guidelines for accepted construction techniques and methods for lagoons:
Figure 2
A sheepsfoot roller is commonly used to compact the clay seal during construction of a lagoon.
Inlets should be located near the center of the longest side of the lagoon, if possible, or at several locations in large lagoons. This allows the solids to be distributed and not allowed to accumulate near the edge. One discharge point per acre will avoid large concentrations of solids at one point and help minimize odors during spring warm-up. Multiple inlets should be fed equally from a distribution box.
If manure will enter the lagoon through a pipe or sewer line, the line should enter the lagoon below the minimum pump-down level, or above the full pool level. This prevents ice from breaking the inlet pipe. The pipe should extend into the lagoon and have a minimum of 3 feet of liquid underneath it.
Inlets above the liquid surface are susceptible to freezing at the end if small dribbling flows are present. Also, cold air can move up the sewer line into the building if a trap is not provided. Pipe inlets below the minimum pump-down level are generally preferred. Inlet pipes must be rigidly supported.
Submerged inlets carrying trickling flows with relatively high solids content are susceptible to plugging as solids accumulate or "float" where the lagoon water backs up into the pipe. Frequent flushing (at least once a day) eliminates this problem. Sewer lines with submerged discharges, carrying trickle flows into lagoons, should have a minimum of one foot of head above the maximum lagoon level for each 100 feet of run. All sewer lines should be designed with cleanouts at 50-foot intervals.
Bedding and fibrous material will break down very slowly, or not at all, in a lagoon. It is recommended this material be excluded from the lagoon if at all possible. Nondegradable material leads to excessive sludge buildup or the formation of crusts on the lagoon surface, both of which interfere with pumping operations.
Agitation during annual pump-down (Figure 3) should be considered as a means of reducing sludge buildup. Sludge removal may be justified if sludge levels build to a significant percentage of total lagoon volume. Although a somewhat difficult and expensive operation, regular sludge removal can extend the life of a lagoon virtually indefinitely. Sludge is high in P and N; therefore a large area of land will be required for applying several years' accumulation of sludge.
Figure 3
A propeller-type agitator can be used to resuspend settled solids (sludge) from the bottom of a lagoon during pump-down.
Proper lagoon design and construction are fruitless if the lagoon is not properly managed. Many problems associated with lagoons can be solved with proper management.
Lagoons should be filled with water to one-third to one-half of the design volume before manure is introduced into the lagoon. This will ensure sufficient dilution is available for the establishment of bacterial activity. This will also minimize start-up odors. Starting a lagoon in the late spring or early summer months will establish a bacterial population before cold weather and will help prevent excessive odors the following spring.
Lagoons perform best when they are loaded continuously. Therefore, a waste management system should be devised that loads the lagoon at least weekly, and preferably daily. Flushing systems provide ideal loading conditions for lagoons. Slug loading may produce odors.
Pumping and irrigating from the lagoon is the single most important management item. In addition to preventing overflow and the associated pollution potential, pumping removes dissolved and suspended solids and allows room for the addition of dilution water through rainfall or other means. Try to irrigate when odors are apt to be least offensive, that is, on days with low humidity or when breezes are blowing away from neighboring residences.
If lagoons are not pumped and diluted, salt concentrations may increase to levels that can inhibit bacterial activity. Salt levels in mature lagoons should be monitored yearly to ensure they remain at safe levels. Electrical conductivity (EC) is a convenient field measurement that indicates salt content. EC levels above 10,000 micro mhos per centimeter indicate probable decreased bacterial activity, a buildup of solids, and increased odor.
If odors are a problem, take lagoon samples frequently to measure pH. If pH is below 6.7, add hydrated lime or caustic soda (lye) at 1 pound per 1,000 square feet of lagoon surface each day until the pH is neutral (pH = 7). Even with a normal pH of 6.7 to 7.2, the lagoon can have excess odorous volatile acids.
Pumping operations should begin before or when the lagoon level reaches the upper pump-down mark to ensure space (safety volume) is always available to hold the 25-year, 24-hour storm (about 6 inches in Missouri). The Missouri DNR guidelines call for pumping the lagoon when the liquid level reaches the upper pump-down mark. The volume between the upper pump-down mark and the spillway is the volume of the 25-year, 24-hour storm. This volume is called the safety volume.
If the open-lot surface area contributing to the lagoon inflow is greater than 70 percent of the lagoon area, the safety volume depth is computed using the following formula:
Safety volume depth = 0.67 feet + ((square foot lot surface x 0.5 feet) / square foot lagoon surface area)
Pump-down or manure level markers, or indicators, are a simple but important component of a manure storage facility. Such a marker enables the operator to ascertain quickly and easily the degree of fill of the lagoon, the point at which pumping or emptying should begin, and the point at which it should end. The presence of a durable, easily read marker gives inspection or regulatory personnel confidence that a lagoon is being managed properly.
Experience has shown that pump-down markers must be made of durable materials and properly installed to afford the long life needed. The operator or inspector should be able to ascertain the following information when observing a pump-down marker.
A common practice is to install steel fence posts at the upper and lower pump-down levels for earthen impoundments. While this approach provides basic information on beginning and ending pump-down, experience has shown that more knowledge is needed. Also, fence posts installed in this manner are subject to damage and displacement. A good pump-down marker will indicate the level, or elevation, of manure throughout the possible range (from lower pump-down level to overflow, or spillway) in the lagoon. Experience has shown that a 6" x 6" treated wood post properly imbedded makes a good pump-down marker. Notches or other indicators can be carved into the post to show pertinent elevations. Painted numbers or colors on the post are not durable enough to maintain readability over a number of years. Figure 4 shows a type of marker designed to meet the above criteria.
Figure 4
Pump-down marker in an anaerobic lagoon.
Permanent markers should be installed to show the level at which pumping the lagoon should begin (1 foot or more below full pool level) and the level at which pumping should stop. Intermediate markings, such as at each foot, are desirable to better estimate the volume of effluent in the lagoon. A depth gage with markings every foot or less from the design level to the full pool level can be an aid in determining the acre-inches to be pumped down each time.
Preparation for lagoon pump-down should start before the lagoon level reaches the upper pump-down marker to leave the proper safety volume to contain a 25 year, 24 hour rainfall event. Agitation before and during pump-down is recommended to remove settled solids and achieve maximum nutrient recovery. If the lagoon is to be agitated, a sample for nutrient testing should be taken after agitation.
Land application is the most desirable method for making use of the nutrients and organic matter in lagoon effluent. Sprinkler irrigation or use of a towed-hose tractor-mounted applicator are the current practical methods of transporting and applying large volumes of lagoon effluent.
Under the Unified National Strategy for Animal Feeding Operations, the desired outcome is for all concentrated animal feeding operations to develop and implement a comprehensive nutrient management plan (CNMP). CNMPs should address, as necessary, feed management, manure handling and storage, a nutrient management plant for land application of manure, land management, record keeping, and other options for making use of the nutrients in manure. In addition to considering nutrients, the plan should address other pollutants, such as pathogens, to minimize effects of animal feeding operations on water quality and public health.
At a minimum, the nutrient management plan should prevent the application of nutrients at rates that will exceed the capacity of the soil and planned crop needs and also prevent pollution. Soils, crop removal and manure should be tested to determine nutrient needs and content. Manure application equipment should be calibrated to ensure that the quantity of material being applied is what is planned. Records of crops removed annually and the total amount of effluent applied should be kept to maintain the desired nutrient balance. Electronic totalizing flow-rate meters in the lagoon pumping system are frequently used by custom applicators to calibrate the equipment and record the amount applied per acre. These meters are also a component in variable rate application.
A nutrient management plan is required by Missouri DNR for closure of permitted facilities. Sludge removal for closure of a lagoon when a livestock operation is terminated will, under ordinary circumstances, require a much greater land application area than has been required for regular pump-downs during the normal operation of the lagoon. The land area required may be dictated by the amount of P and K in the sludge rather than by the nitrogen content of the sludge. To obtain the required land application area often requires hauling the sludge a considerable distance and, possibly, obtaining a spreading agreement from another landowner to meet Missouri DNR requirements for land application rate.
Sludge removal without allowing several months for the sludge to dry following removal of the liquid effluent is usually an extremely expensive procedure (such as dredging) and on large lagoons with many years accumulation, may cost several hundred thousand dollars. One university estimates sludge removal costs at $0.005 to $0.05 per gallon.
An alternative to a one-time removal procedure may be to continue to operate the lagoon with annual applications to the available acreage based on a nutrient management plan and periodically adding water and using agitation and pumping to gradually remove the solids.
Intakes for recycle pumps are frequently floated about two feet below the surface to minimize disturbing the surface crust or pumping sludge. The pump intake should be located remote from the waste inlet. A wet well should be considered as a convenience for installing and servicing the recycle pump.
Some operators choose to recycle effluent from the second stage of a two-stage lagoon system in an effort to reduce the level of odors and pathogenic organisms in the buildings, and, possibly, to reduce crystallization problems in the recycle lines. Pumping from the second stage may reduce plugging problems during irrigation from dairy and beef lagoons. The second-stage lagoon may be added to increase lagoon capacity when an expansion in herd numbers occurs. A lagoon system with two or more stages may create a dilemma in recycling the nutrients that accumulate in the first stage.
A 6- or 8-inch overflow pipe transports the solids-free wastewater from the first to the second stage in a two-stage lagoon. It should be located as far as possible from the inlet(s) to the first stage so that no untreated waste enters the second stage. The inlet of the overflow pipe should be submerged a foot or more below the surface of the liquid to prevent any floating solids from reaching the second-stage lagoon or clogging the inlet (Figure 5).
Figure 5
A two-stage anaerobic lagoon designed for the treatment of livestock manure.
Efforts should be made to make a lagoon as pleasing as possible. Berms and embankments should have a good grass cover for appearance and erosion control and should be mowed and maintained regularly.
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With the exception of Hollywood invention, it's rare in actual history that a real, live person steps outside the context of their own era and predicts something which today we hold as a given. So imagine the first African-American student to graduate from Culver High School, Clara B. Rollins, standing in front of not only classmates and school officials, but the assembled parents and community leaders at commencement exercises of the school in May, 1906, and giving what The Culver City Herald newspaper described as "an instructive and thoughtful review of the development of the colored people of the South since tbe civil war."
More to the point, Rollins' speech reflected, said the Herald, her belief that "the time will come when the negro will not be socially ostracised."
This newspaper has written in the past about the unusual legacy of Culver's black community and some of the community leaders it included. Around the turn of the 20th century, few were regarded as highly as the Rollins family, and in particular its patriarch, George Rollins, whose daughter Clara would deliver that speech.
Rollins, whose Culver Citizen obituary in August, 1925, described him as "the much respected colored man of Culver," was perhaps best known for the church which bore his name into the late 1960s, Rollins Chapel on Coolidge Court, though Rollins himself wasn't a pastor. Instead, he had donated the land for church in early 1912, believing Culver's community of some 50 or more black residents needed a place of worship to call their own.
Given what the historical record tells of George Rollins -- who was born in 1856 and had little formal education of his own -- it's reasonable to assume his daughter Clara's clarity on the race situation in America was due in good measure to her father's counsel.
But the historical record also suggests the climate in Culver and at Culver Military Academy -- where most of the local black community was employed at the time, including George Rollins -- while far from perfect, may have had a bearing on her attitudes as well.
And while Clara Rollins' speech before the assembled Culver community on race relations could have been partly a rebuttal to whatever racism she encountered here, the fact that she felt comfortable enough to deliver the speech gels with other historical information: that for all the problems of the day, there was a somewhat unusual climate in Culver as regards race relations, certainly compared to the deep South at the time, but perhaps also compared to many surrounding communities.
Culver's black community began in earnest with the influx of students, faculty, and staff of the Missouri Military Academy in Mexico, Missouri, to Culver Military Academy in 1896, when the Missouri institution burned. Rollins himself arrived here in 1899, according to his obituary, though a 1949 Citizen article says 1897.
According to a letter to the editor published in the Citizen in Sept., 1964 by William J. Smith (who notes he was Culver's milkman from 1908 to 1911), George Rollins' parents had been slaves, and Rollins saw to it "that his several children had a good education."
During Smith's tenure, Rollins was chef at the Palmer House Inn -- which was eventually re-dubbed the Culver Inn -- adjacent to CMA. And, whether or not he was CMA's first chef, as some articles suggested, he was certainly one of its first (the Academy started in 1894).
Smith notes George Rollins "was a Christian gentleman and a member of the Methodist Church in those days."
In an article in March, 1949, the Culver Citizen wrote, "The Negro population of Culver started in June, 1897, when James Joplin and George Rollins came to Culver with their families to work at the Culver Military Academy. The chruches of Culver were quick to open their doors to this small minority group, and for twelve years the two races worshiped together; from this a fellowship and friendship grew that has lasted through the years."
The latter point is reflected in Smith's letter: "(At) the Methodist Church in Culver (prior to the construction of Rollins Chapel)...there were in those days what was called the midweek prayer meeting. After all the rest had had their say, Mr. Rollins would get to his feet and give amodest testimony that outstripped all the rest of us."
The Citizen article continued: "In 1907 the population had increased to about fifty. Mr. Rollins, or 'Pap' Rollins, as he was called, decided to do something about a place of worship for his people. Owning a plot of ground he decided to donate a portion of this in order to help make it possible. Calling his people together, he found them very eager. It was decided to build the small church that stands on Coolidge Court today. As a token of gratitude the members decided to call the church 'Rollins Chapel.' It was to be non-denominational so that all would feel free to worship.
"The first pastor was Rev. A. J. Taylor who came from Indianapolis and worked part time. The trustees were Ed Johnson, James Joplin, and Brooks Armstead. Today the membership stands at about 35 with 15 active members. Charles Dickerson, Roy Watts (Mr. Rollins son-in-law), and Robert Hill are trustees. Harold Scott, Alex Joplin, and Chauncy Simmons are stewards. Rev. Culpepper is pastor at the present time."
Some of the above names will be quite familiar to many in Culver: Charles Dickerson, for example, was head waiter for decades at the Academy mess hall, assisted by Roy Watts; Harold "Sheep" Scott had been head custodian and was a beloved figure among CMA cadets as well as Culver residents at large. His daughter, Thelma Hodges, was a prominent force in local business and politics into the 1980s. Chauncy Simmons, too, was prominent both at the Academy and in the town of Culver.
As an interesting side note, Rollins Chapel happened to be built at the former site, south of Lake Shore Drive on the west side of Coolidge Court, of Culver's early jail.
According to Edwin Corwin's "One Township's Yesteryears," "The jail was still there in 1901, but there was not much use for it then, except maybe when some one came in on an excursion and got a little tight and had to be put in there to sober up. 'Neighbor' Cromley, who was Marshal for a number of years, remembers well the old jail when it stood on its original site."
In 1912, Rollins Chapel was dedicated with a Children's day service by the members of the Sunday school.
"The audience was composed chiefly of white people - men, women and children - who took a sympathetic interest in the program which was arranged and rehearsed under the direction of Mrs. Taylor, wife of the pastor. The children entered heartily into the rendition of their parts and the audience seemed to enjoy every number from the shy recitation of Jeanette Artis, a 3 year old tot, to the graceful elocutionary number by Miss Alberta Armstead. At the close of the exercises Pastor Taylor made an effective plea for subscriptions and contributions to liquidate a balance due the carpenter and to pay for the seats and the organ. As a result $22 was added to the available funds of the society."
The chapel was 20 x30, and cost about $450.
Initially, Rollins had been part of a mission of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, but in 1917 it officially joined the AME Conference. Its first pastor after joining was the Rev. Charles Bell.
At intervals during the history of this church, resident pastors were located at Culver, wrote Corwin in the 1930s. Among these was the Rev. A.T. Williams, who was assigned as pastor in October 1924. Interest was stimulated when it was then announced that the African M.E. Church would again have a pastor in Culver and the first church services of the year would be held.
Rollins Chapel made the local news from time to time, such as the August, 1925 appearance of its members in concert at the Methodist church in downtown Culver, where they performed hymns and spirituals, utilizing monies collected at the door for the upkeep of the Rollins building.
In Nov., 1929, Roy Watts remodeled and enlarged the building adjoining the chapel and converted it to a two-story dwelling, which presumably would be the house at today's 221 Coolidge Court.
By the 1960s, though Culver's black population was dwindling as younger generations moved on and in most cases attended universities and went on to their own success, Rollins Chapel charged on. In Sept., 1963, the Citizen reported on a fall rally at the church which filled it to capacity. At the time, the pastor was the Rev. Huben Jones of Gary, and several visiting pastors contributed to the program, which was attended by a number of Culver's white residents as well.
"From a portrait on the wall," noted the Citizen, "the kindly eyes of a great friend of the community of a generation ago, who was also the donor of the chapel, Mr. Rollins, seemed to smile with approval as the members of the chapel greeted and made welcome the visitors."
A special service the following April at the chapel drew a number of visitors from Elkhart and LaPorte AME churches, wrote the Citizen, and a group of youth from the Culver Bible Church sang several numbers.
Services were regularly advertised in the Citizen at the chapel until 1968, after which services discontinued there. That was the same year George Rollins' son, Dr. Hollis T. Rollins, a Detriot dentist, passed away. After graduating from the Indiana Dental College, he's spent the rest of his life practicing in that city.
George's wife Nettie Easley Rollins has passed away in 1932, and his daughter Florence -- wife of Culver's Roy Watts -- in 1976.
Two of George Rollins' children met early fates. Lawrence, born in 1902, died in 1921, though a cause of death isn't apparent at the moment.
Rollins' other daughter, Clara, the first African American to graduate from Culver High School, tragically never lived to see her predictions concerning race relations in America come true. In fact, she didn't even live to see her father's dream of a church for the black residents of Culver come to fruition.
In Oct., 1908, Clara married Joseph Artis in her parents' home. The two would move soon thereafter to South Bend, where, in Dec., 1909, Clara was fatally burned in a kerosene explosion in the couple's home there. She, like her entire family, rests in the Culver Masonic cemetery.
By 1972, the Culver Methodist Women's thrift store -- today in a house on Ohio Street -- occupied the Rollins Chapel building, which was torn down soon after, the community it had been built to serve having dwindled to just a few.
Perhaps the Culver legacy of George -- and Clara -- Rollins is exemplified in his 1925 Citizen obituary: "All of this community have had nothing hut good words for George. He was a man of his word, believed in the right things and acted out his belief.
The Rollins Chapel is a lasting memorial to his life."
"Yes," concluded William Smith's letter to the editor, decades later. "I remember George Rollins, as a wonderful friend. Last year I stood at the headstone of his grave in silent remembrance of him."
It may be telling to note, in a December, 1947 blurb in the paper, that "The Citizen staff was surprised recently when a delicious cake was brought to the office by a representative of Rollins Chapel. The pre-Christmas remembrance was presented as an expression of appreciation for the Citizen's cooperation in publishing news of the activities of the church."
Another minor indication of the status of the African American community in Culver's past was the regular appearance of a column in the Culver Citizen titled, "In the Colored Circles," which documented the comings and goings of the town's black residents, much as similar columns reported on the social lives of residents of Burr Oak, Delong, Hibbard, and other small offshoots of Culver proper.
The very last appearance of the column which had, by then, become simply "Colored Circles," appeared in the Citizen in 1960, and was written by Mrs. Nellie Jackson.
Whether or not she knew hers was the last in a series of such reports dating back some 50 years, Mrs. Jackson's closing words that week, after detailing the Dickerson family's efforts in driving many snowbound congregants to Rollins Chapel the previous week, seem to allude to the presence of the column itself:
"We, being patrons of our only weekly paper, thank you for cordial treatment."


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Hmmm . . . interesting.
Bottom line: evolution is a matter of incremental changes. Homo sapien sapiens gradually evolved from prior species: there were no Adam and Eve proto-humans. And without two original humans to commit original sin, there was no purpose in the sacrifice of Jesus. If there were no original sin, no God-imputed curse . . . then no salvation is necessary. The fact of evolution proves the lie of Christianity (or, at least, the Catholic version of it).
Please, this is just too much stuff for me to grasp. Why don't we do the right thing and simply stay with the biblical version? After all, you guys were the ones always carping on that famous razor you say cuts through complex arguments and contends that the simplest answer is best.
Well, even if you count that as a 'gender swap', it doesn't change anything for the argument, for two reasons that I can think of off the top of my head.
1) They will just say that "Adam" still came first, even if he were 'female' or 'neutral' for a bit at first (pre-birth only counts for life, not gender to them, like anything, it only counts if/when they want it to count, not when we want it), but they will also say that...
2) It didn't happen that way for him because the first man, 'wasn't made by natural reproduction, but rather by god, out of dirt', so it didn't happen that way for the first guy, that only happened for the men from then on... (if they believe that it happens at all. Remember, it happened because ...GOD MAGIC! What was that? A big guy, with the long beard... I know, a wizard did it! Well, if it's Merlin, then he lives backward in time, so he WILL do it... I mean, according to the Arthurian myths, we only passed him in the time stream about fifteen hundred years ago, so it will be a while before he gets to thirteen and a half billion years ago... he can only go so fast, even he can't break the speed of light, he has to bend it like the rest of us...)
Besides, they couldn't have 'Eve' come first in their story (or at all, if they can help it most of the time, look at the Muslims and their female circumcision...), it hurts their 'male dominance', and religion had nothing to do with facts, and the only symbolism was one of dominance. They would also say that you have it backwards, that the ovaries, and all of that were formed the other way around, and with their level of scientific understanding that is good enough for most of them. {"If you could reason with a religious person, there would not be religious people.}
While I do not buy into the Adam/Eve garbage, and while this was interesting info, what the embryo starts as, is not germane to the argument of 'which came first', like my #1 point above. This isn't like the chicken and the egg one, where there were eggs long before there were chickens, and the first chicken hatched from one of those eggs, in this case I lean more toward the 'gender neutral' wording for that state anyway.
From an evolutionary standpoint, it could have been either gender first, or both, since there were millions and millions of changes over millions of years, and it is still going... Unfortunately, based on who is doing the most reproducing these days, we are devolving at present. Working hard to get that 'lizard brain' back to being the main one.
...and just for a bit of silliness, "If you ask any religious person who come first Adam or Eve?, She/he answer blindly that Adam come first," ...not ANY religious person, there are a lot of them who do not follow an Abrahamic religion, they just get ignored in most talks. ;) I am guilty of it as well, I tend to focus mostly on X-ians, because they are the ones who have trying to force their mythology down my throat since I was a toddler, they are the ones we tend to see the most, followed by the other two Abrahamic ones, but we should try to keep in mind there are a lot of other religions out there as well, who may never have even heard the 'Adam and Eve' myth, like the almost billion Hindu people, or the Shintoists in Japan for a couple examples.
Again, off topic, but that wikiquote needs some serious help, "...their offspring will extinct due..." I mean ...wow, just wow. "...would have gone extinct, due..." That whole thing, while trying to make a good point, is just awful. The 'scientific' Adam HAD, the scientific' Eve HAD... (not that there were two such individuals, as the quote tried to point out), "which [ARE] modern humans", "inherited by their [OFFSPRING]", "...meet and make [A] population[,]...", and there are more I am sure, but I just can't read it any longer. The power of Webster compels you! The power of Webster compels you! lol.
Being dyslexic, I am far from perfect, but it really makes it hard to take what they are saying as having any kind of authority on the subject, even if they really know what they are talking about, if their level of understanding of English is that low, then odds are, they are not explaining it very well.
Take care, and may the spell checker be with you.
The Dev, this is why arguing with dogma is futile. They can always reduce everything to God. Rather than question his existence, which is troubling to them, they simply say, "Lord knows" and "that's not fur us to know," &c, and the conversation can proceed no more. Arguing history, science, &c. with them is a waste of time.
Explains everything while explaining nothing. And they don't understand why we consider theology to be useless ...
This reminds me of the story about a man from a Bible Belt State responding to a question as to why he would not even bother to try learning some Spanish.
His answer was that if English was good enough for Jesus it was good enough for him.
Sadly, while it is a joke, it is also reflected in reality. I've heard stupid fundie sayings bounced around by atheists online, and at the time, I assumed that they were made up to mock a straw-man of fundamentalism, making them look more ignorant than they actually are.
... and then I've gone on to hear just about all of them said by actual fundamentalists. "If humans came from monkeys, why are there still monkeys?" comes to mind. I've heard that one in person, proposed in all seriousness, on multiple occasions.
I have no reason to doubt that a good number of theists echo the Jesus-English thing in all seriousness.
"If you ask any religious person who come first Adam or Eve?, She/he answer blindly that Adam come first"
Has that really been your experience? Most Christians believe in evolution and consider the Garden of Eden to be a story. Meanwhile, religious Hindus and Buddhists don't have any particular opinion about Adam and Eve. When we talk about our "enemies," we should be careful not to overgeneralize. It's human nature to consider a rival group to be more homogeneous and more contemptible than they really are. We atheists are supposed to be the rational ones, so can we do better?
Most Christians believe in evolution and consider the Garden of Eden to be a story.
Depending upon which polls you look at, that isn't necessarily true.
I'm not sure what accounts for the significant difference in the numbers, between the Gallup and Pew polls. If the Gallup polls are closer to reality, though, there could be slightly more than half of Christians in the US who are creationists, given about 15% or 16% of the US population being nonbelievers.
A lot of this depends upon your definitions. When you say 'most', do you mean it in the strictly literal sense of 'over 50%' or do you mean it more colloquially? When most people say most (eh heh), I think they mean a more significant majority, maybe 60% or 70%.
It also depends upon what you mean by Christians. There are a lot of nominal believers who kind-of vaguely believe in a God, but they never really think about it, and it doesn't have any real impact on their lives. They're approaching apatheism.
If you mean believers, in that they ever talk about God in public, and we're likely to end up in a discussion with them ... then yes, over half of those sorts are creationists. That has absolutely been my experience.
You're going to have a significantly different experience than most do in the US, man. You're in freaking Seattle. Seattle, WA and Portland, OR are two of the most atheistic cities in the country. I don't think your personal experience is at all representative of what most (there's that word again) of us go through. Those of us in the southeast are swimming in the creationist nuts.
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The North Carolina Division of Emergency Management (NCEM) in partnership with the East Carolina University's Center (ECU) for Natural Hazards Research and the Renaissance Computing Institute Engagement Center at ECU (RENCI at ECU) held a Hurricane Workshop for Emergency Managers. About 100 emergency management personnel, ECU faculty, National Weather Service (NWS) meteorologists, and emergency technology specialists from RENCI attended the May 18, 2011, workshop at The Murphy Center at ECU in Greenville. The workshop provided participants with information about the technological improvements in hurricane forecasting, response, and decision-making. Highlights included:
Storm Surge Toolbox and Products
Jamie Rhome, Storm Surge Program Manager, National Hurricane Center
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Richard Bandy, Meteorologist in Charge, Newport/Morehead City NWS
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Rhome and Bandy discussed the National Hurricane Center's (NHC) Storm Surge Product Decision Support Wedge which offers a three-tiered approach to utilizing available storm surge data for decision support. The 24-hour to 28-hour window is often critical for decision-making. It is important not to focus solely on one storm surge product within this window. Storm specific uncertainties are accounted for in the probabilistic storm surge (p-surge) product, while the MOMs and MEOWs provide a worst case storm surge estimate at a regional level. The Hurricane Local Statement (HLS) available from the NWS anWeather Forecast Offices summarizes local impacts from storm surge.
River Flood Toolbox and Products
Jeff Dobur, Hydrologist, Southeast River Forecast Center
Michael Moneypenny, Hydrologist, Raleigh NWS
Jeff Orrock, Warning Coordination Meteorologist, Raleigh NWS
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Dobur and Moneypenny informed participants of the many tools available to predict river forecasts and warning and well as flood outlooks and probabilities. These tools include:
- Inundation Mapping
- Crest-to Crest Relationships
- Model River Guidance
- Flash Flood Guidance
- Observed and Probable Rainfall Totals
- Real-time USGS Monitoring of Major Rivers in Eastern NC
Orrock discussed real time flood risk analysis and new river forecast and warning tools provided by National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
Storm Surge Products and North Carolina
Jamie, Rhome, Storm Surge Program Manager, National Hurricane Center
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Hope Morgan, GIS Manager, North Carolina Emergency Management
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Morgan discussed two databases; Integrated Hazard Risk Management (IHRM) and North Carolina State Preparedness and Resource Tracking Application (NCSPARTA). These two databases help provide emergency managers and the general public with real-time spatially-enabled decision making and notification of river flooding. All data collected by the GIS division of NCEM can be found at www.ncfloodmaps.com.
Usability of NWS Products and Services and Risk Communication
Ken Galluppi, Director, Disaster and Environment, RENCI, UNC Chapel Hill
This session allowed participants to provide input on the value and effectiveness of current NWS products and tools. Breakout sessions were also provided in the afternoon to further discuss storm surge and river flooding tools and how to make them more effective for emergency managers.
New Approaches to Evacuation
Dr. Rachel Davidson, University of Delaware
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Keynote speaker, Dr. Davidson, provided participants with a new approach to regional hurricane evacuation and sheltering. The new approach included a broader decision frame focused on the following variables:
- New objectives (e.g., safety, cost)
- New alternatives (shelter-in-place, phased evacuation)
- Consider uncertainty in hurricane scenarios explicitly
- Consider evacuation and sheltering together
2011 Hurricane Outlook
Jeff Orrock, Warning Coordination Meteorologist, Raleigh NWS
Orrock ended the workshop with a discussion of the 2011 hurricane season. First Orrock discussed the 2010 Season and characterized it as 'Active' season with 19 named storms and 12 hurricanes. While NOAA's Hurricane Outlook had not been released at the time of the workshop, Colorado State and North Carolina State University outlooks predicted an average of 13-16 named storms and 7-9 hurricanes for the 2011 Hurricane Season. Orrock concluded by saying to prepare for the worst and hope for the best during any hurricane season.
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A Hard Rock hotel and caf� are coming to the oceanfront, due to open in 2016 on a sandy 10-acre expanse on State Road A1A just south of SunSplash Park.
DAYTONA BEACH— Get ready to rock, Daytona Beach.
A Hard Rock hotel and caf� are coming to the oceanfront, due to open in 2016 on a sandy 10-acre expanse on State Road A1A just south of SunSplash Park.
Plans call for a 375,000-square-foot development that will include 250 hotel rooms, two rock star suites, 100 condo units, 28,000 square feet of ballroom and banquet space, a spa, a shop filled with Hard Rock merchandise and a studio where guests will be able to jam on Fender guitars and record music they can take home.
Locating on a stretch of A1A that's long been home to mom and pop motels and small retail shops, local leaders see a new day coming for the city, which has been battling shuttered hotels, storefront vacancies and blight on the beachside for years.
"It's really changed the game, the whole playing field," said City Manager Jim Chisholm. "It's like going from junior high to a major league team."
Chisholm and other city leaders see the new Hard Rock hotel, which will be the fourth in Florida, as a bookend to a Russian developer's condo hotel project planning to break ground this summer on the north end of A1A. There are high hopes that together the two mega-developments can pull in a host of new business ventures and make the Ocean Center a player for large conventions.
"I think it'll have a significant impact on everything from Silver Beach to Seabreeze," said Deputy City Manager Paul McKitrick.
If all goes as hoped, construction will start on the $100 million-plus project by the end of the year and the Hard Rock Hotel Daytona Beach will welcome its first guest in early 2016, timed to the Daytona 500.
Jeff Hentz, the Daytona Beach Area Convention and Visitors Bureau's president and chief executive officer, was bursting with excitement when he was told the Hard Rock was moving into the Daytona Beach neighborhood.
"You're kidding me? Oh, my God. This is great," Hentz said. "This is tremendous to bring a major brand to our destination. I am thrilled. Wow."
The hotel and restaurant complex will give Daytona Beach a much-needed year-round draw that will help put the city on the tourism map — in the United States and abroad.
"You couldn't ask for a better partner," Hentz said. "We'll leverage it to the hilt."
Hard Rock International's decision to locate one of its hotel and restaurant complexes on the World's Most Famous Beach now puts Daytona Beach in the company of Chicago, Las Vegas, Bali, Cancun, Singapore and other internationally known cities that are among the chosen spots for the hotels and restaurants known for their authentic rock star memorabilia placed around the properties.
The announcement is the culmination of four years of hotel shopping by Toronto-based developer/investor Bayshore Capital Inc. After the Canadian company bought the beachside land in 2009, its top officials considered various hotel chains and even worked with NASCAR on an idea to create a NASCAR brand hotel that didn't come to fruition.
Hard Rock turned out to be the best fit, said Henry Wolfond, Bayshore's chairman and CEO.
"The gorgeous beach, hot cars, bikes, great hospitality and the sound of rock 'n' roll music together will celebrate Daytona Beach's resurgence," Wolfond said. "We feel privileged to be a part of this development and look forward to its opening around the 2016 Daytona 500."
Speaking from Europe in a phone interview Thursday evening, Wolfond said the project is in the early stages and the company will be able to share more details in a few weeks.
A site plan has not been submitted yet to city officials, and city commissioners will be asked to consider rezoning the property to a planned unit development that will free Bayshore and Hard Rock to be creative with their plans.
The city and county will also be partnering with Bayshore by providing community redevelopment area dollars — possibly around $3 million — as well as utility fund contributions to expand the water and sewer pipe system on the site, put power lines underground, improve the beach approach on the property and build expanded sidewalks.
Bayshore has also purchased a thin strip of commercial property on the west side of A1A across from the hotel site, but there are no immediate plans for that property.
The project will most likely have a second phase in the future that would include more hotel rooms. While Hard Rock does have casinos at some of its locations, including in Tampa and Hollywood, Wolfond said there are no plans to do that with his company's property.
There will be live music in the Hard Rock caf� on site, but Wolfond said he still needs to talk to city officials to determine if they would allow live music in an outdoor area of the property overlooking the ocean.
It hasn't been determined yet if there will be a Hard Rock Live concert building on site like the one in Orlando near the Hard Rock hotel there, he said.
Bayshore will retain ownership of the land and Hard Rock will manage it, he said.
Hard Rock International has 179 venues in 57 countries, including 141 cafes, 18 hotels and eight casinos. HRI's parent company is the Seminole Tribe of Florida, which purchased the company in late 2006.
"It has awesome potential," Wolfond said. "I've seen pictures of the area from the 30s and 40s and saw what it once was."
Chisholm said the city's resurgence is picking up serious steam. A "very upscale" hotel chain is checking out the city, and a total of nine Daytona beachside hotels are in the process of being built, re-flagged and reconditioned, he said.
"We're building a real backbone for the tourism industry on the beach," he said.
George Mirabal, the interim president of the Daytona Regional Chamber of Commerce and a longtime local business community leader, said he sees the biggest things happening on the beachside since the Ocean Walk Shoppes were built in the 1990s.
"It's because a lot of people here just don't give up," Mirabal said.
Local leaders say Daytona Beach appears to be in the beginning of a renaissance with the Russian investors planning to build their condo hotel near the Ocean Center, the Speedway hoping to tackle a $250-million-plus overhaul of its grandstands and surrounding property, Joe's Crab Shack locating on the Daytona Beach Pier, and Cici and Hyatt Brown donating about $15 million to fund a new art museum that will have a world-renowned collection of Florida paintings.
Almost $1 billion in new investment is headed toward Daytona, Chisholm said.
"We have developed such significant momentum with Daytona Beach," said City Commissioner Carl Lentz. "I think this is a time we'll all look back on and say we were there. I think this is the turning point for the city."


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Australian skipper Michael Clarke denied any rift with vice-captain Shane Watson as the all-rounder was ruled out of the second Test against South Africa.
Watson has been troubled by a calf injury and tried this week to prove his fitness after missing the drawn series-opener in Brisbane earlier this month.
But Clarke said doubts about Watson's injury prompted Australia to go with an unchanged team for the second Test in Adelaide, which starts on Thursday.
"He has improved a lot over the last few days... but is probably a few days short of being 100 percent," Clarke said.
He added that his vice-captain would have time to get himself right for the third Test, which starts in Perth four days after the scheduled end of the Adelaide showdown.
"Once we got here, our intent was to give Watto every chance, as a very important player and vice-captain of the team but unfortunately we've run out of time," Clarke said.
The captain dismissed speculation of a rift with Watson, stressing there was no communication breakdown with his deputy ahead of the Adelaide Test.
Clarke said he was aware of rumours suggesting he and Watson were failing to see eye-to-eye, but added that both senior players had a good personal and professional relationship.
Clarke denies rift with Watson on eve of 2nd Test
Australian skipper Michael Clarke denied any rift with vice-captain Shane Watson as the all-rounder was ruled out of the second Test against South Africa.
"I know there's been talk of that being a little bit different," Clarke said.
"(But) not at all. We have a great relationship.
"Watto and I, our friendship and our professional relationship when it comes to captain and vice-captain, is as close as I can certainly ask for."
Senior batsman Ricky Ponting warned this week against playing a not fully fit Watson, saying it would place too much pressure on his teammates if he was used against the Proteas while injured.
"No one can go into a Test match 70 percent fit," Ponting told reporters on Tuesday. "I don't care if you're a batsman and a slip fielder. If you can't bat at 100 percent, then you are putting pressure on other blokes as well."
Rob Quiney, who made his Test debut in place of Watson in Brisbane, is expected to bat again at number three, while left-arm paceman Mitchell Starc remains the 12th man.
Clarke said he and the selectors stuck with swing bowler Ben Hilfenhaus because of the improvement they saw from the bowling attack in the latter days of the Brisbane Test.
"I thought the bowlers came back really well. We took 14 South African wickets where they took five of ours," he said.
"I think we've got a good combination. We've got a good mixture of aggression but also bowlers who can bowl long spells and dry runs up if required out there on that wicket.
"Generally in Adelaide, you have to bowl quite tight during periods of the game."
Australia - Michael Clarke (capt), David Warner, Ed Cowan, Rob Quiney, Ricky Ponting, Mike Hussey, Matthew Wade, Peter Siddle, James Pattinson, Nathan Lyon, Ben Hilfenhaus, Mitchell Starc (12th man).


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Reds' Ludwick placed on DL following surgery
Cincinnati, OH – The Cincinnati Reds have placed outfielder Ryan Ludwick on the 15-day disabled list.
Ludwick underwent surgery Wednesday morning to repair a torn labrum in his right shoulder and is expected to miss at least three months. He suffered the injury while diving head-first into third base during the third inning of Monday's season opener, a 3-1, 13-inning loss to the Angels.
An integral part of Cincinnati's run to last season's National League Central title, Ludwick was re-signed to a two-year contract by the Reds over the winter and batted .275 with 26 home runs and 80 RBI over 125 games in 2012.
To fill his roster spot, the Reds selected the contract of outfielder Derrick Robinson from Triple-A Louisville.


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NEW YORK — Sony Pictures insists that the forthcoming Will Smith film "Concussion" was not "softened" to placate the NFL.
Emails leaked by last year's hack of Sony Pictures Entertainment revealed executives, lawyers and filmmakers making edits to the film after wrestling with whether "Concussion" would antagonize the NFL.
After a comprehensive review of those emails, The New York Times on Tuesday reported that Sony blunted parts of the film to avoid upsetting the NFL. Smith plays the forensic pathologist, Dr. Bennet Omalu, who uncovered the fatal effects of repeated head trauma suffered by many NFL players.
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On Thursday, September 23, 2010, Chicago-Kent College of Law presents the 28th annual gathering of the longest running conference on federal sector and postal labor relations and labor law held outside of Washington D.C. The day is composed of interactive discussion with federal agency leaders and distinguished area practitioners, including keynote speakers Susan Tsui Grundmann, Chairman, U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board, Carol Waller Pope, Chairman, Federal Labor Relations Authority,
Elaine Kaplan, General Counsel, U.S. Office of Personnel Management, Larry Adkins, Deputy General Counsel, National Treasury Employees Union and Rita Graf, General Counsel, National Air Traffic Controllers Association.
Law students (JD only) enrolled at Chicago-Kent are welcome to attend any or all of the program sessions free of charge. Course materials and luncheon are not included; however, copies of the materials will be available in the library after the program.
If you are interested in volunteering to work at the conference, in exchange for complimentary course materials and an opportunity to network at the conference luncheon and reception please let us know when you stop by the office (Suite 675) to register, or by e-mailing email@example.com. Pre-registration is required no later than Monday, September 20, 2010.
For information regarding the current CLE courses being offered or to register for any of the programs, please visit: www.kentlaw.edu/depts/cle or contact the Office of Continuing Legal and Professional Education at email@example.com or at 312-906-5090.
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New Delhi, Dec 13: Former Pakistan skipper Wasim Akram feels that Mahendra Singh Dhoni should continue as the India captain but he should be more flexible in his tactics.
"I am positive that Dhoni is the right choice to remain as captain, but he has to be more flexible in his tactics. You cannot throw the ball to a novice like Ravichandran Ashwin, like Dhoni did in Kolkata, and expect him to produce miracles," said Dhoni.
"If the team management feels that a policy of split-captaincy would release the pressure on Dhoni, then maybe there is a need for change. But personally I would still have Dhoni over next-in-line Virat Kohli, who is too young to lead Team India."
Akram feels that India and Dhoni are lacking an alternative plan when they run into tough situations.
"India and Dhoni, in particular, are lacking a Plan B when situations get tough, where they have seemed content in containing rather than attacking," Akram wrote in his column on ESPNStar.com.
Akram also feels that Indian selectors have taken the right choice by dropping senior pacer Zaheer Khan from the fourth Test against England.
"The on-going transition within the Indian squad has seen pace spearhead Zaheer Khan axed from the side after picking up just four wickets in three Tests versus England so far. Despite skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni publicly backing Zaheer, saying he was bowling in the right areas, it has been his alarming lack of pace that has left the English batsmen untroubled.
"It seems to me that Zaheer's main problem stems from his fitness levels. His run-up is slow and lethargic while his follow-through is almost non-existent. Zaheer's stock delivery is the reverse-swinging one, but for it to be effective he will have to run-in a lot faster. He is 34 years old and not getting any younger," he said.
Akram also had words of praise for the English side, especially their captain Alastair Cook.
"Their skipper Alastair Cook has led from the front, showing tremendous temperament at the Test level, that someone like Kohli should learn from. Credit must also be given to their bowling coach Mushtaq Ahmed whose tips have helped English bowlers make optimum use of the SG ball, especially when it comes to reverse-swing. The chips are seemingly down for the Indian side, with England favourites heading into Nagpur," he said.


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Google's belligerent Panda: why the way Google does algorithm updates hurts small sites and gives larger sites an unfair advantageGoogle's last Panda 3.8 update which happened in late June 2012 took away two thirds of my traffic, reducing my readership to the same level it was more than 18 months ago, and making the site essentially unsustainable, a personal cash drain that cannot be maintained in the long run. Mind you, it is not that I disagree with their policy; however, the opaque way they go about it, treating good sites like spammers and changing the entire environment in which we have operated for years without notice, is damaging and unprofessional.But, more to the point, this article argues that these unexpected, sudden changes in the environment have this unintended consequence: that they greatly harm small sites in particular, giving an unfair advantage to larger sites with more resources.Here's a quick table of contents: Some history: this site and it's SEO 'Strategy' prior to Panda 3.8 Damage control: our initial reaction to the fall from Google's grace Figuring it out: identifying the reason(s) for what happened My relationship with Adsense Recommendations: how they should have gone about this Why this hurts small sites more than big ones: and is this really what Google wants?
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Heart of Niagara Animal Rescue seeks to continue its momentum from the recent Lewiston Art Festival with a presence during the Lewiston Jazz Festival on Friday, Aug. 23 (from 5 to 8 p.m.), and again on Saturday, Aug. 24 (from noon to 8 p.m.) The rescue will be set up on the front lawn of St. Peter's Roman Catholic Church, at the corner of North Seventh and Center streets (across from Orange Cat), with adoptable animals and original rescue artwork, which is available for purchase and supports Heart of Niagara.
Volunteers will also work on parade decorations and sign up to walk with Heart of Niagara's float in the upcoming Lewiston Peach Festival parade. Everyone is welcome help. To join the Heart of Niagara team and can lend a hand, email [email protected] or call Linda van Harssel at 716-622-1213.
For more information, visit www.heartofniagara.org or "like" Heart of Niagara on Facebook.