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Walter Clyde Curry received his B.A. from Wofford College in 1909 and his M.A. and Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1913 and 1915, respectively. Upon his graduation from Stanford, he accepted a faculty position at Vanderbilt University in 1915 and remained until 1955, when he retired from active teaching. During the last thirteen years of his stay at Vanderbilt, he served as chairman of the English department. While at Vanderbilt, Curry was a member of the Fugitives literary group. A noted Chaucer, Shakespeare and Milton scholar, his undergraduate courses on Shakespeare were always in demand both by English majors as well as students in premedical, prelaw and engineering programs. He was awarded an honorary Litt.D. degree by Wofford College in 1952. He died in Nashville, Tennessee on October 2, 1967.
Donald Davidson was a member of both the Fugitive and Agrarian groups at Vanderbilt University. He received his B.A. and M.A. degrees from Vanderbilt University and remained at the University his entire professional career (1920 - 1968) teaching English. In addition to being a teacher, Davidson enjoyed an international reputation as a poet, essayist, novelist, and critic. His first book of poems, The Outland Piper, was published in 1924. From 1931-1967 he spent his summers teaching at Bread Loaf School of English in Ripton, Vermont. He served in the military during World War I May 1917- June 1919. In June of 1918 he married Theresa Sherrer, a legal scholar and artist. He was a member of Phi Beta Kappa, American Folklore Society, American Academy of Political and Social Sciences, South Atlantic Modern Language Association, and the Tennessee Federation for Constitutional Government.
William Yandell Elliott received his B.A. and M.A. from Vanderbilt University in 1917 and 1920, respectively. He served on the faculty of Vanderbilt in 1920 before leaving as a Rhodes scholar for England, where he received his Ph.D. at Oxford University. While at Vanderbilt, he was an active member of the Fugitive literary group, an editor for The Observer, and was a member of Sigma Chi, Phi Beta Kappa, and Tau Kappa Alpha. He taught political science for several years at University of California at Berkeley before joining the Department of Government at Harvard University in 1925. He taught at Harvard for 38 years before retiring as professor of history and political science emeritus. He died on January 9, 1979 in Haywood, Virginia.
Born in Little Rock, Arkansas to a prominent family, John Gould Fletcher entered Harvard University in 1903 to study law. Following the death of his father in 1906, Fletcher withdrew from Harvard to pursue a career as a poet. Supported by the money left to him by his father, he left for Europe and settled in London where he self-published five volumes of poetry in 1913. Influenced first by Ezra Pound and then by Amy Lowell, he became well-known as an Imagist poet with the publication of five additional volumes of poetry and was featured prominently in the annual Some Imagist Poets anthologies. Fletcher married Florence Emily "Daisy" Arbuthnot in 1916. Influenced by the poetry of William Blake and by Oriental art and religion, Fletcher's poetry took on religious undertones for his next three volumes of poetry. He also acquired a reputation as a literary journalist and befriended T. S. Eliot. Fletcher visited Nashville, Tennessee in 1927 as a lecturer and met John Crowe Ransom. He was invited to contribute an essay to the Agrarian manifesto I'll Take My Stand and became a strong supporter of the Agrarian movement. He returned to Little Rock in 1933. After his divorce from Florence Arbuthnot, he married Charlie May Simon. A life-long sufferer from depression, Fletcher drowned himself in 1950.
A member of the Fugitive literary group and a brother-in-law of Sidney Mttron Hirsch, James Marshall Frank was a successful manufacturer with an interest in literature and education. Born in Marshall County, Tennessee, Frank spent most of his life in Nashville. A graduate of George Peabody College, he taught for several years. Financial responsibilities caused him to change careers, and he accepted employment with Frank and Company, a local shirt manufacturer, where he worked for the next 50 years. He married Rose Hirsch, the sister of Sidney Hirsch, in 1902. A member of the Fugitives literary group, he volunteered the use of his home on Whitland Avenue for many of the groups meetings.He died in Nashville on November 21, 1944.
William Frierson received his B.A. from Vanderbilt University in 1920 and a B.A. from Oxford University in 1922, where he studied as a Rhodes Scholar. While at Vanderbilt he was a member of the Fugitives literary group, but his association with the group ended after 1923. He taught at the University of Mississippi.
A graduate of Nashville's Webb Preparatory, Sidney Mttron Hirsch attended a variety of different colleges but failed to gradaute. He served in the navy for a few years and toured the Far East before returning to Nashville. He left Nashville to spend a brief time in Paris, where he picked up extra money by modeling. From Paris he went to New York, where he continued his modeling career by posing for sculptures for Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney. While in New York, he turned to writing plays without achieving much success. Upon his return to Nashville in 1913, he was successful in getting his play The Fire Regained performed for the May Festival, sponsored by the Nashville Art Association and the Board of Trade, and which made use of the full scale replica of the Parthenon built for the Tennessee Centennial in 1898. The performance brought Hirsch the renown he was looking for, but he was unable to build upon his success. Hirsch soon came in contact with Stanley Johnson, a friend of Hirsch's half-brother Nat, and with Donald Davidson, a friend of his half-sister Goldie. Johnson and Davidson soon introduced their English professor, John Crowe Ransom, to the reclusive Hirsch, and soon the four were meeting regularly to talk about poetry. The talks continued after Hirsch moved in with his brother-in-law James Frank, who volunteered the use of his house as a meeting place for the group of talented authors. It was Sidney Hirsch who first suggested publishing the growing body of poetry being produced by the group, and the title The Fugitive was selected as an embodiment of the archetypal fugitive character - an outcast with mysterious knowledge - so prevalent in poetry. Hirsch's influence with the group faded as the it began to fall apart in the late 1920s with the departure of a number of the group from Nashville, while others moved away from writing poetry to other forms of literature. Hirsch died in Nashville in 1962.
Stanley Johnson received his B.S. in 1917 and his M.A. in 1921 from Vanderbilt University. He taught at Vanderbilt as Professor of English fron 1921 to 1925. While at Vanderbilt, he was a member of the Fugitives literary group and published a number of poems in their magazine, The Fugitive. He accepted a position as professor of journalism at the University of Tennessee in 1929 and remained there until 1942. He died in Tennessee on December 1, 1946.
Henry Blue Kline received his M.A. from Vanderbilt University in 1929. A student of John Crowe Ransom and Donald Davidson, Kline contributed an essay to the Agrarian literary group's book I'll Take My Stand. Kline taught at the University of Tennessee from 1930 to 1933 and then held a succession of government posts with the Civil Works Administration and the Tennessee Valley Authority. In 1944 Kline became a reporter for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch newspaper where he wrote editorials on a variety of topics including fair trade laws, education, tariffs, and railroad problems. After leaving the newspaper in 1949, he accepted a position with the Atomic Energy Commission. He died in 1951.
Lyle Hicks Lanier received his B.A. from Vanderbilt University in 1923. He received his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from George Peabody College in 1924 and 1926, respectively. He taught psychology at Vanderbilt from 1929 to 1938. While at Vanderbilt, he joined the Agrarian literary group and contributed an essay to their manifesto I'll Take My Stand. He served as executive vice-president and provost at the University of Illinois. After his retirement from the University of Illinois in 1971, Lanier served as director of adminstrative affairs and educational statistics on the American Council of Education in Washington, D.C. He died on December 31, 1988.
A member of the Agrarian literary group, Andrew Nelson Lytle was an author, educator, editor, and critic. He received his bachelor's degree from Vanderbilt University in 1925. After a foray into playwriting and acting, he moved into the field of biography and fiction. He contributed an essay to the ground-breaking volume I'll Make My Stand, and was the only member of the Agrarian literary group to actually support himself by farming while he wrote his novels. He served as professor of history at the University of the South and also worked as editor of the Sewanee Review for twelve years.
Austin Merrill Moore grew up with a strong interest in language, leading him to acquire fluency in French, Latin, Spanish, German and Greek and picking up basic skills in Hebrew, Yiddish, Maori, and Mandarin Chinese. He received his B.A. from Vanderbilt University in 1924. A poet since high school, he began to write prolifically during his time at Vanderbilt. He joined the Fugitives literary group as an undergraduate and was published frequently in their magazine, The Fugitive. He spent the summer of 1923 in Germany, returning to receive his bachelor's degree from Vanderbilt in 1924. The following year, he enrolled in Vanderbilt's Medical School and graduated with an M.D. in 1928. After a year's internship in Nashville, he accepted a position at the Boston City Hospital in Massachusetts. He served in the military during World War II and later became an expert psychiatrist. In addition to poetry, he began publishing articles on alcoholism and suicide and became a noted authority on these topics. He continued to produce poetry throughout his life, completing more than 50,000 poems.
Herman Clarence Nixon completed his academic work at Alabama Polytechnic Institute and the University of Chicago. He taught history at Vanderbilt University from 1925 to 1928. He left Vanderbilt for Tulane University where he taught from 1928 to 1938. He taught for a few years at the University of Missouri before returning to Vanderbilt as Lecturer in Political Science. While at Vanderbilt in the late 1920s, Nixon was asked by the Agrarian literary group to contribute an essay to the Agrarian manifesto I'll Take My Stand. Of all the Agrarians, Nixon was the most proactive in pursuing practical means for alleviating poverty in the South, serving on both the Social Science Research Council's Southern Regional Committee and the Southern Conference for Human Welfare.
Frank Lawrence Owsley obtained his bachelor of science degree in 1912 from the Alabama Polytechnic Institute in Auburn, Alabama, graduating first in his class. He received his master of arts degree in history from University of Chicago in 1917. He served briefly in the armed forces during World War I, before returning to graduate work at the University of Chicago, receiving his Ph.D. in history in 1919. He joined the staff of Vanderbilt University in 1920. He was a member of the Agrarian literary group at Vanderbilt and wrote the essay entitled "The Irrepressible Conflict" for I'll Take My Stand: the South and the Agrarian Tradition published by Harper Brothers of New York and London in 1930. A strong supporter of Agrarian principles, he wrote and lectured on Southern history and culture for most of his life. He resigned from Vanderbilt to accept a position at the University of Alabama in 1949. He suffered a fatal heart attack while at Cambridge University on a Fulbright Fellowship in 1956.
John Crowe Ransom, noted poet, critic, educator and editor, was born April 30, 1888 in Pulaski, Tennessee. He graduated from Vanderbilt University in 1909, was a Rhodes Scholar at Christ Church, Oxford, 1910-1913, and joined the faculty of Vanderbilt in 1914, where he taught English until 1937. While at Vanderbilt, Ransom was a major figure in the Fugitive and Agrarian literary groups and their publications, The Fugitive (1922-1925) and I'll Take My Stand (1930). In 1937, Ransom accepted a position at Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio as professor of poetry and later founded and edited an important literary quarterly, The Kenyon Review (1939-1959). Ransom retired in 1959, but remained active in literary pursuits until his death in 1974 at the age of eighty-six. His works of poetry include Poems About God (1919), Chills and Fever (1924), and Selected Poems (1945, 1963, 1969).
Born Laura Reichenthal in New York City, she changed her surname to Riding in 1927. She attended Cornell University on a scholarship, where she wrote for the college newspaper and developed a serious interest in writing. She left Cornell before graduation and studied briefly at the University of Illinois. Laura Riding married Louis Gottschalk, a professor at the University of Illinois, and settled down to write poetry. She won the Fugitive poetry prize in 1925 and Yale University's Bollingen prize for 1989-1990. She divorced Gottschalk and later married Schuyler Jackson in 1941. Riding enjoyed an international reputation as a poet, critic, and short story writer. W. H. Auden, Robert Graves, and Norman Cameron have all cited Riding as a major influence on their development as poets. She died on September 21, 1991 in Wabasso, Florida.
Alfred Starr attended Vanderbilt University in the 1920s but did not graduate. While at Vanderbilt, he was a member of the Fugitive literary group. He received his B.A. from Harvard University in 1926. He served as president of the Bijou theater chain and the Theater Owners of America. He helped found the Nashville Symphony Association and the Nashville Arts Council. He died in October 1956.
Alec Brock Stevenson received his B.A. in 1916 from Vanderbilt University. As an undergraduate, he served as editor of The Observer and The Commodore. He later worked as a reporter for the Philadelphia North American, the Nashville Banner, and the Nashville Tennessean newspapers. After graduating from the Rutgers Graduate School of Banking in Brunswick, New Jersey, he returned to Nashville and joined the investment firm of Vance, Sanders and Company. While in Nashville, he joined the Fugitives literary group and published poetry in addition to producing books and articles on investments. He established the Alec Brock and Elise Maney Stevenson Foundation to support a scholarship in the Vanderbilt Divinity School in honor of his parents; his father, James Henry Stevenson, taught for many years in Vanderbilt's School of Religion. Stevenson was a member of the Vanderbilt Board of Trust and a trustee of the Joint University Libraries. He died in Nashville on May 27, 1969.
Allen Tate graduated from Vanderbilt University with his B.A. in 1922. While at Vanderbilt, Tate was invited by Donald Davidson to join the Fugitives literary group. Returning to Vanderbilt after a forced medical leave of absence, Tate roomed with Robert Penn Warren and Ridley Wills during his last semester of academic work. In 1924, Tate moved to New York City where he continued to write poetry as well as produce freelance articles for The Nation and New Republic and worked as an editor. During his literary career, he became acquainted with a host of other literary figures including Hart Crane, John Peale Bishop, T. S. Eliot, Ernest Hemingway, and Ford Madox Ford. Tate taught at a variety of colleges and universities, including Vanderbilt, while producing volumes of poetry and criticism. He died in Nashville, Tennessee on February 9, 1979.
John Donald Wade received his B.A. from the University of Georgia in 1914 and his M.A. from Harvard University in 1915. He completed his Ph.D. at Columbia University in 1924 after an interruption in his studies to serve in World War I. He taught at the University of Georgia from 1919 until 1927, when he left over a dispute with the university president over intercollegiate football and academics. He helped compile the Dictionary of American Biography in Washington, D.C. in 1927-1928 before accepting a teaching position at Vanderbilt University in 1928. While at Vanderbilt he joined the Agrarian literary group and contributed an essay to their book I'll Take My Stand. He returned to the University of Georgia in 1934 and served as the founding editor of The Georgia Review when it debuted in 1947. He remained at the University of Georgia for the rest of his academic career, retiring in 1950 to return to his family home in Marshallville. He died in Marshallville, Georgia on October 9, 1963.
Robert Penn Warren received his B.A. at Vanderbilt University in 1925 before continuing his graduate studies at the University of California at Berkeley, Yale University, and Oxford University, where he received a B. Litt. degree. While at Vanderbilt, "Red" Warren was invited to join the Fugitives literary group and contributed poetry for The Fugitive magazine. He was the recipient of several honorary degrees and was the author of over fifty books. His novel, All the King's Men, won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1947. He was also awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1957 and 1979. He was named Poet Laureate of the United States in 1986, the first to be nominated. Warren taught at a number of universities over the course of his life, including Vanderbilt University, Southwestern Louisiana State University, the University of Minnesota, and Yale University. He died in Stratton, Vermont on September 15, 1989.
Jesse Ely Wills received his B.A. from Vanderbilt University in 1922. While at Vanderbilt, he was a member of the Phi Beta Kappa honor society, Phi Delta Theta fraternity, the Blue Pencil Club, and the Calumet Literary Club. In 1922, he was invited to join the Fugitives literary group. After leaving Vanderbilt, he became an officer and executive of the National Life and Accident Insurance Company and was active in Vanderbilt University affairs as a member of the Board of Trust and chairman of the Board of the Joint University Libraries. He helped establish the Fugitive Room as a depository for Fugitive papers and manuscripts as part of the H. Fort Flowers wing of the Joint University Libraries building. He died in Nashville, Tennessee on March 4, 1977.
William Ridley Wills was a graduate of Vanderbilt University and a member of the Fugitive literary group. He worked for the Memphis Press, Memphis Evening Appeal, and the Nashville Banner newspapers before leaving for New York to work for the New York World. He served in the army during World War I and saw action in France and Germany. He was well known as a novelist, poet, and journalist. He spent the last four years of his life as a patient at the Bay Pines Veterans Hospital in Florida where he also served as the editor of the hospital newspaper. He died on September 8, 1957.
Stark Young graduated from the University of Mississippi in 1901 with a B.A. in Latin and Greek. He received his M.A. from Columbia University in 1902, majoring in English but also taking courses in theater and drama. He taught at both University of Mississippi and the University of Texas, and later joined the faculty at Amherst College. In 1921, he resigned from Amherst and moved to New York to become a free-lance writer. He joined the editorial staff of the New Republic and remained there for the rest of his career, also doing work for the New York Times and the Theatre Arts Magazine. He became well known as a drama critic and also began to write plays and fiction. He wrote the final essay in the Agrarian literary group manifesto, I'll Take My Stand. By the late 1930s, Stark gave up writing fiction and confined his writing to editing and translation. He also enjoyed some success as a painter in the 1940s. He died in New York on January 6, 1963.

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Car News
Audi's '#WantAnR8' Twitter Contest Returns
- Contest on Twitter uses the hashtag #WantAnR8
- Winners can drive an R8 on the road or a track
- Eight winners selected between now and late October
Audi's "#WantAnR8" campaign on Twitter is back. It started last year when a D.C. area woman used the hashtag and Audi gave her an R8 supercar for the day. Now, Audi is launching the contest again, inviting Twitter users to send messages explaining why they'd like to drive an R8 for a chance to win some time behind the wheel of the exotic sports car.
Coinciding with the launch of the "#WantAnR8" campaign is the debut of a new advertising spot called "Once Upon a Time." Premiering on television March 26, the 30-second ad is already available on Audi's YouTube channel. It tells the first "first chapter" of the model's short history in storybook style, potentially providing inspiration for "WantAnR8" entries.
To participate, Twitter users simply use the hashtag in a tweet explaining why they'd like to drive an R8. Photos or videos may be included. The contest runs from now through October 29, with two winners selected in each of four entry periods. Winners will be selected based on creativity, quality of any multimedia included, and quality of the conversation sparked by the submission.
The eight lucky Audi fans that win over the judges will get their choice of driving the R8 on the road or a track. Those who prefer to cruise around town for the day can opt for an R8 delivered to their door. Winners with a sportier inclination can choose to travel to the Infineon Raceway in Sonoma, California for the one-day Audi Sportscar Experience featuring the R8.
While the R8 is clearly a niche vehicle and not a huge volume seller for Audi, the "#WantAnR8" Twitter campaign gives the automaker an opportunity to connect with consumers around an exciting and exclusive vehicle that many of its fans aspire to own. Audi's campaign - and social media contests generally - offer brand fans not only a way to engage with the people behind their favorite products, but also a chance to be rewarded for their interest and input. It's a win-win, especially for those who will soon find themselves in an R8 for the day.
What it means to you: Using social media platforms like Twitter is a great way to stay connected to automakers, and to learn what both experts and customers think about their products. Plus, you may also win a chance to drive an Audi R8.


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Rory McIlroy needs good round to make cut in Houston
HUMBLE, Texas – Rory McIlroy was asked what positive signs he took from his first round at the Houston Open.
"I'm not too sure," McIlroy said.
McIlroy opened with a 73 on Thursday, and is in danger of missing the cut in his last start before the Masters.
D.A. Points shot an 8-under 64 to take a one-stroke lead over Cameron Tringale and afternoon starter John Rollins. Angel Cabrera and Jason Kokrak were two shots back.
McIlroy, meanwhile, seems to be grasping for the form that catapulted him to No. 1 in the world last year.
"I'm still a little bit tentative on the golf course and not committing to my shots fully," McIlroy said. "But I think that just takes time and hopefully, another three rounds this week and some good scores will give me confidence going into the Masters."
He has to make it to the weekend here first.
McIlroy is off to a shaky start since he signed a new equipment deal with Nike in the offseason. He missed the cut in Abu Dhabi, lost in the first round of the Match Play Championship and walked off the course in frustration in the second round of the Honda Classic.
He saw progress when he tied for eighth at Doral, but was disappointed after his up-and-down start in Houston. McIlroy hit only eight of 14 fairways and 11 of 18 greens in regulation. He made three bogeys and dunked his approach to the par-5 8th in the water and took a double.
"It wasn't the start I wanted," McIlroy said.
Points, though, couldn't have dreamed of a better one. He opened with five straight birdies, holed a bunker shot for another one and finished with his best round of the year.
Trying to change his luck after only two made cuts this year, Points dug into his mother's golf bag and pulled out the old putter that used to help him win in his junior days.
After Thursday, he's wondering why he ever stopped playing with it. He holed birdie putts of 54 and 36 feet Thursday and needed only 23 putts in his round.
"Maybe I'm an idiot for not having used this putter the whole time," Points said. "It worked well today."
The bunker shot was a bonus, following an errant 8-iron off the tee at the par-3 7th.
"I was like, 'I can't hit it any better than that,'" he said. "Then, for it to actually do what you imagined it to do and then to go in on top of that is just — it's luck, to be honest."
The wind picked up in the afternoon, and Rollins thinks he may get a jump on the field with an early start on Friday.
"Obviously, the greens are going to be really fresh, at least the first nine holes, for sure," he said. "But having a 7:30 (a.m.) tee time, there may not be much wind, perfect conditions. We'll see what happens."
Phil Mickelson settled for a 72 after going 4-under through his first 13 holes. He hit a tee shot into the water, leading to a double bogey, three-putted the next hole for a bogey, and then hit a tee shot into the bunker on the par-3 ninth to drop another shot.
"It was a disappointing finish," Mickelson said. "I feel really good with the putter, and I believe that as the tournament goes on, I'll get better."
Defending champion Hunter Mahan played with Mickelson and shot a 74. Former U.S. Open champion Geoff Ogilvy, currently ranked No. 50 in the world, rounded out the group and shot a 73. Ogilvy must be in the top 50 by the end of the weekend to qualify for the Masters.
Lee Westwood shot a 68, despite making bogeys on two par 5s. Charles Howell III had a 69 in his bid to get into his hometown major at Augusta National. Howell would need to finish at least in fourth place alone to have any chance of moving into the top 50.
Mickelson, the 2011 champion, returned to Houston even though it falls two weeks before the Masters this year. The tournament was the run-up event to the Masters from 2007-12.
This is only the second time in the last 15 years that Mickelson won't be playing the week immediately before Augusta. Lefty also plans to skip the week before the U.S. Open.
"It's a very unusual situation for me here," he said. "I usually like to play the week before. I'm going to have to learn how to do that, now that we're not really having tournaments conducive to getting ready for those events. This is a good opportunity for me to work on getting prepared properly in another spot outside of a tournament."


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The operators of Cook Volkswagen in Fallston are looking to expand the vehicle storage lot for their Route 1 (Belair Road) dealership, but the property developer must resolve outstanding issues with state and federal agencies and work out an agreement with neighboring homeowners before they can proceed.
Members of Harford County's Development Advisory Committee – which reviews developers' site plans and provides recommendations to the Department of Planning and Zoning – recommended during their Wednesday meeting that the owner and developer of the property, listed as 2110 Bel Air Road LLC of Aberdeen, come to a resolution with the county, the Maryland Department of the Environment and the Army Corps of Engineers before the site plan could be approved.
"We will not approve this plan until those issues have been resolved," DAC member Shane Grimm, chief of the Board of Appeals and site plan review for the Department of Planning and Zoning, said.
Property owners plan to pave an undeveloped north-facing parcel adjacent to the dealership and create 71 spaces for vehicle storage. The lot would be at the corner of Milton Avenue and Belair Road.
That parcel was less of an issue during the DAC meeting, as opposed to a parcel behind the dealership which includes a forested buffer between the business and the neighboring Fallston Crossing subdivision.
The removal of trees from the buffer in an effort to clean up damage from a tornado that struck the area in 2011 attracted the attention of state and federal officials recently.
Jay Apperson, a spokesman for the MDE, said Thursday an inspector from the MDE's Water Management Administration and an inspector from the Corps visited the site earlier this month "in regards to an issue involving trees being cleared in the area."
"We have not issued any violations at this time," Apperson continued. "It is an active investigation and we expect that the Army Corps [of Engineers] will take the lead on it."
Apperson declined to provide further details, since the investigation is ongoing.
Dudley Campbell, principal of Bay State Land Services Inc., a Forest Hill engineering firm, represented the applicant during Wednesday's DAC meeting.
He noted the parcel where the tree buffer is, is not contiguous to the parcel where the storage lot would be.
"I take exception that another parcel – which does not even have access to it – is held hostage," Campbell said.
He said Cook owners are willing to work with regulators on resolving the buffer issue.
"Certainly Cook Volkswagen wants to be a good neighbor," he said.
Several residents of Fallston Crossing expressed their concerns with the project Wednesday.
The proposed site plan calls for providing vehicle access to the storage lot from Milton Avenue. Elyse Levy is concerned about traffic safety, since Milton Avenue also serves as an access road to Fallston Crossing.
"I disagree with that," she said. "They can put it on Belair Road; it's going to cause too much traffic [on Milton Avenue]."
Jason Belbot said children can be seen playing along the subdivision streets, and he watches for them while driving through the area.
"You'll see basketballs coming out from time to time," he said.
Rich Zeller, DAC member and regional engineer for the State Highway Administration's Access Management Division, said highway officials often recommend providing commercial access from roads with lower levels of traffic.
"It's more of a safety issue to put in on Belair Road than it is to put it on Milton Avenue," Zeller explained.
Brian Schorr, a member of Fallston Crossing's Homeowners' Association, is concerned about the increased impervious surface from the lot and the impact on the subdivision's stormwater management ponds.
The residential and commercial lots at Belair and Milton – formerly the site of Fallston General Hospital – were developed together, and the stormwater pond serves both areas.
Moe Davenport, DAC chairman, said all parties must determine who will be responsible for stormwater impacts – including the residents, Fallston Crossing developer and the business owners – before the site plan is approved.
"As long as we're at the table, and they include us in the conversation, I have no problem with that," Schorr said of the residents.
Davenport said if the applicant can "get an approved restoration plan and some financial sureties in place we can probably move forward."


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In a career that has already spanned more than a decade of representing Australia at the highest level, in 2011 Crawford had her best ever year, winning Gold at the World Championships in La Molina, Spain, and finishing the season as number two on the World Cup standings.
Crawford has been an Australian Institute of Sport (AIS) scholarship athlete since the Snowboard Halfpipe program's inception in 2002.
She made her World Cup debut at Whistler, Canada, in December 2002, where she placed 12th. At her first ever World Championships in early 2003, Crawford placed 14th in Kreischberg, Austria.
Crawford started the 2003/04 World Cup season in impressive style, producing a personal best eighth placing in halfpipe in Valle Nevado in September 2003, then rode to another top ten result with a ninth in Stoneham, Canada.
Then came the first of the series of injuries that have disrupted her career.
Training in North America in December 2003, Crawford tore her ACL ligament, missing the rest of that season, then a separated shoulder injury forced her out of the entire 2004/05 season.
Riding in her first World Cup since returning from the shoulder injury – a 20 month layoff – Crawford joined the list of Australian skiing and snowboarding World Cup medallists when she claimed bronze in the opening event of the 2005/06 season in Valle Nevado, Chile, in August 2005.
All augured well for her chances in the Torino 2006 Games.
But two weeks later on her 22nd birthday, while training for the Olympic halfpipe in Bardonecchia, Crawford fell heavily while practicing her new McTwist trick. Initial fears that she had sustained a significant injury were allayed after x-rays and an examination by Australian Olympic team doctor Peter Braun, but the injury prevented her training for several days.
Although she took her place in the Olympic field, her riding was severely hampered, and she ended in 18th place in qualifying, missing a place in the final.
In 2006/07, Crawford made strong steps as an athlete when she not only claimed the first victory of her career, but also collected five other podium places in finishing second on the standings to Swiss rider Manuela Laura Pesko. The Sydney rider missed the podium just twice in eight events, and was never lower than fifth on the results list, with the gold medal coming in the third event of the season, in Furano, Japan.
Just when Holly had established herself as one of the leading riders in the world, Holly missed the 2007/08 World Cup season, while rehabilitating a damaged shoulder that she sustained trampoline training in August 2007.
Returning to competition in 2008/09, the highlight of the season for Holly was riding to silver in Gangwon, Korea, in the process collecting Australia's first snowboard halfpipe World Championship medal.
Holly Crawford ended the 2009/10 season with consecutive World Cup snowboard half pipe victories, ending the year in third place on the Cup standings, despite contesting just three of the seven events on the calendar.
The result was some consolation for what she saw as a disappointing result at the 2010 Winter Olympics, where she finished eighth in the Olympic Final, still a highly creditable performance.
Ever since, she added eight more top-3 results to her belt including three wins on the World Cup tour as well as Silver at the 2013 FIS Snowboard World Championships seeming to be well-prepared fro another shot at the Olympics.


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Vienna Hofburg Orchestra
Quite rightfully, Vienna is called the Music Capital of the World. The unique possibility to see the Imperial Palace (Hofburg) is to attend a concert of the Wiener Hofburg-Orchester.
It is a pleasure for Wiener Hofburg-Orchester to offer its guests an unforgettable Viennese evening with the famous and beloved compositions by the "King of Waltz", Johann Strauss, as well as arias of operas by W. A. Mozart in the wonderfull atmosphere of Vienna's Imperial Palace (Hofburg). Performing will be an orchestra consisting of about 40 professional musicians and international soloists of the Vienna State Opera.
An example of a program could be something like this:
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Overture to "The Marriage of Figaro", Papageno-Papagena from "The Magic Flute", Violin Concert G-Major, duet from "Don Giovanni", Turkish March and aria from "The Marriage of Figaro".
Johann Strauss: Emperor's Waltz, Eljen a Magyar, Polka, aria from "The Gypsy Baron", Viennese Blood, Waltz, Blue Danube Waltz and Radetzkymarch.
Duration: 1½ to 2½ hours incl. intermission.
Important information:
- Shortly after your booking is complete, you will receive an e-ticket by mail. Please print out your ticket and bring it with you on the tour.
- The doors to the concert hall opens at 7.30 PM.
- Depending on the concert dates, Vienna Hofburg Orchestra performs in either "Redoutensaal" or "Festsaal" within Vienna's Imperial Palace (Wiener Hofburg), or at Börse Palais.
Reserve tickets
Vienna Hofburg Orchestra
Wiener Hofburg
Redoutensaal or Festsaal
Heldenplatz 1
A-1010 Wien
Vienna Hofburg Orchestra
Every Tue., Thur. & Sat. at 08.30PM from May to October.
U-bahn to Herrengasse or Volkstheater Station
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Professor Lim Chong Yah pointed to growing income inequality, which he says is approaching dangerous levels, and the nation's overdependence on cheap foreign labour.",- Straits Times, 10 April 2011.
In case you don't know who Lim Chong Yah is, he is the author if the most widely used "A" level economic text book when I was a student. He is perhaps Singapore's most prominent economist and very much part of the establishment. The problems Singapore is facing are severe enough for Professor Lim to recommend "shock therapy". Readers of this blog are probably very familiar with the problems highlighted - I've writing about and tracking these problems since 2006. The PAP govt has repeatedly claimed that it is the changes it has made towards the creation of an "inclusive" society are significant and sufficient - we saw this line of thinking again in the recent budget debates. The changes the PAP govt has made are just tweaks to old policies and does little to address underlying problems which are quickly deepening and, in Professor Lim's words, getting dangerous. Professor Lim pointed to a GINI of 0.5 as the "danger level". We are just a shade off this level at 0.47. However, even if this number does not worsen, maintaining this level of inequality over time, we can expect the deleterious effects on our society to spread and deepen.
The "shock therapy" recommended by Professor Lim is to restructure wages - freeze the wages of high income earns and hike the wages of the low income workers (see article below). Wage intervention as suggested by Prof Lim is similar to setting minimum wages which has been done in Hong Kong & Malaysia. Basically, strategy is to get rid of cheap labor and force enterprises to push up productivity. Professor Lim's boldly suggested freezing the pay of top earners while you increase the wages of low income workers t to contain the overall wage bill.
Other interesting ideas that I've highlighted in the blog includes one by Yale economist Robert Schiller to automatically increase progressive tax rates as income inequality increases and use the taxes to mitigate the effects of income inequality through social spending.
In an article published in the Straits Times last year, newl MP Sim Ann outlines the PAP approach to the problem of inequality : Tackling Inequality : Charting our own path. The PAP has a boxed-in approach to solving this problem - they reject increasing direct taxes on the rich, they reject minimum wages and significant changes to current approach to welfare and social safety nets. A few days ago, DPM Tharman warned of Singapore "becoming Taiwan" if we close our doors to foreign labor - he linked the 'stagnant' nominal wages in Taiwan to its close door policy. Not only did he get his facts and logic wrong, Professor Lim points to PAP's policy to import foreign labor as one reason for low wages among a large segment of the work force and a major cause of our income inequality. We are heading towards a dangerous situation yet when a student asked DPM Tharman about the problems caused by PAP's policy to import foreign labor, DPM Tharman redirected him to look at the "problems" in Taiwan.
While some economists feel that Professor Lim's "shock therapy" may be impractical[Link], other similar approaches such as minimum wages has been implemented in every single developed country except Singapore. As the PAP dismisses various ideas due to ideological reasons or for their debatable effects on GDP growth, our income inequality problem stays unsolved and becomes entrenched and the negative effects, both social and economic, will begin to overwhelm the any theoretical disadvantage of various suggestions to lower the income gap or mitigate the effects of the large income gap,
One of the effects the PAP should bear in mind is the tendency of a highly unequal society to vote out the incumbent govt when it loses patience waiting for change. If the PAP believes its own power and support rests on the belief that ordinary Singaporeans are different.from those who occupied Wall Street, the disgruntled people in the Arab Spring and the protesters that have filled the streets all over the world due to inequality, they are perhaps deluded by their successful past. Ordinary Singaporeans will gravitate towards universal values and ideas of economic fairness. The goodwill created from our economic miracle that makes Singaporeans support and tolerate a govt that lies so far out in the ideological spectrum will disappear (if there's still any left).
The PAP has to change itself in order to make the changes that will take us forward. Otherwise, ordinary Singaporeans, will do what you expect ordinary people everywhere to do to bring about change and progress in their lives.
|Tuesday, Apr 10, 2012
The Business Times
By Teh Shi Ning
SINGAPORE - To tackle rising income inequality and an excessive reliance on cheap foreign labour, one prominent local economist is proposing a three-year restructuring plan that includes a wage freeze for top income earners and sizeable pay hikes for the lowest paid.


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Butterfly Pavilion
At a Glance
- Reservations Strongly Recommended
- Reservations for Sunday-Monday, and Wednesday-Saturday
(Admission Fee Applies)
- Located next to the Insect Zoo
- Exhibition Guide
The Butterfly Pavilion will be closed for maintenance January 25 - February 6, 2015. The Pavilion will re-open on February 7, and we will celebrate its 7th anniversary on February 14.
One Hall, Two Exhibits
Partners in Evolution—a free-admission exploration into how insects and other animals have co-evolved with plants.
The Butterfly Pavilion—a fee-based, live butterfly experience.
Partners in Evolution
Discover how natural selection has shaped animals and plants together through their ancient and persistent need to depend on, and defend themselves against one another.
Butterfly Pavilion
Take a stroll among live butterflies and exotic plants! Located adjacent to Partners in Evolution, this tropical oasis offers visitors a rare opportunity to get close to a variety of living butterflies from all over the world.
Reservations are strongly recommended for the Pavilion and an admission fee applies for all days except Tuesdays.
The Butterfly Pavilion is FREE on Tuesdays, but reservations and a timed ticket are still strongly recommended. These are made onsite at the Butterfly Pavilion Box Office.