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Huber Breaker Preservation Society has plans for park
The Huber Breaker restoration project may be on life support but planning is in high gear for a mini-anthracite living history park on land in front of the breaker on South Main Street, Ashley.
Members of the Huber Breaker Preservation Society hope to begin the first phase of the park development this summer. Completion is targeted for December 2011.
The $27,000 cost of Phase 1, which will include a granite memorial to all who worked in the anthracite industry, will be borne largely through donations, according to Ashley resident Ray Clarke, chairman and treasurer of the preservation organization.
Paving blocks, lettered or unlettered, and benches or picnic tables are being "sold" as part of a fundraising program that has collected $6,000 despite little public exposure of the plan, until now.
The park, which will include a walking trail, kiosks explaining anthracite history and the use of various Huber Colliery structures, and parking lots, will sit on 3.1 acres donated to the preservation society in 2004 by Earth Conservancy. The latter group works to reclaim and restore to use mine-scared land.
Clarke lauded Earth Conservancy for granting a second two-year extension to the society to allow development of the land. The society was required to return a $12,000 state grant because work had not begun, he said, but new grant applications will be filed as Phase 1 begins.
The Eastern Pennsylvania Coalition for Abandoned Mine Reclamation, which has its office in the Earth Conservancy building, also in front of the breaker, is assisting the society in filing for grants.
Clark said the monument, which will cost about $10,000, will include a black polished etching of the historic breaker. Columns supporting a top piece of granite will be inscribed with the names of all coal collieries that once provided tens of thousands of jobs in Northeastern Pennsylvania.
"This will truly be a regional asset," Clarke said.
He envisions schoolchildren walking the trail and learning more about the area's coal mining past. Many schools already take advantage of talks by Robert Hughes, executive director of EPCAMR; Eric Bella, of the Anthracite Living History Group, and others involved in preserving and passing on aspects of the anthracite heritage.
The park's parking lots would be accessed via a new entrance a few yards south of the Earth Conservancy parking lot. The conservancy uses the building, once home to Blue Coal Corp., which operated the colliery into the 1960s. The breaker's last operating owner was Lucky Strike Coal Co. in the mid-'70s.
Flowerbeds, benches and trees will line the walkway and enhance the knoll on which the memorial will be located, Clarke said. Total cost of the project has not been determined, he said.
Opened in 1939, the breaker was named after Charles F. Huber, chairman of Glen Alden Coal Co., predecessor to Blue Coal. It replaced a breaker built in 1895. The Huber mine and breaker employed 1,700 people at its peak. The coal was sold throughout the eastern United States and most was hauled out by the Central Railroad of New Jersey, which had a major yard adjacent to the colliery.
Efforts by the Huber Breaker Preservation Society to acquire the breaker and to stimulate state and federal grants for its restoration have been unsuccessful.
The breaker and 26 acres of land west of the smaller preservation society plot are owned by Al Roman of No. 1 Contracting Co., which also has its office near the breaker. Roman's attorney has set the value of the steel in the breaker at $400,000 and mineable coal under the property has additional value, he has said.
Luzerne County began eminent domain proceedings several years ago to acquire the property but the cash-strapped county has not moved forward. According to Clarke, the eminent domain action has lapsed and Roman again has sole control.
Hughes, of the mine reclamation office, is pessimistic about saving the breaker. "It's probably not going to happen," he said, "but we'll go down fighting."
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In this day & age of computer networking the obvious approach to disseminating information and publicity for the Huber preservation society is to start using these networking opportunities. There are literally thousands of Wyoming Valley citizens that can be reached through Facebook and this can be done without any cost to the HBPS or to the local Luzerne County Government.
Luzerne County and the Diamond City of Wilkes Barre PA. in particular are missing the lucrative market of our collective Anthracite Heritage.
Each and everyone of us has a link to the Anthracite Coal Mining History in one way or another. The obvious things are often right in front of our faces. Our Anthracite Coal Mining Heritage is certainly at the top of the list. Nearly all of Wyoming Valley's citizens would love to see and would support local government and HBPS efforts in promoting our Coal Mining Heritage but the public in the dark when it comes to receiving the vital information of what efforts are being done.
Support is a lot stronger than those in local positions of power fully realize.It is the one rallying point that we can lay down our political, religious, and racial differences and find common ground on.
A case in point is a local craft beer brewery in Plains PA.that has based itself on it's anthracite roots and is starting to rapidly expand. They have recognized the love & respect that the Valley With A Heart has for it's Coal Mining Heritage ( we're all Coal Crackers ) and have won over a huge portion of the Valley's craft beer patrons. I know they both come from Anthracite Coal Mining families and are well versed in local history. This young upstart brewery names it's custom craft beers after local Anthracite lore & history.They are now in many fine bars and restaurants from Jessup, Scranton, Dunmore, Wilkes Barre down to Nanticoke PA.and beyond. Why ? Because we are Anthracite people. I look forward to their continued success.
Certainly if 25 or 30 million dollars can be used for a River Commons project than an equal amount could be utilized in capitalizing on the one thing we do possess. OUR ANTHRACITE HERITAGE.This one central fact can be the focal point for Wilkes Barre's and the out lying towns revitalization efforts.
Why hasn't a statue of an Anthracite Coal Miner been displayed on central public square, why not a huge sculpture of an anthracite Coal Miner at the entrance to the new River Front Commons, Why not renovate one of the city owned buildings on public square Wilkes Barre into a museum and art gallery dedicated to displaying "our" Anthracite Heritage. Why not restore the Huber Colliery complex and offer guided tours, Why not a Historical plaque in or on every local government building & school commemorating our heritage, Why not have a new modern visitors center directing folks to these wonderful attractions that would in essence really belong to all of us.
Perhaps the valley universities, television and radio stations, WVIA , local newspapers, Luzerne County Cultural Council, Wyoming Valley Art League, and all of the major civic organizations could gather in a roundtable discussion on how best to capitalize on these opportunities.If the medias involved would agree to offer weekly free marketing in the form of public service information announcements (TV Radio Newspapers) than it would begin to focus these efforts and start to better inform the public and garner support.This could be the catalyst to procure federal state and local funding for these projects.
Why not public service announcements on the screen at the Kirby Center,and on the screen at the new R/C Wilkes Barre Movies 14 before every show.The time is now...It's that old universally recognized truth "United We Stand,Divided We Fall" Now is the time.
Simple as that.It's our Common Ground, Make A Stand On It.
Don't give up Huber Breaker Preservation Society...open up on Facebook to start.
All The Best,
Stashu Milski, Man of Mystery, Polka Dancer, World Traveler


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I was all set to go to Skates on Haight in San Francisco to test ride a Swift when I called ahead and they said "we have one here but it's chained to a desk and we lost the key." Anyone know of other options in the area that are accessible by public transit + bicycle?
What about the wider world of folders?
Here is what I know, can you add to it?
Warm Planet Bikes at the Caltrain station in SF looks like a great place (through the window) but I've never been there on a weekday. I saw lots of Dahon including a Smoothhound, Pacific Reach, and I think Bike Friday. Their website also says they sell Birdy and Strida. There is also a Brompton & Birdy dealer in Palo Alto, but I rode past there one day and it looks like a residence. Haven't asked him about test rides yet because I won't be in that price range unless I eliminate the Swift. The Off Ramp in Mountain View has the Giant Halfway and many Dahon models including the usual Speed and Mu series as well as a Glide and a few of the 26" wheel bikes.
PS. I think "Where can I ride X folder in Y city?" would make a good sticky topic.

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Posted By Jim On 02/20/2008 @ 6:26 am In Philanthropy | 4 Comments
Earlier this year I discussed how I was going to follow Flexo's lead [3] and open up a Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund [4]. The idea behind the Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund is that you can make a charitable donation now, have the assets appreciate, and then decide where donations will go later on. Much like how a mutual fund is actually an organization, the Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund is an organization. When you donate money, you are donating to the Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund and you have two options as to where the money goes. You can either open up a Giving Account under your name (or any name you wish) or open up a Pooled Income Fund.
This is the type of account Flexo talked about and one that I was seriously considering. What you do is open a Giving Account, contribute funds, direct how the funds are to be invested, and then recommend grants. You will notice that all the documents say that you will "recommend" which organizations will be the beneficiary of your funds, but they aren't legally bound to honor your wishes. I think that specific language is used for legal purposes but they honor most recommendations.
This is the second option and one I hadn't considered. It's part charitable fund and half income generation, akin to an annuity, though the final payout goes to a charitable organization (up to 10). So let's say you contribute $10,000. You direct where the contributions will be invested and you can select up to two beneficiaries. Each quarter, the proceeds from your investments will be paid out to the beneficiaries. Upon the death of the final beneficiary, the value of the account goes towards charities. It's different than the Giving Account and less desirable for what I'd like to accomplish.
So, it sounds pretty easy right? Why wouldn't everyone do this? (these concerns cover only the Giving Account)
I'll be honest, the idea of opening a small charitable gift fund in our name does sound like fun and it would be great to be able to leverage the market to help further our philanthropic goals but with a $5,000 start price and those annual fees, I may wait a little while before opening one up. The uncertainty of the market (and a short time horizon) are also serious considerations as well… what do you all think? Good idea? Bad idea? Wait? Go now?
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At today's Olympics Men's All-Around Gymnastics Final, Danell Leyva came from behind to finish in 3rd place, earning him the bronze medal!
While many of Danell's fans (myself included) were hoping for him to finish higher, this result is still a huge success.
His final performance on the high bar catapulted him from 6th to 2nd in the final rotation, and he was ultimately edged out by another gymnast by .5 of a point, leaving Lil D with the bronze medal.
Kudos to my favorite muscle gymnastics hotty…. Here are some naughty pics of Danell… who has a penchant for taking shirtless and nude photos of himself with his iphone and in a recent ESPN photoshoot.
Okay, I just had to comment on this photo…. Dominican-born Albert Pujols clearly is packing some BIG meat in his baseball uniform.
What a way to go freeballing in your uniform…. HAWT!
Something about the way he is squatting in this picture is a total turn on, too.
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|El McMeen L'72, one of the world's great fingerstyle guitarists, finds inspiration in his Christianity.
Earlier this year, the 63-year-old musician – whose catalog includes Celtic music, hymns, gospel, contemporary Christian, and pop – won First Prize in the Instrumental Category of the 2010 International Acoustic Music Awards competition for his original composition, "Le Mans," an honor McMeen calls "humbling and gratifying." But perhaps even more gratifying is his work as Elder, and co-leader of a youth group, at Living Waters Fellowship (www.theLWF.org), the independent, charismatic Christian church in Newton, NJ, that he helped establish in 2009.
"Jesus said He is the way, the truth and the life," McMeen says, "and I believe Him."
A childhood clarinet player, McMeen – named in honor of soldier-attorney Elmer Ellsworth, the first Union casualty of the Civil War – began playing guitar in earnest as a freshman at Harvard University in 1965. Self-taught, he didn't consider it anything more than a hobby for many years, instead focusing on his law career (he is a retired partner of LeBoeuf, Lamb, Greene & MacRae in Manhattan) and raising a family. He and wife Sheila Taenzler McMeen, L'71, met in 1970 on the Penn Law Review. The couple, who reside in Sparta, N.J., are the parents of four grown children, three of whom are also attorneys.
"In the '70s, I learned how to be a lawyer, but played enough guitar at home to maintain my skills," McMeen recalls. "Still, it was always a passion – just not one I could devote much time to." But by the early '80s, McMeen was performing at open mic sessions, taking things a step further by signing up for a series of audio guitar lessons by acclaimed instructor Stefan Grossman. In a fortuitous twist of fate, Grossman – who apparently couldn't decipher which tapes McMeen wanted to order – personally called him at his law office. That led to a friendship which, over time, resulted in McMeen recording several audio cassette and DVD lessons for Grossman's workshops. More importantly, Grossman taught him a vibrato technique that McMeen says helped define his craft and style.
"Basically, I started playing guitar like a harp, and that took me in all kinds of directions," McMeen says. Playing and arranging guitar music almost exclusively in the alternate (and lusher-sounding) CGDGAD turning – which can create a harplike effect of cascading notes – McMeen became an acoustic guitar master, attracting students from around the world. Eager to bring his music to a wider audience, the Lewistown, Pa. native – who has specialized in corporate finance law – took early retirement, and hit the road "at the tender age of 51," as he puts it. As if making up for lost time, McMeen performed in 26 U.S. states in less than three years.
"At that point, people wanted to see if I really existed," he jokes. "There were records and books and tapes – but very few live appearances. I was considered a bit of a mystery man."
Since 2002, McMeen has stayed closer to home, devoting most of his musical energy to recording (he has 12 CDs), teaching, and writing (five years ago, he published a book of Irish and Scottish instrumental music arranged for classical string trio). In 2008, he was the subject of a 90-minute documentary, Guitar Artistry of El McMeen.
While McMeen occasionally plays guitar at Living Waters services, he's more focused on leading a weekly Bible-based fellowship group at a subsidized housing complex and co-heading the church's youth group, work he calls "challenging and hugely rewarding."
In recent years, McMeen says, his strong Christian faith has become increasingly intertwined with his musical aspirations.
"If the Holy Spirit is not moving through me in my music, nothing is happening," he says. "If nothing is happening, I put the guitar down. It simply doesn't matter. Because it's not about contending, it's about being a vessel through whom a loving God can move to bless others."


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Musicians Brad Paisley and LL Cool J have learned that race relations are the third rail of the entertainment industry. Touch it, and you may get quite a jolt.
The two artists, one black and one white, collaborated on a song titled "The Accidental Racist." Both say it was intended to get people talking about relationships between people of different races.
Almost universally, the two have been slapped around like a puck on a hockey rink for the song. No one seems to like it. Quite a few people appear to think Paisley and LL Cool J have committed some sort of sin.
After reading some of the lyrics, it seems to me the two artists were, in effect, using the old "walk a mile in my shoes" angle on perceptions of some blacks toward some whites and vice versa. In other words, they tried to point out race relations can be a very complex, hard-to-get-a-handle-on issue.
Clearly, to judge by reactions to "The Accidental Racist," they were right.
Now, Paisley's credentials as a "southerner" may be in question among folks in the Glen Dale area, where he grew up. But that's beside the point.
The point is that Paisley and LL Cool J tried to do something good - attempted to tackle a complex, controversial issue - and are being criticized roundly because some people don't think they did a very good job of it. Other critics make it a point to question whether the two even understand what they're talking about. Those critics are precisely the type of people at whom "The Accidental Racist" is aimed.
Is this a defense of LL Cool J and Brad Paisley? No. I don't know either of them, so I don't know what they were thinking when they worked together on "The Accidental Racist."
And no doubt I'll receive more than a little criticism for even writing about the two.
But isn't that the problem? Are we afraid to talk about race because, when we try to do so honestly, the response is condemnation?
Appearing on the Jay Leno show, Paisley was asked if he'd do the song over again. "You know what? I don't know," Paisley said, before adding, "I guess so."
How sad is it that? Do we really want "dialogue"? I'm guessing Paisley and LL Cool J wonder about that.
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The Bulldogs are 18-4 overall and in a three-way tie for first place in the Western Athletic Conference with a 6-2 record. The Spartans are 12-9 overall and 5-4 in the WAC after winning three of their last four games including a win over LA Tech two weeks ago.
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Amy Wilentz, a Nation contributing editor, is the author of Farewell, Fred Voodoo: A Letter From Haiti (Simon & Schuster), published this month, and The Rainy Season: Haiti Since Duvalier, among other books. She teaches in the literary journalism program at the University of California, Irvine.
It's a time of sudden hope in the crisis between the Palestinians and Israelis, a weird time of moderation and calls for renewed negotiations.
For those who know Haitian history, this has been a time of eerie, unhappy déjà vu.
Topic magazine is a kaleidoscopic new British literary review, still in its infancy and edited by a bunch of precocious Cambridge graduate students.
The current Salmagundi (Summer-Fall 2002) has a section on what it calls "Femicons" (the category includes articles on Emma Goldman, Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Plath and Willa Cather); but
Until and unless a nonhuman animal becomes a legal person, she will remain invisible to civil law." This quote from the legal profile in Bark magazine's fall issue in many ways sums up
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As summer winds down, retreats and vacations come to an end (no more toasted marshmallows) and regular life begins again, with everyday chores like buying new shoes for children and paying long-ignored bills and getting files back in order--the whole workaday schedule.
Usually the end of summer has its own bittersweet cyclical comforts, but this year I've been feeling more than the ordinary stress of returning to tall stacks of unread mail and to the zip and chaos of subways and traffic lights and elevators and buses. I realized the other day that much of my extra angst is about September 11, and starting up life again in New York (otherwise known as Targettown).
I'd been up in the Adirondacks, where we try to spend a week every summer, and attempting to figure out which was reality, this--the lake spread out before me, distant pines, a couple of ducks diving, a canoe gliding by, the gas station that sells sub sandwiches, the ice-cream shop with the "Pies Today" sign, the campfires and the cold nights--or New York City; in the same state, the two places seem to exist on such separate planes.
As a New Yorker, I've joined in the general quest for stress relief (we did this pre-9/11, too, but the answer was usually Prozac or yoga or a Manhattan, not an inflatable lifeboat or a lifetime supply of instant milk and potassium iodide), to little avail. Still haven't got the ten gas masks, one set for home and one for school and work...
The latest step I've taken in the quest for inner peace--while "ongoing police investigations" in my city cause traffic jams and mini-panics and nightmares for overactive imaginations--is to sit back with a few issues of Adirondack Life. Eight times a year it hides a happily provincial interior behind a handsome, sophisticated cover, and provides a perfect escape from real troubles but is not escapist in its intentions: Life doesn't feel compelled to paper over the troubles of the region it's covering, it just doesn't happen to be covering Manhattan or Iraq, and its own ground zero is the Adirondack Park, not Ground Zero. Like many regional magazines, it contains puffery. The October cover story, "Hunting Wild Elk," is little more than a paean to the resplendent Elk Lake--hence no final beauty shot of an actual wild elk, but plenty of pictures of canoes and swimming platforms and autumn foliage. (Indeed, an issue of Adirondack Life without a single image of a canoe would be like an issue of Rolling Stone--at least, the old Rolling Stone--with no reference, even glancing, to the Beatles.) Even when puffing, though, Adirondack Life is not as touristy as some regionals, and it feels less provincial, less like the local section of a small newspaper. (Yankee and Hudson Valley magazines come to mind.)
It's a more important magazine, closer to the heart of the country, or what's good about it, than most others of its type. For me, and many others, the Adirondacks are a throwback to what American life was or could have been--at some idealized moment of pioneering and small camp settlements, of fur trading and logging and fishing, all on a small scale; a paradigm of man and nature together in the East among pines and hills and lakes. Though there is nothing left of the wild in Manhattan and only about a square block of it remaining on Long Island, in the Adirondacks there are places where you can imagine the continent before the advent of the white man, and how rich, promising, altogether stupendous and just plain big it must have seemed to the settlers. You can see how the sheer sweep of the land was predictive of the future of the nation.
Over and over Adirondack Life captures that sweep, as well as the idiosyncrasies of the citizens of what is self-consciously called the "North Country" but might as well be called America. In another October article, called "First Estate," Lynn Woods presents the utopia of Brandreth Park, a huge piece of land bought in 1851 by Dr. Benjamin Brandreth with proceeds from the fortune he made as the maker of Life-Addition and Vegetable Universal pills and remedies. (Along with quackery, Dr. Brandreth could boast of a gift for Bible-thumping advertising.) After he lost the then 24,038-acre park in 1873 for failing to pay taxes, his wife bought it back from the state for $5,091 at public auction. The 12,500 remaining acres of Dr. Brandreth's park are still held by ninety of his descendants--offshoots of his thirteen children--and their families. Paulina Brandreth, a granddaughter, was a fabled Adirondack iconoclast who dressed as a man and who in photographs barely differs from her wilderness guide, Reuben Cary, except for her beardlessness. Boozers, cross-dressers, big-gamesmen, Presidents, madwomen and steely-eyed, bear-shooting great aunts--all the material is here.
Today, that flinty, eccentric spirit remains at Brandreth Park, which is like a dream of Adirondack perfection. No motorboats allowed here, no noise pollution except for the generator that powers Brandreth's water pump, the main road rerouted so that headlights won't play across the pristine face of the lake. The architecture is utilitarian, not twig-bedecked and touristy.
It would be splendid to visit the Brandreths of old; to drive down a dirt road to a wooden camp and live off the lake with the help of a Reuben or Paulina. The best way to get a sense of what that visit would provide is to read Adirondack Life. You won't learn only about quacks and scenic lakes, though. You'll also read Bill McKibben on how the changing global environment is affecting the Adirondacks, and Amy Godine on the summer at Saratoga.
I tried to get other magazines up in the North Country, but the best periodical I could find other than Adirondack Life was a consumer shopper on trucks for purchase at public auction (call Mrs. Brandreth...). There was, however, no shortage of Adirondack Life. No sense of timeliness or, worse yet, "news," mars the unchanging, eternal stasis here. At Hoss's Country Corner in Long Lake you can buy about two years' worth of back issues.
One more thing: I failed to mention the photographs, which alone can soothe the terror-tried breast. Barns in the snow. Mist coming off a pond in early morning. Purple ice cracking at sunset. Green grasses in the blue Cedar River. Another world.
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It all started 10 years ago at a tiki bar. Charlie Peters and Merv Griffin at Trader Vic's (naturally), listening to George Hamilton reminisce about his childhood. The memories became a story idea. The story became a spec script written by Peters, whose credits include Blame it on Rio and Three Men and a Little Lady. And only 10 brief years later, after languishing in development purgatory, My One and Only has made it to the big screen.
"George told me this story about his childhood, or what ostensibly passes as his childhood, and I knew I couldn't set it up as a pitch, because no studio's interested in that crap," Peters recalls. "Not that it's crap, but I'm just saying, it's not a movie that studios buy." So there were no explosions or epic space battles in a story about a single mother and her two teenage sons on a cross-country search for a wealthy benefactor in the 1950s? "No, there were no robots or anything like that."
Instead, it was the richness of the characters, as well as some similarities to Peters' own childhood, that drove the scripting. Calling from his home in the middle of the Connecticut woods, Peters recently talked with the Writers Guild of America West Web site about how a Hollywood scandal gave him his start and how the business of telling stories has changed since then.
How much of George Hamilton's story actually exists in the final product?
I grew up in the '60s, a decade after George, and my father died when I was a very little boy. There was the personal experience of growing up with a single mother wasn't very common. Lots of women are divorced or they have children on their own, but in the '50s when George's story [happened], and certainly in the '60s when I grew up, it was pretty odd. It was pretty rare. So, that's why I was really interested in the story to begin with. That's not to say I wanted to usurp or hijack it from George, but there really wasn't a lot in George's story that I used, and what I did use actually got taken out of the movie.
George is a great raconteur and a really good guy, so this is no disparagement to him, but a lot of times professional storytellers, like myself, but particularly George, their stories are sometimes a little heightened. Some of the elements of his story were a little over the top. During 10 years of development, oddly enough, the studio and the various directors and actors who were attached – especially the actors – tended to go much more for the less ostentatious parts of the story and more for the simple part of the story; just a mother and two sons, what happens within the family rather than all the wild, famous people they meet.
It can take on almost a circus feel...
Yeah, I think it's more accessible this way. I mean the audience today, anything that happens before 1990 might as well be a Restoration comedy to them.
You have quite a few films about family – unconventional families. Was that intentional, or are those simply the ones that got made?
All writers have the movies that they get typecast to write. You know, writers of romantic comedies or unconventional families, on the back end, they usually have all this dark stew of demented movies that everybody reads and goes, "Gee, that's really good, Charlie, what else do you have that's about an unconventional, funny family?"
What are the most interesting characters for you to create?
I'm always drawn to the contradictory characters. One of the first plays I wrote that was produced off-Broadway was a sort of adaptation of Jekyll and Hyde. I realized years later that virtually everything I write or I wrote was a sort of Jekyll and Hyde, that everybody has a compensatory nature to themselves. I think that most people spend their lives compensating for what they fear they are.
What was it like for you during those 10 years? Did it just chip away slowly at your soul?
I'd been writing for 20 years before that, so I have no soul. It's like a drug. Someone says "I'm interested," and suddenly you're back to, you know, the first line of blow. I shouldn't use that expression, but, I mean suddenly someone wants you. That's what makes us so stupidly beholden to this town full of cretins. Every year someone else loved me and my script, and I did draft after draft, basically for nothing, – this is the part that really hurts – I knew I was going to get a big payoff when it went into production...
And of course I got nothing.
You really got nothing?
Ten years of work for zero. Of course, I'll get money after it's made 40 percent profit, but since no movie in the history of Hollywood has ever made a profit, it's unlikely, and this movie is certainly not going to make a profit.
And over those 10 years, frankly, is when the industry changed drastically. I think before that 10 years, maybe five years before that, it would have gotten made. Over those 10 years, it was like a really interesting project to work on because you saw it just getting less and less likely to be made.
Were you involved with the filming production at all?
Yeah, I was. The director, Richard Loncraine, because of his interest in the script starting 10 years ago, has become something of a friend of mine. There was no other writer on the project from beginning to end, which is sort of extraordinary, in its own way. It got put together last summer with a single player producer, which again is pretty rare these days, one guy coughing up 20 million dollars. He clearly had no idea what he was doing. Usually the FCC has 40-page books telling you you're an idiot if you do that. He's finding that out now.
What else were you working on during those 10 years?
Oh God, dozens of things. I've developed a lot of stuff. I've had about 12 movies made, but none since 1999. I more or less gave it up and came back here to write other things. Occasionally, I'll do an assignment, but after 30 years in the business, you know an assignment's never going to get made. You do your best and you just take the money, but you know and the producers know and everyone knows that this movie is never going to get made. Hollywood's full of those, at least it used to be. It's not so full anymore because they really don't develop as many things...
Back in the '80s and early '90s when I was really just working my tail off, you could just about get anything developed. There was a lot of money. Not that that much got made, but there was a lot that was developed.
And it was a lot easier just to squeak things through?
Oh, yeah, I mean, you could just go in with a five-minute pitch and if you were an established writer, they'd give you your start money and tell you to bring in a first draft. And now, as my friends all say, the studios want to see the video first.
If money and the studio system were no object, what would your fantasy project be?
I don't know, that's a good question, I mean, I'd like to write something that's good, and I'm not sure that I've really done that. Some things I've written that I've liked, but they haven't turned into very good movies. I've directed two of my own movies, and I think I may be the only person in Hollywood to say I'm a really crappy director. Someone's knocking on my door, I think it's the Hollywood FBI trying to kill me, but I really suck as a director. I get along really well because I directed a lot of plays, so I get along with the cast and the crew, but the notion of spending four hours filming a car arriving at a front door – I just want to shoot myself. I think there's just a boredom to it, but that makes me really admire directors.
What was your background? Did you go to film school?
I started in theater. I was at school in England as a kid, and got into theater there, and then came to college and graduate school, got a Schubert fellowship to Carnegie Mellon in playwriting, and actually got brought out to L.A. in 1978 because of the famous David Begelman debacle at Columbia. He was the head of Columbia Pictures, convicted of a felony...
How exciting!
...for stealing money from the actors. Yeah. Columbia Pictures, after that episode, decided to do a kind of purely public relations gimmick and had a sort of competition for playwrights around America. I was kind of like an up-and-coming, off- off-Broadway playwright and I was chosen to go out with nine other writers to Hollywood and study under an established screenwriter by the name of David Goodman – nice guy, knew a lot about screenwriting – and that's how I got out there.
I wrote one spec script, which was a pretty goofy script, called Paternity and the box-office star of the world at that point – which happened to be Burt Reynolds, if you can believe that – decided to do it, and that put me on the map. It wasn't a terribly good movie, but...
It was good for you...
It got made.
Yeah. Is writing a pleasure for you, or is it a chore?
It's a real… it's sort of past that now. It just kind of is; it's sort of like breathing. I've been here in the woods for two-and-a-half years working on this book, and I really did lock myself away. I've realized that I go into my studio and just sit there, and the minute I turn on my computer, I get into that world; it's sort of a relief. Of course, when I'm not doing it, there's still a certain homework quality to writing. I'm not quite sure I believe anyone who says that they can't wait to get up in the morning and run to write. I do like it, but if someone could sell me a pill that would remove this from my back, this monkey, at this point in my life I might take it.
Are you a disciplined writer?
Yeah, I pretty much write every day, at least every day during the week. I'm not one of those people who says you have to write 10 hours. I find that two or three really good hours is pretty frigging exhausting to me.
You've been in the business for about 30 years. What's the secret to longevity in such a fickle town?
Total lack of ego. You know, I was just really lucky. If I were coming out now, I don't know what I'd do. I'd actually probably write for cable television, because that's probably the most interesting stuff that's getting done. I came in just at the end of a certain kind of Hollywood peak and I lucked out. I got a lot of stuff done and made, and worked with really good directors – my stuff never really turned out very well, my list of movies is hardly glorious, but I worked. I'm sort of a yeoman, I guess, rather than a prince, but it was interesting; it is interesting.


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Talk to your cardiologist or call The University of Kansas Hospital Center of Excellence in Atrial Fibrillation at 913-588-1227 or toll free at 800-332-6048.
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PVAI is generally very safe. However, as with any medical procedure, there are risks. Special precautions are taken to decrease these risks. Your doctor will discuss the procedure risks with you.
At The University of Kansas Hospital, we use advanced Stereotaxis technology to guide the catheters safely and accurately during PVAI. With Stereotaxis navigation, physicians can safely position catheters in difficult-to-reach areas of the heart. The soft, flexible design of the catheters reduces the risk of damage to the heart wall.
The University of Kansas Hospital's electrophysiologists were the first in the Kansas City region to use this state-of-the-art technology.
Before your PVAI, we will perform a transesophageal echocardiogram (TEE). This is to make sure there are no blood clots in your atrium and to check for any heart abnormalities that could interfere with your surgery. Other tests and scans may be performed if you have had previous procedures to treat your atrial fibrillation.
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You can eat a normal meal the evening before your procedure. Do not eat or drink anything after midnight the night before your procedure. This includes gum, mints, water, etc. If you need to take medications, take them with a sip of water. When you brush your teeth, do not swallow any water.
Bring a robe and toiletries. A family member can keep these items and give them to you after your procedure.
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Areas on your groin and neck will be cleaned and shaved to prepare for placement of the catheters. After you become drowsy, the doctor will inject medication to numb the catheter insertion sites. Then he or she will thread several catheters into large veins in these areas. You may feel a little pressure, but shouldn't feel any pain.
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Because you'll be given medication to make you relax, you may fall asleep once the procedure begins. You may feel some discomfort in your chest when the energy is applied through the catheter.
PVAI usually lasts three to five hours.
You'll probably be tired for several days following your procedure. You also might experience some chest discomfort. You should tell your doctor if these symptoms are severe or last more than a few days.
Yes. You will be admitted to the hospital and will need to stay overnight so your heart rate can be monitored after your procedure.
No. You'll need to have someone drive you home.
For at least three months after PVAI, you will need to take blood-thinning medication to prevent blood clots. You must have frequent blood tests to evaluate the dosage. You also may need to take medication to control abnormal heartbeats.
After your recovery and post-procedure follow up, you may be able to stop taking some or all of your medications. Do not stop taking any medication unless directed to by your physician.
Most patients resume their normal activities within two to three days. Don't lift anything that weighs more than 10 pounds for a week after your procedure.
You may have short episodes of atrial fibrillation during the first two months after the procedure. This is common, since the procedure can cause swelling of the heart tissue. You should make a note of these symptoms and inform your doctor to see if any additional monitoring should be done. After your heart has healed, these symptoms should go away.
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You should schedule a follow-up visit three months after your PVAI procedure.
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PVAI has been performed at The University of Kansas Hospital since 2005. We now perform up to five PVAI procedures each week. Success rates can be as high as 90 percent for patients with structurally normal hearts and occasional atrial fibrillation. A success rate of 60 percent is more realistic for patients with more severe heart disease and permanent atrial fibrillation.
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Mr. Chairman,
I would first like to associate myself with the previous speakers in thanking Ambassador Antonio Pedro Monteiro Lima of Cape Verde for chairing this meeting of the Committee on Information, and I am confident that the current session of the Committee will be successfully conducted under his eminent leadership. Japan will extend its full support to you and the bureau of the Committee.
I also would like to welcome the comprehensive statement on the activities of the Department of Public Information (DPI) delivered by Under-Secretary-General Kiyo Akasaka and appreciate the reports of the Secretary-General A/AC.198/2010/2, A/AC.198/2010/3 and A/AC.198/2010/4 regarding the DPI's activities respectively in strategic communications, news services, and outreach services. I hope that DPI will continue to work to enhance its effectiveness, fulfill accountability, and actively engage in public relations activities of the United Nations by providing timely, accurate, impartial, comprehensive and coherent information.
Twice recently, our Minister for Foreign Affairs, H.E. Mr. Katsuya Okada, visited the Headquarters of the United Nations accompanied by a considerable number of Japanese Press on the occasions of the International Conference towards a New Future for Haiti held on 31st March and the Open Debate of the Security Council on Post-Conflict Peacebuilding held on 16th April. We are very grateful for every effective and kind assistance extended in those situations by the News and Media Division of DPI, in particular, the Media Accreditation and Liaison Unit.
Japan highly appreciates DPI which works to capitalize on the synergies between traditional and new communication tools. While the international community has to face the problem of digital divide for developing countries, it is important for us to continue public information activities in a balanced manner for both areas. Furthermore, we hope that DPI will continue to enhance the efficiency of its activities by coordinating within its organs, networking with other UN organizations, and creating partnerships with civil societies among other groups within its existing resources in light of the importance of financial discipline.
Regarding the United Nations Information Centre (UNIC), our government believes that it is indispensable for UNIC Tokyo to ensure its accountability and would like to continue close cooperation with DPI in order to realize sound management and to strengthen activities of UNIC Tokyo. As the report of the Secretary-General A/AC.198/2010/2 mentions, UNIC Tokyo organized the first "United Nations week" in Japan in partnership with various organizations such as UN entities and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 16 to 24 October 2009. We would like to express our sincere gratitude for the efficient cooperation provided by the Strategic Communication Division of DPI, in terms of reform as well as new initiatives taken by UNIC Tokyo.
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Being cited with a traffic offense can be a traumatic and upsetting experience. Hopefully, the information below will be helpful in guiding you through the process and take some of the mystery out of the procedures. I have tried to anticipate and answer your more frequently asked questions. Neither the staff nor myself are able to give you legal advice, so please consult an attorney for information of that nature. - Judge Gehlsen
Previously many traffic charges were crimes in the state of Washington. The State Legislature has decriminalized many traffic, parks, wildlife, and fisheries offenses. These offenses are now called infractions and are civil cases. An infraction is not a crime, but failure to respond can result in the suspension of your driver's license, an additional $52 failure to appear penalty and your casereferred to a collection agency.
Start by reading the entire back side of your notice of infraction (your ticket). You should note that you must respond within fifteen (15) days of the date that the ticket was issued. You can respond by either mailing the green ticket to the Court or bringing it in person to the clerk's office at the court. Select one of the boxes on the back of the ticket and verify your address. If you select one (1) you are electing to pay the amount of the penalty shown on the front of the ticket. The Court accepts personal checks payable to 'Bothell Municipal Court' and Visa or MasterCard.
A mitigation hearing is where you admit that you committed the violation, but wish to explain the circumstances of the infraction. To request a mitigation hearing you should check box two (2). You will appear before a magistrate or Judge for a hearing or you may request a hearing by mail. Your hearing will be scheduled for a specific date. If you request a hearing by mail your letter of explanation must be received before your hearing date. The Judge, depending on your explanation and your record, may adjust the penalty. If you have not had a deferred finding within the last 7 years, you may qualify for a deferred finding, whereby your infraction would be dismissed on the condition you pay court costs. If you do not qualify for a deferred finding, the Judge will not dismiss your ticket. The Court is required to forward all committed traffic tickets to the Department of Licensing; this will appear on your driving record. The State Legislature does not allow the Court to reduce the penalty for "speeding in a school zone" or "speeding in a construction zone." Mitigation hearings are not an option for those two charges. You must either pay the penalty or contest the ticket.
A deferred finding may be an option if the following conditions are met:
If you believe you did not commit the violation then you should select box three (3) and have a contested hearing. Unless you request the citing officer to be subpoenaed, the procedure at the hearing will be as follows: the Judge considers the sworn statement filed by the citing officer, then you may testify, present evidence or witnesses. If you want to have the citing officer or any technician present, please advise the Clerk at the time you request a contested hearing or as soon thereafter as possible so the hearing can be appropriately scheduled. If the Judge finds the infraction was committed, the full amount of the penalty will be imposed. If it is found not committed, the infraction will be dismissed. In the event you have subpoenaed witnesses, you may also be required to pay court costs. A contested hearing is a civil case and the Judge will decide the case by a preponderance of the evidence, that is, is it more likely than not that the infraction was committed. You may not request to have your finding deferred or mitigated after a contested hearing has been held and the Court has found the infraction was committed.
Suitable attire is required. Shoes and shirts are necessary, and hats are to be removed upon entering the courtroom unless for medical or religious reasons. No smoking, food or drink will be allowed. Weapons are prohibited. Court proceedings are important and all litigants appreciate the Judge giving full attention to their case without interruptions from other people in the courtroom. The Court does not provide childcare. Upon your arrival and after clearing security, take a seat in the courtroom. When your name is called, come forward as instructed by the clerk or judge.
You may, at your own expense, have a lawyer appear and represent you at your contested hearing. If you are represented by counsel, the lawyer is required to file a notice of appearance with the Court and the prosecuting attorney prior to the hearing date. If you appear without giving prior notice of representation, your case may be rescheduled.
The Court gives ample notice for you to make arrangements to appear for your hearing. If you are unable to appear for the date of the hearing the Court allows only one continuance. To obtain a continuance, you must file a Motion to Continue Traffic Infraction Hearing at least 5 days before the scheduled hearing. If the hearing is a contested hearing you must also file the motion with the city prosecutor. Failure to follow this procedure will result in the waiver of your right to a hearing, a committed finding entered and a failure to appear penalty assessed.
When you pay the penalty, mitigate, or if the Judge finds you have committed a traffic infraction at a contested hearing or you default on a deferred finding, Washington state law requires that the infraction be reported to the Department of Licensing. The infraction will then appear on your driving record. The Court does not have the authority to keep the infraction off your record. If you qualify for a deferred finding and comply with all conditions, or win at your contested hearing and the infraction is dismissed, it is not reported to the Department of Licensing and will not appear on your driving record.
A failure to respond to a ticket within 15 days of issuance results in an order that the infraction was committed. If you asked for a hearing and do not appear, a penalty will be assessed and a committed finding will be entered. When an infraction is not paid in a timely manner or a hearing is missed, the Court notifies the department of licensing and a $52 late penalty is added to the amount shown on the ticket. Your account may also be referred to a collection agency. Your failure to respond to a ticket may result in the suspension of your driving privilege and is a misdemeanor that may be punishable by a fine or imprisonment in jail if you drive while suspended.
If you receive a ticket for no insurance and you had insurance at the time you received the ticket, you may file proof of insurance with the Court Clerk within the 15 days, pay the $25 administrative fee, and the charge will then be dismissed and will not go on your driving record. If you obtain insurance within 15 days after the issuance of the ticket, you may file proof with the Clerk, pay a $125 penalty for a first offense, $225.00 for a second offense, $325.00 for a third offense, $425 for a fourth offense, and $525.00 for a fifth offense and you will then avoid the necessity of a hearing. The $550.00 penalty is mandatory (may not be reduced) except for those who had insurance on the date of the violation or who obtain insurance and file proof with the court. There is no point in requesting a mitigation hearing unless you have insurance.
If you do not win at a contested hearing, you have the right to appeal to the Superior Court of King County or Snohomish County. The notice of appeal must be filed within 30 days of the judgment from the Bothell Municipal Court. The Clerk will provide you with forms and information about this process. There are various appeal costs which are payable at this Court upon filing the notice of appeal, including a $240 Superior Court filing fee and a $40 processing fee. If you appeal, the Superior Court will review the record that was made at the Bothell Municipal Court, but there will not be a new trial. Remember, our clerical staff is not allowed to give legal advice. If you have questions about your appeal, you should consult legal counsel.
The Court expects you to pay your fine on the day of your hearing. Visa, MasterCard, cash or personal checks are accepted. If you can't pay your entire penalty at the time of your hearing, the Clerk will allow 30 days to pay in full. If you are unable to pay in full within 30 days you will be given an application for a payment agreement with Signal Credit Management. Read the time-pay agreement carefully, as failure to follow this agreement can result in late fees, a possible suspension of your license, and assignment of the account to a collection agency.
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LinuxFest Northwest Schedule Finalized
LinuxFest Northwest, held in Bellingham, Washington April 30- May 1, 2011, announces finalized schedule of events.
New to the LinuxFest Northwest schedule this year will be Bellingham TechNight on Friday, April 29th from 6-9 pm at the Cruise Terminal in Fairhaven.
More than 65 sessions offer a variety of talks, including Build Your First Android App, Crash Course on Open Source Cloud Computing, GNOME 3 - what to expect with the next generation user friendly desktop, Honey, I deleted the kids: preserving your digital legacy for decades, Why open source clouds are important for software freedom, Embrace the Dark Side: Marketing and Public Relations for FOSS Projects and more.
Exhibitors include Cloud.com | Open Source Cloud Computing, Electronic Frontier Foundation, HackerPublicRadio.org, LibreOffice, OpenStreetMap, openSUSE, The Fedora Project, and the Ubuntu WA LoCo.
Take a look at the LinuxFest Northwest website for the complete list of speakers, exhibitors, and sessions.
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Roost, a new farm-to-table restaurant, will open in January as part of JHM Hotels Inc.'s Noma Square in downtown Greenville. (Image/Provided)
Staff Report
Published Nov. 26, 2012
Roost, a new farm-to-table restaurant, will open in January as part of JHM Hotels Inc.'s Noma Square in downtown Greenville.
JHM Hotels Inc. announced plans in February to renovate the Hyatt Regency Greenville and its surrounding area to increase foot traffic, economic activity and occupancy rates.
In addition to the major hotel renovations, JHM's plans included three retail tenants and a new restaurant for the area in front of the Hyatt known as Noma Square, a play off of the North Main area.
Roost, 220 N. Main St., has outdoor seating in Noma Square; an open kitchen with ringside seating along the kitchen counter; an open-air bar area; and a harvest table where guests can work with the chef directly to build their own meals.
Michael Rosen, JHM Hotels' food and beverage vice president, recruited Executive Chef Trevor Higgins and General Manager Carey Lapidus to Roost.
"This is an establishment our team has been dreaming up for years now — a serious restaurant in Greenville where we will offer our guests tastefully crafted, humanely raised, mindfully sourced and fairly priced dishes," Rosen said in a news release. "We call our philosophy soil-to-city."
Higgins will work closely with a network of local farms, such as Bioway, Native Meats, Merciful Hearts and Happy Cow, to source nearby ingredients.
A Tennessee native, Higgins was previously chef de cuisine at The Sanctuary at Kiawah Island in Charleston, and sous chef at the Charleston Marriott. He grew up working in his grandparents' garden.
"The menu will adhere to a few strict 'rules of the Roost.' All ingredients must be found domestically and in-season, no high-fructose corn sweeteners are allowed, and we need to know where all our livestock comes from," Higgins said in a news release.
Roost will be open daily for breakfast, lunch and dinner from 6:30 a.m. to 11 p.m. It will also offer a Sunday brunch.
The 328-room Hyatt Regency Greenville opened on North Main Street in 1982. It was previously owned by Hyatt Hotels Corp. before JHM purchased it in 2010.
Owned by the Rama family, JHM was founded by H.P. Rama in 1973. The privately held, owner-operator has more than 40 hotels across brands such as Marriott, Hilton, Hyatt and Starwood.


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Posted by Tana L. Pedersen on April 26, 2010 in Family Tree Maker
This year's National Genealogical Society Family History Conference is being held in Salt Lake City, Utah, at the Salt Palace Convention Center. If you're planning on attending the conference or live nearby, you'll want to visit the exhibit hall—it's free and open to the public. At the Ancestry.com booth you'll find experts who can answer your Family Tree Maker questions. And you can even sit in on a demonstration of the software. We hope to see you there!
Exhibit Hall Hours and Demo Schedule
- Wednesday, April 28th: 9:30 am to 5:00 pm. Demo is from 12:00 to 12:30.
- Thursday, April 29th: 9:00 am to 5:00 pm. Demo is 1:30 to 2:00.
- Friday, April 30th: 9:00 am to 5:00 pm. Demo is from 12:30 to 1:00.
- Saturday, May 1st: 9:00 am to 3:00 pm. No demo.
1 Comment
John Donaldson
Love to be there but a bit too far to get to from Oz 🙁
Have a good NGS
John D
April 26, 2010 at 4:30 pm