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Sept. 18, 1924 – July 15, 2013
Brother Maurice V. Swartout, a popular Franciscan friar who ministered to senior citizens on Buffalo's East Side, died Monday in Mercy Hospital after suffering a stroke. He was 88.
"Brother Moe," as he was known to Catholics and non-Catholics alike, was active in several Buffalo parishes and helped to organize activities for senior citizens at local community centers.
Born Raymond Leonard Swartout in Boonville, Oneida County, he attended Boonville public schools and was a 1942 graduate of Boonville High School.
He entered the Franciscan Order of Friars Minor in 1945 in Paterson, N.J., and professed final vows in 1949 in New York City.
Early in his ministry, he was director of a cabinet-making shop in Anapolis, Brazil. He later became part of the order's formation program team in Croghan, Lewis County; Rye Beach, N.H.; and Brookline, Mass.
He and three other friars started an intentional community in East Boston in 1974.
In 1989, he was assigned as pastoral associate at SS. Rita & Patrick parish in Buffalo and served in the same capacity at St. Clare Parish, which formed from the 2007 merger of four parishes.
Brother Moe maintained a special devotion to the Blessed Mother, daily reciting the rosary. He was spiritual moderator for secular Franciscans and the St. Patrick Fraternity.
He helped to organize senior citizens luncheons and was a fixture on senior bus trips, leading the recitation of the rosary and other prayers.
He also maintained a peace garden at the St. Patrick Friary and conducted a novena to St. Jude on Fridays in St. Stephen Church.
A wake service will be at 7 p.m. today in St. Stephen Church (of St. Clare parish), 193 Elk St., where a Mass of Christian Burial will be offered at 10 a.m. Friday.

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Pregnant Broward mom, freed to give birth, is still pregnant, no longer free
One day after she was freed from the Broward jail so she could give birth to a child, Brittney Sierra was back in custody.
She's still pregnant.
The plan to allow her to give birth on the outside, signed off on by the state attorney's office and a Broward judge, imploded.
Sierra will remain in jail until her attorney can find a new host. On Wednesday morning, her attorney told Broward Circuit Judge Matthew Destry that he has a potential place for Sierra to go but needs to vet the person.
The lawyer, Dohn Williams Jr. asked for a court date later in the week if the host checks out. He said it was a relative of Sierra's father.
Sierra had been incarcerated since January, charged with criminally neglecting a toddler son. Dontrell Melvin was not just neglected, he was dead and buried in the back yard. The child was unseen for as long as 18 months before anyone outside the family took note and alerted authorities. After grilling both parents about the boy's whereabouts, police dug up the yard and found Dontrell's remains. Calvin Melvin, Dontrell's father, was also jailed, and remains locked up.
Fast forward nine months.
Sierra, pregnant at the time she was arrested, is now very pregnant.
The plan called for Sierra to move in with Yolande Georges, a Creole-speaking woman who had recently met Sierra's mother at a Burger King. The mother told Georges about her daughter's circumstances— but left out some details. For instance, she didn't mention Sierra was in the final stages of pregnancy or that she was accused in connection with the death of a child.
Sure, Georges said, based on an incomplete grasp of the facts, she would be happy to take in Sierra.
Monday, Georges was present in court — but largely uncomprehending, due to language issues — as the state attorney's office reduced Sierra's charges from second-degree child neglect to third-degree neglect and the judge, in turn, cut her bail from $100,000 to zero.
The judge stipulated that Sierra could go free if she stayed with Georges. Sierra would be fitted with an ankle monitor.
Monday night, a Creole-speaking Miami Herald reporter supplied Georges with the rest of the details. She was aghast.
"I'm a servant of God, but no one told me what this was all about," she said. "I don't want anyone to trick me."
Upon her subsequent release, Sierra decamped not at the home of Georges, but at the home of her mother, Renee Menendez.
"Brittney is fine, she is with me. I can't say anything else anymore," Menendez said of her daughter.
It wasn't fine with the court, which issued a new order — that Sierra be picked up and hauled in.
She was to spend the night at Broward Health Medical Center.
Ron Ishoy, a spokesman with the Broward state attorney's office, said the charges against Sierra weren't reduced to get a pregnant woman out of jail, but because third-degree child neglect is the most the state believes it can make stick in court.
"Upgrading/downgrading charges is not uncommon once a prosecutor assigned to a case spends extensive time examining all the evidence," he wrote in an e-mail.
Hallandale Beach Police Maj. Thomas Honan, whose department did the investigation into the case, said the department knew nothing of Monday's hearing, and that had it been alerted it would have had a detective present, as it has with all prior hearings.


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1. Whether underinsured motorist (UIM) coverage is available to a claimant involves an interpretation of K.S.A. 40-284(b) and construction of a written insurance policy. The interpretation of a statute as well as the construction of a written insurance policy based on stipulated facts are questions of law subject to unlimited review.
2. The purpose of the legislation mandating UIM coverage was to fill the gap inherent in motor vehicle financial responsibility and compulsory insurance legislation. This coverage is intended to provide recompense to innocent persons who are damaged through the wrongful conduct of motorists who, because they are uninsured or underinsured and not financially responsible, cannot be made to respond in damages. K.S.A. 40-284(b) should be liberally construed to provide broad protection to the insured against all damages resulting from injuries sustained by the insured that were caused by an accident and arose out of the ownership, maintenance, or use of the insured motor vehicle.
3. When UIM coverage exceeds the limits of the bodily injury coverage carried by the owner or operator of the other car, UIM coverage exists. When UIM coverage equals or does not exceed such limits, no UIM coverage exists.
Appeal from Shawnee District Court; TERRY L. BULLOCK, judge. Opinion filed May 13, 2005. Affirmed.
Gary D. White, Jr., and Jerry R. Palmer, of Palmer, Leatherman & White, L.L.P., of Topeka, for appellant.
William A. Larson and Craig C. Blumreich, of Gehrt & Roberts, Chartered, of Topeka, for appellee.
Before MARQUARDT, P.J., ELLIOTT and GREEN, JJ.
GREEN, J.: Willard Tilley was injured when a car he was a passenger in collided with a car driven by Joshua Middleton. On appeal, Tilley contends that he was entitled to underinsured motorist (UIM) benefits because his UIM coverage exceeded Middleton's liability coverage. The trial court disagreed and granted summary judgment in favor of Tilley's UIM carrier. We affirm.
Tilley and his wife were passengers in a car driven by their son-in-law Ron Bramhall. Their car collided with a car driven by Middleton. As a result of the accident, Tilley's wife was killed, and Tilley was injured. Bramhall was also killed in the accident, and their daughter Nancy, Bramhall's wife, was injured as a result of the accident.
Allied Property & Casualty Insurance (Allied) had issued a car insurance policy to the Tilleys which provided UIM benefits in the amount of $250,000 per person and $500,000 per accident.
Allied had also issued a $500,000 single limit policy which covered Middleton. The policy stated:
"If this policy provides single limit Liability Coverage, Paragraph B. of the Limit of Liability provision is replaced by the following:
"We will apply the limit of liability shown in the Declarations to first provide the separate limits required by the Statutes of the State of Kansas as follows:
1. $25,000 for 'bodily injury' of one person in any one auto accident;
2. $50,000 for 'bodily injury' of two or more people in any one auto accident; and
3. $10,000 for injury to or destruction of property of others in any one auto accident.
"This provision will not change our total limit of liability."
Neil Freund, Allied's representative, evaluated the liability claims of the two decedents' estates and the two survivors and made an offer of the balance of the $500,000 policy on Middleton's behalf. Freund prorated the sums among the injured and killed. Freund evaluated the following amounts per person: (1) Tilley's wife - $258,635 in damages, prorated to $105,348.19; (2) Tilley - $240,000 in damages, prorated to $100,559.63; (3) Bramhall - $559,052 in damages, prorated to $229, 850.59; and (4) Bramhall's wife - $97,642 in damages, prorated to $43,096.94.
Tilley moved for summary judgment, arguing that the court should find as a matter of law that his policy allowed for UIM benefits in the amount of $250,000 per person as well as $500,000 for each accident. He further argued that he remained uncompensated in the amount of $284,092.18 for his injuries and for the death of his wife. Specifically, Tilley maintained that he was owed $144,651.81 for his wife's death ($250,000-$105,348.19) and $139,440.37 for his own injuries ($240,000-$100,559.63).
Tilley's arguments for summary judgment were based on a contract claim and statutory interpretation. Tilley argued that under his contract, his policy makes two promises: (1) coverage in the amount of $250,000 per person and (2) $500,000 per accident. Under this policy, the most any one person could receive would be $250,000. Tilley maintained that Middleton's Endorsement AA0156(c) had replacement language stating that $25,000 was for bodily injury of one person in one accident. Therefore, Tilley argued that the comparison in liability was between $25,000 and $250,000, and his UIM single limit ($250,000) exceeded Middleton's liability single limit ($25,000). Tilley also argued that K.S.A. 40-284(b) does not differentiate between the per person liability limit or the per occurrence liability limit; rather, it uses the word "limits," not limit. Therefore, either the per person or the per occurrence limit should apply.
Allied also moved for summary judgment, arguing that there was no genuine issue of material fact and that Allied was entitled to a judgment as a matter of law. Specifically, Allied argued that Tilley did not have UIM coverage because the limits of Tilley's policy did not exceed Middleton's liability policy.
The trial court granted Allied's summary judgment motion and denied Tilley's summary judgment motion. The trial court also concluded that in order for Tilley to recover UIM benefits, Tilley must satisfy a two-part test set forth in State Farm Mut. Auto. Ins. Co. v. Cummings, 13 Kan. App. 2d 630, 778 P.2d 370, rev. denied 245 Kan. 786 (1989). Based on K.S.A 40-284(b), the trial court determined that UIM coverage did not exist.
Tilley argues that UIM coverage existed because Middleton's liability insurance policy endorsement operated to reduce the $500,000 per occurrence (single limits) liability policy to $50,000, since four persons were injured by Middleton's negligence. Tilley contends that since the $25,000 or $50,000 liability coverage under Middleton's policy is less than his per person underinsured limit of $250,000, he has a valid underinsured motorist claim against Allied.
Whether UIM coverage is available to Tilley under Allied's policy involves an interpretation of K.S.A. 40-284(b) and construction of the Allied insurance policy. "The interpretation of a statute as well as the construction of a written insurance policy based on stipulated facts are questions of law subject to unlimited review. [Citations omitted.]" Halsey v. Farm Bureau Mut. Ins. Co., 275 Kan. 129, 132, 61 P.3d 691 (2003).
K.S.A. 40-284(b) states:
"Any uninsured motorist coverage shall include an underinsured motorist provision which enables the insured or the insured's legal representative to recover from the insurer the amount of damages for bodily injury or death to which the insured is legally entitled from the owner or operator of another motor vehicle with coverage limits equal to the limits of liability provided by such uninsured motorist coverage to the extent such coverage exceeds the limits of the bodily injury coverage carried by the owner or operator of the other motor vehicle."
"Whether the above statutory language requires UIM coverage under the facts of this case involves a construction of the above statutory language." Halsey, 275 Kan. at 133. Legislative intent, if that intent can be ascertained, is the fundamental rule for statutory construction. 275 Kan. at 133. The purpose of the legislation mandating UIM coverage is to fill the gap inherent in motor vehicle financial responsibility and compulsory insurance legislation. "This coverage is intended to provide recompense to innocent persons who are damaged through the wrongful conduct of motorists who, because they are uninsured or underinsured and not financially responsible, cannot be made to respond in damages. [Citation omitted.]" Rich v. Farm Bur. Mut. Ins. Co., 250 Kan. 209, 215, 824 P.2d 955 (1992).
Allied argues that UIM coverage was not available to Tilley because Middleton had a single liability limit of $500,000, whereas Tilley's UIM policy limit was $250,000 per person or $500,000 per occurrence. The first Kansas case to interpret K.S.A. 40-284(b) was State Farm Mut. Auto. Ins. Co. v. Cummings, 13 Kan. App. 2d 630, 778 P.2d 370, rev. denied 245 Kan. 786 (1989). In Cummings, an accident occurred when a car owned by Vivian Pinnell but driven by Charles Pinnell collided with a car driven by Carlene Purcell but owned by James Cummings. As a result of the accident, one of the three occupants in Pinnell's car was killed, and the other two were injured. Purcell was insured. Her policy provided liability coverage of $50,000 per person and $100,000 per accident; Cummings had no liability insurance or any other kind of coverage. Pinnell and the other occupants were insured under her policy, which provided coverage of $50,000 per person and $100,000 per accident and UIM coverage of a like amount. This court had to decide whether the trial court erred in ruling that the underinsured provisions of the policy did not afford coverage to the injured parties.
Cummings set forth a two-step analysis to determine whether UIM coverage is available under K.S.A. 40-284(b): "(1) The opposing party's liability coverage must be below the claimant's liability coverage, and (2) the claimant must have damages in excess of the opposing party's liability coverage." 13 Kan. App. 2d at 639. In Cummings, this court determined the coverage of the tortfeasor's car was not below the coverage of the appellant's liability coverage but equal to it. The insured was unable to satisfy part one of the two-part test; therefore, the insured was precluded from recovering UIM benefits.
Although Cummings was abrogated in part by Cashman v. Cherry, 270 Kan. 295, 13 P.3d 1265 (2000), more than 13 years has passed since Cummings was decided, and the legislature has not changed what Cummings referred to as a harsh result. The legislature is presumed to agree with the court's interpretation of a statute if it fails to modify the statute. See Halsey, 275 Kan. at 136.
In Halsey, our Supreme Court had to determine if UIM coverage was available under the Farm Bureau policy by interpreting K.S.A. 40-284(b) and the language in the insurance policy. In that case, a collision occurred between a Chevrolet Suburban owned by Paul and Peggy Winter but driven by Robert Pauly and a tractor-trailer owned by D&G Trucking but driven by Larry Holmes. The accident occurred as a result of the negligence of both Pauly and Holmes. Halsey was a passenger in the Suburban and died as a result of the injuries sustained in the accident. Two other passengers died, and four other passengers were severely injured.
Pauly had two insurance policies that provided a $300,000 per occurrence liability coverage. The Winters had coverage through Farm Bureau with a $300,000 per accident limit. Halsey received $40,741.68 under the Winters' Farm Bureau policy. Halsey's policy with Farm Bureau provided liability coverage and UIM coverage in the amounts of $500,000 per person and $500,000 per occurrence. Halsey sued to collect UIM benefits for damages which exceeded Winters' policy coverage. Holmes had an insurance policy issued by Wilshire Insurance Company under a $1,000,000 single-limit liability policy. The trial court entered judgment for Halsey against Farm Bureau for UIM coverage, and Farm Bureau appealed.
In Halsey, our Supreme Court analyzed Cummings. Using the two-part test in Cummings, the court determined that Halsey's policy coverage limits ($500,000) did not exceed the limits of bodily injury coverage carried by the owner or operator of the tractor-trailer ($1,000,000), and there was no indication in Cummings that K.S.A. 40-284(b) would allow UIM recovery in circumstances where the claimant's UIM coverage limit was equal to or less than the liability limits of the tortfeasor's policy. Based on the language of K.S.A. 40-284(b), coverage exists only when the UIM limits are greater than the liability limits of the tortfeasor's policy. 275 Kan. at 136.
Because K.S.A. 40-284(b) precluded UIM coverage, our Supreme Court looked to the Farm Bureau policy to determine if the policy provided greater benefits than provided in K.S.A. 40-284(b). The court found that the policy language required UIM benefits to be limited by the limits of the tortfeasor's policy. The court concluded that the Farm Bureau policy provided no UIM benefits beyond those required by the statute. 275 Kan. at 143-44. Therefore, Halsey was not entitled to UIM benefits.
K.S.A. 40-284(b) "should be liberally construed to provide broad protection to the insured against all damages resulting from injuries sustained by the insured that were caused by an . . . accident and arose out of the ownership, maintenance, or use of the insured motor vehicle." Jones, 26 Kan. App. 2d at 208. Nevertheless, Halsey concluded that K.S.A. 40-284(b) required a limits-to-limits comparison when determining whether UIM coverage exists. Where UIM coverage exceeds the limits of the bodily injury coverage carried by the owner or operator of the other car, UIM coverage exists. Where UIM coverage equals or does not exceed such limits, no UIM coverage exists. 275 Kan. at 143.
In this case, the parties stipulated that Middleton's combined single limit of liability was $500,000. Middleton's policy, as described above, was similar to a policy in Levier v. Koppenheffer, 19 Kan. App. 2d 971, 879 P.2d 40, rev. denied 255 Kan. 1002 (1994). Tilley argues that in Levier this court held that the policy's single limit liability coverage was subject to the per person liability limit. Tilley's quoted language, however, refers to the trial court's determination that the liability provision in the insurance policy was ambiguous. An insurance policy is ambiguous "if it fails to state that a 'per occurrence' limit on liability is expressly subject to the 'per person' limit" on liability. 19 Kan. App. 2d at 977-78. Language in that case does not seem to imply that a single limit of liability coverage is subject to per person liability. Here, it is apparent that Middleton's $500,000 single limit of liability is applicable once Middleton's insurance company pays out either the per person or per occurrence amount. See Levier, 19 Kan. App. 2d at 978.
Tilley's UIM coverage was $250,000 per person and $500,000 per occurrence. In order to receive UIM benefits under Halsey, Tilley's coverage must be greater than Middleton's coverage. Middleton's policy provided up to $25,000 for bodily injury of one person in any one auto accident or $50,000 for bodily injury to two or more persons in any one auto accident. See Levier, 19 Kan. App. 2d at 977. Nevertheless, this part of the policy is present to satisfy state law, specifically K.S.A. 40-3107. K.S.A. 40-3107(e) states:
"[L]imits of liability . . . not less than $25,000 because of bodily injury to, or death of, one person in any one accident . . . not less than $50,000 because of bodily injury to, or death of, two or more persons in any one accident, and to a limit of not less than $10,000 because of harm to or destruction of property of others in any one accident."
Middleton's single limit of liability, however, was $500,000, and the policy stated that the bodily injury amounts did not change the policy's total limit of liability. Based on Levier, the policy provision only indicates how the first $25,000 or $50,000 will be allocated. Furthermore, Middleton's insurance paid out $100,559.63 for Tilley's injuries and $105,348.19 for Tilley's wife's injuries and death, which was above the liability amount of $50,000 per occurrence. It is apparent that Allied interpreted Middleton's policy liability limit as $500,000 because it paid out more than $205,000 to the Tilleys.
Tilley's coverage ($250,000/$500,000) did not exceed Middleton's liability coverage ($500,000). Neither of the UIM coverage limits of the Tilley policy exceeded the limit of liability coverage of the Middleton policy. According to K.S.A. 40-284(b), UIM benefits exist only when the UIM limits are greater than those of the tortfeasor's policy. See Halsey, 275 Kan. at 136. Therefore, because Tilley's UIM limits were not greater than Middleton's limits, Tilley was not entitled to recover UIM benefits.
Because Tilley was not entitled to coverage under K.S.A. 40-284(b), Halsey dictates that this court should look to see if Tilley's coverage furnished greater protection than K.S.A. 40-284(b). Tilley's coverage provides that an underinsured motor vehicle "means a land motor vehicle or trailer of any type to which a bodily injury liability bond or policy applies at the time of the accident but its limit for bodily injury liability is less than the limit of liability for this coverage." "Coverage for losses caused by an 'underinsured motor vehicle' shall be limited to the difference between the underinsured motorist coverage limits provided in this Part and the coverage limits provided in any applicable bodily injury liability bond or policy available to the underinsured motorist."
Similar language was used in the insurance policy in Halsey, and the court found that Halsey's policy with Farm Bureau reflected no UIM benefits beyond those required by K.S.A. 40-284(b). See Halsey, 275 Kan. at 144. The same can be said in this case. Therefore, Tilley's policy did not furnish more coverage than that found in K.S.A. 40-284(b).


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Burien/Normandy Park Fire Department Seeking Donations for Needy Families
The Burien/Normandy Park Fire Department is seeking donations to help local families in need this holiday season, and they've got several Christmas Outreach Drop-off locations.
Donations of food or toys are being accepted at the Burien Fire Station (15100 8th Ave SW), North Highline Fire Station (1243 SW 112th & 1606 S 128th) and other local drop-off locations through Dec. 18.
All donations will go directly to needy families in the area.
We're covered this great program before, and here's a snippet from a prevous story by Michael Brunk:
Organized by firefighter Lt. John Zilke, the fire department works with local businesses and the community to gather food, gifts and cash donations in the months leading up to Christmas. Names of needy families are provided by the Department of Social and Health Services.
The ultimate goal? To make sure that each family on the list has a complete turkey dinner with all the trimmings and gifts for the children in the family.
Here's a selection of photos I shot throughout the day set to a little holiday music. It's a pale imitation compared to actually participating in an experience like this, but I hope it contributes something to your own sense of the holiday spirit:
Drop-off locations include:
- Burien Fire Department: 15100 8th Ave. S.W. & 135 S. Normandy Rd. North
- Highline Fire Department: 1243 S.W. 112th & 1606 S. 128th
- Highline Medical Centers: 16251 Sylvester Rd. S.W., 129th & Military Rd., 13030 Military Rd.
- Burien Toyota: 15025 1st Ave. S. & 139 S.W. 150th St. Burien Chevrolet • 14400 1st Ave. S.
- Albertsons: 12739 1st Ave.S.
- Safeway: 138 SW 140th St.
- Thriftway: 12000 Des Moines Memorial Dr.
- Saars Super Saver: 10616 16th Ave. S.W.
- Frenzi: 218 S.W. 153rd St.
- Boulevard Park Place Seniors Community: 2805 S. 125th St.
- Curves: 17824 1st Ave. S.
- Mailbox :224 S.W. 153rd St.
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- Highline Exchange Club
- Burien Fire Department
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My self and everyone I know has at least one nabor that complains and whines about everything. They call the police for every little thing. What's the problem? There are alot of big important things in the world going on to worry about. Why call the police over peddy little complaints.
"their dog is barking"
"I don't like the color of their house"
"They have to many cars in their yard"
"They walked on my land"
"Their dog walked on my land"
Whine Whine Whine
What's the big deal?
What ever happened to nabors helping nabors?
Live and let live. Minding your own business.
Alot of people seem to be trying to control Lincoln County one block at a time.
If you have nabors like that, you know what I mean.
Grow up people. Quit whineing about the small things, you sound like a bunch of little kids.
Remember kids "He's touching me" "She's in my spot"
Here is what I say " Tattle tail"
whiney nabors
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Tony Romo's interception heard around the NFL world never should have been thrown, according to Dallas Cowboys coach Jason Garrett.
Speaking to reporters Monday, Garrett said Romo should have checked the ball down to running back DeMarco Murray rather than try to squeeze it to tight end Gavin Escobar.
After the game, which can be seen again at 9 p.m. ET Wednesday on NFL Network, Romo said he didn't put the ball where he wanted. But Garrett is right that the decision, not the accuracy, was the bigger problem. Of course, the defense was by far biggest issue on a day when the Cowboys gave up 51 points. Romo played fantastic overall, although you wouldn't know it reading articles after the game.
NFL Replay will re-air a special 3.5-hour version of the Denver Broncos' 51-48 win over the Dallas Cowboys from Week 5 on Wednesday, Oct. 9 at 9 p.m. ET.
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Cowboys owner Jerry Jones called the loss a "moral victory." This really happened. Jones also said he understands why Dallas struggled so much against Peyton Manning, and he isn't concerned with defensive coordinator Monte Kiffin.
"Knowing my expectations playing Denver and playing Peyton Manning coming in," Jones said ESPNDallas.com. "I'm going to cut him some slack."
Moral victories and the cutting of slack: A Monday Dallas tradition for much of Jones' tenure running the Cowboys.
The latest "Around The League Podcast" recapped every Week 5 game. Click here to listen.


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STOCKTON - Mission College women's basketball player Gabrielle Ludwig can feel the stares and hear the comments.
STOCKTON - Mission College women's basketball player Gabrielle Ludwig can feel the stares and hear the comments.
She's a trailblazer to some, while others believe she shouldn't be on the court competing against women.
Ludwig is believed to be the first person ever to play basketball at the collegiate level as both a man and a woman. She and her Mission College teammates are competing this week in the Jocelyn Mancebo Holiday Tournament, which concludes today at San Joaquin Delta College. On Tuesday, the Delta College Mustangs beat the Saints 88-54 in the semifinals. The 6-foot-6, 220-pound Ludwig, who will turn 51 this month, scored two points, had four rebounds and two blocked shots in 14 minutes.
After the game, the Mission College center, who works as a systems engineer for a pharmaceutical company, limped off the court - her left quadriceps wrapped in ice and her arthritic hips causing her great discomfort - and joined her teammates waiting in their van.
"I took a beating out there," Ludwig said.
Physically and mentally.
Ludwig said she could hear heckling from the stands Tuesday at Blanchard Gymnasium. It's been the same in almost every gym she's stepped into since she decided to play for the Santa Clara-based community college after a 32-year hiatus from the game she loves.
A lot has happened to her during that time.
Ludwig, born Robert John Ludwig, played basketball in high school and for one season at a community college on Long Island, N.Y. Ludwig was in the Navy for eight years and served during Operation Desert Storm. He was married and divorced twice.
While maintaining his outward appearance as a male, Ludwig never felt comfortable inside.
Finally, Ludwig decided to change genders. In 2007, Ludwig began taking female hormones and underwent sex reassignment surgery over the summer. By that time, she had long rediscovered a passion for basketball, having coached her daughter from her second marriage and working with middle school-age kids for several years. She began helping Mission College's players at the beginning of this academic year. She went out for the team with full support from her teammates, coach Cory Cafferata and the college's athletic director, Mike Perez.
Under a policy adopted last year by the NCAA, transgender student-athletes who have taken medication to suppress testosterone for a year can compete on women's teams. The California Community College Athletic Association bases gender on a student's birth certificate. Ludwig petitioned an East Bay judge, and on Nov. 30, Ludwig received legal documentation classifying her as a woman, which cleared her to play. Many of her teammates escorted Ludwig to court that day. They've been among her biggest supporters.
"They're the best," Ludwig said. "They're amazing young ladies. They all have good heads on their shoulders."
Ludwig said she puts up with her painful hips and comments from spectators because she loves to play basketball and because she believes she's making a statement.
"People who are in the LBGTQ (lesbian, bisexual, gay, transgender, queer) community need to know that no matter how much a beating one takes, no matter what you want to do, it's worth it to make the effort," she said. "Stand your ground and just keep going."
Among the spectators Tuesday was Eric Godfrey of Manteca, who said he believes there's a fairness issue in allowing Ludwig on the court. As he watched Ludwig warm up before the game, Godfrey said she moved and had the physical build of a man, which gave her an advantage.
"Especially a 50-year-old woman or man playing against young ladies 17 to 18 years old, regardless of the gender change," he said. "You have an advantage over those young ladies."
Samantha Golston, a 20-year-old sophomore at Delta who played on the Mustangs' basketball team last season, said she believes Ludwig should be allowed to play.
"It doesn't bother me at all," she said. "It's gotta be hard for her."
Delta freshman center Nina Pritchard guarded Ludwig during portions of Tuesday's game.
"She was very strong, and it was kind of hard posting her up," she said. "I feel all of our posts did our best playing against her."
Ludwig's story has received national attention, and not all of it has been positive. Washington-based ESPN radio hosts Steve Czaban and Andy Pollin called Ludwig "he/she" and "it" during a recent show. The pair recently were temporarily suspended.
"I just have to stay true to myself and stay focused and help my team out," Ludwig said. "It's hard, but you know, in the military, I had a lot more tougher things."
Ludwig said she'd like to return next season for her sophomore year.
"If my body holds up," she said, "absolutely."
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Capital University hosted mayors, city managers, finance directors and other officials from about 20 Ohio cities Friday, Oct. 19, with a goal of listening to each others' ideas about government efficiency and resource sharing.
Capital University hosted mayors, city managers, finance directors and other officials from about 20 Ohio cities Friday, Oct. 19, with a goal of listening to each others' ideas about government efficiency and resource sharing.
The Ohio First Suburbs Alternative Revenue Summit stemmed from a task force the city of Bexley convened earlier this year to explore alternative revenue streams within the city.
But Bexley Mayor Ben Kessler saw an opportunity to open such discussion into a broader arena, and with the sponsorship of Capital University, Greater Ohio and Columbus-based Hicks Partners, convened the summit.
"First suburbs" refers to suburbs that are landlocked or those generally considered to have exhausted all developable land, leaving them unable to rely on future commercial development as a source of new income.
Among the local elected officials who attended the summit were: Whitehall Mayor Kim Maggard, Whitehall Auditor Dan Miller, Grandview Heights Development Director Patrik Bowman, Worthington Assistant City Manager Robyn Stewart, Worthington Finance Director Molly Roberts, Upper Arlington Commercial and Economic Manager Bob Lamb, Upper Arlington City Councilwoman Debbie Johnson, and numerous elected and appointed Bexley officials.
Other Ohio cities represented at the summit include Bedford Heights, Euclid, Lakewood, Montgomery, Oakwood, Shaker Heights, South Euclid, Wyoming, Ottawa Hills and Washington Court House.
The summit featured guest speakers from a variety of Ohio agencies focused on best practices of shared services, joint purchasing, consolidations and mergers, and similar cost-saving measures.
Local officials shared their own ideas and worked in small groups following the addresses of the guest speakers.
Kessler said Bexley faced a formidable and unique challenge to balance its budget after Ohio reduced local government funding and abolished the estate tax.
About 20 percent of the city's revenue derived from estate tax revenue, Kessler said.
Last November, Bexley voters approved an income tax increase from 2 percent to 2.5 percent, but the city still struggled to balance a budget, Kessler said.
"Any further cuts would have impacted services that our residents would not tolerate," he said.
To that end, the Bexley Alternative Revenue Task Force was commissioned and is expected to make a series of recommendations to Bexley City Council.
Recommendations include red-light cameras, speed-enforcement cameras, the installation of parking meters in parts of the city, and a public safety fee.
The public safety fee would apply to individuals who spend substantial time in the city, but do not pay any tax used to support city services.
James Bowman, chairman of the task force, said all the ideas were recommendations requiring council approval, but a prorated formula might he applied for the public safety fee and should not exceed about $10 a month for an individual.
Lavea Brachman, of the Greater Ohio Policy Center, explained how the merger of governments can reduce funding and provided examples of successful mergers, including those of Jefferson County and Louisville, Ky., and Davidson County and Nashville, Tenn.
Brachman conceded it can take several attempts for voters to approve such mergers, and there can be "big political challenges," but said significant savings can be realized.
Several Ohio officials shared cost-saving measures of their cities.
Jennifer Pae, finance director for Lakewood, said the city privatized prosecution for safety-code violations.
South Euclid Mayor Georgine Welo said the city's residents have the option of contracting with the city, instead of a commercial plumbing company, to repair damaged storm water or sanitary sewer lines on private property.
Patty Alsip, a finance specialist for Montgomery, cited numerous examples of how volunteers save the city money, performing duties such as placing and removing holiday decorations, staffing a dropoff recycling center and maintaining landscaping.
Local officials voiced interest in some but not all of the shared ideas.
"There have been some interesting ideas and I hope to hear more. Some of them deserve a second look," said Maggard, though she dismissed the use of parking meters in Whitehall as an alternative revenue source.
Stewart said she attended the summit because she wanted to hear what other Ohio cities were doing in response to reduced state funding of local governments.
"It makes sense for us to discuss some of these ideas (for Worthington)," she said.
Grandview Heights City Councilman Steve Gladman shared a similar sentiment.
"I came to see if anyone else has good ideas," said Gladman, adding that, like Bexley, Grandview Heights is particularly vulnerable because it lacks the resource of additional land for development.
Other guest speakers included Steve Campbell, director of regional growth initiatives for Columbus, who spoke about the anti-job-poaching initiative of Columbus Mayor Michael Coleman; Jaime Sisto of Taralogix, who explained the policy of community improvement corporations; and Jill Miller Zimon, of EfficientGovNetwork.
Zimon cited examples of successful government mergers, including those of Pepper Pike and three Cuyahoga County villages, and shared service initiatives in Copley Township and the city of Tallmadge.
The keynote speaker at the summit was Randy Cole, director of the Ohio Controlling Board, whose topics included cost-savings measures in Internet technology, emergency communication and shared health insurance.
Cole said the sheer number of local government agencies and elected officials in Ohio, coupled with a "fragmented system of delivery," has resulted in unsustainable economic practices.
Many of the practices Cole outlined are detailed on the website beyondboundaries.com, a program of the state of Ohio.
"It's a brave new world out there," said Cole, who encouraged cities not only to explore shared services, but to use the efficiencies of the latest technologies to save money.


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Analysis could help scientists determine whether quantum mechanics parameter varies with time
One of physics' most fundamental constants just got a little more constant.
Physicists have placed the strictest limit yet on how much the fine structure constant — which determines how strongly electrically charged objects interact — could change with the density of nearby matter. The team's method for measuring the constant may help scientists probe whether the value has remained constant over the lifetime of the universe.
The fine structure constant, also known as alpha, has long been both essential and confounding to physicists. It was introduced in 1916 to describe the strength of the electromagnetic force, which governs how charged objects interact and how molecules form. From there, the constant worked its way into important quantum mechanical equations. "It pops up all of the time in all of our theories," says Michael Tarbutt, an Imperial College London physicist who led the study.
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By John Goralski
Sports Writer
It was almost like a flashback when a figure darted from the crowd to confront Luigi Camputaro at a recent event at Mohegan Sun, and the former boxer almost broke into his stance in self-defense until he saw the smile from his old friend. A steady string of fans began to shower the Southington resident with congratulations and praise.
"For what?" he asked in confusion.
That's when he heard the news that he would be inducted into the CT Boxing Hall of Fame in an induction ceremony this fall.
"I didn't know anything about it," he said. "I think it's very nice. I think that all the hard work I did came through."
Camputaro, or "Kid Lightning" as he's known in boxing circles, never set out to be recognized by boxing organizations or halls of fame. He was simply a boxer trying to fight his way out of his brother's shadow. As the younger brother to an Olympian, it's no surprise that Camputaro entered the boxing world. But how he landed in Southington is a totally different story.
His brother made a splash at the 1976 Olympics in Montreal as a young Italian boxer, and a young Luigi tried to follow in his steps eight years later. He fought as an amateur in Switzerland, but didn't reach the Olympic Games. In the meantime, his brother was enjoying success in Italy as an up-and-coming professional, so Luigi tried to follow suit. He was quickly turned away for his age.
He never hesitated. Luigi jumped on a plane for America determined to raise the bar on his brother's career.
"After he became pro, my brother was an Italian champion, but he can never admit to being a European champion," Camputaro said with a smile. "I wanted to get it before him, and that's why I came to the USA in 1984. In Italy, you need to be 22 or 23 years old to go pro, but I was only 20 years old."
In America, it made little difference, and Camputaro threw himself into whatever fight he could find. He opened in West Hartford with a decision over Felix Rodriguez on June 19, 1984. One month later, he scored a TKO in the rematch. Over the next year he fought four local matches, scored a decision, a knock-out, and a pair of technical knockouts to earn his first major fight in Atlantic City against former Olympian Steve McCrory.
Mike Tyson was fighting on the undercard. Kid Dynamite scored a knock down in the third round, but officials called off the fight after six rounds. For Camputaro, the controversial decision was his first professional loss and a quick lesson about boxing politics, but the young Southington fighter captured the notice of the boxing establishment.
"I felt bad about it. I was crying. It was my first fight, and I lost. But I knew I could beat him. That just wasn't right," he said. "I asked why they stopped it in the sixth round, and they told me that they were stopping it at six rounds. That's the problem with not having anybody behind you. They can do whatever they want. It's a lot of politics."
It was only a bump in the road because Camputaro wasn't down for long. He closed out 1985 with two more victories before hopping on a plane and returning to his homeland. In 1986, Kid Dynamite fought eight fighters in Italy, scored eight consecutive wins, and finished the year with a win over Roberto Cirelli to claim the Italian Flyweight title.
Camputaro was far from finished.
"I never refused nobody," he said. "I would fight anybody because I wanted to see where I stand. A lot of people, they didn't want to fight me. Maybe a week before the fight or two weeks before the fight, they didn't want to fight me."
In 1987, he won a decision against Kenny Mitchell that sent him to the hospital with a gash over his eye. He needed 42 stitches as a result of that fight, and a rematch was quickly scheduled for the following February. Camputaro was ready to go, but Mitchell was not.
Even though he had cut Camputaro in the first fight, there wasn't going to be any rematch.
"I was training in Florida, and a week before the fight and the TV said that the fight was on. Then it was off. This guy didn't want to fight me no more," he said. "Two weeks later, he fought for the title against Orlando Gonzalez from Mexico and he won the world championship. That was supposed to be my championship. But it was two days before my wedding, so in some ways it was good. In the last fight, I got 42 stitches. At least I was clean for my wedding."
For 13 years, Camputaro never refused a contest. He battled some of the top lightweights in the business. He fought championship matches in Las Vegas, South Africa, and Great Britain. He began to earn a reputation for fighting anybody at any time and any venue.
In 1989, he lost a flyweight title fight against Ray Mede in Colorodo but returned to Italy four months later for a bantamweight title fight against Vincenzo Belcasto. In 1990, he returned to the USA to fight for a WBA Inter-Continental Bantamweight title against Sugar Baby Rojas and earned a shot at the USBA Super Flyweight title against Johnny Tapia at the end of the year.
"A few weeks before the fight, I got cut on my right eye. It was the same spot [as the 42 stitches]," he said. "I was worried that they wouldn't give me the fight again. We tried to put make-up on. We tried everything. I was lucky. We went 12 rounds, and it never opened up. When it didn't open up after two or three rounds, I knew I was good."
Pundits predicted that Tapia would score a knock out, but Camputaro wouldn't budge. He lost the decision, but never got a second chance. Perhaps Tapia realized how tough Kid Dynamite was.
In 1992, Camputaro and Cecilio Torito Espino set a CompuBox record with 637 total punches in an all-out slugfest for the NABF Bantamweight title. That was typical for the hard-hitting Camputaro. He would meet anybody toe-to-toe.
Camputaro went on to claim the European Boxing Union's Flyweight title with a win over Salvatore Fanni. He won it again in 1994 against Mickey Cantwell in the United Kindgdom and defended it successfully against Darren Fifield a few months later. 1n 1995, he tied Fanni in another title bout but won the next fight a few months later. Camputaro would go on to fight three more times, but retired in 1997 with a 29-10-1 record.
"A lot of things happened. I got married. I had to get a job. We just bought a house, and I thought I had to start working," he said. "Now, it was a lot of young guys. I was 35 or 36 years old, and for a little guy, it's all about reflexes. It was very hard for me to get out of boxing, but it had to stop."
That's why Camputaro was so surprised at Mohegan Sun when he was approached by a friend. It had been a long time since he was in the ring, but boxing enthusiasts haven't forgotten him.
A few days later, Camputaro received the letter. The CT Boxing Hall of Fame will induct him at the 9th annual event on Saturday, Nov. 9 at Mohegan Sun. Tickets cost $90 and are available through Kim Baker at the Mohegan Sun, (860) 862-7377).
"I'm proud of what I did," said Camputaro. "I could have done a lot better, but you need the right people in back of you. It's a lot of politics. There were two or three championships that were supposed to be mine, but they changed my fight just two or three weeks before the fight. They'd give me another guy. That's just the way it is. That's boxing, but I think every sport is like that."
To comment on this story or to contact sports writer John Goralski, email him at jgoralski@ southingtonobserver.com.
Kid Dynamite; Luigi Camputaro will be inducted into the CT Boxing Hall of Fame
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The 10 Best Fictional Bookstores in Pop Culture
It's no secret that we love bookstores here at Flavorpill, but being as pop culture-minded as we are, we've found that we like the fictional shops almost as much as those we can visit in real life. One of our favorite bookstores on TV, Portlandia's Women & Women First, will soon be taking a vacation, so to console ourselves, we've created a list of our ten favorite fictional bookstores from all over pop culture. Now, we've limited ourselves to bookstores that are truly fictional, not just appearing in fiction — so the Travel Book Shop from Notting Hill and the defunct-but-actual shop at 84 Charing Cross Road are sadly both eliminated. Click through to see our list of our favorite fictional bookstores from film, TV and literature, and let us know if we've missed your own favorite in the comments!
Embryo Concepts, from Funny Face
While searching for a "sinister" bookstore to give their photo shoot some intellectual weight, a fashion magazine editor and photographer find Embryo Concepts in Greenwich Village. We don't know about sinister, but it's definitely the most overtly intellectual bookshop we've ever encountered — even after it gets destroyed by a fashion shoot crew. And Audrey Hepburn doesn't hurt either.


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Bill McCoy talks about his role as the director of the Office of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgendered and Queer (LGBTQ) Resources.
Q: What services does your office offer LGBTQ students?
A: LGBTQ identities and cultures are unique. Very few of us grow up in spaces that celebrate LGBTQ history or practice LGBTQ culture. It isn't until we find community, and community that is multigenerational, that our culture and history can easily be explored, learned and practiced. The office affords the space and, through our programming, the opportunity to engage in this cultural exploration. We create opportunities for members of the Bucknell community to process their common experiences (like coming out) and learn about LGBTQ identities and cultures — to better understand their own history, or the experiences of others.
Q: How does Bucknell's rural location impact the services you offer students?
A: There are fewer resources and structures outside of the University established to help serve the LGBTQ community in a rural area. Local queer history and community is also less obvious – but it is here if you look for it. I do think this environment provides a great opportunity for students to better learn about rural queer culture and explore how to be themselves in different environments.
Q: Pennsylvania recently became the 18th state to permit gay marriage. What battles remain for the University LGBTQ community to fight here?
A: Marriage equality will continue to be a national issue until equity is reached more broadly. Given that we have students from various locations in the U.S. and abroad, the conversation around marriage will continue. On campus, we still have a lot of work to do. We need to build resources for students who have been disowned from their families after coming out and/or disclosing their gender identity. While the perception is that "it gets better," and it has broadly, for individual students coming out still poses some significant personal risks. The University also still has a ways to go to meet the needs of the trans population — from physical facilities to policies and systems — and we are working to address those needs.
Q: What advice do you offer Bucknellians for being allies with LGBTQ students?
A: Listen. Listen deeply and broadly. Allies often want to jump into action and miss a critical step in learning from and about the people they hope to help. Attending events and reading about queer history and experiences are critical to being an effective ally.


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New Ways to Help Community Colleges Help Students Succeed
Public Agenda's Cutting Edge papers, produced in partnership with Achieving the Dream, are designed to provide specific challenges and give practical solutions to community colleges as they work to "move the needle" on student success and completion. That includes addressing some of the challenges that have already been identified in Achieving the Dream's work, such as engaging faculty, taking initiatives to scale, and making the most of research and information technology.
Colleges can reap major benefits from meaningful engagement with faculty -- both full-time and adjunct -- yet many institutions find it difficult to do. This report lays out core principles and promising practices for engaging faculty in changing institutions and closing student achievement gaps. This new Cutting Edge Series paper, "Engaging Adjunct and Full-Time Faculty in Student Success Innovation," builds on our existing work in faculty engagement and is based on fresh research with higher education experts and community college faculty.
There are good ideas out there for improving student achievement and changing institutions, but one of the key problems is taking them to scale: reaching more of the targeted students who need help and turning innovative ideas into "business as usual" for community colleges. In "Scaling Community College Interventions," we provide an overview of the most common barriers, principles to help take initiatives to scale, and a checklist of critical questions.
The use of data and evidence to improve policies, programs and services is at the core of community college student success efforts across the country, and a new guide from Public Agenda serves as a resource for community college leaders in data collection and analysis. "Building Institutional Capacity for Data-Informed Decision Making", the latest from the Cutting Edge series of reports produced for Achieving the Dream, will help more colleges build institutional research (IR) and information technology (IT) capacity and create a strong culture of evidence in which data and inquiry drive institutional efforts to close achievement gaps and improve student outcomes overall.
This report lays out core principles and promising practices for engaging faculty in changing institutions and closing student achievement gaps.


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Steve Charles—Making a living as a professional musician requires a "Wabash Always Fights" attitude like few other vocations in America.
We may love music, but we prefer not to pay much for it. The Internet has broadened the range of music available, even increased the number of musicians who can reach an audience, but just try to make a living off of iTunes, CD baby, or Pandora if you're not a mainstream artist.
Which makes the careers of the Wabash musicians I've been working with this past month—several who will return to campus Friday for Wally Tunes: A Symposium on Music and the Liberal Arts—even more remarkable.
All of them contributed tracks to a commemorative CD that Media Specialist Adam Bowen and the Wabash Office of Communications and Marketing produced for the Wabash Archives and to be given away to the first 180 attendees at the symposium. All of them embody that "Wabash Always Fights" spirit in their own way as they've built liberal arts lives around music. Working with them on this project was one of the great pleasures and honors of my time at Wabash. Just room here for five of the dozens of memorable moments:
1. We call the CD Scarlet Hues after a song written by Dick Durham '64, and it's the final song on the CD. I had emailed Dick to discern his interest in the project, and I found out in succeeding emails that 1. He had recorded a song called "Scarlet Hues";
2. He had dedicated it to Wabash on his solo album, Solilokeys; 3. It was the first song he ever wrote; 4. He wrote it when he was a student at Wabash, only a few years after he began playing piano, which he used to sneak into the Chapel to play. In between emails with Dick, I learned that Sam Vaught '16 was being interviewed for an article on the Web site and had told us about his own recent experiences playing piano and organ in the Chapel: "I like to go in there whenever it's not being used – often in the dead of the night – and just play…create so much sound. You can rattle the windows with that instrument."
I emailed Sam's comment to Dick, who responded: "Cool—the aura lives on!"
2. Allen Schulz '87, founder of Random Access Music in New York City and an award-winning composer, wrote a piece for the symposium called 3 Phantasies. Thanks to pianist Diane Norton (Allen's teacher at Wabash), cellist Kristen Strandberg, and Wabash Audio Technician Phillip Merriett '08, we were able to include the beautiful second movement of 3 Phantasies as a sort of prelude (a world premiere!). But because we had limited space on the CD, we had to edit Throttle, the other piece Allen had contributed. Rather than getting angry, he gave us permission and thanked us for the work we'd done. The Gentleman's Rule in music! Philip Seward '82 was equally gracious when we had to change his selections, as was Professor Peter Hulen when we had to ask him to edit his.
3. No one embodies that "Wabash Always Fights" spirit quite like Dan Couch '89. He worked 15 years as a performer-then-songwriter in Nashville, currently the most competitive music market in the world, before his songs written with Kip Moore— "Somethin' 'bout a Truck" and 'Hey Pretty Girl"—hit #1 on the country charts. (Read about the "Moment of Inspiration" for one of those songs here.) With that success, Dan's been crazy busy lately, but he still took time to record "songwriter night"-style versions of those songs—just Dan and his guitar—for the Scarlet Hues CD and worked up a bio and photos for us. When it came in just a day after I'd expected it, he thanked us for our patience! We felt lucky just to have it.
4. I was playing guitar in a jam session with a friend in the pouring rain at the Indiana Fiddler's Gathering last summer when a guy and his wife in the circle sang a song. The guy played and sang like a pro—way above our pay grade. That's when I found out we'd been playing with Gordon Bonham '80, who I had known only from articles that declared him one of the best blues players in the country. Or, as WFYI's Matthew Socey writes, "one of the best musicians in any genre in the state." You could tell from his playing, but you would never have guessed that from his generosity and interest in everyone else's music that night. (He was there, in part, doing research for his "banjo meets the blues" project.) At the top of his game and still learning!
5. I emailed Amos Garrett '64—one of the most respected players in the world and a guitar hero of mine—not expecting a reply. His kind response was cool enough, his contribution of a track (okayed by his agent and sent from Stony Plain Records) way beyond that. I'll be interviewing him in March for the magazine (along with several of the folks on the CD) and hope to confirm a story from Jim Durham '64 that has Jim driving the poet James Dickey to the airport after a Wabash reading, Amos along for the ride, and Dickey pulling out his guitar and playing for them. Got to know if Amos, then 18 or 19, played along.
There's a story behind every one of these "musical warriors" on that CD—each makes Wabash proud in his own way. Gordon, Allen, Philip—along with Eric Stark '88, Andrew McKone '07, and Rick Fobes '72—will join Wabash faculty at the Wally Tunes symposium Friday. If you're near campus, I hope you'll join us in welcoming them home.


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A screenshot from AR 9 foil kite design. The limits of the Surfplan are reached, because cell count can not be higher than 58 (at least in free version of the program). However cell shape is tolerable even with that number of cells. Also straight line to the wingtips is excessive, because of the limits in bridle design. But doing some unconventional work and then ignoring excessive lines it can be done.
Cascading primary bridles by 3 and 2 makes tertiary level simple, only two lines per side/line row. If it was possible I would have increased cell count to 61, then side by side air intakes in the middle could be avoided. Then cascades would be 3 and 3 and tertiary level still only two lines/side/line row.
Inner structures are quite similar to PL Aero or Ozone R1. However there is only three linerows, like Sonic Race has.
Number of parts is about 800, I haven't counted though


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By Caroline T. Swope
This article explores the collaboration between the Tacoma, Washington based Douglas Fir Plywood Association and Tacoma architect Robert Billsbrough Price that resulted in Henry F. Hunt Junior High School (1958) and Nell Hoyt Primary School (1959).[1] Both schools served as national prototypes for post-World War II plywood construction, and their designs were widely showcased in national and international publications with significant accolades for design, low cost, and short construction times.
Image (left): Henry F. Hunt Junior High School, Robert Billsbrough Price, 1958. Photo Courtesy of the Tacoma Public Library. Richards Studio Collection: series A120358-76.
The post-World War II babyboom with its resulting need for inexpensive new schools in rapidly expanding suburban areas provided a natural marketing niche for plywood manufacturers. While plywood clearly excelled over traditonal masonry construction in terms of cost and construction speed, it first had to over come decades of educational building practices, which promoted multi-story masonry construction. During the late 19th and early 20th century many urban schools wanted low maintenance structures, and masonry buildings were seen as desirable long term solution to the challenges of building maintenance. Concerns with fire, and loss of life, were substantial enough for school boards to favor the more costly masonry construction. Lastly, property values in heavily urbanized areas also dictated multi-story construction. However, suburban areas with inexpensive land helped reintroduce the one-story school building, which immediately assuaged fears of tightly packed children frantically searching for fire escapes.
As part of a broad marketing campaign, the American Plywood Association hired architects to introduce and promote plywood products to the public. Robert Price had a life-long relationship with the American Plywood Association (APA) and was one of six architects hired by the APA to regularly create designs featuring their products. Price designed six schools in Tacoma that showcased plywood construction, and at least five more schools in surrounding districts. A Tacoma native, Robert Billsbrough Price received a Bachelor's degree in Architecture from the University of Washington in 1946 and a Master of Architecture from MIT in 1948. He then returned to Tacoma and opened his own practice by 1949. In 1956, the firm was featured in Progressive Architecture magazine - the youngest firm featured at that date. Price won 59 national, regional and local awards for design excellence. His ability to keep project costs manageable while designing flexible building types that could easily accept the additions so common in post-World War II era construction are hallmarks of his work. Other projects were featured in a variety of magazines including Sunset, House and Garden, and Architectural Record. Mr. Price was also a visiting professor of design at the University of Washington, the University of Kentucky, and the University of Oregon in the late 1950s and early 1960s and was a guest lecture at the University of Idaho. In 1966 he became the first architect in Tacoma inducted in the AIA College of Fellows.
Image (above): Gymnasium construction at Henry F. Hunt Junior High School, Robert Billsbrough Price, 1958. Photo Courtesy of the Tacoma Public Library. Richards Studio Collection: series D107683
Henry Frank Hunt Middle School was designed to hold 700 students. It was built on Highland Hill, a suburban area of Tacoma that saw rapid development post-World War II. The structure did not have the typical acreage restraints of the district's more urbanized schools, but it did have budget restrictions and a need for rapid construction. The design of the new school was unusual, and locals weren't entirely sure what they thought of the campus, particularly the domed "cafetorium." The building was critiqued by some as looking like a P.T. Barnum circus tent, not only due to its shape, but the orange, blue and gray coloring of its laminated beams. The new gymnasium's utilitarian design was compared to Old MacDonald's farm due to the shed like arches topping the structure.
Image (right): "Cafetorium" construction at Henry F. Hunt Junior High School, Robert Billsbrough Price, 1958. Photo Courtesy of the Tacoma Public Library. Richards Studio Collection: series D108210-6.
The "cafetorium," as the lunchroom and auditorium was called, was an unusual saucer shaped dome cresting the hill above the main campus. The dome covers a 144 foot span with 20 bays formed from huge, curved, 7"x 2" inches glue-laminated beams. Roof costs for this structure were estimated at 15 cents per square foot. The main block of classrooms were constructed from ½" plywood. Large quantities of Texture One-Eleven (commonly known as T 1-11) were used for exterior and interior paneling. The gymnasium had arched stressed-skin panel vaults. Six of the 16 foot glue-laminated arches covered the 98' x 72' building. The design for the vaults was unusual and Tacoma school board officials required structural tests before allowing their construction. The Douglas Fir Plywood Association tested a prototype panel which held 7,500 pounds of bricks for a load of 120 psf across the span, more than four times the specified design load. The vaults were fabricated by Peter Bilder of Panel-Bild Systems, in Edmonds, Washington.
While the merits of the design may have been questioned by the community, period newspapers lauded the building as an example of "highly individualized wood and plywood design." Considerable attention was devoted to the building cost, a low $11.54 a square foot, which included sales tax, paving, equipment and fees. Total budget was $850,000. Bids came in 15% below estimates. While comparative numbers have been difficult to locate, statistics from the Educational Facilities Laboratory in 1960 indicated that the median cost per square foot of schools in the West was $14.64. Hunt's cost of $11.54 represented an amazing 21% reduction in costs. Costs were reduced by eliminating many of the interior corridors, which were replaced by open courtyards and covered exterior corridors. Dimensions were carefully selected to minimize supply waste on the construction site. Price bragged that there wasn't "an extra piece of plywood lumber in the building – the contractor didn't have enough left over to build a good fire."
Image (right): The interior of the "cafetorium" at Henry F. Hunt Junior High School, Robert Billsbrough Price, 1958. Photo Courtesy of the Tacoma Public Library. Richards Studio Collection: series A130538-14.
In September of 1958 more than 100 school officials from all over the United States descended in Tacoma to examine Hunt Junior High School. Members of the National Council on Schoolhouse Construction, which had been meeting in Seattle, drove to Tacoma for tours of the Weyerhaeuser Timber Company, Woodlam, Inc., the Douglas Fir Plywood Association, and the Puget Sound Plywood Company. The conference members represented districts expected to spend more than two billion dollars in new school construction in the next year.
National publicity for Hunt included: a citation and visit by the American Association of School Administrators (1958), inclusion in the School Building Architectural Exhibit, by the National Council on School House Construction (1961), and inclusion in the School Buildings Architectural Exhibit sponsored by the American Association of School Administrators, which was shown at regional conventions in San Francisco, St. Louis, and Philadelphia (1961). A filmstrip produced by the American Association of School Administrators featured Hunt in 1961. The building was showcased in several print publications including the Washington State School Director's Newsletter of 1961, Architectural Record's "Building Types Study of Schools" (1960), the British publication of Modern American Schools by the Contractor's Record and Municipal Engineering (1961) and the same German publication that featured Hoyt, Wood in Modern Architecture by Julius Hoffman (1966?). Additionally, construction photographs were ordered by the Douglas Fir Plywood Association, and American Lumberman (Chicago) for their own advertising materials. While Hunt was designed for a new suburban site, Hoyt was a small building, constructed to supplement an existing urban historic school.
Nell Hoyt Primary School, constructed in 1959, was associated with Washington Elementary in Tacoma's Proctor neighborhood. The school was a satellite, built when plans for an addition to Washington proved too costly and time consuming for the rapidly growing school population. The four-room primary school was designed to serve 100 first, second, and third graders. Newspaper reports noted that use of standardized components simplified the job and kept costs at a minimum. Price achieved flexibility in the design by making each classroom, including the roof, an integral unit. This allowed for any number of room combinations to fit specific building needs. Classrooms were covered with dome-shaped, one-piece plywood roofs fabricated from three layers of fir glue laminated plywood. Domes were then sprayed with a polyethylene vinyl coating. Concern over the new roof forms was substantial, and the Tacoma building inspector required the testing of full-scale dome mock-ups to the point of destruction. The main roof had W shaped plywood sections bolted together. The roofs were coated with an epoxy vinyl surface to withstand both moisture and sun. The product, Ren-Coat, was developed by R. I Stevenson Company of Seattle and was marketed by Ren Plastics, Inc. of Lansing, Michigan.
Image (above): Construction of the Nell Hoyt Primary School, Robert Billsbrough Price, 1959. Photo Courtesy of the Tacoma Public Library. Richards Studio Collection: series A123206-1.
The Douglas Fir Plywood Association paid architect and engineering fees for the project. The Hoyt school was the first to utilize the plan, but architects from California and the East coast asked for construction details. The building was well publicized, and received a Merit Award from the Southwest Washington Chapter of the AIA (1962), and the "Nation's School of the Month Award" from the National School Association (1964). Additional press was received through exhibits, including the American Association of School Administrators' Architectural Exhibit of 1963 (Atlantic City, New Jersey), the AIA Committee of Schools and Educational Facilities Exhibition of Contemporary School Buildings in 1963 where Price was one of 15 firms invited to participate at the Octagon in Washington, D.C. International exposure came through a number of sources, including a scale model of the school showcased at an architectural exhibition in Moscow (USSR) in 1959 and photos of the school in Julius Hoffman's German publication of Wood in Modern Architecture (1966). The American Plywood Associational also heavily promoted the design through their magazine, The Timberman, where it was featured on the January 1957 cover and their publicized research project "Schools of the Future."[2]
Image (above): Nell Hoyt Primary School, Robert Billsbrough Price, 1959. Photo Courtesy of the Tacoma Public Library. Richards Studio Collection: series A117505-1.
By the late 1960s and early 1970s plywood began to lose favor as an exterior envelope material for school construction, perhaps in part due to rising maintenance costs associated with the material. Rising land costs, even in the suburbs, required a return to multi-story buildings, with steel framing. New concerns with school safety requirements led back to enclosed interior hallways. Of the six school buildings designed by Robert Price for the Tacoma school district, only these two examples survive. Hunt is slated for demolition in the near future.
Caroline T. Swope, M.S.H.P., Ph.D., is the principal of Kingstree Studios, a cultural resource management firm in Tacoma, Washington. She has worked with the Tacoma School District for a number of years on surveying historically important buildings owned by the district and preparing a number of local, state, and federal historic register nominations.
[1] Originally formed as the Douglas Plywood Association in 1933, this Tacoma based company changed its name in 1964 to the American Plywood Association. In 1994 the company changed its name again, and is now called the Engineered Wood Association.
[2] Additional publicity: film strips by the American Association of School Administrators featuring Hoyt in 1963, cover of the 1957 School Executive (focusing on roof design), and a write-up on structural design with plywood in the August 1958 edition of Architectural Forum.


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Tuesday, October 23, 2012
Pillow Talk Swap round 9
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